Bennie Thompson actually said...

"If the most powerful person in the world can bring the full weight of the Presidency down on an ordinary citizen, who was merely doing her job, with a lie as big and heavy as a mountain, who among us ..."

"The President said, 'Suppose I do this. Suppose I replace him,' Jeff Rosen, 'with him,' Jeff Clark."

"They represent the backbone of our democracy at its most important moments: When the citizens cast their votes and when those votes are counted."

"But, for Donald Trump, these witnesses and others like them were another roadblock to his attempt to cling to power."