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Last night’s Pelosi Show was a prime waste of time. It was also a primetime attack on our constitutional Republic. It was, as one conservative columnist put it, “un-American.”

It was nearly two hours of primetime political ads, paid for at taxpayer expense. Joe Biden should have been forced to appear at the end, saying, “I’m Joe Biden, and I approve this message. And, by the way, you paid for it.” They even brought in a network TV executive to produce this Nazi/Soviet-style propaganda film.

Here’s more evidence that this is not a legitimate hearing with any legitimate legislative purpose.

The committee cherry picked President Trump’s words from a Fox News interview describing the massive crowd that gathered to hear him speak that day. They juxtaposed the president’s words about the “good people” and “love in the air” over images of the small fraction of people who entered the Capitol.

Other witnesses are also accusing the committee of selectively editing their testimony. No court in America would allow such outrageous distortions to be admitted as evidence. That’s disgusting. But that’s what propagandists do. 

This is exactly what the left did with the “very fine people” hoax. They took Trump’s words totally out of context to suggest he was praising neo-Nazis when in fact he condemned them. 

This whole thing is a massive disinformation campaign. As law professor Alan Dershowitz, a self-described liberal and Biden voter, put it:

"This is a kangaroo court. This is a fixed jury. This is a group of people who are selected with a predetermined narrative. . . So nobody should take [it] seriously.”

It’s too early to tell whether this moved the needle in any meaningful way. And multiple Republicans are forcefully pushing back. (Here, here, and here.)