This hearing choked me up. I can’t believe people in this country are so brainwashed and cruel that they would do to anyone what they did to these election workers.
The hearing proved how openly and persistently Trump and his henchmen pressured officials to lie and cheat. They promised proof and they never produced it. In fact, these officials proved that Trump was a liar.
It also showed how Trump incited his followers to threaten violence against those same officials — and innocent election workers just doing their job. The violence of January 6th was the culmination of a ratcheting up of violence all over the country in service of Trump’s Big Lie.
The fact that these people had to put up with the threats from Trump’s army of assholes is just too much: