Bringing It All Together

We’ve all read novels in which various plots threads with no apparent relationship to one another come together at the conclusion to form a unified and consistent package with no loose ends.

One hopes that investigation in the January 6th insurrection and the larger coup attempt is an example of this.

Right now, we have the foot-soldiers (e.g., the Proud Boys); Trump’s “stop-the-steal” organizers (Roger Stone, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks); Jeffrey Clark; the Secret Service and whatever it is trying to hide; the State of Georgia’s investigation in election tampering; the fake electors; and Trump himself, who, at a minimum, incited a march on the Capitol by people he knew to be armed.

Steve Bannon is finally going to prison, which is a gratifying side show, but largely irrelevant to the processes that are taking Trump down.

Having said that, there remains a complicated nexus of opportunities for the Justice Department to do things like granting certain actors immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony that will pull all of this together, sending Trump away on charges of seditious conspiracy and treason.