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Politics
Lucian K. Truscott IV

Liz Cheney's smug Republican con job

Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 22, 2019. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

You don't even have to look for the tell. It's right there in the first thing they say after they  "cooperate" with the Jan. 6 Committee: The Republican functionary witnesses sit there looking smug and self-satisfied as they tell what they know about what Trump did and the puny shit they did to try to stop him, and when they're finished they've been told they can smile and say, "but just look at his accomplishments."

That creation stamped out of a prep-mold in a suit and tie sitting at the witness stand on Thursday night with the last name Pottinger was a perfect example of the con job they're trying to run. Why, I was so horrified by what I saw when I got finished with my off-site meeting with India's ambassador to the United States that I resigned! 

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