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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCapitol attack panel to unveil new evidence against Trump at public hearings
Capitol attack panel to unveil new evidence against Trump at public hearingssnip ...
As the justice department mounts parallel investigations into the Capitol attack, the select committee is hoping that the previously unseen evidence will leave an indelible mark on the American public about the extent to which Trump went in trying to return himself to the Oval Office.
Theyre important for setting a record for posterity, but theyre also important for jolting the American public into realizing what a direct threat we had coming from the highest levels of government to illegitimately install a president who lost, Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and emeritus scholar at the conservative thinktank the American Enterprise Institute, said of the hearings.
The panels ambitions for the hearings are twofold, the sources said: presenting the basis for alleging Trump broke the law and placing the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the ex-presidents involvement as the central thread.
At their heart, the hearings are about distilling thousands of communications between top Trump White House aides and operatives outside the administration and the Trump campaign into a compelling narrative of events about the events of 6 January, the sources said.
In order to tell that story, the sources said, the select committee intends to have its senior investigative counsels reveal previously secret White House records, photos and videos that will be presented, in real time, to starkly illustrate the live witness testimony.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/capitol-attack-panel-public-hearings
Red the whole thing. This is going to be good.
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Capitol attack panel to unveil new evidence against Trump at public hearings (Original Post)
Novara
Jun 2022
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Deminpenn
(15,290 posts)1. The hearings will end up being perfectly timed with the 50th
anniversary of the Watergate break-in. The public hearings kept slipping and now what serendipity!
This will allow for great comparisons of both attempts to hold onto power.
Novara
(5,851 posts)2. I didn't realize that!
Excellent!
Deminpenn
(15,290 posts)3. June 17th 1972
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