Report on the House Committee on ‘Correlations Between the First and Second Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and their Impact on the Future of the Fourth Amendment’
The task of determining whether anyone broke the law is never mentioned in the resolution that led to the creation of the committee in June 2021. The House resolution states that its main mission is to give an authoritative account of what occurred, identify failures by law enforcement and other causes of violence, and provide recommendations to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
The committee’s work has already yielded two contempt of Congress prosecutions for failure to comply with subpoenas issued by the panel. The Justice Department has prosecuted two former aides to Mr. Trump — Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro — on contempt charges.
Committee staff members — many of whom are former prosecutors — employed a strategy of highlighting a range of potential crimes or lanes for investigators to pursue at each of the panel’s public hearings.
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Other hearings focused on whether Mr. Trump and his aides committed the crimes of defrauding the American people or obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. At another, there was a question of whether or not Mr. Trump’s aides committed witness tampering.
“The purpose of this committee is to ensure that we tell the full truth, allow government officials to make changes to the system, to improve our guardrails, allow the American people to make better decisions about who they elect, and also to encourage D.O.J. to do their job,” Representative Stephanie Murphy, Democrat of Florida, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
The Trump Money Machine and the Donald’s Decay: The Case For An Inopportune Timing Of Mr. Bush’s 2016 Campaign
The strategist for Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign said that the previous front-runners had spent months considering the timing of their announcements and ensured that they got the most out of their funds. He said that Mr. Trump’s start was more ad hoc.
But inopportune timing would be a peculiar explanation for an experienced candidate seeking to return to the world’s most powerful political office. The calendar’s quirks may only be part of the explanation.
Mr. Trump’s standing among Republicans dipped in public opinion polls in November and December, which coincided with the opening of his campaign. He was harshly criticized after he hosted a private dinner with two people, one of whom has been denounced for making antisemitic statements.
TheRed wave that Mr. Trump promised voters in the last election was not delivered. Voters did not approve of many candidates who were encouraged by him to make false claims that he had won the presidential race.
The future of Mr. Trump’s political career might be complicated by the investigations of his conduct prior to his election, as well as his attempt to block the transfer of power after he lost.
One of the architects of Mr. Bush’s 2016 campaign said that the Trump money machine looked like a lawn mower. He is still getting some support, but he is slowly and steadily declining.