CNN —
Trumpism is on trial this week.
Steve Bannon, a founding father of Donald Trump’s wrecking ball anti-elite movement, has his day in court starting on Monday on charges of contempt of Congress after he snubbed the House committee investigating January 6, 2021.
The ex-President’s dereliction of duty that fateful day, meanwhile, will be under minute-by-minute scrutiny in a primetime hearing Thursday focusing on how he did nothing as the violent mob he incited invaded the US Capitol.
These two moments of public accounting will exemplify the committee’s success in ensuring that Trump’s lifelong aura of impunity does not prevent the emergence of what really happened during the worst attack on American democracy in modern times.
But they also come as Trump’s forces are gathering for a new attack on the truth as they seek to launch the ex-President on a path back to power that would portend even more authoritarian upheaval than his previous term.
House Republicans, eying the majority in November’s midterms, are already drawing up plans to investigate and intimidate key members of the January 6 panel and hold hearings designed to sow falsehoods about Trump’s true responsibility for events on that day, according to new CNN reporting. This preview of how a potential GOP House majority would act as a weapon for the ex-President comes as pro-Trump candidates in states like Arizona and Pennsylvania seek to weaken democratic guardrails in state and localities ahead of the 2022...
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