Posted on 12/19/2022 12:36:53 PM PST by Red Badger
The House January 6 Committee voted on Monday to recommend the Justice Department charge former President Donald Trump over the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. capitol.
The committee, assembled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), concluded its inquiry with a vote recommending Trump be charged with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection.
The recommendations are largely symbolic as they carry no legal weight. The Justice Department is under no obligation to act on the committee’s recommendations.
In addition to the recommendations to the Justice Department, the committee also voted to recommend four members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas.
The committee’s Monday session caps the work it began when it was launched in July 2021. It conducted more than 1,000 interviews and held ten highly-publicized hearings over the summer to build its case to the Justice Department and the American public that Trump is to blame for the riot on January 6.
The investigation was conducted by seven Democratic and two Republican lawmakers. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) refused to cooperate with the committee after Pelosi rejected several of his nominees to sit on the panel. GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, both of whom supported impeaching Trump over January 6, later volunteered to sit on the committee alongside the Democrats.
The former president has been a vocal critic of the committee’s work, calling it a continuation of the “witch hunt” that began against him in 2016 with FBI counterintelligence probes into false allegations that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian agents.
Prior to Monday’s vote, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed the committee as a “kangaroo court.” He called its hearings over the summer “show trials by Never Trump partisans who are a stain on this country’s history,” according to The New York Times.
In an October memo spanning 14 pages, Trump hit back at the committee that had issued a subpoena for the former president to testify.
“This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt,” Trump said.
Trump is facing a series of investigations from state and federal authorities, including a special counsel investigation led by Jack Smith, who was most recently a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith to the special counsel’s office last month. Smith has taken over responsibility for a DOJ probe into Trump over January 6, 2021, and an investigation into classified documents allegedly kept at Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Well of course they do - it’s the whole reason they existed.
The entire J6 committee should be convicted of treason and hanged.
To distract from the Real criminals the Biden Family
“The recommendations are largely symbolic as they carry no legal weight”
The liberal media will of course conveniently omit that little nugget....you can count on it.
Democrats operate as a team to terrorize and destroy their enemies. The GOP operates as a circular firing squad.
Keep poking the bear!
President in Exile Trump is running again and he’s going to win. This is going to be so. much. fun! :)
They knew their reign of zero existance is about to end on Jan 2nd, they knew it so they had to do something, anything to appease their commie base..they really had no choice, it was either to do this, or look like even bigger ass clowns than they already do..Im gonna go on a limb and say that the DOJ does NOT indict, yeah they will prolong it as long as possible but they wont
Maybe they can make it real fair and have Hillary serve as judge, jury, prosecutor, defense and sole witness.
I suggest all of the j6 committee go and reproduce asexually.
5.56mm
Jsex?...................
Meanwhile the FBI has the Hunter Brandon Laptop, the Weiner Laptop, the Seth Rich Laptop, The Epstein Computers and Video Records, the Hillary emails, and.... nothing happens.
Because the FBI was too busy engineering a COUP against a sitting president of the United States. And still raided his personal residence and personal effects.
Wicked wicked evil Marxist Brandon junta.
The ‘2 republicans’ are actually democrats pretending to be republicans, the very definition of RINO, on the most absurd and compromised congressional committee in US history.
Like a dead blow hammer, these accusations and referrals have no bounce.
Trump will be the nominee for 2024, no matter what these people say or do.
IGNORE THIS AT YOUR PERIL, AMERICA!
Why should they, innuendo mudslinging worked on Nixon, tried but failed with Reagan.
It’s political premature ejaculation to try to deflect against the investigations and scrutiny that these treasonous assholes are about to go under themselves!
The US is on the way to being a banana republic.
That will not save them from the Biden investigations.
Not that anything will come of it. /s
Oh my gosh. DJT just asked biden for a pardon.
oh wait... no he didn’t
And then, to keep with their beloved "green" ways, turned into compost. First useful role they will have paid in their entire miserable lives.
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