Today isn’t just Inauguration Day, it’s also the two-week anniversary of the Capitol siege. The night of the 6th, we were all worried about what would come next, what Donald Trump would do as his follow-up to inciting white supremacist terrorists to insurrection. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was worried too, which is why she took over like a g–damn boss. In the 24 hours that followed the insurrection, Speaker Pelosi got the resignations of the sergeant-in-arms and the chief of the Capitol Police; she called for Trump to be impeached again as a way to neuter him; she challenged Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment; she bitched out the Joint Chiefs and basically told them that if Trump incited another terrorist attack, she would see that they were all criminally charged. Pelosi’s political savvy is what got us through the past two weeks and she’s a huge reason why Trump was neutered and relatively powerless. And now she’s saying that Trump could be charged with murder:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump could be an accessory to murder after this month’s deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol. In an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid that aired Tuesday night, Pelosi repeatedly decried Trump’s role in inciting a violent insurrection on Jan. 6 that claimed the lives of five people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

“Presidents’ words are important. They weigh a ton,” Pelosi said about Trump, who continuously stoked false claims of widespread election fraud on Twitter and encouraged supporters to march to the Capitol in a fiery speech given at a “Save America” rally not long before rioters stormed the building. “And they used his words to come here.”

The speaker went a step further and said that if it were proven that some members of Congress collaborated with members of the group that attacked the Capitol, they — as well as Trump — would be accessories to crimes committed during the insurrection. “And the crime, in some cases, was murder,” Pelosi said. “And this president is an accessory to that crime because he instigated that insurrection that caused those deaths and this destruction.”

While a number of officials, including District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, have said they’re looking into the role Trump played in the riot, none have indicated so far that the president would be an accessory to the deaths that occurred as rioters tried to block the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win.

While most Republicans have declined to cross Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has said little to defend the president since the riots, took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to place blame squarely on Trump.

“The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. But we pressed on.”

[From Politico]

Treason Turtle Mitch can kiss my ass. HE was one of those people gleefully agitating for the Big Lie, encouraging Trump to file lawsuits and refusing to recognize Joe Biden’s victory. The Treason Turtle’s newfound sense of democracy is less about Mitch feeling like he or his part could face big consequences. It’s more about Mitch tossing Trump under the bus now that Mitch got what he wanted: tax cuts and judges. As for what Speaker Pelosi says… I mean, I agree. Trump is responsible in every sense – criminally, morally – for the insurrection. But so are a lot of other people.

I also agree with Pelosi that it would have been game-over for America if Trump had won/stolen a second term.

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