Posted on 06/30/2022 2:33:06 PM PDT by Ennis85
On June 25, 1973, former White House counsel John Dean shocked the country with his testimony to a Senate committee revealing President Richard M. Nixon’s complicity in the Watergate coverup. He recalled “telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed that the President himself would be killed by it.” He thereby set in motion the process that led to Nixon’s downfall a little more than a year later.
It has taken 49 years, almost to the day, but on Tuesday afternoon we finally heard congressional testimony about presidential misconduct whose shock value might rival Dean’s. The question now is whether the Republican Party will finally realize that former president Donald Trump is not fit to hold office — that, indeed, our democracy might not survive another Trump term. Or will the GOP shrug this off, as they have every other Trump scandal, as a trivial distraction from what they regard as far more important issues, such as the price of gasoline? Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked as an aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, electrified a television audience, Dean-style, with her firsthand account of Trump’s actions in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, and on that infamous day itself. There were too many jaw-dropping moments to count. She described how Trump was so angry at then-Attorney General William P. Barr for saying that the 2020 election was not fraudulent that he threw his meal against a White House dining room wall, leaving a smear of ketchup. This was evidence of a president who made Nixon seem like a model of sanity by comparison.
She said Trump was aware that members of the crowd on Jan. 6 were armed but insisted that the Secret Service
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Max Boot, Washingsnot Pest fabulist.
Report the lies - bury the facts.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Don’t let those Secret Service members involved get in the way tho, BootIdiot!?!
Does this fkn quisling even read anything?
The wench he’s referring to has been completely discredited in every way.
I thought he threw a Big Mac? They don’t come with Ketchup.
“...will the GOP shrug this off, as they have every other Trump scandal, as a trivial distraction from what they regard as far more important issues, such as the price of gasoline?”
Kinda important these days but hey, if you don’t care about your fellow Americans and their children....
She lied.
Thanks Hon. You'll get a sweet book deal and you'll be on every Sunday morning talk show. The liberal media will treat you like a conquering hero. Probably get a cushy Wall Street job too. Thanks again.
Some Never Trumper certainly needs a Yuge kick in the Butt.
Let him never darken our doorstep again.
[Marxist heathen]
The not allowed in court hearsay smoking gun...
The IRS needs to be investigating her finances, now and into the future.
BTY, how’s Blase-Ford doing financially these days?
Max Boot is a Council on Foreign Relations member.
We can all send him acid emails at:
“ mboot@cfr.org“
Yep, cassidy was stupid enough to shoot herself. Can’t fix liars and stupid
I guess that at least the US legal system figured out that hearsay can be easily manipulated and banished it for good reason some time back.
Now we get an object lesson.
Average Marxist: “Free the Hearsay!”
If it is a smoking gun, it’s because it blew up in their faces.
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Smoking gun ... makes me think of a Yosemite Sam cartoon where his six shooter has blown up in his face.
Yes, that kind of smoking gun.
These pronouns are SO confusing these daze.
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