Donald Trump and his GOP defenders try to rewrite historical past of the violent and lethal riot on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, all in an effort to inoculate Trump from criticism after he pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, together with lots of who violently assaulted legislation enforcement officers.
Additionally on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson introduced the creation of a brand new committee to research the Jan. 6 assault, giving Republicans an avenue to unfold disinformation about who was accountable regardless of it being Trump’s fault.
“We are establishing this select subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people,” Johnson stated in an announcement, as if we do not have hours of video tape exhibiting what occurred and hours of interviews with witnesses who say Trump is in charge.
CNN reported that it’s Trump himself who requested for the committee, so it is no shock that lap canine Johnson acquiesced to Pricey Chief’s command.
In the meantime, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, went to the jail in Washington, D.C., the place most of the violent offenders had been being held and declared she needed to be the primary to provide them a tour of the Capitol that they had defiled 4 years earlier.
Proper-wing white supremacist Stewart Rhodes
One of many males launched from that jail has already been rearrested on gun fees. Nice going, guys! A lot for making the streets safer.
Proper-wing white supremacist Stewart Rhodes, whose sentence Trump commuted, was additionally already seen on the Capitol on Wednesday, and met with Florida GOP Rep. Gus Bilirakis. Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years in jail, was caught on tape after the riot saying, “My only regret is they should have brought rifles. We should have brought rifles. We could have fixed it right then and there. I’d hang fucking Pelosi from the lamppost.”
“I think it’s new and interesting that they’re using the front door this time,” Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, a member of the now-defunct committee that probed the Jan. 6 assault, informed The Related Press.
Judges who oversaw the trials of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists are aghast at Trump’s pardons, issuing blistering statements decrying the choice.
Decide Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw Trump’s federal case on his effort to steal the 2020 election, wrote in a choice dismissing the case in opposition to one of many insurrectionists that Trump’s pardons “cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake. And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.”
The Fraternal Order of Police, the union that endorsed Trump’s reelection bid, additionally slammed Trump’s transfer, saying in an announcement that the union “firmly believe[s] that those convicted of such crimes should serve their full sentences.” If solely that they had a touch forward of time that Trump was going to pardon violent cop assaulters.
However few Republicans are talking out, and are as an alternative both enjoying dumb or enjoying a ridiculous whataboutism sport to keep away from having to criticize Trump’s vile determination.
“We’re not wanting backwards, we’re wanting forwards,” Johnson stated on Wednesday, including that he wasn’t going to “second guess” Trump’s pardons—as if his job doesn’t embrace oversight of the chief.
But it surely positive doesn’t seem to be launching a committee to reopen the investigation into the Jan. 6 assault with the intention to attempt to persuade Individuals that they didn’t see what they noticed is a forward-looking transfer.
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