Trump Judge Trashes Former President’s Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN
A judge ruled that calling Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen was not defamation as tossed the former president’s lawsuit against CNN.
A judge ruled that calling Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen was not defamation as tossed the former president’s lawsuit against CNN.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating Trump’s fundraising based on the big lie, and his lawyers that pushed the lie that the election was stolen.
Liz Cheney does not oppose the authoritarianism and anti-democratic impulses of the Republican Party.
The ongoing public negotiation among Manchin, Biden, and progressive Democrats has made clear that Manchin has been trafficking the same old stale misinformation fiscal conservatives have been peddling for ages.
Rudy Giuliani admitted in a taped deposition that he never bothered to verify his claims of election fraud.
Of course, these Republicans, strenuously posing as “principled,” remain quiet about their own election-stealing strategy, even as it sits ponderously front and center as the proverbial elephant in the American political arena.
Trumpism, in fact, has provided a fortuitous opening for the Republican Party establishment to salvage its own perfidious conservatism by providing a kind of straw man for the establishment.
The problem Cheney and the other never-Trumpers have with Trump and the current Republican Party is that it has exposed the reality of the traditional GOP, pulled back the curtain of dignified phrases and codes to reveal its anti-egalitarian, racist, and undemocratic character.
This sweeping legislation isn’t just about suppressing the vote; it’s about prohibiting collective care and action, criminalizing any sense of human solidarity, any acting upon the recognition that others’ lives matter.
The “big lie” is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far from distinguishing itself from Trump’s governance, in fact enabled and even created it.