The January 6 Select Committee held its final hearing on Thursday, and the big news coming out of Washington is the fact that the Committee decided to issue a subpoena to former president Donald John Joseph Isuzu Trump.
This morning, the Archduke of Affluenza issued a 14 page letter to committee chairman Bennie Thompson, whining as usual, ignorant of the fact that the committee has evidence that proves he knew about his supporters showing up armed on that day, and, he also knew he lost the 2020 election, but he'd rather continue to lie about it to keep his base ignorant of details.
23 months later, he still doesn't want to accept the truth. He got spanked at the polls, but would rather continue to grift his base, and ignore the truth. Forever playing the victim card, selling the idea to the evangelicals he's conned that he's been persecuted. Truth is, he is not. He's been caught in a web of lies that he continues to spin, the more he whines and cries.
George Conway said it best when he said that there is now a short distance between Trump and an orange jumpsuit. May we recommend an adult onesie in that same color?
There is a passage in the Bible that Trump likely has never read.
"Love of money is the root of all evil". Trump is carrying on a family tradition that started with his father to avoid responsibility at all cost. He's going to regret that soon enough.
A minority opinion (I think; correction welcomed, if needed):
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump should be COMPELLED to testify - in public, on television, in prime time.
But he needs to be questioned by an advocate.
Where is the modern-day Joseph N. Welch?
Welch was a prominent attorney from Boston - and a lifelong Republican.
When Sen. McCarthy attacked the Army, that service engaged Welch as its advocate.
It was Welch who went head-to-head with McCarthy - and exposed him as the fraud he was, while the nation watched.
That's what's needed today - not that we'll ever get it ...
I don't know if I mentioned it here before, but there's a quote from Gore Vidal's play The Best Man that applies here.
In the movie, Henry Fonda says it to Cliff Robertson:
" You have no responsibility to anybody or anything - and that is a tragedy in a man, and it is a disaster in a president."
Gore Vidal wrote those words in 1960.
Donald Trump would have been in middle school at the time.
(That is, if he wasn't cutting classes ...)
I've heard on the radio that, yes, Trump is being compelled to testify. That doesn't mean, of course, that he won't plead the 5th a gazillion times, but I think if they set it so he can't, stick a fork in him, he's cooked.
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