Jan. 6 Committee Should Investigate Biden’s Unsubstantiated Claims Questioning Election LegitimacyBy: Tristan Justice
January 20, 2022
A Federalist analysis of the subpoenas issued from the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 published Thursday reveals a politicized probe fixated on investigating election integrity claims rather than Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s failures over Capitol security.
In nearly each of the 84 subpoenas handed down from the committee, the panel raised issue with the individuals’ claims of an illegitimate election as the probe’s central concern.
“The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about efforts inside the previous administration to delay the certification of the 2020 election and amplify misinformation about the election results,” said Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., as the committee issued a subpoena to former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark in October. “We need to understand Mr. Clark’s role in these efforts at the Justice Department and learn who was involved across the administration.”
In December, the committee moved to hold Clark in contempt for refusal to surrender under the probe’s questionable authority.
The Jan. 6 Committee, then, under this ostensible purpose, ought to be investigating President Joe Biden over sowing the seeds for claiming the 2022 midterms will be illegitimate because his extreme agenda was blocked by a bipartisan vote.
On Wednesday, Biden was asked whether the president would still believe the November contests would be “fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate” in the absence of the Democrats’ colossal package federalizing elections making it to the White House.
“It all depends,” Biden said, “on whether or not we’re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election,” indicting Republican reforms such as voter ID requirements as racist impediments to free and fair elections.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/20/jan-6-committee-should-investigate-bidens-unsubstantiated-claims-questioning-election-legitimacy/
