If you want to watch the entire hearing from Thursday night, that’s still an option. The Washington Post has a good, unedited livestream, though you’ll want to fast forward to 1 hour and 32 minutes if you want to skip the Post’s pre-coverage.
The U.S. as a democracy stands at a fork in the road right now. It can either hold accountable President Trump and other politicians who were actively helping the insurrectionists that day by prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law, or it can watch as the neo-fascists try to take the government by force one more time. Because Trump has made it clear he’s not going away anytime soon.
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“The Unselect Committee didn’t spend one minute studying the reason that people went to Washington, D.C., in massive numbers, far greater than the Fake News Media is willing to report, or that the Unselects are willing to even mention, because January 6th was simply not a protest. It represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again,” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social on Thursday.
“It was about an Election that was Rigged and Stolen, and a country that was about to go to HELL…& look at our Country now!” Trump continued.
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Any functional society would’ve put Trump in jail after the coup attempt and barred him from ever holding public office again. But, failing that, we’re about to see what happens, between now and 2024, when Trump supporters get to try out a sequel.
The next hearing by the Committee is on Monday, June 13, 2022, at 10 a.m. ET. Let’s hope they have more planned than just videos and chit-chat.
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