What I Saw on the January 6 Committee

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Rhodes fervently explained that the Oath Keepers had been ready for Trump to call on them during the Black Lives
36% : In the clips, you can hear warlike cries of fealty to Trump and shouts of officers as they are overwhelmed by the mob.
36% : Days later, the Supreme Court virtually guaranteed that Trump will be free to stoke more violence from the Oval Office, which prompted a leading architect of his second-term agenda to threaten violence in order to achieve a Trump-led "second American Revolution."
31% : " During my tenure on the committee, a regular staccato of political and targeted violence echoed in the background of our investigation: a far-right killing of a racial-justice protester in Portland, Oregon; a white-supremacist massacre at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York; a neo-Nazi plot against an Idaho Pride parade; a mass shooting by a violent Trump supporter at the July 4 celebration of a heavily Jewish Chicago suburb; an attack on the FBI after Trump denounced its search of Mar-a-Lago; an attempted kidnapping of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a hammer attack on her husband by a Big Lie believer.
30% : By treating Trump and January 6 as ugly aberrations, many people seemed eager to rebrand the insurrection as a classic tale of American trial and triumph.
25% : Then, on the debate stage, Trump embraced Capitol rioters as "innocent" and refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election -- a clear indication that he remains willing to court fascistic violence in order to regain power.
25% : Since then, Trump has amplified social-media posts embracing QAnon, called for the jailing of his political opponents, and threatened violence against immigrants.
23% : Senate Republicans acquitted Trump from behind a fig-leaf procedural excuse: that the Constitution gave them no authority to convict a president once he left office.
22% : What was visible to us, as we scrambled to draft a presentation to the Senate, was a grim yet simple truth: Trump had set a violent mob upon Congress in order to stay in power.
20% : Senators couched their acquittal votes in meaningless rhetorical rebukes of Trump.

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