the reasons for the January 6 criminal assault on our Congress and election process are many but foremost among them is the sad reality that President Trump and the other officials have repeatedly compromised our principles in pursuit of partisan advantage and personal gain those who engaged in the disinformation and demagogy in pursuit of self-interest abdicated responsibility to the American people it was in every sense of the phrase a dereliction of Duty denying the results of the election spreading these unfounded conspiracy theories and claims of widespread corruption we saw the absence of leadership really what we saw is anti- leadership we're in trauma now and when you're in trauma you need a leader to assure the American people to allay fears we were stress tested in the worst possible way right with the president of the United States actively undermining our confidence in our Democratic process I would just say to anybody hey read the Constitution it's brilliant one of the reasons it's brilliant is that our Founders had all the worst case scenarios in mind and the reason is they paid attention to the bloody wars in England in the 1700s