‘Republican Party is in danger,’ says Medved in response to Jan. 6 hearings

Jun 17, 2022, 4:04 PM

MyNorthwest.com

The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection continued on Thursday, detailing how former President Donald Trump tried to pressure his vice president to join in his scheme to overturn the presidential election — and how Mike Pence’s refusal put his life in danger as rioters called for his hanging on Jan. 6, 2021.

“Mike Pence was 40 feet away from almost certain death,” Michael Medved, host of the Michael Medved Show, said on the Gee and Ursula Show on KIRO Newsradio. “Some of the the videos that they played about people who were very determined to kill Mike Pence, the fact that they now have an individual, a spy basically, who had penetrated the Proud Boys who said, yes, there was definitely a plan to kill Pence or Pelosi.

“I think it’s going to be harder and harder for people to defend what happened on January 6,” Medved continued.

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According to witness testimony, Pence himself and the lawyer who concocted the scheme advised Trump directly that the plan was unconstitutional and violated federal law. Committee members argued that this shows Trump’s corrupt intentions and could lay the groundwork for a potential indictment.

“All of this, I think, is decreasing the likelihood that Donald Trump would have some kind of cakewalk to the Republican nomination,” Medved said. “I think it’s going to be a big struggle for him. And of course, like many Americans and many Republicans, I hope for the sake of the country and the party, that he decides not to run.”

Medved stressed the uncertainties the future of the Republican Party may have if the focus remains on the belief that there was fraud in the election process.

“I think the Republican Party is in danger,” Medved said. “This kind of obsession with claims of voting fraud is frankly sick. And at a time when the American people are suffering from inflation and perhaps a revived pandemic, God forbid, an onrushing recession and very serious problems. The idea that people are still obsessed with recounting and recounting and recounting the votes in Georgia or Arizona is extremely destructive.”

J. Michael Luttig, the former Republican Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, echoes these concerns during the second installment of the Jan. 6 hearings. Trump poses a “clear and present danger to American democracy,” Luttig said.

He said he had reached this conclusion because Trump and his allies are still lying about the 2020 election, endorsing candidates who are promoting these lies and showing no signs of backing down.

“There is some kind of intellectual moral collapse if the best that you can do of a country of 330 million people, who are mostly pretty terrific people, is Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That’s a sad statement about America,” Medved said.

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