“The House select committee probing the January 6 insurrection is signaling that it has penetrated Donald Trump’s wall of obstruction about what was going on inside the White House and his own family while he refused to stop the mob attack on the US Capitol a year ago this week.
“Revelations delivered on Sunday by the top two lawmakers on the committee hint at the truth about the violence he incited to further his coup attempt, which turned into the worst assault on American democracy in modern times. …
“But this week’s events will also underscore that a year on, Trump’s enormous power over the GOP and the complicity of many of its top leaders in his voting fraud lies means that US democracy is in deeper trouble and under broader assault than ever. …
“Cheney [warned] that Trump’s conduct was so egregious that he should not be allowed anywhere near power again, as the former President considers a potential new tilt at the White House in 2024. ‘This is a man who has demonstrated that he’s at war with the rule of law. He’s demonstrated that he’s willing to blow through every guardrail of democracy,’ Cheney said on CBS News’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday. ‘And he can never be anywhere near the Oval Office again.'”
“On the face of it, a refusal by the commander in chief to intervene to stop an assault on the citadel of American democracy during the process of certifying Biden’s election is a clear infringement of his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. But even a deeply damning report by the committee would seem unlikely to break the dynamic of denial in the GOP over Trump’s transgressions.” Read story here.
This investigation is not “politics.” It’s an investigation of a group of coup plotters, led by a would-be strongman, trying to unlawfully overthrow the government of the United States. To this day, they are supported by most Republican elected officials and voters. And that is why responsible citizens cannot vote for Republicans until the Trump fever breaks and the madness gripping the GOP blows over. As Cheney warned her fellow Republicans, “We can either be loyal to Donald Trump or we can be loyal to the Constitution, but we cannot be both” (that story here).