# Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940 "2022-06-09T22:34:49Z")
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### Author: ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/969 "2022-06-28T17:47:59Z")

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> [@rocking\_chair](#):
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> the president knowingly sent an armed crowd to the capital.

Called it:

> [@What if the January 6 insurrection had been more successful?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-january-6-insurrection-had-been-more-successful/945442/39):
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> The evidence shows that the ex-President knowingly and with aforethought raised a private army to attack the Legislative branch with the direct and express purpose of preventing their Constitutionally-defined duty from being exercised, with him doing this at the time and date on which the army would be most effective.

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