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Raw Story: 'This is sickening!' Trump hammered over J6 comments at secretive Mar-a-Lago celebration [View all]
Raw Story - 'This is sickening!' Trump hammered over J6 comments at secretive Mar-a-Lago celebration
Tom Boggioni
January 5, 2025 8:58AM ET
The entire panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend" reacted with disgust on Sunday over a report that Donald Trump held a secretive ceremony at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night where he celebrated the work done by one of the lawyers who tried to get the 2020 election overturned.
On Sunday morning Vaughan Hilyard of NBC News reported that the celebration was not advertised in advance and the press was excluded, but comments Trump made were leaked where he praised attorney John Eastman as film clips were shown documenting his attempts to get former Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the 2020 election.
During the evening, Trump told the gathering, "I'm a big fan of John Eastman. Y'know, he was right. He happened to be right. That's why they changed the law and nobody wants to talk about that...They said he's not allowed to do it, he's not allowed to do it, and they convinced him he's not allowed to do it –– our vice president –– then right after the election they changed the law so he can't do it."
"What was the sense in this room, what was the purpose of this gathering, is it just an in-your-face-moment or just a tale of things to come?" co-host Michael Steele asked.
"Right, let's be very clear," Hilyard replied. "There's no coincidence that this event in which he welcomed not only John Eastman, but Michael Flynn, and Jeffrey Clark, the man that urged the DOJ to put off all statements about the 2020 election, and they were up onstage, Rudy Giuliani was up onstage, and Peter Navarro, who spent time in prison for not complying with the subpoena from the January 6th committee, and they were watching a film that was a documentary about John Eastman."
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Tom Boggioni
January 5, 2025 8:58AM ET
The entire panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend" reacted with disgust on Sunday over a report that Donald Trump held a secretive ceremony at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night where he celebrated the work done by one of the lawyers who tried to get the 2020 election overturned.
On Sunday morning Vaughan Hilyard of NBC News reported that the celebration was not advertised in advance and the press was excluded, but comments Trump made were leaked where he praised attorney John Eastman as film clips were shown documenting his attempts to get former Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the 2020 election.
During the evening, Trump told the gathering, "I'm a big fan of John Eastman. Y'know, he was right. He happened to be right. That's why they changed the law and nobody wants to talk about that...They said he's not allowed to do it, he's not allowed to do it, and they convinced him he's not allowed to do it –– our vice president –– then right after the election they changed the law so he can't do it."
"What was the sense in this room, what was the purpose of this gathering, is it just an in-your-face-moment or just a tale of things to come?" co-host Michael Steele asked.
"Right, let's be very clear," Hilyard replied. "There's no coincidence that this event in which he welcomed not only John Eastman, but Michael Flynn, and Jeffrey Clark, the man that urged the DOJ to put off all statements about the 2020 election, and they were up onstage, Rudy Giuliani was up onstage, and Peter Navarro, who spent time in prison for not complying with the subpoena from the January 6th committee, and they were watching a film that was a documentary about John Eastman."
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