Dec.23

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Select Committee Releases Final Report

The final report from the 1/6 Committee is out. It did not drop until fairly late in the evening on Thursday, and it's 845 pages long, so it's not like anyone who is not involved with the 1/6 Committee could plausibly have read it all the way through yet. Still, there's been enough time to look it over and take note of some of the highlights:

• The Committee thinks the Electoral Count Act should be passed (almost done; see below)
• The Committee thinks Donald Trump should be barred from future officeholding
• The Committee thinks Trump should be charged criminally
• The previously unknown lawyer Kenneth Chesebro was the architect of the "alternate electors" scheme
• Trump was in regular contact with Chesebro, John Eastman, and other conspirators
• Trump and his allies pressured state officials to overturn election results more than 200 times
• Trump decided to declare victory long before Election Day, no matter what happened at the polls
• Trump refused to take action at key moments (well, key hours) during the 1/6 riot
• The rioters were in Washington because Trump told them to be
• Trump's phony claims allowed him to raise more than $250 million in donations (and that doesn't even include NFT sales)

There isn't much else to be said right now. Trump has already responded angrily on his boutique social media platform, but that's hardly news. And because of the lateness of the release, and the holiday weekend, it may be a few days until we see how this plays, or if it plays at all. (Z)