.speechboy71: If Trump allies truly believed the election had been stolen, why would they need pardons?
, telling colleagues that Trump “bears responsibility for his words and actions. No ifs, ands or buts.” The top-ranking House Republican has also called Trump’s actions “unacceptable” and that “nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it.”
I would imagine that the latter attitude is shared by many of his staffers, who were shown on tape Thursday night fleeing their offices in terror on Jan. 6 as the Trump-inspired mob entered the building. Still, McCarthy continues to defend the president, and in the process, cravenly and cynically lie to Republican voters.
If one did a private survey of House Republicans, I would expect that the vast majority would acknowledge Trump’s primary culpability for the violence that took place that day. Most would likely acknowledge that his claims of a stolen election are, to quote former Attorney General Bill Barr, “The overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans and those seeking to become congressional Republicans have chosen to peddle the former president’s lies to their supporters.
But the truth, it seems, is no impediment to their ambitions. The few Republicans who are willing to publicly recognize the central role Trump played in the insurrection have been ostracized from the party, or are choosing not to seek re-election. The second Republican on the Jan. 6 committee, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, has taken the latter course. Cheney is fighting to keep her job against a pro-Trump Republican primary opponent, which looks increasingly like a long-shot.
The overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans and those seeking to become congressional Republicans have chosen to peddle the former president’s lies to their supporters. They’d rather be members of Congress than patriots.On Thursday, we heard over and over from those close to Trump that they knew in early November that he’d lost the 2020 presidential election.
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