The 1/6 Committee Is Planning To Write A Jaw Dropping Report

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BY JASON EASLEY at PoliticusUSA

The 1/6 Committee Is Planning To Write A Jaw Dropping Report

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/03/19/the-1-6-committee-is-planning-to-write-a-jaw-dropping-report.html

"SNIP......

The 1/6 Committee isn’t planning on a dry report written by staffers. They want to issue a gripping report that tells the story of the Capitol attack.

The Washington Post reported:

It’s unclear whether the committee will succeed in bringing on a high-profile journalist or if the committee has finalized a choice to author the report. But the committee’s leaders are keenly aware of the difficulty in breaking through to hard-to-reach audiences, according to staffers and members involved in the process.

“We do not want a bureaucrat to write this report but rather a historian or a journalist — or someone who writes and can tell a story in a compelling way so that people can actually understand what happened,” said Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a member of the committee.

Two people with knowledge of the report say the committee wants it to include gripping testimony and quotes, along with starring roles for key players in the events leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Committee isn’t going to release some boring report full of jargon and terminology written by staffers who in most cases aren’t writers. The 1/6 Committee understands that the best way to make the very complicated plot surrounding Trump’s effort to overturn an election understandable is to present it as a story.

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[Ocelot II]

1. ...And?

[applegrove]

2. It is all up now. I am on my cell and PoliticusUSA stuff I have to put

up in parts.

[Ocelot II]

4. OK, thanks.

[Hoyt]

3. Better write a very specific, easy to grasp, report with hard evidence

if they want to get trump.

[Ocelot II]

7. I hope they don't let the lawyers write it. They should vet it for accuracy, but

a good journalist, preferably one without obvious partisan leanings that can be attacked, should do the actual writing.

[wnylib]

28. Bob Woodward?

[Rebl2]

33. NO

[mahina]

5. Would sure lend itself well to a graphic novel aka comic book like March

John Lewis’s brilliant gift

One day

[Ocelot II]

8. I'd love to see a graphic novel of it.

And I hope someday some outfit like Netflix does a series. It's too complicated for a movie.

[Beakybird]

6. It should be a non-fiction writer with a lot of gravitas.

Then I would like to see a version in limerick format.

[Mr.Bill]

23. It's times like this that make me miss Hunter S. Thompson.

Imagine him writing about this in Rolling Stone.

[jmowreader]

39. I can just imagine the lede

“About fifty years ago, I wrote this: ‘Richard Nixon does not, as far as I know, fuck pigs or sell used cars with cracked blocks. Nor is he corrupt beyond the ability of modern man to describe it.’

“I can’t write that about Donald Trump. Trump is so unabashedly, publicly corrupt being accused of being a pigfucker would be the nicest thing anyone ever said about him.

“The true biography of Donald Trump will never be written. It can’t be. The only two men in history capable of writing such a work are Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens, and they’re both dead.”

[Beartracks]

41. Limericks LOL. Ooh: how about haiku?

Terrorists and sheep
Defiling democracy
Hate America


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[mucifer]

9. This is from Politicusa. they almost always let me down with their optimistic stories

[Ocelot II]

10. Yeah, they are not a great source, but the WaPo article they cite

gives me a little more hope than the Mueller Report. PoliticsUSA gets pretty tendentious so I usually don't take them seriously unless they cite another source.

[tavernier]

11. Stephen King

[dsc]

26. He would be my choice

He is a compelling writer and smart about political news.

[dixiechiken1]

12. I thought they were going to have public hearings???

[Bev54]

21. They are in April or May but will be writing a full report after

hoping to be completed by the end of summer.

[dixiechiken1]

40. Oh, okay...

I wasn't sure if this was in lieu of or in addition to.

Thanks, Bev!

[helpisontheway]

13. Probably does not matter because Garland will not allow Trump to be prosecuted

Just as the people in NY are protecting him. I think he will get off for those phone calls to GA too. He is like Teflon..nothing sticks to that crook.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. To reach MAGA Orbit, Batman comics would be well advised /nt

[Irish_Dem]

15. Since it is a horror story, Stephen King could write it.

[Sur Zobra]

16. That'll show him!

We’ve got him now!

He’s going down!

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. Sure hope they include a section on the seditious complicity of some sitting members. Nt

[kacekwl]

18. Sorry people, everyday that passes

results in more and more people who forget and ultimately don't care anymore about 1/6.

[Hoyt]

19. The Committee definitely lost the momentum they had last summer with the videos and

Capitol Police testimony.

[Emile]

20. The war in Ukraine is not helping either!

[Justice matters.]

24. I am suspecting it's one of putler's goal

to make the 1/6 insurrection leave the front pages in order to protect his useful idiot ass_set.

[Emile]

31. After 4 long painful years of TFG, anything is possible!

[Mr.Bill]

22. I thought there were supposed to be public televised hearings.

Are they still going to do that? That would raise public interest.

And with half the country now trained to believe that journalists are pathological liars, having a journalist write the report would be a disaster and be immediately labeled "fake news".

[milestogo]

25. Michael Beschloss could write it.

[Auggie]

27. Whoever writes for The Rachel Maddow Show

Their stories are well-researched and well-constructed

[kentuck]

29. What happens if...?

....The 1/6 Committee recommends indictment for former President Donald J Trump?

What happens if the Committee only recommends an investigation by the DOJ?

Is it politically feasible for the DOJ to just ignore their request?

[Hekate]

30. "A historian or journalist" -- how about Michael Beschloss?

[bahboo]

36. my thought as well...

he's a fabulous writer and brings a mature historical perspective....

[kentuck]

32. Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin and others are on the Committee...

...and they write very well. However, a non-partisan historian may deflect the charge of "partisanship" from the Republicans?

[Justice matters.]

37. There are two of them on the committee so...

the charges of "partisanship" will be quickly dismissed.

[FreepFryer]

34. Lots of great young historians are being forced from the field, by austerity and bias.

This is why access to education - and good student loan policies - matter.

[MagickMuffin]

35. Michael Beschloss, Douglas Brinkley, Ken Burns all come to mind

I believe any of those would work. They are historians after all.

[ificandream]

38. Here is the Washington Post link. I don't like PolitcusUSA as a news source.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/18/jan6-committee-journalists-report-hearings/|]