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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
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An infamous day. A search for answers. Will America tune in?

By CALVIN WOODWARD world can’t shake and split
Associated Press into two hostile camps over
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a politics and culture — the
time of agonizing over oth- twin pillars of the nation’s
er things, the Jan. 6, 2021, very foundation.
attack on the U.S. Capitol And they’ve already been
— and democracy itself — through the wringer on all
returns in sharp focus as a things Trump.
special House committee Beginning in prime time on
opens hearings this week Thursday, the committee
on the insurrection and is setting out to establish
Donald Trump’s part in it. the historical record of an
Will Americans care? event damaging not only
The committee’s aggres- to a community or individ-
sive investigation is produc- ual families but to the col-
ing a spool of plot lines that lective idea of democracy
together will tell the tale of itself.
a violent uprising fueled by After more than 100 sub-
the venom and lies of a de- poenas, 1,000 interviews
feated president. and 100,000 documents,
But Americans are pro- the committee promises to
cessing the nightmare of tell a story for the ages.
the slaughter of children in Dozens of the insurrection-
Texas, the racist murders in ists have been brought to Police with guns drawn watch as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on
Buffalo, New York, and the justice. But the commit- Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Associated Press
other numbingly repeated tee’s goal is larger: Who in
scenes of carnage in the a position of power should besieged Capitol because ry? Did Trump flush incrimi- mused they may be, and
United States. also be held to account? he suspected the Secret nating papers down the whether that might mean
They’re contending with There are so many layers of Service at the behest of White House toilet? prosecution of an ex-presi-
what feels like highway inquiry. Trump was trying to take One aim: to establish dent.
robbery at the gas pump, Did Vice President Mike him away to stop him from whether Trump’s acts are
nagged by a virus the Pence refuse to leave the certifying Joe Biden’s victo- criminal, as one judge has Continued on Page 2