Donald Trump believed and had evidence of election fraud while he was sitting President of the U.S. Therefore, it was his sworn duty as President to do everything legally in his power to stop the illegal election from moving forward. Basically said, any President in Trump’s position was duty-bound to stop such a coup. That includes attempting to persuade VP Pence on his opinions and evidence, and also to persuade a crowd of supporters to peacefully protest against Congress, and also for these supporters as well as Trump himself to demand their Constitution right to have their grievances addressed by their government. As of today, these grievances by the people nor by citizen and former President Trump have NOT been addressed. Just the contrary, grieving citizens are still held as political prisoners and prosecuted by the government which is duty bound to address the grievances.

The government is prosecuting the victims instead of the criminals. Thus, the government and its cronies have become the criminals, worse than mafia because they act under color of authority. It is time to re read the Declaration of Independence.

Is a sitting president supposed to allow a coup to take place without opposing it? Of course not. Yet this is the eventuality of the theory assumed by the prosecutors of Trump and January 6 protestors. Meanwhile, prosecutors and courts ignore the fact that many FBI and other government and paid non-Trump-supporting agent were instigating in the January 6 crowd, and ignore the blatant and now proven election interference by many (over 50) U.S. intel officials regarding the Hunter Biden laptop, and ignore the Obama FBI and DOJ spying on the 2016 Trump campaign and General Michael Flynn, and ignore two attempts to frame President Trump with fake impeachment proceedings, one based on a proven fake Russia collusion story, and another based on a legitimate phone call about now proven VP Joe Biden corruption in Ukraine.

On January 6, VP Pence and Congress did not fulfill their sworn duty to protect and defend the Constitution. Duty required delaying the election confirmation to investigate the alleged election fraud, a function far more important to the nation than a timely confirmation protocol. In the most generous case to Congress and the VP, this was a severe lapse of judgement. The transfer of power could have been delayed so that the far more important issue of election integrity was confirmed for the nation. Instead, VP Pence and Congress have left the nation badly divided with hundreds if not thousands of citizens having witnessed election corruption events, events which were legally called to the attention of VP Pence, the AG Barr, SOS Pompeo and others in the Trump administration, as well as to Congress by the duty-bound sitting President and his legal teams, as well as citizens, and state legislators. And still today, nothing has been done to shore up confidence in election integrity, which stands at zero. Commendably, on January 6th, a significant number of U.S. Senators and Representatives righteously called for a confirmation delay and investigation, they can stand proud in the light. But on January 6th, the U.S. Congress as a body, the Vice President, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and others in the U.S. government were derelict of sworn duty.

Today, more than 2 years later, America hangs its head in shame for its failed government.

Bud