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According to www.statista.com/statistics, there were 168.31 million registered voters in the U.S., last counted in 2020. For last night’s Democrat anti-Trump promotion, Lindsey Ellefson reports @www.thewrap.com, “From 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, Fox News garnered 2.431 million total average viewers, of whom 347,000 were in the demo, for a win across both metrics.

“In second place was MSNBC with 1.639 million total average viewers and an average of 264,000 demo viewers. CNN brought in 834,000 average primetime viewers with only 201,000 in the demo.”

Which means, statistically, less than 3% of voters tuned in to the anti-Trump rally on those 3 channels. Considering the effort, time, and money the left puts into trying to keep the former president from running against them, he must have them scared skinny. However, Democrat efforts don’t seem to matter very much to the voting public, audience size not particularly large.

Unwatched here, foxnews.com reports, “Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said while former President Trump did not call for help from the U.S. government to protect the Capitol, former Vice President Pence did.

“Cheney played audio from the deposition of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who detailed his conversations with Pence on Jan. 6.

"He was very animated and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders--there was no question about that," Milley said. "He was very animated, very direct, very firm."

“Milley said Pence urged then-Defense Secretary Christopher Miller to "get military down here, get the guard down here, put down this situation."

“In contrast, Milley shared his conversation with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

"He said, we have we have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions we need to establish the narrative that, you know, that the president is still in charge and that things are steady or stable," Milley testified, recalling his conversation on Jan. 6, 2021 with Meadows. "That's something I immediately interpret that as politics, politics, politics, red flag for me personally."

“Cheney said "there's no doubt that President Trump was well aware of the violence as it developed."

"White House staff urged President Trump to intervene and call off the mob," Cheney said, presenting a document written while the attack was underway at the Capitol.

“The document was written by a member of the White House staff "advising what the president needed to say."

"Anyone who entered the Capitol without proper authority should leave immediately," the note Cheney presented read. "This is exactly what his supporters on Capitol Hill and nationwide were urging the president to do. He would not."

"You will hear that leaders on Capitol Hill begged the president for help, including Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who was 'scared,' and called multiple members of President Trump's family after he could not persuade the president himself," Cheney said.

"Not only did President Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he placed no call to any element of the United States government to instruct that the Capitol be defended."

Then getting specific, Cheney said Trump “did not call his Secretary of Defense on January 6th. He did not talk to his attorney general. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security."

"President Trump gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day, and he made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and display and deploy law enforcement assets," Cheney said.

And in her specificity regarding those the president “did not call, ”nowhere does she say, “He did not call Mike Pence.” Yet, it would seem quite logical that one leaving the presidency of the United States would be somewhat depressed about the happening and therefore delegated the task of Capitol defense to his Vice President.

In the same vein, Cheney’s premise that Trump’s preference not to place calls himself to protect the Capitol indicates some sort of insurrection, is another attempt to stitch and weave selected language together to prove a point. But in the long run, her efforts don’t likely matter all that much, because politically and audience-wise she’s pretty much talking to herself.

That’s it for today folks.

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