For those of you not familiar with Thiessen, he's about the Trumpiest of Trump supporters on the planet, and though he writes for Washington Post, the readers there despise him.
About time he's come to recognize the truth.
Trump has blood on his hands
Opinion by
Marc A. Thiessen
"Let’s be clear about
what happened Wednesday: The president of the United States invited a crowd of his supporters to Washington, ginned them up with lies about a stolen election, attacked members of Congress for being complicit in that theft and then sent them to the U.S. Capitol. “We got to get rid of the weak congresspeople,” Trump
declared at his "Save America" rally on the Ellipse, urging the crowd to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” and “take back our country.”
Soon, thousands of his supporters tried to do just that — overwhelming police barricades, storming the Capitol, and fighting their way into the House and Senate chambers. Vice President Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — first and second in line to the presidency — were whisked away to a secure location. House members donned masks designed for a biological attack to protect themselves against tear gas. Officers drew guns on the
House floor. A woman —
35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt — was shot and killed, one of five people to die as a result of the violent rioting.
It was one of the darkest moments in the history of our democracy. And Trump is responsible for it. As the smoke cleared Wednesday on Capitol Hill,
Trump said in a tweet since removed, “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away.” Sorry, these things didn’t “happen.”
Trump formed and incited the mob. He stoked their anger with self-serving lies. He betrayed his followers. He betrayed his office. And now he has blood on his hands.
...In less than two weeks, Trump will be gone — and thanks to Wednesday’s events, he probably will not make a political comeback. The damage to our Capitol will soon be repaired. But it will take work to repair the fabric of trust that binds us as a nation. Perhaps our shared revulsion at what we witnessed on Capitol Hill will finally force an examination of conscience on all sides — and prompt us to seek greater unity."