No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again
excerpt from liz cheneys opening statement from the jan 6 committee
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
What most of the public did not know before our investigation is this: Donald Trump’s own campaign officials told him early on that his claims of fraud were false. Donald Trump’s senior Justice Department officials —each appointed by Donald Trump himself —investigated the allegations and told him repeatedly that his fraud claims were false. Donald Trump’s White House lawyers also told him his fraud claims were false. From the beginning, Donald Trump’s fraud allegations were concocted nonsense, designed to prey upon the patriotism of millions of men and women who love our country.
Most Americans also did not know exactly how Donald Trump, along with a handful of others, planned to defeat the transfer of Presidential power on January 6th. This was not a simple plan, but it was a corrupt one. This report lays that plan out in detail—a plan that ultimately had seven parts, anticipating that Vice President Pence, serving in his role as President of the Senate, would refuse to count official Biden electoral slates from multiple states. We understood from the beginning that explaining all the planning and machinations would be complex and would require many hours of public presentations and testimony. We also understood that our presentations needed to be organized into a series of hearings that presented the key evidence for the American public to watch live or streamed over a reasonable time period, rather than rely on second-hand accounts as reported by media organizations with their own editorial biases. We organized our hearings in segments to meet that goal. Tens of millions of Americans watched.
Among the most shameful findings from our hearings was this: President Trump sat in the dining room off the Oval Office watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television. For hours, he would not issue a public statement instructing his supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol, despite urgent pleas from his White House staff and dozens of others to do so. Members of his family, his White House lawyers, virtually all those around him knew that this simple act was critical.
For hours, he would not do it. During this time, law enforcement agents were attacked and seriously injured, the Capitol was invaded, the electoral count was halted and the lives of those in the Capitol were put at risk. In addition to being unlawful, as described in this report, this was an utter moral failure—and a clear dereliction of duty. Evidence of this can be seen in the testimony of his White House Counsel and several other White House witnesses. No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again. He is unfit for any office.
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I know we all grew up learning in school the American mythologies, George Washington and the cherry tree, Paul Revere's ride, Abraham Lincoln reading books by firelight, Remember The Alamo, and all that good stuff, and you soak it all in and you think that your country is always right and always on the side of justice. We have an "american character", lets call it Jimmy Stewart in Mr Smith Goes To Washington, an eagerness to do right as a people.
That american character is being annihilated by Donald Trump, and we are running out of time.
Trump supporters do not care about that, JR.
No, they don't. Seemingly, that's why many of them support him. I heard one Trump cultist last night say that even if he is convicted of all of the felonies it won't make any difference to them. It's a sickness.
The idiocracy is growing
Predictable (and predicted). As the certainty of a Trump nomination sinks in, GOP loyalists will increasingly turn to defending their indefensible nominee.
The dumbing down of our education system is catching up with us.
Exactly, that’s what partisans do .
Can the Demos really defend the indefensible actions and lack of action by their nominee, the worst president in the history of the USA?
Demos = 'the people' ... 'the electorate'.
Offer an argument that is not mechanical deflection.
Yet by your posts and others "MAGA" and GOP loyalists do not equal 'the people'... 'the electorate".
The hypocrisy of your statements are galling.
The problem is your truly bizarre 'interpretation'.
I am most definitely critical of those who support Trump. No question about it. They are supporting a demonstrable traitor. Trump is a vindictive, irresponsible, narcissist, demagogue asshole who is the only PotUS in our history to try to steal a presidential election through fraud, coercion, lying, and incitement. An individual who could very well be a convicted felon by inauguration day. It is a profound failure of reason for anyone to even consider such a scoundrel, much less flock to him.
That does not mean that I think (somehow) that GOP loyalists are not part of the electorate. Not sure how anyone can come to such a ridiculous conclusion. Further, Ronin, I am surrounded by GOP loyalists in my daily life; my best friend is a Trump supporter.
You need to calm down your imagination/emotions and not extrapolate or apply stereotypes to fill in the gaps.
The left, including progressives, liberals, Marxists and what's left of the Democrat party, needs to prepare for a second Trump term.
Even this late in the game they still have no idea how and why this happened or what to do about it.
The right, including reactionaries, so-called conservatives, Fascists, Trump cultists and what's left of the republic party are going to make a run on butt cream after their Dear Leader goes down to defeat AGAIN.
I couldn’t find any butt cream at CVS this weekend, maybe it’s like baby formula two years ago.
Try Walgreens.
No, not many left in our nation’s capital.
So in other words, anybody who is not a hard core leftist liberal and does not mark the D box in a ballot are heaped under the same category. Yep, got it!😏
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