The Daily Beast has a deep dive article out this Tuesday covering the lack of any sort of Republican interest in their own “independent” commission investigation of January 6th. Remember? After turning down a bipartisan offer, and Pelosi forming a committee herself, McCarthy promised an independent Republican investigation? If you don’t recall, it is entirely understandable, no Republican has talked about it since.

There is a story within the story, however, that also deserves its own attention. Not only does Trump not care about the protesters in jail (a quaint notion, Trump caring about others), but Trump is focused on saving his own ass by fighting the January 6th commission. Kevin McCarthy has long since given the game away that Trump didn’t want January 6th investigated, now Trump is actively fighting it.

At what point does someone not call this out as giving every appearance of a cover-up that went straight to the White House? An attempted coup run from the White House. That is what it appears to be:

As for the instigator of the riot and current leader of the GOP, Donald Trump appears to have lost interest—if he ever had much to begin with—in McCarthy’s pledge for a counter-investigation.

Two people close to Trump say they haven’t heard the ex-president talk or ask about it recently. The sources say the former president has been much more focused on huddling with his lawyers to figure how to deny the current House Jan. 6 committee’s requests for various records from that day.

Trump, the two sources said, has expressed particular annoyance about what the committee could want from Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, and has privately griped that White House chiefs of staff shouldn’t be subjected to this type of “harassment.”

The report goes on to say that Trump’s political priority is nothing more than continuing to spread lies about the November 2020 election.

“Particular annoyance” about Mark Meadows? Meadows was the guy calling DOJ to tell them to look into Italian satellites interfering with the election. If there is a spoke in the conspiracy wheel joining Trump to January 6th, it will almost surely run through Mark Meadows and Roger Stone. Additionally, it is not “harassment” to ask for documents and testimony. Trump was more than happy to hand over the transcripts of the telephone call during the first impeachment. When Trump thinks information helps him, he will put it out in the New York Times. When he believes it hurts? Well, we still haven’t seen his taxes and it’s only 2021 for God’s sake.

And now it’s happening with Mark Meadows and the January 6th Commission. At this point, one would be forgiven for simply throwing one’s hands in the air and screaming. There is already direct first-person testimony that Trump ordered the acting Attorney General to sign a letter claiming there was fraud in the election. That is a felony, period, end of the issue. It involved DOJ itself and the facts dug out by DOJ’s own inspector general. We need to know if DOJ has the willpower to bring about any sort of consequences for anyone in the Trump administration for anything.

So far, the only work we’ve seen from that end has come from Congress and it’s making Trump nervous. We can take that as a good sign in that Congress is getting closer to the truth. We can take it as a bad sign that DOJ hasn’t already done it (very bad sign). And we can take all of this and presume – without proof – that this was an attempted coup, an attempt to keep Pence from counting the votes – and all coming from the White House.

It really doesn’t look that hard and from the evidence in front of us, it would seem that it’s far more likely than not. We will see if DOJ has any stomach for anything. We really don’t have much hope at this point. But Trump is worried about what might come out in Congress, that is something, and very telling.

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