As the January 6th committee continues down a blatantly partisan path that is unlikely to bring the country together in any meaningful way, there are fears that their actions could spark a great deal of animosity within this powder keg of a nation.

We are as divided as we ever have been, or at least in the last 150 years, and every political motion must be true and just.  Otherwise, we can consider it fuel for whatever trouble appears to be looming just over the horizon.

The January 6th committee and the Democrats supporting it, being under the microscope as they are, must be particularly careful not to deal in rumors, hyperbole, or propaganda.  They have at least one hand firmly on the rudder of this nation for the time being, and any hard, jerking motions could send us all figuratively to the floor.

That’s why the latest speculation regarding their investigation is so mindlessly dangerous.

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Senate Democrats believe there is a good chance the Department of Justice will prosecute former President Trump for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which would have major political reverberations ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Democratic lawmakers say they don’t have any inside information on what might happen and describe Attorney General Merrick Garland as someone who would make sure to run any investigation strictly “by the book.”

The narrative was even bolder than that:

Sen. Richard  Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said “clearly what [Trump] did” in the days leading up and the day of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress “falls in the ambit of what’s being investigated and perhaps is criminal.”

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said it’s up to the prosecutors at the Justice Department whether to charge Trump, though he believes that the former president’s actions on and before Jan. 6 likely violate federal law.  

“They have all of the evidence at their disposal,” he said.

Kaine believes federal prosecutors are looking seriously at charges against Trump, although he doesn’t have any inside information about what they may be working on.

“My intuition is that they are” looking carefully at whether Trump broke the law, he said. “My sense is they’re looking [at] everything in a diligent way and they haven’t made a decision.”

As the January 6th committee continues down a blatantly partisan path that is unlikely to bring the country together in any meaningful way, there are fears that their actions could spark a great deal of animosity within this powder keg of a nation. We are as divided as we ever have been, or at least in the last 150 years, and every political motion must be true and just.  Otherwise, we can consider it fuel for whatever trouble appears to be looming just over the horizon. The January 6th committee and the Democrats supporting it, being under the microscope as they are, must be particularly careful not to deal in rumors, hyperbole, or propaganda.  They have at least one hand firmly on the rudder of this nation for the time being, and any hard, jerking motions could send us all figuratively to the floor. That’s why the latest speculation regarding their investigation is so mindlessly dangerous. Senate Democrats believe there is a good chance the Department of Justice will prosecute former President Trump for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which would have major political reverberations ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Democratic lawmakers say they don’t have any inside information on what might happen and describe Attorney General Merrick Garland as someone who would make sure to run any investigation strictly “by the book.” The narrative was even bolder than that: Sen. Richard  Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said “clearly what [Trump] did” in the days leading up and the day of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress “falls in the ambit of what’s being investigated and perhaps is criminal.” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said it’s up to the prosecutors at the Justice Department whether to charge Trump, though he…

When it’s all said and done, the story of the select committee investigating the events of January 6th, 2021 will be a strange one, that’s for sure, and one that shapes the public’s perception of their government for decades to come.

For many, the forming of the committee was simply a vindictive action.  It’s some revenge against Donald Trump, who the Democrats steering the committee loathed viciously.  Whether they get to the truth or not is tertiary, as they must first scare undecided voters away from the Republican Party in 2022 and 2024.

The GOP has been exposing this reality for some time, and the committee has certainly taken a massive hit in credibility for it.

Furthermore, there has been great criticism of their attempts to engage in legal entrapment against some of Donald Trump’s former confidantes, with the committee demanding testimony prior to the completion of the adjudication of the issue of executive privilege, and then slapping these cautious witnesses with contempt charges as they await the judicial system’s ruling.

Yet, despite all of these indicators of the imminent collapse of the public’s trust in the committee, there are still some Democrats out there trying to drum up enthusiasm.

On a Thursday Zoom call with progressive activists, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said that the upcoming hearings by the Jan. 6 select committee probing the riot at the U.S. Capitol staged by supporters of former President Donald Trump will “blow the roof off the House.”

“We are going to do everything we can to subpoena all the information we need and to enforce our subpoenas. But even if we don’t get every last person in there, we are going to have hearings that I believe will be compared to the Watergate hearings, because they are going to blow the roof off the House in terms of explaining to America what actually happened in the attack on our democracy,” Raskin, who sits on the select committee, told an audience of approximately 40,000 people who watched his remarks on Facebook.

While former Trump administration figures and supporters have defied subpoenas for information and testimony, Raskin said the committee had spoken with more than 400 witnesses to date who have already laid the groundwork for explosive hearings.

And then, with an added dash of hyperbole:

“I hope everybody will watch and I hope everybody will discuss it and then it will lead to a report that, I hope again, will be a game changer in terms of American history,” Raskin said.

If the committee survives the next several months, it is likely to be disbanded after the 2022 midterms, where it is widely believed that the Republican Party will win the majority of the House and Senate once again.

When it’s all said and done, the story of the select committee investigating the events of January 6th, 2021 will be a strange one, that’s for sure, and one that shapes the public’s perception of their government for decades to come. For many, the forming of the committee was simply a vindictive action.  It’s some revenge against Donald Trump, who the Democrats steering the committee loathed viciously.  Whether they get to the truth or not is tertiary, as they must first scare undecided voters away from the Republican Party in 2022 and 2024. The GOP has been exposing this reality for some time, and the committee has certainly taken a massive hit in credibility for it. Furthermore, there has been great criticism of their attempts to engage in legal entrapment against some of Donald Trump’s former confidantes, with the committee demanding testimony prior to the completion of the adjudication of the issue of executive privilege, and then slapping these cautious witnesses with contempt charges as they await the judicial system’s ruling. Yet, despite all of these indicators of the imminent collapse of the public’s trust in the committee, there are still some Democrats out there trying to drum up enthusiasm. On a Thursday Zoom call with progressive activists, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said that the upcoming hearings by the Jan. 6 select committee probing the riot at the U.S. Capitol staged by supporters of former President Donald Trump will “blow the roof off the House.” “We are going to do everything we can to subpoena all the information we need and to enforce our subpoenas. But even if we don’t get every last person in there, we are going to have hearings that I believe will be compared to the Watergate hearings, because they are going to blow the roof…