The State of the Nation’s Soul
by John L. Micek, February 8, 2021
By John Micek
When a traitorous band of pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol just a month ago in a deadly rampage that shook American democracy to its foundations, they were doing more than just trying to illegally upend the results of the November 2020 elections.
They were trying to turn back history.
Though he might try to deny it at the Senate impeachment trial that gets underway this week, former President Donald Trump nursed and nurtured that sense of grievance and a mountain of false claims through his four years in the White House.
BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania Sixteen years after winning the mayor’s office of this steel town located on the banks of the Monongahela River by one provisional ballot, John Fetterman has announced his run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Lehigh Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.
U.S. Rep. Scott Perry introduced Trump to an attorney sympathetic to the president’s false election claims. The attorney later joined Trump in a plot to pressure officials there.
Republican Rep. Scott Perry from Pennsylvania played a key role to help former President Donald Trump to oust then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in an attempt to overturn the election results in Georgia, reported The New York Times on Saturday, January 23.
The Republican from York County, Perry, objected to the election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania on January 6. According to the report by NYT, he introduced Trump to Jeffrey Bossert Clark, the acting chief of the Department of Justice s (DOJ) civil division. The justice department lawyer was working with the former president to find ways to raise doubts about the 2020 presidential election results, the report said.