Trump Might Be Impeached. What About Everybody Else?
The president’s enablers have regrets — but then again, too few to mention.
He now calls Trump’s rhetoric “reckless.”
Photographer: OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump may face the consequences of seeking to overthrow the federal government. There is pressure on him to resign and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to formally call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip the president of his office and powers. The House of Representatives is considering charging him with “incitement of insurrection,” according to a draft of impeachment papers circulating in Congress.
Good. That’s exactly what Trump did — in three recent phone calls to Georgia officials seeking to rig election results there and in the grotesque calamity he engineered last week that prompted seditionists to lay siege to the Capitol, leaving five people dead and the seat of the U.S. government seriously breached for the first time since the War of 1812.