CNN: 'GOP Strategist Says Donald Trump Has Made a Critical Mistake in The Campaign'

Source:CNN- left to right: Defendant Don & Republican political strategist Karl Rove.

"Republican strategist Karl Rove, who was the architect of George W. Bush's successful presidential run, says that Donald Trump has made a mistake calling imprisoned January 6th rioters hostages and said President Joe Biden should "go hard" at Trump on the issue." 

From CNN 

"Republican strategist Karl Rove urged Democrats to “go hard” at former President Trump’s rhetoric surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, calling the former president’s pledge to free imprisoned rioters a “critical mistake.”

“If they were smart, they’d take the Jan. 6 and go hard at it. And they would say, ‘He wants to pardon these people who attacked our Capitol,'” Rove said told MSNBC’s Ari Melber.

“One of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said, ‘I’m going to pardon those people because they’re hostages,'” Rove said in the interview, which aired Wednesday. “No, they’re not. They’re thugs.”

Trump said last month that his first act if elected to the White House would be to free the imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters, whom he called “hostages.” The former president has expressed sympathy for those charged in connection with the insurrection on numerous occasions and spoke last year at a fundraiser organized for Jan 6. defendants.

“Why Trump has done this is beyond me,” Rove said, criticizing Trump for appearing in videos with those who assaulted police during the riots." 

From The Hill 

"Giuliani isn't the only prominent Republican to have suggested divine intervention could have played a role in Friday's earthquake. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made this claim in a post on X.

She said: "God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens." 

On Monday a solar eclipse will block out the sun across 13 states, thrusting millions into darkness during the early afternoon. Speaking at a press conference on Friday afternoon, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist Paul Earle insisted this is unconnected to Friday's earthquake. He said: "This is unrelated to the solar eclipse. Earthquakes of this size have no correlation with celestial bodies." 

From Newsweek

First of all, I just want to go on the record here by saying if I'm the only one in the world, or at least in America, whose not blogging or writing in general about the solar eclipse today, I'll be very happy with that. Just to give you an idea of how uninterested I'm in it. Actually, no one from this blog will be writing about the solar eclipse today. That I can promise you. 

I thought Maria Cardona had the best line in the CNN video here when Jessica Dean asked her about the Biden Campaign's fundraising numbers: 

"Jessica, the Biden Campaign has raised a crazy, insane amount of money. And they're going to put that to work to prevent a crazy, insane man, from entering The White House again...

If you think about it, that's the number one job of not just the Democratic Party today, including President Biden, but everyone who still believes in American liberal democracy, the rule of law, and our checks and balances. If you do, you have to legally prevent Donald J. Trump from ever getting near the presidency again. 

It's that simple. You don't have to become a Democrat, you don't have to like Joe Biden. But to keep the American republic together and our great liberal democracy together, you have to prevent someone who doesn't believe in those things, who believes he should always be unaccountable and never have any real opposition, from ever becoming President of the United States again. And if you don't like the job the President and perhaps a new Democratic Congress is doing 2 years from now, vote the Congress out and replace it with a Republican Congress. 

As far as MAGA Mayor Rudy Giuliani and MAGA Mouth Marjorie T. Greene: I guess it was amateur night at the laugh house and they wanted to get their 2 cents (which is all their statements are worth) in. Or, they're telling the world that they need help and are begging people to commit them to the nuthouse. 

Alice Stewart on Rudy Giuliani: "Rudy Giuliani has gone from America's Mayor to an asinine mayor."

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