“Hold my beer,” says MTG
Move over Samuel Beckett, the GOP is branching out into the theater of the absurd.
If you blinked during Thursday night coverage of the Donald Trump indictment in the classified documents case, you may have missed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.” While the non-propaganda press ran wall-to-wall coverage of the prosecution of the former president, Fox News worked to keep its audience fixated on the alleged misdeeds of the Joe Biden crime family.
Trump mishandled sensitive documents? “Hold my beer,” says Greene, stepping up to the microphone (Huffington Post):
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) raised eyebrows with a claim she made during a TV interview on Thursday evening.
Greene said she read a document inside a SCIF ― a sensitive compartmented information facility ― related to bribery allegations Republicans have made against President Joe Biden but have yet to provide evidence for.
Then, she described that document while speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News:
And usually, information revealed in the SCIF can’t be repeated outside of it.
But Greene ―a conspiracy theorist and close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who has called for a “national divorce” and spoke last year at a white nationalist event ― said she copied as much as she could once she left the SCIF.
“This is a document that all of America should be able to see, but the FBI is stonewalling us and they would only let us see it in a SCIF,” she said. “Well what I did after reading the document is I made notes when I walked out and I went up to the table.”
She held up those notes to the camera.
“I wrote down everything that I had just read so that I could come out and tell the American people what I read,” she said.
The FD-1023 document Greene saw in the SCIF contains unsubstantiated allegations from an anonymous whistleblower regarding the Bidens, bribery, and Burisma, an old hobbyhorse on the right. Transcribing what she read inside the SCIF outside the SCIF sounded to me and others like a confession.
“Revoke her clearance,” tweeted former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger.
USA Today humorist Rex Huppke tweeted:
The GOP really needs to get people who are better at doing crimes, because this one was like, “HEY, EXCUSE ME, IS THERE A CAMERA I CAN DO THIS CRIME IN FRONT OF, PLEASE?”
Greene’s actions are part of a full-court press by the right to change the subject or to cast aspersions on the Trump indictment.
“Everyone who died on the field at gettysburg to save this nation”? Confederate soldiers, 28,000 of them, died at Gettysburg — more than a third of Robert E. Lee’s army — in their attempt to destroy the United States of America. That is what the Jan. 6 investigations and recent sedition convictions are about. Trump may yet face indictment over his role in the attempted coup.
Mark Levin was in hysterics last night on Fox after the Trump indictment news and tried to divert attention onto Biden-Burisma as he raved that the federal indictment “is war on Trump, it is war on the Republican Party, and it is a war on the republic!”
The last time I watched Andrew Breitbart rave like that, I thought, “This guy’s going to have a coronary.” He died of heart failure soon after.
The Trumpish right is prepared to go down with the ship.
“It won’t matter. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says [Trump] can’t be president from inside prison. And then once he gets there, he can pardon himself,” said Grant Stinchfield of Real America’s Voice.
These reactions are even more reason to believe that the MAGA-GOP will attempt to win the 2024 elections by any means necessary or, should the votes still not go their way, try to overthrow the republic on their second try.
Conservatism is a hell of a drug:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”