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Fox Host KEEPS ASKING Republican the SAME QUESTION About Trump
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise went on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and on several occasions, refused to acknowledge that the 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump. Wallace said to Scalise, “clearly there were irregularities with the last election, there are irregularities in all elections, but I want to ask you a specific question: Do you think the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump? . . .” Wallace then went on to ask if repeated claims about the election being stolen undermines American democracy. Scalise tried to weasel out of answering the question at first, saying that his issue was that some states supposedly didn’t follow their own election laws and legislative rules. Wallace then asked him point blank, “so you think the election was stolen?” The Republican congressman followed up with more rambling about how the country needs to get back to following the Constitution. Wallace asked Scalise the question for a third time and yet again Scalise tried to obfuscate and wouldn’t provide a direct answer. Clearly Scalise was afraid to answer definitively one way or another because, even a year after the election, either a yes or no answer could have grave political consequences. It’s good to see at least one voice at Fox News trying to hold these “big lie” perpetuators accountable.
Steve Bannon: Trump's Return Will Be "2022 or Maybe Before"
Steve Bannon is taking a page out of Mike Lindell’s playbook and backing the narrative that Donald Trump will be reinstated before the next election. Bannon said on his Real America’s Voice program “The War Room,” “the return of Trump ain’t going to be in 2024, it’s going to be in 2022 or maybe even before as we start the decertification process out in Arizona.” This prediction is a dumb one for a few reasons: Biden has already been president for nine months, several states would need to be overturned to make Trump the victor, and there is no constitutional process in place for bringing back an ex-president or defeated candidate. But also, the Republican-led “audit” in Arizona did not show the widespread voter fraud they were promising and in fact only served to add slightly to Joe Biden’s margin of victory. Bannon is smart enough to know that what he’s saying doesn’t make sense and so the best case scenario is that he’s trying to trick his audience to give them a glimmer of hope so that they keep watching his program. The worst case scenario is that he is trying to rile them up to take action into their own hands and inspire another coup attempt like what happened on January 6th.
From yesterday’s show:
COVID Cases PLUMMET, Down 50%
Coronavirus cases and deaths continue to trend downward both nationally and globally in what’s increasingly a promising sign that we’re nearing the end of at least this wave of the pandemic. Around the world, cases are down nearly 40% from the Delta peak from about 660,000 new cases per day to now around 400,000 new cases per day. In the United States, the decline from the peak of Delta has almost reached 50%, going from 165,000 new daily infections to around 85,000 new cases per day on average. Globally, deaths are at about 6,700 per day, down around 35% from the Delta peak and should continue in that direction as deaths lag cases by a few weeks. And in the United States, deaths are down about 25% and currently around 1,400 Americans are dying per day of COVID. About 23 million COVID shots are now being administered around the world each day, about a million of which are happening in the United States. While it is far too early to declare victory, these are promising signals as the numbers certainly are improving from where they were a couple of months ago.
From yesterday’s show:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Ivermectin Won the "Nobel Peace Prize"
Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to humiliate herself on a regular basis, including recently by going on Real America’s Voice and saying that Ivermectin should be promoted as a COVID treatment because it won a Nobel Peace Prize. Green said on the show “The Water Cooler,” “Ivermectin is a very good drug. It even won a Nobel Peace Prize and it is absolutely irresponsible for the Biden administration, the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and any of these doctors to be advising people not to prescribe it.” This is a hilarious misunderstanding from MTG but it’s easy to see how she arrived at it. In 2015, two scientists named William Campbell and Satoshi Omura won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that a modified version of Ivermectin could be used to treat infections in humans caused by roundworm parasites. So it was certainly not a peace prize but it more importantly wasn’t to treat a virus like COVID-19. Greene clearly did not understand what she was talking about but this is exactly how disinformation spreads and the Real America’s Voice audience will come away from this interview believing every word of hers to be true.
More on the show:
--Consumer prices are continuing to increase in the context of inflation fears, as a holiday toy "shortage" is now a concern
--How can the rich actually be forced to pay taxes?
--Donald Trump's CDC created Title 42, but Joe Biden continues to use it to remove people from the United States
--Donald Trump was going to appoint his daughter Ivanka to be President of the World Bank, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was able to talk him out of it
--Newsmax host Greg Kelly says that the Washington DC police officers who testified about the January 6 riots are "crisis actors"
--MyPilllow CEO Mike Lindell now claims that an 850-year old person voted in the 2020 election, as well as 23,000 dead people all using a prison as their address
--Voicemail from possibly the most outrageous anti-vaccine caller we've had
--On the Bonus Show: Producer Pat's triumphant return to the Bonus Show, John Gruden resigns as head coach after homophobic, racist, misogynistic emails revealed, NYC school vaccine mandate fully in place, FDA approves rapid COVID antigen test, much more…
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