Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio has demanded that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the members of the January 6 Commission, which was previously chaired by Democrats and looked into the events at the US Capitol in 2021, be looked into.
Jordan quickly stated that the inquiry was really a witch hunt to target then-candidate Donald Trump in a brief interview with CNN reporter Manu Raju. Additionally, he stated that the Commission ought to look into Pelosi’s knowledge of the events on January 6.
A transcript of the conversation can be found below:
RAJU: “What are your goals for the Republican side of this investigation, Mr. Jordan?”
JORDAN: “You know what this is about. This is about going after President Trump, you know. I mean, the Democrats, they don’t want to talk about anything else so they got to talk about this. They don’t want to talk about the crime that’s going on in every major urban area. They don’t want to talk about the crisis at the border. They don’t want to talk about the price — the fact that the price of everything has gone up, the price of eggs has went up, the price of milk has went up, the price of lumber has went up, the price of airline tickets is up, the price of used cars — everything has gone up. They don’t want to talk about all that so they’ve got to talk about how we’re going to go after President Trump for a third time.”
GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia revealed that House Speaker Mike Johnson promised him that his investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol will be “formalized as a new committee.”
They must discuss how we will target President Trump a third time because they don’t want to discuss any of that.
Georgia Republican Representative Barry Loudermilk disclosed that House Speaker Mike Johnson assured him that his inquiry into the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, would be “formalized as a new committee.”
Republicans, who now control both chambers of Congress and the White House, have a greater plan to continue the investigations they began in the last Congress.
The creation of a new committee to draw attention to Loudermilk’s work—which included a report that recommended the FBI charge former GOP Representative Liz Cheney—keeps the Republican campaign focused on preventing President Donald Trump from being held accountable for the January 6 violence.
Loudermilk described the previous January 6 select committee, which Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney assisted in leading, as “so singularly focused that basically Trump created this entire problem.” “But in actuality, there were numerous failures at various levels.”
Johnson has declared in public that the new investigation into January 6 will be “fully funded.”
\Republicans intend to use their new majority to continue their politically charged investigations, CNN reported, not only by continuing its investigation into the January 6 select committee, which included Cheney as vice chair and another Republican member, and the broader security response to the Capitol attack.
According to two people familiar with the situation, Republicans reissued subpoenas on Monday regarding two Justice Department tax investigators who worked on the Hunter Biden case and special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of secret data, CNN said. The outlet further stated that those subpoenas will revive earlier Congress’s efforts that have been contested in court and not settled for months.
Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, is thinking of turning down a pardon that former President Joe Biden granted to himself and everyone else who participated in the Congressional probe into the January 6 incident.
Schiff discussed possible “blowback” from receiving a pardon in an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” This is because he spent years asserting, during President Donald Trump’s first term, that obtaining a pardon amounted to a “admission of guilt.”
President Joe Biden awarded mercy to a few people in a series of last-minute pardons intended to protect allies from possible retaliation by President-elect Donald Trump, but the decision is not without issues for the recipients.
The narrow list of pardonees included Dr. Anthony Fauci and former Wyoming Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who co-chaired the Jan. 6 Committee. Biden’s advisers claim that this action was meant to prevent Trump or his future administration from taking revenge.
The pardons, however, would not relieve either person from having to testify under oath if they were subpoenaed, legal experts quickly noted.
Biden’s pardons do not protect Cheney and Fauci from repercussions if they lie under oath, according to federal litigation lawyer Jesse Binnall, should the GOP-controlled Congress compel them to appear. He said that anyone hoping to see the two charged could find the pardons to be “great news.”
Additionally, let’s be practical. The majority of these repulsive people would most likely need to face charges in Washington, DC, which does not convict partisan lefties,” noted Binnall, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump.