January 6th Committee Says It Has Enough ‘Evidence’ to Indict Trump – Opinion

The January 6th Committee will meet again Monday to continue its public hearing. This follows the Thursday’s primetime opening act. Some members claim that they will present evidence to support the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.

Axios published the story, with a sensational headline. It was unsurprising that it was Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin who appeared on Sunday programs promising the moon. This article is based on their experiences. However, are they going to be successful?

Jan. 6, committee members say that they have sufficient evidence to support an indictment by the Justice Department against Trump, for trying to overturn 2020’s election results. https://t.co/K4Dk8FNNIu

— Axios (@axios) June 12, 2022

“I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday…

…“Once the evidence is accumulated by the Justice Department, it needs to make a decision about whether it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt the president’s guilt or anyone else’s. But they need to be investigated if there’s credible evidence, which I think there is,” he added.

These are Schiff’s classic quotes and reflect the outrageous statements he made during the Mueller investigation about Trump. Interviews with the California representative revealed that he was able to provide evidence that Trump had colluded in Russia. Guess what he didn’t provide? This was the evidence that he claimed he had.

Sure enough, while Schiff is again saying he’s got “credible evidence” that Trump broke the law, he also continues to not share any of it. Nothing in Axios’ report cites anything of the sort. It’s all just more vagueness and innuendo.

The same is true of Raskin’s commentary. He likewise claims to have evidence sufficient to indict Trump, calling the committee itself a “referral of crimes.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Trump “absolutely knew” his false claims that the election had been stolen were lies because he was surrounded by lawyers, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, who told him so in “no uncertain terms.”…

…”Our entire investigation is a referral of crimes both to the Department of Justice and to the American people because this is a massive assault on our — on the machinery of American democracy,” he said.

Raskin did not mention any actual evidence during CNN’s hearing despite all of the gibberish. Are we to believe that every other committee hearing and interview to this point hasn’t presented such, but that it will finally all be revealed on Monday? You’d have to be pretty gullible to buy that. If Schiff, Raskin, Cheney, and the rest had the goods, they wouldn’t have been able to shut up about it.

Further, that “evidence” would have been blasted out during the committee’s primetime hearing to set the stage. This hearing turned out to be nothing more than speeches and replays of videos we’ve all seen.

I believe the committee is essentially worthless. The committee keeps trying to drag it out, teasing bombshells that will never come. The more they continue to play that game, the more obvious it becomes there’s no smoking gun coming.

Still, I wouldn’t completely dismiss the idea that Trump could end up indicted. This is the Democrats’ Hail Mary. They’ve got nothing left, and there’s no reason to expect the DOJ to remain politically neutral once the committee gives its recommendations.