6 questions the Jan. 6 committee aims to answer about the attack

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1. How much responsibility for the violence falls on Trump?

Some committee members have hinted they will aim to prove Trump’s culpability for Jan. 6 in a couple of respects: that he incited the attack on the Capitol, and that he broke federal law by trying to stop lawmakers from certifying Joe Biden’s win. It is a crime to obstruct an official proceeding of Congress.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/09/jan6-committee-questions-hearings/

 

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2. How did Trump and his allies use the levers of government to try to keep him in power?

Trump galvanized support within the Republican Party and the federal government to fight his loss. Top officials in the White House and Justice Department told him what he wanted to hear, including that he could seize voting machines and have the military order a redo of the election. A majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to reject electors in states that Trump lost.

 

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3. How did so many people come to believe — and act on — Trump’s lies about the election?

The committee is particularly interested in unraveling the origins of this mass radicalization, which manifested in the most serious attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812 — this time, led by ordinary Americans rather than foreign soldiers.