Posted on 12/20/2022 8:58:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Monday, the partisan January 6 committee declared that it would refer former President Donald Trump—and others they claim are culpable for the Capitol riot—to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
This was hardly surprising. The entire purpose of the J6 Committee was not a legitimate investigation of the events of that day but rather a taxpayer-funded partisan witchhunt with the sole intention of preventing Trump from becoming president again.
Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) admitted it earlier this year when she said, “the single most important thing, though, is to ensure that Donald Trump is not the Republican nominee and that he certainly is not anywhere close to the Oval Office ever again.”
The only way to do that would be for him to be charged and convicted of inciting or giving aid or comfort in a “rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States,” which their criminal referral recommends he be charged with. This was always the endgame of the committee. That’s why Pelosi stacked it with only Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans.
That’s also why Trump laughed off the criminal referral.
“These folks don’t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Americans know that I pushed for 20,000 troops to prevent violence on Jan 6, and that I went on television and told everyone to go home… The people understand that the Democratic Bureau of Investigation, the DBI, are out to keep me from running for president because they know I’ll win and that this whole business of prosecuting me is just like impeachment was — a partisan attempt to sideline me and the Republican Party.”
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The committee’s criminal referral is not legally binding. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department will ultimately decide whether or not to pursue the charges. It is unlikely that the DOJ will be influenced by the referral.
Bkmk
Like with the hearings themselves, BIG MEDIA (Fake News) will carry the LIES about PDT in unison day and night ad nauseum, while covering up key truths by its deafening silence about them...
IGNORE THIS AT YOUR PERIL, AMERICA!
Garland will keep this hanging over Trump’s head for the next 1 1/2 years. Ultimately, they won’t charge him with anything because that would allow the Trump team to get access to all the evidence, including the 14,000 hours of security video. His team would also be able to drag Pelosi, Bowser, and others into court to say why they didn’t accept the offer of 10,000 National Guard troops. They could call Ray Epps as a witness. They could call Wray and ask him, under oath, about the number of agents and informants there.
They definitely don’t want any of this information to get out there, so they’ll decide to not charge him. But, they’ll use the threat to scare people away from Trump.
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