{"id":43868,"date":"2020-01-24T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43868"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:35:30","slug":"trump-admits-that-hes-only-interested-in-a-lie-filled-reality-tv-impeachment-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43868","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admits that He&#8217;s Only Interested in a Lie-Filled Reality TV Impeachment Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has been tweeting up a storm on this fourth day of his Senate impeachment trial. Most of it has been retweets of the sycophantic Trump-fluffers who vainly try to defend the indefensible criminality of Trump. But some are more puzzling than others, such as the one where he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43862\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">agreed with Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong> that he should be impeached and removed from office.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tv-set.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump TV Set\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, in addition to his tweet agreeing with Biden, Trump also tweeted what amounts to an admission that he isn&#8217;t really concerned about the outcome of the Senate trial at all. That&#8217;s because the GOP leader, Mitch McConnell, has already assured him that he won&#8217;t permit a fair hearing to take place and that the outcome will be manipulated in Trump&#8217;s favor. So Trump tweeted this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After having been treated unbelievably unfairly in the House, and then having to endure hour after hour of lies, fraud &amp; deception by Shifty Schiff, Cryin\u2019 Chuck Schumer &amp; their crew, looks like my lawyers will be forced to start on Saturday, which is called Death Valley in T.V.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1220687131292643329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, Trump had an invitation to have his representatives and witnesses appear during the House hearings, but he refused. So he can&#8217;t complain about not being represented when that was his own decision. Secondly, The prospect of the Trump defense in the Senate being pushed to Saturday was entirely the work of Mitch McConnell. The Democrats had no power to alter the schedule dictated by the GOP leader. And it appears likely that McConnell will alter it himself and shift the commencement of the Trump defense to Monday.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s notable that what Trump is whining about isn&#8217;t how his case will be made to the senators who will be voting on his fate as president. Nope. What Trump is upset about is that his defenders might not have as big a television audience as he would like. In other words, he&#8217;s only interested in the reality TV elements of his impeachment hearings. That&#8217;s a so typically Trumpian.<\/p>\n<p>Trump already has the benefit of Fox News, which has not been airing the Senate hearings during prime time. Fox has also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43845\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">benched their Senior Judicial Analyst<\/a><\/strong>, Judge Andrew Napolitano, in order to keep his contrary views away from the snowflakes who watch Fox (Napolitano called the evidence for Trump&#8217;s impeachment and removal <em>&#8220;ample and uncontradicted&#8221;<\/em>). Fox did, however, interrupt coverage of the hearings on Friday to show Trump giving a speech at the anti-abortion <em>March for Life<\/em>. They were in alone in that editorially biased decision.<\/p>\n<p>In the end everything about Trump&#8217;s behavior and commentaries is focused on one thing only: What is in his own best interest, never mind the American people or the fate of the nation. It&#8217;s his malignantly narcissistic, massive ego that must be satisfied first. And ironically, that&#8217;s what got him into all this trouble to begin with.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has been tweeting up a storm on this fourth day of his Senate impeachment trial. Most of it has been retweets of the sycophantic Trump-fluffers who vainly try to defend the indefensible criminality of Trump. But some are more puzzling than others, such as the one where he agreed with Joe Biden that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[735,554,33,39,377,923],"class_list":["post-43868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-impeach","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitch-mcconnell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tv-set.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bpy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43862,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43862","url_meta":{"origin":43868,"position":0},"title":"HUH? 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