What the Jan. 6 committee revealed in never-before-seen video wasn't just politically shocking — it was also legally relevant. (via MaddowBlog)
Ahead of the Jan. 6 committee’s primetime hearing last night, the panel’s members made no effort to downplay expectations. On the contrary, they seemed to go out of their way to do the opposite.declaredIt was, to be sure, a bold vow. And while it’s impossible to say what might change history, after watching the two-hour event, it’s clear that the panel, its members, and its investigators delivered the goods.
Or as Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the committee, put it, “President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.”Over the course of the two-hour hearing, it became painfully obvious that senior members of the then-president’s team, including influential members of his own family, had repeatedly told Trump that he lost the 2020 election.
Jason Miller, another Team Trump insider, told investigators the then-president’s campaign team told the Republican in “clear terms” that he’d lost. What’s more, amidst the violence, Trump didn’t call any governmental office or agency to defend his own country’s seat of government.Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the panel, reflected on Republican members of Congress who’ve defended Trump and the rioters. “I’m from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching,” the Mississippi congressman said.
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