It's a Confession, if You're Listening

 

Here's a first--I'm linking to Newsmax because they have themselves a scoop even if they don't know it because Trump made a confession:

Trump fired his ire at the committee, and rejected a hearing claim he mocked Pence as "a wimp" for not kicking the Electoral College vote certifying President Joe Biden's election back to the states. 

 "I never called Mike Pence a wimp," Trump said. "I never called him a wimp, Mike Pence. Had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be frankly, historic. 

 "But just like [former Attorney General] Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people — Mike and I say it sadly, because I like them — but Mike did not have the courage to act. Bill Barr was afraid of certain things, and you know what they were: Please don't impeach me. Don't impeach me. 

 "'Bill Barr, please,' I said. 'What's wrong with being impeach? I was impeached twice and my poll numbers went up.'

Of all the dumb things to reject having done, saying he didn't call Pence a "wimp" (or, the word he wouldn't say there, of all places, "pussy") feels really tame against the actual claim that he vilified the man as a traitor in the hopes that an angry mob would dispatch him. Of course he's being stupid about the impeachment claims. Trump was impeached only once before 1/6. Once. He's retconning what he said. Did his numbers go up? Into 2020, the hell year? 

That's just a stupid thing to assert. But he also did state that he told Pence to kick the Electoral College vote to the state legislatures. And the 1/6 committee says they can verify Trump's involvement in the fake elector plot--that is to say, the scheme of what would happen right after Pence did throw the matter back to the state legislators.  This was the reason that people from Giuliani to Ginni Thomas were working state legislatures hard, to get some of them to overturn the will of the people. That's why Rep. Scott Perry and a raft of PA people need to get their asses looked at. And Michigan, too, and Arizona, and Wisconsin. Because Trump's scheme had them lined up for mischief, and it was this scheme Pence said no to: being Mr. Trump's conveyor belt. 

Barr told him the scheme was illegal, and Pence and the lawyers he contacted said the same, and Trump is mocking them for thinking the rule of law mattered. He is speaking like someone who is mocking them for being concerned that the law mattered when to Trump, it did not. 

Trump is confessing he knew that turning the matter of the electors back to the states would change things, because he knew about that scheme, and he did not care about the law, because he thought he was well above it. Once he was re-elected, the law would simply cease to have any sway over anything he did anymore, ever. That is how a dictator thinks. 

And if he had the chance, sure, he'd pardon all his little friends. Which is how he wants to keep his friends. Right now, 6 in ten folks say he should be prosecuted for what he did. That number needs to go up to keep that from ever happening. But honest prosecutors need to understand the will isn't just about the will of the people, but the rule of law. The law says what he did--in every facet, was wrong. He used his office as president as an engine for creating a dictatorship, and it only failed because he was clusterfucktacular. But he brags on his failures, because he doesn't even know any better than that. 

He doesn't even think he needs to hide what he did. so he confesses it in the open.  Just like this. And his people are so used to him doing wretched things in the open, that they advertise.