While the rest of the country moves on with life, House Democrats have been hard at work, with the help of two turncoat Republicans, drumming up more division and hatred over the events of January 6, 2021. The “insurrection,” as they’re gleeful to call it, remains a top issue threatening democracy, so we’re told. If we don’t “get to the bottom” of what happened that day, the country remains in peril, according to liberal pundits and members of the Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, as it’s officially known.
The purpose of this committee, which is blatantly obvious, is to somehow pin the January 6 riot on former President Trump. Somehow, somewhere, he must have “ordered” people to storm the Capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election. That narrative has been proven false time and time again, but that’s where we are.
Now, coming up on the one-year anniversary of January 6, 2021, Democrats are foaming at the mouth to air their findings and hold primetime hearings in coming months to “convince” the country that Trump was to blame, and Republicans, in general, need to be punished:
The congressional panel investigating the insurrection at the Capitol last Jan. 6 wants to hold televised hearings of testimony that would be broadcast on primetime television. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House committee, told Bloomberg News that such hearings would give the public the “best opportunity” to hear the testimony for themselves. “The public needs to know, needs to hear from people under oath about what led up to Jan. 6th, and to some degree, what has continued after Jan. 6,” Thompson was quoted saying in a Tuesday interview, adding that “maybe a series of hearings” would be held. The details are still being worked out, with members of the committee looking at March or April for when the hearings would begin.
Can you imagine the joy of tuning into a congressional hearing up against other primetime shows? Yes, the Jan. 6 hearings would be just as scripted and entertaining as a form of a Democratic Party reality show, but there’s no substance or plot.
For some reason, Democrats seem to think voters and the American people want some form of answers, and they stand something to gain by continuing to work this angle against Trump.
The highly-partisan makeup of the committee is enough to throw the entire year of investigation down the drain. The committee will be taking one view and one view only: Donald Trump is square to blame for the events of January 6, 2021. There is zero chance that any other conclusions are drawn from this committee.
Polls, however, find Americans aren’t as convinced of that, also laying blame at the feet of the news media and social media:
It’s interesting that “social media companies” actually take more blame among poll respondents saying they’re at least “somewhat” or “very” responsible.
The interesting part of the committee’s findings will be most revealed by what they choose to ignore. There are many serious and valid questions to ask surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, and not all of them live out in conspiracy theory land. Will Pelosi’s committee address them? Probably not, since the only core function of this committee is to blame Donald Trump and smear Republicans.
As the New York Post wrote back in August of 2021 when the committee was first convening, Pelosi’s decision to politicize the process is a shame because it will turn into a partisan circus rather than an objective fact-finding body:
And her approach is a real shame because a truly impartial understanding of the events that day, and the run-up to it, would be useful not only in preventing anything similar in the future, but also in helping tame the partisan fury (from both sides) that fueled the attack in the first place.
Alas, Pelosi’s not interested in that: Indeed, she made history by blocking two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s committee appointments, Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), both vocal supporters of former President Donald Trump. Now, only two Republicans sit on the committee, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both OK’d by Pelosi for their opposition to Trump.
GOP House leaders also note that Pelosi likely shares some responsibility for the lack of preparation on Jan. 6 and wants to be sure committee members won’t put her on the hot seat.
The January 6 committee has never been a body intended to flesh out fact from fiction or to find ways that everyone — including Speaker Pelosi — failed on that day, its sole intention is to “get” Donald Trump and anyone Democrats don’t like. This is why the public has soured and become less interested in what the committee finds.
There’s no balance, and no moral high ground from a group of Democrats who ignored the violent summer of 2020, while the entire country burned and murders occurred during numerous Black Lives Matter riots, now to be concerned about a riot at the Capitol Building.
The political divide is crystal clear, and rather than add to more partisan rancor, Pelosi should have found a non-political way to investigate January 6 rather than the one-sided anti-Trump circus she created.
