actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some of whom were charged with seditious conspiracy last week. prosecutors revealed that an individual, whose identity is known to the grand jury, sent this blueprint to proud boys leader enrique tarrio on december 30th, 2020. one way to think about the attempted coup and i think the way that the committee is discussing it, and the way we discuss it on this program is sort of broadly two different efforts that merged on january 6th. there was trump and his circle of people around him, who were pro-coup, attempting to overthrow the rightfully elected president, joe biden, to keep donald trump in power. they were trying to use every government mechanism they had at their disposal
that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleagues in
in arizona, michigan in the beta. that is mark finchem in arizona, jim marchand and nevada. he had a coalition of candidates that promoted the big lie. they were running to be in place for 2024. essentially, as a pro coup. they re going to fix the whole country marchand said. he ll be president again in 2024. that was the promise. people don t usually pay very close attention to that, understandably. this year though the democrats and the anti trump republicans work to make sure that they knew that if election deniers, won their future votes might not count. he is a conspiracy theorist and member of militia. he wants to be arizona signatory state, that would give him considerable power over elections and it denies the results of the last one. he led the effort to discard, organize the protests where police were attacked.
to, explicitly, state what was obvious. that a sitting president, and his supporters in congress, cannot overturn the results of a free, and fair election, simply, by objecting to legitimate votes, bullying, and browbeating the vice president into assisting a coup. again, this is straightforward stuff. a technocratic fix to statutory language, making it clear, you cannot do what trump wanted to do. it is something any politician, even normally interested in preserving american democracy, should support. here s the thing, donald trump is not interested in preserving american democracy. he is, objectively, pro coup, which means the republican party remains firmly under his control is, objectively, pro coup as well. so, 203 house republicans voted against the bill on wednesday. only nine supported it. as democratic congressman, pete aguilar, noted on this program last night, not one of those nine members will be in
statewide ticket, i mean, they are fully pro coup, avowedly pro coup is the only way to accurately characterize their views on the 2020 election, and i think even more broadly about democratic legitimacy. yeah, summit and shunning carry, like who is the gubernatorial nominate knee, and who is a extremely polished performance artist given there she has among the most extreme views i ve ever encountered, of every major candidate in recent republican party history. she is not just an election denier, she is covid denier, she s this whole guns in glory, talks about the godless left. using language becomes very much from the joe mccarthy era, and she stands an excellent chance of winning, because she is going up against katie hobbs, a democrat secretary of state who is somewhat charisma challenged, and has a lot of momentum behind or.