House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the January 6 Commission, which was previously run by Democrats and looked into the events at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, are the targets of an investigation demanded by Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Jordan didn’t waste any time in telling CNN reporter Manu Raju that the inquiry was only a witch hunt to target Donald Trump, who was the candidate at the time. Additionally, he stated that Pelosi’s knowledge of the events of January 6 should be examined by the Commission.
Here is a transcript of the conversation:
“What do you hope to achieve on the Republican side of this investigation, Mr. Jordan?”
JORDAN: “You understand the purpose of this. You know, this is about targeting President Trump. The Democrats need to speak about this because they don’t want to talk about anything else. The crime that occurs in every major city is something they don’t like to discuss. They are unwilling to discuss the border crisis. They refuse to discuss the cost, which has increased for everything from eggs and milk to timber, airline tickets, secondhand vehicles, and more.
Creating a new committee to highlight Loudermilk’s work, which included a report suggesting that former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney be charged by the FBI, keeps the Republican campaign to keep President Donald Trump from being held accountable for the violence on January 6 in the public eye. Loudermilk said the details of the new committee are still being worked out, but one option is to give Johnson more control over who is put on the panel (referred to as a “select committee”) and how it operates. This is part of a larger Republican plan to continue with a number of investigations they began in the previous Congress now that they control both houses of Congress and the White House.
It was so singularly focused that basically Trump created this entire problem,” Loudermilk said of the former January 6 select committee that Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney helped lead. “When in reality, it was a multitude of failures at different levels.”
Johnson has publicly stated that the new effort to investigate January 6 will be “fully funded.”
“Continuing its investigation into the previous January 6 select committee – which featured Cheney as a vice chair and had another Republican member – and broader security response to the Capitol attack is not the only way Republicans plan to use their new majority to carry over their previous investigations that remain politically charged,” CNNreported.
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 accepting a pardon in an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press” because he spent years asserting—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.”
In fact, the pardons are wonderful news. Before dropping another bombshell, Binnall wrote on X, “No one who was just pardoned will be able to refuse to testify in a civil, criminal, or congressional proceeding based upon the 5th Amendment.”
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.