Ali Alexander just gave the January 6th Committee another win
“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander, who’s been in hiding all year, recently came out of hiding to announce that he was going to cooperate with the January 6th Committee. His stated reason: he didn’t want to go to prison for contempt.
Sure enough, Alexander showed up and testified today behind closed doors. After he left, he told the cameras that his testimony exonerated himself and Donald Trump. Okay, sure. Here’s the thing, though.
There’s no way that this is what Alexander said privately to the committee. He’s already demonstrated that he understands he’ll go to prison for contempt if he doesn’t cooperate. He wouldn’t have come out of hiding just to give the kind of “screw you” testimony that he had to know would just get him send to prison anyway. In other words, Alexander’s bravado for the cameras was just that: bravado. He knows Trump is watching, and doesn’t want Trump to lash out at him.
So it’s pretty clear that Ali Alexander gave the committee helpful information when it came to the things he was really there to testify about, specifically his assertions that certain House Republicans helped him plot January 6th.
If I’m wrong and Alexander just smirked his way through his testimony, then the committee will just get him indicted for contempt. And once he’s arrested, it’ll occur to him that he really is going to prison, and then he’ll have to consider cooperating after all. This is simply how it works.
There are no magic wands for making the committee’s interest in you go away. You either cooperate against others or you go down yourself. Even a wacko like Alexander appears to understand this. In fact he told us as much. Either he gave up evidence against powerful people today, or the committee gets to put him in prison for contempt and make an example out of him. Either way the committee wins and Trump world loses.
