Play Card Game – Enabled

Huckabee:“The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary.”

June 29, 2017 Press briefing in response to a question.

Trump: “So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Just knock the hell .... I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise."

Feb. 2016 Cedar Rapids, Iowa rally.

Trump, inciting the insurrectionists: “And we fight. We fight like hell. And, if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

Jan. 6, 2021 “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

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

The so-called "election integrity" committees of the RNC and its state counterpart (the RSLC) are filled with election deniers (members who backed the false conspiracies about the 2020 election) and who have publicly called for some of the most severe voting restrictions.

On the RNC committee, Drew McKissick, the Republican chair in South Carolina, tweeted false accusations by the Trump campaign in November about dead voters and vans full of Biden ballots.

Lenar Whitney, a RNC committee member from Louisiana, repeated conspiracies about Dominion voting machines at a party meeting.

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The crab apple falls not far from the tree.

DT Junior: “There's nothing that I would do to ever endanger this country”.

November 2020: Text From Donald Trump Jr. Set Out Strategies to Fight Election Outcome

In a message two days after Election Day 2020, the president’s son conveyed a range of ideas for keeping his father in office.

January 6, 2021: Trump Jr. told the crowd to send a message to members of Congress that we are “coming for you.” The siege of the U.S. Capitol ensued.

April 2021: Trump Jr.'s tweet about corporations opposing further [Red state voter suppression] measures comes as Amazon, BlackRock, Google, and hundreds of other companies and executives signed a statement opposing "any discriminatory legislation" that would make it harder for people to vote.

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Alt-right radio host Jesse Kelly, adoring Trump booster, and frequent guest on Tucker Carlson’s former prime-time Fox News show, agreed with a Twitter user's suggestion that “Weimar problems eventually lead to Weimar solutions." Kelly's tweet? America “needs a dictator.” Learn More

Not content with his highly reported attempts to overturn the results of several 2020 state elections, which supported Biden, Hawley also supported the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, giving an arm-raised fist salute to the somewhat-deluded people who stormed the Capitol in hopes of stopping the certification of state’s election results.

In April 2021, Hawley, a leading Big Lie advocate, said Georgia's controversial new voter suppression law is like his own attempt in January to get millions of votes thrown out of the 2020 presidential election.

After voters in the 2022 midterm elections signaled "thumb-down" to GOP election denier candidates, Hawley played the blame game. He fingered Minority Leader McConnell, who early on signaled consternation over election deniers running as GOP candidates. McConnell was right.

Former Senator Danforth views his prior political support of Josh Hawley as "the worst mistake" of my life".

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Key Takeaways on Heritage's False Cry of Election Fraud 1. Heritage's “Election Fraud Database” is a sham, providing zero evidence of voting fraud changing election outcomes. 2. That sham claim is, in turn, the basis for Heritage Action's “Factsheet,” the acknowledged blueprint for the new vote-suppressing laws adopted in 19 Red states, disingenuously promoted as ensuring “election integrity” . Forty years ago, Paul Weyrich, who helped establish the Heritage Foundation, admitted, “I don’t want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Learn More

Priebus on the Trump White House - wow:

“When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody,”

‘Fear': Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’,

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“There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy, Republican-California, said, according to a recording of the 15 June 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Representative Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia. Learn More

Sept. 29, 2019

Pirro imagines barbarians storming the White House gates:

“The White House stands alone like an ancient walled city with barbarians storming the gates, looking to annihilate the man the American people put in that house in 2016.”

Jan. 6, 2021

Pirro sees barbarians storming the U.S. Capitol gates:

“I want to be clear. The actions at the United States Capitol three days ago were deplorable, reprehensible, outright criminal." Learn More