ON DECEMBER 26, AS PHIL and I worked on our memo, a column by Washington Post reporter David Ignatius caught my attention. Ignatius, a longtime journalist who was well-sourced at the Pentagon, reported that senior government officials feared that Trump was “threatening to overstep the constitutional limits on his power.” One possibility Ignatius reported was that Trump might attempt to stay in power by using violence on January 6 as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.
