Lawrence O’Donnell on Flag Controversy: ‘Justice Alito Did Not Have the Decency to Come up with a Story that Had Minimal Logic in It’

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O’DONNELL: “He has given an explanation for why he was flying the American flag upside down that is obviously a lie. No sane person could believe it, unless, unless it is to be taken as an insanity defense by Justice Alito. When The New York Times reported that the Alito home had the American flag flying upside down after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which happened right across the street from the Supreme Court, Justice Alito told this lie as his official explanation: 'I had no involvement whatsoever in flying the flag. It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.' Justice Alito did not have the decency to come up with a story that had minimal logic in it. Like his Supreme Court opinions, Alito did not care how preposterous that defense was. So, the Supreme Court justice wants you to believe that his wife saw something in a neighbor's yard that made her run out to the flagpole, pull down the American flag, turn it upside down, and run the American flag back up the flagpole upside down as some kind of non-verbal insult payback to her neighbor? I refuse to believe that about Mrs. Alito and I refuse to believe the Supreme Court justice's attempt to blame this on his wife.”