John Tyler the tenth president of the United States, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency following Harrison’s death 31 days after assuming office. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states’ rights, including slavery, and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on states’ powers. His unexpected rise to the presidency poised a threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other Whig politicians and left Tyler estranged from both nation’s major political parties at that time. He believed that the president, rather than Congress, should set policy, and he sought to bypass the Whig establishment led by Senator Henry Clay. Almost all of Tyler’s cabinet resigned shortly into his term, and the Whig’s expelled him from the party and named him “His Accidencyâ€. Tyler was a believer in manifest destiny and saw the annexation of Texas as economically and internationally advantageous to the United States. Historians have generally put Tyler near the bottom quartile when ranking U.S. presidents.
The Washington Reporter remarked in 1861 that “while the despicable traitor, John Tyler, is playing a conspicuous part in the councils of the rebels and strengthening their hands to the upmost of his abilities, behold the course of the other ex-Presidents of the United States!†Likewise, the Salem Observer observed that “of the five living ex-Presidents, four, viz: Van Buren, Fillmore, Buchannan, and Pierce, are
for the Union and the Constitution, and one – the meanest of the lot – John Tyler, is a traitor.†In correspondence for the San Francisco Bulletin, a New Yorker pronounced, “Twice during his life thus far has John Tyler of Virginia proved himself an errant traditor. The first time he only betrayed his party ….
The second time his country it is which he has betrayed.†Tyler’s bust was removed from Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.
THEBULWARK, The Last Time We Had an Insurrectionist President by Daniel N. Gullotta: January 7, 2022
Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States called to action on January 5 and 6, thousands of his supporters who gathered in Washington D.C., to support his false claims that the election had been “stolen by emboldened radical-left wing Democrats “and demand that then-vice president mike Pence and Congress reject Biden’s victory. Starting at noon on January 6 at a “Save America†rally on the Ellipse, Trump gave a speech in which he repeated false claims of election irregularities and said, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymoreâ€. As Congress began the electoral vote count, thousands of attendees, some armed, walked down to the Capital, and hundreds breached police perimeters. Among the rioters were leaders of the Proud boys and the Oath Keepers militia groups. (Again, these groups are Pickerwoods who are criminals in our jails and prisons.)
A week after the attack, the house of Representatives impeached Trump for incitement of insurrection, making him the only U.S. PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE. After Trump had left office, the Senate voted 57-43 in favor of conviction, but fell short of the required two-thirds, resulting in his acquittal. Senate Republicans (Again Old Mitch McConnell was the Senate Leader) blocked a bill to create a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the attack, so the House instead approved a select investigation committee.
Fake Federal Investigations
As Trump pressed his case in court, he simultaneously pushed government lawyers to launch investigations to lend some credibility to his charges. In an unsettling departure from the Department of Justice precedent, Attorney Bill Barr on November 9, 2020, gave federal prosecutors approval to investigate the president’s unfounded claims.
By the next month, Barr said nothing had been found, telling an Associated Press reporter that “we have not seen fraud on the scale that could have effected a different outcome of the election.†Trump reportedly screamed at Barr for this, and soon the attorney general announced his resignation.
Around that time, Trump secretly met with Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffery B. Clark to discuss a plan for Republican state legislatures to launch their own investigations to eventually overturn Biden’s win.
Why did Trump go through Clark instead of Jeffrey Rosen, the man who assumed Barr’s position when he left? Acting Attorney General Rosen wasn’t willing to play ball. Rosen later testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about how he was pressured by Trump directly. Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue submitted notes he took during one December 27, 2020, phone call between Rosen and the president. According to the notes, Rosen told Trump he must “understand that the DOJ can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election, doesn’t work that way.â€
I don’t expect you to do that,†Trump is said to have answered, “just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.â€
