{"id":313307,"date":"2022-07-08T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=313307"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:17:20","slug":"hey-republicans-are-you-ashamed-of-supporting-trump-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/hey-republicans-are-you-ashamed-of-supporting-trump-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Republicans, are you ashamed of supporting Trump yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI was disgusted. It was unpatriotic. It was un-American that we were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So spoke Trump White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson, as she testified under oath before the Jan. 6 Select Committee. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hutchinson had been asked by Rep. Liz Cheney how she felt when she had seen Trump\u2019s tweet that day about Vice President Pence not having the \u201ccourage\u201d to do Trump\u2019s illegal bidding. The former President sent that tweet even after he had learned the angry mob was armed and headed for the Capitol. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hutchinson\u2019s testimony is particularly compelling because she is a rock-solid Republican, who served as a top assistant to Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. As such, she was immersed in the day-to-day reality of the Trump White House. Her poised, professional demeanor stood in stark contrast to the petulant, violent and sinister behaviors she witnessed on display by the 45<\/span><\/span>el<\/span><\/span><\/sup> President.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The former Trump staffer confirmed Trump knew that the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were armed, with firearms and other weapons. Still, Trump incited the mob by saying, \u201cmarch to the Capitol,\u201d and \u2018fight like hell.\u201d When a White House attorney explicitly told Trump not to use that language, for legal reasons, Trump stormed, \u201cI don\u2019t f-ing care that they have weapons. They\u2019re not here to hurt me.\u201d When he was informed the Secret Service was using metal-detecting magnetometers to screen protesters for guns, Trump said, \u201cTake the f-ing mags away.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The testimony by Hutchinson also confirmed the wretched remarks Trump made about Pence\u2019s safety. She was present for a conversation between Meadows and Trump\u2019s White House counsel, Pat Cippolone. As the insurrection raged, the lawyer expressed to Meadows his alarm at the mob\u2019s chants of \u201cHang Mike Pence\u201d Referencing the conversation they had just had with the President, Meadows said, \u201cYou heard it, Pat. [Trump] thinks Mike deserves it. He doesn\u2019t think they\u2019re (the mob) doing anything wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, Hutchinson, speaking under penalty of perjury, described how Trump was desperate to join the mob\u2019s attack on the Capitol, even as staffers and lawyers told him he could not. Cippolone told Hutchinson, \u201cWe\u2019ll be charged with every crime imaginable (if Trump goes to the Capitol).\u201d But Trump was so intent on joining the assault that he kept demanding that the Secret Service allow him to accompany the mob. When the Secret Service agent driving the President\u2019s SUV explained he could not safely do so, the agents involved told Hutchinson that Trump said, \u201cI\u2019m the f-ing president. Take me up to the Capitol – now.\u201d According to the agents, Trump then grabbed the steering wheel, and lunged at the agent with his free hand. To be clear, none of these accounts have been contradicted by testimony under oath.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So a power-mad, ranting leader of the government watched approvingly as an armed mob attacked the nation\u2019s seat of government, an attack that he himself had been fomenting and encouraging for months. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The head of state had no problem with the crowd\u2019s chant to execute the second in command. That same leader instructed security personnel to allow the irate mob to bring guns to the halls of the legislature. He desperately attempted to physically join the marauders as they invaded the government\u2019s buildings. If these events transpired anywhere else-literally, any other country-every lawmaker, regardless of party, would call it by what it was: an attempted coup; a violent attempt to overturn a democratic election.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But what does the GOP say about it? The Republican National Committee not only censured the patriotic Republicans who are members of the Select Committee, it specifically characterized the attempted coup as \u201clegitimate political discourse.\u201d Republican lawmakers have repeatedly referred to those who have been criminally charged for participating in an armed attack on our Capitol as \u201cpolitical prisoners.\u201d That\u2019s what they say in public, at least. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But the Committee has revealed that numerous Republicans were asking Trump for pardons. To name a few, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump\u2019s crooked coup lawyer John Eastman, all pushed for pardons from Trump. But if you haven\u2019t done anything illegal, why would you need a pardon?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The point is, Republicans have known all along that Trump was an aspiring despot who cared nothing about the government beyond how he and his family could profit from it or be empowered by it. The hearings have demonstrated, once these Republicans are under oath, that they knew there was no election fraud; they knew the \u201cstop the steal\u201d fiction was a way to outrage their base; they knew that Trump had attempted a coup, but it was in their political interests to continue to lie about it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And they\u2019re still doing it. As of the end of May 2022, at least 108 candidates for statewide office or Congress have repeated Trump\u2019s lies. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pennsylvania\u2019s GOP nominee for governor ran on a promise to award the state\u2019s 19 electoral votes to the Republican nominee no matter whom the voters choose. Republicans in Congress still openly question the integrity of the election. Very few, if any, are willing to state the simple incontrovertible fact that Joe Biden is the legitimate President of the United States. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s not mince words about the leaders in today\u2019s Republican Party. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like the courageous Cassidy Hutchinson, let\u2019s call them for what they are: Disgusting. Unpatriotic. Un-American.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club meets the first Wednesday of every month. Please join us for our Club meeting on<\/i><\/span><\/span> Wednesday Aug. 3, 7 p.m.<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>at the La Mesa Community Center, 4975 Memorial Drive in La Mesa. For more information, visit<\/i><\/span><\/span> lamesafoothillsdemocraticclub.com<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

– <\/span><\/span>Sean Quintal writes on behalf of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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