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The Failed Omnibus Would Have Let The J6 Committee Off The Hook For Framing Trump
The Federalist ^ | December 19, 2024 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 12/19/2024 3:52:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats are trying to insulate their Jan 6. probe from scrutiny because they know they destroyed and suppressed evidence.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s scrapped omnibus spending bill would have made it nearly impossible for congressional investigators to expose what the corrupt Jan. 6 Select Committee was trying to cover up at a time when new facts are coming to light about the extent of the Select Committee’s censorship and destruction of records.

A section in the bloated omnibus spending bill, which would have funded the government through March 2025, allowed lawmakers to block subpoenas that demand information from the House — a provision obviously aimed at shielding members of the now-defunct Select Committee from further scrutiny and possible criminal charges. 

Given recent revelations about the Select Committee on January 6, it’s no wonder House Democrats tried to sneak a section into the sprawling spending bill that would have protected them. An interim report released earlier this week by House Republicans shows that the overarching goal of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee was to hide the truth about Jan. 6 and concoct a narrative blaming President Donald Trump for the riots at the U.S. Capitol that day.

The top lines from the nearly 130-page report by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, as my colleague Tristan Justice detailed, are shocking enough on their own.

The Jan. 6 Committee destroyed more than a terabyte of digital data, including video records of hundreds of witness interviews that House Republicans examining the committee were unable to access, along with more than 100 encrypted, password protected documents, for which Democrats never provided the passwords.

The report also confirmed that Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice chair, colluded with “star witness” Cassidy Hutchinson using the encrypted...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; corruption; dirtydems; lizzid
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...the overarching goal of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee was to hide the truth about Jan. 6 and concoct a narrative blaming President Donald Trump for the riots at the U.S. Capitol that day.

Lock her up!

1 posted on 12/19/2024 3:52:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dont assume it was the Dems that tried to sneak that by.


2 posted on 12/19/2024 3:55:43 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does Congress have the ability to “let someone off the hook?” As far as I know, no, they don’t. The President has the ability to pardon or commute, but Congress doesn’t have any such power.


3 posted on 12/19/2024 3:58:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Reply to this as a reason for giving ALL of them pardons.


4 posted on 12/19/2024 4:00:13 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Johnson helped negotiate this. Dude is a snake.


5 posted on 12/19/2024 4:00:38 PM PST by circlecity
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To: Mark

Biden will pardon them all.


6 posted on 12/19/2024 4:00:59 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (i )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It was also designed to hamper RFKjr . . .

"The Secretary may not revise the Vaccine Injury Table to include a vaccine for which the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has issued a recommendation for routine use in children or pregnant women until at least one application for such vaccine has been approved.

7 posted on 12/19/2024 4:01:44 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a disgrace that dead CR was!


8 posted on 12/19/2024 4:02:15 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: circlecity

It also had all kinda Vax, biolab, and vaccine passport bullshit in it.

And Mike making like it’s all just normal.


9 posted on 12/19/2024 4:03:37 PM PST by OKSooner (Get the US out of the UN, and get the UN out of the US!)
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To: nickcarraway
The “bill would have made it nearly impossible for congressional investigators to expose what the corrupt Jan. 6 Select Committee was trying to cover up”.
That would have been a disaster!
We need to bring the Jan Committee criminals to book, especially Liz Cheney and Kinzinger.
10 posted on 12/19/2024 4:06:42 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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I’m just wondering if such a thing is under the purview of Congress.


11 posted on 12/19/2024 4:08:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: All

The Republicans gave Biden whatever he wanted.

The Republicans - and Massie - raised the Debt ceiling for Biden and then moved back the Debt Ceiling Vote until lame duck time for Joe Biden.

As predicted, now the GOP is going to pretend they’re fiscal hawks after spending Trillions for Joe, and every woke program out there.

It is impossible to pay off the over $36 Trillion dollar debt. Ask any mathematician.

This is like Trump’s first term, the Republicans wouldn’t fund the Wall due to costs.


12 posted on 12/19/2024 4:12:37 PM PST by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And Johnson went to the floor with that bill. Is there more to this or is he that big of a rhino scumbag and thus should be on his way out? Or is he playing the cards Trump asked him to?


13 posted on 12/19/2024 4:16:01 PM PST by DAC21
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To: nickcarraway

The bill was going to curtail subpoena power against Congress critters.


14 posted on 12/19/2024 4:18:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That bill has not failed.

Not yet.

The vote on the 116 page bill shows that Hakeem Jeffries has a functional 235 seat majority (215 + 20 Republicans) for any matters of vital interest to the Left and the Deep State. Sometimes this majority can grow to 245 or more.

It’s not a MAGA House and it’s time to stop pretending that it is.


15 posted on 12/19/2024 4:19:01 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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It’s not a MAGA House and it’s time to stop pretending that it is.

Well, I guess we should just give up and wear sack cloth and ashes, then.

16 posted on 12/19/2024 4:20:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

...NEGATIVE, send her to Gitmo and hang her!


17 posted on 12/19/2024 4:33:29 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of stretched necks )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And throw away the key.


18 posted on 12/19/2024 4:35:57 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

I doubt it.


19 posted on 12/19/2024 4:36:32 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

Sure they can. They can make matters into crimes, and abolish crimes already in the books


20 posted on 12/19/2024 4:37:35 PM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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