Shining the Light

THE BEAUTIUL THING ABOUT the congressional investigation into Trump's insurrection at the Capitol is that nearly all the information it obtained was through sworn testimony and not only is almost all of it confirmed by other testimony, almost all of it comes from Trump insiders, Republicans, people whose motive for telling the truth is not helping or hurting Trump, but merely telling the truth. This is smart strategy considering the alternative is contempt of congress. In order to discount the investigation as a "hoax", or a "set up to get Trump", you'd have to bend over backwards, so to speak, to invent some very wild and highly improbable consiracy theories, not that Trump supporters are inadequate to that task. Two seminal points have been proven: Trump had decided, months in advance of the election of 2020, that no matter what the outcome, he would claim to have won the election. After the election, Trump was perfectly well aware that he had in fact lost the election, and said so to several different people. Trump planned his big lie, and he never believed it, he always knew the truth, even though he promotes the election lie to this day. Pretty bizarre stuff. It never ceases to become more and more amazing the number of people who continue to support Trump politically and would vote for him again in 2024. They support a man who says that he can declassify Top Secret documents just by thinking about declassifying them. A man who once said that during the Revolutionay War, George Washington's army captured every airport in North America. Who said that wind mills cause cancer. It has always been necessary to compartmentalize to support Trump, to separate one's morality and intellect, and reason from one's political beliefs. What one must ignore or overlook is staggeringly enormous; the lies, the criminality of all kinds. Anyone who knowingly follows such a person over a long period of time is indeed a cult member.