Editorial: What if there’s no Mike Pence to stop the next Jan. 6 coup?
A tweet by then-President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during the first public hearing before the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack in Washington on Thursday night, June 9, 2022.
Would another vice president have buckled at the sight of a noose and gallows erected outside the Capitol and hordes of Trump supporters calling for a hanging? Would mortal fear, or loyalty, or blind partisanship have been enough to persuade our hypothetical VP to shrug off principle and duty and instead, use his ceremonial role in certifying electoral votes to reject them, voiding a free and fair...
For Moss, simply doing her job led Trump supporters to invade her grandmother’s house; Freeman was advised by the FBI to leave her home for her own safety. Testimonies from compelling witnesses such as Bowers and Greg Jacob, a top White House lawyer for Pence, have lain bare the stark contrast between those who viewed their oath to defend the Constitution as a sacred public contract, and a president who viewed it as a cheap trading card.It’s clear now, if it wasn’t before, that the threat to our democracy did not end when Biden placed his hand on the Bible weeks after the Capitol riots. As eager as many Republicans and Democrats are to put Jan.
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