Democrats are making loud noises about January 6th again, claiming that coming revelations will “blow the roof” off the House of Representatives.
Jamie Raskin, who serves on the January 6th Committee, recently claimed while speaking at Georgetown University that he and his colleagues will present “evidence” that Donald Trump coordinated with white nationalist and fascist groups “in order to support the coup.”
This comes via NBC News, which reported on Raskin’s comments.
“The hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the House,” Raskin said Thursday at an event hosted by Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice in Washington.
Raskin who serves on the panel said that the members of this committee intend to host these hearings in June. The report will be available by the middle of the summer.
“No president has ever come close to doing what happened here in terms of trying to organize an inside coup to overthrow an election and bypass the constitutional order,” he said. “And then also use a violent insurrection made up of domestic violent extremist groups, white nationalist and racist, fascist groups in order to support the coup.”
This is such nonsense, and we’ve heard it all before. This time, it is not different. The January 6th committee has leaked numerous documents to date. All of them have been massive duds that don’t begin to prove the committee’s assertions. The idea that they’d have the discipline to hold back stunning, game-changing revelations until the open hearings is farcical. There’s no entity in Washington that is that buttoned-up, much less when speaking of Congress. If there was anything that actually added up to a criminal offense, we’d have heard about it by now.
And sure enough, if we keep reading NBC News’ write-up what we’ll find is that Raskin is planning to rehash the same failed talking points the Democrats have been pushing for over a year. Namely, that it was somehow a “coup” or illegal for Trump to speak to various surrogates about whether it was possible for Mike Pence to object to the electors.
The plan was to use then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to get President Joe Biden’s electoral vote tally below the 270 majority needed for victory, Raskin said, which under the 12th Amendment would shift the contest to a vote in the House. Raskin stated that Republicans would gain the majority in the race for the presidency if it happened. This is because voters would be cast through state delegations. Democrats control more state delegations.
“It’s anybody’s guess what could have happened — martial law, civil war. You know, the beginning of authoritarianism,” Raskin said, speculating on what might have unfolded if the plan was successful. “I want people to pay attention to what’s going on here, because that’s as close to fascism as I ever want my country to come to again.”
But what actually took place? A draft memo on the legality of Pence sending the electors back to the states circulated among some of Trump’s surrogates. It was never implemented, and there is no evidence whatsoever that anyone involved with the memo was trying to enact a “coup.” Rather, they were looking for legal ways, ill-advised as they might have been, to delay certification until investigations into voter fraud occurred.
To reiterate for those on the left ready to scream bloody murder, I’m not saying one has to agree with that reasoning. It is legal to look into ways you can object to an election. Jamie Raskin objected in a display of extreme irony and hypocrisy to Donald Trump’s election in 2017 as Congress was finalizing results. For any Democrat to now pretend it’s somehow a “coup” to object to the certification of an election is incredibly rich and ridiculous.
Further, there is clearly no evidence of direct coordination between Trump, Trump’s surrogates, and anyone who carried out the breach of the Capitol Building. What you will see instead is a tortured linking of dots between protestors and those who went to Capitol. They are not one and the same thing, despite what left attempts to make them seem like they are. It is legal to protest.
The whole spectacle is absurd. The January 6th committee will not produce anything of value, and these hearings won’t be of any real benefit. It’s filled to the brim with hypocrites and spot-light seekers attempting to criminalize things they themselves have done. In contrast, the American people by and large do not care about January 6th and are much more concerned about the nation’s inflation crisis and other Democrat-led boondoggles.
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