Is that why h used legal tactics to try to block the release of the White House communication records held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)? Is that why he succeeded in delaying the release of the documents for about five months?
Is that why some of the documents were found to had been previously torn up by Trump and had to be taped back together by NARA staff?
Is that why Trump routinely shredded and flushed records by his own hand, as well as to have asked staff to place them in burn bags, throughout his presidency?
Is that why, as the presidential diarist testified to the committee in March 2022, the Oval Office did not send the diarist detailed information about Trump's daily activities on January 5 and 6, 2021?
Is that why Trump's phone records from the day of the attack, as provided by NARA to the committee, have a gap of seven-and-a-half hours that spans the time when the Capitol was being attacked?
Is that why the apparently missing records suggest Trump was using a "burner" cell phone during that time?
Is that why Trump asserted executive privilege when the committee began its request for the NARA records in August 2021?
Is that way Trump told Republican leaders not to cooperate with the committee?
Is that why the committee had to issue dozens of subpoenas to legally compel certain uncooperative individuals to testify?
Is that why close Trump associates (co-conspirators) who were subpoenaed nevertheless refused to testify?
Is that why Roger Stone, Mike Flynn and John Eastman pleaded their Fifth Amendment rights?
Is that why Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows were found in contempt of Congress?
There’s a reason why you fit the bill as a Hayseed, Ned.