MAGAs respond to Trump's conviction--and it's pretty hilarious
Two Trumpist callers to my radio program reveal how devoid of logic and reason, and how filled with misinformation, GOP voters are in the wake Trump's conviction. (Audio embedded)
The day after Donald Trump’s 34-count felony conviction, the phones lit up on my SiriusXM program, with people calling in from across the U.S. and Canada for three hours.
Most of the calls were from people celebrating that justice was done and responding to the insane vows of revenge and unhinged rants from Republicans.
But some of the calls were from bewildered MAGAs who didn’t know what had hit them.
Jackson from North Carolina wanted to know what we wanted Republicans to do now.
“Where do you want to see Republicans?..Do you want ‘em just pumping your gas and bagging your groceries?”
What? You can listen to it right here.
Jackson defiantly claimed the “Republican Party isn’t going anywhere,” implying, I guess, that we needed to just bow down to it since we can’t destroy it.
I had to explain that, no, we just want the Republican Party to stop embracing criminality and maybe work with Democrats on passing legislation.
Jackson just didn’t seem to get much of what I was saying, because he was woefully misinformed. You really have to listen to it in order to understand just how deluded and out-of-touch these people are.
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Then there was Tim from Texas. He believed Trump was done an enormous disservice and asked, “Can you explain to me why they disallowed Trump’s witnesses to testify? He had two key witnesses and they refused to allow them to testify on behalf of Trump?”
That’s not true, which I told him, explaining that it worries me that people like him believe Trump when he claims that.
The supposed witnesses Trump is referring to are witnesses that he and his lawyer had every right to call for part of his defense. They didn’t. And then they criticized the prosecution for not calling them, which is ridiculous.
Why would the prosecution call witnesses to help the defense? That’s not the prosecution’s job. Trump could have called them—but the truth is, they would have hurt him more than help him, so he didn’t.
I had to play a clip of Trump’s lawyer actually admitting on CNN that he could have called them. But then he wouldn’t explain why he didn’t, ludicrously whining as to why the prosecution didn’t call them.
Tim seemed to have a breakthrough moment after I played the clip, which underscored how he’d been misinformed. You can listen to it here.
Perhaps I was hard on Tim, as he did say in the end, “That’s a valid point.” Maybe I should have given him some more breathing room. Ah, well.
Listen in, and let me know what you think!
The concern that ALL of us should have is the high security & corruption risk that a second term Trump presidency would activate. This man would misuse his presidential power and would be vulnerable to other countries influence, and their ability to use his draining wealth to corrupt him for their own ends. We would ALL suffer the consequences of a second Trump presidency.
this is going to be a study in psychology to understand how people allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by this orange menace to society!! I don't understand how they aren't tired of same ole same ole, its a witch hunt, I was framed, the judge is corrupt, the deep state is out to get me, when there is absolutely no evidence to support any of that. how many court cases does he have to go through and lose before they realize they have hitched their wagons to a god damned criminal loser!!! I have to agree with a caller you had on weeks ago who said "I think at least 50% of the country is inherently stupid and I have to agree!!! And then today I was watching the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and I was nervous because he hasn't exactly been kind of Joe Biden and his guest was Ken Buck. I thought, uh oh, but Jon Stewart laid into to him and called him on the carpet. What really irked me was when Buck said we some one to descent to unite the country, but neither candidate is it. No, because as descent as Joe Biden is, he will never get the respect for anything he does when a media keeps painting him as some feeble old man who can barely stand up straight and completely ignores all of the good things he has been doing, and then normalized the piece of shit Trump who I hope goes to jail, not unheard of in his case, and BTW Martha Steward went to jail so it can happen!! Personally, I hope mother nature takes care of Trump. I think he is a stain on this nation!! He is smug son-of-a bitch. The whole family wreaks of privilege but lacks class!!