| 'Precipitated' In his first TV interview since resigning the role of attorney general, Bill Barr said Donald Trump’s false 2020 election claims “precipitated” the storming of the Capitol by the president’s supporters.
Which is kind of a big deal.
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people," he said.
OH WAIT no, that was actually Sen. Mitch McConnell this morning on the Senate floor who delivered that devastating dose of destruction.
Lower Than Nixon Trump will leave office with the lowest average approval rating in Gallup’s history, a result that is stunning for more than one reason.
On Monday, Gallup released the results of its final tracking poll, and it showed Trump with the lowest approval — 34 percent — of his entire presidency. On top of that, Trump finished with the lowest average approval of any president in Gallup’s history.
By a lot.
‘A Sophomore Year Term Paper’ MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ended his show Monday night teeing off on the “1776 report” released by the Trump administration that’s already received a great deal of blowback. Hayes let them have it.
‘Look in the Mirror’
CNN’s Erin Burnett went on a tear Monday night against Senator Lindsey Graham for his continued defenses of President Trump.
“If you want to talk about weak, Senator Graham might want to look in the mirror, because definition of a weak figure in American history is this,” she said, before showing a montage contrasting Graham’s past attacks on Trump with his more recent praise.
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Two members of the National Guard have been pulled off of their assignment to protect the inauguration ceremony for Joe Biden. This comes as U.S. intelligence remains concerned that right-wing extremists might be planning to disrupt the ceremonial transfer of power to the new president.
Hawley Regnery Publishing announced Monday that it would publish Sen. Josh Hawley’s upcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, after Simon & Schuster dropped it. “It’s discouraging to see them cower before the ‘woke mob,’ as Senator Hawley correctly calls it,” Regnery president and publisher Thomas Spence said in a statement obtained by Mediaite. “Regnery is proud to stand in the breach with him. And the warning in his book about censorship obviously couldn’t be more urgent.”
Be Silent Washington Post columnist Max Boot is calling on cable providers to consider dropping networks including Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News.
And he wants the FCC to do something about them, too, although that's not within the agency's purview. “Anyone who cherishes our democracy should be grateful to the management of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for their newfound sense of social responsibility,” Boot wrote. “We should expect at least the same level of responsibility from broadcast media — and in particular from Fox News, which has the largest reach on the right. It's an unusual thing to see journalists demanding some speech be silenced. Right? That's still unusual, yes?
Maria Bartiromo Spreads Wild Conspiracy That ‘Democrats Infiltrated’ Capitol Riots in ‘MAGA Clothing’ OPINION
Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo claimed that “democrats infiltrated” the Capitol building on Jan. 6 and disguised themselves by “putting on MAGA clothing.” It is not clear from where she gets this baseless conspiracy theory, which is just another in a long line of conspiracies she has recently put forth on her television shows.
Executives at Fox News insist that Bartiromo is a news anchor and not an opinion host, which given her curious support of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election, is a ruse called out by many. Fox News has apparently rewarded Bartiromo’s unique style of anchoring by giving her a try-out to host her own opinion program at 7 PM, which is currently titled Fox News Primetime.
The context of Bartiromo’s comments come as an estimated 25,000 National Guard troops swarm the nation’s capital to provide security for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden just two weeks after a deadly insurrection of Trump supporters swarmed the Capitol building. Reports have surfaced that a QAnon supporting insurgent might try to infiltrate the security detail dressed as a national guard member, which Bartiromo noted before making the claim.
It is not clear what source Bartiromo is referencing in...
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