These Are The People Threatening The Republic

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— Bad Legal Takes (@BadLegalTakes) January 30, 2022

Again, the internal contradictions of the argument are stunning:

First the claim was that Pence could change the outcome, then it became that it was just about sending the election “back to the states.” Now it’s back to overturning it again.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 31, 2022

The quiet part out loud. As the criminal investigation into the election and after is going on.  He’s just providing more evidence for his indictment. In writing, no less.

“In order to even consider prosecuting the former President we would have to find evidence that proved corrupt int— oh, he said WHAT in a statement?” pic.twitter.com/AWWjmxaDAG

— Robert J. DeNault (@robertjdenault) January 31, 2022

All the Twitter accounts we have agree:

Tfg really is dumb as a rock. https://t.co/UGhzXw0aZ2

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 31, 2022

Judges would also accept:”Dumb as a box of rocks.” His stupidity is vast. It contains multitudes.

Hillary just called them "deplorables":

The Trump supporter, Rhoda Benfield, was asked what she makes of "how angry the country is right now at each other." "Let them fight it out," Benfield responded. 

"You're looking at another civil war anyway. Let them fight it out. America is not what it used to be. It used to be a great place to live. Now it's not."

Rep. Ruben Gallego is quite comfortable with going much farther:

Asked about his reaction to Benfield's comments, Gallego said, "People like that are just unpatriotic. I can’t believe they’ve given up on America." 

"My family came here from different countries because they believe in America, and they still believe in America," Gallego added. "The fact that you don’t have your preferred candidate and suddenly because of that reason, this country is horrible, tells you a lot about who you are, not who the country is. Most of these people hate America because they’re losers and they want to give excuses for everybody else as to why they're no longer doing well. And instead of actually looking internally and realizing that they probably have some faults, they have to blame people of color, they have to blame a political party, when in fact most of the time it's their own causes. And this is what Donald Trump is really good at, he's really good at finding these losers and giving them a reason to blame everybody else except for themselves."

And the cherry on top is that, again, Trump is never careful about what he asks for:

By Trump’s logic here, does this mean VP Harris has the right to overturn the 2024 election? pic.twitter.com/phTuwKTjIP

— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) January 31, 2022

Of course, by Trump’s logic, he alone has the power to declare elections fraudulent. The courts wouldn’t do it, but Trump gets to declare it anyway. That’s the real problem: Trump doesn’t need government. He just needs to get what he wants, when he wants it. Rep. Gallego isn’t wrong. What he said is what the courts have been saying to the January 6th defendants. That doesn’t give Trump power. It affirms he doesn’t have any.

Old enough to remember when it would have been shocking to see a former president admit that his goal was to have "overturned the Election."

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 31, 2022

Yeah, this is really not going to go the way he expects it to.

Trump uses language he knows caused the Jan 6 violence; suggests he’d pardon the Jan 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy; threatens prosecutors; and admits he was attempting to overturn the election.

He’d do it all again if given the chance.

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) January 31, 2022

Saying the obvious part out loud. Still, it needs to be said.