The Home choose committee investigating the Capitol riots started hearings Thursday night.
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The Concern: The televised Home choose committee hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Michael Goodwin decries reside protection of the Jan. 6 hearings on prime time (“Nancy’s 1/6 canine & baloney present,” June 8).
As a proud Republican, I don’t agree with him. Former President Donald Trump’s disregard of democracy on Jan. 6 should be confronted head-on.
I’m not solely referring to the riot in the course of the day of Jan. 6 — extra egregious was his try and steal the election from President Biden (who I abhor) by influencing Republican members of Congress to vote towards certifying Biden and threatening his loyal Vice President Mike Pence if he didn't refuse to certify Biden.
This should be delivered to voters’ consideration, particularly since Trump will doubtless run once more for the Republican nomination in ’24.
Republican senators are effectively conscious of Trump’s risk to democracy. If that they had spines and voted to convict him after he was impeached, he couldn’t ever run for public workplace once more, so this wouldn’t be obligatory.
Arlene Ross
Forest Hills
The extremely partisan Home choose committee for Jan. 6 is the modern-day model of the Salem Witch trials.
The committee received’t be joyful till they put Trump in jail.
J.J. Levine
Bal Harbour, Fla.
As a substitute of those grandstanding clowns addressing Jan. 6, how concerning the economic system? What concerning the oil corporations’ catastrophic, monopolistic value will increase? I suppose they suppose that wouldn’t be good TV. However neither will these silly hearings.
All of this was reviewed by the impeachment hearings and felony prosecutions, lots of that are ongoing. It’s time for politicians to concentrate on what’s actually hurting America, a lot of which is their fault.
Niles Welikson
Williston Park
Nothing new was uncovered Thursday evening. The “investigation” was really a Trump-hating infomercial.
This can be a persevering with effort after the failed Robert Mueller investigation and two fraudulent, partisan impeachments with no conviction to cease Trump from being allowed to run in 2024.
Lydia DiBello
Bay Ridge
Though those that concentrate knew an ideal deal about what occurred on Jan. 6, and the way it occurred, the committee has positioned a shiny gentle on the extraordinary efforts engineered by a president whose monumental ego, excessive narcissism and immorality pushed him to interact in a single sham after one other in a determined effort to overturn the results of a reliable election and so stay in energy.
Rep. Liz Cheney stated all of it within the introduction to the hearings: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who're defending the indefensible: There'll come a day that Donald Trump is gone, however the stain of your dishonor will stay.”
Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.
The Democrats are making ready for the upcoming midterms, and their principal attraction opened Thursday evening.
That was the day their Jan. 6 committee listening to revealed its predetermined conclusion that Donald Trump fomented, deliberate and executed what they name an “riot towards the UInited States.”
All of the Democrats are on board, together with two Trump-hating Republicans who had been chosen by Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
That is certain to whip up and agitate Democratic voters, however it can additionally whip up Republican and unbiased voters who're already incensed by document gasoline and heating-oil costs, inflation, supply-chain interruptions, open borders and scarce child components points.
Steve Heitner
Center Island
The hearings in prime time are to easily persuade folks to proceed voting for leftist insurance policies which have utterly destroyed this nation.
It’s to remind you that the “assault” on the Capitol is the worst factor that would ever occur to our democracy.
Sure, simply go away it to the Democrats, who don't have anything to run on besides a wrecked economic system.
Ronnie Zajicek
Cortlandt Manor
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