I actually listened to today's session of the hearing in full, and a good chunk of it focused on the election officials who had been targeted by Trump's mob during the recounts. They brought on an election official who had been name-dropped by Trump in one of his speeches. She and her mother had been flooded with death threats, and an honest-to-God lynch mob even showed up at her grandmother's house and tried to force their way inside. In the end they had to go into witness protection.
I don't even remember any of that stuff making the news. Maybe it didn't, maybe I wasn't watching it, or maybe I just forgot all about it because of how much it paled in comparison to what happened later. If any other president in this country's history had done what Trump did, by naming that official in front of the mob, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say it would have been the most heinous thing he'd ever done. Yes, that includes the entirety of Watergate. Yes, that includes the entire Vietnam War. But for Donald J. Trump, it was just another day of the week, and only the beginning.
Goddammit, I have a neighbor who has a TRUMP WON flag hanging from their house, and after hearing that woman's testimony, it's going to be all I can do to walk past that house ever again without ripping that flag down, setting it on fire, and using it to torch the house.
