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Trump aide returning to school and driving for Uber after being shut out of job interviews: report
January 16, 2021
On MSNBC Saturday, former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said that some of the aides still working in the administration are crippled by the inability to find work — and that one staffer she knows will be forced to go back to grad school and drive for Uber on the side to get by.
"This same report that I was citing earlier, it also details how no one on the White House staff has any fight left in them," said anchor Alex Witt. "I mean, it's just gone. What are you hearing about the mood there these final days?"
<p>"Yeah, they're certainly demoralized," said Omarosa. "I've done a couple of references for these really young kids who started as interns under us during the campaign, and now they're trying to go to grad school because they can't find a job. One of them told me he's going back home to New York City and probably going to Uber while he tries to get into grad school."</p><p>
"Wait, what?" said Witt. "Somebody who worked in the White House — they're not able to get jobs. Some of them going to grad school, nothing wrong with that, that's always a good investment. But really? They're having trouble getting jobs? Because they were associated with this administration?"</p><p>
"Yeah," said Omarosa. "Right now, Donald Trump has made everyone in that White House, in that administration, radioactive, no one wants to touch them. So yes, he's going to Uber until he finds something else. But no one has been biting. He's been putting in resumes for about three and a half months and can't find anything."</p><p>
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Aide cites insurrection as he quits as Rep. Lauren Boebert's communications director: report
January 16, 2021
Republicans who pushed the conspiracy theory of election fraud continue to lose political support as the backlash agains the insurrection they incited continues to mount.
"The communications director for Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, a firebrand Republican freshman who boasts about carrying a gun to work, has quit after less than two weeks on the job," Axios reported Saturday.
<p>"Ben Goldey's resignation cited last week's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which followed efforts by Boebert and lawmakers to block certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The Hill veteran's departure highlights the deep divide among Republicans over President Trump's conduct," Axios noted.</p><p>Goldey used to work for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).</p><p>"Boebert is a strident Trump supporter firmly on the right flank of the House GOP caucus. She was clear about her views during her campaign, but they have suddenly become politically toxic following last week's attack," Axios noted. "Boebert's quickly become a lightning rod by railing against 'fraudulent' votes for Biden in a floor speech ahead of the attack, and by making a show — including in an ad filmed on the Hill — of her desire to carry a handgun in the Capitol."</p>
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Conspiracy-pushing GOP lawmaker trying to distance himself from riot he helped incite: report
January 16, 2021
One of the most controversial new member of Congress was the focus of a brutal new exposé in New York magazine.
"Madison Cawthorn has a vision of a January 6 that did not happen. One in which he does the noble thing for career and country. He uses his MAGA celebrity for good. He transforms from sh*tposter to statesman. And he emerges from the U.S. Capitol as America's savior," Olivia Nuzzi reported.
<p>Nuzzi noted Rep. Cawthorn (R-NC) pushed the conspiracy theory about election fraud that incited the fatal insurrection and even urged Trump supporters to "lightly threaten" members to Congress when pushing them to overturn the election results.</p><p>"After winning a competitive primary and the November election, he avidly promoted the president's false claims of voter fraud. In a December speech to Turning Point USA, the right-wing youth organization, he said, 'Call your congressman, and feel free — you can lightly threaten them and say, 'You know what? If you don't start supporting election integrity, I'm coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you, everybody's coming after you.' ' With digital charisma and total fealty to the Trump election lie, Cawthorn snagged a prime speaking spot at the president's January 6 'Save America' rally alongside lifers like Rudy Giuliani and Trump's own son," Nuzzi reported.</p><p>After the riot began, Cawthorn armed himself with a handgun and described sheltering in a colleague's office as he attempted to distance himself from the insurrectionist.</p><p>"It was a great bonding experience," he said. "But it literally felt like a scene from <em>The Lord of the Rings.</em> You kind of see the orcs — Helm's Deep, or taking over Minas Tirith, whatever — it just looks like the enemy is on something that they're not supposed to be on … And the worst part was they're all waving these American flags and these MAGA flags, and you want to say, 'You don't represent me at all. That's not my movement. You're not part of my party one bit if you're taking this kind of extreme action.' One can say, 'You can only push somebody so much, and they watched the Black Lives Matter people do this all summer,' blah blah blah — but at the end of the day, there's no excuse for it."</p><p>Cawthorn imagined what he wishes he would have done.</p><p>"I genuinely believe, had we realized what was going on and sent myself, or maybe Lauren Boebert (R-CO), some of these people who are just very recognizable to, kind of, the MAGA crowd; in the wheelchair, I probably would've been better, because it's very easily recognizable. I might've just gone to the front steps." He said, "I think we could've stopped them."</p><p>Cawthorn's role in the big lie about election fraud is part of a long series of controversies for the rookie lawmaker.</p><p>"He visited the U.S.-Mexico border and appealed to QAnon with a claim that children were being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery across the Rio Grande; he was accused of sexual misconduct (Cawthorn maintains he did nothing wrong) and of spreading a lie that, if not for his car crash, he would have attended the Naval Academy (he was rejected prior to the accident). His campaign launched a racist attack against a member of the press; he posted a photo at Hitler's vacation home with a caption about how seeing where 'the Führer' (umlaut and everything) went to decompress had been on his 'bucket list.' And on and on," Nuzzi noted.</p><p>After it all, Cawthorn is claiming his speech to the insurrectionists seeking to overturn the election may have saved lives.</p><p>"Maybe my remarks that day led to a thousand less people, or ten less people, who didn't storm the Capitol," Cawthorn said. "Maybe that number would've been enough to breach the House floor, and congressmen could have died or more police officers could have died. I think my comments there led to less violence."</p><p>Read the <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/madison-cawthorn-capitol-insurrection-washington.html" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p>
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