The Jan. 6 Committee Nailed Its Final Case Against Trump

by Andrew

In its last hearing, the body offered damning new evidence about what Trump knew, and how he tried to cling to power. Thursday, the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack held what had been billed as its final hearing after months of public scrutiny into Donald Trump’s actions surrounding the assault on the Capitol. Without any witnesses and with a closing vote to subpoena Trump—who is unlikely to ever appear for testimony—the event was technically a committee meeting instead of a hearing. It did, however, deliver on presenting a closing case against Trump and some additional evidence to the American public with less than a month to go before the midterm elections. While the committee only offered a small number of new details from nearly one million documents and recordings handed over by the Secret Service since its previous summer hearing, the information helped corroborate past testimony and strengthen the committee’s final case. Put most simply, that case was this: President Donald Trump knew he lost, he knew the mob he had assembled on Jan. 6 was armed and dangerous, and he sicked them on the U.S. Capitol anyway. Or as retiring GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger put it, “His intent was plain: Ignore the rule of law and stay in power.”

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