Really excellent recap of Day 2 of the hearings

[Novara]

Devastating January 6 Committee Testimony—Day Two

Since I couldn't pay attention 100% of the time, I learned things I missed. Highly recommended.

[livetohike]

1. Thanks for posting this. I will never understand how

those who surrounded Trump did absolutely nothing to stop him. Unless Trump threatened their life and family and then we have another crime to add to the growing list.

[Phoenix61]

2. They were and are craven cowards going whichever the

the buck flows. The problem isn’t they sold their soul it’s that they never had one.

[Butterflylady]

5. Oh they had souls alright. They just sold them to the 👿 devil.

Remember, what goes around comes around.

[PatSeg]

3. Thank you

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R...good read...nt

[mnhtnbb]

6. Rachel and team on MSNBC are doing an 8 pm EDT recap on the days when the hearings are daytime.

I watched it last night-- and it was excellent--having turned over to CNN during the day to watch the hearing itself.

The team is Rachel, Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace, and Lawrence O'Donnell.

[Native]

7. I was pretty stunned by Alter's admission in the beginning of this piece

that "I had long taken Trump’s grifting for granted and until Monday didn’t see it as central to the Big Lie and January 6."

Seriously? Connecting the dots is what investigative reporting is all about. I'm just a girl in Florida who reads the news regularly and knew a bit about Trump, and the grift tying into the Big Lie was as obvious as sunlight to me from the beginning. Just about everything Trump did from the onset had an element of grift. Did he ever miss an opportunity?

That said, I sincerely hope his comment that the 11 Trump attorneys being disciplined by their respective state bar associations would be "an important deterrent to monkey business in 2024" has some merit.

I also appreciated his bit about Ginsburg's testimony having even more weight because he was/is a "fierce" partisan. I'd assumed that, but it was good to have that confirmed.

I interviewed Ginsburg almost every day I was in Tallahassee covering the 2000 Florida recount and found him to be a fierce partisan, which gave his testimony here more weight.

Thanks for posting this!

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Excellent recaps!

I used the link in your post to find the first recap as well.

Thanks so much for posting!

[Novara]

9. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it as much as I did

Most recaps focus on a few points. This one seemed to hit them all.

[crickets]

10. K&R for visibility.