Day 1,039: GOP talking points defending Trump and themselves are nonsensical and incoherent

With news shows booking guests for Sunday lineups, that meant some typically ridiculous arguments and defenses from Republicans. This week, however, they seem to hit a new level of incoherence and absurdity.

One Republican decided to grant Donald Trump a special exemption from liability for corruption based on the way he speaks.

Two senators repeated Russian propaganda — in the face of U.S. intelligence and the Senate— to deny that Moscow definitely influenced the 2016 election and hacked Democrats.

And another, perhaps the most overmatched person in the House, implicated in a scandal of his own where he attempted to smear the Biden family, couldn’t answer a simple yes-no question from Fox News as to his whereabouts in late 2018. His excuse echoed the same as Trump and Republicans love to use when they’re caught with their pants down: blaming the medias as being “totally corrupt.”

Trump is not, and has never been, the root cause of Republican lunacy; he’s a mere symptom of it. However, by blindly defending him at all costs, the GOP enables Trump’s worst tendencies, casts doubt on U.S. intelligence and embarrasses itself at every turn.

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