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Trump Spokeswoman Calls Riots "Peaceful Protest" in Sick Video
Former President Donald Trump has a new spokesperson named Liz Harrington. Harrington replaced Jason Miller, who stepped down last week after lying on Trump’s behalf for years. Now it is Harrington’s turn to fill that role and she has experience in the field, formerly serving as the spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. Harrington's other big qualification for the role is that she supported a whole bunch of lies surrounding the 2020 election, including that President Biden's strong performance in some Democratic counties was indicative of election fraud. Harrington said in her announcement as Trump’s new spokeswoman that, “at such a critical time for our country, President Trump’s fighting spirit is needed now more than ever. We will not stand idly by and let America fall to the radical left-wing mob.” Trump welcomed Harrington aboard by calling her a “fighter” and “an important part of our receiving more votes than any incumbent president in US history, far more than we received the first time we won.”
Recently, Harrington went on Jenna Ellis’s show “Just the Truth” on the network Real America’s Voice. Ellis was one of the lawyers parading around the country with Rudy Giuliani in an attempt to prove voter fraud and get state legislatures to overturn election results. Harrington argued a number of dumb points during her appearance, including that Joe Biden isn’t really running the government and that the Justice Department was corrupt for not interfering on Trump’s behalf in the election. But even crazier, she called the January 6th Capitol riots “a peaceful protest” with all sincerity. Harrington went on to say, “[police] opened the doors to the Capitol . . . it’s not an easy building to get into, when you know there’s that many people, they opened the doors and they walked through.” This is complete and total revisionist history. While there were certainly some non-violent Trump supporters at the riot, and some police officers were cooperative, that does not take away from the Trump supporters who were breaking in through the windows, beating up cops, rummaging through offices, and attempting to kidnap and kill members of Congress. It’s comments like these that made Harrington an obvious pick to become Trump’s new spokesperson; they seem like a perfect match.
OH NO: Emails Show Trump Pressure DOJ to Challenge Election Results
Newly released emails reveal that Donald Trump pressured Justice Department officials to challenge the results of the 2020 election to help him stay in power. The New York Times reports that as soon as William Barr announced that he would be stepping down from his role as attorney general, Trump began badgering Barr’s replacement to have the Justice Department take up his election fraud claims. This is all coming to light thanks to the House Oversight Committee getting ahold of more than 200 pages of emails from Justice Department and White House officials. In the emails, Trump expressed interest in getting the Supreme Court to nullify the election results. The former president’s assistant sent emails to then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen arguing there was a “cover-up” in Michigan’s election followed up by promoting Rosen to take Barr’s spot and become Acting Attorney General.
Even all this time removed from the 2020 election, we are still coming across stories of the former president abusing his power and trying to stay in office after losing. We already knew that Trump was trying to pressure state officials to overturn the results, as evidenced by the phone call wherein Trump pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to “find 11,780 votes” so that he could win there. He also sent surrogates like Rudy Giuliani around the country to try to convince state legislatures not to certify election results despite having no proof or legal justification for doing so. And all of these Trump supporters who claim to be about the rule of law and respecting American institutions continue to look the other way. At this point, nothing will convince them they were wrong to be on Trump’s side on this.
From yesterday’s show:
Marjorie Taylor Greene APOLOGIZES, Learns The Holocaust Was Really Bad
Marjorie Taylor Greene is routinely in the news for making dumb comments and finally she has come out with an apology for one of them. A few weeks ago, Greene said on a right-wing talk show that she believed vaccine passports and mask mandates on the House floor were like when Jews had to wear yellow stars in Nazi Germany. She said “[Jews] were definitely treated like second-class citizens so much so that they were put on trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany and this is exactly the kind of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.” Greene has been under fire ever sense making those statements and there were talks about censuring the freshman congresswoman yet again over them. The Auschwitz Museum called the comparison a "sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline." Well now, after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, Greene has apologized for making the comparison. She spoke at a podium outside the museum and said “I have made a mistake and it’s really bothered me for a couple of weeks now,” going on to say “there’s nothing comparable to [the Holocaust].” For all that is reprehensible about Marjorie Taylor Greene, at least she apologized for this blunder.
--More on the show:
--Dr. Ashish Jha, physician. Brown University professor, and world-renowned expert on pandemic preparedness and response, joins David to discuss the Delta variant, vaccination, the future of COVID-19, and more
--California, the state that Republicans love to attack, sets economic growth records, growing almost as quickly as the country of China over the last few years
--Democrats unveil a new bill to fully decriminalize drug possession and expunge the records of those already convicted
--In the context of the recent The Young Turks / Jimmy Dore scandal, and other battles within the left, we address whether the online left is tearing itself apart
--Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene refuses to say whether she has been vaccinated
--Retired military voicemail caller calls David out for what he believes are David's "un-American" beliefs
--On the Bonus Show: AP won't name suspects in minor crimes, DOJ seeks to reinstate death penalty for Boston bomber, rents for single family homes see biggest increases in 15 years, much more...
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