Jan. 6 shook US democracy. Has Jan. 6 committee helped shore it up?
The House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol made its closing arguments to the American public today and voted 9-0 to subpoena former President Donald Trump.
They highlighted snippets from more than a million Secret Service communications in the days and hours leading up to the breach of the Capitol, bolstering their thesis that then-President Donald Trump had incited a mob and bears singular responsibility for the violence that ensued.
“Armed and Ready, Mr. President!” read one snippet of intelligence presented in a Secret Service email on Dec. 24, 2020, about two weeks before the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to formalize Joe Biden’s election victory.
“[T]he protesters should ‘start marching into the chambers.’”
“… ‘make sure they know who to fear.’”
Two days later, another Secret Service email included this from a tipster: “Their plan is to literally kill people.”
Yet on Jan 6., even as the Secret Service was sharing alerts of armed Trump rallygoers and a midmorning threat that Vice President Mike
