Fox News analyst: Jan. 6 panel could be doing GOP ‘a great service’ by damaging Trump
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 06/15/22 3:16 PM ET
Fox News political pundit Brit Hume argued Tuesday that many in the GOP may appreciate any damage the House Jan. 6 committee is able to inflict on former President Trump.
“If they succeed either by damaging him or staining him such that he is either unable or for legal or political reasons to run again they might end up finding out that they’ve done the Republican Party a great service, because I think a great many Republicans think they can’t win with Trump at the head of the ticket again,” Hume said during an appearance on Fox’s evening newscast “Special Report.”
“They are afraid of his supporters and don’t want to come out against him directly. But they’d like him to go away. If the effect of this committee is to make his possible candidacy go away, I think a great many Republicans would privately be very glad.”
The panel investigating the attack on the Capitol has held a pair of hearings over the last several days laying out the findings of its investigation, in an effort to show that Trump incited the attack by falsely claiming widespread voter fraud had led to a “rigged” election against him in 2020.
Using witness testimony, never-before-seen video from the day of the attack and a number of visual presentations, the committee has painted Trump as a rogue president ignoring his advisers in a desperate bid to hold on to power following his election loss.
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