At Jan. 6 hearings, more evidence that the threat to democracy runs deep

The infamous “Be there-will be wild!” tweet from former President Donald Trump is shown as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol holds a hearing Tuesday, July 12. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Tuesday’s hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6th Attack continued to build a case that Donald Trump must be held fully accountable for his corrupt attempt to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the House committee, pointedly put it best in her opening remarks before Tuesday’s seventh hearing: “Trump is a 76-year-old man, not an impressionable child.”