"The facts say any Republicans who continue to claim Trump lost the 2020 election because it was stolen through fraud are committing treason against the nation they swore an oath to support and protect.

The list of these traitors is long: the corrupt Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, is valueless co-conspirator Marjorie Taylor Greene, unqualified committee chairmen like Jim Jordan, and too many others."

I couldn't agree more.

I have watched with growing alarm the devolution of the "Grand Old Party" into a party of scofflaws and ne'er-do-wells. I was one who cheered on Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon, at the time believing that it was "right thing to do" to heal the country. I now believe I was so very wrong.

Because Nixon never faced prosecution - or even impeachment - he set the pattern of impunity that grew within the GOP and metastasized into Donald Trump and MAGA. That feeling of impunity animated the Iran-Contra scandal less than a decade later, and justified Bush Sr.'s pardon of the co-conspirators (and witnesses) at the behest of then-Attorney General, Bill Barr.

Barr's behavior as AG under Trump was no different and he actively obstructed justice in numerous ways. (Yes, I think he is a duplicitous traitor who should be prosecuted.)

"On June 16, 1992, Weinberger was indicted on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. Bush pardoned him before his trial. Robert McFarlane, Reagan’s national security adviser, was convicted of withholding evidence, but after a plea bargain he faced two years of probation before Bush’s pardon came though.

Bush also pardoned Elliott Abrams, the assistant secretary of state, who was convicted of withholding evidence and received two years’ probation; Duane Clarridge, a former CIA senior official, who had been indicted on seven counts of perjury and false statements; Clair George, chief of CIA covert operations, who had been convicted on two charges of perjury and had yet to be sentenced; and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA’s Central American Task Force, who had been convicted of withholding evidence and sentenced to one year’s probation.

During Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign, he denied any knowledge of the Iran–Contra affair, asserting that as Reagan’s vice president he was “out of the loop.” Although in his diaries Bush wrote he was “one of the few people that knew fully the details,” he refused to discuss it." Bush Pardons Iran-Contra Felons, Dec. 24, 1992 (Politico) As Thom Hartmann opined, Bill Barr Is The Master Of Covering Up Political Scandals

Trump expects similar treatment, and his sycophants, in Congress and elsewhere, are willing to lobby for it.

Justice needs to be served.