Jan. 6 Hearings Point Finger at Donald Trump. But Federal Prosecutors Haven’t Gone That Far.

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

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Last week, the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol began public hearings to disclose its findings. During the hearings, the committee alleged that former President Donald Trump led and encouraged the attack on the Capitol in an effort to overturn the 2020 election results. This week on Intercepted, investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson is joined by Margot Williams, research editor for The Intercept, and Michael Loadenthal, founder and executive director of the Prosecution Project, to discuss the ongoing arrests and prosecutions of those linked to the January 6 assault. Aaronson, Williams, and Loadenthal discuss their findings from the prosecutions, along with how the legal actions against Capitol rioters contrast with people arrested during the racial justice demonstrations in 2020 and those arrested for terror-related crimes. join.theintercept.com/donate/now

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0:00.0	This is intercepted.
0:30.0	I'm Trevor Arenson, a contributing writer at the intercept.
0:37.0	Nearly 18 months ago, on January 6, 2021, an angry, violent mob of Donald Trump supporters
0:52.4	stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden,
0:58.0	the clear winner of the 2020 presidential election.
1:16.0	The rioters attacked police officers defending the U.S. Capitol, a Capitol police officer died
1:41.0	on January 7, the day after the mob attacked him. Two other police officers who responded
1:46.9	to the riot committed suicide in the days following. Four Trump supporters also died during
1:53.0	the melee at the Capitol. It was an insurrection. I saw it. You saw it. We all saw it. Live
2:02.5	on television. But Trump and his supporters have tried to convince us since then that
2:08.0	we can't believe our lying eyes. Trump has tried to bend reality to his will, claiming
2:15.0	absurdly that the crowd we all saw live on our screens wasn't full of violence. But
2:22.5	instead, full of love. Tucker Carlson, who hosts the top
2:37.7	braided show on Fox News, has promoted a ridiculous conspiracy theory that January 6 was a false
2:44.7	flag attack, secretly organized by Trump's shadowy enemies inside the FBI.
2:51.0	But strangely, some of the key people who participated on January 6 have not been charged. Look
2:57.7	at the documents. The government calls those people unindicted co-conspirators. What does
3:01.7	that mean? Well, it means that in potentially every single case they were FBI operatives.
3:07.8	To be clear, the government doesn't call FBI agents or informants unindicted co-conspirators
3:13.2	in court filings. And there's no evidence. Zero to support this FBI did it theory.
3:26.0	In our very divided America, we now can't agree about what happened on January 6. A
3:32.0	Pew Research Center poll from February found that more than half of all Republicans believed
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