Today, we're going to talk about a major misstep by Josh Hawley and his attempt to save

face after helping incite an insurrection.

Why Twitter was absolutely right to ban Trump, and my interview with the lawyer who beat

Trump and his allies in more than 60 court cases, Mark Elias, where we talk about whether

the insurrectionists can be charged with sedition, whether Trump could pardon himself, and

much more.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So here's where we're at, before the insurrection, a bunch of power-hungry Republicans thought

that repeating the lie that the election was stolen from Trump would be a good launching

pattern to their own presidential runs.

And so Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley became the faces of this disinformation campaign in the

Senate, and they validated Trump's big lie only to watch that lie then paved the way

for an insurrection at the Capitol.

It was not well received.

Trump and the Republican Party's approval ratings plummeted with Trump now standing at an

all-time low of 29% approval as he's leaving office.

There are calls for Hawley and Cruz to resign from the Senate, which they won't, along

with calls for them to be expelled.

So clearly, a major miscalculation from some Republicans who were banking on sedition

being their key to power.

But now, rather than admit fault because, let's be honest, we'd be more likely to watch

the Sun and vell up the solar system, Hawley penned an op-ed in the Columbia Daily Tribune,

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