Donald Trump’s logorrheic response to the Jan. 6 committee’s vote to subpoena him begins by all but acknowledging his culpability with a caps-lock reiteration of the lie that fueled the insurrection.
“Dear Chairman Thompson,” Trump politely addresses the Mississippi Democrat leading the panel before executing an abrupt tonal shift: “THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!”
From that unorthodox opening — whatever happened to “Thank you for your recent correspondence”? — the twice-impeached ex-president belches forth 14 pages of the sort of what-aboutist conspiracy theorizing and schoolyard name-calling any casual observer of his career might expect.
