Releasing a summary of its final Jan. 6 House Select Committee report, House Democrats and two Trump-hating Republicans produced a documents so filled with conjecture that it’s impossible to detect fact from fiction. Almost all the witnesses and testimony taken were from anti-Trump partisans, pointing fingers at Trump for planning and orchestrating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, as Democrats like to call it. But for a true inssurection you’d expect an armed revolt, with rioters carrying Molotov cocktails and a automatic weapons. Most the misfits that breached and vandalized the Capitol carried cell phones to take selfies inside Capitol offices. So, when House Democrats call the riots an “insurrection,” it’s a feeble attempt to use Constitutional language to make the vandalism look like a coup d’etat. Many House Democrats accuse former President Donald Trump to coordinating the attacks
When it comes to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee’s wild statements against Trump, it’s hard to imagine the Department of Justice can take it seriously. House Democrats impeached Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” saying his Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse in D.C. incited the Capitol riots. House Democrat insisted Trump’s rhetoric on Jan. 6 encouraged rabble-rousers in the nearly one million crowd to attack the capital. When the FBI looked into what led up to the riots, they determined that right wing militia groups, including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, planned the riots for months. Once Trump was acquitted in the U.S. Senate Feb. 13, 2021, House Democrats moved the goal posts and accused Trump himself of planning and orchestrating the riots. House Democrats stretch the facts to the breaking point to push the fake narrative that Trump planned and orchestrated the riots.
Reports today about Trump telling his photographer Jan. 6 to stop taking pictures of him during the riots is a perfect example of the kind of wild conjecture used by the Committee. House Democrats accuse Trump of doing nothing from Jan. 6, 1:25 PM when the started to nearly 5 PM when riots disbanded. Democrats insist Trump could have called back the dogs during that time but did nothing, making him culpable or involved in the riots. According to the executive summary, Trump asked his photographer if he saw the Ellipse speech. When his photographer said no because it was preempted by the riots on TV, Trump allegedly said, “Oh Really?” From that the House Committee infers Trump guilt for doing nothing to stop the riots. But if Trump had called some fictional contact and stopped the riots, he would have been accused of leading the Capitol vandalism.
No partisan and biased House Committee can speak to the real facts of Jan. 6, other than implicating Trump. Committee Co-Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) has accused Trump for months of planning and orchestrating the Jan. 6 riots. Cheney often calls the criminals, trespassers and rabble-rousers “Trump supporters.” Most journalists also call the rioters “Trump supporters” to further implicate Trump in the Jan. riots. House Select Committee accuses Trump for trying to obstruct and joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote. But even if the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and other right wing groups intended to disrupt the Electoral College certification, that wasn’t Trump. When do House Democrats think they can accuse and convict the former president based on cherry picked witnesses and testimony, all designed to make Trump look culpable for the riots.
House Democrats going after Trump have accused him of everything but the kitchen’s sink, ignoring exculpatory evidence. When it comes to Trump, Democrats and the press have recklessly accused Trump of colluding with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential election. How the CIA and FBI used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, as probable cause is anyone’s guess. Using a completely fabricated set of facts against Trump was par for the course, even though the FBI and CIA knew all the probable cause was fake. Yet even after 78-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller finished his 22-month, $40 millions investigation acquitting Trump, House Democrats, like House Intel Chairman Rep Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) insisted he had categorical proof Trump was a Russian asset. Schiff never produced his categorical proof.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, 53, will no doubt receive the Jan. 6 House Select Committee criminal referrals for Trump. He should use his time to investigate the Committee’s abuse of power under Article 1, weaponizing their authority to file criminal complaints against the former president. Smith no doubt sympathizes as a Democrat with the House Select Committee but the law is not on his side to charge Trump with more alleged crimes. Just listening to Co-Chair Bernie Thomson (D-Mis.), Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinsinger (R-Il.) say Trump planned, organized and orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots should be reason enough to toss the charges out. Partisan and political bias doesn’t begin to tell the story of the witch-hunt against Trump. Trump lived with five years of fake FBI investigations, all proven fraudulent using Hilary’s fabricated opposition research designed to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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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.
