TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Immediately after the Capitol attacks, Republican senators and representatives who had barely escaped with their lives blurted out the truth, putting the blame for inciting the bloodthirsty mob right at Donald Trump’s feet. They must have been scared straight. Because once the imminent threat to their lives had passed, that old fear that they could lose their seats to a Trump-backed primary opponent settled over them, and they stopped telling the truth. Now they sound like a chorus of Nikki Haleys, the former Trump appointee who exclaimed, “Give the guy a break.”