BIden got more votes than Trump... Math was never an important subject for most Trumptards and they wonder why we keep putting them down. "We got 75 million votes!" Ohio State "We got 24 points! Good luck Alabama declaring yourself National Champions when we got 24 points!"
House GOP leader says Trump both sought to blame antifa for Capitol violence and admitted he's partly responsible https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-capitol-riots-blame/ President Trump and close ally House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke about the Capitol riots Monday, and during their heated conversation, the president kept repeating a conspiracy theory that antifa was responsible for the violence. McCarthy confronted Mr. Trump on this, telling him that it wasn't antifa and that Trump supporters were entirely to blame for the rioting, according to a person with direct knowledge of the call. Axios first reported on Mr. Trump's attempts to blame Antifa during the call with McCarthy. But the president also admitted to McCarthy that he is at least partially to blame for what transpired at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, the GOP leader recounted to fellow House Republicans during a conference call Monday. Multiple Republicans familiar with the discussion with the GOP conference confirmed the details to CBS News. The call between the president and the top House Republican came on the same day Mr. Trump met face-to-face in the Oval Office with Vice President Pence for the first time since the deadly siege, during which protesters were heard chanting, "Hang Mike Pence!" During his call with Mr. Trump, McCarthy also urged him to call President-elect Joe Biden, the source with direct knowledge of the call said. However, any fraction of responsibility the president may have taken in that call with McCarthy appeared to have evaporated Tuesday. Twice, upon his departure for a trip to Alamo, Texas (not that Alamo), Mr. Trump called his address to supporters last Wednesday "totally appropriate." "If you read my speech — and many people have done itm and I've seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television — it's been analyzed, and people thought what I said was totally appropriate," the president said. And he tried to suggest that elements responsible for "horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places...was a real problem." McCarthy's outreach to senior Republicans comes as the House is set to vote Tuesday on a resolution calling on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment with Cabinet secretaries to remove the president from office. If Pence and the Cabinet do not do so, the House is expected to vote Wednesday on an article of impeachment against Mr. Trump, holding him responsible for inciting the mob that assaulted the Capitol, leaving five people dead. While many congressional Republicans have voiced opposition to impeaching Mr. Trump for a second time, including McCarthy, a handful of Republican senators have signaled they are open to impeachment charges or have called on the president to resign before his term expires on January 20. McCarthy's struggle with the president over culpability for the storming of the Capitol comes as Republicans are trying to shore up financial support from some of the party's most reliable donors: top corporations. Since the violence last week, several Fortune 500 companies and other entities that regularly give to GOP candidates or campaign committees say they now either plan to withhold donations from the 147 House and Senate Republicans who voted against affirming the Electoral College results or at least temporarily suspend donations to Republican candidates. Some companies are suspending all political donations. While the decision has less of an impact on rank-and-file Republicans from reliably conservative districts, the freeze on corporate giving could adversely affect McCarthy's ability to continue raising money for his colleagues — a key element in maintaining a firm grip on his leadership post. In a letter sent to House Republicans and obtained by CBS News, McCarthy wrote that he remains opposed to impeachment, writing it would "have the opposite effect of bringing our country together when we need to get America back on a path towards unity and civility." He said members across the conference had recommended other avenues to address the riots in the Capitol on Wednesday, including creating a bipartisan commission to study the attack, reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and crafting legislation to "promote voter confidence in future federal elections." The other option McCarthy mentioned was a resolution of censure, though he did not say who would be censured. The letter did not mention Mr. Trump by name. McCarthy also reiterated to fellow House Republicans that he too believes the president bears some responsibility for the mob and assault on the Capitol. The House leader was among many senior Republicans who spoke with the president during the assault on Wednesday and pleaded with him to call off his supporters and send military assistance to quell the disturbance.
Trump tries to defend his pre-riot speech as 'totally appropriate' The president offered up his first public remarks since his supporters carried out a deadly siege on the Capitol last week. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/trump-defends-pre-riot-speech-458129 President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended as “totally appropriate” the speech he made at a rally last week that was followed by his supporters launching a deadly siege of the Capitol. In his first live remarks since the violence last Wednesday, Trump deflected blame and sought to highlight other politicians’ comments last summer about protests against racial injustice and police brutality. “If you read my speech — and many people have done it, and I’ve seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television — it’s been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, en route to Alamo, Texas. “And if you look at what other people have said — politicians at a high level — about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places, that was a real problem, what they said,” Trump continued. “But they’ve analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence, and everybody — to the tee — thought it was totally appropriate.” At last Wednesday’s rally outside the White House, Trump fiercely attacked both political allies and rivals before urging his supporters to march on the Capitol amid Congress’ certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong,” Trump said at the time. Those remarks and others by the president have possibly exposed him to criminal charges for provoking the rioters, and also serve as the basis for an impeachment article accusing him of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. Speaking outside the White House earlier Tuesday, Trump condemned House Democrats’ efforts to impeach him a second time, saying it was a “continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics.” “I think it’s causing tremendous anger,” he added, according to a White House pool report. Trump’s statements Tuesday morning came as the House prepared to vote on a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. If Pence does not do so, House Democrats will proceed Wednesday with a floor vote on impeachment — setting Trump up to be the first president in American history to receive such a rebuke twicer. Trump has fallen mostly silent in the aftermath of last Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol, in large part due to his Twitter account being permanently suspended last Friday. He had previously posted a pair of video messages on Twitter last week. In the first video, released amid the chaos last Wednesday, he instructed his supporters “to go home,” but also described them as “very special.” In the second video, released last Thursday, he finally acknowledged he had lost the election to Biden. The fallout from the Capitol siege has produced the gravest threat yet to Trump’s presidency, with numerous administration officials and three Cabinet members resigning in recent days.
Exactly my point. I see no daylight between the Leftist United States of America and the Chinese Communist Party. They are one and the same. So why make any effort to discern the country-of-orgin when making a purchase? It isn't a relevant consideration. All. Bets. Are. Off.
Proof? No. On the contrary: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/2020-election-most-secure-history-dhs/#post-update-40aa9fd8