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Donald Trump's White House press secretary was blasted for her "extraordinary" defense of the president once again attacking a deceased war hero.
At a campaign speech in Michigan, Trump suggested that former Rep. John Dingell might be burning in hell.
Jonathan Lemire, a White House reporter for the Associated Press, noted that White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham described Trump's attack as "counterpunching."
"I don't know how the congressman could counterpunch from beyond the grave," Lemire noted.
Wallace, who served as White House communications director in the George W. Bush administration, played the clip of Grisham's remarks, saying "this isn't normal."
"He is under attack? I mean put on your big boy panties and get in the arena," Wallace counseled.
"I am starting to think she's not very good at her job," conservative writer Charlie Sykes said.
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CNN contributor and one-time Republican strategist Ana Navarro on Thursday absolutely went off on President Donald Trump for his attacks on the late Rep. John Dingell (D-MI).
After Trump implied that the late Michigan Democratic lawmaker might be suffering in hell during a campaign rally on Wednesday, Navarro eviscerated the president for his shocking lack of humanity.
"It's extremely disturbing, and one of the things we can't stop is being outraged," she said. "One of the things that Donald Trump has done is worn us down, where we all just shrug and say, 'That's Trump being Trump.' No! He is the president of the United States!"
Navarro then sent her condolences to Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), who was most personally hurt by the attacks on her late husband.
"I am sorry that Debbie is going through this, and I'm even more sorry that we have a pathetic, lame excuse, inhumane President who, instead of embracing the country and trying to unify this country, uses his presidential pulpit to attack dead war heroes, who unlike him did not make up bone spurs!" she said.
She then took a shot at first lady Melania Trump's "Be Best" campaign against cyberbullying.
"Try better with 'Be Best'!" she said. "'Be Best' should start at home!"
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Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday morning, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele could only shake his head and laugh at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after he held a press conference and tip-toed around Donald Trump's Wednesday night attack on the late Rep. John Dingell (D-MI).
Following the nationally televised press conference -- coming on the heels of a House vote to impeach the president -- MSNBC host Chris Jansing asked Steele about McCarthy's performance where he called Dingell a friend -- but refused to condemn the president's comments.
"You couldn't even get Kevin McCarthy to say what the president said about John Dingell was wrong," the stunned Jansing prompted.
"I know, I almost fell out of my chair," the laughing Steele replied. "That's it right there. The question was, do you support what the president said, and he started talking about John Dingell was a nice guy. Yeah, I said nice things about him when he passed."
"That wasn't the question," he asserted while becoming serious. "Do you stand with the president. And that is the problem Kevin McCarthy finds himself in. And quite honestly, that is the problem a lot of those retiring members were sick and tired of finding themselves in. It's not fun to be in the minority, everyone in town knows that."
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Things got uncomfortable for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) when CNN's Jim Sciutto asked him about Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's work with shady Ukrainians.
During the interview, Sciutto showed Johnson a photo of Giuliani with one of his Ukrainian contacts and informed Johnson that the man is "member of the Ukrainian parliament, pro-Russian, who trained with the KGB."
"Is this a reliable source of information for investigating a U.S. citizen and a former vice president?" Sciutto asked Johnson.
"I don't know anything about that," Johnson said. "That's the first I've heard of it. Rudy Giuliani is a private citizen and can travel wherever he wants and investigate whatever he was. We also heard he was in Ukraine to film a documentary -- I don't know."
Sciutto pressed him about whether it was a good idea for the president's attorney to be working with a KGB-trained operative to damage the president's political opponents, and Johnson changed the subject.
"Okay, that really doesn't have much to do with what we're doing here," he replied. "Last night was an absolute tragedy! I think Mitch McConnell was right in his comments this morning that the Democrats have opened a Pandora's box!"
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Meghan McCain denounced President Donald Trump's "horrific monstrosity" toward widows, which he again displayed shortly after his impeachment.
The president suggested Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) should have voted against impeachment because he'd shown respect to her late husband, veteran lawmaker John Dingell, whom he suggested was in hell.
"In all candidness, Congresswoman Dingell reached out to me," said McCain, whose mother and late father have come under similar attack by the president.
"There's a specific kind of horrific monstrosity in this man that does this type of thing to widows," she added. "My mother has also reached out to her. The people in this room, you all heard them groan, we're all with her on this, but I think for me yesterday, I was watching the impeachment process when I got home last night, and I too would not have voted for it, and I also think Tulsi Gabbard has balls of steel to vote present because that's what I would have done if I were her, as well, and then this happens."
McCain then compared Trump's targeted cruelty to a journalist's Twitter post joking about impeachment.
"I think part of the problem is so many people are conflicted, at least with conservatives like I am, everything is so politicized," she said. "You have a Washington Post reporter tweeting, Rachel Bade, 'Merry Impeachmas from the Washington Post team,' it was so politicized, and then you see him doing a rally in front of supporters cheering for someone's death, and cheering for a beloved World War II hero and congressman and making pain of a family's Christmastime and grief exponentially worse."
"I don't understand -- if you have no heart, fine," McCain added. "I said yesterday I gave up on him having a conscience or a heart, but the politics of it are so blanking dumb because what you gave about the complete partisanship that I saw, he just lost because it's cruel."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Thursday that she would name managers to take the impeachment of president Donald Trump to the Senate after Republicans set the ground rules for a trial.
In a rant on the Senate floor earlier on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accused Democrats of undermining the Constitution by impeaching Trump. He gave no indication that Republicans are backing down from their threat not to allow witnesses in Trump's Senate trial.
Pelosi kicked off her weekly press conference by observing that she and other Democrats have a "spring" in their step after the impeachment vote.
But she quickly shut down questions about the time of when articles of impeachment would be sent to the Senate.
"Do you run the risk as Republicans have said that it seems like you're playing games with impeachment if you hold onto this articles for too long?" CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes asked the Speaker.
"I've said what I'm going to say," Pelosi cautioned. "The trial, that is where you put the managers. I'm not prepared to put the managers in that bill yet because we don't know the arena that we are in."
"Frankly, I don't care what the Republicans say," the Speaker added.
Pelosi only took one more question on the subject of a Senate trial.
"We would hope there would be a fair process," she said. "Just as we hoped they would honor the constitution. I heard some of what Mitch McConnell said today, it reminded me that when they wrote the Constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president."
"I don't think they suspected we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the Senate at the same time," Pelosi lamented.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday told reporters that she would be praying for President Donald Trump after he made what she described as "cruel" attacks on the late Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) and his widow, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI).
"Let us pray for the president," Pelosi said when asked about Trump insinuating that the late Michigan congressman was in hell. "The president clearly is insecure when it comes to statespersons, whether it was John McCain -- think of what he said about John McCain -- and his supporters just overlooked that. John McCain, now John Dingell."
Pelosi went on to say that Trump shouldn't make jokes at the expense of dead people just because their widows took a vote he didn't like.
"What the president misunderstands is that cruelty is not wit," she said. "Just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things, that he says doesn't mean he's funny. It's not funny at all. It's very sad."
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attacked Democrats for a "rushed and rigged" investigation in the House. But he then admitted that he too would hold a rushed and rigged trial in the Senate, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“In the coming weeks, Republican senators will face a choice: Do they want a fair trial? Or do they want to allow the president free reign?” said Schumer.
Schumer also argued that if the House’s case is so weak, as McConnell said, why he's then afraid of having witnesses appear.
"We believe the House’s case is strong…but if the Republican leader believes it’s so weak, why is he so afraid of relevant witnesses and documents?" Schumer asked.
Schumer went on to allege that the Republicans would likely ignore a Senate trial altogether. President Donald Trump said that he wants to call witnesses and hold a trial, but McConnell has said he wants no witnesses. McConnell could avoid a trial by holding vote immediately.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has opposed McConnell's "sham" trial, saying that she won't send Articles of Impeachment to the Senate until McConnell agrees to the rules of the trial.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) complained in a floor speech Thursday that the House "rushed and rigged" the impeachment hearings. But he then admitted that he would basically do the same thing if it came to the Senate.
McConnell began by trashing the Democrats for the rushed hearings, which the Democrats have said is because President Donald Trump's crimes were that egregious and that "obvious." The 2020 election has already begun and Democrats have said that it is important to work swiftly because the president is already working to hurt the election.
Republicans argued that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation took too long, but now they're saying that the Ukraine scandal investigation was too short. McConnell didn't outline how long exactly an investigation should take in his extensive speech to the nation.
But when speaking before the Senate, McConnell said that he intended to also rush the Senate trial of Trump to get it over with. McConnell has said that he doesn't want to call any witnesses and hold a vote without having an actual trial. Trump, by contrast, he has said wants witnesses and a trial.
Ironically, McConnell warned that if Democrats impeach Trump "for no good reason" then it could open up the possibility that Republicans could do the same to a Democratic president. The vote to impeach former President Bill Clinton for lying about his extra-marital affair took place 21 years ago this month.
The Senate leader also lambasted Democrats' process, saying that "precedent" matters. Former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne pointed out that McConnell tends to believe in "precedent" only when it's convenient for him.
McConnell bragged on Tuesday that he is not an impartial juror and stands firmly behind the president.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) condemned the House impeachment of President Donald Trump, and he was widely criticized for his biased defense.
The Kentucky Republican complained the impeachment inquiry was too short, and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation too long, and accused House Democrats of impeaching on the basis of historically weak evidence -- although he's not willing to hear any more testimony in the Senate trial.
McConnell's remarks were met with swift rebuke.
An uncomfortable Rick Santorum was put on the spot on Thursday morning when CNN host Alisyn Camerota tried to get him to defend a House Republican who compared Donald Trump to Jesus Christ facing crucifixion.
Appearing with Democratic strategist Jennifer Psaki, the former Republican senator grimaced when Camerota brought up the comments made by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who lectured his House colleagues, telling them, "When Jesus was falsely accused of Treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus, than Democrats have afforded this president in this process.”
After the CNN host ran the clip from the House floor, she pressed the Pennsylvania Republican to agree or disagree with the analogy.
"Let's look at congressman Loudermilk's argument," Camerota began. "What he's saying is the president didn't have the right to face accusers. That's an interesting argument because the president chose not to participate in the House proceedings where his accusers showed up and swore under oath and testified but he didn't allow anyone in the White House to participate."
"So how does that work that he couldn't face his accusers?" she asked.
After Psaki offered, "The answer is never to compare Donald Trump to Jesus in any way," Santorum got his chance.
"Let me make a correction," the conservative CNN contributor began. "What Loudermilk was trying to say is that the whistleblower is the accuser that he wasn't able to face."
"Now that was the point, poorly made," he continued, later adding, "There are certain places you just don't go."
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CNN's John Berman on Thursday buried White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham after she made excuses for President Donald Trump attacking yet another dead lawmaker.
During a campaign rally on Wednesday night, the president insinuated that the late Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) was suffering in hell, which prompted some groans and boos even from his own supporters.
During an interview with ABC News, Grisham said that the president only attacked the dead lawmaker because he's a "counter puncher" who will always hit back at people who attack him.
Berman reacted to this with barely concealed horror.
"There is no physical or moral way to counter punch against someone who is dead," he said.
Turning to guest John Avlon, Berman continued to tear apart Grisham's excuse for the president's behavior.
"'The president is a counter puncher' -- that is the weakest response you can have to a statement like that, particularly when John Dingell didn't throw a punch," he said.
"That's right," agreed Avlon. "This is what the White House trots out when they don't have anything. It excuses all manner of sins."
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