Fake Republican Susan Del Percio: Trump Nominated A Cabinet 'To Make Him 25th-Amendment-Proof'

Posted • February 9, 2025: We use the term "MSNBC Republican" to describe the kind of tame Republican the liberal network can count on to echo its talking point o' the day. But even "MSNBC Republican" is stretching it when it comes to Susan Del Percio. Appearing on Saturday's edition of The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders introduced her as [see screencap] a "Republican" strategist, with emphasis on the R-word. Del Percio is no kind of "Republican strategist" at all. You'd have to go back almost 20 years to find a Republican for whom Del Percio strategized. For that matter, she hasn't advised any politician in over a decade. And that was Andrew Cuomo—when he was the Democrat governor of New York.

But MSNBC uses her fake-GOP labels for opinion pieces like "I’m a Republican strategist. Here’s why I'm confident about Kamala Harris’ campaign." Demonstrating just how abjectly Del Percio has thrown in with the Dems, co-host Michael Steele quoted Susan Glasser from The New Yorker about USAID: "The point is not a policy fight. It's an execution. They are killing one agency to terrify a thousand others." Trump: executioner! Del Percio readily agreed: "Well, that's absolutely the case because it makes headlines." And there are at least 1,000 federal agencies in addition to USAID? That alone demonstrates that the government has metastasized beyond anything the Founders could have imagined. Then, exemplifying just how far Del Percio has moved from being anything recognizably Republican, Del Percio propagated an anti-Trump theory so far-fetched as to be bizarre: "He nominated a cabinet to make him 25th Amendment-proof." (…)

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