Agenda of Jan 6th Hearings Exposed: Indict Trump at All Costs

Edited by: TJVNews.com

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 election protest at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC has postponed a hearing that was to feature dramatic testimony from former Justice Department officials who were worked in the Trump administration. The expected testimony of such officials was to have focused on alleged pressure being placed upon them by the former president in terms of exploring legal options about his claims that the 2020 presidential election was riddled with fraud and that ultimately it was stolen from him.

The AP reported that the hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday, but the committee on Tuesday morning said that it had been delayed. A spokesman for the panel attributed the postponement to “a number of scheduling factors, including production timeline and availability of members and witnesses.”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican member of the committee, said on Twitter that the hearing had been moved to next week as a way to “space out” the testimony surrounding the throngs of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, according to the AP report.

The committee has already held two hearings, including a primetime one last week that featured never-before-seen video of those leading the siege on the building. Another hearing is set to take place on Thursday.

AP reported that the witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing were to include Jeffrey Rosen, who was the acting attorney general at the time of the Capitol attack, as well as two other former top officials at the Justice Department, Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel.

The witnesses, all of whom have since left the Justice Department, are expected to testify about how Trump sought to bend the department to his political will during the final days of his administration by urging officials to declare the election as corrupt and to aid in his efforts to challenge the results of the race won by Democrat Joe Biden, as was reported by the AP.

Though the lawyers’ accounts have been documented by the news media, the hearing will give the American public its most detailed glimpse of a near-revolt inside the Justice Department as Trump contemplated replacing the agency’s top official with a lower-level lawyer seen as more willing to advance the president’s claims that the election was stolen. Several other senior officials warned Trump in a White House meeting that they’d resign if the leadership change occurred, according to the AP report.

Pundits on the political right have also weighed in on the controversial January 6th hearings. According to prolific author and academic, Daniel Greenfield who penned an article about this matter on the FrontPageMag.com web site, he wrote: “While Congressional Democrats are moving ahead with their Jan 6 hearings which seek to falsely blame Republicans and conservatives for the Capitol riot, they have no interest in allowing similar hearings about the ongoing campaign of domestic terrorism by their leftist allies.”

Greenfield added: “The Biden administration’s DOJ decided to reduce a plea for Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, two radical lawyers who were handing out and throwing Molotov cocktails during the Black Lives Matter race riots, from 10 years in prison to 18 months.

The DOJ’s reason for giving the leftist domestic terrorists a pass is because of the “history and personal characteristics of the defendants”. The key characteristic here is political.

Despite a massive national wave of violence, deaths, injuries, and billions of dollars in damage involving tens of thousands of racialists and leftists, there has been virtually no accountability.

In Portland, where a federal courthouse was besieged for over a year by a military style assault which bombarded personnel with commercial grade fireworks, threw bricks and shone lasers into the eyes of federal agents, Biden’s DOJ gave most of the insurgents a pass.

As of last year, Biden’s DOJ had tossed overboard half the cases from the riots. At Senate hearings, Attorney General Merrick Garland insisted that the leftist recreation of the Fort Sumter attack wasn’t a “core attack on our democratic institutions” which is a political, not a legal test.”

The AP reported that Rosen took over the justice department following the December 2020 departure of William Barr, who angered Trump by saying the department had not found fraud that could have affected the results of the election. Trump quickly soured on Rosen, too, after the then-acting attorney general rejected entreaties from the president and the White House to challenge the election results.

Around that time, the president was introduced by Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican and ardent Trump backer, to Jeffrey Clark, a little-known assistant attorney general who postured himself as willing to launch a serious investigation into claims of voter fraud and other major election improprieties.

At one point, according to testimony provided to lawmakers, Clark presented colleagues with a draft letter pushing Georgia officials to convene a special legislative session on the election results, as was reported by the AP. Clark wanted the letter sent, but superiors at the Justice Department refused.

Clark’s support led Trump to openly contemplate naming him as acting attorney general in place of Rosen, as was reported by the AP.

In related matters, the AP reported on Monday that police have determined there was nothing suspicious about a tour of two Capitol office buildings that a House Republican gave to about 15 people the day before Jan. 6, 2021.

The House committee investigating the 2021 election protest gone awry examined whether those who had stormed the Capitol had been involved in reconnaissance and surveillance before the attack, as was reported by AP. Democrats have suggested some Republican members may have helped them. But there has been no public evidence of that.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Georgia, was simply showing his constituents around, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger in a letter sent Monday, according to the AP report.

Manger’s letter to Rep. Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, came a few weeks after the House committee investigating the Capitol protest had asked Loudermilk for more information about the tour it said he led the day before the attack.

The AP reported that police reviewed surveillance video showing Loudermilk leading a tour of about 15 people in the Rayburn and Cannon House office buildings, Manger said.

Republicans on the House Administration Committee — Loudermilk is a member — had previously said they reviewed security footage from Jan. 5 and said there were “no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on.”

But Reps. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the chairman and vice-chairwoman of the separate Jan. 6 committee contended last month that their review of the evidence “directly contradicts that denial,” as was reported by AP.

Loudermilk has said the Jan. 5 tour was with a constituent family and took place in the House office buildings and not inside the Capitol building. The AP reported that he and Davis had called on Capitol Police in May to release surveillance video.

The Capitol complex includes 20 buildings and facilities, including House and Senate offices. Underground tunnels connect most of the buildings to the Capitol.

“At no time did the group appear in any tunnels that would have led them to the U.S. Capitol,” Manger wrote in the letter.

The AP also reported that Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., a Jan. 6 committee member, said Tuesday the panel would still like to hear Loudermilk’s testimony and would like to show the video referenced by the Davis letter to let the public decide.

“What Republicans said last year was false — that there were no tours, no MAGA hats — that was patently false.”

Capitol Police say the tour was thoroughly examined and there was nothing suspicious about it, as was reported by the AP.

“There is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021,” Manger said. “We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.”

In Monday’s hearing, the AP reported that in a series of video clips from the committee’s closed-door interviews, several of Trump’s advisers testified that they told him repeatedly he should not declare that there was widespread election fraud — and that those claims were false. But Trump increasingly relied on wild theories that were pushed by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, among others, according to the testimony.

In one clip, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien told investigators that Giuliani was urging Trump to declare victory on election night, despite warnings from Stepien and others that it was “way too early” to make a prediction like that. Stepien was scheduled to testify in person on Monday,  but pulled out at the last minute because his wife was in labor, according to his attorney. The panel showed clips of his closed-door interview instead.

The AP reported that despite the aides’ efforts, Trump went to the podium in the White House press room on election night and said that the early results were “a fraud on the American public” and that “frankly, we did win this election.”

The panel showed video from Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband, Jared Kushner, and campaign aide Jason Miller. Ivanka Trump told the panel that “it was clear” the election wouldn’t be called on election night, and Kushner said he had told Trump at one point that Giuliani’s advice was “not the approach I would take.” Trump responded that he had confidence in Giuliani, Kushner said, according to the AP report.

The nine-member panel is trying to make the case that Trump, and those allies who helped him, were deliberately lying as he pushed those election falsehoods in the weeks ahead of the January 6th attack, as was reported by the AP. The rioters who broke into the Capitol that day and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory were echoing Trump’s lies that he, not Biden, had rightfully won the election.

While the mainstream media appears to be intent on indicting Trump in the January 6th protest at the US Capitol, others have speculated that Democrats in Congress are motivated by a politically driven agenda and have questioned the timing of the hearings.

According to James DeMarco, a veteran political pundit and coordinator of several politically conservative blogs, “For anyone who has eyes to see and ears that hear, it is quite obvious that the Democrats are quaking in their proverbial boots. A great many pundits across the political spectrum have predicted a massive red wave in the upcoming midterm elections in November.”

DeMarco added: “The information used by the pundits have been garnered from legitimate and highly respected pollsters and organizations. The fact is that these January 6th hearings are meant to be a deflection for the American voting public. Rather than having news streamed constantly about skyrocketing inflation, the fact that violent crime has been spinning out of control, the abysmal border issue and other issues that impact the American people, the Democrats want these hearings to be broadcast to every American home in prime time as a major political commercial bashing Republicans and touting how wonderful the Democrats are.”

(Sources: AP, FrontPageMag.com) – Additional reporting by: Fern Sidman)