Is Donald Trump finished? Many – but not all – Republicans hope so.
In the end, Monday’s final hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee landed as expected: with criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department over his actions around the 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol.
The unprecedented move against an ex-president was historic. The committee of Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans accused him of inciting an insurrection, among other charges. But the referrals are merely advisory, and thus symbolic. The Justice Department, now with a special counsel in place, has already been investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters who believed his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Today, the Democrat-run House Ways and Means Committee was set to vote on whether to release Mr. Trump’s tax returns from the years 2015 to 2020, with an eye toward shedding light on both his personal finances and
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