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Trump inadvertently proved the argument of the January 6 committee: He doesn't actually believe his own conspiracy theories. At least, that is, until early Tuesday morning, when Trump unleashed one of those lengthy social media rants that became so normalized prior to his Twitter ban. Still, the question of whether Trump is a liar or merely delusional when it comes to the conspiracy theories he touts continues to linger. He is not an impressionable child." She reiterated that there was overwhelming evidence that advisors repeatedly told Trump he had lost the 2020 election and there is no way he can reasonably be believed to be confused. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., dismissed this defense in her opening statement: "President Trump is a 76-year-old man. Setting aside the question of whether it's wise to support the presidential aspirations of someone so deluded, the members of the January 6 committee rejected the "too stupid to know better" defense.

The idea is that they could claim Trump's innocence by framing him as befuddled enough to sincerely believe he was defending, instead of trying to overthrow, democracy. Yes, they were defending him by arguing he's delusional. Eventually, Trump defenders landed on the "too stupid to know better" defense, arguing that Trump just really believes the Big Lie. Trump, his defenders argued, somehow didn't know what the rioters were going to do and the siege was organized without his knowledge, etc. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., blaming the Capitol insurrection on "antifa" or Fox News host Tucker Carlson blaming imaginary FBI instigators, but they also dismantled some of the more robust, though still unlikely, defenses. They dispelled not just the sillier claims, such as Rep. The committee then sliced through them all. He’s an Arab,” she said, echoing a false assertion that has crept into some right-wing Internet blogs.Over the course of the January 6 committee hearings earlier this summer, Donald Trump defenders churned through a number of defenses, each less plausible than the last. While a number of questioners expressed concerns about Obama, one woman went further. I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments,” McCain said. McCain, 72, made clear the shift in his approach during a rally in Lakeville, Minnesota, when supporters frustrated by his drop in the polls urged him to be a fighter at the next debate with Obama. Palin “acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan,” a campaign statement said. The McCain-Palin campaign dismissed the report, saying it was a “partisan-led inquiry run by Obama supporters,” and Palin and her family had been justified to be concerned about the behavior of the trooper. The scandal gained national attention after Palin, 44, who was little known outside of Alaska and has virtually no national or international experience, was selected to be McCain’s running mate in August. The investigation was commissioned in July by Alaska’s Legislative Council composed of 10 Republican lawmakers and four Democrats. “Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired,” the report said. The inquiry found that while it was within the governor’s authority to dismiss Monegan, Palin violated the public trust by pressuring those who worked for her in a way that advanced her personal wishes.

The Alaska inquiry centered on whether Palin’s dismissal of the state’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, was linked to her personal feud with a state trooper who was involved in a contentious divorce with the governor’s sister. Supporters appeared surprised by his conciliatory approach, booing at a Minneapolis rally when he told a skeptical backer that Obama was a “decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared (of) as president of the United States.”