The commission would be modeled after a panel created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, which reviewed what caused the atrocity and laid out recommendations on how to foresee and prevent any future incursions.
Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator of South Carolina and close Trump ally who voted to acquit the former president on Saturday, said of the former president on Fox News Sunday:
"We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again, and I want to make sure that the Capitol footprint can be better defended next time. His behavior after the election was over the top."Democrat Chris Coons of Delaware agreed. Speaking on ABC's This Week, he said that a bipartisan commission would
"make sure we secure the Capitol going forward and that we lay bare the record of just how responsible and how abjectly violating of his constitutional oath Trump really was."Using harrowing video footage from the day, Democratic House prosecutors laid out their case that the former president stoked the attack with violent rhetoric and dangerous insistence on the debunked conspiracy theories suggesting he had won the 2020 presidential election, against all evidence that he had, in fact, lost.
Comment: Anyone can cherrypick video footage to support any argument.
Comment: A 9/11-type investigation would prove useless. The only investigation that would self-serve Democrats is one they can edit to justify their claims.
Others expressed the obvious Orwellian aspect clearly: