Fox Hosts Begged Trump To Call Off Capitol Attack Then Blamed Antifa

In the heat of the moment on Jan. 6, Donald Trump’s closest supporters spoke frankly: Congress was under attack by Trump’s die-hard fans, and the President alone had the power to call them off. They texted Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in a frenzy, pleading with him to have Trump address the nation and dismiss the rioters. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1398072

The fallout from these revelations will be most entertaining to behold…

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Congress: “We are helpless…”

Trump: “Fuck You”

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Why? They like to lie to people to further a radical GOP agenda and radicalize their audience.

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They are traitors. They should rot in hell.

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Overheard MAGA: I don’t know what to believe anymore… let’s go Brandon!

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In regard to the question asked by the headline, why would Trump supporters knowing lie,

the answer is because they are shameless liars who don’t much care about truth.

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Yeah. What Joyce said. Riddle me that one, Meadow-Man!

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When you’re economically anxious, you let them do it.

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We should speed their arrival there.

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It’s nice to see the “con” being exposed. Please proceed…

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If you don’t bar Fox from press conferences going forward, you’re enabling this shit. Cut them off and make them cry about it. If you leave this to public opinion to fight the battle, you’ll lose. Stop treating them like a news organization. They are seen that way because both sides treat them that way. You have to fight them. Otherwise you’re just lending them credibility.

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Corona virus got this.

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Fox goes all in on lies and propaganda. They are setting fire to the arena. At least they’re not covering politics as sport.


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Laura Ingraham is such a degraded ghoul and liar.

From today going forward everyone on her show must press her why her preferred “Leader of the Free World” needs assistance from tv talking heads to run the ship of state during a crisis.

Imagine Walter Winchell calling the White House after Pearl Harbor to instruct FDR to “DO something!”! Insanity!

Plus, they’re all liars!

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  • “I do not know Trump supporters that have ever demonstrated violence that I know of in a big situation.”

Perhaps Brian the K wasn’t paying attention at Charlottesville.

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I desperately want to agree with you, I do… but, I am possessed of a fear that there were plenty of people who knew that it was not some “communist agitator” who started the Reichstag fire back in the day, and, still, Herr Hitler and his lovely crew ended up taking over Germany, and “saving” it from the Communists. (Alas, and alack, it was only temporary respite… eventual Stalin’s talks rolled right into Berlin.) I mean that the only people who are going to be “entertained” were already well aware that FAUX News is a foreign Psy-Op against the United States, and the folks who are unaware of that, will remain utterly unaware.

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Eva Braunoser: “Mark, the President needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”

Actually, Laura, this IS his legacy.

Enjoy being fly-papered to this traitorous stink till the day you die.

(And then, even after that.)

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i’m hoping all this will reach the people who can think and reason–amenable to persuasion–but don’t pay much attention to politics. As Colin Powell always said, optimism is a force multiplier…

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Perhaps Brian the K wasn’t paying attention at Charlottesville to Trump.

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