The second element of Trump’s pursuit of power is his determined effort to sell the American people on his thoroughly discredited view of the 2020 election, which inspired his followers’ bloody attempt to overturn the results by attacking the US Capitol. Even Sen. Mitch McConnell blamed Trump for the attack on the US Capitol in February and said, “There’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president and having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.” A year later, Trump still isn’t letting up, and even though he’s been banned…
