Le is a Political Partner with the Truman National Security Project and served as Deputy Director of External and International Affairs and Deputy Cabinet Secretary to former California Governor Jerry Brown. He is a University of California, San Diego Thurgood Marshall College graduate. He lives in
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
Last week s invasion of the Capitol by QAnon adherents and white supremacists, acting on the orders of the president of the United States and encouraged by members of Congress, demonstrated
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The unfounded belief that the election was stolen from President Donald Trump has for months been festering in San Diego.
“Stop the Steal” rallies, marked by a party-like atmosphere, plainly illustrated a determined resolve to keep Trump in power.
The conspiracy theory was further nurtured online, and the ultra-conservative One America News Network pushed it to a national audience from its San Diego studios.
So it came as no surprise to many that San Diego found itself in the national spotlight this past week, spurred by the shooting death of an Ocean Beach woman who was at the front of a pro-Trump mob that tore its way into the U.S. Capitol.