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LetMyPeopleVote

(154,427 posts)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 10:54 AM Jul 2022

Editorial: A question for Trump supporters. After eight Jan. 6 hearings, haven't you seen enough?

The Houston Chronicle has a good editorial that has some great questions for TFG supporters



https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-A-question-for-Trump-supporters-After-17322188.php?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral

After the eighth House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 riots wrapped on Thursday night, we have one simple question for Donald Trump supporters. For those who still view him as a patriot, a leader, a front-runner — or even a viable candidate at all — for the 2024 Republican nomination: Have you seen enough to change your mind?

Did you think Trump was just playing to the crowd when he promised in his speech to the rioters that day to lead them down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol building? Did you understand he was fully serious when it was revealed he had an angry confrontation with his Secret Service detail after they refused to chauffeur him there? Did you raise your eyebrows when an unnamed witness told the committee that Trump had direct knowledge that members of the crowd that day were armed?

Did you find it suspicious that Trump sat in his sofa in the White House dining room, blocked off his call log and daily diary for several hours, refused to have official photographs taken of him, and spent hours watching the Capitol under siege on Fox News?......

These questions should be at the front of every conversation about Trump and the 2024 presidential election. Whether Trump ever ends up in an orange jumpsuit or not, the committee’s work has left the idea of him as a viable candidate for election in tatters. “When he turned on VP Mike Pence ... that was the moment for me. The turning point,” Texas State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, said as the hearings played last night. “And all I need to know we Republicans need someone else running for President in 2024.”

After Thursday’s hearings, we wonder how any American voter who watched the hearings could disagree.
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Editorial: A question for Trump supporters. After eight Jan. 6 hearings, haven't you seen enough? (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 OP
No, they haven't seen enough grumpyduck Jul 2022 #1
How many Trump supporters are actually watching any of it? temporary311 Jul 2022 #2
We'd better understand that his supporters KNOW that and fully support it. onecaliberal Jul 2022 #3
They have not seen enough because they have not seen it at all. Fox has patricia92243 Jul 2022 #4

grumpyduck

(6,650 posts)
1. No, they haven't seen enough
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 10:56 AM
Jul 2022

because they mainly only listen to RWNJ bullshit. They probably have no idea what went on in the hearings.

Arrogant ignorance.

patricia92243

(12,827 posts)
4. They have not seen enough because they have not seen it at all. Fox has
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 12:03 PM
Jul 2022

not carried it. You would not believe the many people that don't even know it is going on.

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