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Tuesday 7 June 2022
An infamous day. A search for answers. Will America tune in?

Continued from Front nous shadow that he ex-
pects Americans, for all of
More broadly, the effort their preoccupations, to be
addresses who might be drawn to the inquiry.
punished in the large circle “They want to under-
of Trump enablers. Some stand how our democracy
of them are lawmakers reached this precipice,”
who sided with his effort to he said. Jan. 6 shares cer-
overturn an honest election tain distinctions with other
only to huddle in fear with traumas of history. As with
everyone else in a Capitol 9/11, you can shorthand
hideout when the rioters the date and people know.
swarmed the Capitol in ser- Like Watergate, it speaks to
vice of that goal. corrupt acts in the highest
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Mary- office. The attack brought
land Democrat on the so much visceral shock that
committee, set high expec- many people remember
tations as the panel tries to where they were and what
renew interest in machi- they were doing when they
nations that are nearly 18 saw it.
months in the rearview mir- To the far right, the histori-
ror. The hazards in that mir- cal analogy is the Boston
ror are closer than they ap- Tea Party, with liberals,
pear, as committee mem- Dust and a gas mask are visible on the ground in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2021, after Democrats and the Wash-
bers see it. violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington. Associated Press ington establishment as the
“The hearings will tell a story redcoats.
that will really blow the roof does not involve being un- vania. “But, as is, they will Republicans can agree Trump-friendly Republicans
off the House,” Raskin said der oath. The panel, free be competing for attention should be sacrosanct.” sanitized what happened
in April. “Because it is a sto- from the burden of proof with topics with greater im- Seven Democrats and two that day, once the shock
ry of the most heinous and beyond a reasonable mediate relevance in our Republicans make up the that nearly all felt on Jan. 6
dastardly political offense doubt standard, is likely to lives.” panel. Among them is Rep. subsided. In measurements
ever organized by a presi- try to show that the riot was Hungry babies lacking for- Liz Cheney, the deeply of public opinion, Republi-
dent and his followers and not a spontaneous gather- mula. Soaring prices. Rising conservative but fiercely in- can voters in the main said
his entourage in the history ing but part of a broader COVID-19 hospitalization dependent Wyoming law- they believe the 2020 elec-
of the United States.” conspiracy. among the vaccinated. maker who is practically tion was rigged, when by
That offense? “An inside Yet much is already known The threat that Russia’s alone in the GOP in assail- all measures — the courts,
coup” coupled with a vio- because the attack played Ukraine invasion will esca- ing Trump while also seek- nonpartisan and even Re-
lent attack by “neo-fas- out on TV and Trump ex- late to something nuclear. ing reelection to Congress. publican state officials, and
cists,” he said. horted supporters to “fight Monkeypox. Once an embodiment of the Trump administration’s
Trump is not expected at like hell” in shouts for the “If the hearings are to do the Republican establish- own election monitors —
any of the hearings, but his world to hear. anything other than rein- ment, she is now a rene- the election was purely fair.
words and actions will hang “In quieter times, the hear- force our existing political gade in a new order domi- Trump won the 2016 elec-
heavy over the proceed- ings would have a stronger biases,” Jamieson said, nated by Trump, who wants tion with a minority of vot-
ings as lawmakers look to hold on public attention,” “they will have to reveal her unseated in her primary ers, lost the House to the
place him at the center of said Kathleen Hall Jamie- previously covered-up in August. Democrats in 2018 and lost
the chaos. It seems highly son, director of the Annen- goings-on that threatened Dartmouth College histo- in 2020 by a decisive mar-
plausible he will find a way berg Public Policy Center something that Democrats, rian Matthew Delmont said gin — not a glowing elec-
to rail against them that at the University of Pennsyl- independents and most Jan. 6 cast such an omi- toral record. q

Jill Biden helps unveil postage stamp honoring Nancy Reagan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill emony, Biden talked about this stamp we are affirming
Biden on Monday praised the "incredible platform" that she made such a dif-
Nancy Reagan as a first first ladies gain to serve the ference." Nancy Reagan
lady who "made such a dif- people after "we're just sort was born on July 6, 1921.
ference," as the current first of thrust into the national Fred Ryan, a White House
lady hosted the unveiling of spotlight in a way that I aide to President Ronald
a new U.S. postage stamp know none of us could Reagan, said the former
honoring a woman who have anticipated." first lady advocated for fos-
held the role 40 years be- "First lady Nancy Reagan ter grandparents, champi-
fore Biden stepped into it. served the American peo- oned the arts, and restored
The issuance by the U.S. ple with grace," Biden said. and remodeled parts of the
Postal Service of a forever "She understood that the White House. She is also re-
first-class stamp bearing role of first lady came with membered for her "Just Say
Nancy Reagan's image is inherent pitfalls and scru- No" anti-drug campaign,
part of a yearlong com- tiny, yet she found the hu- for undergoing a mastec-
First lady Jill Biden greets Mrs. Reagan's niece Anne Peterson,
left, in front of a newly unveiled U.S. Postal Service stamp of memoration of the former manity in it all. She knew tomy after her breast can-
former first lady Nancy Reagan in the East Room of the White first lady's centennial by the the potential of this role." cer diagnosis during the
House, Monday, June 6, 2022, in Washington. Ronald Reagan Presiden- "Next month would have Reagan presidency and
Associated Press tial Foundation and Insti- been her 101st birthday," a fierce devotion to her
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press tute. At a White House cer- Biden continued. "And with husband.q