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WATCH: QAnon Shaman's mom defends her son's honor while spewing conspiracy theories about 2020 election
March 04, 2021
Martha Chansley, the mother of the so-called QAnon Shaman, defended her son's actions during an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes.
In an interview set to be aired on Sunday, Chansley grew defensive when asked whether she thought her son, 33-year-old Jacob Chansley, did anything wrong when he took part in a violent mob that stormed the United States Capitol building on January 6th.
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"What do you mean by 'wrong?'" she asked incredulously. "He didn't -- he went through open doors! He was escorted into the Senate! So I don't know what's wrong with that!"
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Left unmentioned is the fact that the doors were only "open" for Chansley because rioters smashed windows and broke into the building by force.
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Chansley then said her son would take back his decision to storm the Capitol if he could and she insisted that "he is sorry" for his actions.
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However, she also defended her son's "right" to try to disrupt Congress from certifying the 2020 election results on the grounds that President Joe Biden allegedly "stole" the election.
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"I don't believe it was won fairly at all!" she said.
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<em>Watch the video below</em>.<br/>
</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">"He walked through open doors." - Martha Chansley, defends the actions of her son -- aka the QAnon Shaman -- during the Capitol siege. This exchange was one of the most telling from the piece. Would watch the full clip. <a href="https://t.co/Ie1YJ0YXPf">pic.twitter.com/Ie1YJ0YXPf</a><br/>— Laurie Segall (@LaurieSegall) <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurieSegall/status/1367499159125819398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Russian state media depressed over Trump’s election loss and almost coming to blows on-air: report
March 04, 2021
Russian state media is having a hard time covering U.S. politics without Donald Trump in office -- and some pundits are so angry about sanctions levied by the new administration that they've almost come to blows on air.
The mood in Russia's tightly controlled news media is decidedly downcast without the former reality TV star who sucked up to their president, Vladimir Putin, and Kremlin-linked hosts and experts agree that Russia is locked in a new Cold War with the U.S. under President Joe Biden, reported The Daily Beast.
<p>"Why would America think that we're interested in changing or improving our relations with them?" said well-known TV host Vladimir Soloviev. "What makes them think we're interested in a reset?"</p><p>Soloviev predicted a "harsh and asymmetrical response" to Biden's new <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/bidens-tepid-message-to-putin-navalny-and-autocrats" target="_blank">sanctions</a> against seven Russian officials for the attempted assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which Trump had ignored as president, while state TV program "60 Minutes" put their plaint more plainly.</p><p>"Do you miss me yet?" Trump asked a CPAC crowd in a video clip played on the program, to which co-host Olga Skabeeva responded: "Yes, we do!"</p><p>Guests and hosts alike gloated over past cybermeasures against the U.S. and predicted even worse in retaliation for Biden's sanctions.</p><p>"We've been laughing at Americans about how easily all of their systems have been hacked, perhaps by our hackers," Alexei Naumov from the Russian International Affairs Council, told "60 Minutes." "But Americans have very strong cyber forces, offensive cyber forces. They can represent a threat for us."</p><p>Co-host Skabeeva boasted that Russia had successfully interfered in U.S. elections.</p><p>"At the same time, we elected their president and they weren't able to elect ours, so it's an open question whose cyber forces are stronger," she said.<br/></p><p>Russia media figures have also used Trump to hammer away at U.S. alliances, to which Biden has renewed his commitment.</p><p>"Trump will forever remain in the minds of U.S. allies as an example of how they could be dealt with by the next administration," said Andrey Sidorov, deputy dean of world politics at Moscow's State University. "They will always remember that."</p><p><br/></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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REVEALED: Some of Trump's biggest lies about COVID-19 came directly from the Chinese Communist Party
March 04, 2021
Even though former President Donald Trump regularly blamed the Chinese Communist Party for the spread of the novel coronavirus, Trump himself helped the CCP spread its propaganda about the disease after he had a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
A lengthy report by the Washington Post's Josh Rogin documents how Trump adopted Chinese Communist Party talking points about the virus in the early stages of the pandemic as he sought to play down the disease and its potential impact on the American economy.
<p>Even though Trump shut down travel to China in late January, he had a phone call with Xi on February 6th that, according to Rogin's reporting, convinced him that the virus was not as big a deal as his own health and national security officials told him.</p><p>"Xi... told Trump that China had the coronavirus outbreak under control, that the virus was not a threat to the outside world, and that the virus was sensitive to temperature and therefore would likely go away when the weather got warmer," Rogin reports. "None of these things was true, but Trump believed them -- or wanted to believe them -- enough to start saying them out loud, both internally and otherwise."</p><p>Trump would infamously go on to predict that COVID-19 would "disappear" as soon as the weather got warmer, a false claim that he heard directly from Xi.</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/04/covid-trump-xi-josh-rogin/?arc404=true" target="_blank">Read the whole report here</a>.</p>
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