What I Learned on Jan. 6

Trying to comfort my 84-year-old mother, I stumbled on a few truths that comforted me as well.

The United States Capitol, Nov. 1, 2020 (iStock)

By Michael Judge

Anyone impartially weighing the facts presented this week by the House hearing on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol would be hard pressed not to arrive at the same conclusion as the House committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, that “Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup.”

One should remember that this is—and has been from the start—a bipartisan investigation. Many Republicans were and remain just as horrified as Democrats by the awful events of Jan. 6 and former President Donald Trump’s role in organizing, instigating and allowing them to unfold and escalate.

Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, couldn’t have been clearer Thursday evening when she told the nation that, as a “violent mob” attacked the Capitol, Donald Trump “did not condemn the attack, instead he justified it.” She continued by stating the obvious in a calm and steady voice: “Tonight, I say this to my …