The arrogance of stupid

Created
Sat, 10/06/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Sat, 10/06/2023 - 00:30
“Hold my beer,” says MTG Move over Samuel Beckett, the GOP is branching out into the theater of the absurd. If you blinked during Thursday night coverage of the Donald Trump indictment in the classified documents case, you may have missed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.” While the non-propaganda press ran wall-to-wall coverage of the prosecution of the former president, Fox News worked to keep its audience fixated on the alleged misdeeds of the Joe Biden crime family. Trump mishandled sensitive documents? “Hold my beer,” says Greene, stepping up to the microphone (Huffington Post): Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) raised eyebrows with a claim she made during a TV interview on Thursday evening.  Greene said she read a document inside a SCIF ― a sensitive compartmented information facility ― related to bribery allegations Republicans have made against President Joe Biden but have yet to provide evidence for. Then, she described that document while speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News:  And usually, information revealed in the SCIF can’t be repeated outside of it.  But Greene ―a conspiracy theorist and close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who has called for a “national divorce” and spoke last year at a white nationalist event ― said she copied as much as she could once she left the SCIF.  “This is a document that all of America should be able to see, but the FBI is stonewalling us and they would only let us see it in a SCIF,” she said. “Well what I did after reading the document…