Jan. 6 Committee Races Against Time To Stop Donald Trump In 2024The Federalist, Jun 7, 2022
The clock is ticking on the House of Representatives’ Jan. 6 Committee, and they know it. Each day brings the country closer to the November midterms and the likelihood of a crushing Republican victory that will not only shift power in the House but end the committee.
That’s the context for the committee’s first televised hearings, which are set to begin in prime time on June 9. The committee’s television show has an obvious purpose: to restore Democrats’ waning hopes for holding control of Congress in November by an attempt to make the Capitol riot a permanent feature of American politics.
But even if the Biden administration’s disastrous conduct in office and raging inflation make that impossible, Democrats are looking beyond the midterms and hoping to somehow ensure that former President Donald Trump and as many other Republicans as they can smear as “insurrectionists” are disqualified or discredited, to help their party win in 2024.
Their goal is to convince Americans that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, was truly an “insurrection” comparable to the Civil War, rather than merely a disorganized and ultimately pointless riot involving a relatively small fraction of the people who had gathered in Washington to protest the 2020 election results. But it’s not only that. With their tall tale about insurrection, the Democrats and their two turncoat Republican collaborators Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) are trying to sell the country a conspiracy theory with broader implications.
The conspiracy is that the riot was plotted by the Trump White House in collaboration with a wide array of Republican officeholders, conservative commentators, and activists who were seeking to pull off nothing less than a coup d’état in which the government would be unlawfully seized by denying the presidency to Joe Biden.
This effort will involve using what they hauled in with the massive fishing expedition conducted by the committee in the last year, which included more than 1,000 interviews and more than 100,000 documents, emails and texts from a wide variety of persons, most of whom had nothing to do with the riot that was the ostensible purpose of the investigation.
To make this stick, this show will be aimed at pretending that two different things are actually the same. They need to conflate a mob that had broken away from a rally in which citizens had exercised their right to protest with something entirely different. And they must use their research and the broad nature of their accusations as a way to pretend that all of this was part of a master plan for a coup.
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