Have We Forgotten Trump’s Criminal Attempts To Overthrow the 2020 Election?
From this article:
Sorry—am I missing something?
Did we or did we not all learn last Friday that the previous president of the United States of America, in his last weeks in office, tried to strong-arm the Justice Department to falsely declare that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, and even threatened to fire the acting attorney general if he didn’t?! Didn’t we read that a sitting president of the world’s greatest democracy told the nation’s top law enforcement official: “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the [Republican] Congressmen”?
Does that ring a bell? I seem to recall something along those lines, and I have a few questions:
Why isn’t this the most outrageous act of political corruption in American history? I’m old enough to have lived through Watergate; isn’t this orders of magnitude beyond Nixonian corruption?
Why didn’t every newspaper and news website in America display that headline in 60-point type? Why, instead, did the nation’s two newspapers of political record, The New York Times and Washington Post, give the story only mid-level importance on their front pages, outweighed by the Olympics and infrastructure negotiations?
This guy makes an excellent point, but the reason this is not top-of-mind for most Americans is what could be called “Trump overload,” i.e., the phenomenon that there is so much evidence hitting us that speaks to Trump’s felonies that no single one of them has the opportunity to stand out from the others. We’re all wondering, “Well, that should get him a life sentence in prison, but what’s next?”
Speaking for myself, this is the crime for which I hope he goes down. Did he run a fraudulent charity, evade taxes, extort an ally, intimidate witnesses, incite insurrection, and defraud untold thousands of his moron supporters? Of course. But this lies at the very core of how he came within a gnat’s derriere of smashing American democracy to smithereens.
