Of the election and about the result of the election. He is making claims that are dangerous, completely false, and doing so with an interviewer who is not an interviewer at all. This was not hardball, not even softball. This was tee ball. Maria bartiromo once a feared and acclaimed journalist known for working the floor of the new york stock exchange, forcing ceos to tell the truth, now sits behind a desk and invites the president to lie and lie and lie. To do it for more than half an hour, to do it 26 days after the election. 22 days after fox and all of the other Major Networks called the election for President Elect joe biden. You might have thought after a week or after two weeks the president would start to accept the reality that he lost. You know, he hadnt given any interviews for three weeks. He had not even called into fox friends or newsmax. It was a good deal that he gave had interview. His very First Television interview since the election. I would tell you he was defiant
amplified thousands of times by the whole ecosystem on the right that is a propaganda ecosystem. and it is telling people that someone stole the election from them, that the democrats are destroying the country, that more and more and more so-called evidence proves these things, and, yeah. i think the there is this very large mass of trump supporters who believe both that biden is an illegitimate president who stole the office and that violence is justified. frankly, if you were living in a country in which the election was literally stolen and an imposter was holding office, why wouldn t violence be justified?
and when you do that, you give yourself permission to take all kinds of steps in opposition. i mean, if you have an existential threat to the united states of america, which is what republicans are saying about biden, then what remedy would not be allowed to you? is that why you believe, bart, that the feeling among trump supporters, especially the hard-edge trump supporters, is hardening both the mill tansey around the election issue, which has gotten steadily worse over the course of the year, but also the openness to violence as a potential solution here, that s gotten worse over the course of this year too. is it simply a result of the type of rhetoric you are describing or is there some other dynamic at work? i think there is a strong, ongoing message that is
all right. thank you for being with us tonight. one last reminder before we go. tomorrow president biden is going to have that big one-on-one summit with vladimir putin. it is a one on one teleconference they re calling it. that basically means a meeting on zoom, the two of them doing some sort of teleconference. that s going to happen at 10:00 a.m. eastern time in the situation room. this, of course, happens as russia appears to have amassed as many as 175 thou troops on or near the border with ukraine. russia is insisting it is not planning on invading and they re like, i don t know, they re all washing their hair or something. but we expect to have a read out tomorrow from the white house fairly shortly after that
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