Commentary: The Jan. 6 hearings identify the bad guy in the drama of democracy’s narrow escape — Trump
by Harry Litman, Los Angeles Times
Jul 14, 2022
3 minutes
Measured by the number of times he was quoted, Donald Trump played a fairly small supporting role in the action described in the Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday.
But as the moving force behind the ugly developments that the committee documented, he was plainly playing the lead.
The dramatic centerpiece of the hearing was a meeting in the White House on Dec. 18, 2020. Except “meeting” barely does it justice: This was a marathon six-hour scrum, roaming around the White House from the Oval Office to the official residence, between
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