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Asking whether Trump believed the 2020 election was stolen is the wrong question entirely
Even if it had been stolen, fomenting insurrection is still illegal.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Against the Light: The Deep State Myth from the Illuminati to QAnon.
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The J6 committee says Trump did some criming. A new video suggests Roger Stone knew it
If ordinary goons are guilty of disrupting an official proceeding, then the ringleaders who incited them are guilty as well.
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For now, copycat convoys sputter out
The con keeps rolling, even if the trucks do not
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Terrorism is an attempt to intimidate a civilian population to achieve political ends. Trucker siege checks those boxes
Trudeau has finally acted decisively.
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Trump committed crimes when he took ‘top secret’ files. If prosecution is ‘politicizing the law,’ then he’s above it
If any other government employee were caught with a trove of classified documents, they would face criminal investigation.
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Trump's roundabout confession to the crime
Meanwhile, the GOP is rewriting that horrible day’s history.
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Federal prosecutors are now investigating fake Electoral College certificates, the latest clues that could lead to Trump
Similarities in language and formatting between the fake certificates suggests a far-reaching conspiracy orchestrated at the national level.
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Fake paperwork is just what federal investigators need to climb atop the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election
In a group of nearly 60 people facing serious prison time, at least some of them will be willing to implicate the higher ups to save themselves.
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Yes, it’s absurd, but fraudulent certificates are still fraudulent
Coverage of the latest from the J6 committee lacks urgency.
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Merrick Garland sees the big picture
Let's hope he stays true to his vision.
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Revelations by the House Select Committee risk drawing attention away from GOP legislators who aided and abetted a failed coup
January 6 was one part of a coup attempt planned out in the open. Its procedural component was widely reported in the weeks beforehand.
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He was set to testify about a PowerPoint outlining step-by-step Trump’s failed coup. Then Mark Meadows chickened out
He’s invoking privilege he doesn’t have.