Beginning in June of 2022, the House January 6th Committee began to hold public hearings on their findings. The Committee has now held 7 publicly broadcast hearings, the stated purpose of which is to show that Donald Trump lied about his election loss, and that he incited an insurrection on January 6th at the U. S. Capitol Building. The result of these hearings has been a dud, for several reasons. The net effect of these hearings will certainly be to make Donald Trump look bad, but so far, the Commission has failed to make the case that Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2020. The effect of these hearings will be to show how the Trump’s opponents have dispensed with all notions of fairness and due process as they show their unbridled hatred of Trump and their unquenchable desire to find some crime to pin on him.
This partisan witch hunt is backfiring because the proceeding is a sham and because (1) almost half of the nation support Trump; and (2) most of the Independents and some Democrats recognize that the purposes, processes and productions of the January 6th Committee are blatant violations of American values of fairness and due process.