'Stop the Steal' flag at Supreme Court Justice Alito's home raises concerns
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🗓️ 19 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The lie that President Biden stole the 2020 presidential election, which led to the violent January 6th insurrection, is alive and well. |
| 0:09.0 | A CBS investigation found that there are nearly 80 officials overseeing elections |
| 0:14.5 | across seven battleground states who don't believe the 2020 election results |
| 0:19.4 | or supported the actions of January 6th. On the campaign trail Saturday |
| 0:24.0 | former President Donald Trump again lied about his 2020 defeat. |
| 0:28.0 | But they want to rig that just like they rigged the presidential election of 2020. They want to rig it. |
| 0:35.0 | And we also learned this week that a symbol of the Stop the Steel Movement |
| 0:39.2 | reached the highest court in the land. The New York Times reported that in January of 2021 an upside-down |
| 0:45.6 | American flag an emblem now widely associated with the lie of a stolen |
| 0:50.3 | 2020 election was flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel |
| 0:54.8 | Alito. I spoke with Jody Cantor, the New York Times reporter who broke the |
| 0:58.7 | story earlier today. We discussed the implications of such a symbol flying at Alito's home 11 days after rioters stormed the capital. |
| 1:07.5 | You know, I kind of want to start with the neighbors and what they saw. |
| 1:11.5 | They're walking down the street during this very fraught period, as you say right |
| 1:16.3 | after January 6th, but also critically it's three days before President Biden's inauguration, |
| 1:23.4 | and they see this upside down flag hanging outside the Alito home. |
| 1:27.9 | At this point, that flag had really |
| 1:30.4 | become a symbol of the Stop the Steel campaign. |
| 1:34.3 | And neighbors are just having a kind of what the heck |
| 1:37.6 | reaction, because first of all, these are Washington, |
| 1:41.0 | D.C. area people. |
| 1:42.2 | They know that federal judges are never supposed to make |
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