We have a president who lies repeatedly, certifiably, and proven. A Justice Department and FBI who believes its mission is not to represent the public, but to serve as a partisan attack dog for Trump. What makes this worse is a congressional majority with only a few exceptions, lacks any courage and real integrity. The latest example is Congressman Barry Loudermilk of Georgia.
Little context here. When he first ran for Congress The Atlanta newspapers revealed that he misrepresented his military background. In Congress, he’s considered a lightweight. He has been embraced and embraces David Barton, the wacky historian and Christian nationalist who claims that the founders ⁓ didn’t care about separation of church and state. Somebody forgot to tell Thomas Jefferson.
But now as chairman of a committee because of seniority, he’s trying to find out what quote, really happened January 6th. So he is forwarding to the Justice Department a criminal referral against young Cassidy Hutchison, a White House aide who had the temerity to tell the truth about what was going on on that day of infamy, January 6th, 2001. She was honest about it. But what, what Loudermilk and others are trying to do is rewrite history revisionism of the worst sort.
Now if you tell a big lie, the theory goes enough people will soon start to believe it. Mr. Loudermilk who gave Trumpers an unusual tour of the Capitol the night before the January 6th violence, says he wants to quote, find out what really happened, end quote, January 6th. Now the Georgia congressman is not the brightest bulb in the closet, but maybe someone should send him all the videos of those criminals savaging and beating police officers and knocking down the doors, threatening members, all encouraged by Donald Trump.
I don’t know, maybe old Barry still wouldn’t get it.
James carville and Al Hunt standing up for democracy, thanks