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One of the strangest moments at Tuesday’s hearing of the House January 6th Committee was an exchange between committee investigators and former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. In the interview, recorded on Friday and replayed at the hearing, Cipollone was being asked about a draft executive order—discussed at a bizarre White House meeting on Dec. 18, 2020 — that would have authorized federal seizure of state voting machines to re-investigate the election.

Question: Why was this, on a broader scale, a bad idea for the country?

Cipollone: To have the federal government seize voting machines? That’s a terrible idea for the country. That’s not how we do things in the United States. There’s no legal authority to do that. . . . I don’t understand why we even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea for the country.

Cipollone was staring at the investigator in bewilderment. His facial expression said: You Idiot. Wasn’t the answer obvious? Why had the committee subpoenaed him to ask such an elementary question?

After eight public hearings and dozens of such questions, the reason is clear: The committee’s principal goal isn’t to expose crimes. It’s to restore truth and sanity.