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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt time of Capitol prayer service Jan. 6, Trump will deliver remarks doubling down on the 'Big Lie'
PoliticoDonald Trump has already telegraphed the remarks he plans to give at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
If he follows the script laid out in his announcement of the news conference, he will commit a whitewashing of the day, repeating the lie that the 2020 election was rigged and defending his part in fomenting the insurrection all while a solemn prayer service is held at the Capitol, in a vivid split-screen moment. And, as Trump castigates Republicans not toeing his line, his event will also serve as a marker of Trumps extraordinary dominion over the GOP.
One year ago, many prominent Republicans predicted Trumps behavior on and ahead of Jan. 6 would relegate him to the fringes of the right, shaming the GOP back into the mainstream. Instead, the opposite has happened. When Trump speaks, he will set the table for a midterm election year with him firmly at the Republican Partys center.
Its become almost a religion in the Republican Party, said Jason Shepherd, the former Cobb County, Ga., GOP chair, who resigned from his local party after it voted to censure Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, one of Trumps political enemies. You have your believers, and you have your heretics, and anyone who isnt willing to follow Trump 100 percent, or wants to question Trump, thats now the new definition of a RINO (Republican in Name Only).
If he follows the script laid out in his announcement of the news conference, he will commit a whitewashing of the day, repeating the lie that the 2020 election was rigged and defending his part in fomenting the insurrection all while a solemn prayer service is held at the Capitol, in a vivid split-screen moment. And, as Trump castigates Republicans not toeing his line, his event will also serve as a marker of Trumps extraordinary dominion over the GOP.
One year ago, many prominent Republicans predicted Trumps behavior on and ahead of Jan. 6 would relegate him to the fringes of the right, shaming the GOP back into the mainstream. Instead, the opposite has happened. When Trump speaks, he will set the table for a midterm election year with him firmly at the Republican Partys center.
Its become almost a religion in the Republican Party, said Jason Shepherd, the former Cobb County, Ga., GOP chair, who resigned from his local party after it voted to censure Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, one of Trumps political enemies. You have your believers, and you have your heretics, and anyone who isnt willing to follow Trump 100 percent, or wants to question Trump, thats now the new definition of a RINO (Republican in Name Only).
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At time of Capitol prayer service Jan. 6, Trump will deliver remarks doubling down on the 'Big Lie' (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2022
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Walleye
(31,022 posts)1. C'mon MAGATS,Show some guts and storm Mar-a-Lago
FalloutShelter
(11,866 posts)2. Let's arrest him on live tv.
I know I know a girl can dream.
Raven
(13,891 posts)3. I assume, because I'm trying to be optimistic in 2022, that MSM will not carry this.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)4. LOL. I literally made this prediction on DU weeks ago.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16170310
Not that I'm looking for any kind of "Nostradamus Award"!
Not that I'm looking for any kind of "Nostradamus Award"!
Kali
(55,008 posts)5. the media and all of the sane citizens should refuse delivery.
period.
Bayard
(22,073 posts)6. In the words of Joe Biden,
"Will you shut up, man?"
lame54
(35,290 posts)8. What's higher than quintrupuling?