# January 6th Hearing-Adjacent Discussion Thread

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829 "2022-07-12T16:20:50Z")
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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: [August 3, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/300 "2022-08-03T22:43:44Z")

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Lol.

Seriously. ‘Smoking gun?’

You were the first one to respond here, literally:

> [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182):
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> thinking Trump fired his Secretary of Defense, replaced Esper with Chris Miller. This is a totally normal thing for an outgoing President to prioritize. Esper then says, in an interview in Military Times, that for the George Floyd protests he (Esper) would not support Trump’s desire to invoke the Insurrection Act against the Floyd protesters: [[Google Photos] ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xqbCpACp8jJAxHG6) We know if you’re Donald Trump and you want troops on the streets for a Portland police stat…

So it’s not like you’re new to this topic. After all this… including the massive interdepartmental deletion of phone and text records which has been revealed _just this past week alone_… what more do you need?

Now, whether or not they are _indicted_ is another matter. But if this ever goes to trial, the massive amount of data overrides any reasonable doubt even if there is no recording of DJT giving specific orders.

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