Trump's Jan. 6 pardons could encourage more violence, says lead investigator
SalonTim Heaphy served as chief investigative counsel for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol and wrote the official after-action report about the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally for the City of Charlottesville. In Heaphy's words, Trump was "the leader" of that attack and "the head conspirator who put in motion a series of legal steps that ultimately culminated in storming the Capitol." The egregious failure to hold Trump accountable, coupled with the incoming president's repeated promise to pardon the Jan. 6 attackers, "almost encourages" more violence, Heaphy explained. His research found that both the Jan. 6 attack and the Charlottesville riot were not truly “a conflict of right or left.” Rather, both were about "insiders versus outsiders or people who believe in institutions, who are invested in them, who rely on them, and people that don't trust those institutions." Those who resort to political violence, he added, "don't trust government, don't trust media, don't trust higher education or even science in some cases."
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