Parsing today’s dramatic Jan. 6 testimony, Fox News commentator Martha MacCallum remarked (story here),
“I’m not sure that it really shocks anybody that the president, just knowing what we’ve seen, observing him over the years if he got angry, that he might throw his lunch.”
While it’s a “very dramatic detail,” she said, “I’m not sure that any of this is wholly out of character with the Donald Trump and President Trump that people came to know over the years.”
It sure looks like she’s admitting her network knowingly supported someone who throws food at walls. But here’s the real kicker:
“And there’s a lot of people out there who obviously share his feelings of frustration over the course of those days. The problem was that they couldn’t back it up with anything in the courts and they couldn’t back it up with evidence they produced,” she added. “That obviously was probably a source of deep frustration as well. Things were clearly not going his way.”
They couldn’t back it up because it didn’t happen. Things didn’t go his way on election day, and that should’ve been the end of the story, but it wasn’t. The squalid details of what he and his supporters did next are the story. His frustration looked like this (click on image to activate tantrum),
and his supporters’ frustration looked like this,
and if MacCallum is arguing that losing an election justifies that, and it certainly appears she is, nobody should take her or her network seriously. When put in context, her talk of “frustration” is nothing more than spoiled-brat nonsense.