{"id":53290,"date":"2022-06-14T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53290"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:21:41","slug":"fox-news-senior-political-analyst-says-january-6th-hearings-could-help-gop-by-thumping-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53290","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Senior Political Analyst Says January 6th Hearings Could Help GOP By Thumping Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection incited by Donald Trump has so far conducted two sessions that have already produced devastating evidence of criminal malfeasance by the twice-impeached, former reality TV game show host. And while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53171\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News refused to air the first session live<\/a><\/strong>, They did succumb to pressure and covered the second session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Senior Political Analyst Says January 6th Hearings Could Help GOP By Damaging Trump%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53290\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-loser-emoji-e1571261064815.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36578\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The revelations of Trump&#8217;s anti-American sedition disclosed so far include that many of his closest White House and campaign staffers tried in vain to coax him off the ledge of crazy election fraud claims that he knew were not true. His Attorney General, Bill Barr, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49875\">called such claims <em>&#8220;bullshit.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> And both documents and testimony exposed Trump&#8217;s financial corruption wherein he repeatedly lied to his gullible cult followers in order to fleece them for donations that he said were intended for an <em>&#8220;Election Defense Fund&#8221;<\/em> that never actually existed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53277\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s \u2018Big Ripoff\u2019 is Also Revealed in the January 6th Committee\u2019s Probe of His \u2018Big Lie\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, most of the post-hearing commentary on Fox News was stridently hostile toward the Committee, its members, and its mission. Their primetime roster of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham, all either disparaged or belittled the proceedings. However, there were a couple of uncharacteristically honest moments that managed to slither out from the avalanche of Trump-fluffing propaganda. One of those moments came when Fox&#8217;s Senior Political Analyst, Brit Hume, told anchor Bret Baier that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What strikes me about this, Bret, is that if they succeed ? either by damaging him or staining him such that he is either unable for legal or political reasons to run again ? they might end up finding out that they\u2019ve done the Republican Party a great service. Because I think a great many Republicans think they can\u2019t win with Trump at the head of the ticket again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re afraid of his supporters and don\u2019t want to come out against him directly. But they\u2019d like him to go away. If the effect of this committee is to make his possible candidacy go away, I think a great many Republicans would privately be very glad.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hume: If they succeed by staining him such that he is unable for legal or political reasons to run again, they might find out they\u2019ve done the GOP a great service because I think a great number of Republicans think they can\u2019t win with Trump\u2026 they\u2019d like him to go away <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g1JwKtct8w\">pic.twitter.com\/g1JwKtct8w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1536473014983921664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a rare admission by someone on Fox News that Trump is actually an albatross around the red neck of a Republican Party that both hates and fears him. Hume is also conceding that Trump could be guilty of crimes that would forestall his becoming a candidate in 2024. And he is confirming that a significant faction of the GOP believe that Trump would lose &#8211; again &#8211; were he to be the Party&#8217;s nominee.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reasonable argument to be made that Hume is right that dumping Trump would would be a boon to the GOP in 2024. However, that is not by any any stretch of the imagination a foregone conclusion. First of of all, it presumes that a different nominee would be less schizoid that Trump. And judging by their bench (Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, etc.), that&#8217;s a highly speculative presumption. Secondly, whatever non-Trump candidate would replace him would suffer from the fact that Trump&#8217;s disciples might tend to stay home if their messiah isn&#8217;t on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the hearings now in progress have the potential to do serious damage to more than just Trump. The entire Republican Party has been shown to be complicit in his illicit behavior. And a great deal of that is being played out on television via these hearings, which have garnered huge ratings with an audience exceeding 20 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53224\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 6th Hearing Ratings are Burning Up Trump and His Right-Wing Media Liars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Hume&#8217;s remarks, the Fox news audience was also treated to the opinion of Democratic consultant and Fox News contributor, Marie Harf, who said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The testimony this morning paints a picture of a president who is hearing from all his top advisers &#8211; not all, many of his top advisers, the &#8216;normal team,&#8217; as Bill Stepien called them &#8211; that his claims were outrageous. They were B.S. They were not based in any fact. And yet he went out to his supporters and told them they were true, encouraged them, lit this match. Encouraged people to believe these BS allegations. He asked them for money to help in his legal cases. He gave them a false sense of hope, and that culminated, as I think the Committee will get to, in what we saw on January 6th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let&#8217;s take a step back from the process, from the inside baseball, who&#8217;s on the Committee and who isn&#8217;t. We saw a portrait of a president today who was increasingly at odds with reality. And that&#8217;s according to his own advisers, including people like Bill Barr.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Then liberal commentator Marie Harf came on and said what no one else on the network would say: Trump &quot;lit this match.&quot; He gave his fans &quot;false hope.&quot; He was &quot;increasingly at odds with reality, and that is according to his own advisors, including people like Bill Barr.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HcPINQUemf\">pic.twitter.com\/HcPINQUemf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1536383430388240388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It will take a lot more of this type of truthful commentary to deprogram the brainwashed Fox News viewers. But the fact that these views are getting aired on Fox is validation of the Democrats decision to hold these hearings and to hold Trump and his cronies to account for their crimes. And they have only just begun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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And while Fox News refused to air the first session live, They did succumb to pressure and covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36578,"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":[152,1,684,1200],"tags":[127,554,1140,33,1173,1432,1470,301],"class_list":["post-53290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","tag-brit-hume","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-gop","tag-insurrection","tag-january-6th","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/trump-loser-emoji-e1571261064815.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dRw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57391,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57391","url_meta":{"origin":53290,"position":0},"title":"HUH? 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