Posted on 04/29/2022 7:08:54 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
That Donald Trump acknowledged some responsibility for the January 6 insurrection, according to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, pulls back the curtain on a former president who has publicly downplayed actions of his supporters at the US Capitol that day and shown little remorse for pushing the lie that the 2020 election was "stolen."
Republican leaders McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were privately angry with Trump in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection -- only to publicly gloss over the incident in following weeks.
According to audio recordings obtained by two New York Times reporters, McCarthy . . .
Similarly, McConnell predicted Republicans would break from Trump . . .
Both McCarthy and McConnell, of course, voted to acquit Trump of inciting an insurrection when Trump was impeached for the second time.
This refusal to hold Trump accountable reveals how far most of the Republican Party has shifted in recent decades. Even a full-scale attack on a presidential election, coupled with a violent attack on Congress, is not enough to break the rank partisanship. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida falsely claimed members of Antifa were to blame. . .
The Republican Party has made investigations into January 6 extraordinarily difficult. . .
The new heroes of the party include Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is currently the focus of a legal hearing which could disqualify her from running for reelection. The suit was launched by several of her constituents, with the backing of constitutional scholars and liberal activists
It is notable the Kennedy Foundation is giving its "profile in courage" award to Cheney, along with Ukrainian President Zelensky. As much as the award acknowledges the courage Cheney has shown, it is also a reminder of how far the GOP has fallen when it comes to partisanship.
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Partisan Rot. Screw you Zelizer you little gay commie maggot.
CNN PLUS was a winner!
I’ll catch the livestream later on CNN+. . .oh wait. . .never mind.
They have to go. Vote the bums out. Get on the Congress Critters and insist McCarthy & McConnell must go. They do nothing but denigrate POTUS Trump. Nothing will change unless we get these two out of leadership.
He’s another self-important academic, and another misguided Jewish American liberal. His mother is also a Professor at Princeton, and I’m sure that nepotism had nothing to do with him landing his academic ‘platform’ from which to spout inanity.
What a load of 💩
There are just as many scumbags in the GOP, we need to flush them out and throw them out
And this is why CNN+ went down the toilet so fast - bullshit stories propagated by bullshitters...
The only way to new leadership is new membership.
As long as we keep re-electing the same people, they will keep choosing the same leadership.
We MUST primary out the Bush League Republicans.
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