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George Conway Humiliates Trump for Blaming Nancy Pelosi for the Insurrection

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The fallout from Trump’s latest 45-minute interview with the Washington Post is just beginning. Despite the fact that within the last month, there have been several explosive new allegations over what happened that day, including Peter Navarro’s account, the burner phone issues, Meadows’s texts, and more, Trump couldn’t address any of it with anything close to an acceptable accounting and went straight back to his comfort zone, blaming others.

One of the few things he did say would be considered dereliction of duty in the military and should automatically disqualify Trump from the presidency. The president of the United States watched an attack on the United States and wondered why someone wasn’t doing anything about it. From the WaPo:

“I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge. I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”

Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi, who are definitely not fans of each other. Photo by EVAN VUCCI/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

We already reported that we find Stephanie Grisham’s description of Trump during the attack more consistent with what we know of him and have heard in other reports: “He was in the dining room gleefully watching on his TV as he often did, [saying] ‘Look at all the people fighting for me,’ hitting rewind, watching it again, that’s all that I know.”

George Conway has surely read Grisham’s account and many other reports from others regarding what Trump did that day. Conway, though, had a unique and entertaining means of both calling out Trump’s dereliction of duty while also calling bullsh*t on Trump’s belief that it was Pelosi’s job to stop anything. Conway first cited the Constitution:

“The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America…. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.”

Conway then smacked Trump with Trump’s own nuanced and studied view of the Constitution: “I have Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”

George Conway and wife Kellyanne arrive for a dinner at Union Station in Washington the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration. (Matt Rourke/AP)

As we have come to expect, extremely well done, sir. Very well done.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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