The best the Committee could do was show (1) photographs of Trump associates Michael Flynn and Roger Stone in the company of Oath Keepers; (2) a film of Stone reciting an Oath Keepers’ creed; (3) Trump’s instruction to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the evening of January 5 to call Flynn and Stone; and (4) Meadows’ subsequent calls to these associates of both the President of the United States and militants later indicted for seditious conspiracy. [read post]