First Jan. 6 hearing was conclusive
U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Harry Dunn, right, and others react as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Credit: AP/Andrew Harnik
First Jan. 6 hearing was conclusive
Anyone who watched Thursday’s hearing of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot [“1/6 riot an ‘attempted coup’,” News, June 10] can only walk away with one conclusion: Donald Trump is guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. His actions were seditious, and sedition has a specific penalty under the law.
He could have called in the National Guard. He could have called the Secretary of Defense. He could have called the DC Police. He could have called the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. But he did nothing.
He commented that Vice President Mike Pence should be hanged.
Now you know why Fox, OAN, and Newsmax wouldn’t dare show the hearings. It would have blown the doors off their 18-month-old narrative of lies, conspiracy theories, etc.
— Ben Milano, Lindenhurst
I watched the Jan. 6 hearing and, for the first time, the timeline the committee proffered coalesced evidence of planning before the insurrection with the actual violent riots against our Capitol. The thread was undeniably clear. A plot was hatched and enacted to stop the lawful, peaceful transfer of power after a proved fair democratic election.
Most networks carried the hearing live. Except Fox News. Sean Hannity, in front of a muted picture of the hearing, expounded loudly about the Democrats’ failure to “stop the violence” that police could not. He ranted against the “sham committee,” saying all that the members wanted to do was “smear President Trump.”
How clear the reason for our division became.
— Hank Cierski, Port Jefferson Station
There are few, perhaps no, public policy positions that I share with Rep. Liz Cheney. Nevertheless, her heroic, cogent defense of our Constitution, the peaceful transfer of power, and the truth about Donald Trump’s assault on our republic, warrant that someday a statue of her be placed in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.
— Richard Koubek, Dix Hills
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