Here’s How You Know the January 6th Committee Has Nothing – Opinion

I was lucky enough to have other things to do last night which prohibited me from watching the latest installment in the Democrat obsession with January 6th, and yeah, I’m including Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger in that group now.

The January 6th committee held a primetime hearing, garnering complete buy-in for the stunt from all the networks and cable stations except Fox News, and it didn’t take long for the clips to start coming out. The result was a politically charged trial, one that would have made Stalin blush.

You can disagree with January 6th. This opinion could include condemning it as a horrific event. The events of January 6th were both dangerously and stupid. It doesn’t matter what a person believes about the 2020 election. Being an idiot isn’t a political strategy and running one’s head into a woodchipper accomplishes nothing, even if it wasn’t a “coup.”

This sham committee is not to be trusted. The condemnations have been made to death. It’s now June 20, 222. Republicans are not bound by an obligation to continue hyperventilating on January 6th even if they had absolutely nothing to with it. And more to the point, the most obvious takeaway from last night’s hearing was that this committee has nothing to actually offer.

Take Liz Cheney’s opening statement for example. The opening statement was widely considered a great exercise in truth-telling. But what was she really saying? It isn’t much.

LIZ CHENEY: “On this point there is no room for debate…President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” pic.twitter.com/YWTJ1DFuWI

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 10, 2022

It is not uncommon to hear speeches about how horrible and unworthy the orange man really is. They do little to add to the conversation or advance the Democrat story about January 6th. Cheney’s broad generalizations are striking. Trump “summoned” and “assembled” the mob, but what exactly does that indicate? The peaceful protest was over one mile away. And, to be fair to Wyoming’s representative, Trump did say that they should go to Capitol. Did he say to them that they should go in? Do you think he told them to go fight with police? Did he tell them to commit “insurrection” via some kind of unarmed “coup?”

Cheney never quite gets there, and she doesn’t get there because the answer to all those questions is: “No.” Thus, she’s left with the vague charge that he “lit the flame.” Whether that’s actually true or not is an open question given he pointedly told people to remain peaceful, yet it’s not even that relevant.

Why? Because even if we connect several dots and assume that Trump saying the election was stolen motivated those people to enter the Capitol, that’s still not in any way a direct call to violence. Is it possible to make political speech illegal? Are we going to criminalize political speech? Trump’s comments are far from meeting the statutory standards for the crime of incitement.

There was also this Cheney quote, which is a dead giveaway.

CHENEY: Our investigation is ongoing. CHENEY: “Our investigation is still ongoing. What we publish here won’t be all of the information that we ultimately reveal.”

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 10, 2022

The committee playing that clip of Barr saying what he’s been saying for a year and a half is a good indication on its own. That’s why they led with? We already know that Barr doesn’t believe there was sufficient evidence of fraud to have overturned the election. Notice the change in expectation. The “investigation is still ongoing” she says, which is just another way of saying they don’t have a smoking gun but want to drag this out into perpetuity, or at least through the November election.

Bennie Thompson had similar stuff.

Jake Tapper was just informed by Bennie Thompson that Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were in touch with Trump’s orbit.

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) June 10, 2022

It’s a shocking revelation, isn’t it? I mean, it’s so stunning that it shouldn’t be hard at all to provide direct proof that Trump or anyone in his orbit told the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to fight with cops and enter the Capitol. Yet, that evidence never came last night, and it’s not going to come over the next several days. Again, the committee lacks anything. Instead, the committee exists to spit out an assortment of disconnected dots with the goal of creating a false narrative.

On January 6, there was no preplanned, organized insurrection. A protest was held where hundreds of people split off and did something wrong, and the cost is high. Donald Trump is a hateful man, but he did not insinuate or order people to go into the Capitol. Actually, Trump did just the opposite. Trump associates discussing challenging certification are all just pomp and circumstance. How can I find out? Jamie Raskin (and Bennie Thompson), both members of January 6th committee have challenged presidential election certification.

This is an absurd committee. Listen closely and you won’t hear anything at all. It’s a waste of time, rehashing what we already know in dramatic fashion in the vain hope that people will forget they are paying $5 a gallon for gas and $12 for a pack of bacon. It’s not going to work.