"Eight ways the House select committee is changing the conversation on Jan. 6"
A thread of the @JRubinBlogger article:
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"Unlike many in the media and the White House, they made clear this was an attempt to overthrow democracy."
#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#Jan6thCommittee
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"As Cheney said, “These text messages leave no doubt ... multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately.”
And they leave no doubt about their cringeworthy pandering to Trump and his base, whom they helped radicalize."
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"Trump refused to heed pleas to call off the mob, endangering the lives of lawmakers and the vice president and grinding a constitutional process to a halt.
Even Trump’s son knew this was a devastating event."
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"While some members of Congress pleaded for help, at least one apologized in a Jan. 7 text for not throwing the election to Trump...
They should never serve in any office. Ever."
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Cheney in her brava performance did more to elevate the importance of the coup attempt than most of the mainstream media and the White House. She forced the media to cover the jaw-dropping evidence."
#Jan6Committee
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"We have yet another reminder of Republicans’ spinelessness as they continue to scrape and bow before Trump.
They know how he conspired to shred our democracy and willfully refused to try to short-circuit the Capitol siege for hours."
#Jan6
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"How in the world does the media treat the GOP & its continued fidelity to Trump as anything but a repudiation of democracy?
... have allowed Republicans to speak in interviews or news conferences without grilling them on their continued enabling of Trump"
#GOPBetrayedAmerica
The White House will find it increasingly difficult to stick to its apparent game plan of ignoring the threat to democracy...
If Cheney knows this is the defining issue of our time, why doesn’t the Democratic president know it, too?"
#DemocracyInDanger
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"The committee has testimony from more than 300 witnesses and access to 35,000 documents. There is so much more that we have yet to learn."
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