Do yourself a favor and look through @AnnTelnaes visual & textual representation of those involved in Trump's attempt to overthrow American democracy and install himself as an authoritarian leader over the USA.
"Then the assistant attorney general, Clark sought to topple his boss, acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, by agreeing to do for Trump what Rosen refused to do — bully Georgia election officials."
"Ali Alexander with GOP Reps. Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar
Alexander, leader of Stop the Steal, said in a since-deleted video that the three Republican congressmen helped plan how to put “maximum pressure on Congress” during the counting of electoral college votes."
"Dominion Voting Systems sued each for defamation. Powell’s response was to argue that no one should have taken her seriously.
“Reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact,” she wrote in her motion to dismiss the suit."
"“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” Bannon, a former Trump White House official, told listeners on his podcast on Jan. 5"
"The Fox News hosts helped feed the populist fires that led to the insurrection and then tried to play down the riot and claim that participants were actually leftists. As the violent insurrection unfolded, Hannity and Ingraham also urged the White House to call off the mob."
Each lawmaker spoke with Trump on the phone while the riot was in progress...
Trump told McCarthy, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”
"McConnell said Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for provoking the riot but voted against conviction in Trump’s subsequent impeachment trial."
"For evil to flourish, good men forget who they are...
they begin to regard duty and the obligations of civilization itself as oppression. They raise up ignorance, hate, and especially violent rage as strengths and sneer in contempt at compassion, charity, and selflessness."
"Precisely because this GOP opposition is a foregone conclusion, Republicans are too rarely asked by reporters to justify it. This in turn causes that opposition to become accepted as a natural, unalterable ... condition of political life"
~@ThePlumLineGS washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"[GOP] opposition fades into the background as a factor in what’s happening. It faces less serious scrutiny, and the story that’s foregrounded is that Democratic infighting is the only reason for congressional inaction."
"In an interview ...Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro lays out the plot to overturn the election.
...
what’s remarkable here — while also familiar — is how forthrightly Navarro is copping to the plot, as if it was no big deal, really."
"It’s been no secret that Donald Trump tried to leverage VP Mike Pence’s historically ceremonial role overseeing the counting of electoral votes in his effort to overturn the election. But it wasn’t until September that we got a sense of the full scope of the plan"
Trump "was riveted to the TV screen, watching his most glorious moment and ignoring pleas from, among others, his daughter Ivanka and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to stop the violence."
"we should pay more attention to the news that Goldman Sachs has downgraded the US growth forecast, in response to Manchin’s opposition to BBB."
~@ThePlumLineGS