Opinion by Dana Milbank: Trump will be gone, but the GOP’s “dishonor will remain”
With rare exception, Republican officeholders have chosen to side with Trump, who indicated his vice president deserved to be hanged, and who, when begged by his staff to call off the mob, responded: “They’re doing what they should be doing,” according to committee testimony.
Republican members of Congress forced Cheney out of her party leadership position and are trying to oust her in a primary; they blocked an independent, nonpartisan commission to investigate the events of Jan. 6; they attempted to sabotage and then boycotted the “illegitimate” Jan. 6 committee.
They might have gotten away with it, too, if other Trump aides and appointees hadn’t honored their duty to country and oaths of office. Cheney described how these Trump officials — White House counsel Pat Cipollone, acting attorney general Jeff Rosen, acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue — pushed back. She described the many advisers telling Trump and his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, that their allegations were “complete nonsense,” or that “there’s no there there.
Even Fox News’s Sean Hannity tried to stop the madness, in a text to Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany: “Hey now, no more crazy people, no more stolen election talk. Yes, impeachment and 25th amendment are real. Many people will quit.”It’s beyond the Jan. 6 committee’s mandate to explain how so many people who began with honorable instincts ultimately retreated to join Trump. And there is probably no convincing them, nor the tens of millions they have deceived, to correct course now.
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