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Robin Abcarian: Scandal, villainy, treachery — the Jan. 6 committee report is replete with juicy bits

Bennie Thompson, D- Miss., center, speaks during a meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Canon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Dec. 19, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

The final report from the House Jan. 6 committee is a true gift to the American people.

In its 800-plus pages, the members have given us a cogent, chronological account of the incidents leading up to one of the most shameful events in American history: the storming of the Capitol by violent, misguided supporters of President Donald Trump, operating under the fallacy that he'd won the 2020 election.

Here is proof, for those who missed (or wanted to ignore) the committee's televised hearings, that Trump knew he lost but couldn't bear the

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