Debra J. Saunders in dailyherald.com: Picturing Trump's 'last days of Pompeii'
The base believes President Donald Trump won in 2020 in part because the base thinks that Trump believes he won in 2020. The House Jan. 6 report, produced by an overwhelmingly Democratic committee, however, documents the many times Trump was informed that his claims of fraud were bogus, but he repeated them anyway.
The legal strategy seems designed to appeal to a base that believes in fraud, not courts that demand evidence. Crazy-car attorney John Eastman, the report noted,"all but admitted that didn't work" and likely would fail 9-0 if before the Supreme Court."Team Normal" was the phrase former campaign manager Bill Stepien used to distinguish professional aides from the Trump"Clown Car" -- a phrase dubbed by former Attorney General Bill Barr.
In TrumpWorld, there were always unqualified people ready to step in."Body man" -- read: nonlawyer -- John McEntee wrote a one-pager that argued that the vice president"has substantial discretion to address issues with the electoral process." Katrina Pierson captured the turn of events when she texted campaign Big Foot-lookalike Brad Parscale, after he claimed to be shocked a woman died during the Jan. 6 insurrection.Mark Corallo, public relations consultant who worked in the Justice Department under Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft, told me he didn't read the report and considered the exercise"grossly partisan."
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