True THAT Madam Speaker!….
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) knocked former President Trump in a Thursday statement, calling him a “twice-impeached Florida retiree” while attacking him for defending the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol in January.
“Twice-impeached Florida retiree — and de facto leader of the Republican Party — Donald Trump joined House Republicans today in disrespecting the Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers, who valiantly defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, decrying how rioters ‘are being treated unbelievably unfairly’ now that they are facing legal consequences for their actions,” Pelosi said in her statement.
The Speaker linked to a HuffPost article about Trump’s new lawsuit against Big Tech firms that quoted him from a Wednesday press conference referring to the Jan. 6 insurrection as “an unfortunate event” and saying the hundreds charged in its wake “are being treated unbelievably unfairly….
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“Like Donald, House Republicans have shown time and time again that they stand with traitors — not with our law enforcement,” she said.
Trump earlier this year became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice, the second time for his role in inciting the riot….
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‘F— him’: Rupert Murdoch personally made the call to declare Arizona for Biden on election night, enraging Trump, book says
Tom Porter, Sonam Sheth
Business Insider
Fri, July 9, 2021, 8:53 AM
The Fox News proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, personally gave final approval to the network’s decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election, according to Michael Wolff’s new book on Donald Trump.
The episode features in “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” an early copy of which was obtained by Insider.
Wolff wrote that Murdoch’s son Lachlan, the CEO of Fox Corporation, got a call from the network’s election-data operation shortly after 11 p.m. ET on election night saying it was ready to declare Arizona for Biden.
The book noted that the Murdochs – who spearhead a vast right-wing media empire – had “every reason” to delay calling Arizona at the time, given Fox’s steadfast allegiance to Trump and the fact that no other network had made the call yet.
“Lachlan got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. His father, with signature grunt, assented, adding, ‘F— him,'” Wolff wrote.
Shortly after, the book said, the Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer called Trump’s lead social-media strategist, Jason Miller, to let him know the network was going to call Arizona for Biden.
“Miller involuntarily rose from his seat. ‘What the f—?’ he said out loud, looking around and seeing the still-merry and untroubled faces in the Map Room” of Trump campaign staffers and insiders who believed they were on the fast-track to reelection, Wolff wrote.
Hemmer reportedly replied: “That’s what they’re doing. That’s what they’re going with.”
“Who?” Miller asked.
“The election desk,” Hemmer said, adding that the network’s decision was going to be aired imminently.
As soon as Fox News made the call, Trump’s campaign shifted into damage control to contain the fallout from the president’s rage.
“What the f—? How can they call this?” Trump said, according to the book. “We’re winning. And everybody can see we are going to win. Everybody’s calling to say that we’re winning. And then they pull this?”…
https://www.businessinsider.com/rupert-murdoch-personally-decided-fox-news-declare-arizona-biden-book-2021-7
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