The author Joe Klaas, in his book "Twelve Steps to Happiness", writes; "The Truth with set you free... but first it will piss you off." There is plenty contained in the final report of the House Select Committee to do both.
Those Americans who value our 246 year-old experiment in representative democracy will be rightly horrified and then quite justifiably angry at what we as a nation have now learned about both the attack on the Capitol and the lies, high crimes and misdemeanors that let up to it.
Those who in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election defeat, chose for whatever reason, to believe that Democracy is only valid when it delivers results that they like, will of course also find reasons to be angry. For some it will be anger that the race war they so desperately hoped would be sparked on that day never happened.
Yet I hope some of those people who cheered the domestic terrorists who stormed the seat of our government, hoping to thwart the peaceful democratic will of the American People, will read this report and get angry for different reason. I hope it is the righteous anger that stems from the clear indisputable discovery that you were the victim of a con man.
Like that person who clicks on a Facebook "friend request" from someone they thought they know. Only to discover their in box and that of all their contacts flooded with bitcoin spam. Who then makes it their mission to expose the hacker and ruin their life.; I hope there are Republicans who now will throw away that red (made in china) MAGA hat and channel their anger to purge the Republican Party of the Trump poison and its associated criminals, grifters and yes... Traitors to the United States.
Sadly there are still those in the Republican Party for whom the truth, is too inconvenient. For unpatriotic gargoyles like Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Goetz, Ron Johnson and their media amplifiers like TucKKKer Carlson; This report will be seen as an attack by the "woke" left on all they hold dear.
The report tells us many things. But the standout take-away is this: The 45th President of the United States, when faced with the reality that he had lost his bid for re-election chose to lie and lie repeatedly in an attempt to shred the Constitution of the United States and incite a civil war.
Thanks to the work of the Jan 6th Committee, the truth is here for all to see. That Donald Trump, is a narcissistic sociopath, who saw inciting a mob to attack and kill police officers in hopes of achieving the violent overthrow of American democracy... as a small price to pay to soothe his own ego.
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