Sen. Roy Blunt Slithers Away And Disgracefully Refuses To Say The Election Wasn’t Stolen

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) was asked if helium agreed connected with Trump that the existent insurrection was connected Election Day, and helium dodged the question.

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ANDREA MITCHELL: Do you hold with Trump that predetermination time was an "insurrection"?

SEN. ROY BLUNT: I deliberation the predetermination was what it was pic.twitter.com/eDgpGY5Q2S

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2021

Blunt was asked by Andrea Mitchell if helium agreed with Trump that the existent insurrection was connected predetermination day, and helium answered, “I deliberation the predetermination was what it was. There’s a process you spell done that determines whether the aboriginal reports were the close reports, and we went done that process.”

Blunt besides urged Trump to speech astir the aboriginal and not the past due to the fact that talking astir the aboriginal helps Republicans more.

Roy Blunt Wouldn’t Admit That Trump Lost.

Roy Blunt had a choice. He could person said that the predetermination was morganatic and the 1/6 onslaught was an insurrection. Instead of telling the truth, helium decided to accidental that the predetermination was what it was, not notation 1/6 astatine all, and suggest that Trump halt talking astir the past.

It was a slimy dodge that reveals however frightened Republicans are to transverse the Big Lie.

Until the Republican Party gains the courageousness to footwear Trump to the curb, they volition stay a menace to democracy. Even the Republicans who don’t afloat clasp the Big Lie are participating successful the onslaught connected democracy.