Donald Trump’s own people have thoroughly thrown him under the January 6th bus
Even before a Capitol attacker and a former Oath Keeper testified live, the evidence presented at today’s January 6th public hearing was already so stunningly over the top, it’s almost difficult to summarize. Even MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell, who has seen everything over the years and tends to downplay everything, said she’d never seen anything like it.
The committee alternated between video clips of sane witnesses like former Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, and Donald Trump’s lunatic personal loyalists like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as they each described a fateful White House meeting in mid December of 2020. At one point Giuliani told Trump White House lawyers they were “p*ssies.” At another point Cipollone had Mark Meadows escort Giuliani off the White House property.
But what stood out the most was just how many of Trump’s people threw him under the bus, either intentionally in testimony, or privately in exchanges they didn’t expect would become public. Cipollone testified that Trump was completely out of control. Kayleigh McEnany testified that she told Trump it was over. Cipollone also testified that Mark Meadows told him early on that Trump should just concede.
Perhaps most damningly, former Trump 2016 and Trump 2020 campaign operative Brad Parscale stated in a text message after January 6th that he felt Trump had been “asking for civil war” – and that Parscale felt guilty for having helped Trump get elected in 2016 to begin with.
The bottom line is that Donald Trump’s own top non-lunatic advisers have clearly established that Trump knew he had lost the election, and that he was trying to stir up violence in an effort to overthrow the election results. This is how you establish Trump’s guilt, both in the court of public opinion and in a court of law.
