Play Card Game – Enabled

McEnany on the Big Lie and the Capitol Insurrection - All In: December 2020: An increasing number of Republicans and now even President Trump’s own Justice Department have undermined the White House’s baseless claims of massive voter fraud. So Kayleigh McEnany appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Tuesday night with a defiant message: This evidence is real, it’s from real people, and we’re not backing down.

Except the appearance only reinforced the true lack of evidence that the Trump team has produced.
Hannity asked McEnany two questions, and in each case, she responded with a talking point that has been roundly debunked for weeks.

Jan. 6, 2021:

Even Fox News’s Sean Hannity tried to stop the madness, in a text to Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany:

“Hey now, no more crazy people, no more stolen election talk. Yes, impeachment and 25th amendment are real. Many people will quit.”

Replied McEnany:“Love that. That’s the playbook.”

Yet in public McEnany remains adamant about her baseless claims of massive voter fraud and Trump's role in instigating the U.S. Capitol riots. Hannity too.

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“President Trump is wrong,” Mr. Pence said at the time. “I had no right to overturn the election.” Learn More

2016: During the 2016 campaign Coulter wrote a book-length endorsement of her preferred candidate, "In Trump We Trust.” January 6, 2021: Coulter breaks ranks: "Who are these people still supporting Trump and this nonsense ‘stop the steal’? "I don’t understand why. Why are you doing this for Trump when he doesn’t give a crap about you?"

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Poor Ted - unmanned, unprincipled, unliked, yet drowning in ambition: "The call was just one step in a collaboration [between Trump and Cruz] that for two months turned the once-bitter political enemies into close allies in the effort to keep Trump in the White House based on the president’s false claims about a stolen election. By Cruz’s own account, he was “leading the charge” to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as president." ----- On "The Beat" tonight, Ari Melber connected Trump Co-Conspirator John Eastman to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Just before midnight on January 6, 2021, after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Eastman wrote to Pence’s lawyer to beg him to get Pence to adjourn Congress “for 10 days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations, as well as to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here.” On the floor of the Senate at about the same time, Cruz, who voted against certification, used very similar language when he called for “a ten-day emergency audit.” Learn More

It only takes one honest lawyer.

Mr. Cipollone was a witness to some of the most significant moments in Mr. Trump’s push to overturn the election results, including discussions about seizing voting machines, meddling in the Justice Department and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud.

“That’s a terrible idea for the country,” he said of suggestions that the Trump administration seize voting machines, adding, “That’s not how we do things in the United States.”

Mr. Cipollone was also in direct contact with Mr. Trump on Jan. 6 as rioters stormed the Capitol and told the House committee he believed more should have been done to call off the mob.

“I think I was pretty clear there needed to be an immediate and forceful response, statement, public statement, that people need to leave the Capitol now,” Mr. Cipollone testified.

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"Law-and-order" Republicans: It was a “normal tourist visit." FBI: “The Capitol [is] essentially a crime scene”. Capitol Insurrectionist: “We wait and take orders from our president.” Insurrectionist Lonnie Coffman of Alabama brought to the Capitol a truckload of weapons and a Texas man was convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, helmet and body armor. Cassidy Hutchinson, former White House aide: The president knew the crowd on Jan. 6 was armed, but wanted to loosen security. Mr. Trump: Planned to lead a march to the Capitol on Jan. 6 but wanted it to look spontaneous, the Jan. 6 committee revealed. Learn More

"Jones and [Roger] Stone amplified and intensified Trump’s incendiary and baseless claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate in the weeks leading up to the U.S. Capitol riot." Learn More

Beyond his vote not to certify electors on January 6, Rep. Paul Gosar plotted with Trump to overturn the 2020 election and was a ringleader in that plot. In December after the 2020 election, right-wing political activist and organizer Ali Alexander said that he, Gosar, Biggs, and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks were "planning something big": a "mob" to pressure Congress into rejecting the election results. Then Rep. Gosar then voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Gosar has a long history of collaborating with white nationalists and far right extremists, and several of his own estranged siblings have referred to him as a “traitor to his country” and called for his removal from the House. He was the keynote speaker at an America First Political Action Conference, organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes, whom the Department of Justice in a court filing calls a “white supremacist” and who marched in the deadly Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.

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The Dershowitz Double Standard for Impeachment (one part bravado, two parts chutzpah, shaken, not stirred):

1998: Dershowitz on the impeachment of Bill Clinton: “It certainly doesn’t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the Office of the President and who abuses trust and poses a great danger to our liberty, you don’t need a technical crime.
2020: Dershowitz on the first impeachment of Donald Trump: “And if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment."

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Mitch McConnell - "no worries" about voter suppression or Trump's continuing threats to American democracy - really? Senate minority leader McConnell, who blasted Trump in January for his false allegations of election fraud, views federal legislation that would invalidate voter suppression laws inspired by Trump's Big Lie as "a problem in search of a solution . . . " Asked about Americans ranking threats to democracy higher than other issues, including the cost of living, McConnell told reporters, “I do think it’s an important issue. There were those who were trying to prevent the orderly transfer of power for the first time in American history,” after the 2020 presidential election, “and that was not good.” But the top Senate Republican does not believe that American democracy is facing immediate danger, citing efforts to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power between the election on Nov. 3 and the inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, that were “thwarted.” “I guess that’s had some impact on the poll. … But look, I think we have a very solid democracy,” McConnell continued. “I don’t think of the things that we need to worry about, I wouldn’t be worried about that one.” ----- “You’ve got two camps right now of people who should speak out and haven’t. The first camp knows Trump is a dangerous and vindictive man but doesn’t want to upend their lives by provoking his ire. The second camp is more nakedly transactional." - Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration Learn More