Today’s news the Jan. 6 committee will recommend prosecuting Trump is a big deal, because everyone needs to be together on it.
It’s unmistakably moving in that direction. Months ago Merrick Garland, attorney general, pointedly said no one is beyond the reach of the law. Then he hired a special counsel to pursue the trail wherever it leads. And we know, from evidence made public so far, that Trump’s fingers were in nearly every 2020 election-coup pie.
Trump is raging against the special counsel’s subpoenas (see story here). So what? Who cares? Investigation targets don’t get to decide whether they’re prosecuted. Ultimately, that will be up to the citizens of a grand jury.
Meanwhile in Georgia, Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis is meticulously building an election interference case to put before a grand jury there. Her investigation includes not only Trump’s infamous phone call to “find more votes,” but also the counterfeit electors.
These are all positive developments for preserving American democracy. Our country faces the extraordinary peril of a major political party and millions of its followers attacking democracy in our own country. If we don’t want to live under dictatorship, this must be defeated by bringing the full weight of the law against it. And Donald Trump is the rotten seed from which all this grew, which should make him Defendant No. 1.