Daily News | On 2nd anniversary of Jan. 6, Trump’s disciples succeed in shutting down the Capitol
by Meadows’ aide Cassidy Hutchinson. “Figure it out.” What they figured out involved a full-frontal assault on the American tradition of peacefully transferring power. People died from what they figured out.
As the American legal system slowly and methodically works through the foot soldiers of the Jan. 6 assault, Trump and his high-level co-conspirators still have yet to experience any meaningful consequences. Ditto the 139 House members and eight senators whoto disqualify my 2020 vote cast in Pennsylvania, and the votes of millions of others, on Jan. 6, 2021 — even before the blood had been wiped off the Capitol marble.
It’s hardly a shock that among the 20 Republicans currently blocking McCarthy and the launch of the 118th Congress, 14 of the 15 who were in office in January 2021 voted against certifying Biden’s victory .that 12 of the 20 are hard-core deniers of the 2020 result; some 17 of the 20 were endorsed by Trump in the midterms. Thus, it’s even less surprising that the values of the Jan.
Today’s insurrectionists are the spoiled children of Trumpism — stars of their own soiled reality shows, lacking in a single idea beyond “owning the libs” and booking their next cable TV hit. Their pre-Congress resumés are larded not with public service but, ascontestant or swimsuit-model turned right-wing firebrand, “creating brands as much as political careers.
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