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Jim Acosta nails the 'dumpster fire full of extremists' that is Trump and Elon Musk's life
November 27, 2022
CNN's Jim Acosta welcomed The Grio's April Ryan and conservative Alice Stewart to debate white supremacists and neo-Nazis welcomed into the MAGA movement and back to Twitter after being banned.
Trump welcomed Holocaust denier and white supremacist, Nick Fuentes, to Mar-a-Lago for Thanksgiving along with Kanye West. It was only after the backlash that Trump pretended that he didn't know Fuentes was coming. West, however, claimed that Trump was "really impressed with Fuentes."
All guests have to be approved by the Secret Service when having dinner with a president. West has drawn disgust by many after his non-stop attacks on Jewish people that echoed decades-old Nazi ideology.
"I talked just before this segment to Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League and said it's appalling and totally in character for Donald Trump and brought up the example that he didn't know who David Duke was and going back to this moment," said Ryan. "But then he also talked about Kanye West and the fact that he's also exhibiting racist behavior with 'white lives matter' and his talk about slavery and then also his misguided mindset, if you will, on what happened to George Floyd. Donald Trump was in the company that does not bode well for his attempts to endear the Jewish or Black community and the community at large because this is viewed as racist, anti-semitic and more."
Acosta asked Stewart why there isn't a parade of Republicans rushing to denounce Trump's embrace of Nazis and white supremacists. Thus far, the only Republican leader willing to speak out is outgoing Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
"You're known by the friends you keep," said Stewart. "And if a friend brings a racist to the home, it says the same about you as them, and Donald Trump allowing the person to Mar-a-Lago says a lot about him. You give them a voice in the conversation, and now this Holocaust denier has a voice for the hatred. Anyone who's seriously looking at being the Republican candidate in 2024, you are up in Ohio, in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in South Carolina. You have dinners with pastors and farmers in Iowa. Not in a country club in Florida. This will have tremendous political implications for him."
"Words matter," Ryan said about Elon Musk, who compared the Canadian Prime Minister to Adolf Hitler. She noted that he too, "has aligned himself by allowing Donald Trump to have the Twitter account back. As an investigation continues on Jan. 6 and other issues. But Musk owns Twitter, like owning Tesla. It is his entity. But it is also others' decision to stay on it. There's a noticeable change in Twitter. How long will people stay with Twitter as the changes continue to unfold?"
"Yeah. It is not easy to ride on the back of a tiger when the tiger is a dumpster full of extremists," Acosta closed.
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McCarthy 'will have to pull a rabbit out of a hat' to become House speaker: analyst
November 27, 2022
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may be the first leader to have an actual floor fight for his speaker vote in nearly 100 years, said Tara Palmeri, Puck News senior political reporter.
Speaking to MSNBC's Yasmin Vesuvian on Sunday, Palmeri explained that McCarthy had a few dozen, or so, members that didn't support him during the caucus vote. At the same time, he only has a very small majority. So he can't afford to lose even a hand full of votes.
"It seems like he's going to pull a rabbit out of a hat," said Palmeri. "He's got five members right now saying that they will not vote for him for speaker. They say that publicly. So, he's going to get them to publicly, reverse some of them have said. He can't lose five. He can lose four. He can't lose five. People can vote present or be absent, which can help him get to 218. But right now, he's got a very loud group of individuals from the House Freedom Caucus coming forward, saying that they won't support him. Every day, the number seems to grow. The momentum is going in the wrong direction for him."
McCarthy used to be a member of the House Freedom Caucus, which was the caucus formed by a group tea party members that won in 2010.
"All he can really do between now and Jan. 3rd is cut a deal with some of these members who may be movable," Palmeri continued. "I, for one, do not think that Andy Biggs — who tried to challenge his leadership in the conference — is someone that he can move. I don't think Matt Gaetz is someone that he can move. I don't think that Bob Good is someone that he can move. They have been pretty open about their disdain for Kevin McCarthy. Maybe it's possible that he can give them a job on the Rules Committee."
There are a number of members who don't want to vote for McCarthy regardless, however.
"When you -- stick your stick to the ground and you say he will not be my speaker. How are gonna get those people on the House floor saying his name?" she wondered. "It seems really hard. Of those five, maybe two of them are squishy. But this is the thing. We don't know about the others who haven't spoken up yet. Maybe they probably feel the same way. Right now, another contender has not emerged. That's a good thing for him. "
McCarthy and other GOP members have claimed that they intend to impeach President Joe Biden. McCarthy's only chip he's attempted to play is that he won't impeach Biden if he can get support from Democrats for his speakership. Many Democrats believe, however, that an overtly partisan impeachment of Biden could help him.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got a promise from McCarthy that she would support him if he agreed to investigate the treatment of the Capitol rioters. The Washington, D.C. jail holding the rioters has been a major problem for violence and conditions for decades, TIME magazine reported in January, and WTOP reported last year. In a DCist report from 2019, the jail was called "unsafe and unsanitary. The problem extends beyond the Capitol rioters, so Greene will likely uncover that the Jan. 6 defendants are just as bad as the other inmates. The 2019 D.C. Auditor report revealed some of the most brutal details in their report, saying that a new facility was needed. It's unclear whether the Republican Congress will be willing to fund such a facility now that their supporters are housed there.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Melania Trump is 'just sick' over jailed Jan. 6 defendants
November 27, 2022
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed that former President Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump are both "just sick" because some Jan. 6 defendants are still behind bars.
During an interview with right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon on Saturday, Greene explained that she had posted a thread of messages defending the former president on Twitter. Greene said that she was trying to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday when she saw Twitter users angry at Trump for failing to pardon the Jan. 6 defendants.
"I thought, this is ridiculous; they're lying about him," the lawmaker recalled. "People are lying about him. The very idea that he could have pardoned all the Jan. 6 defendants before he left the White House on Jan. 20 is impossible because the high majority of those people weren't even arrested until after he left office!"
"And he didn't even know them!" she continued. "He had no idea who they are. He doesn't know who they are still. He had nothing to do with what they did on Jan. 6, um, so it would have been impossible for him to magically know how to find these people and pardon them."
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Greene said that she gave a report about the Jan. 6 defendants to Trump and the former first lady.
"President Trump and Melania were both just sick over what they learned," she revealed. "And he said over and over that he will — he will pardon the Jan. 6 defendants."
"This is real political persecution," Greene added. "And it shouldn't be happening in America and so the criticism on President Trump is ridiculous!"
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