When President Donald Trump’s supporters assaulted the Capitol, it was evident they were trying — with his encouragement -- to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Now, as radio commentator Paul Harvey used to say, we know the rest of the story. Or at least most of it.
That’s because the House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation, and its eight carefully staged hearings, left no doubt the former president was directly responsible for initiating, inspiring and failing to stop the most serious domestic assault on American democracy since the Civil War.
