No, Bill Stepien, You Weren't On "Team Normal." You Were On "Team Coup."

[Nevilledog]

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Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
“Stepien had the opportunity to do what Cheney did. He could’ve lived up to his obligations, and demonstrated that he was honest…But he chose not to. He chose Team Coup. He should get no credit for the lack of fervency with which he defended his team…”

thebulwark.com
No, Bill Stepien, You Weren’t On “Team Normal.” You Were On “Team Coup.”
Donald Trump’s campaign manager is convinced he was one of the normal ones. Day two of the January 6th Committee’s public hearings focused on demonstrating that Trump and his inner circle knew that...
10:44 AM · Jun 13, 2022

https://www.thebulwark.com/no-bill-stepien-you-werent-on-team-normal-you-were-on-team-coup/

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Bill Stepien spent 5 years watching Donald Trump’s cruelty, pathological duplicity, irrationality, narcissistic personality disorder, buffoonery, and criminality. After that half-decade of evidence, this “professional” decided to accept a role as the campaign manager for Trump’s flagging re-election campaign.

And he didn’t just take some arm’s length consultancy providing powerpoint decks from the comfort of a Cape May beach house. He chose to sit in the big-boy chair as the man-child responsible for getting Trump four more years in power.

When he made that decision, at some level he knew—because we all knew, because Trump told us—that were his boss to lose, he wouldn’t go quietly into the night. He knew that Trump would go all manner of lengths to keep his grip on power, democracy be damned.

And yet on election night 2020, as this fate was coming to pass, Bill Stepien testified that he advised the president to give a measured statement about how it’s “too early to tell.” He wanted Trump to be dignified about how the team was “proud of the race we ran” and close by offering that he would have “more to say” after the votes came in.

LOLOLOL

Are you shitting me, Bill?

You thought Donald J. Trump was going to be gracious?

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[Flo Mingo]

1. The attempt to whitewash

the reputation of the rat fuckers is going to be nauseating.

[Mz Pip]

2. He's working for Cheney's opponent

Who’s running on the fraud nonsense.

He can go fuck himself.

[Bev54]

3. +1

[EleanorR]

4. It was the trump campaign that sent out the grifting fundraising emails

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There is no team normal. Barr, Stepien, Christie (Stepien worked for him during Bridgegate). They're all just playing both sides of the fence to keep republicans in power by any means necessary.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Denial

is not just a river in Egypt