Posted on 02/11/2022 5:38:54 AM PST by Red Badger
"We see a Democratic Party that wants to use administrative and judicial power to confront political speech," Gaetz says.
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz told Just the News that he thinks the House Jan. 6 Select Committee will try "disqualifying" former President Trump from running for president again.
"Disqualifying potential candidates is the newest and most dangerous iteration of cancel culture," Gaetz said on Thursday. "I believe the January 6th committee is going to try to do it regarding Donald Trump. I believe some woke activists in North Carolina are trying to do it right now in a very important test case regarding [first-term North Carolina Republican Rep.] Madison Cawthorn."
"So far, the well-traveled path of the January 6 committee is to serve up and gaslight opportunity for criminal process to [Attorney General] Merrick Garland," he added.
Gaetz sent a letter Wednesday to the Capitol Police chief with 26 other House Republicans demanding that U.S. Capitol Police preserve all records "regarding investigations or investigative activities the United States Capitol Police have engaged in regarding members of Congress."
The letter was provoked by reports that Capitol Police officers entered Texas Rep. Troy Nehls' office in November 2021. According to Gates' office, the officers "photographed private legislative products" and returned later to "interrogate his staff out-of-uniform."
If the GOP takes back the House majority, Gatez suggested that GOP leaders "convert" the existing Jan. 6 select committee to focus on investigating "federal involvement" and the "full activities of that day."
"We can no longer be called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that because, of course, no less than the New York Times has reported that the federal government had agents and assets on the ground on January 6," Gaetz said. "And when under oath in front of the country, senators asked senior officials with the FBI whether any of their assets or agents had committed crimes on that day, they would not provide an answer."
Some Republicans, such as House Administration Committee Ranking Member Rodney Davis, have asked whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was privy to the security decisions that were made at the Capitol complex in the lead-up to Jan. 6.
Gaetz cautioned GOP lawmakers against making that the focus of a potential Jan. 6 committee under a GOP-led House.
"My perspective is that Republicans should be very cautious about saying the reason Jan. 6th happened was that Democrats weren't cracking down enough on security," he said, "because I believe people are sitting in jail cells right now because they are political pawns to the notion that MAGA is so dangerous that we must use these exquisite counterterrorism tools against a political movement of overwhelmingly peaceful Americans."
On the Jan. 6 “Democrats Wallow in Victimhood Day,” Kamala know-nothing stupidly equated J6 w/ 911 and Pearl Harbor.
Kamala Harris and the Dem hit squads have spent the last 30 years attacking the United States as racist, oppressive, homophobic, xenophobic, etc.......decrying it’s formation by “evil religious white men to oppress anyone who was unwhite.”
But on Jan 6, she, and the Party of Never Miss a Political Opportunity, suddenly “saw the light.”
The knee-jerkers crassly played the “give a damn card.”
Harris: “What the extremists who roamed these halls sought to degrade and destroy was not only a building, hallowed as it is,......they were assaulting the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have shed blood to establish and defend.”
Too bad they don’t govern as if they believed all that.
They won’t be successful.
Did anyone not figure this out besides me?
Apparently not.
Not in the end, no, but what they are after is getting Trump off the ballot in blue and purple states so he can’t win no ways no how.
The courts will ultimately let Trump prevail, but the time will be too late....................
If the GOP goes along with this, then the Republican Party is officially over. It’s proof that the Republicans have no intention or desire to win in November. Stick a fork in it.
That’s why they insist on using the word “INSURRECTION” always because that is the word used in the Constitution to preclude anyone from ever holding a public office ever again..............
In a motion filed last month, WRT the FBI WHITMER case, Kaleb Franks’ attorney Scott Graham cited the FBI’s nonanswers regarding January 6 as evidence of the agency’s shame. With the trial date just weeks away, the Justice Department’s case is imploding amid numerous scandals.
The timing could not be worse for the government, especially the FBI
<><>now under scrutiny for its suspected role in fomenting the Capitol breach Jan 6, 2021.
<><>the two events share many similarities,
<><>including plans to “storm” Michigan’s state Capitol building,
<><>the use of militia groups reportedly loyal to Donald Trump,
<><>and official designations that both represent “domestic terror” attacks.
So a public trial that showcases FBI malfeasance at the same time the bureau is shunning questions about January 6 won’t be a reassuring look.
<><>FBI officials won’t disclose the number of “assets” connected to the Capitol protest
<><>or whether any FBI agents or informants engaged in violent behavior that day.
<><>Ray Epps, seen on video several times urging people to enter the building, remain uncharged.
<><> yet the FBI refuses to explain why.
Oh, that’s rich. Yes, that makes sense.
I think they built that new stupid wall around the Capitol to make out like they are scared for their lives. It’s all pretense. I
Immaterial. The movement has been set in motion by President Trump whether or not he runs again.
They’d put a bullet through him if they thought they could get away with it.
This is a no-brainer. The statement does need to be made, however, as it identifies the handful of Americans left.
Why did Mitch McConnell break ranks with the Republican National Committee and insist, contrary to a growing mountain of evidence, that the Jan. 6 incident was “a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next”?
A clue came on Tuesday, when Larry Sabato, a popular far-Left historian, tweeted:
“Of course it was a violent insurrection. Shame on every Republican, especially Members of Congress, who haven’t declared as much. Next: Admit Trump plotted a coup to steal a 2nd term. Then invoke 14th Amendment, Section 3 to ban Trump and coconspirators from future public office.”
If it was an insurrection, then Trump, who has grown increasingly critical and contemptuous of McConnell, can be barred from running in 2024. The initiative to do this is gathering steam.
The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 says:“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”This was designed to keep unrepentant Confederates out of public office after the Civil War (although many did hold office, as more often than not Congress did vote to waive the prohibition).
As PJM’s Rick Moran noted Wednesday, it’s already being used against America-First Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), although he is fighting back hard. It’s likely to be used against others who are associated with the Jan. 6 non-insurrection as well.
But Cawthorn and the rest would just be a dry run. The great white whale these Captain Ahabs are hunting is Donald Trump, and they hope that in the 14th Amendment, they have found their harpoon.
Some Democrats and establishment Republicans see this as the final stake they can drive into the heart of their nemesis Trump, ending his 2024 aspirations.
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God can use evil plans for good.
Reading through Numbers in Our Bible group right now. Balak promised to make Balaam
exceedingly rich if he would just come and curse Israel.
Three different times they set up the opportunity but God saw to it that Israel was not only not cursed...they were blessed by the words that came out of Balaam....so blessed that he spoke a fourth time and proclaimed a Savior would come from the lineage of Jacob
Apparently Gaetz didn’t.
They are the insurrectionists and are traitors to boot.
They cannot beat him at the ballot box so they have to cheat.
Not exactly Nostradamus there. This one is so easy to see, Stevie Wonder can see it.
Here’s the amazing thing: One man, Donald Trump, is the focus of their energies. Which tells me that there is one man who is against the status quo, one man who is for the people, Donald Trump.
I am going to help him.
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They’re going to try toiletbowlgate, and phoneloggate in their insane attempt to stop Trump.
They are creaming their depends over the truckers and Trump. They have never hesitated to use law enforcement for political purposes, and are doing just that right now.
It’s not over yet! As the masks are ripped off and thrown away, they’re going to have to get more creative to find ways to destroy this country.
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