Trump and Republicans made a huge miscalculation about the no-kings protest, and now they're paying the price.

And I interview Senator Adam Schiff, representatives Daniel Goldman and Robert Garcia, and national security expert Ned Price.

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

Trump and Republicans have spent the last week leading up to Saturday trying to rebrand this No King's protest as the hate America rally, right?

Where a bunch of violent leftists and domestic terrorists would wreak havoc on our cities and on our country.

In fact, I myself was especially concerned that given the already hot rhetoric about no kings, that that was already

half the battle in terms of giving Trump his justification to be able to send more troops into

American cities or even invoke the insurrection act. In all, the GOP spent the entire week

spoon-feeding their supporters some really big talk about the danger that was about to take

place at the hands of the left. So I'm recording

this on Saturday night in the immediate aftermath of the protest. I was downtown L.A.

There was virtually zero violence anywhere in this country, despite a staggering 7 million

people coming out and taking to the streets in what ultimately amounted to the biggest

single-day protest in

American history. The NYPD released a statement saying there were zero arrests. Again, I spent the

entire day at the biggest L.A. protest. There wasn't a single bout of violence. I believe one

rally goer in Ohio was hit by a car and broke her leg, but even in that case, it wasn't an instance

of anyone on the left committing violence,

which means that Trump and Republicans are left looking really stupid for an entire week,

fearmongering to their base about the imminent danger that would be caused by this rally.

So why is this important? Because it puts on full display the completely baseless nature

of these claims being put forward by Republicans.

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