{"id":51712,"date":"2022-01-05T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51712"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:11:04","slug":"consciousness-of-guilt-trump-chickens-out-of-his-own-phony-news-conference-with-lame-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51712","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness of Guilt: Trump Chickens Out of His Own Phony &#8216;News&#8217; Conference with Lame Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one year anniversary of Donald Trump&#8217;s January 6th insurrection, the former reality TV game show host is revealing his abject fear of being held accountable for his flagrant crimes against America. Every day more evidence comes out exposing how Trump orchestrated an attempted coup to undermine American democracy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-chicken-don.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Chicken\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both Congress and the White House planned solemn observances of the sad anniversary in order to mourn the victims, honor the heroes, and memorialize that tragic episode of our history. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51601\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters<\/a><\/strong> that President Biden would <em>&#8220;speak to the truth of what happened&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol, and the singular responsibility president Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw.&#8221;<\/em> Adding that <em>&#8220;he will forcibly push back on the lies spread by the former president.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>True to form, Trump, the malignant narcissist and wannabe dictator, sought to make the day all about himself. So he announced that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51601\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he would be holding an alleged <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> conference<\/a><\/strong> on the same day. It was a terrible idea both politically and morally. But it was exactly the sort of noxious behavior that is expected from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>However, circumstances intervened that have resulted in Trump canceling his media circus. The circumstances include pleadings from his Republican confederates to scrap the affair, as well as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51701\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shocking disclosures about his Fox News flunky, Sean Hannity<\/a><\/strong>, that expose his communications with the Trump team during the riots. Trump&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1478505108015132678\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notice<\/a><\/strong> that he was backing out was typically Trumpian. He began&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona \u2013 It will be a big crowd!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump expects people to believe that he&#8217;s abandoning his news conference, where he could tell his own story, because of some unstated bias by the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection. And for good measure he threw in the tedious <em>&#8220;Fake News&#8221;<\/em> canard. That makes sense only to someone with severe brain damage. Trump more likely retreated because of the risk that no one would show up for his pseudo-news charade. Or even worse, that they would show. The truth is that Trump is scared witless of being in a position where he might face questioning about his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump rescheduled his lie-fest for another of his cult rallies, where he is the sole performer before an audience of glassy-eyed disciples. That way he can brag about the attendance at his free rally for Deplorables, even though when they recently were asked to pay, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51503\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they stayed away in droves<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to disgorge wild allegations that he can&#8217;t prove. He accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being responsible for the absence of law enforcement. Which is ironic since it was Trump who, as Commander-in-Chief, was the person who could have deployed protection for the Congress. But the evidence shows that he did nothing but gleefully watch the television reports of the riots for three terrifying hours, while even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51523\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his allies on Fox News were begging him to call off his StormTrumpers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump closed his rant by whining about what he called the <em>&#8220;Democrats&#8217; Great Cover-Up Committee and the Media is complicit.&#8221;<\/em> But if he really wanted to correct the record, he could simply testify before the Committee and bring along whatever evidence he has to support his claims. Instead, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51492\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is suing anyone and everyone<\/a><\/strong> to keep everything hidden. He&#8217;s making accusations against Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff that he can&#8217;t prove. And he&#8217;s crying that he&#8217;s a victim (again) of the <em>&#8220;Crime of the Century.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing that Trump&#8217;s devotees aren&#8217;t getting tired of these wearisome ravings. He&#8217;s spent more than a year making assertions that the 2020 election was <em>&#8220;rigged&#8221;<\/em> without providing any evidence whatsoever. He lost more than sixty court cases on the subject. And yet he comes back with the same mindlessly monotonous musings and his fans eat it up. And as has been observed many times, that is the textbook behavior of a cult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one year anniversary of Donald Trump&#8217;s January 6th insurrection, the former reality TV game show host is revealing his abject fear of being held accountable for his flagrant crimes against America. Every day more evidence comes out exposing how Trump orchestrated an attempted coup to undermine American democracy. Both Congress and the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,1432,1410,95,129],"class_list":["post-51712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-jen-psaki","tag-media","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-chicken-don.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ds4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51709,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51709","url_meta":{"origin":51712,"position":0},"title":"Jen Psaki: Biden Will Address Trump\u2019s &#8216;Singular Responsibility&#8217; for the &#8216;Chaos and Carnage&#8217; on January 6th","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/5\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the worst attack on the United States Congress and American democracy in more than 200 years. 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