It couldn’t hurt … them
What the Jan. 6 hearings have demonstrated so far — beyond what a colosal lie the Big Lie was — is that Donald Trump operatives and family backed the Big Lie in public while dismissing it behind closed doors.
Trump’s insurrection enablers on Capitol Hill today are dismissing the Jan. 6 hearings as political theater in public while secretly hoping they cripple Trump as a candidate for 2024.
When Fox host Bret Baier asked [Brit] Hume if the committee seems to be making a legal or political case against Trump (and his incitement of the insurrection), Hume said he thought it might be “both.” He then suggested that Republicans know they “can’t win” with Trump as the nominee once again in 2024.
“What strikes me about this, Bret, is that if they succeed ― either by damaging him or staining him such that he is either unable for legal or political reasons to run again ― they might end up finding out that they’ve done the Republican Party a great service,” he said.
“Because I think a great many Republicans think they can’t win with Trump at the head of the ticket again,” he continued. “They’re afraid of his supporters and don’t want to come out against him directly. But they’d like him to go away. If the effect of this committee is to make his possible candidacy go away, I think a great many Republicans would privately be very glad.”
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, a former Republican operative, concurs. Why, Democrats and Never Trumpers might be trying to do the right thing even if it hurts them politically!
The committee sending a criminal referral on Trump to the Department of Justice might not be in Democrats’ best interests either. (I’d brace for more violence.) In a tweet Tuesday afternoon, committee Vic eChair Rep. Liz Cheney said the panel “has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals.”
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