GOP Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri appeared on NewsNation Monday where he hyped President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Democratic congressional leadership as something resembling a pay-per-view event.

“This is what they wanted—all this crazy spending going back to the woke policies and giving illegal aliens health care,” Alford said, echoing a GOP lie that Democrats are threatening a government shutdown unless Republicans agree to fund “transgender surgeries” and health care for undocumented immigrants.

He then proceeded to present Trump’s meeting with the Democratic leadership as a scare tactic.

“Let's bring them into the Oval Office. Let's give them a little taste of what we gave [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy back in spring. This is going to be live viewing, I believ

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