The January 6 committee wraps up its summer hearings by airing unseen video outtakes of Trump flubbing his response to the Capitol attack.
by Walter Shapiro
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On Fox News and in other corners of the right, the president's illness was an excuse to spike the footballâand spread misinformation about the vaccine.
The president was one of roughly 125,000 Americans diagnosed with the virus on Thursday. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to block the funding to fight the pandemic.
His defense arguments are ridiculous. And they are meant to be. The point is to rile up MAGA land and introduce more chaos into American political discourse.
