You’ve heard of ignoring the elephant in the room but in truth this is more like ignoring a herd of elephants trumpeting and kicking the walls down. Donald Trump gave an interview to Glenn Beck Wednesday and they did not discuss January 6. No sir, instead they discussed the horrific empty store shelves, supply chains, and the disastrous economy. What country exactly that is happening in, we’re not sure, because the American economy is booming at a record pace. And of course he had to talk about COVID.
Trump: "This is an outrage, and MAGA nation should rise up and oppose this egregious federal government overreach."
Taste check: Very poor taste by the former president to urge his supporters to "rise up" on the day before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by a MAGA mob
— John T. Bennett (@BennettJohnT) January 5, 2022
Having canceled his Jan. 6 anniversary press conference, reportedly due in part to pressure from allies who warned it was a very bad idea, Trump released a statement Wednesday encouraging his “MAGA Nation” followers to “rise up” in opposition to vaccine mandates.
“Our administration did what they said could not be done—vaccines in record time. But we never issued mandates, and I never would! People should be able to choose how they want to govern their own health. The federal government must be reined in.”
Later that night, The Blaze ran a lengthy interview between Trump and Glenn Beck. Covid was on the agenda, as it is one of the many issues Beck claims the violent coup to overturn the results of the 2020 election is “distracting” Americans from focusing on. The special was dubbed “The January 6th Distraction,” naturally, and the attack on the Capitol was not discussed.
Beck brought it up in the intro, though, ranting about how the left is using Jan. 6 as an “opportunity to demonize you,” his viewers. “It was stupid,” Beck said of the protesters storming the Capitol building before calling the Jan. 6 committee “a complete sham” and a “witch hunt.”
Beck also announced he has Covid.
Beck and Trump, seated at Mar-a-Lago, began on the topic of energy, which they described as one of the biggest problems facing America. Trump decried the Biden administration’s reversal of his attempt to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which he blamed for high gas prices, claiming that gas in California is as expensive as $7.77 per gallon. According to AAA, gas prices in California are averaging $4.66 for a gallon of regular, a little more than a dollar-per-gallon difference from the national average as of Jan. 5. One gas station, in the remote coastal community of Gorda, has charged as much as $7.59 per gallon in recent months, according to 10 News San Diego, likely because the next closest station to the north is 40 miles away, or 12 miles away to the south.
So now you know how Trump arrived at his insane conclusion that gas was $7.00 a gallon in California. He found one gouger in a remote locale and extrapolated that to the rest of the state. And California is a huge state.
And of course he dissed Dr. Fauci. That dear man. All he has done for the past fifty years is the job he was trained to do and an insane Republican president has set things up so that the doctor has to hire a security team for himself and for his four daughters.
Here is the entire clip. I doubt if you have the stomach for 47:00 of this drivel, but absolutely watch the first five and get the flavor of this thing. This is Disinformation 101. The tragic part is that so many people believe this is real.
Don’t you suppose Trumpty is burned that this is the biggest interview he could get? Not 60 Minutes, not the 11th Hour, but this?
He still claims that his people had the vaccines in record time and completely ignores the fact the the first vaccine didn’t receive one red cent of government funding and not only was it not developed in the US, it was developed by two Turkish researchers in Germany.
By their very nature, all fascists ignore unspinnable bad news that makes them look bad. But couple this with the context of recent events and the fact that Glenn Beck was the best he could do and…well, not looking good for Trump.