Yesterday's farcical and seditious hearing of the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by Russia's favorite Senator and Trumpist clown Sen. Ron "Little" Johnson (Q-quack - WI) aimed to give their cult leader, pathological liar and Sore Loser Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump, a morale boost as he flails and spews lies about a fraudulent election in his last weeks in office. Johnson was joined by fellow Republican coup-conspirators far-right Sen. Josh "Lord Haw-Haw" Hawley and "libertarian" loon Sen. "Ayn" Rand Paul, who covered themselves in additional shame by repeating debunked lies about voting machines, dead voters, and stolen ballots. Vox's Aaron Rupar has some details:
"The witness list illustrated how Johnson tried to stack the deck. Among them were two attorneys for the Trump campaign, a Republican state legislator from Pennsylvania, and Ken Starr, the former Bill Clinton investigator who is perhaps best known these days as a Trump-friendly talking head on Fox News.
All of those witnesses either had obvious bias or little to no firsthand information about the security of the 2020 election. But the exception to that was Chris Krebs, the former head of the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who Trump fired by tweet last month after he refuted Trump’s lies and conspiracy theories by calling the election 'the most secure in American history.'
Krebs, a Republican, repeatedly knocked down suggestions from Johnson and others that the election results were somehow manipulated by pointing out that the counts in all the states the Trump campaign contested are backed up by paper ballots." (our emphasis)
Krebs went into detail about how voting machines are backed up by paper ballots, which were tallied, and in several cases tallied multiple times with the same result. Both Republican and Democratic poll observers watched the process, and courts at the local, State, and Federal level have dismissed the dozens of suits brought by rabid Trumpists with absolutely no evidence to back them up. Krebs continued:
"Krebs tried to patiently explain the safeguards that were in place to prevent election fraud, but at other points he didn’t try to hide the fact that he thinks Republicans needs to move on.
'I think we’re past the point where we need to be having conversations about the outcome of this election,' Krebs said, adding later: 'We have to stop this. It’s undermining confidence in democracy.'” (our emphasis)
Of course, Johnson, Hawley and Paul have no interest in democracy, only in imposing their neo-fascist minority movement, led by a mentally unhinged former reality TV host, on the U.S. That was the clearest take away from their despicable kanga-coup court yesterday.
