Posted on 01/08/2024 9:16:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In an NBC interview Sunday, Rep. Elise Stefanik deftly demonstrated how to handle Democrats’ false claims about a Jan. 6, 2021 “insurrection” to justify criminalizing the speech of the half of the country that opposes their policies.
At the beginning of “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker’s interview with Stefanik, Welker played a deceptively edited clip from Jan. 6, 2021. On the House floor, Stefanik characterized the events from earlier that day as “tragic” and stated that violent individuals should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Had NBC honestly portrayed the clip, it would have included the main point of Stefanik’s speech. That was to call out Democrats for dismantling election integrity laws ahead of the 2020 election in key swing states. Watch Stefanik’s remarks in full here.
Welker asked the dark-horse potential for Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick whether she still believes “that day was tragic, and that those who were responsible should be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law.” This was an attempt to entrap Stefanik into accepting the Democrat lie that Jan. 6 amounted to an “insurrection” that justifies the Biden Department of Justice’s continued investigation and prosecution of nonviolent attendees at the protest.
Stefanik refused to take the bait, responding, “Well, first of all, Kristen, as typical for NBC and the biased media, you played one excerpt of my speech… If you go back and play the full speech I gave on the House floor, I condemned the violence just like I condemn the violence of the BLM [Black Lives Matter] riots. But I also importantly stood for election integrity and security of our elections. If we don’t have that, we do not have a democracy.”
[Read: America’s Justice System Says Jan. 6 Was Neither A Terrorist Attack Nor An Insurrection]
Stefanik also expressed “concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages,” and the “weaponization of the federal government against not just President Trump, but [all] conservatives.”
Indeed, countless peaceful protesters who demonstrated at the capitol three years ago have been slandered by the media and House Democrats’ J6 Committee, harassed by Biden’s Department of Justice, and held for months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. Traditional Catholics, pro-lifers, parents who oppose critical race theory at school board meetings, and Trump supporters have also found themselves targets of the Biden DOJ for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech and assembly.
“And that’s one of the reasons why I’m so proud to serve on the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the [Federal] Government,” said Stefanik. “Because the American people want answers. They want transparency, and they understand that as you look across this country, there seem to be two sets of rules. If your last name is Clinton, or it’s Biden, you get to live by a different set of rules than if you’re an everyday patriotic American.”
“So the real threat to our democracy is these baseless witch hunt investigations and lawsuits against President Trump,” Stefanik added. “[It] is undemocratic and it’s shredding our Constitution, and you know who agrees with me, Kristen? The American people. That’s why President Trump is winning in poll after poll against Joe Biden.”
Welker also asked Stefanik if she would “vote to certify the results of the ’24 election no matter what they show?” Again, refusing to fall into Welker’s trap, Stefanik replied matter of factly, “We will see if this is a legal and valid election.”
This answer has been seized on by the corporate media to somehow insinuate that Stefanik is anti-democratic. Apparently, Welker and the rest of her media peers do not comprehend the point of certifying the presidential election, which is to validate the integrity of the electoral process. In other words, no representative should be committed to certifying or not certifying the election until after it has taken place and been verifiably conducted lawfully.
Importantly, Stefanik pointed out the key fact that Democrats are already interfering in the 2024 election through multiple means. “What we’re seeing so far is that Democrats are so desperate they’re trying to remove President Trump from the ballot,” Stefanik continued. “That is a suppression of the American people.”
Re: 19 - I think post 20 hits the nail on the head. Understanding all that has transpired, President Trump is popular in large part to what many people see as politically motivated harassment. Many, many people will cast their vote for President Trump on that issue alone.
She did not push back at all when the anchorette said three different times that there had been "60 court cases that Trump lost." Trump was never allowed to present evidence in those cases.
Liz Cheney originated the claim of over 60 court cases related to the 2020 election. Specifically cited are two cases in which Trump was a party, and one in which the corporate campaign entity Donald J. Trump for President was a party.
Trump was not a named party in 60 cases, he did not lose 60 cases, and a non-party is not expected to present evidence.
https://campaignlegal.org/results-lawsuits-regarding-2020-elections
Rep. Liz Cheney, the former chair of the House Republican Conference, stated on February 23: "The president and many around him pushed this idea that the election had been stolen. And that is a dangerous claim. It wasn't true," she said. "There were over 60 court cases where judges, including judges appointed by President Trump and other Republican presidents, looked at the evidence in many cases and said there is not widespread fraud."
Trump was originally so popular with patriots for having “all the right enemies”, but in this election cycle there is another huge reason for his popularity:
Patriots know he already won re-election in 2020 and his enemies stole it.
To patriots, treating 2024 like just another primary/election feels like an insult -,just f@cking put him back in the damned Oval Office where he belongs.. if the election has to be done over again for that to happen, fine… I guess.
But it’s not like patriots really need to weigh the merits of different candidates and have silly debates and primaries to decide this.
The voters have spoken - four years ago. Let’s just get this done.
later
She did great! I didn’t see her interview, however she’s one fa good one.
the New Democracy...they pretend your vote matters and you do what you are told.
Never allow someone to tell you that your vote is irrelevant. Try telling that to one of the city council candidates posted below. We need voter participation and voter activism now more than ever.
You're kidding, correct.=? Look at the quitters that post on FR the 2024 election is lost, that your vote doesn't matter.
B-. If you do not immediately challenge a false premise, your argument is weakened.
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In this case, the “HOST” interjected a bunch of false premises, while in the process of immediately going to a new topic.
And Elise did handle most of them.
Actually, by ignoring the ‘60 cases’ she dismissed them.
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