Mod: Joe Biden makes a strong case for the parallels between Ted Cruz and Hitler's infamous Minister of Propaganda. Some of the acolytes of Mr. Cruz are not very happy about this, but when you consider what Ted and his buddy Josh Hawley have done to this country these last few months, does that matter?
Joe Biden likens Ted Cruz to Nazi propagandist Goebbels for helping Trump spread ‘big lie’ about election fraud (
The Dallas Morning Newslink): In extraordinarily sharp remarks Friday,
President-elect Joe Biden compared
Sen. Ted Cruz to
Hitler’s propaganda master in the way he peddled
Donald Trump’s “big lie” about election fraud, though
Biden stopped short of blaming
Cruz for the riot by a
pro-Trump mob at the
Capitol as many
Democrats have done.
Biden called
Cruz’s effort “shameful.”
The Texas Republican led an attempt in the Senate to block congressional certification of Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, insisting that widespread doubts about the legitimacy of the election demanded an emergency investigation to allay public concerns. Wednesday’s riot, which left one Capitol Police officer and four other people dead, delayed the formal count of the electoral votes.
Biden invoked
Joseph Goebbels, the
Nazi propagandist, recalling his exaggeration of civilian deaths in the firebombing of
Dresden, repeated by newspapers around the world.
Goebbels maintained that the bigger the lie, and the more it was repeated, the more likely that it would be believed.
Biden noted that Cruz, like Trump, had spent weeks questioning the legality and accuracy of balloting in a half dozen states, despite an utter lack of evidence.
Asked if
Cruz or
Sen. Josh Hawley of
Missouri, who also led objections that delayed the vote certification, should resign,
Biden said: “They should be just flat beaten the next time they run. The
American public has a real good, clear look at who they are,” he told reporters in
Wilmington,
Del. “They’re part of the big lie. The big lie.”
Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment, source says (
CNNlink):
Vice President Mike Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the
25th Amendment and wants to preserve the option in case
President Donald Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the vice president says.
The source said there is some concern inside Pence's team that there are risks to invoking the 25th Amendment or even to an impeachment process, as Trump could take some sort of rash action putting the nation at risk. As of Saturday evening, Trump and Pence still have not spoken since the Wednesday incursion at the US Capitol that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer, another source told CNN.
Trump has also not made any public comments denouncing death threats that have been posted on social media targeting
Pence.
Mike Pence has finally "gotten a glimpse of POTUS's vindictiveness," one source said, using the acronym for President of the United States. Two sources familiar with the matter say Trump is angry at Pence and Pence is disappointed and saddened by Trump.
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