When retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig said at Thursday’s blockbuster hearing of the Jan. 6 House committee that "Donald Trump, his allies and his supporters are a clear and present danger to our democracy,” it served as yet another hair-on-fire warning that the former president and those around him have no fealty to the rule of law or democratic traditions.
Trump was told that Pence had no constitutional standing to hand the election to Trump and his attempt to do so would break the law. But that didn’t stop him.
In Republican-dominated state legislatures around the country, new laws based on Trump’s false claims about electoral fraud are making it more difficult to vote, and in particular, to cast mail-in ballots. More than 100 Republicans who’ve repeated Trump’s lies about the 2020 election have won GOP primaries. Even this week, Republican election officials in New Mexico refused to certify a local election over bogus concerns about the use of Dominion voting machines, which Trump and his supporters wrongly vilified.
Even more dismaying is that none of Trump’s aides who rejected his lie and his plot have done so publicly. The committee showed video testimony from Jason Miller, a Trump campaign adviser, dismissing Eastman’s legal theories as "crazy" — but the committee also showed his appearance on Fox News on Jan.5, demanding that Pence stop the certification.
Those around Trump either told him what he wanted to hear or enabled his fantasies. Even as he continued...
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