Trump is exposed as unfit and unqualified during January 6 House Select Committee hearings

An echo opinion letter published in the Lowell Sun newspaper, in Massachusetts. "...no one around to change Trump's diaper!" 🤣

For those of us who are not followers of former guy Donald Trump, the January 6 hearings have actually not shown us much about Trump that was not already known. 

But, thanks to the courageous political leadership on the House Select Committee, the heaaraings they have done a great deal to illuminate the depths of Trump’s unsuitability, unqualifications and unfitness to hold the highest office in the land. It is difficult to overstate how much he has done to poison the well of civil discourse in American politics.

He didn’t like the results of the 2020, presidential election, he didn’t agree with them, he got mad, there was no one around to change his diaper, and here we are!

Despite all that, Trump's delusions deserves our compassion. Anyone with clear and present mental and psychological disorders — even as loathsome an individual as Donald Trump — deserve our sympathy as a fellow human being. But, sympathy is one thing. 

And if a person is egotistical, narcissistic, megalomaniac, amoral, unhinged, completely divorced from reality, heeds no voice other than his own, and thinks he is above the law, the last thing we should want is to see that person elevated to the office of president.

If the January 6 committee is building a case of criminal conduct to bring against Trump, it should recall that several people, mostly Capitol Police officers, died during or as a result of injuries sustained during the January 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol. Since the deaths would not have happened without the riots, and since Trump is directly responsible for the riots, he is therefore responsible for those deaths, and should be held accountable. 

In my opinion, the blood of those innocent citizens is on his hands.

Or, what about perjury — the act of lying under oath, which is a crime? The presidential oath includes the words: “… and I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” You could drive a bus between the words Trump spoke when he became president and the actions he took during his final month in office.

It confounds all reason that this disgraceful man still has followers who will vote for him and hang on his every word. If Trump should run again for president, there are Republicans who would support his candidacy. When Trump vomits all over the Constitution, there are self-described “conservatives” who will fall over themselves rushing to lick it up.


The day may still come when all the (black booted!) “Storm Trumpers” begin to wake up and realize that Trump doesn’t give a flying bleep about them or their lives or their circumstances. He cares about himself, and what he says, and what he wants. Someday the light will switch on and the Trumpsters (aka "Trumpzis") will get it. Then we’ll see a reckoning and a real riot. But, despite his promises, Trump will not be there with you.

— J.F. Dacey, in Lowell, Massachusetts