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Not to defend John McCain but he never said anything of the sort, a complete lie.
McCain was a close friend of Hillary's and she praised him just a few days ago on Howard Stern.
I wouldn't know what Limbaugh may have said.
Fact is, there's nothing but sickos left in the Dem party. Deranged, unhappy, viscious, hateful people, who blame others for their failure in life.
Miserable, lazy losers trying to drag the hard-working happy people down with them.
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Washington Post mocked for suggesting Melania Trump could be 'sending coded messages'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
The Washington Post raised eyebrows Thursday for a column asking whether first lady Melania Trump is "sending coded messages" while serving as the presidential spouse or if "we are just talking to ourselves."
Post columnist Monica Hesse opened her piece by addressing the upcoming unauthorized biography "Free, Melania" and acknowledged how much of the book relied largely upon other people's accounts as well as speculation, which Hesse described as "analysis" about things ranging from the first lady's body language to fashion choices.
According to Hesse, author Kate Bennett argued that the first lady made "intentional" fashion statements, one of which involved the memorable jacket she wore on a trip to the southern border where migrant children were being detained that read, “I really don’t care, do u?" The biography author insisted it was actually a message to Ivanka Trump, who supposedly took credit for urging her father to end the separations of migrant families.
"Is there symbolism in everything Melania Trump does, or not?" Hesse asked. "Is Melania Trump playing five-dimensional chess against the rest of her checkers-playing family, or not? Will we ever know? Does it even matter? Does your pointed commentary about the administration’s immigration policy matter, if, to understand you’ve commented at all, the American public must intimately know the shopping habits of your grown stepdaughter?"
A Washington Post columnist suggested first lady Melania Trump may have been sending "messages" with her fashion choices. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Montage)
Hesse then asked whether "bizarrely choosing to communicate in fashion code" instead of spoken language or having "no plan at all" was the "more unsettling interpretation" of Melania Trump, later writing, "I have wondered whether Melania Trump is a genius. I have wondered whether she’s an idiot. I have wondered why I wonder about her at all."
"A job requirement of models is the ability to disappear: to sublimate one’s own identity into the clothing so that the shopper can picture herself wearing it instead," the Post columnist explained. "Melania Trump’s greatest achievement has been her self-sublimation, her ability would like Melania Trump to mean something. I would like for her to mean something in the way that we would all like any of this chaotic era to mean anything, because the alternative is that we’re just living in chaos, in a country led by chaotic people.ty to let people project their own worldviews onto her. Conservatives see a classy helpmeet, bringing old-world elegance to the White House. Liberals, zeroing in on her initial New York home base and her thirsty eyes toward Justin Trudeau, proposed for a while that she might loathe her husband as much as they did."
She continued, "I would like Melania Trump to mean something. I would like for her to mean something in the way that we would all like any of this chaotic era to mean anything, because the alternative is that we’re just living in chaos, in a country led by chaotic people... What if there was no meaning. What if we stopped inventing meaning... Free, Melania. Free us all."
The column sparked questions of concern from many readers on social media.
"R u ok," Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel asked.
The Daily Wire's Jessica Fletcher similarly tweeted, "Is everyone there doing ok?"
"Always good to get the perspective of absolute lunatics," Daily Wire contributor Harry Khachatrian quipped.
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
The Washington Post raised eyebrows Thursday for a column asking whether first lady Melania Trump is "sending coded messages" while serving as the presidential spouse or if "we are just talking to ourselves."
Post columnist Monica Hesse opened her piece by addressing the upcoming unauthorized biography "Free, Melania" and acknowledged how much of the book relied largely upon other people's accounts as well as speculation, which Hesse described as "analysis" about things ranging from the first lady's body language to fashion choices.
According to Hesse, author Kate Bennett argued that the first lady made "intentional" fashion statements, one of which involved the memorable jacket she wore on a trip to the southern border where migrant children were being detained that read, “I really don’t care, do u?" The biography author insisted it was actually a message to Ivanka Trump, who supposedly took credit for urging her father to end the separations of migrant families.
"Is there symbolism in everything Melania Trump does, or not?" Hesse asked. "Is Melania Trump playing five-dimensional chess against the rest of her checkers-playing family, or not? Will we ever know? Does it even matter? Does your pointed commentary about the administration’s immigration policy matter, if, to understand you’ve commented at all, the American public must intimately know the shopping habits of your grown stepdaughter?"
A Washington Post columnist suggested first lady Melania Trump may have been sending "messages" with her fashion choices. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Montage)
Hesse then asked whether "bizarrely choosing to communicate in fashion code" instead of spoken language or having "no plan at all" was the "more unsettling interpretation" of Melania Trump, later writing, "I have wondered whether Melania Trump is a genius. I have wondered whether she’s an idiot. I have wondered why I wonder about her at all."
"A job requirement of models is the ability to disappear: to sublimate one’s own identity into the clothing so that the shopper can picture herself wearing it instead," the Post columnist explained. "Melania Trump’s greatest achievement has been her self-sublimation, her ability would like Melania Trump to mean something. I would like for her to mean something in the way that we would all like any of this chaotic era to mean anything, because the alternative is that we’re just living in chaos, in a country led by chaotic people.ty to let people project their own worldviews onto her. Conservatives see a classy helpmeet, bringing old-world elegance to the White House. Liberals, zeroing in on her initial New York home base and her thirsty eyes toward Justin Trudeau, proposed for a while that she might loathe her husband as much as they did."
She continued, "I would like Melania Trump to mean something. I would like for her to mean something in the way that we would all like any of this chaotic era to mean anything, because the alternative is that we’re just living in chaos, in a country led by chaotic people... What if there was no meaning. What if we stopped inventing meaning... Free, Melania. Free us all."
The column sparked questions of concern from many readers on social media.
"R u ok," Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel asked.
The Daily Wire's Jessica Fletcher similarly tweeted, "Is everyone there doing ok?"
"Always good to get the perspective of absolute lunatics," Daily Wire contributor Harry Khachatrian quipped.
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Jonathan Turley 'inundated with threatening messages' after testimony opposing Trump impeachment
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
Judge Andrew Napolitano praises Jonathan Turley's 'brilliant analogy' for House Democrats' impeachment push
Jonathan Turley, the sole Republican witness during the House Judiciary Committee's first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, said he was "inundated with threatening messages" after his testimony, which argued that Democrats do not have enough evidence to support articles of impeachment against President Trump.
"Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University for arguing that, while a case for impeachment can be made, it has not been made on this record," Turley wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Thursday.
The law professor at George Washington University Law School appeared alongside three other legal scholars with opposing views Wednesday and warned that Democrats would be ill-advised to rush to a vote on impeachment articles because they do not have a complete record of witness testimonies and supporting evidence to prove that Trump abused his power to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's business dealings there in exchange for military aid.
From left: Constitutional law experts Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, University of North Carolina Law School professor Michael Gerhardt and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
"My objection is not that you cannot impeach Trump for abuse of power but that this record is comparably thin compared to past impeachments and contains conflicts, contradictions and gaps, including various witnesses not subpoenaed," Turley said.
"I suggested that Democrats drop the arbitrary schedule of a vote by the end of December and complete their case and this record before voting on any articles of impeachment," he added. "In my view, they have not proven abuse of power in this incomplete record."
Despite his testimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that Democrats will proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump.
"I remain concerned that we are lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger," Turley said.
Wednesday's hearings elicited fiery remarks from both sides of the aisle. Republican lawmakers decried the impeachment proceedings as a sham, and testimony by Democratic witness and Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan derailed the caucuses' efforts to expose potential abuse of power by Trump after she made remarks jabbing at the president's youngest son, 13-year-old Barron.
Turley called out Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., for his "heated attacks" after Swalwell tried to use the professor's prior record as the attorney for Judge Thomas Porteous, who was impeached and removed from office in December 2010, against him.
He also criticized the negative news coverage of his testimony, writing that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank "attack[ed] my credibility."
"There is an intense 'rancor and rage' and 'stifling intolerance' that blinds people to opposing views. My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee," Turley said.
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
Judge Andrew Napolitano praises Jonathan Turley's 'brilliant analogy' for House Democrats' impeachment push
Jonathan Turley, the sole Republican witness during the House Judiciary Committee's first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, said he was "inundated with threatening messages" after his testimony, which argued that Democrats do not have enough evidence to support articles of impeachment against President Trump.
"Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University for arguing that, while a case for impeachment can be made, it has not been made on this record," Turley wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Thursday.
The law professor at George Washington University Law School appeared alongside three other legal scholars with opposing views Wednesday and warned that Democrats would be ill-advised to rush to a vote on impeachment articles because they do not have a complete record of witness testimonies and supporting evidence to prove that Trump abused his power to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's business dealings there in exchange for military aid.
From left: Constitutional law experts Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, University of North Carolina Law School professor Michael Gerhardt and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
"My objection is not that you cannot impeach Trump for abuse of power but that this record is comparably thin compared to past impeachments and contains conflicts, contradictions and gaps, including various witnesses not subpoenaed," Turley said.
"I suggested that Democrats drop the arbitrary schedule of a vote by the end of December and complete their case and this record before voting on any articles of impeachment," he added. "In my view, they have not proven abuse of power in this incomplete record."
Despite his testimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that Democrats will proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump.
"I remain concerned that we are lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger," Turley said.
Wednesday's hearings elicited fiery remarks from both sides of the aisle. Republican lawmakers decried the impeachment proceedings as a sham, and testimony by Democratic witness and Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan derailed the caucuses' efforts to expose potential abuse of power by Trump after she made remarks jabbing at the president's youngest son, 13-year-old Barron.
Turley called out Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., for his "heated attacks" after Swalwell tried to use the professor's prior record as the attorney for Judge Thomas Porteous, who was impeached and removed from office in December 2010, against him.
He also criticized the negative news coverage of his testimony, writing that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank "attack[ed] my credibility."
"There is an intense 'rancor and rage' and 'stifling intolerance' that blinds people to opposing views. My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee," Turley said.
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Threatening messages? Is Trump tweeting again?Jonathan Turley 'inundated with threatening messages' after testimony opposing Trump impeachment
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
Judge Andrew Napolitano praises Jonathan Turley's 'brilliant analogy' for House Democrats' impeachment push
Jonathan Turley, the sole Republican witness during the House Judiciary Committee's first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, said he was "inundated with threatening messages" after his testimony, which argued that Democrats do not have enough evidence to support articles of impeachment against President Trump.
"Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University for arguing that, while a case for impeachment can be made, it has not been made on this record," Turley wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Thursday.
The law professor at George Washington University Law School appeared alongside three other legal scholars with opposing views Wednesday and warned that Democrats would be ill-advised to rush to a vote on impeachment articles because they do not have a complete record of witness testimonies and supporting evidence to prove that Trump abused his power to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's business dealings there in exchange for military aid.
From left: Constitutional law experts Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, University of North Carolina Law School professor Michael Gerhardt and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
"My objection is not that you cannot impeach Trump for abuse of power but that this record is comparably thin compared to past impeachments and contains conflicts, contradictions and gaps, including various witnesses not subpoenaed," Turley said.
"I suggested that Democrats drop the arbitrary schedule of a vote by the end of December and complete their case and this record before voting on any articles of impeachment," he added. "In my view, they have not proven abuse of power in this incomplete record."
Despite his testimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that Democrats will proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump.
"I remain concerned that we are lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger," Turley said.
Wednesday's hearings elicited fiery remarks from both sides of the aisle. Republican lawmakers decried the impeachment proceedings as a sham, and testimony by Democratic witness and Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan derailed the caucuses' efforts to expose potential abuse of power by Trump after she made remarks jabbing at the president's youngest son, 13-year-old Barron.
Turley called out Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., for his "heated attacks" after Swalwell tried to use the professor's prior record as the attorney for Judge Thomas Porteous, who was impeached and removed from office in December 2010, against him.
He also criticized the negative news coverage of his testimony, writing that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank "attack[ed] my credibility."
"There is an intense 'rancor and rage' and 'stifling intolerance' that blinds people to opposing views. My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee," Turley said.
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Claire McCaskill faces racism accusations after singling out Ben Carson in photo of Trump surrogates
By Sam Dorman | Fox News
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill received a wave of backlash on Tuesday after she appeared to single Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson out for his race.
"One of these things is not like the others. Hint: they made him squat in the aisle so he was visible," McCaskill, now a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, tweeted alongside a photo of Carson on an airplane with other Trump supporters.
Prominent Trump supporters, including one of his top African American advisers, fired back.
Katrina Pierson, a black woman who serves as a senior adviser for Trump's campaign, tweeted: "Only a closet racist would make such an incredibly stupid and non factual [sic] observation. There were several 'things' on that plane. TWO OTHERS IN THAT ROW! You’re trying too hard, but don’t worry... You’ll see us soon in a town near you."
The president's oldest son also blasted McCaskill, clarifying that Carson didn't have a seat in the photo because he was in first class.
"Dr. Carson is not a 'thing,' he is a world renowned, [sic] life-saving neurosurgeon," Donald Trump Jr. tweeted. "Anyway, how's unemployment?"
This wasn't the first time Carson was targeted for his race. For example, the short-lived NBC comedy "Marlon" suggested Carson was a "sell-out" for supporting Trump.
“I mean, do you wanna be Dr. Martin Luther King or Dr. Ben Carson? Do you wanna be Rosa Parks or Omarosa? Do you wanna be Mrs. Dash or Stacey Dash?” asked a character in the show. "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin also seemed to single Carson out last year when Trump feuded with late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
"When you are silent in the face of racism, you are complicit in that racism and I strongly believe that," Hostin said on "The View." "I'm calling out Ben Carson, who spent the majority of his career in West Baltimore."
In the new documentary "Created Equal," Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas remarked on the treatment he and Carson received as African-American conservatives.
"There's different sets of rules for different people," he says in a preview clip released in October. "If you criticize a black person who's more liberal, you're a racist whereas if you can do whatever to me -- or now, Ben Carson -- and that's fine because you're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do."
Carson has repeatedly defended President Trump from accusations of racism and bigotry, saying last summer: "I have an advantage of knowing the president very well, and he's not a racist and his comments are not racist."
By Sam Dorman | Fox News
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill received a wave of backlash on Tuesday after she appeared to single Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson out for his race.
"One of these things is not like the others. Hint: they made him squat in the aisle so he was visible," McCaskill, now a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, tweeted alongside a photo of Carson on an airplane with other Trump supporters.
Prominent Trump supporters, including one of his top African American advisers, fired back.
Katrina Pierson, a black woman who serves as a senior adviser for Trump's campaign, tweeted: "Only a closet racist would make such an incredibly stupid and non factual [sic] observation. There were several 'things' on that plane. TWO OTHERS IN THAT ROW! You’re trying too hard, but don’t worry... You’ll see us soon in a town near you."
The president's oldest son also blasted McCaskill, clarifying that Carson didn't have a seat in the photo because he was in first class.
"Dr. Carson is not a 'thing,' he is a world renowned, [sic] life-saving neurosurgeon," Donald Trump Jr. tweeted. "Anyway, how's unemployment?"
This wasn't the first time Carson was targeted for his race. For example, the short-lived NBC comedy "Marlon" suggested Carson was a "sell-out" for supporting Trump.
“I mean, do you wanna be Dr. Martin Luther King or Dr. Ben Carson? Do you wanna be Rosa Parks or Omarosa? Do you wanna be Mrs. Dash or Stacey Dash?” asked a character in the show. "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin also seemed to single Carson out last year when Trump feuded with late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
"When you are silent in the face of racism, you are complicit in that racism and I strongly believe that," Hostin said on "The View." "I'm calling out Ben Carson, who spent the majority of his career in West Baltimore."
In the new documentary "Created Equal," Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas remarked on the treatment he and Carson received as African-American conservatives.
"There's different sets of rules for different people," he says in a preview clip released in October. "If you criticize a black person who's more liberal, you're a racist whereas if you can do whatever to me -- or now, Ben Carson -- and that's fine because you're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do."
Carson has repeatedly defended President Trump from accusations of racism and bigotry, saying last summer: "I have an advantage of knowing the president very well, and he's not a racist and his comments are not racist."
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Trump supporters calling someone else a racist, now that's rich.
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Fake News' disgraced moron Chuck Todd calls Bernie Hitler, his supporters brown-shirts.
MSNBC's Chuck Todd under fire for suggesting Sanders supporters are 'digital brown shirt brigade'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd is facing backlash on Monday night for suggesting that supporters for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are part of a "digital brown shirt brigade."
During a panel discussion on Sanders' surge ahead of the New Hampshire primary, Todd cited a column critical of Sanders' online support.
"I want to bring up something that Jonathan Last put in The Bulwark today," Todd began. "Here's what he says, 'No other candidate has anything like this digital brown shirt brigade. I mean, except for Donald Trump. The question that no one is asking is this; what if you can't win the presidency without an online mob? What if we now live in a world having a bullying, agro-social media running around, hobbling everyone who sticks their head up is either an important ingredient for or a critical marker of success?'"
He continued, "I know that everybody's freaking out about this, but you saw the MAGA rally that's preparing around here. There are people coming from three or four states on that. That's real -- and this is like Bernie."
That sparked major backlash on social media, with the hashtag #firechucktodd trending on Twitter.
Sanders' national press secretary, Briahna Gray, blasted the Nazi-inspired comparison.
"'Digital brown shirt brigade.' That's how our Jewish candidate's supporters are being described on the MSM. The contempt shown for ordinary people is really something," Gray tweeted.
MSNBC'S CHUCK TODD FACES BACKLASH FOR CONFUSING TONI MORRISON WITH MAYA ANGELOU
Sanders speechwriter David Sirota chided Todd's remarks, mocking how the media calls for "civility and decency" and compared insult to CNN's "swarm" description of Sanders voters.
Others called on him to apologize and even resign for sharing such provocative commentary.
Todd faced similar blowback in December insulting Trump voters by suggesting they "want to be lied to" since they believe in "fairy tales" -- like Noah's Ark.
On a special installment of "Meet the Press," Todd spent much of the show focused on the spread of "misinformation" in the media landscape. But, during a panel discussion, he pointed to a letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader from January 2019, something Todd thought was a "fascinating attempt" to explain why so many Americans support President Trump.
The letter read, "[W]hy do people support Trump? It's because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales. ... This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good. ... The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel. ... Show me a person who believes in Noah's ark and I will show you a Trump voter."
"This gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, 'Hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes.' They don't always love being told hard truths," Todd told New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet.
"I'm not quite sure I buy that," Baquet immediately responded. "I'm not convinced that people want to be lied to. I think people want to be comforted, and I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them."
MSNBC's Chuck Todd under fire for suggesting Sanders supporters are 'digital brown shirt brigade'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd is facing backlash on Monday night for suggesting that supporters for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are part of a "digital brown shirt brigade."
During a panel discussion on Sanders' surge ahead of the New Hampshire primary, Todd cited a column critical of Sanders' online support.
"I want to bring up something that Jonathan Last put in The Bulwark today," Todd began. "Here's what he says, 'No other candidate has anything like this digital brown shirt brigade. I mean, except for Donald Trump. The question that no one is asking is this; what if you can't win the presidency without an online mob? What if we now live in a world having a bullying, agro-social media running around, hobbling everyone who sticks their head up is either an important ingredient for or a critical marker of success?'"
He continued, "I know that everybody's freaking out about this, but you saw the MAGA rally that's preparing around here. There are people coming from three or four states on that. That's real -- and this is like Bernie."
That sparked major backlash on social media, with the hashtag #firechucktodd trending on Twitter.
Sanders' national press secretary, Briahna Gray, blasted the Nazi-inspired comparison.
"'Digital brown shirt brigade.' That's how our Jewish candidate's supporters are being described on the MSM. The contempt shown for ordinary people is really something," Gray tweeted.
MSNBC'S CHUCK TODD FACES BACKLASH FOR CONFUSING TONI MORRISON WITH MAYA ANGELOU
Sanders speechwriter David Sirota chided Todd's remarks, mocking how the media calls for "civility and decency" and compared insult to CNN's "swarm" description of Sanders voters.
Others called on him to apologize and even resign for sharing such provocative commentary.
Todd faced similar blowback in December insulting Trump voters by suggesting they "want to be lied to" since they believe in "fairy tales" -- like Noah's Ark.
On a special installment of "Meet the Press," Todd spent much of the show focused on the spread of "misinformation" in the media landscape. But, during a panel discussion, he pointed to a letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader from January 2019, something Todd thought was a "fascinating attempt" to explain why so many Americans support President Trump.
The letter read, "[W]hy do people support Trump? It's because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales. ... This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good. ... The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel. ... Show me a person who believes in Noah's ark and I will show you a Trump voter."
"This gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, 'Hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes.' They don't always love being told hard truths," Todd told New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet.
"I'm not quite sure I buy that," Baquet immediately responded. "I'm not convinced that people want to be lied to. I think people want to be comforted, and I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them."