The Entire GOP Is Complicit in the Coup Attempt

[Nevilledog]

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“There was ketchup dripping down the wall and there’s a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.” Cassidy Hutchinson, the House Jan. 6 committee’s surprise witness, painted the perfect metaphor for the GOP’s continued violent assault on our nation’s increasingly fragile democracy.

In her damning and chilling testimony on Tuesday, Hutchinson, a former top aide to Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, unleashed an arsenal of smoking guns. She not only implicated the Trump administration but exposed the entire right-wing ecosystem as active and willing participants in a failed authoritarian’s desire to use violence, intimidation, and illegality to ensure power for his radicalized MAGA movement that has now consumed the GOP and replaced all “rational” Republicans.

According to Hutchinson, the Trump administration knew the protesters were heavily armed, but Trump cared more about his crowd size. Indeed, she said, Trump embraced and welcomed his own personal army. “I don’t fucking care that they have weapons,” was Trump’s response, according to Hutchinson. “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking [metal detectors] away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.” These are the same protesters who the Republican National Committee earlier this year said were “ordinary citizens” engaged in a “legitimate political discourse.” Per Hutchinson’s testimony, Trump and his staff, including Meadows, who at worst comes off as a neutered, pathetic accomplice or at best a deliberate conspirator, were told early on that some were fastening spears to flag poles and others were carrying AR-15s, the murder weapon of choice for mass shooters. They did more than march. The violent insurrectionists eventually overtook the U.S. Capitol, which resulted in the deaths of five people, including a police officer, and terrorized the Capitol police and our elected officials.

Violence was the recurring character in Hutchinson’s mesmerizing testimony. According to her, Trump, yet again, threw his own vice president, Mike Pence, under the bus and thought he “deserved” the chants of “Hang him.” Trump left Pence to be potentially slaughtered by his rabid cult, who were going to punish Pence for fulfilling his duty and certifying a fair and free election. Trump even allegedly assaulted Bobby Engel, the head of his Secret Service detail, and lunged for the steering wheel after Engel refused to drive him to the U.S. Capitol. Trump apparently lacked “the stamina” to march with the violent mob he incited, but he was fine being chauffeured to the insurrection. After being informed by his attorney general that there was no evidence of voter fraud, Trump behaved like an unruly, spoiled child, according to Hutchinson, by throwing a plate of food against the wall, which was cleaned up by Hutchinson, who at the age of 25 was clearly the most mature adult in the room.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. About 40 GQP senators knew he did it

but voted otherwise (a guest on CNN said this). All of them are guilty enablers and would do it again in a heartbeat. This is way worse than Watergate.