No single person is worth sacrificing nearly 270 years of values. Certainly not Donald Trump.

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The historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, which includes 31 counts alleging violations of the Espionage Act, presents a crossroads. Republicans, including my colleagues in the House, can either perpetuate the former president’s lies about this investigation, effectively taking a wrecking ball to the rule of law, or they can join Democrats in condemning flagrant lawlessness that risks our nation’s secrets, war plans and the lives of our troops.

If they embrace the former, we will see more political violence, potentially of the magnitude we saw on Jan. 6, 2021. If they choose the latter, they give our country what may be its last best chance to escape the vitriolic vortex the former president has sucked us into over the past eight years.