The January 6 committee released an executive summary of its final report Monday, and it makes the case against Donald Trump.
The committee argues that the former president not only bears responsibility for the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but that his effort to overturn the presidential election was incredibly extensive, corrupt, and illegal.
Much of the summary’s most relevant evidence and testimony has already been spotlighted at earlier committee hearings. So rather than dropping new bombshells, the executive summary is an aggregate of everything that has come before. (The full report is expected to be released later this week.)
The committee presents the most comprehensive effort to make the case against Trump we’ve seen so far, with much more evidence about, and understanding of, what actually happened than Congress had back when the House impeached Trump for these events days after they transpired.
The old narrative was: after the election, Trump — either deliberately lying or lost in a web of conspiracies pushed by like-minded sycophants — unleashed various corrupt, long-shot, shambolic efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s win, all of which failed. His supporters took him seriously and stormed the Capitol because of his falsehoods. It wasn’t clear Trump anticipated this violence, but his irresponsible conduct meant he was to blame for it.
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