Posted on 07/15/2022 4:48:13 PM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) House Republicans are plotting revenge on the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, as the GOP weighs a broader effort to re-litigate some of Donald Trump's biggest election grievances if it recaptures the House majority.
The former President has been itching for payback and leaning heavily on his Capitol Hill allies to defend him against a recent slew of damaging revelations about his role in the deadly attack on the US Capitol. Now, as Republicans search for ways to undermine those findings, their party has started to lay the groundwork to investigate the select committee itself.
Republicans have already asked the January 6 panel to preserve a broad range of documents in its possession -- a signal they're preparing to force those records to be turned over should they wield powerful committee gavels next year. And privately, Republican sources say there have been discussions about subpoenaing members of the select committee, particularly Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is fighting an uphill battle for reelection, and retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, if both Republicans are private citizens next year.
It's an idea that has garnered support among allies of the former President. But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy -- who has refused to comply with a subpoena from the select committee and has long held that the panel lacks the authority to haul in private citizens -- is cool to the idea, according to a Republican source familiar with his thinking.
Other investigative ideas under consideration among House Republicans include establishing their own select committee -- or repurposing the current one -- to investigate matters such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi's role in Capitol security enforcement on January 6, 2021; the intelligence and security failures surrounding that day; and the treatment of the rioters...
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Have the Republicans ever fought the democrats?
If we regain Congress the Republicans will not do anything.
they have to go scorched Earth. It is simple game theory. If you don’t go tit for tat in these games, you lose.
they call that ‘revenge’ but the Jan 6 committee is never called revenge or oppression of political opponents. Damn i hate the MSM. Such evil demons.
If House Republicans really wanted revenge on the J6 show trial, they would begin their own J6 investigation.
A real investigation that is. As we all know the Democrats accuse President Trump of the very same acts that they in fact are guilty of. And if the truth were to come out about the insurrection on January 6, it would actually prove that it was an FBI/antifa/Pelosi conspiracy.
But no one should hold their breath waiting for Republicans to actually do the right thing here.
If we regain Congress the Republicans will not do anything.
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When President Trump took office was said that Republicans had a majority in the White House. Republicans had a majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans had a majority in the Senate. And Republicans had a majority in the Supreme Court.
Yet the Democrats still ran things.
Of course the Jan 6 Committee itself had only the purest of motives.
If Republicans do it they are plotting a partisan witch hunt. If Democrats do it, “no one is above the law.” (Except them.)
CNN really is more moderate aren’t they?
CNN and Prog Nation is Phobic.
How deliciously ironic.
Hey Progs, being phobic is wrong,,,., remember ?
RE: Has CNN ever investigated Hunter?
CNN: Who?
“,...Yet. the Democrats still ran things...”
It’s called the UniParty.
The 2-party system is really just one bird with two wings.
The 2-party system is just an illusion to keep the “unwashed masses (that’d be us) in a state of tranquility while in reality, they rape the country.
One of Trump’s worst moves was to announce his support for Paul Ryan as Speaker, IIRC. We must not make the same mistake with Kevin McCarthy.
Who??? - CNN
Yes. Lots of times going way back.
If we regain Congress the Republicans will not do anything.
Dream on!
That's exactly what they've been doing. What planet you living on?
Plus a tough, thorough investigation of the massive BLM/ANTIFA riots of 2020/2021
Blame Jeff Sessions for Mueller and Weissmen.
Congress had nothing to do with that.
The Dems WILL pay for the Jan 6 fake investigations and sheer terrorism of political opponents.
They are already paying. Just look at Dementia Joe’ terrible s poll numbers.
Except they didn't.
Did the Dems appoint Kavanaugh and Gorsich too? Nope. Dems built the border walls etc etc? Nope. Trump did. With the Republican congress.
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