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Eric Swalwell Expertly Skewers Republicans’ “Cult” of Convicted Felon Donald Trump

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The Democratic representative had a long list of points to back up his claim.

By Edith Olmsted

Representative Eric Swalwell slammed GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, arguing that the blatant hypocrisy in their devoted defense of a freshly convicted Donald Trump was nothing less than cultish.

“Guys, I’m starting to think you guys are in a cult,” Swalwell said. “That is your right, but it’s not your responsibility. I promise you, that’s not what your constituents would want.”

“So if you believe in states’ rights except when a jury in that state convicts your nominee for president: You might be in a cult. If you claim you back the blue but want to defund the police when the police go to your nominee’s house to retrieve national security secrets: You might be in a cult. If you’re supporting a guy whose felony convictions prevent him from getting security clearance: You might be in a cult,” Swalwell continued.

And if the guy you’re supporting for president has felony convictions that prevent him from going to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic …”

As he spoke, one lawmaker demanded that the California Democrat’s words be taken down. Swalwell continued in an alphabetized list of all the countries to which Trump can no longer travel.“Egypt, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel …” Swalwell continued, well after his time had expired. “You might be in a cult.”

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It is Trump’s (not Biden’s) ‘intellectual capacity’ now in question

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Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump conducted lengthy interviews with Time Magazine this year, but journalist Magdi Jacobs contends that the magazine’s interviewers seem to have dumbed down their questions when interviewing Trump.

Writing on Twitter, Jacobs does a side-by-side comparison between the Trump and Biden interviews and flags significant differences in the way that interviewers question the two main presidential contenders.

“Something striking: the substance of Trump and Biden’s answers is, of course, quite distinct but, even more than that, one can tell the interviewer has more confidence in the intellectual capacity of one man over the other,” she wrote.

The then pointed out to an instance in which the interviewer asked both men about their positions on defending Taiwan.

“I want to get your thoughts on China,” Time asked Trump. “Do you think the U.S. should defend Taiwan if China invades?”

When it came time to ask Biden the same question, however, the interviewer asked a much more detailed question.

“CIA Director Bill Burns says the President Xi Jinping of China has ordered the Chinese military to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan,” Time asked Biden. “You said on multiple occasions that you would use U.S. forces to defend Taiwan. What does that mean? Is it boots on the ground? What shape would that take?”

In analyzing this, Jacobs said that it indicated that Time interviewers believed they needed to dumb down questions to get a cogent response from Trump.

“The interviewer(s) at Time seem to believe one man (Biden) is capable of answering a complex question containing multiple premises,” she wrote. “The interviewer(s) at Time seem to not believe the other man (Trump) is capable of answering a simple unlayered question.”

Source: Trump’s ‘intellectual capacity’ questioned after comparison to interview with Biden – Raw Story