Cooper Calls Out GOP’s ‘Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone’ of Election Disinformation

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COOPER: "The President was wrong about the ballots but right about the story being everywhere because, repeat after me, he was spreading it. That’s what he was doing. So were his enablers and so are his enablers on Capitol Hill. And they were on full display on Capitol Hill. It has become, in technical parlance, a self-licking ice cream cone. It's an old federal government term for a self-perpetuating system that exists only to perpetuate itself, which is what the whole election fraud conspiracy theory has become, a toxic and allegedly nearly deadly self-licking ice cream cone. Despite a total lack of evidence, a total lack of evidence, the President and his enablers pushing the voter fraud myth relentlessly, then citing the fact that people are talking about it as justification for pushing it. And so it goes around and around until angry mobs fill the streets to protest a stolen election that was not stolen. Until a majority of Republicans in recent polling now believed, despite all evidence to contrary, the election was rigged, which, as with legendary ice cream cone, Republican lawmakers are now deciding to justify new hearings on the subject today."