The last presidential election, President Trump and many of his closest allies still are not over his loss in 2020,

and they continue to peddle lies about a stolen election.

The New York Times reports Trump has empowered election deniers by placing them in high-level official administration jobs.

The nightcap is still here.

What could the midterms look like with actual election deniers in serious jobs?

So, look, I mean, going to the way the administration staffed up during the transition,

and even if you want to go back before that, who ended up on the Trump campaign,

who got the plush jobs with the PACs.

In this case, being pro-January 6th and the election denier helps you on the resume, doesn't hurt you.

And that's what they are selecting for and filtering against when they have all these, you know, personnel fights.

So, look, I think that this is the key thing to understanding

who survived with Trump, but also if you look at who gained power between 2021 and like

2023, it's the folks who are the most willing to take that on the chin when it was the least

popular. Okay, but Fox and other outlets were sued for spreading falsehoods about voting machines, ringing ballots in 2020.

They had to pay an enormous amount of money.

New reporting tonight on how Donald Trump and his enablers are hijacking the machinery of democracy

to enact his retribution campaign.

Reuters has uncovered a wide-ranging group of Trump lackeys, whose main purpose is to weed out the mythical deep state from within the federal government.

It would be laughable if it were not true that this was actually happening.

The so-called weaponization working group includes resources from the White House and at least eight other agencies, including the IRS, CIA, and the Defense Department.

And as former and current officials face increasing danger from the president and his

administration, his outspoken critics are starting to wonder, will I be next?

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