The House Select Committee recently took a break from prosecuting political dissidents to declare the brutal protest was premeditated. Yet House Democrats impeached Donald Trump on January 13, 2021, on the basis of insisting that the riot was spontaneously triggered by the President’s address at the White House that day despite the first violent action taking place before Trump finished speaking.
“The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said in a statement declaring her intent to impeach. “Everything that followed was his doing.”
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The Committee Cheney now serves on as vice-chair, though, has embraced a new theory with allegations the Capitol assault was a pre-planned attack by far-Right extremists. So will Liz be man enough to admit she voted to impeach in haste and out of spite?
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“The House Select Committee investigating January 6 appears to believe the Capitol attack included a coordinated assault perpetrated by the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys militia groups that sought to physically stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory,” The Guardian reported Friday. “The panel’s working theory – which has not been previously reported though the Justice Department has indicted some militia group leaders – crystallized this week after obtaining evidence of the coordination in testimony and non-public video, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
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In August, the FBI threw cold water on the notion of an “organized plot” staged by far-right groups to storm the Capitol when it briefed the nine-member panel on the agency’s findings. What proof the January 6 Committee may use to conclude otherwise, though, remains under seal as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s deputies have blocked shared access with minority lawmakers. The FBI has simultaneously stonewalled GOP requests to circumvent the speaker’s embargo on relevant news to Republicans. Both of these actions may make the committee legally suspect.
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Last summer, Pelosi took the self-described “unprecedented” step of barring Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s appointments on the Select Committee for the first time in congressional history. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who was appointed to serve as ranking member, has spearheaded Republicans’ separate inquiry into the Capitol security failures instead, centered on Pelosi’s culpable negligence in the run-up to January 6. The January 6 Select Committee has explicitly vowed to avoid probing Pelosi’s conduct despite testimony from former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund that the speaker rejected National Guard requests to help six times.
The idea of a coordinated attack on the Capitol undermines Democrats’ assertion that Trump and White House staff were solely responsible for the outburst that ensued on congressional grounds.