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Recently In New Hampshire Trump opened his trap to repeat his favorite old-saw about his order requesting 10,000 Troops to protect the Capitol being countermanded by Nancy Pelosi, he just got one (ok, several) detail(s) wrong.
He’s said this before, specifically blaming Liz Cheney for “deleting the evidence” even though that didn’t happen. In addition to saying that “Lincoln should have negotiated” on Slavery to avoid the Civil War, and saying in Iowa “If you vote then pass away, it’s worth it.”
Naturally, Nikki Haley -— who is not Nancy Pelosi — had something to say about it.
Also, former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller has had words about Insurrection too — although his story changes slightly depending on who he’s talking to.
The Truth of the case is that DC Mayor Bowser in consultation with Miller decided to have the National Guard available only for traffic duty because it would prevent the bad optics of having Federal Troops on the street, which would have repeated the horrible scene from Lafayette Park earlier in the year.
Even if Trump had said “Nancy Pelosi” he still would have been dead wrong. Pelosi had no authority in the chain of command over the National Guard.
Having the troops handling traffic freed up approximately 8,000 members of local law enforcement to handle the crowd. The thing of it is this though, they were prepared for a crowd at the White House — they weren’t prepared for a crowd at the Capitol because rally organizers lied about the plan for a march to the Capitol.
From the NYTimes.
Women for America First, which planned the rally on the Ellipse, knew of President Donald J. Trump’s plans to have his supporters march to the Capitol but repeatedly denied it to federal permitting officials.
A pro-Trump group that organized the “Save America” rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, lied to federal officials about President Donald J. Trump’s plans to call on the crowd to march to the Capitol, where the protest over his election loss turned into a violent riot, according to a new inspector general investigation.
Nearly three years after the mob laid siege to Congress, halting the certification of Mr. Trump’s electoral defeat and injuring more than 150 police officers, the Interior Department’s inspector general on Monday released a 47-page report examining the permitting process that allowed tens of thousands of Trump supporters to gather in Washington before the violence.
The report found that Women for America First, which organized a rally at the Ellipse about two miles from the Capitol on Jan. 6, “intentionally failed to disclose information” to the National Park Service “during the permitting process regarding a march to the U.S. Capitol.”
Even if the Troops had been pre-deployed before the rally, they would have been at the White House ellipse, not at the Capitol where the crowd ultimately went.
And Nikki Haley wasn’t even there.
This is having fallout on Trump’s surrogates.
And so it went with Gov. Doug Burgam (R-ND).
During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, Raddatz noted that Trump had recently confused former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) with Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
"The campaign has made a huge issue of 81-year-old President Biden's age and mental acuity," Raddatz told Burgum. "But take a listen here to this clip of Donald Trump, the 77-year-old, when he confuses Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi.
Burgum blamed the slip on Trump's hectic campaign schedule.
"I've been on the campaign trail, and I know when you're going around the clock, it's possible to, you know, to make, make, I don't want to say use words that don't fit in sentences," Burgum replied. "But I would say, you know, having been with the president last week and I went in New Hampshire and watching him go for 20 hours a day, I know that he's got, he's got the strength, he's got the experience to lead."
"And I think that if we're going to have, you know, the gaffe tape, you know, run that this morning on Joe Biden, there wouldn't be enough time on this show," he added.
But that wasn’t the only example of Trump saying ridiculous and crazy shit.
Niki was the exact person that he hired to deal with Xi, Putin and Un at the UN.
This man is not fit. Will his adoring hordes finally notice it because Nikki Haley is pointing it out? They didn't much care when Chris Christie was saying it.
Time will tell.
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Morning Joe and Mika trashed Elise Stefanik for trying to make excuses for Trump’s confusion when mispronouncing her name.
"I can't tell you how disappointed I feel every time I see her talk," Brzezinski said.
"What a clown, what a clown," Scarborough added. "What a clown, he confuses Barack Obama. He thinks he is running against Barack Obama, Elise, and you know it, and if you say anything otherwise, you're lying through your teeth. He confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi on Jan. 6. If you say anything else, you're lying through your teeth. For what? He's not going to pick you as vice president. Give up the ghost, Elise Stefanik."
And on Good Morning America, Jonathon Karl also lamented Trump’s recent confusion.
ABC News' Jon Karl on Monday marveled at the fact that Trump has made multiple slipups in recent days, including in a speech where he seemed to confuse GOP rival Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
"Donald Trump is truly confused about who Nikki Haley is, thinks somehow that she was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6th," Karl said during an appearance on "Good Morning America." "We've seen him confuse Joe Biden with Barack Obama, he thinks that he beat Obama. We saw at one point, he talked about how Biden was going to get us into World War II... There have been several moments on the campaign trail where he has seemed, quite frankly, out of it."
Elsewhere in the segment, Karl talked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who exited the 2024 presidential race over the weekend and gave his endorsement to former President Donald Trump, the same man who promoted baseless allegations about DeSantis being a "groomer" just months before.
Karl didn't pull any punches in his analysis.
"This was a spectacular failure, one of the greatest in all American politics," Karl said. "DeSantis, if you go back to about a year ago, was actually beating Donald Trump... He spent some $150 million, if you count the money from his super PAC, and he did nothing but go down and down and down."
Karl went on to argue that DeSantis' big flaw was that he "never took the fight to Donald Trump" until Trump had left him "mortally wounded."