My weekend column observed that, as de facto chief prosecutor, House January 6 committee vice-chairwoman Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) has done an effective job of pressing the case that then-president Donald Trump committed impeachable acts between Election Day 2020 and the Capitol riot. But establishing Trump’s unfitness for the nation’s highest office is one thing; it’s quite something else to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he’s guilty of penal crimes, another objective that Cheney and other committee members have been unabashed in pursuing.
I won’t belabor my contentions that there is no appetite in Washington for impeaching Trump yet again, and that indicting him would be bad for the country in several ways. For present purposes, I’ll simply observe that the committee’s goal of proving that Trump may be guilty of criminal offenses is undermined by its dubious theory of Trump’s overarching scheme. I put it this way in the column:
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