The superpower of Trumpism is the shameless lying. The weakness that they use is the press's inability to ask a meaningful follow-up question. For Trump, you'd have to have someone in your ear saying something like, "Mister President, you just said that 46% of Somalia-Americans are child rapists, when in fact there were only three Somali-Americans arrested for statutory rape over the past four years."
When it comes to the Clown Caucus, the big dodge is "I haven't seen/heard that" when asked about the latest Trump outrage. Mike Johnson apparently lives in a hermetically sealed chamber 23 hours a day, only venturing forth to say how hard he's been working and that he can't possibly be expected to know what the President of the United States and leader of his party has said or done.
If you have some bobble throated slapdick like Tom Cotton on your show, and you ask him about killing people without due process, and he says he knows nothing about that, then show him the clips of Hegseth bragging about it.
The utility of bothsides never was good journalism, and I understand that it can inoculate you against some of the more vengeful actions from Trump's DOJ and Commerce department, but there's no reason to allow lies and evasions to keep happening.
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