At this point it’s basically passé to point out that former President Donald Trump absolutely did his damndest to overturn his 2020 electoral loss. Even if he hadn’t incited a horde of his most enthusiastically violent, unhinged red-hats to breach the U.S. Capitol and lynch the vice president in a transparent putsch attempt, he still spent the months leading up to President Biden’s inauguration — and has spent the months since — making little secret of his intent to audit, recount, sue, and generally insist (wrongly) that he won the White House. It’s the centerpiece of just about every fundraising email, TV interview, and public appearance Trump has made for the past year or so.
Nevertheless, here in the United States we like our politics BIG and OBVIOUS, which explains why the Senate Judiciary Committee titled their just-released report on Trump’s multi-pronged effort to flip his 2020 electoral loss “Subverting JUSTICE” (bold and italics theirs). It’s a broad, wholly unsubtle frame for nearly 400 pages of damning evidence that shows — in many cases for the first time to the general public — just how much Trump actually did, behind the scenes, to retain his presidency in the face of an overwhelming electoral walloping.
