By Neenah Payne
When all else fails, call him Hitler shows that Democrats repeatedly warned that Trump is like Hitler and is a “threat to democracy”. The Democrats and corporate media call the January 6 events an “insurrection” and “the greatest attack on democracy – ever!”
VP Kamala Harris equated the J6 events with Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Harris was pleased to have her candidacy for the US presidency endorsed by Liz Cheney who served as Vice Chair of the J6 Committee. Now, there is a call for a criminal indictment of Cheney’s role.
Trump was indicted over J6 for his alleged plot to overthrow the 2020 election results. However, Trump expected Vice President Pence to call for a recount at the Capitol on January 6. Because of the mail-in ballots, many Americans had questions about the election results and thousands came to the Capitol on J6 to support a recount. Questions about the Bush/Gore 2000 election were resolved by the Supreme Court.
The events on January 6, 2021 have been used to stigmatize Trump’s MAGA movement. The Biden administration and the corporate media led the nation to believe many things about the J6 events that have turned out not to be true. They also left out important information as shown in the videos below:
Interim Report On The Failures and Politicization of The January 6 Select Committee (128-page PDF)
GOP report recommends Liz Cheney be criminally investigated over Jan. 6 work (video)
Republicans released a report Tuesday reviewing the “failures and politicization” of the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee, capping their investigation by recommending a criminal investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
The 128-page interim report forwards many of the claims circulated by the GOP since the committee was organized, complaining the Jan. 6 select committee was improperly constituted and unfairly pinned blame on President-elect Trump.
“Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to deceive the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency,” the report states.
The report’s conclusion also calls for an FBI investigation into Cheney, accusing her of witness tampering by being in touch with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide. It’s a claim that if pursued would likely face significant roadblocks but that nonetheless comes as Trump has suggested members of the Jan. 6 panel should “go to jail” for their work.
The suggestion and the panel’s report at large was excoriated by Cheney. “January 6th showed Donald Trump for who is really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said in a statement noting the numerous Republican witnesses who testified before the panel.
“Chairman [Barry] Loudermilk’s (R-Ga.) ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did. Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously.”
At the core of the report’s assertions are Cheney’s contacts with Hutchinson, who was previously represented by another lawyer before changing representation and ultimately agreeing to testify before the panel in a blockbuster hearing. Hutchinson’s initial lawyer, Stefan Passantino, was accused of encouraging her to say she remembered little about the day and said she would be able to get a good job in Trump World.
The interim report shows texts between Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, another former White House aide, and accuses Farah Griffin of acting as a backchannel between the two women. It later notes that Hutchinson reached out to Cheney, with the lawmaker in her own book noting she advised the aide to seek an attorney as “every witness deserves an attorney who will represent their interests exclusively.”
Any such inquiry into Cheney would raise a litany of other legal questions. Cheney would likely assert that any actions she took through her work on the panel are protected by the Speech or Debate Clause, which protects lawmakers from court action related to their work. Witness tampering could also prove a difficult route in court, as such charges typically relate to encouraging a witness to lie or shift their story — allegations Hutchinson originally leveled at Passantino.
While the report likewise suggests some aspects of Hutchinson’s testimony were inaccurate — including her relaying a story told to her by others claiming to have witnessed Trump lunge at his driver — it does not make any recommendations regarding her. “It is unusual—and potentially unethical—for a Member of Congress conducting an investigation to contact a witness if the Member knows that the individual is represented by legal counsel,” the interim report states.
Loudermilk, chair of the subcommittee that assembled the report, was previously scrutinized by the disbanded House panel after he gave tours of the Capitol to two men who later participated in the march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He’s also accused the panel of deleting evidence it collected, a claim countered by members of the panel who say they retained everything they were legally required to, which has since been publicly posted on a government website.
“The January 6th Committee’s hearings and report featured scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration,” Cheney said. “All of this testimony was painstakingly set out in thousands of pages of transcripts, made public along with a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800 page report.”
Loudermilk told The Hill last week that he is hopeful leadership will create a new select committee in the next Congress to evaluate Capitol security. “I’m not confident we’re any more secure than we were back then,” he said.
Tucker Carlson Ep. 61 - Here's What Really Happened on January 6th (video)
Tucker Carlson released an interview Thursday with the former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to discuss the intelligence and security failures surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.
While Carlson was still employed at Fox News, he recorded an interview with Sund which the network never aired and which he no longer owns. Now that Carlson has launched his own independent show “Tucker on Twitter,” he invited Sund to his studio to conduct a second interview about what he saw and experienced on Jan. 6.
Sund told Carlson that in the days leading up to Jan. 6, he was not made privy to intelligence concerning threats against police officers, members of Congress, or an attack on the Capitol Building. Sund said he was told that the Jan. 6 rally would be like prior Trump rallies, where there were limited skirmishes between Trump supporters and counter-protestors.
Since Jan. 6, Sund says that we know now that the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the military had intelligence related to those threats and did not share them with the Capitol Police intelligence agency.
“On Sunday and Monday, they had been discussing locking down the city… because of the concern for violence. You know who issues the permits on Capitol Hill for demonstrations? I do,” Sund told Carlson. “You know, who wasn’t told? Me.”
“Instead, on January 4th, what does [former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller] do? He puts out a memo restricting the National Guard from carrying the various weapons, any weapons, any civil disobedience equipment that would be utilized for the very demonstrations or violence that he sees coming. It just doesn’t make any sense,” Sund said.
Sund told Carlson that he had handled several similar events, but that Jan. 6 was handled differently by intelligence agencies. “I’ve done many national special security events, and this was handled differently. No intelligence, no [joint intelligence briefing], no coordination, no discussion in advance,” Sund said. “It’s almost like they wanted it to be watered down, the intelligence to be watered down for some reason”
Sund released a book in January of this year detailing his personal account of Jan. 6, entitled “Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6,” in which he says he requested the assistance of the National Guard three days before the rally, but was denied.
Sund told Carlson that he was denied the request for the National Guard by Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt because Piatt did not like the “optics” of the National Guard on Capitol Hill.
“This sounds like a setup to me, I’m sorry, it does,” Carlson responded. “Look, under pressure people make mistakes and make bad decisions,” he added. “But you’re describing a systematic denial of intelligence and then of support, defense, through a whole bunch of different agencies, a whole bunch of different people, all reaching the same baffling conclusion that we’re not going to protect the Capitol.”
Excerpt
Excerpts from Courage Under Fire:
Department of Defense organizations make up half of the intelligence community’s eighteen agencies. It is now apparent that both Miller and Milley had significant concerns regarding upcoming events at the Capitol on January 6. The question that needs to be asked is, if Miller and Milley had such significant concerns, why weren’t those concerns pursued or shared with the appropriate authorities?
p. 313:
Only the chief of Capitol Police, not the DoD, can revoke permits on Capitol grounds, yet neither man reached out to me to discuss these concerns. Was this because they knew that if they informed me, I would immediately notify the two sergeants at arms and demand military support to protect my officers and perimeter on January 6? Milley has stated he feared that Trump was seeking a “Reichstag moment” in which he could invoke the Insurrection Act. But instead of notifying the chief on the Hill regarding the threats of violence, SECDEF Miller and SECARMY McCarthy implemented unprecedented restrictions on military assistance to law enforcement.
In what has been billed as America’s largest-ever criminal investigation, at least 1,572 defendants have been charged in the Jan. 6 attack, according to Reuters, with crimes ranging from unlawfully entering restricted grounds to seditious conspiracy and violent assault. Of that total, more than 1,251 have been convicted or pleaded guilty and 645 have been sentenced to prison, with punishments ranging from a few days to 22 years, according to the latest data from the Justice Department.
Neenah Payne writes for Activist Post
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