JUST IN: The Jan. 6 committee expects to release final report on Thursday.
today coincides with the Jan. 6 committee’s full report release.
Both remind us of attacks on democracy — the Russian attack against which Zelenskyy is fighting and the Trumpian attack on American democracy laid out by the committee.Indeed, recall that Trump’s first impeachment centered on his 2019 attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrat Joe Biden, who would go on to defeat Trump in 2020. On the other end of that apparent quid pro quo, of course, was an invitation to Washington and military aid for Ukraine.
Ahead of today’s release of the Jan. 6 report, we have exclusive NBC News reporting shedding further light on law enforcement failures surrounding the attack on the Capitol and the committee’s failure, thus far, to call out those failures.“On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a ‘wild’ protest in the nation’s capital on Jan.
“That tip to the FBI, from a source who is still used by the bureau and spoke on the condition of anonymity, warned there was a ‘big’ threat of violence on Jan. 6. It was among hundreds of pages of reports viewed by NBC News that this source sent to the FBI in the weeks before the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. The email, which has not been previously reported, warned that the Trump tweet was ‘gaining hold’ on social media.
This new reporting adds to the questions surrounding law enforcement’s response and, in turn, the committee’s delicate treatment of that response. According to NBC News, when the source learned the committee had avoided criticizing law enforcement in itsHopefully, the committee’s full report will help to answer that question.
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