Republican Leaders Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham And Ted Cruz Blamed Trump For Inciting The 2020 Insurrection.  On That Day, Trump Tweeted He Wanted To Stop The Certification Of The Election By Asking VP Mike Pence To Block The Certification Of The Votes. When Pence Told Trump He Was Going To The Capitol To ” Do His Job,” Trump Pressured Him To ” Send The Votes Back To The States, Then We Win. Mike, I’m Counting On You To Do This.” Pence Tried To Comply, However, He Was Advised By Legal Experts He Had No Legal Option To Steal The Election For Trump. Trump’s Plan B Was To Incite His Supporters To Wage A Violent, Physical Attack On The Capitol To “Fight Like Hell” And ” Stop The Steal.”

After Mike Pence complied with his constitutional duty which demands he certify the count of the state electoral votes, Trump took to Twitter and nationalized the “big lie” movement. His pathological flaws in character, corruption and psychological incompetence to possess the powers bestowed on a president were on full display in those tweets. On Jan. 6th, America hit a unique, dangerous low in it’s history and the same flaws and pathology Trump suffers from were revealed to exist in the Republican party. Congressional GOP surrogates, millions of vulnerable Republican voters, (especially in the South and rural America), Facebook and Fox News enabled Trump to pollute the political landscape with criminal disinformation. The Trump Republican Party is admittedly willing to lie and legitimize violence to gain power. It is not hyperbole to label the Trump- wing of the party as enemies of democracy. The party’s tactic to hide that truth is to call patriotic democrats, independents, and anti-Trump Republicans as the enemies of democracy. This is called GASLIGHTING, and any person who believes and supports a gaslighter like Trump, is also a threat to democracy because they possess the power of the vote.
On Jan. 6th, the loyal, obsequious, complicit Vice- President Mike Pence left the cult of Trump and for the first time in his tenure as VP, did his job instead of following Trump’s corrupt demands. After certifying the electoral vote that declared Biden the legitimate winner of the presidency, Pence said, “I will always be proud that we did our part on that tragic day to reconvene the Congress and fulfilled our duty under the constitution and the laws of the United States.” After the relentless pressure he endured by Trump to break the law for the purpose of illegally reinstating him to the presidency, Pence chose democracy over retaining Trump’s approval. We may never know if it was a fear of criminal prosecution, moral descency or legitimate patriotism that caused Pence to do the right thing that day. Or maybe it was the realization that threats to hang him by the MAGA rioters didn’t motivate Trump to stop the insurrection woke him up to realize Trump is a danger to democracy.

In Chapter 44, on pages 237-239, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Bob Costa provided evidence in their book “Peril”, that Donald Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the electoral college vote that elected Joe Biden as the next U.S. president. The days leading up to the insurrection included extensive pressure placed on Pence by Trump to ” steal the election” that he was accusing the Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans of stealing. The gaslighting was in full force by Trump on Jan. 6th when he incited his supporters to violently storm the Capitol and stop the certification of the electoral vote to save America, by reinstating as president.

The new norm created by Trump and GOP elected officials is to dismiss facts and label truth as politicized lies. Like gullible young children whose brains are neurologically yet able to use reason and logic, millions of Trump supporters dangerously support Trump’s use of Russian propaganda tactics. The facts are, this unpatriotic, incompetent idol:

Dodged the draft with a phony medical claim, evaded paying federal and state taxes, has told 30,000 provable lies, was convicted of racist discrimination of minorities in the apartment buildings he owned with his father in the 1970’s, ran a fraudulent university scamming students out of large sums of money, ran a fraudulent charity, paid off a porn star during the 2020 to silence her about their affair, constitutionally misused the military during his presidency for political gain, profitted financially during his presidency by violating the Emoluments clause of the Constitution, lied under oath in a written statement to Robert Mueller during the Russia investigation, used a secret, private server while president, favored and aligned with our foreign enemies and alienated our allies, LIED ABOUT COVID NEEDLESSLY CAUSING THE INFECTION AND DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, INCITED AN INSURRECTION AT THE CAPITOL ON JAN. 6TH AND DID NOTHING TO STOP IT , AND IS THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT EVER TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Republicans could have gotten rid of Trump in the impeachment trials. However, their moral weakness and opportunism caused them to support a man they KNOW attacks the foundation of democracy in pursuit of corrupt power. The States are watching the moral decline of their representatives. Although the MAGA mouths are loud, they are a fringe minority. They are encouraged by lies that address their white identity fears, their underlying bigotry, and a misunderstanding about what being an American means.

Passing voting rights legislation and prosecuting any official who knew about the plan for rioters to break into the Capitol, threaten to kill members of Congress, and physically block the official process of certifying the certification of the presidential electoral vote should be the priority of all Democrat and Republican members of Congress. However, it isn’t. Zero Republican Senators will support the importance of saving democracy. Instead of defending their oath of office, they govern to keep their jobs and maintain bank accounts. Remember what the definitions of democracy and traitor are when we vote in 2022.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger say the Jan. 6th Committee is dedicated to finding out about is WHAT TRUMP KNEW AHEAD OF TIME ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AT THE CAPITOL ON JAN. 6TH AND DID HE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE ATTACK OUT OF INCOMPETENCE OR LACK OF PREPAREDNESS OR WAS IT A CORRUPT COMPLICITY WITH THE MOB’S ATTEMPT TO STOP THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER?

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