What could possibly be worse than spending time, on the final Sunday of summer, watching Kristen Welker launch her Meet the Press reign by splashing in the sewer with Inmate #P01135809?
Theoretically, the day may come when the mainstream media realizes that platforming a fascist sociopath merely pumps him up to spew anew. But let’s be honest, there’s no evidence that such a revelation will ever occur. And so we seem forever fated to be tortured by his tsunami of lies. Like these today, courtesy of Trump’s enablers at NBC News:
“The (2020) election was rigged. There’s no question about that. There’s so much proof on it…If this were ever before a court, we would win so easy. There is so much evidence that the election was rigged.” (He lost 60 court cases, won none.)
“You know who I listen to? Myself. I saw what happened. I watched that election, and I thought the election was over at 10 o’clock in the evening.” (His aides had repeatedly warned him, well in advance, that tens of millions of mailed ballots would be tallied in the wee hours of the morning, and that those ballots would tilt heavily Democratic.)
“I’m facing four Biden indictments. He told the Justice Department to indict…He went to the attorney general of the United States, and he told them, ‘Indict Trump.'” (There isn’t a scintilla of evidence that Biden communicated anything. And indictments are handed down by grand juries comprised of ordinary citizens.)
On the fateful Jan. 6, Nancy Pelosi “turned down 10,000 soldiers. If she didn’t turn down the soldiers, you wouldn’t have had January 6th.” (The Jan. 6 Committee found no evidence whatsoever that Trump had ordered 10,000 troops to quell the insurrection, so there was no order for Pelosi to defy. He also told Welker that the Capitol Police had the goods on Pelosi but “they burned all the evidence” – a line of bullshit that’s too sick to even parse.)
Democrats are all “radicals” who support abortion “even after birth…Look, the Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth.” (Nobody supports infanticide.)
“We had the greatest economy in history, then we got hit with Covid.” (He had the worst job-creation record of any president since the feds started tracking the stat in 1939. And that’s true even when Covid is taken into account.)
There were umpteen more lies, motormouthed at the speed of sound, but I refuse to waste space – and your valuable time – by listing them. He’s the cartoon hero of his own comic book, end of story. Welker tried to fact-check him in real time (“Mr. President, there’s no evidence of that, you know there’s no evidence of that”), and she tried to breach his endless brain farts (eight times she pleaded with him to “stay on track”), but you can’t plant yourself in front of a 200 mph wind and not get blown off course. Whenever she grabbed for a tree branch, he uprooted the tree.
Still, several yummy moments made me smile.
Welker asked him who was chiefly responsible for decreeing that the ’20 election was rigged and for deciding that every possible effort should be made to overturn it and award it to him. Was Bill Barr most responsible? Nah, he said, Barr was “a stiff.” How about his White House lawyers? Nah, they “turn out to be not so good. In many cases, I didn’t respect them.” So who drove the attempted coup? His answer:
“It was my decision.”
Thank you, “sir”! Jack Smith should play that one in federal court for the D.C. jury that hears the coup case.
By the way, during an interview last week on Sirius with Megyn Kelly, he discussed the stolen classified documents case and screwed himself there, too: “I’m allowed to have these documents. I’m allowed to take these documents…When I have them, they become unclassified. People think you have to go through a ritual. You don’t, at least in my opinion.” Another gift for the prosecution! That’s like a bank robber saying, “I’m allowed to steal their money and once I have it, it becomes un-stolen. At least in my opinion.”
And, today, there was a second yummy moment. We badly need them, if only to lighten the angst that we feel about having an evil lummox looming (again) so close to the presidency – with the mainstream media still having no clue how to cover him. The moment came when he waxed philosophical about the brilliance that has guided him through life:
“My instincts are a big part of it. That’s been the thing that’s gotten me to where I am.”
My Instincts Have Gotten Me Where I Am would be boffo signage on his jailhouse wall.