Former Ohio governor John Kasich, in an interview with CNN anchor Don Lemon, suggested some Trump supporters “are redeemable.”
Kasich (R), who unsuccessfully ran against former President Trump in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, suggested to Lemon that supporters must confess their sins before being welcomed back into the fold.
In other words, confess that the Capitol riots were as bad as the media portrays and the whole event is all Trump’s fault.
“Honestly, Don, what we have to ask ourselves are, who’s redeemable?” he said. “Who we bring over to say this is — this is just wrong. This never happened this way.”
“And we’ve got to figure out how to talk to some of those people and reach them, Don, and get them back.”
“Some of them are redeemable. I can tell you they are. And you know that some of them are, don’t you?” Kasich continued. “You’ve met them. They’ve gone up to you and said, ‘Lemon, you’re right.'”
CNN Contributor, Former Republican Governor John Kasich: “Not all Trump supporters are bad, some of them are redeemable.”
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) January 27, 2021
John Kasich Tells Don Lemon Some Trump Supporters Are Redeemable
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For his part, Lemon wasn’t buying the notion that some Trump supporters are redeemable, as John Kasich suggests.
“How do you reason with unreasonable people?” he asked.
“No matter how many times you show them video of Trump supporters and people – hundreds – 150 or so, or close to it, who have been arrested from the Capitol … that is not living in reality,” Lemon added.
“Why would you even want to reason with those people?”
‘Not living in reality’ is Lemon, who is super-despondent over what happened at the Capitol but denied the reality of leftist-led race riots over the summer.
Lemon had suggested rioters setting cities ablaze in the name of racial justice were comparable to American revolutionaries.
“Our country was started because, the Boston tea party. Rioting,” the CNN flak said as footage of arsons and looting were emerging.
“So do not get it twisted and think this is something that has never happened before and this is so terrible and these savages and all of that,” he continued. “This is how this country was started.”
Was Lemon ever taken to task for inciting violence, for voicing support for the overthrow of law and order?
“Our country was started because, the Boston tea party. Rioting. So do not get it twisted and think this is something that has never happened before and this is so terrible and these savages and all of that. This is how this country was started” –@DonLemon on @CNN 11:53 PM ET. pic.twitter.com/dGu5TmArsp
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) May 31, 2020
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Trump Supporters Need to Be Deprogrammed
Kasich’s argument that some of the “redeemable” Trump supporters could one day see the light is reminiscent of several liberals who have suggested they need to be deprogrammed in some way.
Television personality Katie Couric recently asked, “How are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?”
Katie Couric: “How are we going to really, almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?” pic.twitter.com/MW5LWN3dOk
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 18, 2021
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson, likewise, said Trump supporters are “members of a cult” and that they need to be both “deprogrammed” and “reprogrammed.”
Fox News plays clip of Eugene Robinson saying “there are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed. It’s as if they are members of a cult…”
Harris Faulkner: “Loving a white person does not make me a cultist!” pic.twitter.com/PJ4fANZKX4
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 19, 2021
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that “white supremacy” is a poison represented by President Trump, then suggested the government needs to “double, triple, or quadruple the funding” into programs that “deradicalize” brainwashed white supremacists.
AOC proposes funding to deprogram white supremacists https://t.co/CHXBvaZMPq pic.twitter.com/9PiIpDE1AR
— New York Post (@nypost) January 16, 2021
People like AOC, Lemon, and Kasich don’t want unity, they want you brainwashed just as they have been.
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how do we deprogram Kasich and others from the CNN cult????
Will someone please put Kaisch on a boat with Mitt and send them somewhere. We can send along Whoopi and Joy Behar for entertainment.
I AM A REPUBLICAN!
I do not want or wish to have John Kasich's or Don Lemon's
approval! Who are they to judge me????
Lemon has his own issues! He molested a young bus boy
on Long Island and has his own flaws!!!
Kasich has been wrong on so many issues he should redeem
himself!
NO THANK YOU!
Another RINO on display…
Well John Kasich is a trader and is no republican a real sell out of conservative values.
Have to equate John as being as big a fool as Kerry and Biden. This trio would make the three stooges look like Einsteins
Why are you holding up my posts and not other posts which are clearly questionable per your "published guidelines?" Examples:
Double standard?
Is Notorious Twitter Troll Ricky Vaughn Charged With 2016 Election Disinformation Campaign Redeemable?
A notorious far-right Twitter troll, whose influence on the 2016 election was bigger than many news networks and politicians, was charged on Wednesday with conspiring to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive people of their right to vote in the 2016 presidential election. Ricky Vaughn, whose real name is Douglass Mackey, got people to cast votes by text messages or social media posts—which are legally invalid ways to vote, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday. In one instance, he tweeted a photo of an African-American woman encouraging people to vote by text for a particular candidate. Nearly 5,000 voters fell for the ruse, the Justice Department said.
HuffPost unmasked Ricky Vaughn in 2018 as a rich kid from Vermont whose father, Scott, is a lobbyist and former aide to the late Republican Sen. Jim Jeffords. He had been living on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and working as an economist at John Dunham & Associates but was fired in 2016. Mackey, 31, was taken into custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.
If the other side of that coin is to be like you guys: liars, cheaters, defamation spreaders, haters, pick pockets, rioters, looters, back stabbers, etc. I'd rather not be redeemable. Deplorable and proud of it.
Wow…two know nothings trying to make sense to each other. What a joke!
Hey Kasich, you have it backwards. You and 99% of the GOP are irredeemable. People like you made 75,000,000+ run away from politicians like you and vote for the greatest President we ever had. We are so glad that all of you have shown your true commie colors. We are no longer fooled by any of you!
Kasich you ain’t a pimple on DT’s butt. Your a loser like Collins, murkowski and Romney. I think there are about 10,000,000 republicans that are redeemable to the Patriot Party. Wow, you are at the bottom of the barrel to be interviewed by low life Lemon.
Dear Mr. Kasich. I would suggest to check validity of your thinking. The only redemption is possible for the press which lied for 4 years non-stop. The very results of election may be questioned as the denial of the hi level of USA population stupidity.
Hey slimeball Kasich, you have it backwards. You and 99% of the GOP are irredeemable. You and Lemon make a great pair. You are perfect for each other. You are so out of touch in your teenie tiny bubble and one of the MOST clueless politicians out there. Your way of thinking {along with the Bushes, the Obamas the Romneys, the Clintons, etc}., is one of the reasons 75,000,000 of us are running away as fast as we can from the Republicans. We're thankful that so many of you have shown your true Commie colors. We are no longer fooled by your b.s.
Redeem these guys…
Trial run……..REDEEM HYPOCRISY and then we’ll maybe give it a go!
hee hee, great comment
If I have to hang around with those fakers and cheaters I will pass on reprogramming
Kaisch has become a Democrat. Really don't care what he thinks.
Hey Johnny, did you know you were WHELPED from a SWINE (pig) that was Impregnated by a Canine (dog) ?
If wanting truth makes me deplorable then I am a Deplorable.
Vichy politician.
all these anti-Trump dick heads that claim to be republicans should be sued and expelled from the republican party for 'serving' under false pretentions.
John Kaisich is far from redeemable in fact he ought to leave the party right now !
to bad Kasich and lemon are not Redeemable
Keep insulting half the people in the United States. Real smart and the right way to bring us together. I will continue to pray for our country.
You must mean the 5th grade Ohio militia.
No. I am not redemable in the liberal sense. Thats why I founded the 5th brigade of the Ohio militia in 1990.
Kasich is not redeemable. He's a bitter old man who couldn't fill President Trump's shoes. He actually came out from under the rocks to be interviewed by the very low rated CNN Lemon. The swamp dwellers are all rising to the surface gleefully thinking they've got a chance for re-election. Well, the last I recall OHIO went for Pres. Trump Kasich that ought to tell you something
we;re not the ones who redeemed
These democrat charlatans need to close their mouth, people know they frauded the election and did not follow the constitution, people are mad, keep your nonsense up and the country will roll in 100+ million large and show you what its all about.
Anything more "accurate" would be censored anyway…
That wouldn't be my choice of words to describe him.
Kasich will always be a deplorable.
Once a Trump supporter, always a Trump supporter.
Trump 2024
Good luck with that! And who do you propose is honest and transparent enough in D.C. to do an investigation? Maybe the janitor!
yEAH….. Like that will never happen! Have ya heard the latest that those charged with a federal crime may not be prosecuted at all……so says the DOJ!
The summer of love was quite similar to the Capitol incident. Antifa members were present and started the incident. One Antifa man was with the innocent woman that was executed. That is why we are not hearing about the people arrested? They are not all Trump supporters so the media and FBI has gone quiet on the matter. We need an honest and transparent investigation into what really happened with all of the facts.
This creature is a RINO (Republican In Name Only)……. Who cares, what he says…. A person, is known by the company he keeps…yes…lemon…..!
Kasich obviously needs the $$ he receives for being a "contributor" to CNN. In this case, contributor=turncoat. Pathetic.
John Kasich can never be a Republican again. He is just another butt kissing RINO and a worthless piece of nothing. He would kiss up to Don Lemon, a person (I can't call him a man) who is a pure Communist. And should be charged with inciting rioting.
Is Kellyanne Conway Redeemable?
In another attempt to silence her daughter, Kellyanne Conway, former White House aide to Donald Trump, allegedly posted a topless photo of Claudia Conway on Twitter on Monday. Claudia has gained quite a following on TikTok for her raw videos opposing Trump and the Republican Party as well as against her mother for supporting both.
In a number of videos posted to Claudia’s social media account, Kellyanne has consistently abused her daughter verbally. But this incident takes her abuse even further, endangering the welfare of a child. According to Variety, screenshots posted by users on social media confirmed that Kellyanne, under her account @KellyannePolls, shared an image of her 16-year-old daughter topless using Twitter’s Fleets feature. The feature is similar to Instagram Stories, allowing users to post photos that are automatically deleted after 24 hours.
While Twitter claims that it has a "zero-tolerance child sexual exploitation policy" regardless of the intent of viewing, sharing, or linking to child pornography, Kellyanne has not yet been removed from the platform. Under federal law, posting a photo of a nude teenager, whether intentional or accidental, is an act of child pornography, which is illegal.