The under reported act of unprecedented dereliction of duty.

[fightforfreedom]

It has been reported that many people, republicans, refused to go along with Trumps coup attempt, which is true. What is not being reported is all of these individuals failed to do their duty and warn the news media, the people, of the massive, organized, attempt to over throw our election, our government, our democracy.

People like Pence, Barr, some republicans in congress, people in the DOJ, knew what Trump was up too and they failed to warn anybody. They could have ended it well before Jan 6th. This level of dereliction of duty is dam near traitorous.

People like Pence, Barr, other people in the DOJ, some Republicans in congress should have come together as one and exposed what was about to happen. Not doing so put our democracy at great risk.

Hopefully the Jan. 6th committee will tell this story. People like Pence, Barr and others cannot be remembered as heroes who stood up to Trump. They are the opposite of heroes, they are cowards.

[barbtries]

1. not to mention

that republicans are guilty of this on a daily, ongoing basis. they don't do shit for the country, all they do is politic and power play and fuck with everyone else.

[dchill]

10. I see it the same.

The best Republican is a drag on democracy.

[llashram]

2. exactly

[fightforfreedom]

4. Has any reporter asked Pence, Barr, others, this question.

Why didn't you warn us? Why didn't you expose the coup that was being planned?

[llashram]

6. MSM

is not to be trusted in my book. They are usually owned by RWers and I am sure the questions that are asked come from the very top. Editors do worry about their jobs too. And reporters are more than likely in lockstep with editors.

[OMGWTF]

14. The MSM is only as "liberal" at its corporate owners. IOW, not at fking all.

[UpInArms]

26. 👆🏼

Truth

[leftieNanner]

13. You could always ask those questions

But they would never truly answer them. BS and spin are the only responses you would get. Republicans never say anything other than their scripted remarks.

Sad but true

[BSdetect]

3. What trump did was pure treason.

[Caliman73]

5. I agree with your assessment and hopes...I am, however, cynical.

America does not like a narrative that would indicate the rot within one of the two major parties. While Nixon and Watergate were a huge scandal at the time. It seems that people wanted to move past it quickly and Ford explicitly "wanted the nation to heal". Well, you cannot heal without treating the wound.

Just like the wounds of slavery and White Supremacy were NEVER really treated, they fester. Like the repeated wounds of not holding powerful criminals accountable are festering. From Nixon to Reagan, to W Bush, to Trump.

We don't like punishing the people at the top.

[llashram]

7. ++

so true. America's festering pus-filled wounds burst out on an American public in the person of TPOSFG and his oozing RW cronies. Pence included. They all knew what trump wanted after he got his marching orders from Putin.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. but, but they had to have something controversial to put in their books....

(snark)

[MacKasey]

9. Dan Quayle even knew

Quayle should have told Pence it was his duty to notify the speaker and the leaders of the senate

[OMGWTF]

15. Who knew Dan "Potatoe/Murphy Brown's Baby" Quayle would be redeemed by advising a future VP

not to overthrow a presidential election!

[malaise]

11. Precisely

But no men and women have chosen book deals of exposing their criminal president,

[BadgerMom]

12. They all took an oath to the Constitution.

They failed to live up to it.

[Backseat Driver]

18. It would be easier to change R's oath to

"...so help me, fascist oligarchs and Mom." or something like "I really hope I can do this...."; D's can keep the same one we got since they know that Yawah, Allah, and JC are really the same Creator and respect personal beliefs of those with no God(s) or lots of them and the decency of Constitutional decency - what else is there to swear by--stick a needle in my eye?

I'm a cynical private christian! Not even I claim to be an evangelizing prophet with a crystal ball and proof of the hereafter lands or plans.

[XacerbatedDem]

25. Doesn't matter -

Repugs only say the lines they're given, while thinking about how much money they're going to make.

[LymphocyteLover]

16. 100%. Which is why they are all goddamn traitors to my eyes

[pecosbob]

17. There are laws regarding malfeasance and misfeasance in office

[gibraltar72]

19. Didn't jump off that ship

until the last lifeboat was full.

[TeamProg]

20. One would hope, but man where is Garland ?!?!

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. Enablers were accessories either before, or after the fact.

And maybe even during.

And no, they should NOT be remembered as heroes. Not no, but HELL NO! At best, they were slightly less awful.

[Vogon_Glory]

22. IMO The Senators Who Voted To Acquit Trump In The Second Impeachment Are Also

guilty of gross dereliction of duty. Both Cruz and Cronyn should have voted to convict.

[L. Coyote]

23. 18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony

18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. Pence called Dan Quayle to find out what he could do to please T****.

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From Peril,by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa:

Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.

"'Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away," Quayle told him.

Pence pressed again.

'You don't know the position I'm in," he said, according to the authors.

"I do know the position you're in," Quayle responded. "I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That's all you do. You have no power."

If you think I'm exaggerating about the role Quayle played, consider how things might have gone had he taken a different tact with Pence, telling him to do what Trump asked.

[yardwork]

29. Quayle only told Pence the truth about constitutional procedure.

It shows how low expectations for Republicans are now, when Quayle is praised for literally doing nothing but speaking the truth.

[Mr. Ected]

27. Strange that while Trump was doing contortions to claim victory

None of those asswipes thought to avail themselves of the very appropriate 25th Amendment to put that dog down.

Their continued cowardice proximately caused J6 and indirectly led to the massacre in Ukraine.

Hang 'em high.

[Pacifist Patriot]

28. To do nothing is also a decision with sometimes grave consequences.

Definitely a story that needs to be told!