Latest J6 Committee Revelations Are Likely to Do in the Dems – Opinion

As we reported, the Jan. 6 Committee isn’t getting the audience that they hoped they would be getting. If the whole point of the exercise was to try to convince people that Republicans were evil and to vote for the Democrats in the midterms, the problem that they’re facing is that while people may not have liked the riot, they for sure don’t like how the Democrats and Joe Biden have destroyed the country over the past year-and-a-half since and they don’t like the political games being played by the Committee.

One of those games was calling as a “surprise” witness former Trump campaign manager, Bill Stepien. But he’s currently advising the opponent of Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-WY), Harriet Hageman, in the Wyoming primary that will be held in August. Cheney knows she’s in deep trouble in her primary and then suddenly she calls her opponent’s adviser to have him grilled before the Committee? Is this conflict?

As it turned out, Stepien had a family emergency — his wife was having a baby and she was having issues, reportedly. So he didn’t testify today.

Big development: “Due to a family emergency, Mr. William Stepien is unable to testify before the Select Committee this morning. His counsel will appear and make a statement on the record.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 13, 2022

What were they trying to get from him? Not anything about the riot, but what he told President Donald Trump about election results — that he told Trump there would be more votes coming in despite the fact Trump was leading the night of the election. Okay, so? So what does this have to do the riot? Answer: nothing. It raises the question: What are they trying to accomplish here?

This seems to be a veiled attack on Trump’s belief system about the election. So? If they want to go there, let’s talk about all the Democratic objections to the elections. Let’s talk about Hillary Clinton who still implies that Trump was an illegitimate president.

This was not the first time that a US President and an fmr Pres. were elected. Nominee tried to convince millions of Americans that the Presidential election was illegitimate and stolen: https://t.co/v8U9uKXF2a

— Martha MacCallum (@marthamaccallum) June 13, 2022

The Democrats made every effort to prevent Trump becoming President after his election. They tried to suborn the electors and get them to vote for other people so that Trump wouldn’t have enough. Guess who kept tabs on the effort and was being briefed? The Clinton team included Jake Sullivan (now-National Security Adviser) under Biden.

But a batch of correspondence obtained by POLITICO shows members of Clinton’s inner circle — including senior aides Jake Sullivan and Jennifer Palmieri — were in touch for weeks with one of the effort’s organizers as they mounted their ill-fated strategy. And despite repeated requests for guidance, Clinton’s team did not wave them off.

Call logs, emails, and text messages reveal a Clinton campaign walking a tightrope — never fully endorsing the effort, but intentionally declining to stamp it out. The approach was comparable, one former campaign official said, to the campaign’s passive-but-not-dismissive response to long-shot recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Clinton’s team also supported the effort to provide information to voters about Russian interference in elections. NPR even asked her: Is she trying to doubt the election by this effort?

As they did in previous years, Democrats then objected the the electoral count. Funny how once the Republicans did it in 2021, it was suddenly trying to “overturn the election.” Biden as the then-Vice President had to shut them down because the House members objecting didn’t have a Senator willing to sign aboard their objections.

One of the objections was made by? Rep. Jamie Raskin (D.MD), currently on the Jan. 6 Committee. On Jan. 8, 2017, he objected at the Florida count.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D–MS), Chair of the Jan.6 Committee, objected at George W. Bush’s Jan. 2005 certification.

…Notably, Rep. Jamie Raskin also used this law to challenge the certification of President Trump. To prove that the election was not won, witnesses are being called by the Committee. This federal law does not constitute a crime. Indeed, these Committee members have used the same law…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 13, 2022

As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley pointed out, there’s nothing wrong with employing the law to object, and Democrats have used it in the past. If you’re going to argue that the Trump team objected, so what? It’s provided for, under the law. It’s something Democrats are well aware of.

But let’s finish out what the Democrats and the folks did on the left after they objected on Jan. 8, 2017. Nearly 70 Democrats said they would be skipping the inauguration of Trump including Chairman Thompson who claimed: “The Russian hack was, at its core, an attempt to delegitimize our democracy.” So when Democrats object, they are saving “democracy” but when Republicans object, it’s “overturning the election.” The hypocrisy is stunning.

Was that the Jan. 20th 2017 attack? Radical leftists took over D.C., setting fire to businesses and trying disrupt the inauguration. It was not a coup. The Democrats, who called Trump’s election illegal and tried to alter it as best they could, were not blamed. The FBI did not have a special page for the purpose of tracking down the rioters. Nearly 200 people arrested had their charges dropped. It was a vast contrast to the Jan. 6 riot. J20 had audio tapes that contained recordings of planning sessions.

So what are they trying to do with the Committee if this is what they are putting forth and they’re not presenting any evidence of criminality?

It’s true, they are trying to anger the people and whip up support. But they’re also trying to raise money off of all this.

Raskin has appeared in a number of DCCC political ads asking for donations while speaking about the Democrats’ investigation into Jan. 6, according to Axios.

Longtime Democratic digital strategist Murshed Zaheed told Axios that the emails will boost campaign donations from the activists within the base who are most likely to give money but won’t do much to former President Donald Trump legally.

“It’s unclear how much of it to actually move the needle in holding Trump accountable,” Zaheed told Axios. “The primary purpose of it is going to be fundraising for a lot of the Democratic Party institutions and establishments.”

According to the outlet, other Democratic committees tied fundraising appeals directly to the televised hearings. These include the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of States.

Defending Democracy Together Institute recorded the Democrat super PAC, American Bridge, sending over 70 fundraising emails since May using the phrase “insurrection,” reported Axios.

So that’s the bottom line here. They have nothing, yet they’re trying to soak the base. They will deliver nothing and, as with Russia collusion in the past, their base will attack them like wolves, eating them alive. You just made them even more angry come November.