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Re: Trump and his enablers’ activities post the 2020 election, let me ask him to pick which of the following is more likely:
a) These people all suffer from narcissism or some related psychological disorder which blinds them from seeing the truth, i.e., that they lost, or,
b) Trump is a sociopathic criminal who had tried dozens of different tactics to overturn an election that he knows goddamn well he lost. He loves power and will commit any conceivable atrocity to maintain it. His enablers aren’t happy about supporting him through this crime-spree, but they see it as the only way to hold on to their seats in Congress.
A reader responds to the meme here: “I don’t believe King’s claims of ‘no fraud’ when there’s no way to establish the absence of fraud without a paper trail and verifiable ID!”
If Trump criminally violated Georgia election law? Obviously Trump broke the law. Browbeating and threatening Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to “find him 11,780 votes” is clearly itself a crime, the precise array of potential charges of which are shown at left.
The question is what’s going to happen here. Perhaps it’s a question of timing. As former top federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshner has suggested, “No one wants to be the first (to indict Trump on one or more felonies), but everyone wants to be second.”


Of course, the last 50 years have seen the volume turned up on everything in our lives, but consider how mild Nixon’s transgressions were in comparison to today’s coup attempt.
Is this really a news story? An individual Republican senator, from a blood-red state, makes an obviously true statement and the American media goes insane?
I’d be more excited by a story detailing how some old lady’s cat got stuck up in a tree.

It’s also possible, and, I think, highly likely, that there will be a specific event that results in an explosion.
Keep in mind that the committee to investigate the January 6th insurrection is looking into an issue that is far larger that Trump’s alleged incitement of the riot, i.e., the entire range of activities he orchestrated in an attempt to overturn the election. This may result in one or more felony indictments against him.
If that happens, and the world gets to watch the presentation of the evidence in the case, the Big Lie goes boom.

No, on second thought, that’s not the guy.
