Or the Lincoln project could buy commercial time as well.
Yeah, you could pack a lot into a 60-second ad each night. “Last night in the bipartisan Congressional hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, here’s what happened…”
In other news:
Or they can just start bawling that they’re being censored by Fox News.
Of course, Fox doesn’t have to sell them time in any particular slot.
Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley arrested by FBI. Of course, wingnuts being wingnuts, this might propel him to the top of the pack.
I’ve started a follow-along thread for anyone who’s interested.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday discounted his own daughter’s testimony that the 2020 presidential election results were not fraudulent.
“Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results. She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!),” Trump posted on Truth Social, the social media platform he helped found.
Well, for once I believe the Orange Oaf. The mental image of Ivanka poring over reams of detailed statistics makes my brain hurt.
Probably made her brain hurt, too.
But that pretty much misses the point. Ivanka never said she ascertained by herself that Trump had lost. She said she believed Bill Barr when he said Trump’s assertions that he, Trump, won were “bullshit.” (And as pundit/lawyer Neal Katyal pointed out last night, “If anyone knows bullshit, it’s Bill Barr.”)
IOW, she trusted Barr to know. She never claimed to have researched the issue herself. So as usual, Trump is tilting at windmills.
He also is saying “I never said hang Mike Pence”. But nobody accused him of saying those words. He agreed with it when he heard that the rioters were chanting it.
He is denying something that he wasn’t accused of and not addressing the actual accusation.
I’m not seeing the distinction between the two.
There isn’t. But he is screaming that he never said “hang Mike Pence”. I’m saying his denial is meaningless and is designed to evade the actual accusation that he liked the idea of them hanging Pence.
I’m highlighting his tactic of non-denial denails.
DJT and his machinery are acutely aware that their supporters live entirely within a carefully orchestrated echo chamber that’s largely of their own making.
Because Trump supporters never hear the question/accusation, Trump can be ridiculously comfortable assuming that his straw man denials will satisfy the drooling masses.
Most famously was Trump’s constant “Read the transcript !” whining about the fateful phone call with (Ukraine’s) Zelenskyy where Trump tried to extort yet-to-be-fabricated opposition research to be used against Joe Biden while holding hostage US taxpayer foreign aid – already allocated, and obviously much needed – to Ukraine.
Trump knew that only a small percentage of his followers could read, and that not a single one of those people ever would read the transcript.
The transcript, of course, was damning and incontrovertible.
Classic Trump. If it works, don’t fix it.
Another was when Trump kept crowing that Mueller found “no collusion”, which completely ignored all of the contacts and cooperation between team Trump and mother Russia that Robert Mueller wrote about.
I wonder what happened to the makeshift gallows. It looks like they don’t hang effigies anymore, because that would’ve been perfect. Of course, I doubt those knuckle draggers would know what an effigy was.
The thing that annoys me is that his complaint falsely implies that HE’S pored over the information.
You misheard. He’s bored over the information.
That, I’d believe.
It’s part of the alphabet song, silly!
A B C D F E G!