yakov_a_jerkov | Пресс-конференция

Сегодня трамповская dream team -- Джулиани, упоминавшаяся недавно Сидни Пауэлл... -- провели пресс-конференцию. О ее, пресс-конференции, успехе свидетельствует то, что даже Tucker Carlson isn't buying it. Серьезно.

Tucker Carlson calls out Sidney Powell, saying he asked her for evidence to support her election fraud claims, but "she never sent us any evidence despite a lot of requests, polite requests, not a page."

"When we kept pressing she got angry and told us to stop contacting her." pic.twitter.com/IOlOdhp6MJ
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 20, 2020

Вот показательный отрывок из выступления Пауэлл на пресс-конференции. Чистый горячечный бред -- Q, Alex Jones, все вместе.

Trump blames Commander Hugo Chavez, who passed away in 2013, of communist inference in the U.S. presidential election. @teleSURenglish pic.twitter.com/AzuBwrNdur
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) November 19, 2020

Сенатор-республиканец, Ben Sasse, правильно говорит:

Based on what I've read in their filings, when Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud—because there are legal consequences for lying to judges.

Совершенно верно, трамповские адвокаты не делают эти дикие заявление в суде, поскольку да, "there are legal consequences for lying to judges". Они их делают на публику, и трамписты с радостью "follow their master into dementia".

Впрочем, одна из адвокатов Трампа, Jenna Ellis, нашла отличный ответ на вопрос "а где же свидетельства мошенничества?"

"Your question is fundamentally flawed, when you're asking, 'where's the evidence?' You clearly don't understand the legal process" -- Jenna Ellis pic.twitter.com/I4n9G59Zwa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2020

Впрочем, то, что даже Карлсон пытается дистанцироваться от совсем уж откровенного бреда... Я согласен с тем, как Benjy Sarlin прокомментировал сегоняшнее выступление Карлсона:

Most extreme case yet of the “Well obviously RUDY is nuts!” gambit. This is the president’s chosen team working on his behalf with the national party to overthrow an election, not some rando freelancing.

This is the actual story they’re going with to throw out entire cities worth of votes, it’s not “Rudy being Rudy!” no matter how embarrassing that is to some of the presidents allies. The RNC is quite proud of his team’s work, that’s why they’re actively promoting it today.
"We will not be intimidated...We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom."—Sidney Powell pic.twitter.com/8KCEOGuL7w
— GOP (@GOP) November 19, 2020