- The pathetic Republican recreants who trade in media calumnies and their own sanctimony when it comes to Trump and Charlottesville
- What Trump actually said was appropriate and better informed than his detractors
Krauthammer’s ‘Kathleen Parker shtick’
Ingraham vs. Krauthammer: Trump’s Statements “Will Never Be Enough For The People Who Despise Him”
Read this story if you must. Your mind won’t change.
The sanctimonious Charles Krauthammer did his usual shtick, attempting to conceal his hate for Donald Trump and his love for all things Establishment by his empty “defense” of all that is good in the world opposing those forces of evil and we dimwits who support our president.
Laura Ingraham forcefully and properly exposed the “Establishment psychiatrist” for what he is: the Kathleen Parker of Fox News. (Tell us again, Charles, how you are the ‘voice of conservative reason and goodness’).
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THEY REPORT; THEY DECIDE! AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR VOTE AND PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE!
Shocked! Shocked I tell you! Who would ever have thought that Mitch McConnell would not support President Trump when he is attacked by the most radical leftist elements in this country?
On a very, very serious note: It is becoming very apparent that the GOP Establishment is preparing to support Trump’s impeachment and Senate conviction!!!!
A provocative scenario: Can one actually foresee in the aftermath of such an event, Establishment politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle actually, given this critical national “crisis”, voicing support of the “return” of Barack Obama as the only one who can “unite” the nation in this emergency! Only “temporarily’, of course.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL certainly but UNTHINKABLE? Consider the likes of Jeff Flake and John McCain and their disdain for Trump (and the people who voted for him)
From The Daily Mail:
- Mitch McConnell joins John Kasich in Republican attack on Trump saying ‘there are no good neo-Nazis’ after Ohio governor called president ‘pathetic’ – and BOTH George Bushes weigh in
- Republicans are condemning remarks President Trump made Tuesday about violence in Charlottesville, Virginia
- On Wednesday morning, Ohio Gov. John Kasich called the situation ‘pathetic’ adding that it was ‘terrible’ President Trump didn’t condemn hate groups
- At his Trump Tower press conference, Trump split the blame between neo-Nazis and ‘alt-left’ counter-protesters for violence that turned deadly
- Trump claimed there were some ‘fine people’ mixed in among the white nationalists who rallied in Charlottesville
- ‘We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred. There are no good neo-nazis,’ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday
- Republicans lawmakers including Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen all spoke out against Trump
DLH
Trump Spoke Truth About ‘Both Sides’ In Charlottesville, And The Media Lost Their Minds
The media behavior in the wake of this press conference was arguably something new, a sort of grotesque watermark of the media’s coverage of the Trump administration thus far.
Excerpt from Daniel Payne at The Federalist (link above)
We know this because people there saw it happen and have confirmed Trump’s characterization publicly. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, for one, attested: “The hard left seemed as hate-filled as alt-right,” she tweeted. “I saw club-wielding ‘antifa’ beating white nationalists being led out of the park.” If there were any doubt as to whether the Left were committing violence that day, Stolberg later clarified: “[I] should have said violent, not hate-filled.”
I did not notice any wall-to-wall coverage of Stolberg’s unambiguous eyewitness testimony. Did you?
Another eyewitness report comes from Isabella Ciambotti, a creative writing major from the University of Virginia. Speaking to The New York Times, Ciambotti testified that at one point “a counterprotestor ripped a newspaper stand off the sidewalk and threw it at alt-right protesters.” Photographic evidence confirms Ciambotti’s account.
Raw footage of the moment the counterprotestor threw the box is inconclusive but strongly suggests the counterprotester was unprovoked at the time. Further raw footage shows counterprotesters hurling objects at white supremacists and neo-Nazis while the latter simply stand there a good distance apart from the crowd.
Ciambotti also claims to have witnessed “another man from the white supremacist crowd being chased and beaten.” Additionally she saw “a much older man, also with the alt-right group, [who] got pushed to the ground in the commotion. Someone raised a stick over his head and beat the man with it.” Ciambotti claims to have intervened before the beating could continue further.
Ciambotti further asserts:
There were absolutely groups of peaceful protesters in Charlottesville this past weekend, many making a mature show of resistance. But what I saw on Market Street didn’t feel like resistance. It felt like every single person letting out his or her own well of fear and frustration on the crowd.
These People Don’t Have Strong Motivations to Lie
Both Stolberg and Ciambotti can fairly be seen as credible witnesses. Ciambotti, in particular, affirms she was a part of the counter-protest, yet she directly attests to the violent nature of the liberals who gathered in Charlottesville that day.
Additionally, Charlottesville police chief Al S. Thomas Jr. has affirmed that the protest saw “mutually combative” individuals on both sides. If the police chief who oversaw the mayhem is affirming Trump’s basic premise, might we assume that Trump is onto something?
