Jan. 6 Hearing Turns Trump Into the Defendant Without a Courtroom
The first public Jan. 6 hearing did not invent new Trump problems so much as it reassembled the old ones into a single, punishing public case. On June 9, the committee used testimony from Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, and other former insiders to show that Trump had been told repeatedly there was no election fraud big enough to reverse the result. It also paired that testimony with footage of the attack and the violence around Mike Pence, making Trump’s refusal to stop the mob look less like helplessness and more like culpability. On June 10, the hearing’s fallout was the day’s dominant Trump-world screwup, because it turned a long-familiar scand…
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Jan. 6 Hearing Turns Trump Into the Defendant Without a Courtroom
The first public Jan. 6 hearing did not invent new Trump problems so much as it reassembled the old ones into a single, punishing public case. On June 9, the committee used testimony from Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, and other former insiders to show that Trump had been told repeatedly there was no election fraud big enough to reverse the result. It also paired that testimony with footage of the attack and the violence around Mike Pence, making Trump’s refusal to stop the mob look less like helples…
The first public Jan. 6 hearing did not invent new Trump problems so much as it reassembled the old ones into a single, punishing public case. On June 9, the committee used testimony from Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, and other former insiders to show that Trump had been told repeatedly there was no election fraud big enough to reverse the result. It also paired that testimony with footage of the attack and the violence …
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