Editorial: Will we ever learn what happened on Jan. 6? – By Detroit Free Press Editorial Board (Detroit Free Press) / April 3, 2022
A House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is getting closer to finding out exactly what then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle did that day — and the U.S. Justice Dept. is expanding its own criminal probe into the planning and financing of the attack.
Last week a federal judge ordered one of Trump’s lawyers to turn over more than 100 emails the Trump team had sought to withhold from the committee. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said attorney John Eastman’s emails could shed light on what Carter called an illegal “coup” designed to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
But congressional investigators have been frustrated in their quest for other evidence. The Justice Department has yet to decide whether it will press criminal charges against Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, for refusing to testify. And White House phone records furnished to the Jan. 6 committee reportedly contain a 7-hour gap spanning the afternoon and early evening of the Capitol attack.
