Washington — It’s all a lie that Vice President Mike Pence was able to invalidate the 2020 election results and send them back to the Republican state legislature, including ballot dropbox stuffing, fraudulent voting machines, and the Constitution. It was the “flexibility” above.
The first three hearings of the House Commission on January 6 were constantly repeated, even if not dismantled, by former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters, and were accepted and amplified by the Republicans in Congress. It greatly overturned the post-election myth.
A parade of Republican witnesses — his Attorney General, William P. Barr, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and his own campaign lawyer — told him that he had lost the election. Mr. Trump was informed that it was illegal to demand Mr. Pence to unilaterally stop the defeat. Even the most active coup plotter, conservative lawyer John C. Eastman, admitted that his plans were illegal and unconstitutional before January 6, leading to mob violence and then pardoning the president. Asked.
But the most striking revelation to date was how deeply Trump’s disregard for the truth and the rule of law pervaded the Republicans, rooted in conspiracy-theoretic, fertile soils simmered by right-wing voters, and they chose. media. The Republican response to the hearing is a combination of indifference, diversion, and doubling, reflecting how central the stolen election lies have become to the party’s identity.
In Washington, Congressional Republicans haven’t broke up with Mr. Trump or spent a lot of energy trying to refute the findings. From the Secretary of State of Nevada to the election of Governor of Michigan, Republican candidates have embraced fictitious plots in the 2022 campaign.
“I’ve been fighting for a safe, honest and transparent election since before January 6th, and that fight is going on,” said Steve Kara, Michigan. Part of a hearing, but not many. “Absentee ballots have eased unsolicited signature verification and sent dropboxes everywhere, especially in democratic areas. It’s all worth further scrutiny.”
Seeds planted by the Trump team between the 2020 election day and January 6, 2021, such as mentha in the garden, are now out of control with the help of the former president’s allies.
Leading candidate Jarome Bell, who challenges Congressman Elaine Luria of the Virginia Democratic Party, travels to a Republican-friendly district to show voters a movie that promotes false fraud claims by right-wing provocative Dinesh Dosouza. I am. He said the hearing on Friday “did not affect me.” The “2000 Mule” has a big impact on what actually happened. “The 1/6 commission is a cover-up,” he added.
Michigan’s provincial candidate Jon Rocha, who has Trump’s support, also quoted the film, boasting that he hadn’t seen the “even a 30-second clip” hearing at all.
One of the reasons for the prevalence of falsehood is the failure of Republicans who do not believe they will push back. Before the January 6 hearing began, Republican leaders promised a strong “quick response” effort to counter the story that would emerge.
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However, there was no such opposition from the Republican National Committee or other organizations to revealing that Mr. Trump continued to pressure Mr. Pence to overturn the election results. Even after being told that it is illegal to do so.
Republican leader, Mr. Trump told Mr. Pence, “The creation of a republic.”
No one was concerned that Mr. Trump and his campaign would counter the discovery of the panel, revealed on Monday. Raise hundreds of millions of dollars From supporters based on the false pretense of large-scale fraudulent elections, using the money raised for the non-existent election defense fund.
Senator Mitch McConnell, a minority leader in the Senate, has chosen not to be involved in this issue at all. And as long as they’re trying to counter hearings, Republicans have encouraged voters to look elsewhere — rising gas prices, inflation, and immigration at the southern border.
Only Mr. Trump seems to be particularly frustrated by the stunned movement in the testimony of his daughter who shared his details. Abuse call with Mr. Pence She said she trusted Mr. Barr’s decision when she said the 2020 election was not stolen on the morning of January 6.
“It’s a one-way street, a fraudulent transaction, and a shame,” he says completely. Mr. Trump said on Friday In his speech in Nashville, which he called January 6th a “simple protest out of control,” he continued to weave false claims and epic conspiracy theories of fraudulent elections.
But the Republican leadership’s allies do not admit that the election was not stolen unless they opposed the message that the attack was fueled by lies.
And 50 years after Richard M. Nixon’s Henchman invaded the Democratic headquarters of the Watergate Hotel, a hearing triggered by two scandals highlights how dramatically the Republican Party has changed. Then, major Republican leaders responded to increasingly terrible exposures to their president by siding with Democrats and driving Mr Nixon out of power. Today, Republican leaders are silent or despised by a committee that reveals Mr. Trump’s steady flow of fraud.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California said that Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney, and Adam B. Schiff “will not stop lying about their political opponents.” Stated. I wrote on TwitterRefers to the Democratic Chairman of Mississippi, the Republican Vice-Chairman of Wyoming, and the Democratic Party of California.
Michigan’s Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump for inciting January 6, said the hearing so far “even from an information-consuming perspective. It reminds us how deeply we are divided. “
Many of his members have never seen videotape testimony explaining the proceedings against Mr. Trump. Only footage of police removing the barricade to bring the riots into the Capitol on January 6th. FBI Provocateur In line with the uncovered conspiracy theory accepted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and others on the right for violence.
“January. Six more political prisoners than the Center’s prisoners who demand accountability for the attack,” Meyer said.
But most voters aren’t paying attention, said another Republican, California lawmaker David Valadao, who votes for impeachment.
“I’m talking to voters at home right now: fuel prices, food prices, infant formula, you’re naming it,” Baradao said. “As far as I know many people want, there’s so much people are paying attention to right now, just not paying attention to the one on January 6th.”
Asked if the hearing would benefit the Republicans by making it easier to find alternative presidential candidates in 2024 than Mr. Trump, he replied: Impact. “
However, in the Republican primary, supported by the enthusiasm of the Trump faction, Many candidates have emerged as party candidates It was because of a false campaign that the 2020 election was stolen by President Biden.
Republican candidate Governor of Pennsylvania, Nevada Secretary of StateSenate Nevada, PennsylvaniaWhen North CarolinaWhen Texas Attorney General Everyone tried to overturn the 2020 elections or accepted the false allegations of fraudulent voting.
Texas Republican Mayra Flores, who won the House of Commons in a special election on Tuesday, did not say whether Biden would win in 2020. San Antonio Express-News: “I’m just talking in general. There are fraudulent votes.”
And there are many more things to come. On June 28, Lonhanks, who is trying to challenge Democratic Senator Michael Bennet in the Republican preliminary elections in Colorado, marches to the Capitol on January 6 and launches the next campaign. did. Advertisement showing he is shooting a fake Dominion voting machineThe central device of a vast conspiracy theory about voting allegedly stolen by foreign forces from Mr. Trump.
On Monday, the Commission showed a videotape testimony record that Mr. Barr could barely suppress his laughter due to the absurdity of such a story, and if Mr. Trump believed them, he would be “separated from reality.” I had to do it. “
In Michigan, a barbaric contest to select Republicans to challenge Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer Narrowly led by Ryan Kelly, A real estate broker arrested this month and charged with participating in the January 6 riots. Rocha, a candidate for state legislature in western Michigan, said voters were far more concerned about gas prices and empty store shelves than at the January 6 hearing, and in fact voters are still ” He said he was very angry about the “completeness of the election.”
“They did it in 2020. Now they are finding a new way to get rid of Republicans from this year’s ballot,” he said.
In Arizona, Kali Lake, a leading Republican governor candidate, calls her “Stolen elections” is a central claim For her campaign. Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, I was on the stairs in front of the Parliament building And Blake Masters, who wants to challenge Senator Mark Kelly, an incumbent Democrat, “One-third of the people outside the Capitol The January 6 complex was a real FBI agent. “
Annie Carni Report that contributed.
