I have publicly denounced, on multiple occasions, the Jan. 6 riot. Those responsible for it should have the book thrown at them. Then-President Trump's rhetoric, about an allegedly stolen election, in the weeks leading up to the Capitol Hill riot helped to fuel the anger we saw that day, as I have written before. But having also been in New York City on 9/11, the morning the planes hit the World Trade Center, and still recalling the horrific images of at least 200 people jumping from the towers to avoid being burned to death, I cannot understand how 1/6 can be responsibly compared to 9/11. Of course, Will doesn't mention that maybe, just maybe, there's a political motivation for such a commission, as it would thrust Trump to center stage once again. In the process, such a commission and the blanket media coverage its hearings would create would take attention off the trillions of dollars in new spending that Democrats hope to ram through Congress in an unprecedented spending spree that already is leading to very real inflation concerns, as well as sparking double-digit food and gas price increases. The Department of Labor reports that April had the highest rate of inflation since 2008, for example. Gas is already $1 higher per gallon on average than it was one year ago.