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(32,457 posts) Sat Jan 16, 2021, 10:31 PM Jan 2021

'Destroy Trump': Breitbart Staffers Seethe After Capitol Riot [View all]

“This is banana republic shit,” wrote one editor at the staunchly pro-Trump outlet, in response to colleagues downplaying or excusing the violence during last week’s MAGA mob.

Editors and reporters at the staunchly pro-Trump conservative outlet Breitbart News privately clashed over whether President Donald Trump was to blame for last week’s deadly Capitol riot, according to internal messages reviewed by The Daily Beast.

“I am just not feeling charitable AT ALL,” international news editor Frances Martel posted to Slack the morning after the rioting that left five people dead, including a police officer. “Destroy Trump.”

Martel lamented that Trump’s support for the MAGA mob had undone a decade’s worth of conservative politics, leaving the Republican Party “in shambles” and dimming the right-wing movement’s prospects.

“He set us back like 10 years,” Martel wrote. “We have worked so hard to promote our values, values that made him president when he hawked them, and now he does this, leaving everything in shambles? Nah, destroy him. Let it be a lesson to every other ‘populist.’”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/breitbart-staffers-clashed-over-blaming-trump-for-capitol-riot-leaked-chats-show
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'Destroy Trump': Breitbart Staffers Seethe After Capitol Riot [View all] Demovictory9 Jan 2021 OP

The Republican Party is dead. Greybnk48 Jan 2021 #1

+1 sandensea Jan 2021 #16

There will be three parties that crawl out of the shambles Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #43

Very likely. And which one will be the biggest? sandensea Jan 2021 #45

Yep Rebl2 Jan 2021 #19

I wish I agreed Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2021 #25

They're not interested in a liberal democracy anyway, why don't they leave to Russia? uponit7771 Jan 2021 #36

This was posted in 2008 central scrutinizer Jan 2021 #42

Still absorbing Rorey Jan 2021 #2

a few months ago it was "more liberal tears when Trump wins again" , now Dems have WH, House, Senate Demovictory9 Jan 2021 #4

I think Trump helped drive that with his denial of election reality Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2021 #27

I agree. Abrams is a phenom peggysue2 Jan 2021 #46

Still absorbing... Like quilted TP. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2021 #12

Instead of delaying the intevitable paleotn Jan 2021 #20

No they're not, 8 out of 10 Trump supporters don't think he did anything wrong. FAUX News is telling uponit7771 Jan 2021 #37

I should have clarified Rorey Jan 2021 #39

👍 uponit7771 Jan 2021 #40

The GOP has gained nothing in 4 years C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #3

There is one upside to trump dixiegrrrrl Jan 2021 #13

I think he has done more damage to the moonscape Jan 2021 #18

SCOTUS and other judges happened, plus a lot of other things. The party may have taken damage, the GreenPartyVoter Jan 2021 #35

Indeed, the judges. C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #41

Couldn't happen to a better group of liars. Tommymac Jan 2021 #5

Blightfart News should help fracture the GOP Blue Owl Jan 2021 #6

... Dave in VA Jan 2021 #7

those people DO respresent your fucking "conservative values" Skittles Jan 2021 #8

I can't believe they don't/won't see that. Grokenstein Jan 2021 #32

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2021 #38

Those that stick with dotard are looking at 74 million votes. What's amazing to me, why are Thekaspervote Jan 2021 #9

they also ignore that Dems win the national vote but lose the presidency Demovictory9 Jan 2021 #10

It's 59 Million Tops ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #44

Oh this is too good captain queeg Jan 2021 #11

When does Frances Martel ever feel charitable? Kid Berwyn Jan 2021 #14

Yeah, "promote values" Like this? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2021 #15

they are involved demtenjeep Jan 2021 #17

Boo hoo, you sold your souls for a few federal judges. Lasher Jan 2021 #21

What values??? paleotn Jan 2021 #22

My thoughts exactly. What values does he refer to ? Pepsidog Jan 2021 #28

deregulation, hoarding money and subjugation of women SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2021 #23

Heretics are useful only if you can use them to establish an inquisition Klaralven Jan 2021 #24

GOP not dead if we assume we won. rickford66 Jan 2021 #26

If it took a decade to get to the small, squalid place of no values, you have wasted your life. BobTheSubgenius Jan 2021 #29

"We have worked so hard to promote our values..." dchill Jan 2021 #30

They had "values?" I couldn't tell. TeamPooka Jan 2021 #31

Oh you don't get to walk away from this, Breitbart. Initech Jan 2021 #33

I'd forgotten that Bannon was afiliated with Breitbart Demovictory9 Jan 2021 #34

It was a lovely party, but it's over. lindysalsagal Jan 2021 #47