{"id":48487,"date":"2021-02-07T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48487"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T03:02:51","slug":"wtf-trump-flunkies-on-fox-news-blame-pelosi-for-plot-to-assassinate-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48487","title":{"rendered":"WTF? Trump Flunkies on Fox News Blame Pelosi for Plot to Assassinate Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump will commence next Tuesday. And the approaching spectacle is driving up the anxiety levels of Trump’s apologists in Congress and the right-wing press. Consequently, their arguments in defense of the “former social media influencer”<\/em> (h\/t Colin Jost of SNL<\/a><\/strong>) are becoming ever more bizarre and downright hysterical.<\/p>\n

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Trump knows that he has no plausible defense. That’s why he is too afraid to accept the Senate’s invitation to make the case for his own innocence. He knows that there is too much evidence against him in the form of videos and the testimony of his cult disciples. And much of the evidence that Democrats will present at the trial is Trump’s own words. So at his lawyers’ direction, he is remaining sequestered in his Mar-a-Lago bunker imagining what he would be tweeting if he were still able to.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump sycophants marched off to defend the dishonor of the Insurrectionist-in-Absentia. Two of them bravely faced the barrage of softballs pitched by Fox News’ Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo. Although her network colleague Lou Dobbs was unceremoniously dismissed for disseminating flagrantly defamatory lies<\/a><\/strong>, Bartiromo, for the moment, still has a job. And on Sunday she exploited her platform to feature a pair of shameless mouthpieces for Trump.<\/p>\n

There appears to have been some message coordination between the Trump spokes-weasels. Or else both of them just independently decided to launch the same ridiculous attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The gist of the synchronized assaults was that Pelosi secretly plotted the Capitol riots that place the lives of her congressional colleagues at risk. And even worse, they allege that she was complicit with the conspiracy to assassinate herself.<\/p>\n

For instance, Bartiromo interviewed Wisconsin Senator and alleged Russian agent<\/a><\/strong>, Ron Johnson. in the seemingly scripted segment, Johnson addressed Trump’s impeachment and the charges that Trump incited the violence that took place in his name:<\/p>\n

“We now know that forty-five Republican senators believe that it’s unconstitutional. Is this another diversionary operation? Is this meant to deflect away from potentially what the Speaker knew and when she knew it? I don’t know, but I’m suspicious.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ron Johnson absurdly floats that Nancy Pelosi is somehow responsible for a MAGA mob descending on the Capitol for a deadly insurrection pic.twitter.com\/hUi6SydEe1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n