Liz Cheney is all in and it will be interesting to see how that goes. She’s betting that being the tough, pistol-packing, wingnut who stood up to Trump and won is going to be a winner for her in 2024. But I’m honestly not sure that the GOP will go there with her. So far, we’re seeing the Trump cult double down on their devotion and without most of them, she’ll never get out of a primary.
But this is interesting. As far as I know, Cheney is the first to suggest that Trump could be prosecuted. Which is interesting because unless he is, this impeachment trial is all the punishment there will be for a president who incited an insurrection in an attempt to steal an election.:
If I were in the Senate, I would obviously listen to the evidence.
I think that’s the role the Senate has as jurors.But I would also point out, though, Chris, that the Senate trial is a
snapshot. There’s a massive criminal investigation underway. There will be
a massive criminal investigation of everything that happened on January 6th
and in the days before. People will want to know exactly what the president
was doing.They want to know, for example, whether the tweet he sent out calling Vice
President Pence a coward while the attack was underway, whether that tweet,
for example, was a premeditated effort to provoke violence. There are a lot
of questions that have to be answered and there will be many, many criminal
investigations looking at every aspect of this and everyone who was
involved, as there should be.
I’m with her on that. Why shouldn’t there be a legal investigation of Trump’s actions that day? You can bet that if the same thing had happened after a speech by AOC or Bernie Sanders there would be.
I’ve never thought that would happen because the Republicans inoculated themselves against it with their “Lock her up” chants and lur argument rebutting it: “we aren’t a banana republic.” But there must at least be a commission formed to look into the whole thing and go wherever it leads with respect to Trump’s ongoing assault on democracy. This impeachment can’t do it — they had less than a month to put together the evidence and present a case. There must be a much more concerted effort.