![]() ![]() And in that sense, it’s a pretty big deal. ![]() (Video: The Washington Post) We are going to give riot warnings, D.C. ![]() What it is is another layer - one that’s easy to grasp and understand, no matter how engaged you’ve been with the committee’s work so far - atop what has become an impossible-to-ignore narrative of inaction and possibly abetment. Rioters break past police lines on the west side of the U.S. 6, 2021, eschewing direct action in favor of a front row seat on his favorite sofa is not news. So, no, learning that Donald Trump is a TV addict who spent Jan. We already know it exists they’re here to tell us how and why it got here. The committee members’ jobs here, then, are less about shouting “iceberg dead ahead!” as they are about laying out the topography of that seditious iceberg in clear, unambiguous language. Put another way: These hearings are something of a reverse iceberg, in which the overwhelming majority of what is being covered is already above-water and can be seen by the naked eye. But overall the arc of these hearings has been clear: Each session, while containing a number of unknown pieces of evidence, largely confirms the broader, pre-existing understanding of what Trump and his enablers did before, during, and after the insurrection attempt. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the. It’s a tactic that was temporarily muddled by the surprise, last-minute testimony of Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, thanks to her descriptions of sincerely blindsiding outbursts from the former president. On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of U.S. This is, I think, in keeping with what has been the main thrust of these committee hearings to date - one which favors constructing a coherent, airtight narrative of wrongdoing, rather than relying on single instances of shocking revelation. Yes it’s bad, but it’s not exactly “news.” And as for the day of the attack itself, there’s literally footage of him zoning out in front of the electric babysitter before his rally speech that’s been public for a year. It’s not like there weren’t four years of firsthand reports from within the Trump White House that watching TV is pretty much all the guy did in office. While the president of the United States being glued to the boob tube during some of the worst political violence in the past century is, indeed, a pretty damning indictment of Trump’s utter indifference to and/or approval of the Capitol insurrection, Kinzinger’s clip is hardly the seismic WTF moment he seems to think it is. On January 6th, 2021, Luke Mogelson followed Trump supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. “Everybody was watching TV,” “He was watching television,” and so on. ![]()
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