Mac1958
Diamond Member
I've seen several comments from around the net about the importance of these hearings, and this board sure is crammed with threads trying to downplay them. So some facts, just for fun:
- This isn't a trial. There are some who appear to think it is.
- Some Dems, especially Jamie Raskin, sure have been pumping this sucker up at the risk of creating expectations that are too high.
- If these members launch into the standard politician showboating, preening and pontificating for the cameras, this thing is toast.
- If they start going beyond hard facts, hard evidence and solid testimony, people will tune out.
- If they provide hard facts, hard evidence and solid testimony, great, it will help to flesh out the historical record.
- Those who are saying this is a cynical ploy to grab the independents certainly have a fair point. Such is the condition of our politics.
- This committee can't convict anyone. They can't sentence anyone. What they're doing is separate from legal proceedings.
- I'd imagine there will be a lot of people like me who don't want to sit through it, and will just observe the fallout, where we can get views from both ends.
- What matters in this thing is what, if anything, Garland and the DOJ decide to do. I'd imagine they'll get the evidence the committee has found.
Jan. 6 committee adviser on public hearings: People will be ‘absolutely surprised’
Former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman (Va.), a former adviser to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said the panel’s upcoming public hearings wi…
thehill.com