Denial Ain't Just A River In Egypt

When the Jan. 6 select committee began holding public hearings, I was less than optimistic about the outcome.

As I've written before "every single damn time we've gotten Donald Trump dead to rights on some stupid and/or criminal shit, every single god damn time, Donald Trump slouches towards the exits facing no fucking consequences for anything."

So far, these hearings have produced a litany of damning testimony and evidence that Donald Trumps and his sniveling sycophantic cronies engaged in repeated and deliberate attempts to overturn the verified results of a legitimate election for Trump's own personal gain. It was an effort that included Trump extolling consistently disproved conspiracy theories to enrage a crowd of his supports to engage in a violent attack on the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2022. 

The malfeasance and lies of Trump and his cronies is obvious and unavoidable, representing an egregious ethical lapse at least or at worst, a wholly criminal enterprise. 

And yet...

Here are two other points I've made in previous posts.  

"Anyone with two working brain cells and a modicum of some common sense is hearing this testimony and thinking, 'Yeah, that sounds about right. That sound just like Donald Trump's standard bullshit.'"  

"Anyone with zero working brain cells and zilch in the way of common sense is hearing this testimony and thinking, 'But the election was rigged and Trump's victory was stolen and Trump had every right to do something about it.' "  

Those people with zero working brain cells and zilch in the way of common sense have come forth to live down to my lowest expectations.   

Following former Attorney General Bill Barr's testimony, there were Trump supporters holding out hope that it just wasn't true. “I’m still hoping Barr is playing a role,” one poster said on a Telegram channel popular with Trump supporters. We've been here before. Whenever any one from Donald Trump's inner circle speaks out against him, the idea gets kicked around that the person is only saying these negative things because their dear leader ordered them to as part of some long range Machiavellian plan or something.  

Many other Trump supporters have been less kind and less hopeful and simply blasted Barr as a traitor.  

Get a load of this theory:  “From 2009 to 2018, DOMINION PAID BARR $1.2 million in cash and granted him another $1.1 million in stock awards, according to SEC filings. (No wonder Barr can’t find any voter fraud!)"

Uh.... not quite.

Bill Barr was paid by Dominion Energy, a publicly traded company in Richmond, Virginia, that provides power to customers in several mid-Atlantic states.

Wrong "Dominion", bro! 

When Donald's own daughter Ivanka Trump testified to the committee that she supported Bill Barr's assessment of the election, one Trump supporter went with the "it's all part of Donald Trump's great plan" theory.  “I can just imagine Donald Trump telling Ivanka: ’Hey, go to this hearing, say these things. Screw with their heads.'"   

And then there's this cockamamie idea: that's not Ivanka and these hearings are not really happening. 

The hearings are a Hollywood production starring stand-ins for the former president’s daughter and others.

One poster noted about Ivanka,  “She looks different in a big way. CGI?”

Meanwhile, the Republican Party of Texas adopted a resolution at its state convention that rejects President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election and aligning the state party establishment with Donald Trump's false election claims.

Sigh.

So while  the Jan. 6 select committee holds public hearings presenting clear and concise information that Donald Trump is a crook, his followers persist that he is not a crook but a great martyr to a great cause.  

And within the hallowed halls of Congress itself, Republicans take up the cause of dismissing this investigation as witch hunt while repeating Trump's baseless lies about the 2020 election.

Facts mean nothing.