Michael Luttig warned that Trump and his allies “would attempt to overturn” the “2024 election in the same way they attempted to overturn the 2020 election.” In his speech, Trump dismissed Luttig’s statements and said Pence “had a chance to be great.” Pence “had a chance to be historic, but just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people. In a stunning closing statement, retired federal Judge J. On Thursday, the Committee revealed that Trump’s mob was at one point a mere 40 feet away from Pence during the attack on the Capitol. “Nobody was killed,” Trump declared, “except for a wonderful young woman named Ashli Babbitt, who was viciously shot and, in my opinion, for absolutely no reason by a police officer.” Trump promised that if he becomes president in 2024, he will consider pardoning the “January 6 political prisoners,” who he claimed were being treated “worse than terrorists and murderers.” He attacked “weak” Republicans, such as former Vice President Mike Pence and former Attorney General William Barr, for bailing on his efforts to overthrow the government. Ignoring the massive evidence, including new information released in the hearings, of a coordinated conspiracy over many months to overturn an election defeat and establish a personalist dictatorship, Trump repeated the transparent lie that the siege of the Capitol to block certification of the Electoral College vote was simply a “protest that got out of hand.” Trump reiterated his eulogy for QAnon adherent and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by police to prevent her from breaking into the House chamber and enabling the mob to seize and likely kill lawmakers targeted by Trump’s brown shirts. In his speech which lasted more than 90 minutes, Trump attacked the “unselect committee” as a “one-sided witch-hunt” that was pushing an “insurrection hoax.” He claimed, falsely, that January 6 was not an insurrection because there were “no guns” recovered at the Capitol. If Trump is the 2024 presidential nominee, there is no question that virtually the entire Republican Party will support him and back any and all extra-constitutional means he will employ to return to power and impose his fascistic agenda. This effort to exonerate the Republican Party and cover up the extensive support in the military, police and intelligence apparatus for the attempted overthrow of the election and the Constitution has been on display in the three hearings held thus far by the Democratic-controlled House Select Committee on January 6. The appearance of hundreds of Republican operatives and dozens of politicians at the pro-Trump event explodes the narrative put forward by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party that there is an “honorable” section of the Republican Party, committed to defending democracy from Trump’s “crazies.” In their speeches, the Republican politicians lamented that their leader was no longer in office and promoted the lie that the 2020 election was stolen or otherwise “rigged,” in the process justifying the attack on the U.S. Speakers at the event included several of Trump’s former cabinet officials and Republican co-conspirators, none of whom, more than 17 months after the Janucoup attempt, have been held to account for trying to install a fascist dictatorship. The annual event, held this year from June 16–18 in Nashville, Tennessee, featured hundreds of Republican politicians and their Christian supremacist allies, virtually all of whom warmly embraced the aspiring dictator. Demonstrating that he remains the dominant figure in the increasingly fascistic Republican Party, Donald Trump delivered the headline speech on Friday at the three-day Faith and Freedom Coalition's “Road to the Majority” conference.
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