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‘The American People Are Exhausted With His Gaslighting’
With JD Vance’s claim that Trump won in 2020 and Trump himself calling Jan. 6 a “day of love,” the GOP ticket is doubling down on the Big Lie with 3 weeks to go before Election Day – and Kamala Harris is having none of it.
In a obvious shift, Harris hasactually broadened her normal project speech to consistof more direct reviews of Trump’s anti-democratic extremism. Earlier in the week, she pulled in his remarks on “enemies within,” going so far as to start playing video of his remarks at her own project rallies. As the week comes to an end, she’s integrating into her own speech Trump’s mostcurrent remarks lessening Jan. 6.
“So now, we here, understand Jan. 6 was a terrible day. It was a day of awful violence. There were attacks on law enforcement — 140 law enforcement officers were hurt, some were eliminated. And what did Donald Trump state last night about Jan. 6? He called it a ‘day of love,’” Harris informed a rally in Wisconsin Thursday.
In Trump’s remarks earlier this week, he assoonas onceagain referred to the Jan. 6 rioters as “we,” an admission that is sure to pique the interest of Special Counsel Jack Smith: “We didn’t have weapons. The others had weapons, however we didn’t have weapons. And when I state we, these are individuals that strolled down — this was a small portion of the total, which noone sees and noone, noone programs.” Trump’s claim that none of the rioters had weapons is a falsity that he frequently repeats.
For her part, Harris folded Trump’s Jan. 6 lies into her bigger “We Are Not Going Back” style: “The American individuals are tired with his gaslighting — tired. … Enough,” Harris stated. “We are prepared to turn the page.”
Zombie Fake Electors
CNN: At least 30 election deniers and 2020 phony electors are serving as Trump electors this year.
Chutkan Rejects Trump Plea For More Delay In Jan. 6 Case
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan turneddown a demand by Donald Trump to delay upuntil after Election Day the public unsealing of a filing in the Jan. 6 case associated to governmental resistance. In rejecting the demand, Chutkan stated she would order the appendices to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s massive filing on resistance unsealed today. Trump might lookfor appeal court intervention, however no indication this earlymorning that he hasactually done so .
The Aftermath Of Kamala Harris’ Fox News Interview
- Bret Baier states he aired the incorrect Trump clip throughout the Harris interview: “I did make a error.”
- Greg Sargent: Harris’s Harsh Takedown of Fox’s Bret Baier Exposes MAGA’s Biggest Lie
- The rankings for the Harris interview overloaded those for Trump’s town hall the exactsame day on Fox News and were the greatest for an episode of “Special Report With Bret Baier” since 2020, reports The Wrap.
Quote Of The Day
Julian Zelizer, teacher of history and public affairs at Princeton University, on Donald Trump’s progressively alarming rhetoric: “From a mainstream prospect, I wear’t think we’ve seen this kind of tapping into the most vicious, nativist, racial reaction. He doesn’t even truly usage code words or anything. He’s simply all in.”
Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, And Mussolini
Anne Applebaum: “The intentional dehumanization of whole groups of individuals; the recommendations to authorities, to violence, to the ‘bloodbath’ that Trump has stated will unfold if he doesn’t win; the growing of hatred not just versus immigrants however likewise versus political challengers—none of this hasactually been utilized effectively in modern-day American politics. But neither has this rhetoric been tried in modern-day American politics.”
The Never-Ending Shame Of Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell, in personal: Donald Trump is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being,” and a “narcissist.”
Mitch McConnell, in public: “Whatever I might have stated about President Trump fades in contrast to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have stated about him, however we are all on the exactsame group now.”
Does Elon Musk Want To Get Sued By Dominion, Too?
NBC News: Musk presses unmasked Dominion ballot conspiracy theory at veryfirst Pennsylvania look
In Other Elon Musk News …
- NYT: How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.’s New Donor Class
- Susan Glasser: How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again
- NPR: X/Twitter has altered its terms of service to force lawsuits with its users into the friendly boundaries of the Northern District of Texas for federal cases and Tarrant County (Fort Worth) for state cases, even however the business is not headquartered in either location.
Disinformation Watch
- NBC News: The Pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and affects the U.S.
- AP: Right-wing influencers hyped ant