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OK! I无毛视频檒l admit I was afraid of the boogeyman when I was a kid.
I无毛视频檇 see a scary movie. Then I无毛视频檇 live in bedtime-panic for weeks.
Because I had little defense against the 无毛视频渦ndead,无毛视频� I could only do one thing to escape it. When my parents turned off my bedroom lights, I无毛视频檇 cover my head, and stay as quiet as I possibly could.
It worked, I thought, because if I couldn无毛视频檛 see or hear IT, then IT couldn无毛视频檛 see or hear me.
I realized that was silly after I grew up.
That looking away from anything never allows you to escape it.
Take those ongoing Jan. 6 House Select Committee hearings.
There are lots of Donald Trump-supporting Republicans who loudly proclaim they aren无毛视频檛 going to watch any of them.
If they hide from the proceedings, then the proceedings can无毛视频檛 inflict them with what most people call 无毛视频渢he facts.无毛视频�
Some of them are saying we无毛视频檝e already seen all of this stuff, which is really only the handiwork of overexuberant Democrats, hellbent on taking down Trump.
That无毛视频檚 why, they tell us, nobody is watching.
Well, 20 million people did watch the first, nighttime hearing on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN.
Fox News declined to show that first hearing live.
Instead, Fox无毛视频檚 superstars Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity openly mocked the hearings during their respective 8 and 9 p.m. time slots.
Mockery meant Carlson could call the insurrection, 无毛视频渇orgettably minor,无毛视频� even though, at the same time, the committee was showing the extremely violent events of Jan. 6.
Those people who did bother to remove their convenient political blinders were given ample proof that Trump not only knew he lost the 2020 presidential election 无毛视频� fair and square 无毛视频� but that he appears to have lied repeatedly to the public about it.
无毛视频淚f he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact 无毛视频� He无毛视频檚 become detached from reality,无毛视频� testified Trump无毛视频檚 Attorney General, Bill Barr, about the days following the election, in which Trump was trying to cobble together some scenario in which he was the winner.
Barr appeared on camera using the words 无毛视频渞ubbish,无毛视频� 无毛视频渋diotic,无毛视频� and 无毛视频渂ull无毛视频�-无毛视频� to describe his response to Trump无毛视频檚 repeated claims he无毛视频檇 been cheated.
What the folks who refused to watch the hearings missed were a little Trump-on-Trump dramatics.
Trump无毛视频檚 daughter, Ivanka, was seen testifying that when Barr balked at revealing schemes that would overturn the election, she agreed with him 无毛视频� because she trusted his judgment.
Even Mick Mulvaney, who无毛视频檇 been Trump无毛视频檚 chief of staff, watched the hearings, and he bristled at the team of attorneys that were used to try to turn a Trump loss into a Trump win. 无毛视频淭rump无毛视频檚 inner circle at the end was 无毛视频� (Rudy) Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Peter Navarro 无毛视频� Garbage in. Garbage out,无毛视频� Mulvaney tweeted.
Those who did watch got a chance to see Giuliani and Powell use their special brand of twisted logic that seemed to conclude that everybody, everywhere had schemed to cheat Trump out of votes.
Of course, there were other attorneys in Trump无毛视频檚 orbit who didn无毛视频檛 quite feel that way.
His White House attorney, Eric Herschmann, was also seen saying, 无毛视频淲hat they were proposing, I thought was nuts.无毛视频�
Nuts!
The public sessions are just beginning.
There promises to be much more.
Meanwhile, Trump is taking cover by calling the proceedings a 无毛视频渒angaroo court.无毛视频�
That无毛视频檚 one of his classic moves.
The closer the committee gets to what did lead up to the insurrection, the more Trump will surely launch attacks.
In the meantime, it was revealed that even though he was told repeatedly there was nothing to the claims of voter fraud, he still managed to raise $250 million through emails for his 无毛视频淥fficial election defense fund,无毛视频� which the Select Committee has discovered doesn无毛视频檛 even exist.
All of this has alerted Attorney General Merrick Garland about the possibility of criminal referrals.
无毛视频淚 can assure you that the Jan. 6 prosecutors are watching,无毛视频� he无毛视频檚 said.
Even though Trump无毛视频檚 supporters are not. Because they无毛视频檙e still foolishly clinging to 无毛视频淭he Big Lie.无毛视频�
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 40-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.