Posted on 07/27/2021 2:11:28 AM PDT by Libloather
Democrats want Americans glued to their TVs Tuesday for the first hearing of the Jan. 6 select committee. They also don't want a circus.
More than six months since the deadly siege of the Capitol, the select panel's first meeting is designed as a somber yet camera-ready event to elicit fading memories of that day's horrifying events — not to mention counter a GOP wave of revisionist history that threatens to muddy the waters.
The select committee’s members, assembled for their first public appearance since Speaker Nancy Pelosi added Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) to the dais, are set to question officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police who personally fended off violent rioters on the hunt for members of Congress.
The four officers will be dressed in their uniforms to testify, despite appearing in a personal capacity. Questions to them will be limited and interwoven with video footage. And members are restricted to one round of back-and-forth, ensuring the hearing lasts only a few hours rather than becoming an all-day affair like other high-profile moments in Washington.
The hearing comes at a pivotal moment for Democrats and the two House Republicans who put their political futures on the line to join in the investigation. Democrats want to avoid the spectacle that engulfed the Benghazi select committee during former President Barack Obama's second term, despite the GOP's best efforts to frustrate the inquiry into the insurrection. And given their thin majority, they’re trying to avoid playing politics, even though the investigation will inevitably lead back to Donald Trump and other Republicans.
“We're a very serious committee that's extremely cohesive and bipartisan,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a select panel member, told a POLITICO reporter while passing through the metal detectors outside the House floor.
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I think this is going to blow-up bigtime on them, and vindicate Trump.
“I predict this is going to backfire in the libtards face the same way the Dems “Covid Express” private jet escape from Texas backfired.”
A backfire seems very doable from what we at FR know. Are some of our conservative reps going to be allowed to speak at all? Between the innocent attendees jailed and the cover up of the shooter and antifa’s involvement lots of s**t could be headed toward the fan.
Jan. 6 select committee preps for the Pelosi security cover up and government plants used in it.
Who executed Ashlee Babbitt ????
CROCODILE tears, CROCKodile sniffing after the tears. You fooled NO ONE!!!!
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