Read up on the January 6 coup attempt and you are left with one truth: Trump must never, EVER be allowed to run for president or anything else, ever again.
Last night was the first in a series of televised hearings on the January 6 coup attempt. There was an attempt by the parties involved in the coup, including the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, Republican members of Congress, MAGA crazed citizens, and Trump himself, to overturn the election and overthrow the government on January 6th. It doesn’t matter where the original inspiration for this illegal plot came from. Trump understood it was a coup and wanted it carried out, to the point where he actually stated the VP Mike Pence should be hanged because he didn’t go along with his plot. Could Trump have been any more insane at that moment?
The hardest thing for Trump must have been when he lost Ivanka.
A good summary of the essense of the hearing, from Politico:
The Jan. 6 investigation can sometimes seem sprawling and complicated. The story of that day is filled with weird groups, conspiracy-minded lawyers and fringe characters. Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. JOHN EASTMAN and SIDNEY POWELL. The “QAnon Shaman” and “caveman rioter.”
The big message from the first public hearing of the Jan. 6 committee was that it’s a lot simpler than all of that. It’s really about one person: DONALD TRUMP.
Committee Chair BENNIE THOMPSON (D-Miss.) made the point within the first few minutes of his opening presentation. He began with some history to put Jan. 6’s unique awfulness in perspective. “I’m from a part of the country where people justified the actions of slavery, Ku Klux Klan and lynching,” he said. “I’m reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try to justify the actions of the insurrectionists on Jan. 6, 2021.”
He quickly got to the main point: Jan. 6 was a “sprawling multistep conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election,” he said. It was also “the culmination of an attempted coup” in which “the violence was no accident.”
And: “Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy.”Nobody else. Don’t be distracted by the chaotic events of that day, he urged: There was only one person that really mattered. “Donald Trump, the president of the United States,” Thompson said, “spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol and subvert American democracy.”
We also have to stop assuming that the MAGA people in the Cult that Trump started have any sort of conscience or logic and can be persuaded to anything. It’s time to prevent them from participating in our democracy, since they so clearly don’t believe in it. Take away their right to vote. They would do it to us in a heartbeat, and have been trying to do so for decades. Right-wingers hate it when we vote.
But they want to destroy the government and the country, so what choice do we have?
Nobody else had as much control and direction over the January 6th Coup Attempt than Donald J. Trump.
He deserves to be arrested and put in jail for the rest of his miserable life.
