trump was set to have reacted approvingly to the rioters chants about hanging mike pence. i want to say it surprises me, but it really does not, what could the implications of such a revelation be that this president was nodding approvingly for the crowd to as they were chanting, to hang mike pence? it s appalling, but it s trumpian at the same time. one of the few things virtually everyone in this country would agree on is that it s actually not that surprising. i think people that love trump will make light of, it and people who are appalled will be appalled by. it but the more serious point in terms of the implications, i think, ayman, is remember mike pence was not only under a lot of pressure, it was not guaranteed that he would withstand that pressure. and even during the attack, then president trump was tweeting criticisms of pants. we know before that gate that vice president pence had contacted dan quayle, of all
supporter. i mean look at what s happening to other local election offices across this country, in hood county, texas election administrator michelle peru was pushed out of her job after an extensive campaign against for failing over in philadelphia, i ll schmidt formally the lone republican on the city s election board, he resigned after drawing trump s ire for debunking the stop the steal conspiracy theory. know there are trump purity test happening local and in statewide election offices all across the country. i want to make one point clear here, the problem is much bigger than donald trump, because republicans spread toxic disinformation about voter fraud long before trump ever came onto the scene. and sadly, even republicans who said the trump lost the 2020, have still worked to undermine americans voting rights. this week in georgia, trump s
and think, oh, donald trump doesn t have as much weight as he did. it s not about him. it s about what they ve decided as their winning strategy, which is to create an alternate reality, and it forced us all to live under threat, right, and with their abiding by their extremism. we need to say that, and pounded into people s minds as we continue to make the march into midterms. now your thoughts on that? clearly, trump isn t is the dominant strain of the republican parting. it s interesting watching some of these primaries, yes former president trump has lost some of his candidate s. but for the most part, it s not as if the old style traditional republican candidate, had some wide scale resurgence. this is really trump s party, whether they go for his candidate or not ideologically it s his party. yeah, i made the point earlier as well that there are
barrett became the supreme court justice nominee. it was seated so i think that democrats could ve been a lot more strategic frankly with the timing of, this as opposed to an entire summer going by and it s having several months until midterms. congresswoman the washington post reported this month that conflicts between committee members and how much focus should be on the former president and the role he played in all this. on one hand, democratic congressman stephanie murphy wanted to dedicate more time to the security and intelligence failures that led to the capital breach, congresswoman liz cheney wanted to make the case that trump was ultimately responsible, your thoughts on that divide? look, i think the committee s responsibility is to provide every piece of information that they have in front of them to the american public. and let s not be naive, we ve made a mistake here waiting so long to have these hearings actually and that s why the
but who turned to president biden after the trauma and tumult of president trump, hoping that there would be some return to normalcy. now democrats are running into the big headwind with inflation. there s just no question about that. whether they re culpable for it is a much more difficult question, but the historical trend is that the presidents party struggles in the first midterm elections. going into those midterm elections with an inflation of a percent, that is a very tough climb, regardless of ideology. when we come back then out to republicans for a moment. former all boma advisor dan 54 pointed out in his substack last week, we obsess over trump s role in the party we are in danger of diluting ourselves into thinking that the threat of trumpism will go away when he does. what do you think about that, i think the republican party now