July 24, 2022 9:00 am
The New York Post, the flagship of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire lambasted Donald Trump for his failure to stop the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The 1/6 Committee is making a difference! Just think. If Trump’s theory that the Vice-President can decide the election, then Al Gore could have thrown out Florida’s votes in 2000 and declared himself President. And in 2024, Kamala Harris can choose the next President.
The New York Post editorial board wrote:
As his followers stormed the Capitol, calling on his vice president to be hanged, President Donald Trump sat in his private dining room, watching TV, doing nothing.
For three hours, seven minutes.
There has been much debate over whether Trump’s rally speech on Jan. 6, 2021, constituted “incitement.” That’s somewhat of a red herring. What matters more — and has become crystal clear in recent days — is that Trump didn’t lift a finger to stop the violence that followed.
And he was the only person who could stop what was happening. He was the only one the crowd was listening to. It was incitement by silence.
Trump only wanted one thing during that infamous afternoon: to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to decertify the election of Joe Biden.
He thought the violence of his loyal followers would make Pence crack, or delay the vote altogether.
To his eternal shame, as appalled aides implored him to publicly call on his followers to go home, he instead further fanned the flames by tweeting: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”
His only focus was to find any means — damn the consequences — to block the peaceful transfer of power.
It’s up to the Justice Department to decide if this is a crime. But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.
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There has been much debate over whether Trump’s rally speech on Jan. 6, 2021, constituted “incitement.” That’s somewhat of a red
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By SomeDAM Poet on July 24, 2022 at 9:09 am
yup
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By Bob Shepherd on July 24, 2022 at 11:45 am
nice “catch”
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By ciedie aech on July 24, 2022 at 2:05 pm
Trump is a red hairing.
Of at least an orange hairing.
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By SomeDAM Poet on July 24, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Trump is the orange of the term red hairing.
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By SomeDAM Poet on July 24, 2022 at 6:13 pm
So will Fox “News” do the same?
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By Michael Brocoum on July 24, 2022 at 9:50 am
“Murdoch!” she wrote …
Methinks The Post doth protest too much —
It’s not so much that Mr. DJT tried to overthrow democracy as that he failed to do so, this time, anyway, in glaring public view, not in their house style of sneaky, gradual, invisibly-under-handed way …
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By Jon Awbrey on July 24, 2022 at 10:20 am
LOL. Trump offended the elder Murdoch’s vanity in a telephone call. Thus breathtakingly belated schooling of Don the Con.
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By Bob Shepherd on July 24, 2022 at 11:46 am
cx: Thus this
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By Bob Shepherd on July 24, 2022 at 11:49 am
They slammed him in the Wall Street Joutnal editorial too!
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By Lisa E on July 24, 2022 at 12:06 pm
Yes. I would have quoted WSJ but it’s behind a pay wall. If Trump loses Murdoch, what will Carlson and Hannity do?
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By dianeravitch on July 24, 2022 at 12:33 pm
Ha, ha, ha, what will the slime balls Hannity, Mark Levin, all the other ghouls at Fox News and the ghost of Limbaugh do? Is the Murdoch empire at war with itself?
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By Joe Jersey on July 24, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Lock Him Up.
All his life he’s been an eel
From his bogus “Art of the Deal”
To his phony “Stop the steal.”
Now it’s time to “Start the squeal.”
DOJ must show some zeal.
Flip Secret Service to reveal
All the secrets they conceal.
DC stooges must fear and feel
“No one is above the law” is real.
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By Fred Smith on July 24, 2022 at 12:52 pm
would this were so; Nicely done, Mr. Smith.
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By Bob Shepherd on July 24, 2022 at 1:07 pm
Murdivh is probably already behind DeSantis, who will also undoubtedly start criticizing Trump.
This is a perfect opportunity for these folks to distance themselves from wgat was always a decidely UN patriotic stance while making it seem that they are simply responding to new revelations about Trump.
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By SomeDAM Poet on July 24, 2022 at 6:58 pm
Very interesting insight, Same Dam!
I think it could be Murdoch’s version of Replacement Theory.
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By Fred Smith on July 24, 2022 at 7:19 pm
it45 “has proven himself unworthy of being president again?” Seriously?
it45 has proven itself to be unworthy of being a free p.o.s. out on the streets, & SHOULD be locked behind bars immediately. I, for one, believe the insurrection case & more (many other counts of criminality) have been thoroughly proven.
WHAT are you waiting for, Merrick?
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By retiredbutmissthekids on July 24, 2022 at 11:18 pm
It’s appalling that there’s any doubt, whatsoever, of the part(s) that Trump and his co-conspirators played in this attempted power grab.
DOJ, I’m my view, is just making sure all the avenues of escape are closed. Trump is a criminal with excellent legal representation. We can’t allow him to be “exonerated” again. (Only reason he knows the definition is because it’s helpful to him).
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By gitapik on July 25, 2022 at 12:02 pm