During an interview with Margaret Brennan today, Congressman Michael McCaul -another GOPe weasel – said he stands with Vice President Mike Pence in saying “they avoided a constitutional crisis” on January 6, 2021, when Congress declared an emergency session and refused to entertain any challenges to the 2020 election certification. WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Texas Republican Congressman Michael McCaul.
Good morning to you, Chairman McCaul.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-Texas): Good Morning, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I have got a lot to get to with you today.
But I want to start where I just left off with those very strong remarks from Mike Pence last night. Do you want to associate yourself with what he said?
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: Let me just say Vice President Pence exercised moral clarity and judgment that day by doing his constitutional responsibility, authenticating the votes and counting them.
He avoided a major constitutional crisis that day. As you know, I voted for certification. That is our constitutional role not to overturn state- certified ballots. So, I agree. I mean, look, it was a dark — dark day. And I think people will be — history will judge everyone by what they did that day.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
It was a pretty strong condemnation of Donald Trump, who he hasn’t directly taken on like that before. But it’s also back in the news very much, Chairman, because it was the speaker of the House who gave those 41,000 hours of surveillance video access to FOX News, which then has used a recasting of the events, trying to sanitize it, trying to whitewash history.
Do you think it was a mistake for Republican leadership to strike this deal with Tucker Carlson? That is who Mike Pence was talking about.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: Well, I know Kevin McCarthy has turned all the videotape over to FOX News.
He has given me assurance he’s going to turn it over to the entire media. I think — I believe in the fourth estate, freedom of press, and I think the American people deserve to see all the footage from that day, and all the footage is not going to be tourism at the Capitol. It’s going to show a very dark, tragic day that I witnessed firsthand that included our Capitol Police being assaulted, 140 of them injured, two pipe bombs, one — one Capitol police officer killed, and a protester killed.
That’s not — that’s not a good day. And I think it should have been prevented had we had good intelligence that day beforehand. And, look, I support law enforcement. Like this D.C. crime bill we were passing, I support law enforcement everywhere, especially at the United States Capitol.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you on the other side of an upcoming commercial break about the hearing you just held on Afghanistan.
But, before I do that, I want to quickly ask you about what we’ve been talking about, with the Treasury Secretary saying no government bailout for this Silicon Valley Bank, but they are trying to take some action.
She didn’t give a lot of detail there. I know Austin is a start-up hub in your home state of Texas. How concerned are you about spillover here?
REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: Yes, we do have South by Southwest this weekend, a lot of tech.
Yes, I am concerned, I hope it’s more of an isolated event, because the assets were very — it was all just technology sector and it wasn’t diversified, also, as the secretary mentioned these low interest bonds. And I think part of the problem, Margaret, is, in this inflationary time, the Reserve, Federal Reserve, now is raising interest rates, and that, I think, is part of the problem as well.
We want to make sure this is — this is an isolated event, and not a systemic event that could impact things like in 2008…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: … when we did bailout the financial sector.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, I have got to take that break now.
And we’ll come back and continue our conversation in a moment.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION.
We want to return now to our conversation with House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul.
Now, Chairman, I mentioned that you held this hearing on Afghanistan this past week, and it was pretty emotional.
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX): Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re really examining the chaotic withdrawal from that country. And you had a Marines Corps sergeant, injured in the suicide bombing, who testified that he was an eyewitness and he actually saw the suicide bomber before the attack. He testified he has never been interviewed as part of the U.S. investigation.
How was this overlooked?
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: I think it’s very — well, first of all, very powerful testimony. Very emotional. But very devastating and damaging to the administration. These – these snipers and troops were put at HKIA, surrounded by the Taliban.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The airport in Kabul.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: They put the Taliban in — in Kabul. That’s the HKIA airport. And surrounded by the Taliban who were put in charge. And that was the first mistake in the chaos that we heard that happened that day and the State Department virtually non-existent.
I think the most dramatic thing, Margaret, was the fact that this sniper had the suicide bomber in his sights and an intelligence bulletin went out, you know, describing him. He said, this is — this meets the description, meets with the team, PSYOPS, psychological operations get together, they run this up the chain of command and the commanding officer says, I don’t have the authority. And then they said, who does have the authority for permission to engage, and the commanding officer says, I don’t know, and he never got back to them.
The point is, they could have taken out this threat. But then, when the suicide bomber went off, not only did Marine Sergeant Vargas Andrews have his leg blown off and his arm, but we had 140 Afghans killed, 13 service men and women killed.
I talked to the mother of one of the Marine sergeants.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: I gave her just a hug. She was so devastated. In addition to 50 injured, including Marine Sergeant Vargas Andrews.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: And it could have been avoided.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, to the point of how it could be avoided. You know, you – you hear it, there were intelligence failures. Events just got ahead of planning.
The State Department argues that they’ve briefed Congress more than 150 times since the withdrawal. What information do you need that you don’t have yet?
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: Well, I think the compelling testimony we got from the sniper. We’ve never heard this before. In fact, Margaret, this is the first open hearing we’ve had on Afghanistan since the fall of Afghanistan. And I intend to move forward with this investigation. And I what to know what the commanding officer was thinking when he denied permission to take out the threat and how — what levels did it go to within the United States government? I think those are all very important questions.
And the State Department has not been compliant with our document requests. I met with the secretary. We had a very cordial conversation. Cooperation is always key. But they’re not cooperating. If he fails to cooperate with my document production request by, you know, the time he testifies on March 23rd, I am prepared to issue a subpoena.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And issue — issue a subpoena for Antony Blinken to come testify before your committee. What exactly do you think he’s withholding? What’s the documents?
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: No, he is – he — he will be testifying, but we have an outstanding document production request that the lawyers are very combative. I think the secretary, in good faith, has told me he wants to cooperate with this investigation, be transparent to the American people, but we’re not seeing that with the lawyers handling this on the ground. So, we need these documents because a lot of this stuff, to your point, Margaret, has never been brought out to the public.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes. This is the dissent cable specifically that you are requesting, that is people within the State Department disagreeing with the policy that was the administration’s planning?
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: It’s a dissent cable. The extraordinary measure to have 23 members of the State Department at the embassy dissenting with the policy.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL: The after action report from the ambassador. But also the plan of evacuation. Just a simple plan of evacuation. What was your plan? They have failed to deliver that to Congress. Those are three key, you know, areas that we want to see compliance with.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
All right, Congressman, we will be watching that. I know there are a number of other issues we’ll talk to you about sometime soon, including China, but I’ve got to leave it there for today. [Transcript End]
At the least: Pence, Pelosi, Schumer & McConnell all deserve lampposts.
Lamp posts? Is that the same as the gallows?
McCaul is right on only one thing he said. “History will judge everyone by what they did that day.” You Constituents of McCaul need to do the judging here, and hold him accountable for his participation in the TOTAL LACK of representation for a fair and correct election. Every one of you need to vote him out of office….
Just because Texas is Red doesn’t mean we can get rid of clowns like McCaul. We’ve still got Cornyn after all. The party apparatus runs the primaries.
Was McCaul a, er, Company Man before the House of Representatives?
His words sure sound like company words, don’t they?!
Man, you Americans have a lot of work to do,ridding your Government of FILTHY LIBERALS
Another English word corrupted beyond recognition by those crave power.
A true liberal would insist on free and fair elections with limited government and the consent of the governed.
Yes, and they do love it when we use the words they have successfully changed the meaning of (just look at how we are never in an actual “recession,” two negative-growth quarters in a row be damned…)
Jettisoning Madison’s Constitution in Order to Connect the Declaration of Independence to a New Constitution.
As long as conservative historians continue to conflate Jefferson with Madison, the Marxist 1619 allegation of white supremacy will continue to have propaganda force in promoting the Marxist regime.
Laurie Thomas Vass. http://www.civildissolution.com
March 13, 2023.
Note to readers: This is the introduction to a much longer article that argues for a national divorce in order to replace Madison’s constitution. The longer article is available at http://www.civildissolution.substack.com The sections of the longer article are:
Section 1. Originalism and Original Intent of Madison’s Class-Based Constitution.
Section 2. Contemporary Intent: The 1619 Ideology of Marxism.
Section 3. Linking Jefferson’s Declaration to the Democratic Republic of America.
Conclusion. The End of the Global Kleptocracy.
Introduction:
We begin our advocacy of creating a new constitution with a criticism of the sloppy intellectual offering of The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, which co-joins and conflates the principles of liberty in the Declaration, with Madison’s class-based, flawed Constitution of 1787.
The writers of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission continue the historical charade that the two documents are linked.
As an example of a professional historian making this charade, in Property and the Pursuit of Happiness, Edward J. Erler uses the vague phrase “the founders” to refer to both the patriots of 1775, and to the 38 elites who signed Madison’s constitution, in 1787.
Erler’s intent is to show that the American Founders, who signed the Constitution, regarded the Declaration of Independence as “the authoritative source of the principles of the Constitution.”
The two documents, and the two sets of people involved in each event are different, and not connected by philosophy.
Jefferson’s document is not the authoritative source of the principles of Madison’s document. Jefferson’s document expresses universal natural truths.
Madison’s document is a class-based set of rules designed to place the privileges of the natural aristocracy above the mass of common citizens, in an aristocratic republic.
The original intent of Madison’s document is easily traced from the Annapolis Convention, in 1786, to the Philadelphia convention. The self-selected elites in Philadelphia needed to replace the Articles with a stronger, central government, which protected the elite’s financial interests, and eliminated the paper currency issued by states.
In the elite’s concept of the new republic, the only function of common citizens was to vote every four years on the elites who would represent them.
As do the Democrat Marxist today, the natural aristocracy back then, believed that because they possessed “virtue” that they would make better decisions about public affairs than the citizens, themselves.
George Mason correctly identified Madison’s ploy about the virtuous natural aristocracy as a reincarnation of the British advocacy of “virtual representation.”
As Sean Wilentz wrote, in The Rise of American Democracy, in Madison’s constitution,
“The people had no formal voice of their own in government. And, that was exactly how it was supposed to be — for once the electors had chosen their representatives, they ceded power, reserving none for themselves until the next election…The people, as a political entity, existed only on election day.”
After November 3, 2020, the people, as a political entity, ceased to exist, even on election day, because their votes were stolen by the Marxist Democrats.
Madison did not cite Jefferson in his document, and makes no reference to Jefferson’s principles of individual liberty. Madison’s Preamble is a “nominal nothing.”
The sleight of hand of the 1776 Commission to link the Declaration to Madison’s document, is an unfair and deceptive trade practice, intended to mislead citizens that the founding of America occurred in 1787, not 1776.
As long as this historical charade continues, we argue that the fallacious Black Marxists allegation that the founding of America, as a white supremacist nation, is credible because of Madison’s accommodation of slavery.
We tend to agree with the conclusion, but not her logic, of the Vox Marxist writer, Fabiola Cineas, in her article, The Convenience of American Amnesia:
“This special kind of denial keeps America unable to reckon with the sin of white supremacy.”
Professional historians, and so-called conservative constitutional originalist jurists, are in a special kind of denial of Madison’s original intent.
Unless, and until, the writers of the 1776 Report make a clean break between the two documents, the Black Marxist allegation of American white supremacy will continue to be an effective political weapon to advance Marxism.
Madison’s document required him to accommodate and accept slavery, in order to get the document ratified, in a fraudulent and fake ratification process.
Madison made 7 grand compromises on slavery, and the political expediency to get his document ratified has caused endless race and class conflict with the society, including today’s Marxist Democrats charges of racism in the formation of the nation.
The racism of America did not begin in 1619, or in 1776.
The enduring racism of the American government began in 1787, with a document that enshrined “separate and unequal,” not with Jefferson’s 1776 principle of equality, that if all men are equal.
Judicial constitutional originalism, or discerning today, what the signers intended in 1787, would require originalists to interpret the written text of the Constitution in its original intent to protect slavery.
Whereas, if historians jettison Madison’s document, and revert to Jefferson’s document as the foundation of the new constitution, liberty, and not commercial financial interests, would replace the mission of the new constitution.
We advocate creating a new nation, built upon the principles of the Declaration, and jettisoning Madison’s flawed document, which attempted to combine two alien cultures under one centralized government.
That same document, today, continues to corrupt the power of government with the false impression of the Marxist Democrats that two alien cultures, liberty and Marxism, can be combined under a centralized Marxist tyranny.
Our podcast today intends to convince 75 million MAGA Trump voters that the path forward, from November 3, 2020, lies in creating a new nation of sovereign states, whose citizens will have an opportunity to vote in a constitutional referendum to join the new nation.
We begin our argument that the Former United States of America (FUSA), ended on November 3, 2020, in a successful coup of Marxist Democrats that overthrew the Constitution’s principles of majority rule and the voluntary allegiance to the rule of law.
In that coup, the written constitution of 1787 was replaced by an unwritten constitution, whose rules benefit the ruling class elites of the Washington kleptocracy.
Biden is not a legitimate President. He is an unelected tyrant, intent on cramming Marxist ideology down the throats of the majority of ordinary, common citizens.
Part of our argument in favor of making a clean break with Madison’s republic is to stop the charade of calling Biden “President.”
Biden is an unelected Marxist tyrant, and conferring the honorific title of President, on him extends credibility and legitimacy to a government, where none is due.
What path Biden, and the Marxist Democrats take, after the citizen state referendums is not our problem.
What happens to the establishment Republican Party and the kleptocracy, after the state referendums, is not our problem.
Our problem is to connect the principles of liberty, in the Declaration, to a new constitution in a democratic republic of states, that creates a commonwealth of independent producers, in an entrepreneurial capitalist economy. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, Principles of Liberty of the Democratic Republic of America, https://bit.ly/3cFQnnf).
The ruins of the FUSA that we seek to rebuild upon, are the principles of the Declaration, and the state sovereignty framework of the Articles of Confederation of 1781, not Madison’s rules of civil procedure of the Constitution of 1787.
This podcast is the audio introduction to a much longer written article, available at http://www.civildissolution.substack.com
The sections of the longer article are:
This argument contains interesting but specialized information about American history for which most people, even some constitutional scholars, may lack sufficient detailed understanding to be able to reach an informed opinion. Because of this, it might be proper for a number of constitutional scholars who are interested in this subject to debate the pros and cons in a public forum to enable the general public to have enough understanding to know whether to agree with any of the ideas behind such a monumental and nearly unthinkable project.
The parts about matter-of-factly referring to it as a coup, which it was, and not referring to FJB as the president, which he is not (as he was installed, not elected legally and properly with no chance to question the results) make a lot of sense even to those of us who are not Constitutional scholars. We have a president-in-exile and a cabal of global elites (or call them marxists, as above, makes no difference) running this government.
A stolen presidential election is not a constitutional crisis…
Got it, McCaul…check.
Super-size /S…
… it’s called The Dumb Party for a reason…
It’s just amazing that McCaul is such a RINO and has been put into this office. He’s Swamp Creature just like Romney. If we want our country back, WE MUST TAKE ACTION.
So interesting how McCaul says nothing about our Constitutional Crisis RIGHT NOW in all sectors of our “government.”
A coup occurred and it will not be forgotten or forgiven.
Why does any Republican politician waste time taking questions from an absolute hack like Margaret Brennan? Are they stupid, just completely gutless or both?
Hmm, you really don’t know the answer to this? Clue Republican politician. BTW, I have a local Republican Men’s meeting tonight. Boy are they going to get an earful.
I’d say when they are Republicans like the one above, he’s right at home. MAGA Republicans prob don’t take questions from hacks like Brennan. Anyone who talks about the coup as dishonestly as this guy did is just playing the game — go to DC, join the swamp, get money and power, make a career out of it, retire rich…it’s all a show, behind the scenes, they know that.
This is the Uniparty/RINOs clapping back. Expect this claptrap to continue
I guess when you marry right you can be an idiot.
McCaul is married to Linda Mays McCaul, the daughter of Clear Channel Communications founder and former chairman Lowry Mays and sister of its former CEO Mark Mays. In 2011, Roll Call named McCaul as one of the wealthiest members of the United States Congress, surpassing then U.S. Senator John Kerry. His net worth was estimated at $294 million, about 300% higher than it was in the previous year ($74 million).[22] In 2004, the same publication estimated his net worth at $12 million. His wealth increase was due to large monetary transfers from his wife’s family.
‘Weasel’ is absolutely the right word for this guy. They trot him out every time they need to help the MSM shore up their narrative.
He is a liar and he knows it. One of many congresspeople who are in it for the money.
Although it’s infuriating to be lectured by another one of these arrogant pompous uni-party asses (GOPe/RINOs, Democrats and the sycophant weasels) regarding the projection that they’re now somehow guardians of the Constitution by preventing a so-called Constitutional crisis when in fact they’ve created a Constitutional crisis by denying Constitutional rights and obstructing the rule of law with respect to a hundred million or so US citizens (including the most heinous actions/abuses against the J6ers), the truth of the matter is that they are scared to death. Hopefully, you’ve taken note that the uni-party’s escalation of this self righteous indignation mantra and faux patriotic posturing began in earnest immediately after several J6 videos including commentary where made public. Also, it’s apparent that everything the uni-party has been able to accomplish regarding their agenda has been built on a house of lies. And all it takes is for one lie to be shredded and the foundation on which that house has been built crumbles. That occurred and we’ve now reached the inflection point as the light switch has been flipped on and the uni-party is scurrying with no place to hide. They’ve been caught, they know it, the clock is ticking down and they’re fully aware that as in Medieval times when the tyrannical aristocracy got out of hand and pushed the wrong buttons the serfs rose up and resolved the problem by a throw over the rampart solution (figuratively speaking).
They are not scared. They have suffered nothing by being exposed. They have no accountability and will have zero accountability for the foreseeable future. Nobody will do a thing.
We’re mad but we have been crippled by the “controlspeak” of the DS voice, the media & our public representatives. They perpetuate the lies and people believe J6 was an “attempted coup.” People’s belief ends up being the “truth,” just like covid vaccines are safe & effective is “truth.”
The narrative ends up becoming public truth, whether the facts are real or not.
It is depressing to see Joe Biden & Dr Wife walking around pretending to represent ME!
I don’t need that kind of negative publicity! I CAN MAKE MYSELF LOOK BAD ALL BY MYSELF!
100% disagree. Indeed they are very scared because if not the bombastic coordinated deflection/projection rhetoric to counter the visual truth that destroys their lies would not be occurring. Unfortunately for the uni-party the majority of US citizens are on to their mode of operation which is based upon lies, deception and cheating. The bottom line is don’t discount the sleeping giant which has been awakened by this administration’s policies whose intent is to destroy this country and subjugate her citizens.
I commented on another thread on this topic. The lines are being drawn between the side of the GOP that is with the People, and the side that’s with the Establishment/Deep State. The animosity is only going to grow the closer we get to the election and it will hurt Conservatives at every level. Which, I think, may be the result the Deep State wants in their quest to keep all the power to themselves and away from the People. The Establishment doesn’t care which party is in power as long as they’re in the driver’s seat.
The CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS was November of 2020 when the politicians, criminal judicial system, media and democrat party CORRUPTED the election and implanted a FRAUDULENT PRESIDENT.
Joe Biden: “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
2020 Election was RIGGED – ELECTION FRAUD: https://rumble.com/vdp7df-share-unmasked-have-we-uncovered-the-truth-about-the-2020-election.html;
Good ole purple texas.
Is everyone in Washington whose surname begins with a “Mc” a traitorous scumbag?
Ha. ha.
There sure is a fair # of them.
At least we are learning who the enemies of We the People are and will be able to rectify things when the time comes.
They make it so easy when they give us their face to add to a name! I’ll allow you all a little further South of me to add this one to your list. My list is pretty lengthy already!
he specifically did NOT authenticate votes
McCaul likes the Kool-Aid.
the Traitors make themselves SOOOO easy to identify!
I’ve never trusted this guy. He’s whichever way the winds blows. Vote him OUT, Texas!
This dude, McCaul, just looks like a slimy piece of excrement.
How did Pence avoid a constitutional crisis on J6?
Normal election certification rules would have allowed the scotus to decide if their was dissent. That would have created a constitutional crisis.
By using “emergency” election certification rules, Pence, Pelosi, Schumer and Mitch avoided a constitutional crisis and stole the 2020 election.
The MSM spew, on cue, the most outrageous lies on an hourly basis, all around the world.
How was this historic level of mind-control accomplished, and by whom?
We are no longer at the “fun and games” or “political disagreements” level. The Zombies-R-Us horror of the now mindlessly obedient MSM demands an explanation…
Libspeak Glossary
Constitutional Crisis
When the US Constitution is invoked to keep Leftists from accruing more power
More and more Trump hating Rinocrats coming out of the closet . It’s amazing Trump got anything achieved , 99% of the con-gress was stabbing him in the back.
The sElection Coup of 2020 certainly Avoided the Constitutional Civil War that would have been required to have a Legitimately Elected President.
I suppose We will now See the Consequencea of Our Inaction.
2022 sElection Steals do not bode well either.
Now comes the National Bankruptcy???
Reaping what We have sown, imo
Maybe..I talked to a good friend earlier today. He is a successful independent as independent as one can be.) financial advisor.
He was buying banks and energy today..these he makes 1% or at times a bit more.
Win or lose on folks portfolios.
I do my own dabbling? But respect him very much.
The whole thing is a tremendous cash cow for those at the casino.
That said, we will continue to buy Canadian Bank and energy stocks when prices hit the inevitable trough.
A few of the Big 5 Canadian Banks are paying around 6% by way of a quarterly dividend.
Cheers!
McCaul is a POS.
These spineless, soulless congressmen ARE the constitutional crisis!
Sell out, no 🏀 🏀s — piles of 💩 💩💩!
So every election that the dems have lost since 2000 has been a Constitutional crisis? Because they have challenged the electors in every election since then that they have lost — as Jim Jordan wrote in the beginning of his book that came out not long ago.
It seems to be only electors that are bound to give their electoral votes to candidates other than PDT who are not permitted to be challenged, but all others are and have been each Inauguration Day. However, the group that wargamed exactly how they were going to rig the election did not want to allow everyone to take a deep breath on that day; no, everything had to be rushed through at the same time that the FBI undercover agents and their hired anti-fa troops were provoking a small part of the crowd at the Capitol….while the “Pelosi tapes” were being filmed…
They were so afraid that, if it were not over and done with, someone might find a way to say “Wait a minute—” and the major theme of the wargaming was that it had to be a done deal before anyone had the chance to question even if the questioning was merely the routine challenging of electors that takes place every four years (or at least when democrats lose.)
Incorrect, he refused to acknowledge an existing constitutional crisis.
Every one of these 🤡 that opens their pie hole about J6 talks as if they witnessed something. Anything. All they know is what Empress Piglosi & her crew of traitors spoon fed them. This particular piece of 💩 probably wet himself.
It’s unfortunate that this dirtbag didn’t complete the first swing in the fight he tried to initiate with Matt Gaetz.
It would have been awesome to see him get his clock cleaned.
He did? Letting your opponents get away with cheating isn’t avoiding a Constitutional Crisis….its the definition of a Constitutional Crisis.