Don Trumpleone: Leave the lies, take the cannoli
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
Readers of last week’s column, which highlighted Trump’s bizarre claims about the extraneous Arizona election audit, are now convinced he’s a pathological liar or clinically insane. After this week’s, none will doubt he’s a would-be Mafia Don. Capo di tutti capi, who controls a nationwide criminal organization intent on taking down democracy the way the Sicilian Mafia took down the few brave police and prosecutors who stood in their way.
(Having just spent time there, seeing memorials, everywhere, to those selfless resistors and the pride Sicilians deservedly take in finally standing up to the mob, we hope for comparable monuments in a future America. Assuming she has a future.)
Despite Republican/Trumpist/Foxian efforts to disappear it, some Americans might remember Jan. 6. Some may even have sought legitimate, Fox/Newsmax/OAN-free sources of information about it, and discovered how Trump nearly accomplished overturning a legitimate, fraud-free election, by way of corrupt insiders and orchestrated insurrection. And the extent to which prominent R’s abetted the sedition. And still are. (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (tinyurl.com/nogov4u).
So, though its Republican members would like to rub it out, we have a congressional commission looking in. Subpoenas have been issued to Trump’s henchmen and consiglieri, as well they should. Because congressional oversight is how our democracy protects itself from despotism. It’s in the Constitution; that hoary document which, while claiming willingness to die for it, today’s Republicans and their draft-dodging leader are setting on fire to light their torches of demographic resentment (tinyurl.com/2test4u).
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