“President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child,” Liz Cheney said Tuesday. “Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices.”
The January 6 committee on Tuesday presented a great many important — and disturbing — revelations about the role extremist groups played in last year’s Capitol attack.
These bookends served both as a clarion call for accountability and as an important reminder: For all his towering stupidity and childishness, this potential criminality was not merely occurringTrump; he was its ringleader, the “hub” from which the various “spokes” of this antidemocratic conspiracy sprung, as former prosecutorearlier this week.
Trump’s culpability in the Capitol attack — and the myriad other outrages he suffered onto the country throughout his presidency — has been obvious since the beginning, of course. But one of the striking aspects of the hearings so far has been how coordinated all of this was, the extent to which the chaos of January 6 was actually part of the plan. It was a desperate attempt to cling to power, yes.
, Bolton said that what happened January 6 wasn’t really a coup because he’d helped orchestrate some — !!! — and they took more planning than Trump and his goons were capable of. “That’s not the way Donald Trump does things,” Bolton said. “It’s rambling from one half, vast idea to another. One plan comes through, and another comes up. That’s what he was doing.”
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