Republicans Breaking Away From Trump

FOLLOWING DONALD TRUMP'S FIERY PRESS CONFERENCE
WHERE HE FURTHER DREW EQUIVALENCIES BETWEEN WHITE
NATIONALISTS, NEO-NAZIS, AND THOSE PROTESTING THEM THERE WAS
A NUMBER OF LAWMAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA WHO DECIDED
TO CRITICIZE DONALD TRUMP.
OF COURSE THE WHITE HOUSE WENT INTO
DAMAGE CONTROL.
ONE WAY TO DO THAT IS THROUGH THEIR
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE.
THEY RELEASE TALKING POINTS TO THE
GOP TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MESSAGING IS CONSISTENT AND VERY
MUCH SUPPORTIVE OF THE PRESIDENT.
LET ME GIVE YOU WHAT
THOSE TALKING POINTS WERE, BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHAT THE RESPONSE
WAS FROM THE GOP.
HE IS JUST DOUBLING DOWN.
HE IS TRIPLING DOWN.
WHAT DID WE TELL YOU YESTERDAY?
HE CAN'T
STOP DIGGING.
DO YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO FIND A WAY TO GET OUT
OF THIS?
HE WILL FIND A WAY TO MAKE THIS MESS WORSE.
CAN'T GET MUCH WORSE.
DON'T UNDERESTIMATE HIM.
FOR HIM TO PUT OUT MARCHING ORDERS TO CONTINUE TO PRAISE HIM
AND SAY THAT HE IS ENTIRELY CORRECT, AND TO SAY YES BOTH
SIDES DID IT.
HE CALLED THE PEOPLE PROTESTING BIGOTRY AND
FASCISM, AND VERY VIOLENT.
AND HE SAID SOME OF THOSE WHITE NATIONALISTS AND NEO-NAZIS
PROTESTING IN FAVOR OF KEEPING THOSE CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS
UP ARE VERY FINE PEOPLE.
PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO FOLLOW YOUR MARCH ORDERS.
HE
SAID THEY CAME CHARGING IN, THE ALT-LEFT.
ARE YOU GOING TO BE
SURPRISED TO FIND OUT THEY DID HAVE A PERMIT?
HE SAID I LIKE TO
FIGURE OUT THE FACTS BEFORE HE TALKS.
NO YOU DON'T. NOT ONLY DO
THEY HAVE TWO PERMITS, THEY WERE IN A PUBLIC PARK WHICH YOU DON'T
NEED A PERMIT FOR.
HE IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF ENTIRELY
CORRECT.
THE ME GIVE YOU SOME MORE TALKING POINTS.
HA HA.
WHICH ONE WAS THAT?
TRUMP?
THE GUY WHO KICKED OFF HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY CALLING
MEXICANS RAPISTS AND MURDERERS.
YES I DEDICATED THE MAJORITY OF
HIS CAMPAIGN TO BUILDING A WALL.
THE WHITE HOUSE ALSO SHARED THIS
TALKING POINT.
LET'S PAUSE THERE.
NAZI MEMBER, HE IS, RUNS OVER 20
PEOPLE AND KILLS A WOMAN ON AMERICAN GROUND.
AND THIS GUY
SAYS TALKING POINTS FOR TOMORROW IS REMEMBER BLAME THE VIOLENCE
ON THE LEFT.
THIS IS THE GUY WHO IS "ENTIRELY CORRECT."
THERE IS
NO TALKING POINT ABOUT HOW THE NAZIS ARE WRONG.
INSTEAD LET'S
DIVERT EVERYONE'S ATTENTION AND ATTACKED THE LEFT WHO WAS THERE
TO PROTEST HIM.
THIS ENTIRE WEEK THE THEME THAT KEEPS PLAYING IN MY MIND IS
THE FACT THAT THOSE ON THE LEFT KEEP TRYING TO PLAY FAIR.
I WILL
GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
WHEN KATHY GRIFFIN RELEASED THAT PHOTO OF A
DECAPITATED TRUMP LIKE HEAD THAT WAS BLOODIED, WE CRITICIZE HER.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE LEFT CRITICIZE HER BECAUSE IT WAS
VIOLENT IMAGERY THAT DID NOT ADD ANYTHING SUBSTANTIVE OR
BENEFICIAL TO A VERY IMPORTANT CONVERSATION WE NEEDED TO HAVE.
AND NOW EVEN THOUGH OBVIOUSLY I STILL THINK IT WAS A REALLY BAD
MOVE ON HER PART, I FEEL LIKE A CLOWN FOR TRYING TO PLAY FAIR.
TRUMP MADE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT.
THEN YOU TURN AROUND AND MAKE
EXCUSES FOR NEO-NAZIS AND WHITE NATIONALISTS?
AFTER A
31-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS MURDERED BY ONE OF THEM.
HE HAS NO SHAME.
WE ARE THE ONES BRINGING A KNIFE TO A SHOOTOUT, THAT IS WHAT
IS HAPPENING.
I DON'T WANT TO BRING A KNIFE OR A GUN, I JUST WANT TO BRING
IDEAS.
MAYBE THAT IS NAœVE?
I HAVE FAITH IN AMERICA.
WE ARE
NOT PRO-NAZI.
EVENTUALLY THE GOVERNMENT, THE FBI, THE DOJ
WILL DO THE RIGHT THING.
SO FAR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EVEN LED
BY JEFF SESSIONS, HAS DONE THE RIGHT THING.
THEY ARE PURSUING
THE PEOPLE THAT DID THE VIOLENCE AND THEY'RE NOT GOING AFTER THE
PEACEFUL PROTESTERS.
I THINK TAKING THE LAW INTO YOUR OWN
HANDS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
I BELIEVE IN THE MORAL HIGH
GROUND.
IF THE GOVERNMENT FLIPPED IT WOULD BE A DIFFERENT
SITUATION.
SO FAR THE GOVERNMENT IS HOLDING.
I GET WHAT YOU ARE
SAYING, THERE ARE OMINOUS SIGNS.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ASKED FOR
NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND CREDIT CARD NUMBERS TO THE 1.3 MILLION
PEOPLE WHO HAD SIGNED UP TO PROTEST DONALD TRUMP.
THEY SAID
IT IS FOR THE 200 PEOPLE WE THINK MIGHT HAVE CAUSED VIOLENCE
DURING THE INAUGURATION.
SO THERE ARE PLACES TO DRAW THE
LINE, AND THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOULD.
AS YOU WILL POINT OUT, A LOT OF REPUBLICANS ARE.
THEY ARE DRAWING THE LINE.
THEY DID NOT REALLY CARE MUCH
ABOUT THIS MEMO URGING THEM TO AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT AND
BASICALLY KNOW THEIR ROLE.
I WANT TO START OFF WITH
REPRESENTATIVE STEVE SCALISE WHO IS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY AFTER
BEING SHOT.
THE TALKING POINTS TOUCHED ON HIM, RIGHT.
HOW DOES
HE FEEL ABOUT THIS?
HE RELEASED A STATEMENT.
SCALISE IN THE PAST HAD GONE AND SPOKEN TO GROUPS THAT WERE
CONNECTED TO WHITE NATIONALISTS.
AT LEAST WHEN THE WHOLE PRESS IS
WATCHING YOU DON'T SAY MAYBE WHITE SUPREMACIST ARE FINE
PEOPLE.
NO, YOU DON'T CONDONE HATRED AND BIGOTRY.
CREDIT TO
STEVE SCALISE DOING THE RIGHT THING AT AN IMPORTANT MOMENT.
PAUL RYAN SAID THIS.
ALSO WE HAVE DAVID PERDUE.
JOHN MCCAIN
HAD SIMILAR THINGS TO SAY AND DID CALL OUT THE PRESIDENT.
BARBARA COMSTOCK, SIMILAR SENTIMENT.
THESE ARE ALL REPUBLICANS.
MY FAVORITE TO OUR MITCH MCCONNELL AND MITT ROMNEY.
YES.
LET'S GO TO THEM.
BY THE WAY THAT IS THE ONLY TIME I
HAVE EVER SAID THAT
STATEMENT IN MY LIFE.
THAT DEFENSE OF THE COUNTER PROTESTERS WAS THE BEST OF THE
LOT.
IT WAS COMFORTING TO SEE.
LIKE I SAID, THIS IS A MOMENT OF
TRUTH.
A RARE SITUATION WHERE IT IS FAIR TO ASK WHICH SIDE YOU
ARE ON, AND NOT A HARD QUESTION, ARE YOU ON THE SIDE OF THE
NEO-NAZIS AND THE KKK OR ALL OTHERS?
AT LEAST THE MITT
ROMNEY'S AND MITCH MCCONNELL'S OF THE WORLD HAVE ENOUGH COURAGE
TO SAY NO MR.
PRES., NOT ON OUR WATCH, WE DO NOT AGREE AND WE
WILL NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH IT.
MITCH MCCONNELL ADDED THERE
ARE NO GOOD NEO-NAZIS, AND THOSE WHO ESPOUSE THEIR VIEWS ARE NOT
SUPPORTERS OF AMERICAN IDEALS AND FREEDOMS.
BECAUSE DONALD
TRUMP HAD SAID THAT THEY WERE VERY FINE PEOPLE ON THAT SIDE.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED.
IT'S EASY FOR DEMOCRATS TO STAND
UP IN THIS CASE, AND PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE TRUMP.
BLESS YOUR HEART,
IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE BUT THAT IS RELATIVELY EASIER
BECAUSE YOU ARE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE.
BEFORE REPUBLICANS AND
REPUBLICAN LEADERS ñ EVEN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER PUT $100,000 INTO
AN ANTI-HATE GROUP TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FOUGHT.
IF YOU EVER
WONDERED IS THERE ANY LINE THAT REPUBLICANS WON'T CROSS?
WE
FOUND IT. IS IN SOME WAYS A GREAT DAY IN AMERICA.
WE FOUND
THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL, AND MOST OF US IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY ARE SAYING NO, AND ON OUR WATCH, WE WILL NOT SUPPORT
NEO-NAZIS.
ANYONE WHO IS STILL SUPPORTING HIM ON TV OR IN HIS
ADMINISTRATION SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RESIGN.
IF WE DON'T,
WE KNOW WHERE YOU STAND.

Republicans Breaking Away From Trump

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