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This is a preview of our ongoing coverage of the January 6th hearings.
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**JUNE 9, 2022**
All Roads Lead To Trump
BY HAROLD MEYERSON
We already knew he was at best indifferent to the January 6th violence.
The committee that convened last night seeks to prove he was directly
responsible for it.
MANDEL NGAN/POOL VIA AP
The House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the
U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a
year-long investigation, June 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill.
As overtures go, this one packed a wallop.
The leadoff hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6th
insurrection was intended to demonstrate the threat that that day's
riot posed not just to Congress but to the legitimacy of the
constitutional transfer of power, and that Donald Trump was certainly in
a moral sense and probably in a legal sense behind it.
The case, whose historic context was laid out by Chairman Bennie
Thompson and whose particulars were mapped out with pointed clarity by
Vice Chair Liz Cheney, appears based on several facts-some already
known, some quite new-that the committee leaders, using video clips
from witnesses, deftly laid out. One of those facts is that people whose
business it was to know clearly told Trump that he had lost the
election-most prominently, his attorney general Bill Barr, in whose
videoed testimony that was aired said he told Trump that his contentions
of fraud and rigging were "bullshit." It's not clear, and may
never be, whether Trump actually believed this, in which case he knew
he'd lost the election that he was illegally and unconstitutionally
seeking to overturn, or whether his industrial-strength narcissism kept
him from acknowledging what the facts said and he still was OK with
contravening the Constitution to keep his hold on power. What is clear
is that either way, Trump is the last person any sentient being would
want to occupy the White House.
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