January 6th Takes Over Prime Time.
Donald Trump’s desperate attempts at holding on to power were in full view during the Congressional evening Congressional hearings. (NY Times)
“Most incriminating were the words of Mr. Trump’s own advisers and appointees, played over video on a giant screen above the committee dais and beamed out to a national television audience. There was his own attorney general who told him that his false election claims were “bullshit.” There was his own campaign lawyer who testified that there was no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome. And there was his own daughter, Ivanka Trump, who acknowledged that she accepted the conclusion that the election was not, in fact, stolen as her father kept claiming.
Much of the evidence was outlined by the lead Republican on the committee, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who has been ostracized by Mr. Trump and much of her own party for consistently denouncing his actions after the election. Unwavering, she sketched out the case and then addressed her fellow Republicans who have chosen to stand by their defeated former president and excuse his actions.
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The Capitol Insurrection and its aftermath will loom large for the American public for the foreseeable future. The actors who instigated this grim chapter in history were members of most elite ruling class America has to offer, yet were willing to topple the load bearing walls of American Democracy for their own ego. A concerted effort is underway to minimize the January 6th Insurrection and simply move on. That cannot happen.
