A plan is being developed that would set up a new congressional panel to investigate the disturbance, a protest-turned-riot, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
That’s already been “investigated” by a committee, but it was partisan entirely. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to let the GOP nominate any members, instead choosing “Republicans” who were in staunch opposition to President Donald Trump.
Evidence was limited, the committee hired professionals to create made-for-broadcast episodes with only some parts of the truth, to be broadcast to Americans.
While members were honored by Joe Biden for their work to create a storyline that tarnished Trump, one member, then-Rep. Liz Cheney, was accused of tampering with at least one witness. And the committee was caught using some clearly unsupported “evidence,” when one person claimed Trump had tried to commandeer the Beast, the presidential limousine.
The driver actually refuted the wild claim, stating, “I did not see him reach. He never grabbed the steering wheel. I didn’t see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.”
That was evidence the committee had at the time the claims about commandeering were made.
Further, the committee claimed Trump didn’t ask for National Guard troops at the Capitol that day, but the evidence showed the request was the responsibility of Pelosi, and Trump actually made the offer and was refused.
Evidence shows he offered up to 10,000 for that day, and Pelosi refused.
The committee members even were accused of threatening witnesses who volunteered the truth about that day.
The committee’s eventual report called for the Department of Justice to investigate and charge Trump.
The Democrats on the committee claimed he made false statements, defrauded the U.S. and participated in conspiracy and inciting, claims that were knocked down by constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has testified on the Constitution to Congress, and represented members in court.
“The committee repackaged largely the same evidence that it has previously put forward over the past year. That is not enough. Indeed, the reliance on a new videotape of former Trump aide Hope Hicks seems a case of putting ‘hope over experience’ in the criminal justice system,” he explained.
He said there was no criminal case supported.
He noted members like Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who long claimed he had seen evidence of the “collusion” with Russia by the 2016 Trump campaign, a conspiracy theory that long since has been debunked, insist that the committee presented “new evidence” of crimes.
Instead, Turley said, “The committee continued its pattern of rehashing previously known evidence with network-quality videotapes.”
In fact, classified documents that now have been released show what apparently was a grand conspiracy involving Barack Obama and number of other top Democrats to fabricate allegations against Trump to undermine the agenda of the duly elected president.
Turley noted Cheney’s comments “left the impression of actors who are refusing to leave the stage long after the audience departed.”
Pelosi’s committee ignored the fact that Trump told his supporters to protest “peacefully” and its conclusions were described by many as “meaningless.”
The committee further showed its partisanship by refusing even to hear evidence of Pelosi’s own culpability, which she later admitted in a recorded video.
It is the Independent-Sentinel that revealed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., confirmed Republicans are seeking passage of a resolution to form a new subcommittee that would investigate events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
Introduced by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., if the resolution is approved in the House, it would set up a panel, the report said, to “look at the role of corrupt Republicans and Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi who was responsible for protecting the Capitol building.”