Read This Chapter in the January 6 Committee’s Report
Time is short. I’ll tell you what’s in my favorite chapter.
Everyone should read the final report of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack (PDF). The committee interviewed a thousand witnesses and crunched a million documents to reach its conclusions, so this is valuable information.
To you, it’s free. Or nearly free. It’s yours for the low cost of taxes and a four-year Trump presidency culminating in an attempted coup that needed to be investigated.
Many people intend to read it. But as the PDF is 845 pages and it was published in late 2022, I realize that, if you haven’t read it yet, realistically you might not be getting around to it. So I’ll tell you what a general reader can get from the committee’s report, and in particular, what you’ll find in Chapter 5, my favorite chapter.
The High-Level View
The introduction, called an executive summary, takes up about a quarter of the report. The 17 key findings, about which I’ve previously written, are as follows.
Intending to overturn the election, Trump lied, everywhere and all the time, including in federal court filings. He conspired with John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, embraced and drove the…
