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Nothing ever comes of anything. It is much to do about everything. As my wife says: "so what, big deal, who cares."
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House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Obstruction, Lawmaker Says
‘As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,’ says Rep. Barry Loudermilk.
The chair of a House subcommittee warned that some members of a controversial Jan. 6 investigatory subcommittee could face charges of hiding and destroying documents.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) said in an interview last week that he may refer former members of the committee to the Department of Justice for prosecution after a report he commissioned found that its members allegedly hid information from the public.
“As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Mr. Loudermilk told Just the News last week after the report was released, referring to the possibility committee members will face punishment.
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“But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get,“ he added. ”And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”
But the Georgia lawmaker suggested that there are “other options,” including censuring and ethics referrals.
“But also consider there are members of that Select Committee who are no longer members of Congress. So they may fall under a different scenario,” Mr. Loudermilk told the outlet. “So we do have the tools of members of Congress, but also, active members of Congress have certain protections. So we'll have to work on that. Because as you talked about earlier, we’re in uncharted territory right now. And so we’re going to have to work through this.”
America Was Misled on Jan. 6, New Congressional Investigation Finds
Mr. Loudermilk also said that he believes Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 select committee, allowed then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to make decisions for the panel.
“There’s still documents that we need to get hold off. We still don’t have passwords for the encrypted documents,” he added. “It’s amazing that you know, when I asked the former Chairman Bennie Thompson, ‘all I want you to do is give me the passwords.’ He said, ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about.’”
“Well, I think it’s coming down to he probably didn’t, because now new information we’re getting is that Liz Cheney ran that committee,” Mr. Loudermilk said.
Last Tuesday, a previously undisclosed transcript of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee’s interview with an unnamed Secret Service officer who drove the presidential SUV on Jan. 6 provided new information about outgoing President Donald Trump’s actions that day. That transcript of the driver contradicted key witness Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony—namely her claim that President Trump tried to grab the wheel of his presidential car.
President Trump “never grabbed the steering wheel,” the Secret Service agent said, according to a transcript reviewed by The Epoch Times last week. “I didn’t see him lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.”
The testimony was given to the Democrat-dominated select committee convened to investigate the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in the previous Congress, but the transcript wasn’t released by the committee.
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House Republicans said in the new report that Ms. Hutchinson’s version of the story was false, according to the vehicle driver’s testimony.
“Despite the driver of the president’s SUV testifying under oath that the Hutchinson story was false, the select committee chose to validate and promote Hutchinson’s version of the story as fact. The select committee hid the driver’s full testimony and only favorably mentioned his testimony in its final report, it did not release the full transcript,” they stated in the report.
Mr. Thompson said in a statement that his panel explained in 2022 that it had to send some transcripts to the Executive Branch for review “to protect sensitive information as well as the privacy of witnesses.”
He said the panel’s final report “took into account the testimony of all witnesses” and that “all the evidence points to the same conclusion: Donald Trump wanted to join his violent mob as it marched on the Capitol.”
In response to the report last week, Ms. Cheney, who lost her Wyoming Republican primary by more than 40 percentage points, suggested on X that Mr. Loudermilk and others are lying and trying to “cover up what [President Trump] did” on Jan. 6. The former lawmaker also recently wrote that people should instead read her committee’s report.
Zachary Stieber and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Have You No Shame?
You can be turned off by Trump and find plenty to justify your view and you can find favor with Trump and discover much to justify that feeling. What you cannot do, however, is conclude he and his family have been treated fairly by America's judicial system.
Even Alger Hiss, a convicted traitor, received better judicial treatment than a New York Real Estate Mogul, who became our president..
Our former president has been sued for laws that are so old they have thick inches of dust on them. Many laws have been purposely twisted so gumshoe prosecutors, who are politically hell bent on depriving him of his constitutional rights, have piled on charge after charge after charge. Why?
First, because the more charges the more likely the public will be susceptible to believing his alleged guilt.
Also, more charges provide the mass media Frankenstein's with copy/
Second, rabid Democrats generally care not a twit about the law. They simply want Biden to run without opposition and/or against a nominee who stands a good chance of losing to Biden.
Third, they purposely chose to co-ordinate their suits with he White House to heighten Trump's inability to campaign.
Fourth, though this is a longer shot, they believe, by using the law to harass him and his family, they might bankrupt him and/or break his spirit or both. So far that tactic has not only has failed but also has increased Trump's acceptability. American's abhor bullies.
Finally, an even more desperate prosecutorial goal is they could achieve Trump's imprisonment.
Radical Democrats generally place winning as their sole goal not what is best for America. Meanwhile, conservatives do not place winning first. Frankly, they consistently demonstrate they don't know how to win even when odds overwhelmingly favor their chance of winning. Don't ask me why because I remain mystified.
The various prosecutors, who have chosen to engage in overreach, have violated every ethical principle by broadly announcing their vile intentions. They even campaigned for office by unabashedly announcing their despicable intentions were politically driven.
In Georgia the Fulton County District Attorney built her case on Ricco charges. The prosecutor in New York sought to accuse Trump of an intent to deceive where there was no victim or loss and the lenders had their own legal staff to protect them. In Florida the goal seems to disrupt Trump's ability to campaign in a timely manner and I have yet to mention the outrageous pursuit of Trump by the FBI under the direction of the Justice Department.
The contempt high placed officials have displayed for their regard of the judicial process is disheartening simply because a former President was viewed as a threat to D.C elites.
We have sunk to a very unhealthy level when it comes to our fractured, biased legal system. Democrats have done the nation a disservice and seem to believe there will not be any blowback. They have set America on a perilous course.
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