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Ari Melber
MSNBC's Ari Melber managed to get former Trump impeachment lawyer Robert Ray to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
The feat took some effort from Melber, who repeatedly asked the very simple question in vain before finally getting a straight answer.
"Did Donald Trump lose the election?" Melber asked Ray point-blank on Thursday.
Ray responded by asserting that Joe Biden is the president.
"That's not what I asked. I know who is president," Melber replied. "You sounded very reasonable up until this point. The question is, did Donald Trump lose the election?"
Ray once again alerted Melber as to who the president is.
"Is that a yes? Donald Trump lost the election?" Melber asked again. "When did this become so hard? I mean, you're a very serious person."
Trump's former lawyer went on to claim that he has "serious concerns" about the 2020 election and that he was uninterested in "rehashing" the topic.
"That's great, but, 'did Donald Trump lose the election' is the question," Melber replied.
"We're done with that. Joe Biden had an electoral college majority and was elected President of the United States," Ray said. "Simple."
Melber asked for clarity once again, saying, "So Donald Trump lost because Joe Biden won?"
"Yeah, there's a winner and there's a loser," Ray finally conceded.
Melber then asked Ray another important question regarding the 2020 election.
"Did Donald Trump, according to this evidence, know he lost?" Melber asked, pointing to evidence presented by the Jan. 6 House select committee.
"I think that, um, I think that he had a legitimate question in his mind about whether or not there was a fair election," Ray responded.
Ray went on to argue that Trump was entitled to seek legal advice over the election results, adding, "But at the end of the day, he left office voluntarily and Joe Biden was elected and inaugurated President of the United States."
"That's our system working," Ray concluded.
Props to Melber for continuing to push back until Ray gave a true answer. |
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Jason Whitlock
The Blaze published an article by Jason Whitlock that inexplicably included a photoshopped image of LeBron James dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
In the article, Whitlock asserted – without evidence – that a 2017 incident in which the n-word was spray-painted on the gate leading to James’ mansion in Brentwood, California was a “hoax.”
James had responded to the incident by lamenting the history of racism in the United States and invoked Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black child who was lynched in Mississippi after allegedly offending a White woman in 1955.
Later in his screed against James, Whitlock recounted the case of 17-year-old White teenager Ethan Liming, who died earlier this month after being beaten to death by three Black men, according to police.
“Our condolences goes out to the family who lost a loved one!!” James tweeted about Liming’s death. “My the heavens above watch over you during this tragedy! Pray for our community!”
Whitlock was so unimpressed by the response that he declared James a “stereotypical bigot” and later reiterated his claim about the spray-painted n-word on James’ property being a hoax.
"His heartfelt, grammatically challenged tweet included heart and crown emojis. There was no mention of Emmett or Mamie Till. No mention of racial hatred," Whitlock wrote.
"Five black kids got in a fight, and the white kid who initially acted as peacemaker got killed. What would LeBron tweet if a black child was brutally beaten by three white men at I Promise School?"
Whitlock also invoked the historical association of the Democratic Party and the KKK (which largely stopped being a thing after the pro-Civil Rights faction of the Democratic Party prevailed in the 1960s), calling the Democratic National Committee (the DNC), “the Dead Negroes Confederacy."
Whitlock also stated the DNC “loves dead negroes.”
"LeBron is a political soldier for the Democratic Party," he wrote. "His bigotry is rooted in lust for political power. Democrats have painted their political opponents as bigots."
In addition to Whitlock's nonsensical tirade against James, the article was topped off with a photoshopped image of LeBron James as a Klansman, which as of writing this, has not been taken down. |
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Not guilty?
Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty to two charges of contempt of Congress.
The charges stem from his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was indicted on the contempt of Congress charges earlier this month.
According to the indictment, Navarro refused to appear to give testimony or produce documents as required by the House's subpoena.
"In its subpoena, the Select Committee said it had reason to believe that Navarro had information relevant to its investigation," read a statement from the Department of Justice. "Navarro, formerly an advisor to the President on various trade and manufacturing policies, has been a private citizen since departing the White House on Jan. 20, 2021."
While the subpoena required Navarro to appear and produce documents to the committee on Feb. 23, 2022, and to appear for a deposition before the Select Committee on March 2, 2022, he did neither.
Navarro defended his decision by claiming that his conversations with former President Donald Trump are protected by executive privilege, hence, his refusal to show up before the committee.
Navarro is now due in court on Nov. 17.
If convicted, he would face up to two years behind bars and a $200,000 fine, according to the DOJ.
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CNN's Jake Tapper blurted out a five-letter word while on air Thursday.
The moment happened while Tapper was reporting on a tense phone call between Donald Trump and Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
Tapper and a CNN panel discussed a call between Pence and the former president that took place the morning before the building was stormed.
During the Jan. 6 call, Trump attempted to pressure Pence to refuse to certify the 2020 election results leading up to the riot, and reportedly grew increasingly angry at his vice president throughout the call.
CNN aired Jan. 6 House select committee testimony about the call from former White House attorney Eric Herschmann, Ivanka Trump, former Trump aide Nicholas Luna and retired Gen. Keith Kellogg.
“I remember hearing the word wimp. Either he called him a wimp,” Luna said. “I don’t remember if he said, ‘You are a wimp, you will be a wimp.’ ‘Wimp’ is the word I remember.”
Julie Radford, Ivanka’s former chief of staff, remembered the call differently. She said Trump used a word that was not “wimp” as he lashed out at Pence on the phone.
“Do you remember what she said her father called him?” Radford was asked, to which she responded, “The P-word.”
Tapper reacted to the testimony bluntly.
“So, in fact, the word was not ‘wimp,'” he said. “It was ‘pussy’ that Donald Trump was calling Vice President Pence.” |
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