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.”
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. They were dismissed out of hand by uniparty hack judges. And of course, since no evidence was allowed to be presented, the Left harps on about how there is "no evidence of any cheating."
Who do you mean, Madame Vice President Stefanik?
Trump/Stefanik 2024
Stefanik/Donalds/Hawley/Vance/Britt/Abbot 2028
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/26/who-is-winning-2028-presidential-election-00133119
Exactly. I give her a B for the same reason.
B-. If you do not immediately challenge a false premise, your argument is weakened.
Good summary of the lies about the court “cases.”
I speak publicly for a living. Even if you’re smart, and you know your stuff, presenting as she did, smoothly, confidently, without stammering, fearlessly, is a very very hard thing to do. No one is perfect. A perfect score is impossible. I’d challenge anyone to cite a Republican who’s done better. Ramaswami’s in the same league. A solid A, bearing in mind to get an A+ you literally need to leave the rat interviewer in tears
She did well. I wish they would call out the anchorettes for CLEARLY taking the side of the government. Completely biased. Remind them they’re supposed to be impartial journanlists, not cheerleaders and apologists for the government.
She is not a dark horse.
She is co-second betting choice with Vivek at 7/1.
Gov Noem is the current betting fav at 4/1.
Is she better than 95% of GOP officials when interviewed? Yes. I myself have been asked these same questions by my silly Trump-hating brothers. Letting Welker get away with the “no evidence” Big Lie is cringe-worthy to me.
I am an Elise Stefanik fan for the same reasons you so capably outlined.
You have to pick your battles and that example is one that is minor and not impactive.
>> Even if you’re smart, and you know your stuff, presenting as she did, smoothly, confidently, without stammering, fearlessly, is a very very hard thing to do.
Exhibit A: Ron DeSanctimonious
Re: 2 - the filings were chock full of evidence.
In many cases, they could not overcome the issue of standing.
To 2024 - what specific legislation (bill numbers, etc), has been put forth by Republicans to address election fraud? Has President Trump discussed any specific legislation at his rallies?
Foot stomping about 2020 doesn’t get 2024 fixed in any way.
They won something like seven of 21 cases where the evidence was heard.
DeSantis went fr 7/2 to 48/1 in part due to an ignore and move on campaign.
Meanwhile the FBI is planning to arrest 1000 more people over J6..
rump hasn’t lost any cases. A,case isn’t lost until all the appeals are decided. Even then, they might not be over.
What cases did they win?
And what did they win?
Yes, that’s pretty bad re: 01/06. I expect prosecutions will hinge on if people knowingly entered a restricted area at the Capital.
Remember those days on FR? There were posters saying that the crowd would be infiltrated, that there would be violence and attempts to paint much of the pro-Trump crowd as instigators of that violence. Yet people went - to the Capital controlled by the Democrat House Speaker.
Did anyone entering the buildings have the foresight to ask a LEO when entering the building - ANYONE- if was okay to enter - and record that interaction? Is there any video of such an encounter that has been released by Speaker Johnson?
I don’t remember specifically.
They were almost entirely rules and process cases decided before the election.
I not only remember the warnings but someone pointed out afterwards an account that sounded like Epps or similar.
A lot of stuff would be material if this wasn’t gross political persecution. The bogus indictments and destroying Trump, his family and associates is very poor. Locking up horns guy and grannie coercing them to recant or face harsher sentences is unconscionable.
She has a powerful voice. Trump's winning in polls IN SPITE of the fact over 96+% of newspapers are liberal, ABC,CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and most of Hollywood are liberal. And the colleges our kids go to are liberal. In spite of that... we're still in the game. That's amazing.
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