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Meadows. As is typical for Cruz, he was grandstanding for his own benefit. It was one of the worst cases of abandonment of duty for personal ambition I’ve ever seen in Washington.
ignored the rulings of the courts,
that Trump could no longer lead the party.
disqualifying Trump from ever again holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
any effort to seek Trump’s permission for any course of action we might take.
And had the impeachment vote been by secret ballot, it would have been overwhelmingly in favor of impeachment.
Narrated by Tucker Carlson, Patriot Purge seemed to be a purposeful effort at misinformation. It made false and incendiary claims suggesting that federal agents had incited the January 6 attack
Americans guided by principle and patriotism would have chosen. But it’s not the course Kevin McCarthy took.
McCarthy’s motive became clear a few days later when, on January 28, he visited Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Three weeks after the attack on the US Capitol, the Republican Leader of the House of Representatives was prostrating himself before the man responsible for January 6.
Not even Kevin McCarthy could be this craven, I thought. I was wrong.
Every time Kevin McCarthy had faced a decision of consequence, he had done the wrong thing.
from an angry Elise Stefanik of New York. She told me that, because of my vote to impeach, people were writing letters to the editors of her local papers criticizing her and asking why she hadn’t taken the same “principled” stand I had. That seemed less my problem than hers. Many of us who had known Elise since before she abandoned all principle were curious about how she had lost her sense of right and wrong.
Cipollone’s forthright testimony, I suspect she would have supplied
testified live that day. A longtime, well-respected Republican election lawyer, Ben Ginsberg, explained what the scores of lawsuits had concluded—that Trump was wrong. Twenty-two federal judges appointed by Republican presidents, including 10 appointed by President Trump himself, and at least 24 elected or appointed Republican state judges dismissed Trump’s claims. As Ginsberg pointed out, dozens of courts had analyzed the underlying factual allegations and ruled against Trump and his allies:
No person of even reasonable intellect who heard this information could believe that Donald Trump had won the election. Before
American. And he was told this over and over again. No rational or sane man in his position could disregard that information and reach the opposite conclusion.
Donald Trump had attempted to contact a committee witness—a witness we had not yet identified in any hearing. I announced publicly that we had alerted the Department of Justice to Trump’s call. We would not stand for efforts by Donald Trump or anyone else to try to intimidate or tamper with our witnesses.
A man who would behave that way when his character is tested lacks the sense of right and wrong that most Americans learn from their parents.
There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office. And she will succeed.
And despite knowing all of this, Donald Trump recently released the names of the FBI agents involved in the search. That was purposeful and malicious. No patriotic American should excuse these threats or be intimidated by them. Our great nation must not be ruled by a mob provoked over social media.
