Column: Drunk Rudy. Loser Trump. How the Jan. 6 hearings' wild comedy weakens the Big Lie
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Jun 13, 2022
3 minutes
Insurrection is no joke. But it was hard not to laugh during the Jan. 6 committee's public hearings on Monday as the theme of Day 2 came into focus: the truth behind the Big Lie. Witness after witness testified to the outlandish schemes, absurd conspiracy theories and drunken advice President Donald Trump used to falsely declare he'd won the 2020 election.
What emerged was a picture of a Trump White House whose alternate reality makes "Veep's" fictional Selena Meyer look like a policy wonk: There
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