The House Oversight Committee released handwritten notes on Friday authored by former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, who recorded two late-December meetings in which former president Trump tried to use the DOJ to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
When Gym Jordan was asked by a reporter whether he had spoken to Trump on Jan 6th before, during, or after the insurrection, Jordan did everything but shout “squirrel” and run screaming from the interview. He’s in deep doodoo, and needs to be forced to testify under oath. He should be expecting that subpoena any day now.
Now we really see why the Republicans in the Senate voted against a bipartisan commission. It is also the reason why we need all witnesses called before the House Jan 6th Insurrection Committee to do so under oath. We may have suspected this, but now it’s factual. We need to follow the letter of the law and clean house. I simply cannot understand what happened to the Republican Party and how anyone can remain a member of it now under these circumstances. Add covid-19 denial and the deaths in red states because governors and federal representatives have lied is simply too much to allow them to survive as a viable political entity.
It’s happening but meanwhile, enough Republicans in Congress, States, and in the media need to be persuaded they can survive without his endorsement. As long as they think their political future is improved by kowtowing to Rump, they will ignore what they know he is.