Bill Press: JAN. 6: Trump should be tried for treason
We’ve never seen anything like this week’s first public hearing of the House Select Committee on January 6. By any standards, it was a blockbuster event: The first House committee hearing produced like a Hollywood action movie. The first House committee hearing aired live in primetime, not only on cable news, but by all three major broadcast networks. And the first House committee investigating, not just some legislative proposal, but an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.
After a year of hard work, interviewing over 1,000 witnesses and scouring 450,000 pages of documents, the committee clearly had one goal for this public hearing. It didn’t have to show us there was a violent assault on the Capitol on January 6 where property was destroyed, five police officers were killed, and lawmakers, including the vice president, had to run for their lives. We knew all of that.
The committee’s goal was to show that the man behind this attempt to overthrow the government of the United States was none other than the President of the United States himself. And it did so convincingly. In Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s memorable phrase, “Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” And then, as the committee showed, once the attack on the Capitol was underway, Trump did nothing to stop it. In fact, Trump called it “the greatest movement in the history of our country.” And, over video of rioters beating Capitol police officers, Trump’s voice could be heard bragging about all “the love in the air.”
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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Friday, June 10th 2022 at 8:37PM
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