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Commentary: Even if the DOJ prosecutes Trump, it's the American people who need to repudiate the 'big lie'

A video of former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during a House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Monday, June 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack On the United States Capitol has spent nearly a year conducting more than 1,000...

As the Jan. 6 committee continues to roll out an overwhelming case of corrupt conduct by Donald Trump, the calls grow louder for the Department of Justice to bring criminal charges against the former president.

Even if that happens, it would be a fundamental mistake to view the department as the avenging angel that alone can restore accountability and truth to our deeply damaged politics. We are in a critical constitutional moment, and it

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