Former President Donald Trump could use a lot of referrals—to a tailor, for example, who could outfit him in clothes that are his size. But this week he got the referrals that he most deserved: to the Department of Justice, recommending his criminal prosecution for trying to thwart the peaceful
, conspiracy to defraud the United States, inciting or assisting an insurrection and conspiracy to make a false statement, all of which stem from the former president's post-election scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his incitement and subsequent inaction while his supporters stormed the Capitol building during the counting of the electoral votes.
A withering, 17-point play-by-play of Trump's alleged crimes appears at the beginning of the committee's 154-page executive summary.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol meets in the Canon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Dec. 19, in Washington, DC.The broad outlines of this sordid story have been well known for close to two years, but it is still jarring to see a series of such bizarre events narrated, textbook-style, for posterity.
I understand and appreciate the trepidation of those who, while they believe Trump committed these crimes, feel that his prosecution could dangerously inflame his supporters, further polarize the country and perhaps lead to sustained violence. No one thinks that prosecuting or jailing a former president should be done capriciously, nor should anyone have any illusions that a successful prosecution will somehow break the fever of conspiratorial thinking and paranoia that now grips the GOP base.
After all, Democrats made the threat to American democracy posed by Trump and his acolytes one of the centerpieces of their midterm election campaign. Not only did Trump's supporters not riot, their political standard-bearers lost one statewide election after another and mostly went quietly into the night, with sore loser
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