Steven Leach
Truman National Security Project’s Colorado Chapter
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO2) correctly called out many of my Republican colleagues [who] this week took part in an effort to undermine that peaceful transition by objecting to the electoral counting process,” implicitly Reps. Lauren Boebert (CO-3) and Doug Lamborn (CO-5). Unfortunately, Rep. Buck has pivoted to ask President-Elect Joe Biden to interfere in the work of Congress and end current impeachment efforts in the “spirit of healing and fidelity to our Constitution.”
To abandon accountability for the dangerous, violent criminals, some of whom are being charged with murderous intent toward Mr. Buck’s colleagues, is an obscene abdication of responsibility and fidelity to the Constitution. Moreover, it displays a willful ignorance that this was not a random event but consciously cultivated and activated white supremacy resulting from President Trump’s dispersal of lies and rejection of the bipartisan cond