First Task for a GOP Congress: Subpoena the Jan. 6 Committee
Authoritarianism in Congress must be dealt with.
by Jeffrey Lord
October 13, 2022, 10:48 PM
So, here’s the headline, this one from the Washington Post:
Committee votes unanimously to subpoena Trump’s testimony
The Post story begins by saying this:
The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, voted Thursday to subpoena testimony and documents from former president Donald Trump, a dramatic culmination of its year-and-a-half-long investigation, and a sign that the committee wants to continue its work beyond this Congress.
“This is a question about accountability to the American people,” Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said ahead of the vote. “He must be accountable.”
Stop. Full stop.
If, as many predict, the midterm elections produce a Republican-controlled House, then the very first investigation the GOP House should begin is of … the Jan. 6 Committee.
Every member of the committee, every staff member, every document and text and email — every last bit of anything should be subpoenaed, investigated, and — where appropriate — referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
What this committee has been about from its very inception is getting Trump. Nothing more, nothing less.
That is why — exactly why — Speaker Nancy Pelosi violated centuries of House tradition and lifted the authority of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to appoint the GOP’s members. With Pelosi’s taking over the minority leader’s job to appoint two viscerally anti-Trump “Republicans” to the committee.
This isn’t a committee of Congress; this is a lynch mob. It must never be allowed to happen again.
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https://spectator.org/gop-congress-subpoena-jan-6-committee/
