Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The Oregon Republican Party Issues a Condemnation

 You have to read it to believe it.  An excerpt:

Whereas history tells us that after George Washington appointed Major General Benedict Arnold to command West Point, Arnold conspired to surrender the fort to the British; and

Whereas the ten Republican House members, by voting to impeach President Trump, repeated history by conspiring to surrender our nation to Leftist forces seeking to establish a dictatorship void of all cherished freedoms and liberties....

Whereas there is growing evidence that the violence at the capitol was a “false flag” operation designed to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans; this provided the sham motivation to impeach President Trump in order to advance the Democrat goal of seizing total power, in a frightening parallel to the February 1933 burning of the German Reichstag....

That we condemn the betrayal by the following ten Republican members of Congress who voted in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi to support a second sham impeachment....

Wow.  Benedict Arnold, the Reichstag Fire: they sure know their history.  And I like the false flag bit: the people who gathered outside the capitol were patriots defending their country against a monstrous conspiracy to undermine democracy and impose tyranny, but the ones who actually went into it were Antifa rabble.

8 comments:

nobody said...

This level of delusion shared by this many people only ends in disaster and bloodshed.

I fear there is a very real risk of America becoming the location of the next Rwandan-style genocide, should the armed delusional seek to satisfy the needs of the voices in their heads by slaughtering the sane.

Anonymous said...

I read a few of their other tweets. Let's see. Trump called for peaceful protests? Seriously? And oh yea - Biden's press secretary takes off her mask after she takes the podium. That socialist!

Sandwichman said...

And there you have it -- insurrection normalized.

Fred C. Dobbs said...

In other news...

Trump loses lead impeachment lawyers week before Senate trial

AP - January 31

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, two people familiar with the situation said Saturday.

Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, both South Carolina lawyers, are no longer with Trump’s defense team. One of the people described the parting as a “mutual decision” that reflected a difference of opinion on the direction of the case. Both insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. ...

The upheaval injects fresh uncertainty into the makeup and strategy of Trump’s defense team as he prepares to face charges that he incited the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. However, all but five Senate Republicans this week voted in favor of an effort to dismiss the trial before it even started, making clear a conviction of the former president is unlikely regardless of his defense team.

Greg Harris and Johnny Gasser, two former federal prosecutors from South Carolina, are also off the team, one of the people said.

According to a different person with knowledge of the legal hires, Bowers and Barbier left the team because Trump wanted them to use a defense that relied on allegations of election fraud, and the lawyers were not willing to do so. ...

Fred C. Dobbs said...

Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team

NY Times - January 31

Former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday named two lawyers who will represent him in his coming impeachment trial in the Senate, a day after he parted ways with five members of his initial team.

David Schoen, a Georgia-based lawyer who represented the longtime Trump adviser Roger J. Stone Jr., and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney in Pennsylvania, were announced in a news release from Mr. Trump’s office.

“Notably, Schoen has already been working with the 45th president and other advisers to prepare for the upcoming trial, and both Schoen and Castor agree that this impeachment is unconstitutional — a fact 45 senators voted in agreement with last week,” the news release said.

The lawyers will be deployed immediately: Mr. Trump is due to file a response to the House charges by Tuesday, and the trial is scheduled to start next week. The announcement came a day after Mr. Trump parted ways with his lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, a South Carolina-based lawyer whom Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, helped bring to the Trump team, and four other lawyers who were supposed to work on the defense. ...

Fred C. Dobbs said...

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

NY Times - January 31

(Pretty much the complete story, although the GA
Senatorial run-off miracle seems somewhat slighted.)

Fred C. Dobbs said...

NYT: How a Lie Stoked the Assault on the Capitol

In the days between election and inauguration, a lie former
President Trump had been grooming for years overwhelmed the Republican Party.

A Times examination shows how that lie grew, finally managing to upend the
peaceful transfer of power that had been the bedrock of American democracy. ...

Fred C. Dobbs said...

Key Takeaways From Trump’s Effort to Overturn the Election