Capitol Attack Committee: Fateful Day begins to come to terms with

Shadowed by hostilities between Republicans and Democrats, the U-Committee to come to terms with the attack on the US Capitol begins its work. The bickering between parties plays into one’s cards in particular.

So far, one person has not commented on the bitter party bickering around the parliamentary committee of inquiry, which is supposed to thoroughly examine the storm on the Capitol once again: Ex-President Donald Trump. His supporters stormed and devastated the parliament building on January 6th.

However, Trump is not silent out of insight or even shame: He does not have to interfere, because things are going according to his taste. No matter what findings the committee will bring to light; they will be tainted by being won over by an unbalanced body.

Chief Prosecutor on the panel

The original plan was for Democrats and Republicans to participate with the same number of staff and correspondingly equal rights. But that had the blemish that Nancy Pelosi had launched the committee as spokeswoman for the House of Representatives and chairman of the strongest parliamentary group. Ironically, the Pelosi, who also triggered the two impeachment proceedings against Trump.

While Pelosi’s role was inevitable, no one forced her to appoint MPs Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, of all people, the two chief prosecutors of impeachment proceedings to the panel. Many Republicans felt confirmed in their suspicions that the committee was about a kind of third impeachment of Donald Trump.

McCarthy stopped working

The organization of the reconnaissance body then got completely out of hand when the Republicans wanted to send MPs Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the committee in return. Both pronounced Trump loyals, but above all both colporteurs of the conspiracy theory of the allegedly stolen election.

Pelosi slammed the door in front of both of them. And the Republican parliamentary group leader Kevin McCarthy, also a dedicated Trump supporter, had the justification he needed to demonstratively stop his party’s participation in the body. Instead, McCarthy will now spread the interpretation of the events, as the Trump wing of his party makes it, as an alternative narrative.

According to this reading, it could have been left provocateurs who instigated the uprising. And Pelosi is partly to blame: allegedly, as the highest-ranking member of the House of Representatives, she disregarded warnings and did not reinforce the security of the parliament building accordingly.

Rift through the Republican Party

So Trump can be satisfied for the time being. As of today, the images of the frenzied mob beating police officers, smashing windows and doors and devastating parliamentary offices are flickering across the screens. It is true that today there will be impressive witness descriptions right at the start. But one had already heard it one way or another during the impeachment procedure. Without consequence: The Americans are unanimous in their outrage at the outrage. But not in the question of who is responsible for it.

However, the political landscape in the USA is not quite symmetrically divided into two parts: There is still a rift through the Republican Party. Expressly against the will of parliamentary group leader McCarthy, two MPs from the Trump party who will participate in the body have found each other, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Both had previously fallen out of favor when they voted for Trump’s retroactive impeachment in mid-February.

But both stand for the Trump-critical wing of the party, which is still perceived by Trump loyalists as a real threat. This is the only way to explain that calls from the party could be heard immediately that Cheney and Kinzinger should be punished for their participation.

Hostility and unforgiveness

And so the whole difficult mix of American politics after Trump overshadows the coming to terms with that fateful day. Hostility and irreconcilability of the parties that seem to live more and more in different realities. And the bitter power struggle within the Republican Party, which Trump is stirring up as much as he can because he hopes to be able to eliminate his internal party opponents.

Its supporters have already succeeded in discrediting the committee as a purely party-political vehicle. The start could have been worse for the man who tries to use everything that has happened for his political comeback.