Steve Scalise still can’t break the grip of Trump’s lies

The interview was a train wreck. Scalise tried to blame September’s disappointing jobs report on the government “paying people not to work,” even though supplemental unemployment benefits expired on Labor Day, at the start of the month. (The 26 states, mostly Republican-controlled, that withdrew those benefits even earlier saw no job growth, either.) Scalise complained that Democrats “want to keep revisiting” the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, even though, as host Chris Wallace pointed out, Republicans revisited the Benghazi attack for far longer.