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'Be your own man!' Trump nominee shamed by Dem after 'coward' answer

The Senate Knows Exactly What It Is ConfirmingA hearing built to normalize the lieA Trump nominee for assistant attorney general, Adam Candeub, spent a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing refusing to plainly say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Democratic senators pressed him. Cory Booker demanded a yes-or-no answer. Candeub answered with evasive legalese about certification. That is the entire story, and it is already more revealing than the ritual around it.The point was never informationThis was not an exchange about facts in dispute. The fact pattern is basic: Congress certified the…

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