January 6th Committee is back in the game with a vengeance
The January 6th public hearings about Donald Trump’s election overthrow crimes, which were dominating the headlines for weeks on end, have since given way to the DOJ’s moves against Trump in a separate criminal probe over the classified documents he stole.
But it’s important to recall that when the January 6th Committee decided to take a break from public hearings, it wasn’t due to a lack of evidence, or public interest. In fact it was the opposite. The committee made such headway, it ended up getting flooded with supplemental evidence and witnesses from all sides, and it decided to spend August working behind the scenes so that it could hold even higher-stakes public hearings in September. It’s just coincidence that the DOJ search warrant has kicked the Trump classified documents into the headlines during that interim stretch.
So just what has the January 6th Committee been doing? We’ve seen the media reports that it obtained Alex Jones’ text messages, and that it obtained voluntary testimony from multiple Trump cabinet members. What will come of that? We don’t know yet. The committee appears to have been intentionally lying low lately, choosing not to give any preliminary findings to the media, so Trump’s other criminal scandal could have the spotlight. But now that’s changing, in a big way.
The January 6th Committee sent investigators all the way to Denmark last week in order to watch January 6th-related documentary footage involving Donald Trump and Roger Stone. More to the point, the committee appears to have decided to tip off the media about it, in order to get it into the headlines.
The only reason for the committee to put something like this out there, is that it’s preparing to retake its share of the spotlight. It looks like the committee has decided to start rattling the cages of people like Roger Stone, and steer the public toward remembering that Trump’s election overthrow plot was just as criminal as his classified documents scandal. In other words, the January 6th Committee is back – and just in time to help finish Trump off.
