Yeah, like He Will Be Prosecuted

So, rather unsurprisingly the January 6th committee has referred Donald Trump for prosecution, and, named, "Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Chesebro," as possible co-conspirators.

They also referred 4 members of Congress, likely future speaker Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, and Andy Biggs for refusing to comply with the committee's subpoenas.

Call me a cynic, but I do not expect anything to come of this.

There are way too many people inside the beltway who hold their culture of impunity to be sacrosanct:

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol accused former President Donald J. Trump on Monday of inciting insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an act of Congress and one other federal crime as it referred him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.

The action, the first time in American history that Congress has referred a former president for criminal prosecution, is the coda to the committee’s 18-month investigation into Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election that culminated in a violent mob of the former president’s supporters laying siege to the Capitol.

The criminal referrals were a major escalation for a congressional investigation that is the most significant in a generation. The panel named five other Trump allies — Mark Meadows, his final chief of staff, and the lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Chesebro — as potential co-conspirators with Mr. Trump in actions the committee said warranted Justice Department investigation. The charges, including a fourth for Mr. Trump of conspiracy to make a false statement, would carry prison sentences, some of them lengthy, if federal prosecutors chose to pursue them.

Yeah, you mean Merrick Garland?  Not gonna happen.  He's too dedicated to the norms fairy.

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The executive summary, a 154-page narrative of Mr. Trump’s relentless drive to remain in power after he lost the 2020 election by seven million votes, identifies co-conspirators who aided Mr. Trump. But it singles out the former president as the primary cause of the mob violence.

“That evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion: The central cause of Jan. 6 was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,” the summary stated. “None of the events of Jan. 6 would have happened without him.”

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The panel also referred four Republican members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee — including the man seeking to become the next speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California — because of their refusal to comply with the panel’s subpoenas.

There should be aggressive criminal investigations, with an eye toward making people flip on their co-defendants, but that is not going to happen.

Nothing to see here, move along.