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Ivan G Thompson
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The Making of A Great America Made in the Image of TRUMP
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
Jan 6th Could Have Been Prevented
I published this book before Jan 6th. I warned that President Trump’s remarks about a “stolen election” could erupt in violence. I make the case that Republican leaders and the Church could have called President Trump to task. Today most Republican leaders are still practicing amnesia, silence or even deception as it pertains to Jan 6th. Dick-Cheney-just’spoke-a-hard-truth-to-his-fellow-Republicans-about-January 6 Chris Cillizza, CNN 01/07/22 "Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty," Sen. Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor in the wake of Trump's acquittal last February from an impeachment charge for his actions (and lack thereof) on January 6. "There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President." A week after the Capitol riot, Rep. Kevin McCarthy was similarly blunt. "The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters," McCarthy said. "He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by President Trump." In the year since those comments, McConnell has gone silent about Trump while McCarthy has slunk back into Trump's good graces by trying to rewrite the history of January 6
Book Excerpt
The Making of A Great America Made in the Image of TRUMP
This is an excerpt from the chapter titled "Come Back to Your First Love"
I have a genuine concern for the safety of people in Arizona and other states where the president is still stoking resentment and anger based on false, wide-scale tampering with the election. In this final chapter, I’m calling on all Republican and evangelical leaders to follow the example of Governor Ducey and other elected Republicans to follow the law and call the election over. It’s time to stop supporting the president’s attempts to intervene at the electoral college level to throw out the certified, even hand-counted election results.
It’s time for those continuing to prophesy or insinuate that God is going to produce another election result to stop. Just stop. Stop before it leads to violence. No, you may not be the one to initiate actual violence, but your continued endorsement of false, massive election fraud might trigger violence from groups like the “Wolverine Watchmen” who tried to kidnap Michigan’s governor. (Kapetaneas, Giardino, Fasano, Muldofsky, & Yang, 2020)
Not only is it past time to end false claims about the election, but it’s also time for the Republican Party to come back to standards of decency and integrity. I am a huge George Bush fan. I shudder to think that President Bush, his father, and Senator John McCain can be said to have something in common with the president. Unfortunately, they do—“Republican nominee for president.”
I was taught that Republican leaders and certainly Christian leaders represented the moral high ground. But they winked at the president’s overtures to the Proud Boys, actions with Ukraine, attacks on Senator McCain (even after his death), communist state-style firings of the Attorney General, FBI Director, three National Security Advisors, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Homeland Security, and key members of the State Department including the whistle-blower.
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