January 6 Committee is protecting democracy as we know it!

Echo letter to the editor published in the Los Angeles Times:

Former Attorney General William Barr and former guy Trump

Transcript excerpt from William Barr as presented at the January 6, 2022 Committee hearings: "The (Justice) department, in fact, when we received specific and credible allegations of fraud, made an effort to look into these to satisfy ourselves that they were without merit. And — and I was in the posture of trying to figure out — there was an avalanche of all these allegations of fraud that built up over a number of days. And it was like playing Whac-A-Mole, because something would come out one day and then the next day it would be another issue. Also, I was influenced by the fact that all the early claims that I understood on — were — were completely bogus and silly and usually based on complete misinformation. And so, I — I didn't consider the quality of claims right out of the box to give me any, you know, feeling that there was really substance here. [End videotape]."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R) of Wyoming is co-chair of the House January 6 Committee 

Dear Editor: Watching the January 6 House hearings has at times been grotesque for what they have visually portrayed, and more so for what each of the interviews and video clips illustrated about what was happening within the Trumpziizm's government. 

Also, it is satisfying to see the unadorned truth and the cause-and-effect relationship between the Trump camp, the then, the former president himself, and the events leading up to and on the day of his leading of the attempted coup.

The remarks by the committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney were solemn and resolute, the case was laid out well, and it was readily supported by irrefutable statements from multiple participants. And there's much more to come.

If at the conclusion of the hearings, the Republican Party still supports any of the perpetrators of the "Big Lie" that the election was stolen from former President Trump, and if its leaders are elected or reelected to office, then democracy as we know it is ending.

Barry Bauling, Calabasas, California