Statement from Adam Schiff

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30. You left out "greedy little plutocratic worms."

The entire GOP is plutocratic-fascist. It seeks government by the rich, government with unassailable powers over the rest of us. If given complete power and authority, the GOP would establish re-education camps, the kind Trump praised Xi for setting up for the Uighur minority in China, with the singularly “American” difference that they will be privately run.

To the entire GOP, I feel in total agreement with George Taylor (Charlton Heston) in Planet of the Apes who, viewing the wreckage of the Statue of Liberty, screamed in despair and anger “God damn you all! God damn you to hell!”

Only instead of the wreckage of Lady Liberty, we saw the wreckage of the Capitol Building and the very fabric of our national values created on January 6, 2021 and herein assented to by virtually every foul, callous, and evil Republican Senator, Representative, Governor, and State legislator.

Yes, God damn them all to hell!

And God bless Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, and all of the impeachment managers who tried so magnificently to defend our values, our constitution, and our democracy by making it easy for the Republicans to vote the fat man guilty. A futile attempt, as it turned out, because it assumed a shred of decency among the Republican Senators, among Republicans in general.

(Yes, I know, there are exceptions. My governor is one, and there were others -- goodness, Senator Cassidy actually went through hell trying to see if there was any way a reasonable man could vote to acquit. Finding there was not, he voted guilty. Adam Kinsinger was ostracized by his “christian” church for voting to impeach Trump a second time. But these exceptions are so few in number that they are proportionately non-existent when matched against the greater population of GOP time servers, traitors, liars, and greedy thieves.)