signalmankenneth
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Trump and his cohorts still pose a danger to our democracy and they must be held accountable for the Jan 6th insurrection too?!!
Can you imagine if Pence had caved to Trump's demands on Jan 6th, and the ensuing violence and anarchy we have in this country?!!
In 220 years peaceful transfers of power, Trump was the first and I hope the last too, not to except a peaceful transfer of power?!!
J Michael Luttig testifies that ex-president and his supporters are preparing an ‘attempt to overturn 2024 election’ as they did in 2020
In a chilling warning, a conservative judge closed the the third January 6 committee hearing on Thursday by saying Donald Trump, his allies and supporters were still “a clear and present danger to American democracy”.
J Michael Luttig testified that the former US president and his Republican supporters are preparing in open sight an “attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but [to] succeed”.
The retired federal judge, a George HW Bush appointee, testified in his capacity as an adviser to Mike Pence, who was vice-president to Trump between 2017 and 2021.
In a statement before the hearing, Luttig said: “A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, and our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.
“America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other – over our democracy.”
The hearing that followed focused on efforts by Trump and advisers to persuade Pence to block certification of Joe Biden’s victory, Pence’s refusal to do so and the deadly attack on the US Capitol that put Pence in danger.
Closing the hearing, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the Democratic committee chair, asked Luttig to say what he meant by calling Trump and his supporters a clear and present danger.
Luttig said: “Almost two years after that fateful day … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nger-to-us-democracy-conservative-judge-warns
Can you imagine if Pence had caved to Trump's demands on Jan 6th, and the ensuing violence and anarchy we have in this country?!!
In 220 years peaceful transfers of power, Trump was the first and I hope the last too, not to except a peaceful transfer of power?!!
J Michael Luttig testifies that ex-president and his supporters are preparing an ‘attempt to overturn 2024 election’ as they did in 2020
In a chilling warning, a conservative judge closed the the third January 6 committee hearing on Thursday by saying Donald Trump, his allies and supporters were still “a clear and present danger to American democracy”.
J Michael Luttig testified that the former US president and his Republican supporters are preparing in open sight an “attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but [to] succeed”.
The retired federal judge, a George HW Bush appointee, testified in his capacity as an adviser to Mike Pence, who was vice-president to Trump between 2017 and 2021.
In a statement before the hearing, Luttig said: “A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, and our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.
“America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other – over our democracy.”
The hearing that followed focused on efforts by Trump and advisers to persuade Pence to block certification of Joe Biden’s victory, Pence’s refusal to do so and the deadly attack on the US Capitol that put Pence in danger.
Closing the hearing, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the Democratic committee chair, asked Luttig to say what he meant by calling Trump and his supporters a clear and present danger.
Luttig said: “Almost two years after that fateful day … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nger-to-us-democracy-conservative-judge-warns
