Drunk Rudy. Loser Trump. How the Jan. 6 hearings' wild comedy weakens the Big Lie
Lorraine Ali
Mon, June 13, 2022, 4:48 PM
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 13: A video of former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during a House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Monday, June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack On the United States Capitol has spent nearly a year conducting more than 1,000 interviews, reviewed more than 140,000 documents day of the attack. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
A video of then-President Trump is displayed on a screen during a House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 hearing. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Insurrection is no joke. But it was hard not to laugh during the Jan. 6 Committee's public hearings on Monday as the theme of Day 2 came into focus: the truth behind The Big Lie. Witness after witness testified to the outlandish schemes, absurd conspiracy theories and drunken advice President Trump used to falsely declare he’d won the 2020 election.