Unhinged: Trump goes ballistic in New Year's Eve meltdown - Brian Tyler Cohen

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Trump rages against Colorado in New Years Eve rant.

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BTC: Yesterday, Trump used his first veto of his second term to deprive rural Coloradoans of a pipeline project bringing clean drinking water to 39 communities on Colorado's eastern plains. Importantly, the bill was introduced by Lauren Boebert, a MAGA Republican, and passed through Congress with unanimous support. I covered this yesterday and noted two reasons that Donald Trump might have been retaliating against that state.

First, Lauren Boebert was one of only four Republicans to sign on to the Epstein discharge petition in the House, which of course enabled the full House vote that would ultimately lead to the law's passage. And even when the White House summoned her into the Situation Room to pressure her to take her name off the discharge petition, she didn't bend. Boebert is, of course, from Colorado.

Another reason, he's also been seething at the state's leaders for keeping his ally Tina Peters, convicted on charges related to tampering with voting systems after the 2020 election in prison. Why? Because she was convicted on state charges, which means she goes to state prison, but Trump wanted her transferred to federal prison so that he could pardon her because remember the law doesn't exist for Republicans.

Well, today, New Year's Eve, we got an update from Donald Trump that might shine a spotlight on this retaliation. He wrote (Truth Social post displayed),

"God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73 and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her state (where people are leaving in record numbers!). Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor and the disgusting ‘Republican’ (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail in Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!), I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETERS!”

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BTC: Now, I'm gonna offer some free advice. If you're 73 and sick, as Donald Trump says, which by the way is a lie. Tina Peters is 70, but I guess that didn't sound good enough to Trump to try to curry sympathy, then maybe, just maybe, do not try and undermine a free and fair election. It's not hard. If you want to stay out of prison, follow the law. Isn't that supposed to be a Republican principle? Isn't that what we keep hearing from the law and order crowd? So, I'm sorry if I don't have sympathy for Tina Peters, 73 and sick in prison, but frankly, being old is not license to break the law and to undermine a free and fair election. And what's especially disgusting was this response by Lauren Boebert.

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Lauren Boebert: You look at other things like Tina Peters or even the sanctuary policies in Colorado. Um, certainly I I think there are some things where there should be accountability held. Um, especially when you look at the sanctuary measures in Denver and other places um especially Denver where they've doubled down on sanctuary policies. But we're talking about southeast Colorado who's overwhelmingly voted for President Trump in the last three elections and these are not the people that should be attacked. We've lost Space Command. uh you know if if if he wants to go after Boulder and some client activists with with some uh w with some of our our weather systems there. Sure. Um we can reduce the size. Um but uh this is again non-controversial. This is providing access to clean water.

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BTC: Oh, so she's perfectly fine with Trump attacking the state just not those Coloradoans who voted for Trump. Those are the people who don't deserve this. Everybody else in Colorado who didn't vote for Trump, those people, right? But the Trump voters, they deserve the world. They deserve clean drinking water, even if their lib neighbors don't get anything. I guess by Lauren Boebert's logic, if there's a Democratic president, that person should not only be allowed to deprive drinking water to Republican voters in her state, but in fact encouraged to deprive drinking water to Republican voters in her state. And I'm sure that she will just sit there quietly and reiterate her support for the same spoil system that she's advocating for right now. Which is especially ironic considering just yesterday Boebert wrote, (sequence of social media posts displayed),

"President Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Why? Because nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado, many of whom enthusiastically voted for him in all three elections.”

I must have missed the rally where he stood in Colorado and promised to personally derail critical water infrastructure projects. My bad. I thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.

But hey, if this administration wants to make its legacy blocking projects that deliver water to rural Americans; that's on them.

I'm going to continue fighting for Colorado and standing up for our rural communities, our farmers, and every family that deserves safe, reliable drinking water without decades more delay.

And I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability. Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics.

This is NOT the last Southeast Colorado will hear from me on this critical infrastructure project.”

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BTC: Notice where she says, "I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability?” And yet, now that it looks like that's exactly what Trump is doing on behalf of Tina Peters, suddenly her righteousness is replaced by a bunch of whining that Trump should screw over everyone else, just not his own precious voters. Truly some storming the beaches of Normandy level courage by Lauren Boebert.

And yet, if you're wondering why Trump would screw over his own voters, it's simple. Loyalty only works one way with him. Just ask Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Gordon Sondland, Rex Tillerson, Ronna McDaniel, Mike Pence, Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Pompeo, Reince Priebus, Christopher Wray, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert.

There is a message here to the rest of the GOP, both Republican elected officials and Republican voters: You are not special. You will be discarded. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when. The faster you learn that, the more likelihood there is that you might retain just a shred of your dignity. All of which is a point that Marc Elias made here.

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Marc Elias: You're right. We have seen this over and over again in that loyalty is only a one-way street. Donald Trump does not have loyalty to anyone. He is only loyal to himself and yet he demands complete loyalty from others.

What is more mind-boggling than that, Brian, is why one after another none of these people figure it out until it happens to them? You would think that right now there'd be a bunch of Republicans in Congress looking at what happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene and being like that could be me. And by the way, she could have looked to what happened to Liz Cheney and said, "That could be me." Right? And we could go back and go back and go back that right.

BTC: Liz Cheney could look at Ronna McDaniel. Ronna McDaniel could look at Michael Cohen like just Michael Cohen could look at Roy Cohn. I mean it just it's a never-ending cycle of people Donald Trump. It's just this this trail of of of discarded people in in his wake.

Marc Elias: It is and the it is that fact that they are so willing to compromise themselves and to surrender their dignity and surrender their self-worth in order to try to be in his good graces knowing knowing full well that their time may come and that their time may come over something like this that they can't even have imagined possible. I mean, I can't believe that Lauren Boebert when she introduced this bill and Mike Johnson said, "We'll put it on the floor." And Hakeem Jeffrioes, you know, says, "Great, all the Democrats are going to support it." Right? Like, this bill is now sailing through the House on the way to the Senate. And then the Senate, it sails its way out there.

She couldn't possibly have thought that this was going to be the thing that would bite her, that this would be the place where he would draw the line. And yet for the rest of us, it's completely under it's completely predictable this was what was going to happen because this is how he operates. It is always going to be the thing that is the most petty, the thing that is the most disgraceful, the thing that shows the least human decency that Donald Trump will do. Like you can always count on him doing the worst thing possible at the worst time to the people with in greatest need.

(cut to studio)
BTC: So, look, I hope the people of Colorado can see what's happening here, especially those folks who voted for Trump or who live in the four Republican districts. Donald Trump is depriving you of clean water. Clean water. Because he's salty that he thinks that the people who helped him try and overturn a free and fair election should face no accountability for their crimes. And he wants to issue pardons that he has no authority to issue. He thinks he's a king in power to punish and seek vengeance. Not to deliver for his voters or for the American people he represents, but rather to impose his edicts, his will, and to crush any dissent or opposition. And the rest of the GOP allows it. That's what you get with Republican governance.

Colorado is impacted here, but this is a lesson for the rest of the country. When you vote for Republicans, this is what you're voting for. Something to remember as we head toward midterms.