Democrats and Jan. 6 panel staffers are left unsatisfied with the Jan. 6 panel’s report

 

Democrats and Jan. 6 panel staffers are left unsatisfied with the Jan. 6 panel’s report

By Jessica Pleasant

December 15, 2022

January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of Trump supporters and professed Make America Great Again (MAGA) patriots attended the Stop the Steal protest that turned deadly. On that day Trump was late for his speech and the attendees were apparently a 30 min walk to the Capitol from the protest grounds. With this delay antagonists began to break down barriers before the crowd reached the Capitol. Possible federal agent Ray Epps was caught on camera the night before Jan. 6 and on the day telling people to enter the Capitol and he was willing to go to jail. On Jan. 6, Epps was filmed whispering to a younger man. The young man then pushed down the metal barriers and knocked out a female officer as her head hit the concrete. Do you have questions? Well, so do many others. This includes prominent Democrats and shockingly the staff of the Jan. 6 Committee.

For example, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had one of her reactions filmed and made viral over her passion to find answers about Jan. 6. It appears the greybeards of the Democrat party had not kept her in the know. She asked questions the Jan. 6 Committee cannot allow to be answered on the record. Cameras were a source of light as AOC stood against the dark shadows of night and the glow from the Capitol lighting. Emotional, AOC demanded answers she felt were not being addressed.

According to The Washington Examiner, July 14, 2022, AOC stated, "There were actual officers working with this, and we never got to the bottom of that, and we never got any answers about that," Ocasio-Cortez. "I have no idea what happened to the people on the inside, who were very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening the doors wide open for that."

To many Conservatives this outburst by AOC confirmed the fears that MAGA has about Jan. 6 being a trap for overzealous protesters. Conservatives were sharing footage on the day of the riot, exposing Capitol Police did not defend the Capitol and inevitably antagonized the protesters. Released footage shows a large, masked man, possibly in some tactical gear, trying to open the large doors for MAGA. When the doors did not open the man looked to the wall security camera as if he was asking to be buzzed into a secured building.

Fox News reported, “Trump told "The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton" that his team alerted the Department of Defense days before the rally that crowds might be larger than anticipated and 10,000 national guardsmen should be ready to deploy. He said that -- from what he understands -- the warning was passed along to leaders at the Capitol, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- and he heard that the request was rejected because these leaders did not like the optics of 10,000 troops at the Capitol.”

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving have different recollections of when the head of the FBI’s office in Washington warned the Capitol of a possible attack.  “Sund and Irving disagreed on when the National Guard was called and on requests for the guard beforehand. Sund said he spoke to both Stenger and Irving about requesting the National Guard in the days before the riot, and that Irving said he was concerned about the "optics" of having them present. Irving denied that, saying Sund’s account was "categorically false."

According to Military Times writers Meghann Myers and Howard Altman, published together on Jan 7, 2021, the national guard was delayed due to the inactions of Majority Leader Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser. Decision makers were concerned with the optics of a large police force after Black Lives Matter movement and radical progressives called to defund the police.

President Trump’s offer of 10K troops is based on risk factors. If President Trump requested 10K troops, then he believed no less than 10K guard members could maintain operational control of the Capitol in an emergency. According to Myers and Altman, several hundred troops were tasked to provide traffic control and did not have policing powers to push back against rioters.

“Guard troops who had been acting in a traffic control capacity, not as law enforcement, would not have been able or authorized to forcibly push back rioters or help clear the building, a task that fell to the Capitol Police and the FBI tactical forces they requested to help out,” reported in Myers and Altman’s article.

An unnamed source, with procedural knowledge of the complicated bureaucracy involved with federal and state jurisdictions, purported, “We had worked out that the support we were providing the [Metropolitan] Police Department would be on traffic control points,” the source said, including downtown subway stations and select blocks, where teams of two Guardsmen and several vehicles were keeping the streets clear of cars.

According to Military Times, “The Defense Department was in contact with Capital Police ahead of Tuesday and Wednesday’s protests, Kenneth Rapuano, the assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, told reporters during a press call on Thursday. They asserted that they would not be requesting National Guard support,” he said.

Many theories on why Jan. 6 was an epic failure in security come from human nature. People naturally want to fill in the gaps where there are questions unanswered. Full transparency avoids conspiracy theories. And we still wait for the facts. Many believe those questions will not be answered by the unlawful and illegitimate Jan. 6 Committee. Like AOC, staffers participating in Jan. 6 Committee want the truth to come out.

One November 23, 2022, New York Post reported Chaney, a disgraced Republican representative from Wyoming and acting as vice chairwoman on the Jan. 6 panel, is driven by Chaney’s professional ambition to be president. Staffers felt the Jan. 6 report would be incomplete without the hard work they put into investigating Jan. 6.

The Washington Post reported on November 3, 2022, the staffers on the Jan. 6 panel were unhappy the report was predominately about Trump. Staff work unrelated to Trump and work focused on radical left accusations, would become part of the report’s appendix. Key elements of that day would be an afterthought, as an appendix in a report is for supplemental material.

The Washington Post reported comments from an unnamed former committee staffer, “We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,” one former committee staffer told the Washington Post. “But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.”

The New York Post In a dismissive response, Cheney’s Communications Director and Deputy Chief of Staff Jeremy Adler accused the staffers of ‘subpar’ work. “Some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement, Republicans, and sociological issues outside the scope of the Select Committee’s work. She won’t sign onto any ‘narrative’ that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement or suggests every American who believes God has blessed America is a white supremacist,” Adler added.

Chaney’s latest stance against radical leftism comes a little too late, as Chaney should have known she was enabling the Democrats and radicals to destroy the Republican Party. Often President Trump reminds Americans that the Democrats aren’t after him, the Democrats are after the American people. The radicals are distracted by Trump, and Trump knows it. The truth is American freedom, traditional values, higher expectations, private property, and inevitably personal success are the real targets.

Adler dishonestly asserted, “Donald Trump is the first president in American history to attempt to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power.” With a simple google search into every Republican presidential win since the 1980s, one will discover Democrats have demanded the return of the electoral count to their states each time. In further hypocrisy, Congressman Jamie Raskin stood in the house demanding Trump’s 2016 win to be overturned. After Jan. 6, 2021, Raskin became the lead impeachment prosecutor in the second Trump impeachment over the Jan. 6 riot.

Due to the Republicans winning the majority in Congress this past 2022 midterm election there is hope for genuine investigations into the Jan. 6 riot. Republicans have promised transparency and to conduct investigations based on the law. The Jan. 6 Committee is currently illegitimate due to it not having the mandatory number of members in general.

Furthermore, the committee does not meet the standard number of Republicans that must be part of any committee to make it lawful and legitimate. Only two Republicans have a seat on the panel, Liz Chaney, R-Wyo. and Adam Kinsinger, R-Ill. Both have been fanatical critics of President Trump.

Chaney and Kinzinger will no longer represent their states after the recent midterms, ending their reign on the Jan. 6 panel. Rep. Kinzinger, is known for his crying within House hearings and his disdain for Trump. Due to Chaney’s vendetta against Trump, the state of Wyoming overwhelmingly voted for Chaney’s opponent, Trump endorsed, Harriet Hageman. According to The Washington Post, Hageman defeated Chaney with a humiliating 2-1 of the vote.

According to CNBC, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., defended his decision not to appoint Republicans to the committee after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told McCarthy he could not have his choice of Republican representatives to serve on the panel. Traditionally both parties have chosen their own representatives.

“I do not regret not appointing anyone at all,” McCarthy said. ”How can you have an honest investigation if the Speaker can appoint and pick and choose who can be on. How can the speaker select a chairman who voted to override a Republican presidential election?”

With the Republicans as the majority in Congress the Jan. 6 panel may become more transparent or meet its demise. The panel has never had the statutory right to conduct investigations. The purpose is to focus on creating laws, not as investigative enforcement. There will likely be major changes in the new Congress this coming January. Republican representatives have promised to not lose sight of important tabletop issues Americans are facing as they proceed to find answers to many controversies within the Democrat party.

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