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Witless Intimidation: Previous Guy spews more lies while thumb-twiddling [1]
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Date: 2023-08-10
Trump must finally be listening to at least some of his attorneys. He now now adds ‘my opinion’ and ‘what I think’ to stolen-election claims. He also tries to be more careful in his meme construction even as he has confessed numerous times to numerous crimes. Truly a mashup of fear and loathing.
Words lead to deeds. No other president has inspired so much terrorism, violence, mayhem and division in the USA. Woe for this country if this man is given power again.
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“All right folks, now just a note,” host Eric Bolling said immediately after the interview aired. “Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final.”
And Trump wasn’t the only one adding such caveats on Wednesday night. At the end of the interview, Newsmax, the Trump-loyal network which has been sued over its coverage of such claims and has repeatedly offered awkward disclaimers , added another one to the pile.
While we should hardly expect Trump to back off his stolen-election claims, it’s a notable development in a long-running evolution for the GOP on these matters.
x John Eastman says that he was morally obligated to help Trump try to steal the 2020 election because Democrats represent "an existential threat" to the nation and the word: "What are you supposed to do? Just sit around and twiddle your thumbs?"
https://t.co/zPAu4mOCM7 https://t.co/HCYL9k2LJa pic.twitter.com/4wJLsbpcUh — Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 10, 2023
On the day former President Donald Trump was appearing in court to face federal charges for his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, an ally of Trump lawyer and unindicted co-conspirator John Eastman released the third segment of an interview that was clearly meant to allow Eastman to portray his actions on behalf of Trump in the best possible light—and to ask for donations to his legal defense fund. In the video released Thursday, Eastman defended his efforts as necessary to save America from a left-wing-dominated Democratic Party that he claimed wants the country “to be eradicated.”
The three-part interview with Eastman, a longtime advocate for right-wing causes, was published on YouTube by Thomas Klingenstein, Eastman’s friend and chairman of the far-right Claremont Institute. It is not clear exactly when the interview was conducted; the first segment was released June 21.
In a White House meeting on Jan. 4, 2021, Eastman urged then-Vice President Pence to break federal law on Jan. 6 by delaying the counting of Electoral College votes so that Trump allies in battleground state legislatures could try to rescind their states’ certification of Biden electors. Eastman also appeared at Trump’s rally on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, where he whipped up the crowd, repeating false claims about election fraud and voting machines. Eastman’s actions have led to serious professional repercussions and potential legal trouble—his reported request for a pardon from Trump was not granted—but in the interviews with Klingenstein, Eastman is unrepentant.
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