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Trump’s ‘blooper reel’ from Jan 6 one-sided trial is the biggest nothing burger of the year!

July 22, 2022 | | Print Article

The left is in a tizzy over a year-old blooper reel that shows former President Donald Trump refusing to say the 2020 presidential election was over.

Considering that the president continues to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election to this day, it’s unclear why this video matters at all.

Nevertheless, the reel made waves on the left after the Jan. 6th committee played it for the public during the committee’s latest hearing on Thursday.

Recorded on Jan. 7th, 2021, which was the day after the infamous Jan. 6th riot, the video specifically showed the president complaining about the words on the teleprompter that he was being asked to read aloud.

At one point, he read the following from the teleprompter: “[T]his election is now over. Congress has certified the results.”

But this was not how he wanted to word the message:

” I don’t want to say the election is over. I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, OK?” he said.

This, according to the left, is “damning” proof of the president’s “mindset or intent”:

But it’s unclear what’s so “damning” about video footage that only further confirms what’s already known, which is that the former president genuinely believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him by current President Joe Biden?

In fact, the former president’s still trying to overturn the election.

“Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos revealed on Wednesday that Trump called him earlier this month and tried to convince him to decertify the state’s 2020 presidential-election results,” New York magazine reported on Thursday.

“On July 8, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the use of unattended ballot drop boxes is not legal and the Wisconsin Elections Commission had overstepped when it allowed the use of drop boxes to return absentee ballots in 2020. Trump called Vos the day after the ruling, arguing that it meant Biden’s Wisconsin win should be decertified.”

During another point in the reel, Trump complained about reading the following line: “And to those who broke the law, you will pay. You do not represent our movement. You do not represent our country. And if you broke the law …”

He stopped at “broke the law” to complain that he “can’t say that.”

“I already said you will pay,” he added.

So, he was just trying to not be repetitive.

Yet, once again the left believes this blooper proves something nefarious:

But it’s not like he ultimately didn’t call out those who’d broken the law.

Here’s what he wound up saying in the completed Jan. 7th speech: “To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law, you will pay. We have just been through an intense election and emotions are high, but now tempers must be cooled and calm restored. We must get on with the business of America.”

During Thursday’s hearing, the committee also complained about the video he’d recorded on Jan. 6th telling his rioting supporters to leave the Capitol and go home.

“The panel suggested that Trump only decided to release a video telling his supporters to go home after realizing the insurrection had failed and that his inaction amounted to a dereliction of duty and a violation of his oath of office,” according to Newsweek.

And the committee claimed he’d done nothing to stop the riot besides record the video.

“During the time between his ‘fight like hell’ speech at the Ellipse and telling his supporters to go home, Trump refused to listen to his advisers, including Ivanka, urging him to tell his supporters to call off the riot,” Newsweek notes.

“A number of witness testimonies also stated that Trump didn’t make any calls to law enforcement or national security departments during the January 6 attack to request help in stopping the violence.”

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