The Jan. 6 documents could reveal something more key than Trump's role

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“What doesn’t Donald Trump want us to know about him?” As news of his attempts to keep White House documents out of the hands of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol dominate our newsfeeds, that’s the question on the minds of many.

It’s the wrong question to focus on, but it’s easy to see why that would be at the forefront of the public’s mind. On Thursday, Trump tried yet again to stop the National Archives from releasing the documents just one day before they were scheduled to be handed over. This time lawyers for the former president asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block the move.

After a string of earlier attempts to keep the documents out of the committee’s hands were denied, this was a last-ditch effort that worked out in his favor. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Trump “an administrative injunction,” setting arguments for the case on Nov. 30.

Many Americans already believe that Trump and his administration were somehow responsible for the events of Jan 6. Now his efforts to keep his White House documents from the committee are only adding to the growing suspicion among others that goes a bit further: Trump and his team knew something about his supporters’ plan to storm the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. After all, they were amped up by Trump’s baseless claim of election fraud.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-jan-6-documents-could-reveal-something-more-key-than-trumps-role/ar-AAQDNNe

[lindysalsagal]

1. He hides everything except his sociopathic, narcissism, his bigotry and selfishness.

But his taxes and government logs, nope. He thinks he's king and doesn't have to give those up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. So, what is this "more key" thing? The page the link goes to is blank for me (I block cookies)

[tblue37]

3. The degree to which GOP members of the House & Senate were involved.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Ah. That is an important point. Thanks. . . .nt

[tblue37]

6. You're welcome. It's the least I can do for someone who often summarizes uncaptioned

videos for me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Stronger together. . . . nt

[NCjack]

8. Perhaps judges waiting to speed his advances and block slippages.

[malaise]

5. I'm betting that one of the things he doesn't want us to know are his fake

names among the white supremacy social media sites.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Did he inquire after VP Pence's well-being?

When he called Senator Lee/Tuberville DURING the melee?

Did he ask if anyone in the line of succession had been killed yet?

They thought they were gonna win. It’s Donald Trump. Anything could be in those transcripts.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. More:

*snip*

But, there might be something much more significant in those documents. One of the most important, and thus far unanswered, questions about the insurrection is not what role Trump and those around him played. We all saw Trump encourage the marchers to go to the Capitol, and subpoenas have been issued for several people in his circle. The more important question that the public should be hoping gets answered, and where the political stakes are much higher, is the extent to which the other members of the GOP were involved in the insurrection.

If indeed the GOP was more broadly complicit in the attack, then the political crisis in the U.S. is much deeper and dangerous. A president supporting a violent movement as part of a last and unsuccessful effort to undermine an election is not good, but if any leaders of a major political party were committed to violently disrupting the democratic process, that is an existential problem from which the U.S. will not easily recover.

Although we don’t know the answer, the fact that many Republicans supported Trump’s dishonest effort to persuade the American people that he was the real winner of the 2020 election (and voted to overturn the results, even right after the insurrection) doesn’t exactly bode well for GOP members of Congress.

*snip*

[Mr.Bill]

10. I also think he fears

having people find out that his net worth is a negative number.