Ross: Who is really on trial, Trump or the Senators?

Whatever Trump said in that final speech, it’s obvious that the thing that drew the crowd that day was a determination to stop the certification of an election they believed was stolen.

A belief not based on rigorous independent research, but on the claims of the one man who had the ability to get every media outlet to spread his made-up story.

After yesterday’s hearing, a mom named Heather called in to C-SPAN from Conover, North Carolina, to explain what she told her 13-year-old son:

“I said, ‘Well, what if you go to school one day and your principal announces over the intercom that he wants the people that support him – the kids in your class — to harass or bully the kids who don’t agree with him? And how would you feel if these people took what he said and ran with it and there was just destruction at school,’ and he said, ‘Mom, my principal would never do that.’ And I said, ‘Exactly.'”

Even a school child can understand how bad this is.

Which means what’s on trial here isn’t Trump – it’s the character of those 100 Senators. How many of them will sit at Ground Zero and vote to excuse what looks to be the clearest case of executive sedition since the Civil War?

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