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Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:41 pm Watched the all new Meet the Press just now, lengthy interview with tfg. Gawd he's exhausting. Channeling Daniel Dale to come on CNN this afternoon for a good long fact check.

Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:55 pm Yes, I just finished watching the panel do a fact check, really helpful. I'm just partial to a good long Daniel Dale fact check.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:06 pm .... And she's taking a lot of praise for getting him (if that's what happened) to say that all his decisions were his, and not on the advice of his lawyers.

RVInit wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 4:40 pm I hate to tell him this, but nobody on this earth has been trying to "get him" since he came down the escalator. That is a talking point I hear all the time, including from a family member. I reminded said family member that SHE HERSELF thought he was a clown show con artist when he came down the escalator and so did everyone else in this entire country. It wasn't until he started winning some primaries that ANYONE started actually taking him seriously. Even after he won the nomination of his party NOBODY took seriously any suggestion that he could win the presidency so how the fuck in hell did anyone try to "stop him from the time he came down the escalator"? It probably took most of the world three or four weeks after it was clear that he actually won before anyone got enough over the shock to even THINK about "stopping" him.

Former President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press” continued to make false claims around a variety of subjects including the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection.

Trump blames Pelosi for January 6
Trump looked to place blame on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence on January 6, 2021 – when his own supporters stormed the US Capitol, claiming she “was in charge of security. She turned down 10,000 soldiers. If she didn’t turn down the soldiers, you wouldn’t have had January 6.”

Facts First: This is false. The speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. That’s the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police and approves requests for National Guard assistance.

Trump’s former acting defense secretary, Chris Miller, also told lawmakers that he was never given a formal order by Trump to have 10,000 troops ready to be sent to the Capitol on January 6. “There was no direct, there was no order from the president,” Miller said.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent an email saying the National Guard would be present to “protect pro Trump people” in the lead up to the US Capitol insurrection, according to the report released by the January 6 committee.