During Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry coverage on NBC, “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd called the Republican members’ defense of President Donald Trump was “prioritized loyalty to a person.”
Todd said, “If we were all accepting the rules of the road as they are, we are living in a moment where we have a part of one of our major political parties that is just not accepting the premise, is just not accepting facts that are facts, is just prioritized loyalty to a person, even more so loyalty to a party, let alone loyalty to a country.”
He added, “I always think that it’s interesting that some of the criticism on some of the right is it’s too loyal to a party. It’s loyal to a single individual, which is what makes this head-scratching, which is why you always hear all of these comments—well, boy, behind closed doors, so-and-so says ‘x,’ because even they themselves are uncomfortable with how loyal to an individual. But this goes to the president’s ability to talk over this. I love how the White House claims today the president stopped paying attention. He’s tweeting like a tweet every 10 minutes.”
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