On Tuesday, MSNBC's The 11th Hour hosted ex-Republican George Conway who ridiculed religious people for believing that “God saved Trump” from being killed during the assassination attempt on Saturday. Conway went on to fret that the Republican party will “follow Donald Trump over any cliff and take the country” with them.
The segment began with Conway describing the Republican National Convention as an event that “George Orwell could not have scripted better.” The second night of the RNC to Conway was “basically everything standing on its head.”
Further, Conway went on to bash people of religion who have “nominated a 34 time convicted felon” yet still believe in all this “religious stuff” like God saving Trump from being killed Saturday night:
CONWAY: Right and nominating a 34 time convicted felon and then we are the party, you know, all the religious stuff. It’s like ‘God saved Donald Trump’ – and you know let's not worry about the kids at these school shootings or whatever but he’s -- this is man of God? I mean, what are we even talking about here?
But Conway was far from done as he continued “This is a man who sacrificed everything for his country? What are we even talking about? He is not capable of sacrifice. He's not capable of considering anybody other than himself and they’re treating him like ‘oh he’s done everything for us.’”
Stephanie Ruhle interjected “Do you think Nikki Haley is his little Bo Peep?” Conway responded, “She goes to the first – I don’t know -- five, six, seven how many months of her campaign and will not criticize Donald Trump and raises her hand when they ask her are you gonna, you know, are you gonna support a convicted felon?”
However, Conway was confused how Haley could go from “spend[ing] three or four weeks trashing the hell out of him including questioning his mental capacity, questioning everything about him” to now openly supporting the former president.
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Conway did admit that Haley “made some very good points about the budget deficit” under Trump's administration and about national security. Ruhle, unsurprisingly, added that this budget deficit “will only balloon even more if they extend the corporate tax cuts and lower the rate to 15 percent.”
Still on fire to bash Trump, Conway concluded “It’s all just – it’s all just bizarro and it is just stuff that doesn’t fit with each other it – I don’t even know what this party stands for other than we will follow Donald Trump over any cliff and take the country with us.”
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MSNBC The 11th Hour
7/16/2024
11:33:55 – 11:35:56 PM
GEORGE CONWAY (THE ATLANTIC CONTRIBUTING WRITER): We were just talking about that in the green room and I said Orwell could not have scripted this better. George Orwell could not have scripted it better. I mean, it’s just basically everything standing on its head. “We are the party” we heard somebody – who was saying that tonight? “We are the party of the rule of law” – oh, it was Speaker Johnson.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Yeah.
CONWAY: Right and nominating a 34 time convicted felon. And then we are the party, you know, all the religious stuff. It’s like "God saved Donald Trump" – and you know, let's not worry about the kids at these school shootings or whatever but he’s -- this is [a] man of God? I mean, what are we even talking about here? This is a man who sacrificed everything for his country? What are we even talking about? He is not capable of sacrifice. He's not capable of considering anybody other than himself, and they’re treating him like “oh he’s done everything for us.” It’s just crazy and then Nikki Haley –
RUHLE: Do you think Nikki Haley is his little Bo Peep?
CONWAY: What? I don’t know but I mean Nikki Haley, you know she’s -- what was she doing? Okay, explain to me. She goes to the first – I don’t know -- five, six, seven how many months of her campaign and will not criticize Donald Trump and raises her hand when they ask her are you gonna, you know, are you gonna support a convicted felon?
Then she goes out and spends three or four weeks trashing the hell out of him including questioning his mental capacity, questioning everything about him and making some very good points about the budget deficit that skyrocketed during – during his administration --
RUHLE: And it will only balloon even more if they extend the corporate tax cuts and lower the rate to 15 percent.
CONWAY: Of course – of course, and then she made some good points about national security about Russia now, you know, this is Make America Safe Again Night and we want to turn Russia over and we want to turn Europe over to the Russians. That’s literally – that’s Trump and that’s Vance. So what are we even talking about here? It’s all just – it’s all just bizarro and it is just stuff that doesn’t fit with each other it – I don’t even know what this party stands for other than we will follow Donald Trump over any cliff and take the country with us.
