Emotionally, the lowest point of the hearing is the clip the committee plays of Rep. Mike Gallagher, a House Republican from Wisconsin and an exemplary public servant, imploring Trump to call off the mob. He pleads to the camera, targeting an audience of one, the president of the United States. “This is bigger than you… It’s about the United States of America, which is more important than any politician.” It brings me back to how useless I felt that day as members and others frantically texted, begging for Trump to call off the riot. I think of Trump, sitting down the hall from me, unmoved. He
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