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Top Democrats and a few anti-Trump Republicans continue to waste taxpayer dollars on Nancy Pelosi’s witch hunt known as the January 6 committee.
The committee claims to be investigating the events of January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol, but in reality, it’s merely a smear campaign against President Donald Trump.
Democrats have created a false narrative that the riot was an organized attempt to overturn the presidential election result.
An extensive FBI investigation has already shut down this theory. FBI confirmed to Reuters that there is “no evidence that trump or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence.”
On the contrary, FBI officials found strong evidence that nearly all cases of violence were “one-off incidents” and hardly any violence was connected to various militia-type groups. These various groups were also still not centrally coordinated.
Despite this proof, Pelosi continues to attack Trump. Retired U.S. General Michael Flynn even filed a restraining order against Pelosi after the committee mailed General Flynn a subpoena and ordered him to appear for a deposition.
Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis notes that Pelosi herself has repeatedly refused to cooperate with their requests for information about her role in the events of January 6th.
Davis has repeatedly asked for information from House officers who answer directly to Pelosi’s office.
Pelosi continues to withhold information about her own decisions related to the day.
Davis explains, “There is irony in the fact that at the same time House Democrats are holding witnesses in criminal contempt of Congress for raising genuine questions of legal privilege, you continue to obstruct Republican access to House records relating to the security preparedness of the Capitol complex.”
“If you are truly interested in working with Republicans to improve the Capitol security posture, I demand that you direct all House officers immediately to stop obstructing our oversight,” Davis wrote.
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The double standard is painfully obvious.
Democrats are determined to try to make Jan. 6 the equivalent of Pearl Harbor Day and 9/11 rolled into one, and take criminal action against political opponents who don’t cooperate with a sham committee investigating it, yet
Essentially, Pelosi’s committee of Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is following the playbook of the modern Democratic Party and the progressive movement in general: Establish rules for opponents to follow, then feel free to disregard them whenever it’s politically or personally inconvenient.
Specifically, the Davis letter asks Pelosi what decisions she made with the House Sergeant at Arms and the Capitol Police leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was to certify the votes of the Electoral College that made Joe Biden president; what Pelosi did that day; and why House officers she controls are withholding information Republicans are seeking.
The interest of Pelosi and her party in the Jan. 6 investigation is not motivated primarily by security — if security is even a factor at all.
It’s about using the committee and the slavish attention it gets from the mainstream media to continue the charade that it’s Trump and his supporters who are the danger to the American democratic republic.
In the first quarter of the 21st century, it’s Pelosi and her party that have been the danger to the country established by the Founding Fathers.
Democrats are the party of rampant abuse of executive power in the Barack Obama “pen and phone” presidency and its current, farcical iteration under President Joe Biden and his disastrous executive orders and unconstitutional mandates.
