About this episode

Chuck Todd discusses Trump's ongoing election conspiracies and the implications for the GOP and ICE's culture.

Chuck Todd opens with the news that Trump is planning a primetime address to push election denialism, and uses it as a lens to examine how thoroughly fealty to the 2020 fraud lie has become the price of admission in Trump's Washington. He argues Todd Blanche should have no place in the Department of Justice, that he failed his test under questioning from John Cornyn, and that the weaponization fund could become the red line that finally moves Collins, Tillis, and Cornyn — because an inability to confirm Blanche would be a clear sign of Trump's weakening grip on the GOP. He points to the surreal spectacle of Jay Clayton refusing to answer Jon Ossoff's simple question of who won the 2020 election, looking like a ridiculous sycophant in the process, and to Trump endorsing MyPillow's Mike Lindell — the single biggest election conspiracy theorist in the country, a man who's lost every court case and been forced to pay $5 million over his false claims. He reminds listeners that it was Trump's own appointees who ran election security in 2020, that every major election denier from Giuliani on down has been forced to retract in court, and that Georgia's full hand recount…

People in this episode

Host: Chuck Todd

Topics covered

• Trump's election conspiracies
• Department of Justice
• ICE encounters
• GOP dynamics
• Election security
• Political commentary

Keywords

• Trump
• election denialism
• ICE
• Department of Justice
• GOP
• 2020 election
• politics
• commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Justice, ICE, MyPillow, Georgia

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