'The timeline just disproves it': Justice Alito's neighbor suggests he's 'outright lying'
He has more explaining to do.
Justice Samuel Alito's excuse for why his wife hoisted an upside-down American flag at their home to respond to a tiff with neighbor was put into serious question by that neighbor.
Emily Baden appeared on CNN's "Out Front" with Erin Burnett to recount what prompted her beef with Martha-Ann Alito and call out the justice's challenged explanation.
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"So at best, he's mistaken, but at worst he's just outright lying," Baden said.
After fallout of the inverted flag flying (a symbol of the "Stop the Steal" protest that turned deadly back on Jan. 6, 2021) that published in The New York Times, Alito attempted to blame the entire tit-for-tat incident on his wife.
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Alito's statement read. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
“My wife is fond of flying flags,” Alito wrote. “I am not.” Those yard signs were placed on Baden's family home front yard.
Baden admitted the handmade glittered cursive-lettered sign that read: "F--- Trump."
But it's the dates that she contends contradicts the justice's explanation.
The provocation between Baden and Martha-Ann came to a head on Feb. 15 where she regrettably used the "C-word".
She said Justice Alito stood by silently as his wife "started screaming" at Baden and her husband using their full names. "I started yelling 'How dare you. You're on the highest court of the land... behaving this way. Shame on you!'"
In Alito's attempt to give context to the flag, he suggests his wife rose it in response to that confrontation.
Baden notes that it was flying weeks before it.
"I really want to hammer home the fact that that happened on Feb. 15, and their flag went up two or three weeks before that," she said. "So even if it were a valid excuse that they were having a dispute with a neighbor and that made them put the flag up — the timeline just disproves it, it just doesn't make sense."
Since the exposure of the flag at their Alexandria, Virginia home, the Alitos were also found to have flown a so-called “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his Long Beach Island, New Jersey, summer home.
Again, he blamed Martha-Ann as the provocateur.
That flag was brandished by supporters of former President Donald J. Trump who attended the “Stop the Steal” protest on Jan. 6, 2021.
Nonetheless, even after Alito's wife was found to have quietly been protesting from his home — he has refused to recuse himself on any of the pressing cases involving Jan. 6 and Donald Trump.