Justice Department memo from Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland said under the Hatch Act, any indictments that could be construed a political must be postponed until after the Nov. 2022 Midterm elections. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow disclosed the May 25 memo to her audience, saying the Justice Department was delaying the inevitable, that Trump and his cronies would be indicted for obstruction of Congress, attempting to overturn a lawful presidential election. What’s ironic about the May 25 Justice Department memo is that the House Jan. 6 Select Committee hearings are before the Midterm election and allowed to go ahead with as much publicity as possible, making Republican candidates look bad before the Midterm elections. How many hearings have been conducted implying, through director testimony, that former President Donald Trump orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots?
If Trump really orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots, the Senate would have convicted him of “incitement of insurrection,” the second impeachment charge for which he was acquitted Feb. 13, 2021. Yet the entire Jan. 6 hearing revisited the exact same issues, this time going further hearing testimony that Trump was involved in the planning and orchestration of the Jan. 6 riots. All the zealots looking to send an indictment to the Justice Department don’t care about due process, only about preventing Trump from every running again for president. Polls are done daily by Democrat measuring the public sentiment about another Trump run for president. Democrats feel ecstatic when polls show that even Republicans have lost interest in supporting Trump for another presidential run. When it comes to Garland potentially indicting Trump, the Hatch Act really amounts to nothing.
Hatch Act is supposed to prevent the Justice Department from interfering in national elections, waiting until after the vote before indicting anyone political. When it comes to the Jan. 6 Select Committee, Democrats and Republicans have attempted to turn every Trump staffer-and-family member against Trump. Blockbuster testimony heard Jan. 28 in the House Committee by 26-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson, former aid of former Trump Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows, said Trump lunged at the steering wheel on Jan. 6 to force the driver to take him to the Capitol. Forget the fact that Hutchinson was not in the limo that drove Trump from the Ellipse after his speech back to the White House. Yet if you listened to the Democrat-friendly new media, she was an eyewitness. So, the Jan. 6 committee does everything to possible to put Trump in the worst possible light, regardless of the real facts.
When Hutchinson testified June 28, the Jan. 6 Committee did everything to bolster her credibility without mentioning that her information came second-or-third-hand from former Secret Service agents. None of the Secret Servant agents present in the limo confirmed Hutchinson’s account of Trump lunging for the steering wheel, yet the Democrat friendly press took her testimony as gospel. Garland doesn’t know whether he’ll indict Trump or anyone of his cronies accused by the highly biased Jan. 6 Committee, insisting that Trump was directly involved in planning an orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. House impeachment managers led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md,) insisted in the most forceful way that Trump told his crowd at the Ellipse Jan. 6 to go vandalize the Capitol to stop the Electoral College from certifying the Nov. 3 presidential vote. Then the FBI admitted, the riots were planned for months.
Jan. 6 House Committee members took extensive testimony from Trump’s family and personal aids saying that Trump did nothing to stop the Capitol riots. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), more biased against Trump than any Democrat, said Trump could have called off the “insurrection” with a phone call. Trump didn’t make a phone call because he had nothing to do with the rabble-rousers. Cheney calls the riots an “insurrection” to underscore, like others on the Committee, that Trump’s “supporters” tried to overthrow the U.S. government. Yet when it came to violence on Jan. 6, the only person that died of a gunshot wound was 36-year-old Arizona resident Ashli Babbitt, killed by the Capitol Police. House Democrats claimed that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sitcknick had his brains bashed in by Trump supporters. When the autopsy came out, he died of natural causes, a stroke 24 hours later.
For months the New York Times, Washington Post and every Democrat-friendly broadcast outlet said that “Trump supporters” bashed in the skull of Sicknick. When the autopsy report came out, they barely mentioned it because it didn’t fit their narrative that Sicknick was killed by Trump’s mob. So when it comes to what Garland will do or not do with indictments, it won’t be based on facts, only biased testimony and facts assembled by the highly biased Jan. 6 House Select Committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed she would get Trump at any costs, even if it meant building a fake case against him. No one know whether Trump or any of his cronies will face indictments after the Nov. 7 Midterm elections. What’s known for sure is that Jan. 6 House Select Committee acted against Trump and his followers with extreme prejudice, building a criminal case on gossip, innuendo and hearsay.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
