Tim 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 …
Donald Trump was the luckiest man alive last Thursday. This echoes Trump's increasingly rabid defense of the insurrectionists on the campaign trail, where he often calls them "hostages" and "political prisoners" and holds ceremonies honoring those who are imprisoned. Every time Trump or his surrogates calls for a "rally" to intimidate public officials, conspiracy theories fly around MAGA social media, …