We saw footage of the Trump-worshipping, white nationalist Proud Boys attacking Capitol Police, smashing windows, breaching the Capitol and rampaging through the building. 6 was one of the darkest days in this country’s history. The hearing offered a reminder of why Jan. 6, 2021, domestic terrorist uprising at the U.S. On Thursday, we got a Cliffs Notes version of the case against Trump when a House select committee investigating the Jan. But I’ll take quaint any day over seditious. In this era of rabid tribalism, it might seem quaint to talk about the rule of law and the need to put country over party. It’s the way you should feel about the actions of your party’s standard-bearer, Donald Trump, in the weeks after his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. In the Oval Office, the president tells his confidants that the mob has the right idea.Īs a Republican, think about how you would feel if all this played out if a Democratic president defied 233 years of national precedent and refused to accept the peaceful transfer of presidential power. When the vice president refuses to go along with the election overthrow plan, an angry mob calls for the hanging of the vice president. He also incites his loyalists to congregate in Washington, D.C., on the day of the vote certification and exert pressure on Congress. When all else fails, the president tells his vice president to block the national certification of official election results. He calls the secretary of state in one of the battleground states he lost and tries to browbeat that official into finding him the votes he needs. This Democratic president makes attempts to convince the Defense Department, the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department to confiscate voting machines in key counties where the results weren’t to the president’s liking. When the acting attorney general refuses, the president threatens to fire him and put in place a toady who’ll comply with the president’s wishes.
When the legal challenges fail, he pressures his acting attorney general to put the heat on swing-state election officials in order to get the results thrown out. This Democratic president tries to fight it out in the courts and loses 60 attempts to challenge the election results. The president refuses to accept his defeat, even though election officials in the three battleground states he needs to flip - and the president’s own data expert and campaign attorney - insist that the results are legit. A Democratic president loses his re-election bid to a Republican challenger.
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