By Stephen Macaulay
It opened and should have closed at that point.
Liz Cheney pointed out that Donald Trump is 76 years old. And she added, “He is not an impressionable child.”
She further suggested that given the amount of information that Trump was given about his loss of the election, it is hard to imagine that a “rational or sane man” could conclude that it was otherwise.
Two points to keep in mind:
- He was/is not an impressionable child. Chronologically…
- He was, in the weeks leading up to January 6 and for a few weeks following, the president of the United States, the man with the authority to launch nuclear missiles and there was, Cheney suggested, a question of his sanity.
Let’s not overthink any of this: The man knew what he was doing and the man knew that he had lost. And the man showed a contemptuous disregard for the Constitution of the United States and what it stands for.
Make America Great Again?
He and his enablers should be ashamed of themselves.
“You guys are a bunch of pussies.”—America’s Former Mayor and now disgraced buffoon Rudy Giuliani talking to the White House legal team on December 18.
Giuliani said in testimony that he thought they weren’t being tough enough.
What does that mean?
Well, perhaps being tough enough referred to the draft memo that proposed the Department of Defense seize voting machines. That Sidney Powell become special counsel that would provide her with the means to prosecute. . .who?
December 18 gave way to December 19, the day that Trump put out the Tweet that concludes “Be there, will be wild!”
What is somewhat more troubling are the preceding words, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th.”
Consider that for a moment. The President of the United States was calling for a protest in Washington, D.C.
What is it that they were to be protesting against?
Law and order? Congress doing its job? The vice president doing his job?
What?
The man is not a child. The man, assuming that he was telling the truth when he boasted that he passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (“I got a perfect mark. And the doctors were — they said: Very few people can do that. Very few people get that,” which is certainly a dubious claim given that the test is given for screening for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, and more people don’t have those dread conditions than do, so obviously more than “Very few people get that”), knew what it was all about: Trying to keep his job, a job that the American people said that he no longer was meant to keep.
Alex Jones. Oath Keepers. A string of other extremist social media personalities. They were all-in for Trump. (And let’s not be naïve: These people will still be all-in regardless of whatever is exposed by the committee: Trump could probably confess to understanding what he did and they’d claim that it was either a Deep Fake or a clever coded message to stand back and stand by.)
There was the violence we all witnessed.
And there was his video: “We love you. You’re very special.”
Let’s say for the sake of argument that there is no legal liability that Trump faces.
(Although one thinks about sedition, which is defined in 18 U.S.C § 2384 as “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.,” it is hard to think about what they were plotting in the White House on December 18 if not that.)
When will those who swear an oath to defend the Constitution, when will those who want a strong and safe America, when will those who uphold decorum and decency, when will those who believe in reality and truth simply say, “Enough”?