Breaking!!! The GOP is Weaponizing QAnon + A Conversation With Kurt Eichenwald
THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The GOP has unleashed a terrifying new plot to harness the collective voting power of millions of QAnon adherents and sympathizers in their quest to retake the Congressional majority in this year’s midterm elections. By doing so they have purposely unleashed a dangerous, uncontrollable virus into American politics. We talk with former New York Times investigative reporter and bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald about what it all means.
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| 0:52.0 | This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayacolpa podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Get ready, folks. |
| 0:58.0 | QAnon is on the march. |
| 1:00.0 | Watchers of Justice, Katangi Brown, Jackson's contentious confirmation hearings may have noticed the GOP's pension for pedophilia-related questions. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not that they give a shit about child welfare. |
| 1:13.0 | No, sir. It was the loudest of dog whistles being blown from Mr. Insurrection himself, Josh fucking holy. |
| 1:21.0 | He was followed by a who's who of GOP senators who fell in line and seemed to relish the opportunity to smear the good name of Justice Jackson to score political points and rye up their base of crazies. |
| 1:35.0 | I think we just have a basic question to ask. |
| 1:37.0 | Are we going to get a judge here who's going to protect children or who's going to protect child predators? |
| 1:41.0 | It's a simple question. It's one I think that every parent in America would like answered. |
| 1:46.0 | But it's one that the White House doesn't want to answer. And so far, Judge Jackson doesn't want to answer it. |
| 1:51.0 | Total radio silence from her. And if you look at her record, which you see is this is someone who has consistently let sex predators, child sex predators, off the hook. |
| 2:00.0 | If you're wondering why Republican senators sounded like QAnon obsesses in the confirmation hearing for Judge Katangi Brown, Jackson, it is because apparently that is exactly the constituency they are catering to. |
| 2:11.0 | That is why apparently they spent the past few days attacking her first supposedly being soft on criminals convicted of possessing child abuse material, even after that particular smear was widely debunked. |
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