presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on this day. just yeste
as politico s reporting on the big lie in arizona, quote, denialism and its attendant conspiracies animate a large swath of the republican parties still. and if arizona is any example, it suggests that not an insignificant percentage of the national electorate is determined to run the same doomed experiment again in 24. this is all happening even as every day brings precevidence that those who spread the big lie knew full well that they were indeed lying at the time. the associated press has obtained recordings of trump campaign staffers on november 5, 2020, two day after election day that reveal a, quote, behind the scenes look at how former president trump s campaign team in a pivotal battleground state knew they d been outflanked by democrats in the 2020 election. even as they acknowledged defeat they pivoted to allegations of widespread fraud that were ultimately debunked repeatedly by-elections officials in the courts.
presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on
this day. just yesterday a spat between the ex-president and kevin mccarthy over a claim that was too much for kevin mccarthy i know, right, of all people. from the washington post reporting former president donald trump said late thursday that he, quote, totally disagreewise the assessment of house speaker kevin mccarthy, that the capitol police officer who shot ashley babbitt did his job. mccarthy had weighed in on the issue thursday when asked by a reporter if he agreed with the characterization by marjorie taylor greene that babbitt was murdered by capitol police officers while she was trying to breach the doors on january 6th. but election denialism these days goes even farther than that or claiming january 6th was just a tourism visit or legitimate political discourse as the rnc officially declared it.
he demanded absolute loyalty. he seemed always to stay one step ahead of the law. mr. pomerantz, a prominent litigator who has prosecuted and defended organized crime cases writes of trump, quote, in my career as a lawyer i had encountered only one other person who touched all these bases. john gotti, the head of the gambino organized crime family. now, lucky for us mark pomerantz will be our guest on this set on tuesday. we can ask him all about what he is writing. we are only seeing snippets of it. putting the squeeze on the former trump organizations is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters, barbara mcquade, a law professor the university of michigan, andrew weissman, former justice department prosecutor, former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel investigation, with me at the table tim o brien, bloomberg