This is not a trial. It is a fact-finding investigation. If those subpoenaed, and are now being held in contempt of Congress by refusing to testify, had different stories they would have been heard. They refused to participate in this fact finding investigation, by choice and design. John Eastmanwho wrote the infamous memo pleaded the fifth over 100 times when he testified. He then wanted to be put on Trump’s pardon list.
The investigation is then presented, or not, to the Justice department, and then Garland makes a decision to indict, or not, based on indisputable facts. This is not a TV entertainment show—far from it. It is an attempt to find out what happened when our republic was threatened, to protect it in the future. Luttig testified that his main objective was to fix what went wrong before 2024. Trump tried to execute a c**p, and that must be investigated. Every American who values our e*******l system should be watching this “TV entertainment”. This is real. “Seven Days in May” pales in comparison to what Trump’s people have revealed.

Really, a fact finding investigation? Have we learned why a Capitol officer lethally shoot a petite unarmed woman entering a Capitol window? And why was the officer’s identity and, indeed all information about his record, withheld from the public?

Have we learned anything about the large numbers of FBI agents and informants who were everywhere among the crowd? Even the NYT claimed, “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.”

Have we learned why there were lots of warnings that a large crowd would assemble, but little government follow-up to ensure security, should just such an event turn violent?

Have we learned why the government and media promoted the lie that officer Brian Sicknick was k**led by Trump supporters—even when it was known he died of natural causes the next day?

None of these questions will be answered because none will be asked. After all, the committee’s role is not inquiry but to ensure Donald Trump doesn't run a third time.

What witness can t***hfully say that Trump didn’t conspire to overturn the e******n by illegally sending the e******n back to the Congress? There was no “There” there, no legal way to do anything but what Pence did—certify the e*******l v**es in accordance with his Constitutional duty. Trump exhausted his court cases, his efforts to influence e******n officials, his attempts to have Pence act illegally. At that point, he enlisted the P***d B**s and others to create such havoc that the Constitutional process was disturbed—which the world watched on TV. These facts are indisputable, and ther is no witness on God’s green earth that can t***hfully offer dissenting testimony.
Eastman wanted to be on Trump’s pardon list, because he that he f….Ed up badly, and failed in his illegal attempts to help in Trump’s rubber room madness.

If you totally understand it’s not a trial then you totally understand that it’s not at all a question of evidence to convict. Here it is a question of getting to the t***h, to the bottom of what happened. Then after, if it is determined that laws were broken, it’s up to other departments to bring it to trial.

Trump’s supporters have gotten used to the concept that various versions of the t***h are acceptable. No, either something happened or it didn’t. Either something is legal or it’s not. No matter how you try to spin it.