There can be no doubt over what must be the outcome of the 1/6 congressional probe.
It is that people in the highest levels of our government must be held accountable for their action — or inaction — on that terrible event in our nation’s history.
Yep. That’s you, Donald John Trump!
Trump says the televised hearings have drawn “terrible ratings.” You would expect such a shallow analysis from someone who made his living as a “reality TV” celebrity before entering politics in 2015.
But the truth is — as I survey it — that the hearings have delivered a wide range of evidence that suggests that Trump’s insistence on fomenting The Big Lie about the 2020 election produced the assault on the Capitol Building that sought to overturn those results.
Trump knew what he did was illegal, that it was unconstitutional and that it was immoral. Yet he persists to this very day to suggest there was widespread vote fraud in 2020 when — in plain fact — there was none.
He must be held to account for what he sought to do.
It will fall on Attorney General Merrick Garland and his legal team to tie all the loose ends together prior to making a decision on whether to seek indictments against Trump.
I hope he sees what many of us have seen.
That the former president of the United States is a criminal who needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.