For two months and hundreds of times, Trump repeated elaborate lies about how he had actually won the election and that it was stolen from him by cheating, ballot box stuffing, discarding ballots, and outright fraud. He failed to provide a shred of evidence to support his claims, and more than sixty lawsuits filed by him or on his behalf were thrown out of court, including twice by the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
Still, his die-hard supporters continued to believe him and rallied around his false "stop the steal" movement. That culminated in a raucous rally last Wednesday orchestrated by him outside the White House and a march to the Capitol, which he promised to lead (but then did not and went back indoors).
What he said in the rally that incited his most loyal supporters and what he did during the subsequent riot is at the heart of the Congressional movement to remove him from office on the grounds of being so patently dangerous.
The New York Times published an analytical piece on Sunday (link here) that breaks down his speech and identifies the most inflammatory coded remarks. And yesterday, the Washington Post published a detailed piece (link here) about how, for many hours, Trump sat in the White House watching television coverage of the rioting, ignoring telephone calls from Congressional leaders begging for help and aides urging him to do something.
In one single day, Trump repeatedly demonstrated how monumentally unfit he is serving as President. Removing him from office even a few days from the end of his term would underscore for all of time how America would not tolerate his lawlessness and incompetence when he finally showed his true stripes.
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