Aaron Rupar

It is the Matt McNeil Show.

So Aaron Rupar, our good friend, Roops with the Scoops, he has a post out.

Now, I'll get to the content of the post, but the visual from this post is a video call, like a Zoom call, with nine boxes, which looks like, I think the youngest person in here is like 87, and then there's Lindell.

And Lindell is talking, and I'll get to what Lindell is talking about, but the guy above Lindell in the box, in the Jan section above Cindy, is eating and he's like zoomed in on his mouth as he's chewing food the entire time.

Um, I'm not gonna read what Trump wrote.

I'm gonna read what Aaron Rupar wrote.

"Beyond parody," and then he quotes Trump, "At the strong req- strong request of the United States military and for national security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War era many years ago at the receptive circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade military complex to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus snipers on both the roof and plaza areas." And I want to point out that, um, uh, veterans groups are suing, and they are speaking out against this.

He is trying to prime the public to get used to having a militarized state.

You know, Sean Hannity will give the softball interviews to the people that he wants to give the softball interviews to, and for the people that he doesn't, well, it kinda turns out like this, where he is kind of grilling her on her record and the fact that she has referred her- to herself as an attorney over time, and now is trying to pretend that the posts on Twitter were not hers, or she wasn't endorsing that label for her, despite her amplifying those posts on social media.

They got into it further about this lawyer label, and Hannity saying, like, uh, Aaron Rupar kind of describes it accurately, moving in for the kill.

Why not just say, "I went to law school and took a different career path"? Why did you do this whole, like, I'm an attorney thing, pretending to be a lawyer when you're actually not?

Um, and I've known a lot of press secretaries over the years, and following on the heels of Caroline Leavitt is very tough.

PBS did not get out pen and paper and say, "Let's look at this and diagram the sentence, shall we?" As some others did.

I got into knock-down, drag-out fights with other journalists on Twitter over this, because I was like, "How dare you talk down to me, Aaron Rupar, or anybody else who clipped this, and claim that we took it out of context? Because we absolutely did not." That is what the man said, and I am not gonna go through and show in print form, which the speech was never intended to be consumed.

It was a live speech shown to millions of people, potentially.

I don't know how many people were watching it, but potentially millions of people saw that clip, and they're not gonna get out a pen and paper and write it down and go, "Oh, I guess when he said it's a small price to pay, he was talking about oil." Because he said it here, and I'm supposed to give this man the benefit of the doubt, this man who called for people to go past metal detectors on January 6th with weapons to kill people.

It's just not...

I have better things to do with my time.

But when people were coming at, especially Aaron Rupar, I was getting very mad about that.

I was getting very mad about that, 'cause I don't think Aaron did anything wrong.

Yes.

I think that's Aaron Rupar-

He's a sweet guy

... is in charge of that, for sure.