Wednesday July 27, 2022; 10:31 PM EDT
- None of Trump's staffers should have been surprised by the violence the president was willing to overlook on January 6th, Jeffrey C. Isaac writes, pointing to various catalogs of the violence of his rhetoric going back for years. For just one example,#
- Back in 2016 Trump notoriously threatened “second amendment solutions” against Hillary Clinton, and while in office he regularly invoked this rhetoric.#
- It's important that some of them are finally speaking up, but, says Isaac, it's too late in the day to deserve high praise, "And none of them have any business presenting themselves now as heroes of democracy."#