Starting tonight at 8 p.m. EDT, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol begins its series of public hearings to lay out what it has found over the past 11 months of investigations. It's expected that the Committee will ultimately make a compelling case that the deadly attack was part of a conspiracy to overturn the free and fair 2020 election and stop the legitimate transfer of power, with the Malignant Loser at the center of it. That would make it the first coup attempt in the history of the United States, and the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. Let that sink in, if it hasn't already over the past 17 months.
On Thursday night, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will launch a series of televised hearings featuring a combination of live witnesses, pretaped interviews with figures that include Trump family members [Ivanka and Jared] and previously unseen video footage.
The hearings mark the culmination of an inquiry that has involved more than 1,000 interviews and reviews of more than 125,000 records. Taken together, the work represents the most comprehensive record yet of the deadly assault, and which panel members have come to believe stands out as only the most visible evidence of a broader plot to undermine American democracy — one that emanated from the White House.
On Thursday night, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will launch a series of televised hearings featuring a combination of live witnesses, pretaped interviews with figures that include Trump family members and previously unseen video footage.
The hearings mark the culmination of an inquiry that has involved more than 1,000 interviews and reviews of more than 125,000 records. Taken together, the work represents the most comprehensive record yet of the deadly assault, and which panel members have come to believe stands out as only the most visible evidence of a broader plot to undermine American democracy — one that emanated from the White House. [snip]
The first hearing is likely to provide the American public with an opening argument and overview of the events on the day rioters assaulted the Capitol, as well as the weeks that preceded it.
Lawmakers are also expected to focus on the ways in which Trump’s false claims of fraud continue to proliferate and threaten the integrity of future U.S. elections, according to people involved with the investigation who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. They cautioned that much of the plan remains under discussion and subject to change.
The witnesses set to appear at the first hearing have yet to be announced. But the committee will attempt to place the story of the violence at the Capitol in the context of a broader, multi-tentacled plot to overturn the results of Joe Biden’s electoral victory, with Trump’s involvement serving as the through line.
It's important to emphasize that not only are the public hearings going to continue after tonight (the next one is on Monday, June 13, at 10 a.m. EDT), but the Committee's investigation is ongoing, as is the conspiracy to deflect and cover up the sedition by the Republican/ Christofascist party. A final hearing is expected to come in September.
Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who's a former Constitutional law professor and a man not given to hyperbole, said back in April that the revelations the Committee would present would "blow the roof off the House." Let's hope the collateral damage reaches Merde -o- Lardo and every other rat hole occupied by an insurrectionist.
The hearings will be shown on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS, with Republican propaganda organ Fox "News" the only major network declining to air them. It's also being streamed on january6th.house.gov.
(Photos: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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