As a result, the American people still do not properly understand how close they came to losing their democracy on Jan. That such figures would feel the need to declare that they were loyal to the Constitution, and not to a particular political leader, is almost unprecedented in American history.Д«ecause of a combination of normalcy bias, cowardice, and outright denial about Trump and his cabal's obvious plans, the mainstream news media and most other public voices did not give these unprecedented warnings the sustained attention they merited. In the weeks and days before Election Day, military and other national security leaders publicly sounded the alarm through editorials, interviews and other means that the Trump regime might try to order the armed forces to intervene on his behalf. One question that demands much more public attention than it has gotten is how close Donald Trump came to invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring martial law, or to using other presidential emergency powers in an effort to nullify the 2020 election. Alex Vindman: How Trump's coup attempt encouraged Putin's Ukraine invasion Their primary task will be to explain to the American people how serious the events of that day actually were and to establish a case that Donald Trump and his co-conspirators should be punished for their crimes. 6, 2021, will finally hold televised public hearings. Within a few weeks, the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. As a practical matter, it is much the same thing.

To deny these obvious facts is to either be a believer in the Big Lie and supporter of Trump and the Republican Party's war on American democracy or to be in an extreme state of willful denial.

We know that Donald Trump was aware of at least some details of this plot and was involved in its planning and execution. This de facto conspiracy was sophisticated, multidimensional and nationwide in scale, and included what became a terrorist attack on the U.S.

It is now a public fact that Donald Trump and his cabal, including Republican members of Congress, attempted a coup on Jan.

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