Tucker looks at Kevin McCarthy’s current efforts in running for Speaker of the House, and Democratic election tampering and censorship grabs going back as far as Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. Highlights include:
“Here’s the latest summarized: Kevin McCarthy badly wants to be the next Speaker of the House, but as of tonight, he is not going to be. He does not have the votes. It’s not a question of who’s good or who’s bad, who’s well intentioned and who’s not, it’s a question of simple electoral math, something Kevin McCarthy is highly familiar with since he does this for a living.”
“At this point, and as of right now, facing that mathematical reality, Kevin McCarthy has two choices. He can either step aside and let somebody else do the job, acknowledging in the process that he is not the only person in Congress capable of being Speaker, or he can try to win over the people who oppose him, as you traditionally do in elections.”
“In a normal race, that’s what you would do. But that is not what Kevin McCarthy’s team is doing, Instead, like the left, they purport to oppose. They’re using threats and fear to force people to support the candidate. Anyone who opposes Kevin McCarthy, one of his surrogates explained today, is ‘an enemy’, ‘a terrorist’. That’s their message.”
“In the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization Wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the Democratic National Committee. Those documents showed conclusively that Hillary Clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against her rival, Bernie Sanders.”
“It was obvious from the start that that email dump had come from an internal source, probably from a DNC staffer who was offended by the corruption in the Clinton team, But, of course the Democratic party couldn’t admit that, too embarrassing, too revealing, So, instead, in order to cover this wrongdoing, the Clinton campaign claimed that Russia did it.”
“Now, you may have believed it, or not, but intel agencies in this country must have known at the time that it was not true. They would know, but they said nothing, and they said nothing because blaming Russia turned out to be a very useful political tool.”
“In fact, before long it became the default response to every perceived disaster in Washington.”
“Thanks to new reporting from Matt Taibbi, who has spent weeks sifting through previously secret Twitter files, we know the federal government’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies enthusiastically joined the effort to censor the political speech of American citizens, illegally.”
“At one point, for example, the State Department released a report falsely claiming that thousands of Twitter accounts were controlled by foreign government.”
“This is illegal. It’s openly unConstitutional. Government officials cannot suppress speech, that’s the Bill of Rights. And even at Twitter, executives seemed to understand that. ‘No, this isn’t feasible, we don’t do this,’ replied one Twitter executive.”
“But, in time, they caved. Twitter had effectively become a government propaganda outlet. How that happened and the effect that it had on American electoral politics is one of the most important stories of our time, and as we said, we know about it because of Matt Taibbi, who has been at the center of it.”
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