This is what winning looks like
Think back to when the January 6th Committee was being appointed. Imagine if someone had predicted that by this date on the calendar, December 9th, the committee would have already gotten Steve Bannon indicted and arrested, was days away from getting Mark Meadows indicted and arrested, had multiple hostile witnesses pleading the fifth, had Trump White House metadata proving criminality, and had the full cooperation of key witnesses including Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff.
You’d have dismissed such predictions as being wildly, insanely optimistic. You’d have said there’s no way this kind of stuff could happen at all, let alone happen so swiftly. Yet here we are. All of the above has happened. We’ve even got bonuses like Meadows turning over internal Trump White House communications about January 6th before ending his cooperation, meaning the committee gets to make an example out of him and use his incriminating evidence to corner others into cooperating.
Now that it’s becoming so abundantly clear that the January 6th Committee knows what it’s doing and is winning, the doomsday types are shouting more hyperbolically than ever about how the committee is blowing it and how Trump world is magically “getting away with it all.” They have to do this to try to drown out the evidence of winning that you can all clearly see in front of you, in order to keep their doomsday narratives intact. It’s just what they do. But look around. It’s becoming more clear by the hour that the committee is winning and Trump world is losing. This is what winning looks like.
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report