The assault on the Capitol was not a spontaneous spasm of violence. It was the culmination of a concerted effort to reject the results of a fair election
‘For the first time in American history, a congressional committee has recommended a former president for criminal prosecution.’‘For the first time in American history, a congressional committee has recommended a former president for criminal prosecution.
In the run-up to January 6, Trump and his enablers – the committee also issued referrals for a clutch of lawyers including Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and DoJ official Jeffrey Clark – sought to coerce state officials to falsify their election tallies, appoint illegal slates of false electors in key swing states carried by Biden, and turn the justice department into a megaphone for the big lie.
Whether sincere or craven, Pence’s expression of pious concern overlooks the inconvenient fact that the Republican party doesn’t share an interest in healing. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, who, as we recall, seized the spot as the No 3 House Republican after Liz Cheney’s ouster, declared the referral a “partisan charade” and threatened to “hold House Democrats accountable for their illegitimate abuse of power”.
True, Trump appears diminished. His Midas political touch has deserted him. The midterms saw his hand-picked purveyors of the big lie lose big – and even, for the most part, concede their defeats. He has, of late, sounded ever more unmoored, calling for the “termination” of the constitution and increasingly trucking in QAnon conspiracy theories. He has shared his table with an antisemitic music star and a white supremacist Holocaust denier.
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