Trump, GOP’s Conspiracy Exposed

The House Committee charged with investigating the January 6th attack has completed eight public hearings to uncover the truth and demand accountability. And more hearingsare planned for the Fall.We’ve learned that Republican Richard Donoghue, who served as acting United States deputy attorney general, said former President Trump pressured officials to declare that there was voter fraud in the election, Trump fought in his vehicle with a secret service agent to go the Capitol, and that Trump wanted to walk to the Capitol with the rioters as well. We’ve heard the public testimony of former Republican White House Counsel Pat Cipollone that all White House staff strongly urged Trump to end the ongoing violent insurrection, and that only Trump wanted the violenceto continue.We’ve heard from voices of Republican elected officials, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Arizona Assembly Speaker Republican Rusty Bowers who withstood pressure from Trump and his allies to lie about the outcome of the election, from a poll worker whose life has been altered forever by the conspiracy that Trump and his MAGA allies told about dedicated election workers; and learned of Vice President Pence’s stance against Trump and his allies pressure on him to participate in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the election. What we have learned comes also from the Lost, Not Stolen report by eight prominent Republicans, a report that investigated and documented the fictions about voter fraud in the 2020 election. Read the report athttps://lostnotstolen.org/.

Trump led a months-long, criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he knew he had lost. These efforts also involved attempts to sabotage federal civil service workers—the Schedule F plan-- so that they would be removed from any say over election outcomes. Understand this if nothing else: What we have learned comes from the testimony of and research and reportingby Trump Republicans.These efforts to sabotage future elections continue today as Trump and his MAGA allies statewide in Texas and in our own electoral districts change state laws, threaten state officials and pack election administration offices so that they can have the final say over election results – even when they lose. In America, the voters decide the outcome of elections. The promise of democracy is not a partisan issue but a calling that unites us as Americans. We must be vigilantin our work to uphold it.

Kirk Pate Flatonia