“Once violence has entered the arteries of politics, it is very difficult to get it out,” said this conservative strategist and former adviser to George W. Bush.
Conservative political strategist Reed Galen confirms that the sessions of the 6-E Committee, the group of congressmen investigating the January 2021 attack on the Capitol, are having a “devastating” effect on the figure of former President Donald Trump and the leaders Republicans who ‘bowed to his will for four years’. He is the founder, along with other critical conservatives, of the famous Lincoln Project, a laboratory of ideas and political action born in 2019 to prevent the tycoon’s re-election and which now focuses on fighting anti-democratic movements in the United States. States. Galen was part of the campaigns of George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the late Senator John McCain and was an adviser to the Treasury and National Security.
– What do you think of the Commission’s public hearings?
– The presentation he made to Trump was devastating. His team already told him that the vote counting was pointless when he exposed the alleged electoral fraud. And when it was clear that he wasn’t going to accept it, a large part of his team went into the background and that opened the door for a group of ‘enablers’ who continued to fuel the conflict.
– The Republicans speak now, to distance themselves from that time, but none of them said anything then.
– If Mitch McConnell (former Senate leader) or any other Republican leader had publicly announced that Joe Biden was the president-elect, none of this would have happened. Congressional Republicans have tinkered with (Trump) during his four-year term and have supported him until now. They know. They know it was a bad day and they were almost dead.
– The investigation draws a Trump who is apparently plunged into delirium.
– It’s a chain of events that allowed Trump to sink into his psychosis and pretend he’d been abandoned, plus all those “enablers” – John Eastman, Giuliani, Sydney Powell, Matt Schlapp – who kept giving him fallacies that there was a way was to reverse the election. It all culminated in January 6 and the violence we saw.
– There were moments of resistance, such as Vice President Mike Pence’s, who legitimized Biden’s victory. Otherwise it is impossible to say in which political circumstances we would find ourselves now.
– Pence’s decision to refuse to be part of an irrational legal theory is one of those moments that reveals how close we came to disaster on several occasions. We’ve seen the photos this week of Pence hiding in a fringe room with his wife and daughter, watching Trump already leave him for dead. We know he was 40 feet from the violent one.
– Did the former president act recklessly in launching his diatribes against some extremists who had planned in detail an operation to take over the building?
– On January 6, Trump sat in a fortress surrounded by people who were committed to giving their lives for him, while he watched the news on TV. He never cared about the safety of others. It also found that violence is an acceptable form of political action. This is what worries me most: once violence enters the veins of the political system, it is very difficult to remove it.
– How far does the danger go?
– We just saw a group of 30 masked men being arrested in Idaho when they broke up a gay pride parade. Or the Buffalo shooting, which was a political act (based on the racist replacement theory). We need more police action to stop this extremism.
– Many of those radicals work together with the Commission.
– The Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers teamed up to conspire and several of their leaders have been charged with sedition in federal court. Some have turned against him and have stopped supporting him, which makes sense if they want to avoid 30 years in prison. They’re not people you like, but when it comes time to respond to a congressional subpoena, everyone starts talking.
– A key figure in the plot is lawyer John Eastman, promoter of the theory to bring about the annulment of the election and frustrate Biden’s victory. He is said to have knowingly presented “options” to Trump and the vice president during a meeting at the White House that were illegal.
– Greg Jacob (lawyer for Pence) and Eric Hershman (lawyer for the president) warned Eastman that you can’t steal the votes of 80 million people. “There will be blood in the streets,” they warned him. And Eastman replied, “Democracy requires street deaths from time to time.” If the insurgents had triumphed on Capitol Hill on January 6, the country would have been torn apart. Eastman is probably going to jail for a long time. What can you expect from someone eager to work for Trump?
– Most of the administration was trapped in its ‘bubble’.
– When campaign manager Bill Stepien said they were a “normal team”, they were only normal in the context of Trump’s world. They are not normal by any other objective standard because the things they say, do and endure would not be done by any other decent, normal person. Besides, they all hid in the shadows when the situation fell apart.
– Continue dancing while there is music.
– There were people who were ‘enchanted’ by Trump’s narcissistic personality. Others were intoxicated by the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the Oval Office close to power. And others believed it was possible to undermine the Constitution and keep Trump in power.
– The ‘big lie’ of fraud is still credible to part of society.
– The consequences continue to have an impact on the political space. More than 100 Republican candidates in this year’s election will be presented with the only program stolen in the 2020 election. We’ll see what happens when Trump announces his candidacy for 2024.
Source: La Verdad
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