Jan. 6 hearings, abortion ban fallout could impact Trump’s comeback hopes. Here’s why
Global News
The U.S. Conservative news website Washington Examiner wrote an editorial stating that former U.S. president Donald Trump "is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again.''
It’s a lesson oddsmakers have long since learned the hard way: never assume the imminent political demise of one Donald Trump.
But the one-two punch of the congressional investigation into the Capitol Hill riots and the seismic impact of Roe vs. Wade is raising new doubts about Trump’s powers of persuasion.
“Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again,” the editorial board of the right-wing weekly Washington Examiner, a publication long deferential to the former president, wrote this week following Tuesday’s surprise hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.
The hearing was called at the last minute to showcase the revelations of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who described in shocking _ if not surprising — detail Trump’s state of mind in the waning days and hours of his ill-fated presidency.
That hearing “confirmed a damning portrayal of Trump as unstable, unmoored and absolutely heedless of his sworn duty to effectuate a peaceful transition of presidential power,” the editorial continued.
“Republicans have far better options to lead the party in 2024. No one should think otherwise, much less support him, ever again.”
Hutchinson, a special assistant to the president and chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the committee that Trump seemed desperate to join his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, unfazed by the fact many of them were armed — “they’re not here to hurt me,” she overheard him say.
She described hearing from officials that Trump had ordered the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol, and that he lunged for the steering wheel of the presidential SUV, and even the neck of one member of his security detail, when those orders were rebuffed.