ESTRICH: Now we know

He knew they have been armed.

He knew they meant harm.

He despatched them to the Capitol.

He preferred to go with them.

He experienced to be restrained.

What much more do we have to have to hear?

We have by now read that he understood it was a Big Lie and lied anyway.

We’ve already read about the phony electors that he knew have been phony.

We have by now heard about the force and threats and the violence he unleashed towards election officers who were being making an attempt to do their jobs. Satisfy their oaths.

We have presently listened to him approve of the unspeakable.

What additional do we require to listen to?

Following up we will listen to more about what was taking place at the White Residence while we sat at home. Transfixed. Terrified. Traumatized.

I experienced not gotten a call like that because 9/11. Switch on your television. The earth is heading to hell.

And he refused to get in touch with them off.

We’ll discover out the names of absolutely everyone who tried using to get to him and unsuccessful, and of every person who must have tried using to get to him but did not.

This is a tale missing in redemption, apart from that which arrives when a public servant speaks the reality, as she did very last Tuesday. Tiny redemptive times amid hours of sheer horror and brutality.

The Tuesday listening to was swiftly added to fill some gaps in the timing of that horrible day. The testimony did that.

It is receiving to the level where by we are outside of getting able of becoming shocked. The president was open to destroying our democracy and sacrificing the vice president on the altar of his ambition.

This is, this was, the president of the United States. And he was not there on your own. The record of those who sought pardons is a record of those who knew greater and did worse. They really should be held accountable.

The checklist of those people who aided and abetted in what was an try to subvert our democracy is a checklist of individuals who should to be held accountable.

And then what?

The record that counts for the most right now is a quite brief one. It is the checklist of Republicans with the courage to stand up to a person who however commands a fervent minority. Who will say that he was mistaken and that he is incorrect, that he is hazardous, that he proved that and that he ought to never ever be in a placement to do us such hurt once again?

Which Republicans will stand up and say that?

What additional do they want to listen to right before they do?

The state demands patriots. Where by are they?

I recall viewing the Saturday Evening Massacre — the night President Richard Nixon purchased the firing of Watergate unique prosecutor Archibald Cox — on tv with my father. My father was a Massachusetts Republican, and he had voted for Nixon. That evening, he lost his religion, and I located mine. The legal professional common refused to carry out the get and resigned. The deputy attorney normal followed go well with. Cox was fired, but Nixon was compelled to accept a substitute and eventually to comply with the rule of law. My heroes ended up the legal professionals who stood up for the Structure.

I am looking for them now.