Despite all of the assurances given by the Democrats who are no doubt in control of the January 6th select committee, it is hard to believe that they aren’t just trying to re-adjudicate Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
This is their turn to determine the outcome of the charge that Trump “incited an insurrection” on that day, after having pouted their way through his acquittal in the Senate.
And so, regardless of their claims that this would not be a rerun of that embarrassing defeat, the pieces of evidence that the committee is targeting seems to suggest that Trump is very much on their chopping block.
The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot is set to request that a group of telecommunications companies preserve the phone records of a group of GOP members of Congress and former President Donald Trump, as well as members of the Trump family, who played some role in the “Stop the Steal” rally that served as the prelude to the Capitol insurrection.
The records request is the first step in the committee’s investigatory process and could signal the direction they plan to go when they call witnesses.
It is unclear what means the committee will use to compel the telecommunications companies to cooperate with their request. The committee does have subpoena power, but requesting the information — especially from members of Congress — could lead to a lengthy legal battle.
The committee has also chosen not to release the names of those whom they are seeking information on.
Given the PR disaster that this entire fiasco has turned out to be, t’s hard to blame them for that.
