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'How dare you?' Shouting match erupts on Fox News after Geraldo Rivera says Trump 'incited' insurrection
January 28, 2021
Fox News contributors Geraldo Rivera and Leo Terrell strongly disagreed on Thursday over President Donald Trump's role in inciting the deadly Capitol Hill insurrection.
During a discussion about the siege, Rivera argued that National Guard troops should be allowed to protect the nation's capitol for the next month.
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Terrell, however, claimed that Democrats are using federal troops as "props" prior to Trump's second impeachment trial.
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For his part, Rivera urged the Senate to censure Trump instead of holding an impeachment trial that he said is likely to fail.
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"With this vote yesterday, it's clear that 45 Republicans are not going to go along with impeachment," Rivera explained. "What the Senate has to do is a joint bipartisan resolution to censure Donald Trump. Let's censure him. Let's say what you did was unacceptable. You incited that."
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"Come on!" Terrell exclaimed. "How dare you blame Donald Trump for that. We have a rule of law. We have due process."
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"Because I have eyes," Rivera replied.
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"For you to come on here and say that he was responsible is wrong!" Terrell continued. "You should not say that and you should apologize to President Trump for that statement. You have no facts to justify that!"
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"President Trump needs to apologize to us," Rivera countered.
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"No! You're wrong!" Terrell shot back. "I think you should review the First Amendment again because I'll ask you right now on TV, tell me the words, the magic words that he used to incite those criminals. Tell me the magic words right now, Geraldo."
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"I'll give you three weeks of incitement," Rivera said. "What in the hell do you think that crowd was going to do when they got to the Capitol? What were they going to do?"
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Watch the video below from Fox News.
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Trump campaign used secretive shell company led by Jared Kushner to illegally hide spending: complaint
January 28, 2021
On Thursday, Business Insider reported that the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center is alleging former President Donald Trump's family and campaign associates used a shell company to illegally conceal how they were spending election money.
The new allegations against the Trump family are detailed in a supplement to an existing federal complaint.
<p>"The supplement, filed Thursday morning with the Federal Election Commission, is in part based on Insider's reporting in December about American Made Media Consultants, a secretive shell company that operated inside Trump's 2020 campaign committee," said the report. "American Made Media Consultants, the shell company, along with a political firm owned by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, 'served as conduits that hid the ultimate recipients of nearly half of the campaign's overall spending,' the updated complaint states. 'These schemes disguised which firms or individuals were working for Trump's committees, how much and when they were being paid, and the purposes of those payments,' it continued."</p><p>The complaint is a response to former <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-shell-company-family-ammc-lara-2020-12" target="_blank">reporting</a> that suggested hundreds of millions of dollars flowed through this shell company, which was approved by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.</p><p>Trump's associates were perpetually dogged by ethics complaints both around the campaign and the administration, from allegations the former president <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/24/fox-news-judge-andrew-napolitano-calls-out-trumps-dangerous-contempt-for-the-emoluments-clause_partner/" target="_blank">violated the emoluments clause</a> of the Constitution by accepting foreign gifts through payments to his businesses, to repeated <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/more-than-one-dozen-trump-officials-violated-hatch-act-in-month-before-the-election/" target="_blank">violations of the Hatch Act</a> by government employees using their platforms to engage in campaign activity.</p>
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The Cheney family has played a significant role in creating the "monster that is the modern Republican Party," but only someone like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) could make someone like Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) look like a victim, according to Esquire's Charles Pierce.
Cheney was one of only 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump this month, blaming him for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
<p>Now, Gaetz is <a href="https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-sees-wyoming-as-testing-ground-for-trump-style-populism/article_0f359a7c-8c7e-5483-927f-6d80f2321ffc.html" target="_blank">traveling to her own backyard</a> in Wyoming to "talk about the failed leadership of Liz Cheney within our party and the failed policies that she advocates for."</p><p>"In a purely academic sense, it is not comfortable to watch one of the two political parties that America allows itself eating its own entrails for breakfast," writes Pierce. "On a purely emotional level, of course, it is an infinitely satisfying exercise, and an unquestionably just outcome for all concerned."</p><p>He added that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was a "perpetual hostage to the wingnuts" in this party.</p><p>Despite initially casting blame on Trump for the U.S. Capitol riot, McCarthy later reversed course. He is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-meeting/index.html" target="_blank">reportedly meeting</a> with the ex-president sometime on Thursday.</p><p>Read the full article over at <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35348817/matt-gaetz-liz-cheney-trump-republicans-kevin-mccarthy/" target="_blank">Esquire</a>.</p>
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