{"id":1506311,"date":"2022-06-07T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506311"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:20:25","slug":"democrats-straight-up-admit-the-j6-hearings-are-political-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-straight-up-admit-the-j6-hearings-are-political-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Straight Up Admit The J6 Hearings Are Political Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-straight-up-admit-the-j6-hearings-are-political-theater%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506311&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times laid out the Democrat Party\u2019s playbook for the January 6 hearings Tuesday, with some Democrats admitting in the article that the hearings are political theater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings\u2026to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it,\u201d The New Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/07\/us\/politics\/jan-6-hearings-tv-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrat operatives and politicians were quoted in the story admitting that the hearings might provide the political clout their party needed for the midterm elections. Battling rampant inflation, a war in Eastern Europe and rising prices for gas and other goods, Democrats seem poised to use the January 6 hearings to make a political point about Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen these hearings are over, voters will know how irresponsibly complicit Republicans were in attempting to toss out their vote and just how far Republicans will go to gain power for themselves,\u201d New York Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney told The New York Times. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/06\/marco-rubio-slams-jan-6-commission-partisan-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Rubio: Jan. 6 Commission Is A \u2018Partisan Scam\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maloney did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/1533765645132767232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>\u00a0Monday on Twitter, \u201cThe House will fully expose the cult\u2019s extreme effort to overthrow the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Anat Shenker-Osorio, the founder of the left-wing political consulting firm ASO Communications, said the hearings could grab the attention of Democrats\u2019 much-needed swing voters come November, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJan. 6 is very much salient and highly negative to these likely midterm voters,\u201d Shenker-Osorio said, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>However, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama and CNN analyst David Axelrod <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1534126089110540288?s=21&#038;t=ijfIWVViwDIJJ_ZPJHmUDQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed skepticism<\/a> about Democats\u2019 hearings playbook Tuesday. Axelrod wrote that the party is \u201ccasting the hearings as a political cudgel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were a member of the 1\/6 committee, stories like these, casting the hearings as a political cudgel, would make me very unhappy,\u201d Axelrod said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet facts speak for themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If I were a member of the 1\/6 committee, stories like these, casting the hearings as a political cudgel, would make me very unhappy.<br \/>Conversely, Rs, who hope to dismiss damning findings as partisan, will seize on them.<br \/>Let facts speak for themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/akQ827sAPD\">https:\/\/t.co\/akQ827sAPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1534126089110540288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats have hired former ABC News president James Goldston to produce the hearings. Goldston <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/06\/former-abc-news-president-james-goldston-epstein-story-jan-6-hearings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was president of ABC<\/a> when the network squashed the story of Jeffrey\u00a0Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre back in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times laid out the Democrat Party\u2019s playbook for the January 6 hearings Tuesday, with some Democrats admitting in the article that the hearings are political theater.\u201cWith their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}