A few days ago the January 6 Committee released its report.
I have been reading it, and decided to pass some of that information along, for any US citizen who cares about the future of this nation but has not been paying attention to the crimes revealed by our US House of Representatives Special Committee.
If you care to read the report, you can find it here:
The Committee Chairman who lead the investigation is a Congressman from Mississippi, Rep. Bennie Thompson, a man whose father had never voted in any election because of the “Jim Crow” laws of the old south. This was interesting to me because I spent nine years of my childhood in Mississippi during the 1950’s-early ’60’s. Some of the scenario in that time and place are included in the story that unfolds in my recent novel, King of Soul.
Having watched all of the Jan6 committee hearings, I decided I would accept the challenge of reading their 800+page report.
Just so you’ll know. . . here are some points from my first reading session:
~ The mob that attacked our Capitol was an unexpected, unprecedented historical event. Only those who planned the insurrection knew what would be going down. For that reason, our Capitol Police and DC Police were unprepared for the assault. They were, therefore, not to blame for the disaster that happened. They performed bravely and admirably. Our guys protecting Congress and our Capitol were caught, unexpectedly, between a rock and a hard place.
~ “At the heart of our Republic is the guarantee of the peaceful transfer of power.”
~ President George Washington initiated the practice of peaceful transfer of power in 1793 when he handed control of our army back to Congress. That practice was never, in our history, violated until Donald Trump broke the law by inciting a riotous insurrection on January 6, 2021.
The trumpian fanatics were following a traitor insurrectionist instead of our Rule of Constitutional Law. But our Congressional Committee reported that. . .
~ “At the heart of our Republic is the guarantee of the peaceful transfer of power.”
~ President Ronald Reagan referred to our long history of peaceful transfer of power as “nothing less than a miracle,” . . . which he continued when he was inaugurated in 1981.
What would Reagan have said about the riot of Jan6?
~ The Jan6 Committee members recognized, at the outset of their investigation, that tens of millions of Americans had been persuaded by President Trump that the election was a fraud.
~ The Committee members knew that Trump’s accusation was a fraud, because our legal system had already been functioning as it should to judge the disputes raised by Trump’s attorneys, because. . .
~ "Dozens of state and federal judges had addressed and resolved all manner of allegations about the election. Our legal system functioned as it should, but our president would not accept the outcome."
~ “What most of the public did not know before our investigation is this: Donald Trump’s own campaign officials told him early on that his claims of fraud were false.”
~ Former campaign lawyer Alex Cannon testified:
“I remember sharing with him that we weren’t finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states.”
~ Former Attorney General Barr testified:
“I repeatedly told the President in no uncertain terms that I did not see evidence of fraud, you know, that would have affected the outcome of the election. And, frankly, a year and a half later, I haven’t seen anything to change my mind on that.”
~ President Trump was informed over and over again, by his senior appointees, campaign experts and those who had served him for years, that his election fraud allegations were nonsense.
~ In addition, multiple law firms previously engaged to work for the Trump Campaign decided that they could not participate in the strategy being instituted by Giuliani. They quit.
~ Over the weeks that followed, dozens of judges across the country specifically rejected the allegations of fraud and irregularities being advanced by the Trump team and their allies.
~ When suspending his (Rudolph Giuliani’s) license, a New York court said that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump”
~ “In many cases, after making extravagant claims of wrongdoing, Trump’s legal representatives showed up in court or state proceedings empty-handed, and then returned to their rallies and media campaigns to repeat the same unsupported claims”
~ “. . . in no instance did a court find that the charges of fraud were real.”
Bottom line: Trump’s accusations that the election was stolen was based solely upon his own wishful thinking, projected by his own loud mouth into the minds and riotous actions of his followers. All the trouble, violence, insurrection and Capitol destruction that happened on January 6, 2021 was no more than a trumpian hissy’fit instigated into the destructive antics of his violent devotees.
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