Fifty years ago, Sen. Howard Baker, Republican of Tennessee, famously asked,
“What did the president know and when did he know it?”
This time, the Jan. 6 committee hearings have made abundantly clear that the question this time is not what did the president know and when did he know it?
No, we know what he knew and when he knew it.
He knew on election night 2020 that he’d lost the presidency.
The questions this time are:
What did the president do? When did he do it? Did he stop doing it? Is he still doing it?
And then we can, we must ask:
Et tu, Merrick Garland? Et tu?
What do you know and how long have you known it?
And what, pray tell, are you going to do about it?
Peeling the Onion 