All posts tagged "Charlie Sykes"

Conservative writer Charlie Sykes claimed in a new article that President Donald Trump has been so unnerved by the Iran scandal fueled by his own administration's claims that he can focus on nothing else.

So far, only one of 17 intelligence agencies released reports on the possible effects of last weekend's bombing, yet the Trump administration continues to call it a raging success. When the press has questioned exactly how Trump knows Iran's nuclear capabilities have been wiped out, the president has been going ballistic.

At Wednesday's NATO summit press conference at The Hague, Trump claimed The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC were out to disparage him and the brave men and women who defend the country....

Conservative writer Charlie Sykes reminded Donald Trump about the "favorite poem" he kept quoting during his first campaign, and how its relevance was undeniable in the midst of the president's current feud with former "buddy" Elon Musk.

In a new piece on Substack, Sykes wrote that "The Snake," by civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr., "seems relevant today."

According to The Independent, "'The Snake' tells the story of a woman who takes in a frozen snake she discovers on her way to work. After reviving the creature, it retaliates, giving the woman a 'vicious bite' and killing her." The moral of the story? Even though the woman showed the snake kindness, it remained a snake with a natural instinct to bite. ...

After decades of radicalizing and misinforming their audience, right-wing media outlets and pundits are finally starting to face some kind of consequence for their actions, conservative anti-Trump pundit Charlie Sykes told MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Friday evening — but that by no means puts America in the clear of their influence.

"The mendacity knows no bound," said Wagner. "Beyond the elegant theory that could be useful for Democrats, there's also the reality that these, these lies hang on Republican elected officials. If you follow them upstream, you get to sitting senators. You wrote a piece in The Atlantic today talking about the way in which the fake electors plot in Wisconsin leads us to Ron Johnson. And that is not good for him. Can you talk a little bit more about how you see those dominoes falling?"

"Well, I think the story you just told," said Sykes. "People need to understand what an integral role to convince people that the election was stolen. Spreading the COVID conspiracy theories. That's important because many of the Republican politicians have followed where the base went. They have been influenced by the D'Souzas and the Epoch Times. Steve Bannon is also going to jail. There's a great moment of feeling there's karma catching up with the mendacity that you've been documenting."...

Former President Donald Trump appears to have an insurmountable grip on the Republican Party, emphasized by his easy victory for a third presidential nomination earlier this month.

But look closer, argued Trump-skeptic conservative analyst Charlie Sykes for MSNBC on Friday: the former president's grip on power is shakier than it appears.

"Trump’s outsize control in the party is formidable — but it’s far from complete. That means figures who could pry those fissures open — such as former congresswoman Liz Cheney and former Vice President Mike Pence — could have an outsize influence on the 2024 election," wrote Sykes. "An NBC exit poll in Ohio this week found that almost 1 out of 5 Republican primary voters — including nearly half of Nikki Haley’s supporters — say they will not vote for Trump in November."...

Will Donald Trump pardon the January 6 defendants who sprayed police with mace, or the ones who broke windows at the Capitol and threatened to kill Mike Pence? That's the question on the mind of conservative Charlie Sykes.

Sykes, the right-wing commentator who earlier this month traded pointed barbs with Donald Trump co-defendant Jeff Clark, called out Trump's habit of calling the Jan. 6 convicts "hostages" in a piece published by MSNBC.

"Trump’s reference to Jan. 6 insurrectionists being held in prison, most for violent crimes, as 'hostages' provides a dangerous clue to his White House plan," he wrote Sunday....

Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes and Donald Trump co-defendant Jeff Clark traded some pointed barbs Sunday.

Former Justice Department official Clark, who was arrested along with Donald Trump for allegedly trying to use the Justice Department to lean on Georgia to block its electoral count, is no stranger to internet feuds. Late last year, legal experts piled on him after he lashed out against former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal over Burning Man.

Now, however, he is picking a different fight with Sykes....