Trump's ludicrous Jan. 6 lawsuit shows why we should worry about 2024
In the nine months since Donald Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol, the comprehensive GOP whitewash of Jan. 6 has traveled through countless tortured iterations. But ultimately, the most acceptable propaganda line for Republicans has become that those events aren’t particularly extraordinary or deserving of scrutiny, and that if there are any victims here, it’s Trump supporters.
This noxious notion is at the core of a new lawsuit that Trump has filed to disrupt the House select committee examining Jan. 6. The suit has been mocked for its obvious desire to cover up Trump’s culpability. But underlying this effort is a bigger idea that will reverberate beyond this court battle.
It’s the idea that an effort to overthrow U.S. democracy through corrupt procedural subversion — and then through mob intimidation and violence — simply doesn’t merit a true national reckoning and a response. That there is simply no reason for Congress to act, in any way, to prevent this from happening again.
Trump’s lawsuit hinges largely on two ideas: First, that the select committee’s document requests have no “legitimate legislative purpose.” Second, that President Biden should honor Trump’s demand that he exert executive privilege to shield executive branch documents from congressional scrutiny.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/19/trump-lawsuit-select-committee-2024/
White privilege I guess.
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