Donald Trump Should Be Criminally Charged

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Host Reed Galen gives his reaction and analysis to the final public hearing from the House Select Committee on January 6th. He discusses how it was important that the committee’s report and recommendations to the Department of Justice were delivered publicly, how Chairman Bennie Thompson, Vice-Chair Liz Cheney, and the rest of the panel worked in a bipartisan manner to make these hearings appointment television for the American people, and how the criminal referrals the committee made to DOJ are another beginning in the road to holding Donald Trump accountable for January 6th. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].

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0:47.8	Welcome back to the Lincoln project.
0:49.8	I'm your host, Reed Gaelin.
0:51.9	I'm coming to you today solo to give you a few thoughts on the final hearing from the House Select Committee on January 6.
0:59.5	During this hearing, the committee released 160 page summary of their findings and also voted 9 to nothing to accept the final report and to urge the DOJ to consider criminal charges against Donald Trump and his allies.
1:12.6	The committee very much could have done this quietly and behind closed doors.
1:16.3	However, as has been the theme throughout the course of these hearings, they wanted these proceedings to be conducted publicly and center stage for all of the American people to see.
1:26.2	So let's get into it.
1:28.0	First, I think that we should say thank you to the nine members of this committee starting with Chairman Benny Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney.
1:37.5	They worked collaboratively.
1:39.1	They worked in a bipartisan fashion, they worked in a pro-democracy fashion and I think that they very much understood something that is sometimes hard for, especially Democrats to understand, which is you have to make this appointment television.
1:53.6	And I think that in many ways they did that, which is they understood the story they had to tell the arc of that story.
2:00.6	They had to make their case in compelling fashion.
2:03.5	The more they did it, the more people that were willing to come forward with their stories.
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