Crash Course: More than one coup: Jan. 6 committee draws a direct line to Donald Trump

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(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) More than one coup: Jan. 6 committee draws a direct line to Donald Trump Earlier this week, the New York Times published [an op-ed](~/AASU4wA~/RgRksnxEP0RmaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNy8xMS9vcGluaW9uL2phbnVhcnktNi10cnVtcC1tZXJyaWNrLWdhcmxhbmQuaHRtbD9zbWlkPW55dGNvcmUtaW9zLXNoYXJlVwNzcGNCCmK7RffPYlekeclSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) by former Justice Department (DOJ) prosecutor and primary member of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation team Andrew Weissman in which he shared his concern about what the DOJ is doing about Donald Trump's attempted coup. Weissman suggested that they may have approached the case as one might approach an organized crime investigation starting with the January 6th insurrectionist prosecutions and working their way up. Looking at the case as it's been presented by the January 6th Committee so far, he came to believe it would have been better organized as a "hub and spoke" conspiracy "in which the Ellipse speech by President Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were just one 'spoke' of a grander scheme." In other words, as a conspiracy with Donald Trump at the center of a number of different plots aimed at accomplishing the same goal. 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[Trump and his terrorist confederates](~/AASU4wA~/RgRksnxEP0RraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMDcvMTMvd2FzLXRoaXMtZmluYWxseS1lbm91Z2gtYW5kLWhpcy10ZXJyb3Jpc3QtY29uZmVkZXJhdGVzLW11c3QtYmUtcHJvc2VjdXRlZC9XA3NwY0IKYrtF989iV6R5yVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) must be prosecuted Not a subscriber yet? [Sign up](~/AASU4wA~/RgRksnxEP0RVaHR0cHM6Ly9zYWxvbi51czgubGlzdC1tYW5hZ2UuY29tL3N1YnNjcmliZT91PTcxY2IzZThhNmU5NjM5YzgxMDIzY2Q0MjcmaWQ9NWRlZGEyYWFhN1cDc3BjQgpiu0X3z2JXpHnJUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) to receive Crash Course. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images) MAGA is complicit — not conned: Trump supporters were the most pivotal part of his coup Americans love a redemption story, especially one that reassures liberal America that right-wing jackasses just need a little education to see the light and renounce their bigoted pasts. Inevitably, then, there was widespread swooning in the denouement of Tuesday's hearing when Stephen Ayres, an insurrectionist who testified about his January 6 regrets, approached four police officers injured in the riot to apologize. An "extraordinary moment," is how Jacqueline Alemany of the Washington Post described it. "Somewhere in here is our way out of this," comedian Chip Franklin tweeted. Former Democratic Senator from Missouri Claire McCaskill gushed that Ayres "had the class to apologize" and "the courage to come forward and admit he was duped." "Impressive," she concluded. 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