Trump’s legal team also tried to throw cold water on the idea in a filing earlier this week, writing that the “events of January 6 were not an ‘insurrection’ as they did not involve an organized attempt to overthrow or resist the U.S. government.”

Trump disagrees, apparently.

“They kept saying about what I said right after the insurrection,” he said outside Mar-a-Lago after arguments concluded in Washington, D.C. “I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi.

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    So the people who were Antifa and MAGA patriots who went to the Capital to peacefully cause an insurrection that was and wasn’t a false flag setup by the FBI and “globalists” and are going to prison because of the actions they did and didn’t do on Jan 6 were all being led by… Pelosi?

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        No need to keep track, just say whatever you want to say in the moment. Your followers don’t care and the media certainly isn’t going to call you on it.

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          This post is the media calling him on it. The media has been calling him on his lies as long as I remember. The problem is that his supporters don’t care if he lies.

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            I suppose, though I’m not sure a lone article in Rolling Stone amounts to much.

            I don’t hear the media call him on his lies at all, or when they do it’s in the same breath as reporting some other lie. It’s a huge fucking problem. The media very much plays the game because it gets clicks and views and that = money. Election season has already started, they love it.

            That they’re still giving him airtime, reporting on his various trials and statements daily. Voicing his responses to the rulings and accusations, amplifying his messaging. It’s criminal in itself, the rabid rightwing have one thing right, the “mainstream media” is not our friend. They’re corporate owned and are mostly mouthpieces for those corporations.

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              We must have been using different news sources over the last 8-9 years. Hell, there are websites dedicated to just counting his number of lies.

              I think it is pretty much common knowledge at this point that whenever he opens his mouth, he is lying.

              His base doesn’t care and everyone else is used to it, so headlines like “Donald Trump lied again” are pretty redundant. He is still called out in his lies in most articles that I read though. It’s just not the headline anymore.

              I definitely wouldn’t say that reporting on the lead candidate being a jackass is criminal, but you do you.

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                That link is pay-walled.

                I definitely wouldn’t say that reporting on the lead candidate being a jackass is criminal, but you do you.

                I’d say giving equal airtime to an insurrectionist fraudster and rapist is pretty borderline. The only time the word Trump is mentioned it should be prefaced by “Proven Criminal and Liar”

                edit: here’s a non-paywalled version it’s a pretty thin article from 3 years ago when Cheeto was still pres. If anything it proves my point, they’re still covering all the bullshit he says 3 years later. Stop giving him a platform so his sycophants have to seek out what he says.

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                  Whatever. I’m not going to argue with a stranger on the internet. Keep your weird beliefs about it being criminal to interview people.

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      Yep, and before Pelosi, Trump said it was Nikki Haley who caused it.

      Man, I just need Trump to blame Taylor Swift for the whole thing, and then my Insurrection-Bingo card will be full!