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Just a reminder of why this should be investigated.
'Here Are The Top 10 Lies Of Liz Cheney And The January 6th Committee'
'Here's a look at the top 10 lies of Liz Cheney and the January 6th
Committee four years after the Capitol demonstrations.'
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'Disgraced ex-Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was awarded one of the highest
civilian honors last week after House Republicans referred the vice
chair of the since-disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6 to the Justice Department for criminal charges.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden presented Cheney with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom along with Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chaired
the Democrats’ Soviet-style inquisition on the Capitol riot, for their
work running the probe. In December, however, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., released
a nearly 130-page review of the Jan. 6 Committee’s work, concluding
Cheney should face a criminal investigation for “witness tampering.”
“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former
Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without
Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” the report said. Cheney had coordinated to circumvent Hutchinson’s attorney even as the vice chair
of the Jan. 6 panel threatened legal action against anyone who attempted
to influence witness testimony. The textbook case of projection was just
one in a series of episodes wherein House investigators deputized by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi concealed truths surrounding the riot on Jan.
6.
1. January 6th Was An ‘Insurrection’
Democrats on the Jan. 6 panel and beyond deployed the term
“insurrection” to characterize the two hours of violence at the Capitol like they collectively developed Tourette’s as a nasty side effect of
Trump Derangement Syndrome. If what happened at the Capitol, however,
were actually an attempted insurrection, then why weren’t any of the
Jan. 6 defendants ever charged and convicted of “insurrection?” Because
the term was used as nothing but a charged political phrase to frame
Trump and his supporters as existential threats to democracy itself.
2. Democracy Almost Died
In her post-congressional memoir published in 2023, Cheney solemnly
wrote “we almost lost our republic that day,” referencing the demonstrations on Jan. 6, 2021. At a public hearing in 2022, Chairman
Thompson similarly said, “our system nearly failed and our democratic foundation” was almost “destroyed.” Except such hyperbolic claims never had any merit. Lawmakers were promptly escorted to secure locations
after security at the Capitol was compromised, and Congress was able to reconvene just hours after. The continuity of government was never
jeopardized, despite what the Jan. 6 Committee convinced themselves and
their supporters to believe.
3. Trump Incited The ‘Insurrection’
The Jan. 6 Committee concluded its investigation with criminal referrals
for President Trump of having incited, assisted, or aided and comforted
an “insurrection.” The recommendation for criminal charges rests on the conspiracy peddled by the Jan. 6 Committee that because Trump spoke at
the White House on the day of the riot, he must have inspired his
supporters to take over the Capitol during the joint session of
Congress. An honest examination of the transcript from Trump’s Ellipse speech, however, shows the president explicitly demanded that his
supporters protest “peacefully and patriotically.” The mob gathered at
the Capitol, meanwhile, had already breached the first barriers before
the president had even finished speaking.
4. Trump Was Enthusiastic About The Violence
President Trump, the Jan. 6 Committee said, was not just apathetic about
the violence, but was enthusiastic, according to testimony from the
panel’s star witness, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Trump, Hutchinson said in her public testimony, approved of demonstrators who
were demanding to “hang” the vice president. But House investigators who reviewed the Jan. 6 Committee’s charges found “no evidence that
President Trump agreed with rioters chanting ‘hang Mike Pence.'”
5. Trump Tried To Hijack Limousine To Riot At The Capitol Himself
One of Hutchinson’s most hysterical claims was that President Trump
assaulted Secret Service personnel to take over a government vehicle and
drive himself to the Capitol where he could join the rioters.
Hutchinson, however, was immediately discredited by her own sources
following her public appearance and was further undermined in the nearly 130-page review of the Jan. 6 Committee’s conduct last month. In fact, a
new transcript with a Secret Service driver kept under seal by Cheney’s
team directly contradicted Hutchinson’s tale.
“I did not see him reach. He never grabbed the steering wheel,” the
driver had told investigators on the Jan. 6 panel. “I didn’t see him,
you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.”
6. Trump Dismissed Need For National Guard
In her memoir, Cheney characterized Trump as negligent in his role to
deploy the National Guard ahead of electoral certification.
“To be clear, the issue was not that the Secret Service failed to brief
those up the chain at the White House about the threat,” Cheney wrote.
“It appeared to the Committee that this information was being conveyed
up the chain, including directly to Mark Meadows and President Trump.”
“With the weight of the intelligence we received via Homeland Security,
it is exceptionally difficult to believe that anyone in the White House
with access to this information could have failed to recognize this
obvious menace,” she wrote.
Except Trump was adamant about local and congressional officials
preparing for mass demonstrations by demanding pre-emptive deployment of
10,000 troops from the National Guard. Cheney’s committee just covered
up Trump’s plea by concealing another transcript from a witness
lawmakers tried to discredit after Pelosi refused to accept federal reinforcements multiple times in the days leading up to the riot.
7. Demonstrations Were Mostly Violent
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson flipped the Jan. 6 Committee’s
narrative of an excessively violent demonstration on its head when he
aired additional footage from the Capitol released to his team by
then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy two years ago.
“These are the pictures you’ve seen of Jan. 6,” Carlson said on his now-defunct prime-time program. “But it turns out there’s quite a bit of video you haven’t seen. And that video tells a very different story
about what happened on Jan. 6.”
Carlson’s producers reviewed more than 40,000 hours of security footage
kept under seal by House Democrats revealing a far different
demonstration at the Capitol than the few scenes exploited by the Jan. 6 Committee to depict what they claimed was an eruption of domestic
terrorism.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah mocked the hysteria from the committee when Cheney reposted clips of the riot featuring the most turbulent scenes in
response to Carlson’s program.
“Liz, we’ve seen footage like that a million times. You made sure we saw that — and nothing else,” Lee wrote on X. “It’s the other stuff — what
you deliberately hid from us — that we find so upsetting.”
8. Capitol Police Officer Was Killed In Riot
The New York Times quietly corrected a story blaming Capitol rioters for
the death of deceased officer Brian Sicknick, but members of the Jan. 6 Committee never have. In fact, during a hearing months after a report
from the D.C. medical examiner’s office concluded Officer Sicknick died
of natural causes, then-Rep. Elaine Lauria claimed he “succumbed to his injuries” from the riot “the night of January 7th.”
The only two people to die directly from the riot were female Trump
supporters Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a Capitol police officer
promoted two years after the riot, and Roseanne Boyland, who was
trampled. Footage aired by Carlson in the Jan. 6 tapes show Sicknick,
the officer allegedly bludgeoned by a fire extinguisher, vigorously
walking around the Capitol following the hit.
9. Loudermilk Gave Rioters ‘Reconnaissance Tours’
In the summer of 2022, House Democrats accused Rep. Loudermilk of giving “reconnaissance tours” ahead of the “attack on the Capitol” after viewing security footage of the Georgia lawmaker escorting constituents
around the building.
“The FBI totally cleared them,” Loudermilk told Carlson when the network host aired the Jan. 6 tapes. “The committee knew this before they
actually made their accusations against me.”
10. The Jan. 6 Committee Was Legitimate
Then-Speaker Pelosi violated House rules when she banned minority representation on her Select Committee to investigate Jan. 6. The
unprecedented move to bar Republican lawmakers from the committee meant
Cheney had misled witnesses and federal agencies about the panel’s
legitimate bipartisanship. Because House rules dictate that ranking
committee members must be appointed by the minority party, Cheney, who
was appointed by the Democrat speaker at the time, served as the panel’s
vice chair.
The Select Committee was ostensibly established “to investigate and
report upon” the objective “facts and causes relating to the
preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement” in the course of the Capitol
riot as outlined by the committee’s establishing resolution. Yet
Pelosi’s commission instead targeted private citizens who exercised
their constitutional right of free assembly. The legitimacy of the committee’s actions has always remained in question, since Congress is
not one of the branches of government tasked with investigating alleged
crimes of private citizens
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