A Trump adviser's angry eruption over Jan. 6 bodes badly for democracy
It is a central tenet of Donald Trump’s evolving mythology about Jan. 6 that what transpired that day constituted a world-historical act of betrayal — of Donald Trump.
In this stab-in-the-back lore, when Mike Pence refused to invalidate Joe Biden’s electors and help Trump overturn the election, Trump’s vice president treacherously failed to do not just what he could have done, but what he should have done, on Trump’s behalf.
One of Trump’s leading Jan. 6 co-conspirators — former adviser Peter Navarro — just doubled down on this notion. He’s not alone: The persistence of this among some top Trumpists — and the refusal of others to unequivocally side with Pence — bodes badly, as Trump’s movement adopts the idea that the only thing wrong with his coup scheme was that it failed.
Navarro’s restatement of the Pence-as-betrayer myth comes in response to a subpoena he received from the House select committee examining Jan. 6. The committee is examining Navarro’s role as a key orchestrator of the effort to get Biden’s electors invalidated in Congress.
Here’s how Navarro responded, in an angry email to the New York Times:
“Pence betrayed Trump. Marc Short is a Koch Network dog. Meadows is a fool and a coward. Cheney and Kinzinger are useful idiots for Nancy Pelosi and the woke Left,” Mr. Navarro wrote in an email.
To Navarro, Pence wasn’t the only traitor: Top White House advisers Mark Meadows and Marc Short have cooperated in a limited way with the Jan. 6 committee. The perfidy of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), both committee members, goes without saying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/10/peter-navarro-subpoena-trump-accountability/
Gee, I wonder how this dipshit -- who went on national tv and admitted to planning a coup -- will respond to his subpoena...
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After all he done nothing wrong, it was just legitimate political discourse.
do I really need this 
