Rather than condemn the attack, Trump continues to insist his defeat by 7 million votes should be overturned, in effect validating the rioters’ cause.ĭozens of the insurrectionists have been brought to justice, many of them being convicted or pleading guilty to serious crimes. 11-style commission to investigate.Īn entire disinformation ecosystem sprung up with utterly false claims about the nature and character of the attack. Many Republicans, even those who condemned Trump and the violence in the moment, have adopted a “nothing more to see here” posture since, even rejecting calls for an independent Sept. A story for the ages, it’s been said.Įx-FBI supervisory agent arrested on Capitol riot charges Now, beginning in prime time on Thursday, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is setting out to establish the historical record of an event damaging not only to a community or individual families but to the collective idea of democracy itself.Īfter more than 100 subpoenas, 1,000 interviews and 100,000 documents, the committee has a story to tell in hearings that open this week. They’ve already been through two set-piece dramas of presidential impeachment - indeed, through the wringer on all things Donald Trump.
They’re contending with what feels like highway robbery at the gas pump, they’re nagged by a virus that the world can’t shake, and they’re split into two hostile camps over politics and culture - the twin pillars of the nation’s foundation.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are processing the nightmare of the slaughter of children in Texas, the racist murders in Buffalo, New York, and the other numbingly repeated scenes of carnage in the United States.
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