It’s actually quite incredible that the Republican Party may actually
nominate Donald Trump for their 2024 presidential candidate.
If they do, I have no doubt it will go down as the most consequential
decision a major political party has made in U.S. history.
Let’s put it in perspective.
Donald Trump is the first and only president in our history to try to block
the peaceful transfer of power. The only one.
The facts of what he did are not in dispute. Not even Trump disputes them.
His defense is not to deny he did what he did. It is, instead, that whatever he
did was part of his official presidential duties. In addition, based on
that claim, he also insists he has complete immunity from criminal prosecution.
He then goes further and argues that everything he did (which he says he had
a right to do) was because the election was rigged and stolen from
him. That is what led him to engage in acts that make him guilty of
treason, defined as a betrayal of one’s country, especially in trying to
overthrow the government. Here’s why.
The Constitution provides only one way to contest an election, and only one.
In court. That’s it. No other way. None.
Trump’s lawyers followed the Constitution and tried to prove 60 different
times that there was widespread voter fraud. They lost every case,
including at the Supreme Court.
Refusing to accept all the court rulings, Trump then stepped over the line,
something he planned to do all along, if necessary, and began committing acts
of treason.
The details of how, how many times, in what ways, and who helped him is
explained in great detail by Liz Cheney in her book, Oath and Honor.
It is a first-hand account in chronological order of what Trump did. She
names names, recounts numerous conversations none of us knew were going on
behind the scenes with many different people, and explains in detail why the
Constitution does not give Congress the power to challenge or change the
outcome of a presidential election.
Cheney underscores the fact that every member of the House who refused to
certify Biden’s election did not hesitate to accept the certification of their
own that was on the same ballot, making their claims of fraud even more
ludicrous.
Since the book’s publication, no one has disputed her account of the facts,
conversations, and actions people took or were advocating. Some of them
hate her for telling the truth, but not one of them has been able to contradict
anything she says about what happened.
Cheney’s Oath and Honor is, put simply, the end of the
discussion about Donald Trump and MAGA Republican politicians. Not one of
them, not even one, cares about their oath to preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution and not one of them has a shred of honor.
That is why not one of them should ever be elected to office again.
Should Republicans nominate Donald Trump as their candidate for president
this year, it will be the moment they publicly acknowledge that as a political
party they have no loyalty to the Constitution on which our nation was
founded. That will be a truly historic moment.
Traditional Republicans wonder out loud if their party will be able to
survive such a fateful decision.
That is hardly my worry. I am much more concerned about the survival of the
nation.
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