A few days before Biden’s inauguration in 2021, Rep. Ralph Norman secretly urged the White House to declare martial law to keep Trump in office. In the last 15 months, the New York Times has mentioned Norman in 44 stories without recalling that fact. That’s coup amnesia.🧵1/6
The latest New York Times mention of the traitorous Ralph Norman was published today — with nothing about his text suggesting that Trump enlist the military in a coup in 2021. To the Times, Norman is just a GOP congressman doing GOP congressman things. 2/6 nytimes.com/2024/04/18/us/…
Ralph Norman’s martial law text was revealed in late 2022 by @TPM. Being a not-bright person, Norman spelled martial law as “Marshall law” in his text. But it’s not funny: Norman was pushing for a Trump-directed military takeover of the government. 3/6 talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-m…
@TPM While the New York Times is disappearing Norman’s traitorous past, CNN isn’t. In an interview a few months ago, Norman said his only regret was that he misspelled martial law as “Marshall law” – not that he plotted to nullify a free and fair election. 4/6 newrepublic.com/post/178396/ra…
@TPM NYT hasn’t cited the martial law text in its last 44 stories mentioning Norman. I’ll concede it might not be relevant in all of them. But all 44? What about this one noting that Norman was the only SC member of Congress to endorse Nikki Haley? 5/6 nytimes.com/2024/01/26/us/…
@TPM This was the last NYT mention of Norman’s martial law text, in January 2023 in a story about Kevin McCarthy trying to become speaker. A long time ago, right? The more the news media normalize insurrectionists, the more likely they’ll try it again. 6/6 nytimes.com/2023/01/03/us/…
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@MarkJacob16 @TPM The part that makes no sense to me is if we have a dictator, journalists will lose their jobs. Why are they ok with this?