To the editor: To begin, and to be clear, I address the first part of this essay to you, the politicians listed below. Let’s get something else straight right from the start. January 6 was a Trump-inspired coup attempt.
Trump has tried to justify that coup as a reaction to his wholly unsupported claim that Biden stole the 2020 election. And finally, let’s understand that there is not one single tiny, microscopically miniscule shred of evidence to support the claim that the election was stolen. If it were there, at least one court would have supported the claim that the election was tainted.
None did. So, Cruz and Hawley and Clyde and the rest of you Congresspeople, you are smart enough to tell the difference between a truth and a falsehood but too cowardly to admit it. The fraud was foisted on the world by a loser, Trump.
And every single one of you will live with the shame that you knew, you all knew, and you either embraced it or chose to ignore it. You were in the halls of the Capitol on January 6. It was you who ran for shelter from the mob, not from a happy group of tourists.
It was you who watched the January 6 hearings, saw armed thugs and hangman nooses in front of the Capitol at the same time the traitors called for the lynching of the vice president of the United States and the shooting of the speaker of the House “in the friggin brain.” You, the politicians, know that Trump, on his way to join his army of traitors, demanded that he be taken to the epicenter.