The betrayal is now complete.
After four years of pretending to be on our side to gain our support and votes, many members of the Republican establishment are hopping off the Trump Train after they believe it’s come to a dead end.
That extends to the president’s own cabinet.
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) and Education Secretary Betsy Devos both turned in their resignations on Thursday, citing the “violent” events on Wednesday in which a crowd, which appeared to be composed of genuine Trump supporters along with what might have been agitating Antifa infiltrators, entered the Capitol Building and interrupted Congress’ counting of the Electoral College votes.
In her resignation letter, DeVos cited the Capitol breach carried out by violent pro-Trump supporters as an “inflection point.”
“We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration’s many accomplishments on behalf of the American people,” Devos wrote to President Trump. “Instead, we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protestors overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business. That behavior was unconscionable for our country. There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”
“Impressionable children are watching all of this and they are learning from us,” she continued. “I believe we each have a moral obligation to exercise good judgement and model the behavior we hope they would emulate. They must know from us that America is greater than what transpired yesterday.”
“Yesterday our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the President stormed the Capitol following a rally he addressed,” wrote Chao in a letter to colleagues in the Department of Transportation. “As I’m sure is the case with many of you, it has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.”
Hours after the brief occupation of the Capitol took place, Congress reconvened and swiftly certified the election for Joe Biden, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding.
According a report from The Hill, Republican senators, under the cloak of anonymity, are venting their frustrations with the president and saying they didn’t do enough to contain him when they had the chance (as though blocking his agenda for four years wasn’t containment enough).
“We should have done more to push back, both against his rhetoric and some of the things he did legislatively,” said one lawmaker. “The mistake we made is that we always thought he was going to get better. We thought that once he got the nomination and then once he got a Cabinet, he was going to get better, he was going to be more presidential.”
“Every time you think the president has done everything he could possibly do to f*** things up, then he comes out with a tweet, like the election was invalid and the one in Georgia would be invalid,” said another.
Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley also sharply criticized the president: “President Trump has not always chosen the right words. He was wrong with his words in Charlottesville, and I told him so at the time. He was badly wrong with his words yesterday. And it wasn’t just his words. His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history.”
While no one, certainly not the president, is advocating for violence, it’s also important for patriots to note the way in which the narrative about Wednesday’s events is being spun by the mainstream media.
Although the media is saying that it was a riot and that pro-Trump protesters stormed the capitol, footage from the event appears to show that Capitol Hill police opened the gates to allow protesters in and escorted them to the Capitol Building.
The New York Post, citing a law-enforcement source, reported on two known Antifa members who were seen spotted among the multitude.
The outlet noted:
The Antifa members disguised themselves with pro-Trump clothing to join in the DC rioting, said the sources, who spotted the infiltrators while monitoring video coverage from the Capitol.
The infiltrators were recognized due to their participation in New York City demonstrations, and were believed to have joined in the rioting so that Trump would get blamed, the source said.
The media wants us to believe that the events at the Capitol were the worst thing ever to happen to America, though, by any objective standard, it paled in comparison to the violence and destruction unleashed by the Left during the summer of 2020.
The circumstances are very convenient, suggesting an intention of having something like this happen to discredit the effort to object to the Electoral Results and allow establishment politicians to claim justification for their already-planned betrayal of the president — while allowing them to look like the “good guys” who stood up to “Dictator Trump.”
It also gives Republican politicians an excuse to fully reject the president without, in their minds, being seen as traitors to the party’s base.
But they’re mistaken. Most of President Trump’s supporters see right through the ruse and won’t forget those who forsook them in America’s hour of need.
