The country saw and heard chilling testimony Tuesday from ordinary people whose lives Donald Trump’s lies turned upside down. Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, testified during Tuesday’s hearing of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee hearings.
This former federal prosecutor noticed something that Attorney General Merrick Garland and his Justice Department lawyers might also have picked up: powerful new reasons to indict Donald Trump for inciting the mob to violent insurrection.
The testimony of the two Black election workers, combined with that of Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his aide, Gabriel Sterling, demonstrated the same thing: that weaponizing violence and intimidation through threats by others were part of Trump’s political pattern and practice, a longstanding mode of operating he unleashed from the Ellipse on Jan. 6.
