Only the guilty try to tamper with witnesses

“When somebody keeps themselves in power regardless of the law and the votes, that is a dictatorship. That’s ultimately what Trump was trying to put in place,” Noah Bookbinder, president of the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said in an interview.

Former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen wrote, "We already knew of multiple apparent incidents of witness intimidation. We just learned that President Trump may have attempted a 3rd."'

"18 USC 1512 punishes witness intimidation with fines, imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both," Eisen noted.

Cheney also said that after the June 28 hearing, Trump tried to call a witness who has spoken to the committee but whose testimony has not yet been made public. The person didn’t answer the call and told their lawyer, who then alerted the committee.

Former prosecutor Katie Phang suggested that "Trump wasn’t calling to talk about the weather."

"So, Trump tried to call a witness," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted. "The witness passed it on to their lawyer & the committee forwarded the information to DOJ. Former presidents are no more entitled to break the law by witness tampering than any other citizen."

Nearly 20 years ago, Carl Bernstein of Watergate reporting fame called the Nixon presidency “absolutely sui generis” – utterly unique – in U.S. history. But then, as he and Bob Woodward wrote this year in their 50th anniversary foreword to “All The President’s Men,” along came Donald Trump.

Surpassing Richard Nixon’s notoriety, paranoia, insecurity and reckless flouting of rules, laws and the Constitution is tough, but Trump is already winning in a landslide.

Cassidy Hutchinson’s revelatory testimony last month to the House Jan. 6 committee prompted lawyers, pundits, onetime Trump aides and maybe even some rank-and-file Republicans to reassess how they view the former president, the threat he posed and his vulnerability to prosecution.

The Jan. 6 hearings were launched with a memorable line from Liz Cheney: "President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack." Tuesday's hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day leading to the Capitol insurrection.

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