Yesterday, a political committee set up in order to condemn Donald Trump condemned Donald Trump. It would have been truly jaw-dropping if the congressional January 6th committee (which consisted of seven Democrats and two Republicans, all of whom thought Trump was guilty as hell) had decided to say that Donald Trump had not criminally abetted the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. As it was, the headlines last night are about as surprising as the news that Donald Trump has released a new set of Trump-themed NFTs.
Congress is not the Justice Department. The committee’s ‘criminal referrals’ may sound dramatic, yet the four counts have no legal teeth. The January 6 committee will be dissolved next month as a new Republican-led House of Representatives comes in. Its conclusion is essentially a grandiose recommendation to the Justice Department, which is led by President Joe Biden, to pursue a criminal indictment of Biden’s predecessor.
Nothing mobilises Democratic voters – still traumatised by 2016 – quite like the threat of more Trumpism
And here’s where the story gets interesting.
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