The ruling class treated the Trump presidency as a singular crisis in the history of the country. From the constant shrieking of the media, one might have thought that America had fallen into the hands of a foreign occupier. Because the ruling class viewed Trump as illegitimate from the start, it cast almost all of his executive actions, no matter how prosaic, as deeply scandalous and troubling. The media ginned up endless controversies about Trump, but they never amounted to much. Most of them revolved around Trump’s infractions of taste or his deviations from this or that unimportant Beltway “norm.”

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.

Coweta County School Board Member Linda Menk, a 71-year-old grandmother who lives in the rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, says she was paid a visit by a pair of FBI agents for attending former President Donald Trump’s now-infamous D.C. rally on Jan. 6.