Loeffler Makes Baffling Claim She Is ‘Not Familiar’ With Trump Access Hollywood Tape | Talking Points Memo

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) said Wednesday that she was “not familiar” with a widely-cited Access Hollywood tape where President Donald Trump can be heard talking about sexually assaulting women. 


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She is either full of shit, or slept from Aug – Nov of 2016.

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Quick typo alert:

“Loeffler suggested during a debate earlier this month that SHE (?) doesn’t disagree with anything Trump has said”

“The Georgia lawmaker [comma] who was appointed to her Senate seat earlier this year, …”

“deciding instead to TOUT [?] the President for a series of unspecific accomplishments …”

Hey, we know you guys are working super hard and fast… let us do the extra copy-editing, and feel free to delete this post when done1

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Kelly Loeffler: A Low Life in High Heels

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Watch this Georgia debate takedown Wham Bam smack

Seriously, this is the most West Wing moment I’ve ever seen in real life. Just brutal. pic.twitter.com/C2LeZefbZl

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) October 29, 2020

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The women I admire are the ones that tell you that this behavior is a BAD thing no matter who does it and doesn’t hide behind a ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’ bunch of BS. Blackburn, Loeffler, have done everything to grab onto Donnie’s coattails.

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100 sexual assaults, 1000 sexual assaults–no matter, Loeffler will always stand by tRump

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This needs to be asked of Loeffler every time she’s seen in public: How could you not know this about the man you support to be president? Are you lying, or are you stupid?
Ask until she answers.

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A Trumpista approach to public statements is becoming the norm. Most politicians or their publicists, when making a statement, are trying to persuade people of something: their view, their virtue, whatever.

But Trumpista statements, across the board as far as I can see, have completely given up on trying to convince anyone of anything. Rather, they fall into two categories:

  1. Ritual statements of debasement of enemies: anyone who says anything critical is “lying”, “incompetent”, “disgruntled”… the script is almost entirely standardized by now (see the White House statements on Miles Taylor for the full liturgy).

  2. Bald-faced denials of the obvious. Loeffler’s weird lie here falls into this category: any sentient political actor can’t possibly be ‘not familiar’ with the Access Hollywood tape. David Perdue’s denial that he mocked Senator Harris’s name is manifestly false, absurdly so. In fact, these absurd lies seem be built on the premise that the absurdity is part of their appeal.

Both of these rhetorical styles, in short, are ritual language for believers, not persuasive language to change anyone’s mind. The liturgy – and what is more liturgical than a Trump rally? – serves to command the minds of true believers in their Leader. The lies serve to provide an insider’s nudge and wink which provides a little goose of satisfaction, … “we got them annoyed, now rub it in”… to those same true believers.

Trumpism has fully evolved into a cult, I conclude.

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The senator’s apparent ignorance about the famed tape

Not apparent at all.

Asserted or claimed, sure.

Feigned, maybe.

Any of those can be consistent with:

asked directly about the tape […], Loeffler deliberately ignored the question

But not apparent.

 

@zoe_richards

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I believe her, since Loeffler, like Trump, is also not familiar with reality.

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Oh to be willfully ignorant of this and so many other things.

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She probably hasn’t read about or seen any recordings of any of the other disqualifying actions he’s taken or statements he’s made either, but she is totally informed on all of the decisions she needs to make as a Senator.

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When asked directly about the tape on Wednesday, Loeffler deliberately ignored the question, deciding instead to taut the President for a series of unspecific accomplishments like “being a conservative champion for Georgians.”

Hollow, meaningless words from a hollow meaningless person.

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The phrase you are looking for is “Grab 'em by the pussy.” It seems kind of relevant in an article about how this numbskull is denying knowledge of it.

Also, “taut”?

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How else to explain her saying she has never disagreed with Trump?

Probably she knows what he’s like, and has even disagreed with him, but is (for now) too cowardly to say so.

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Full of shit.

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Understandable, as it was not insider information passed on to her in secret.

Instead it was only on tv, radio, and the internets worldwide.

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It was beautiful!

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Awesome, but I would have liked to see Per-Due-Due-Due’s response…

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