The concentrated narrative we have learned from the House committee investigating the January 6 uprising has long suggested that former President Donald Trump and his supporters have been actively seeking to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. – supercharge this narrative.
What does the parliamentary committee have?
Lawmaker Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who broke with her party to join the commission, said Sunday that it was “absolutely clear” that Trump and several people around him knew their actions were “illegal,” but they did it anyway. “ “I think what we have seen is a huge and well-organized and well-planned effort that used multiple tools to try to overthrow the election,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper at State of the Union. Cheney has questioned whether there is a split in the commission over whether to propose charges against the former president. Illinois spokesman Adam Kinzinger, another Republican member of the commission, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday night that “this is a very united committee,” but indicated that no decision had been made on a possible referral to criminals. “We may be able to do that. We may not. We really do not have the ability to say something to the DOJ that it is not going to see,” he said.
Judge open to challenge Marjorie Taylor Greene’s candidacy
Meanwhile, there are other ways of accountability. A federal judge in Georgia appears ready to allow Republican nominee Marjorie Taylor Greene to be challenged for re-election. Why; The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits incumbents from returning to elected positions if they supported an uprising. Note: A similar lawsuit against Dim. Read more from CNN’s Marshall Cohen.
What do we know about what will happen next?
To find out what we know about what will happen next to the House committee and its January 6 inquiry, I spoke with Ryan Nobles, CNN’s correspondent in Congress, and one of the reporters who published the new details about the Trump Jr. text messages Our discussion, which was conducted via email and slightly edited, is below.
Will these new developments change your mind?
WHAT SIGNIFICANCE: Your report (with Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer) greatly alters the narrative of this story and directly involves the President’s son: It showed ways to bypass the election results for the White House Chief of Staff. Does this, which does not look good, make it possible for more Republicans to take another look at the facts? HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Be skeptical that anything presented by the Jan. 6 committee moves Republicans, especially those who are staunch supporters of President Trump. With that said, the commission continues to reveal hard, indisputable evidence of the great efforts made by the former President and his political friends to try to prevent the certification of the 2020 elections. What is most remarkable about our reports is that we learned how early these designs hatched. Donald Trump Jr. sent this text to Mark Meadows two days after the election, while the votes were still being counted before one of the major news networks declared Joe Biden the winner. The commission’s work may not be so much about convincing a wide range of Republicans – it may be more about convincing Attorney General Merrick Garland that Trump’s plot is tantamount to a criminal conspiracy worth accusing. Something that at this point, remains a difficult sale.
When to wait for the end of the game?
WHAT IMPORTANCE: We have learned in dribbles and dribbles what the committee found. What can we expect her to say in her final report? GENTLEMEN: The committee was reluctant to set a fixed deadline for its work. It is generally accepted that he must complete things before the midterm elections. If the Republicans win this election and take control of Parliament, the committee will either close or its mission will change dramatically. I think based solely on my own reading of his progress we would have expected a final report sometime after Labor Day and before Halloween – enough to be part of the midterm debate, but far enough away that it could stand on her own. However, before that happens, we are still waiting for a series of public hearings, which promise to be explosive and include testimonies of witnesses we have not yet heard. As for what the final report will reveal: The committee promised to write the final account of the events that led to 6 January and 6 January. They plan to hire a professional writer to create the report and make it accessible for reading, not a clogged legal document. It will also contain legislative proposals to prevent this from happening again. What the commission is still struggling with is the way it presents the information it has uncovered, which may indicate that a crime has been committed.
Could the DOJ decide to do nothing?
WHAT IS IMPORTANT: What is the probability that the commission will claim a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the election and the Ministry of Justice will decide to do nothing about it? GENTLEMEN: I think this remains the biggest open question and it has been the biggest question since the commission was set up. The committee could propose a formal referral of criminals to the Ministry of Justice. This has no legal weight and could even boomerang because it would be perceived as political. Instead, he may simply present the findings to the report and hope that Garland and the DOJ will begin the investigation from there. There is a very real possibility that Justice will choose not to act. There is not much jurisprudence to guide such a prosecution, and election laws are obscure when it comes to being charged with a crime, as it relates to attempting to obstruct vote certification. We also do not know if the commission found a definitive link between efforts to undermine the election and the violence in the Capitol on 6 January.
Elections are coming. We do not know how this will affect.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT: What role do the forthcoming by-elections play in all this? GENTLEMEN: It is double: We have already seen Republicans use the committee as a way to accuse Democrats of conducting partisan witch hunts. Democrats were less able to drag themselves into the Jan. 6 debate, instead of trying to focus on the work they have done on domestic politics, specifically the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. The timing of the final report will be interesting. If it does offer the harsh, immediate evidence that Trump and perhaps even some congressional Republicans played a direct role in inciting violence on Jan. 6, it could change the debate. However, if it falls firmly and is left open to interpretation or can be used in a misinformation campaign, it could help Republicans. There is no doubt that its impact on the by-elections could be significant, but at the same time unpredictable.
What remains to be learned? A very much.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN: Is it your expectation that there is more information we have not learned, such as the writings of Donald Trump Jr.? Are there other bombs to drop? GENTLEMEN: In how many ways can I say “yes”? I have been covering the January 6 investigation since January 7, 2021 and I still feel that I have only scratched the surface of what most likely the committee has revealed. Meadows text messages alone are a treasure trove of information. Only a few dozen have been made public and the committee holds 4,000 of its texts. The commission has also collected thousands of documents from Trump’s archives and interviewed hundreds of witnesses who have a first-hand perspective on the events that led to Jan. 6 and Jan. 6. There is so much to learn. This story has been updated with comments from Illinois MP Adam Kinzinger.
