Responding to a report from the Washington Post, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), pushed backed that Jan. 6 House Committee Co-Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) pushed committee members to focus the report primarily on 76-year-old former President Donald Trump. Cheney destroyed her political career in Wyoming with her fixation on Trump. Cheney lost her reelection bid to Liz Hageman by nearly 20%, largely because she turned her focus on getting rid of Trump. Whatever the final Jan. 6 House Select Committee says, it won’t satisfy Cheney who wants it all about Trump. Cheney has been telling the press for months, without proof, that Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, even though the evidence says otherwise. To Cheney, shoving a square peg into a round hole has always been her fixation when it comes to eventually charging Trump with a crime.
Speaking to Democrat-friendly CNN, Schiff told Dana Bash she hoped the final report would be broad enough to cover more than whatever role Trump played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. “No, I mean at least I certainly hope not,” Schiff told Bash on CNN’s State of the Union. Bash reported that the Post’s article said the Committee wanted to focus on security measures and intel leading up to the Jan. 6 riots. Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), impeached Trump on a single high crime and misdemeanor on “incitement of insurrection.” Trump was acquitted in the U.S. Senate Feb. 13, 2021, largely because House Impeachment Mangers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) couldn’t prove their case. Democrats insisted at the time that Trump’s Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse the morning before the Capitol riots incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol
FBI investigations into the Jan. 6 Capitol riots showed that they were planned for months, not a spontaneous event, as House impeachment managers insisted from Trump’s early morning speech. All transcripts of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech indicated that he asked the crowd to protest peacefully at the Capitol, not encouraging any violence. House Jan. 6 Select Committee members concentrated interviews on Trump’s attempts to plan and orchestrate the Jan. 6 riots. “I would like to see a report be as broad and inclusive as possible,” Schiff told Bash. “We are discussing as a committee among the members, what belongs in the body of the report, what belongs in the appendices of the report, what is beyond the scope of our investigation. And we’ll reach those decisions in a collaborative manner,” Schiff said. Schiff knows the committee takes no exculpatory information about Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 riots.
Cheney has her own ax to grind with Trump, looking at the end of her House Republican career. Cheney has hinted she may want to make a presidential run in 2024, even though she’d play largely an spoiler role either as an independent or Republican. Hard to imagine after losing her House race by 20% she has any prayer of running as a Republican. Her constituents in Wyoming say her betraying the GOP for her obsession with Trump, eventually wrecking her career. When Cheney joined the House Select Committee as Co-Chair, she thought she showed a profile in courage but instead showed a profile in betrayal. Schiff defends Cheney because he knows that the highly biased Democrat panel needed a fig leaf of bipartisanship. With Cheney, the Committee got not bipartisanship but a woman with a personal vendetta, using the committee to retaliate against Trump.
Schiff’s incapable of honesty, one of Trump’s fiercest detractors in the House of Representatives along with Pelosi. Pelosi and Schiff, like two tag-team wrestlers, like to pounce on Trump at every opportunity. Years before the Pelosi’s impeachments of Trump, she was all in with Schiff on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month, $40 million investigation into Trump’s alleged contacts with the Kremlin. Pelosi and Schiff embraced former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, accusing Trump of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign. Mueller and everyone on Democrat House knew that the Steele dossier was a fabricated set of allegations designed to help Hillary get elected in 2016. Yet even after Mueller finished his final report March 23, 2019 clearing Trump, Pelosi and Schiff insisted Trump colluded with Russia.
Schiff did everything to dismiss the Washington Post report because he’s all about showing consensus on the committee. “I’ve never viewed it that way, and I think her [Cheney] role on the committee has been indispensable,” Schiff told Bash. Schiff wants to use Cheney as a GOP smokescreen to prove the committee was bipartisan. “We’re going to get a lot of consensus on the report, we’re very close to that now, “ Schiff said. Schiff is the same person after Mueller finished his final report saying he had proof that Trump colluded with Russia. Nothing Schiff says can be trusted for anything other than advancing the Democrat narrative, advanced by Cheney, that Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Democrats can’t admit that after months of leftist rioting after George Floyd’s May 25, 2020 murder, right wing militia groups wanted to make a statement Jan. 6.
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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.
