Hours before its dissolution at noon Tuesday with the ending of the Congress of the last two years and the commencement of the new session, the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol released the last remaining documents from its crucial probe.
Using the website of the U.S. Government Publishing Office — which was called the U.S. Government Printing Office from its founding on the same day that Lincoln was first inaugurated in 1861 until the internet era in 2014 — the bipartisan panel put on the permanent record the sordid details of Donald Trump’s attempted coup d’etat (if you like the French) or putsch (if you prefer the German).
There’s not a really good American term for what Trump did as the act was so foreign to this land and this government. Not since 1861 has there been a violent rebellion to overturn the Constitution.
