I have been following Trump's fascist attempt to stay in power pretty closely over the last year, but even I am shocked by the detailed evidence presented by the House Impeachment Managers yesterday. I've been catching up on recordings of yesterday's presentations.
Trump's months' long incitement of his Cult to set the stage for his final call to action on January 6 with claims that the election would be and then was rigged was more than just a bad loser making an excuse for his loss. He knew what he was doing and he called for violence to keep himself in power. He needed to stay in power, not just because of his psychopathic ego that can't admit defeat, he needed to stay in power to stay out of prison for his criminal career of tax evasion, bank fraud, money laundering, campaign violations, and who knows what else.
I knew all that. But to witness the timeline of events, including the sustained and brutal violence by a well organized and well planned right wing terrorist insurrection is really disturbing. I have wept in rage and sorrow, while watching, that one complete nincompoop of a man could cause so much damage to my beloved America.
The right wing terrorists were out to kill the Vice President, to please their cult leader, and to kill the Speaker of the House, to please their cult leader, and literally to kill anyone they could get their hands on. They wounded 140 officers, killed one, two more died. The Capitol Police were astonishingly brave heroes. We saw video after video proving their heroism.
The terrorists came within minutes and within yards of getting the VP, Senators, and Congress-people. They clearly shouted their intentions to hang or kill them.
It was terrifying. And that is the essence of fascism, is it not? To dominate with terror? To seize power and keep it with violence and terror?
I have no idea how any Republican Senator could possibly vote to acquit the ex-president after seeing the detail of the time line in preparation for, prior to, and during the attack designed to find them and kill them.
This is not an exaggeration. To any who think this was just a mob that got out of control, or was some kind of spontaneous event that came from nowhere, the only explanation is that they have not watched the evidence being presented. The ex-president is a psychopath and he tried to kill people to stay in power (correction, he did kill people to stay in power)
Find the ex-president guilty, please. Prison for all involved, please.
