Opinion: Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots.

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Opinion: Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots.

Opinion by Dana Milbank
Columnist
Feb. 13, 2021 at 6:37 p.m. EST

In the end, the darkest truth of Donald Trump’s crime came to light. ... As his marauders sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 in their bloody attempt to overturn the election, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy called the then-president and pleaded for Trump to call off the attack. ... Trump refused, essentially telling McCarthy he got what he deserved. Trump was, in effect, content to let members of Congress die.

That damning account, in a statement Friday night from Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), a Republican who defended Trump during his first impeachment, momentarily threw the Senate’s impeachment trial into chaos on its final day.

Trump’s lawyers, in their slashing, largely fictitious defense, claimed that Trump was “horrified” by the violence, hadn’t known that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger and took “immediate steps” to counter the rioting.

But Herrera Beutler revealed such claims to be a lie. When McCarthy “finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol,” she wrote. McCarthy, she continued, “refuted that and told the president that these were Trump supporters. That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said: ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.’ ”

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Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. He sketches the foolish, the fallacious and the felonious in politics. Follow https://twitter.com/Milbank

[MyOwnPeace]

1. And an even more disturbing fact

is that AFTER all that happened on January 6 - after that response to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's plea to DO SOMETHING - McCarthy made a special trip three weeks later to have another round of boot-licking, a$$-kissing with the deposed monster.
Is there ONE SINGLE RepubliCon that has a single ounce of self-respect - or respect for the oath that they take and the people that they are elected to serve?

[katmondoo]

2. Will it be possible Trump will be on a FBI list as a possible home terrorist that needs surveillance

He is already saying his followers are beautiful people. I consider him as a civilian to be even more dangerous then he was as a president. We won't be safe unless his undercover actions in the future are known.