Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump’s 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’

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By Andrew Weissmann
Mr. Weissmann was a senior prosecutor in the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Instead, what the hearings have revealed is evidence of a plot orchestrated by Mr. Trump and his allies in the White House and elsewhere — including players from the Mueller investigation like Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and Rudy Giuliani as well as new players like Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman.

The “spoke” of the Jan. 6 riot should be seen and investigated simultaneously with the other “spokes”: orchestrating fake electors in key states, pressuring state officials like those in Georgia to find new votes, plotting to behead the leadership of the Justice Department to promote a lackey who would further the conspiracy by announcing a spurious investigation into election fraud, and pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to violate the law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/opinion/january-6-trump-merrick-garland.html
 
The tenacious work of the Jan. 6 committee has transformed how we think about the Jan. 6 rebellion. It should also transform the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Before the hearings, federal agents and prosecutors were performing a classic “bottom up” criminal investigation of the Jan. 6 rioters, which means prosecuting the lowest-ranking members of a conspiracy, flipping people as it proceeds and following the evidence as high as it goes.

But that is actually the wrong approach for investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/opinion/january-6-trump-merrick-garland.html
 
good point......the committee has obviously failed using the methods they've employed so far......a new approach may give them new life.......
 
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