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Lloyd Green

The January 6 committee just gave a final blow to Trump’s very bad year

House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill on Monday.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill on Monday. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/AP

This year was bad for the 45th president. 2023 may even be worse. Criminal prosecutions may be forthcoming. Beyond that, the legacy of 6 January 2021, combined with the results of the recent midterms, left Donald Trump politically vulnerable.

Stripped of the veneer of invincibility and inevitability, he looks like a loser. On Monday, the House committee on the January 6 attacks concluded that the evidence warranted referral to the justice department for possible prosecution.

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