.NoahCRothman: Republicans try — and fail — to drown out the truths unearthed in Jan. 6 hearings
On Monday, the House committee investigating Jan. 6 reconvened for its second public hearing with the apparent intention of establishing beyond doubt that former President Donald Trump had no reasonable expectation that his claims of election fraud were true. Indeed, almost everyone around him knew them to be false, and told him as much.
The committee presented a damning fact pattern, which is perhaps why Republicans who are invested in downplaying the events of Jan. 6 did not address that fact pattern. For the most part, Republicans who seek to undermine the salience of the committee’s proceedings or delegitimize the committee altogether have settled on three avenues of attack. All of which are unconvincing.
Viewers of Monday’s hearing were privy to few new revelations about the events leading up to what occurred on the day the 2020 election results were certified. That’s partly because the committee committed itself to re-establishing what it had already alleged during its first hearing on Thursday night. Broadcast to the nation in prime time and capturing the attention of somemillion viewers, that hearing did provide the public with new insight into how the attack on the Capitol unfolded.
The committee’s leaders alleged on Thursday night that Trump acted with malice to incite a mob around claims of election fraud he had no reason to believe were true and, indeed, likely knew to be false. They found that organized insurrectionist groups functioned as shock troops ahead of the mob that ransacked the Capitol.
This brings us to the three avenues of attack. Republicans’ first objection to Thursday night’s proceedings took shape even before the first hearing: The committee was going to be an unserious, glitzy production. We would be forced to witness what Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., demeaned as a “Hollywood-paid political advertisement” for the Democratic Party. “They moved this thing to prime time.
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