{"id":1523923,"date":"2022-06-20T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523923"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:19:22","slug":"the-jan-6-committee-is-after-more-than-midterm-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-jan-6-committee-is-after-more-than-midterm-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jan 6 Committee Is After More Than Midterm Votes"},"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%2Fthe-jan-6-committee-is-after-more-than-midterm-votes%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=1523923&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--><p><em>Commentary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows the common adage that \u201cthose on the left think that the right is evil, whereas those on the right just think that the left is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our current political landscape might be better summed up as a battle between those who constitute the Washington-ruling class establishment\u2014including members of both parties\u2014versus those who believe the purpose of government is to serve the interests of its citizenry. The conclusion subsequently changes: We <em>know<\/em> that they are malicious and power-hungry, and they think that we are just dumb.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better example of this than the shameless utilization of the Jan. 6\u00a0Capitol riot as a tool to crush political opposition. The proceedings of the establishment uniparty congressional committee have proven as much. The \u201creally chilling\u201d proof of a \u201cbroad \u2026 extremely well organized\u201d conspiracy that was promised by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has yet to show up. But that was never really the point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4527389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11\/rep-liz-cheney-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4527389\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11\/rep-liz-cheney-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) speaks during a House Jan. 6 panel hearing in Washington on June 9, 2022. (Mandel Ngan\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>At the same time, the purpose is not just to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/our-own-stalinist-moment_4520010.html?utm_source=ref_share&#038;utm_campaign=copy&#038;rs=SHRLXJQM&#038;\">galvanize<\/a> voters for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-midterm\">midterm<\/a> elections. Making Donald Trump and his supporters look bad to hurt his endorsed candidates is certainly a factor in the equation. By almost any metric, American social, political, and economic life has declined since Joe Biden took office. If establishment politicians don\u2019t want to get crushed in November, deflecting blame is imperative.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Summers, the former U.S. treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, perhaps had the most laughable recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/06\/12\/larry-summers-blames-banana-republicans-january-6-for-inflation\/\">example<\/a> of playing the distraction game:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banana Republicans, who are saying that what happened on January 6th was nothing or okay, are undermining the basic credibility of our country\u2019s institutions, and that in turn feeds through for inflation. Because if you can\u2019t trust the country\u2019s government, why would you trust its money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 riot is not only a bludgeon to wield against Trump-adjacent politicians in the upcoming election, however. It is also a tool to keep the former president and his supporters from ever holding office again.<\/p>\n<p>Those following the show trials will notice a concerted (and desperate) effort to prove that Trump has the power to call up a personal army. This fanatic base of support is answerable only to Trump and is simply waiting for his command to violently overthrow the institutions of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The initial hearing-turned primetime spectacle on June 9\u00a0set the pace to prove this false premise. The worst clips were selected from the Capitol protests and time stamped to suggest the unfolding of some carefully preplanned sinister conspiracy, all interspersed with video footage of Trump on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>At certain points, some of the more heinous moments of the rioting were presented with the overlay of out-of-context audio of Trump speaking, usually denying the legitimacy of the election. The suggestion is clear: the loyal minions were just dutifully following their leader\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4392966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Reuters_Jan6_Capitol-1200x714-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-4392966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Reuters_Jan6_Capitol-1200x714-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4392966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Reuters_Jan6_Capitol-1200x714-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Protesters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Magana\/AP Photo)<\/figure>\n<p>Since Trump can\u2019t be shown as explicitly calling for an attack on the Capitol, a more in-depth strategy must be shown to have taken place. The media loves the idea of secret right-wing dog whistles, so it would be no issue sticking to that script. However, that raises the question of who exactly was the intended Manchurian candidate for Trump\u2019s crypto-signals?<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Much of the commission\u2019s hearings have focused on proving that these groups acted directly on Trump\u2019s behalf. That is also why there has been such a heavy focus on the fact that his alleged claims of voter fraud had already been debunked, and the people around him were trying to dissuade him from sticking to the accusation of a \u201cstolen election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump is pictured as a deranged madman trying to cling to the presidency: having lost support from those in his cabinet and even his family, he desperately turns to the militant vanguard of his supporters. Suppose it can be shown that Trump was calling on supposed \u201cmilitia groups\u201d to go to Washington and resist the transference of power. In that case, it becomes plausible that the president is responsible for anything those groups may have done or intended to do.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has yet to reveal secret hidden correspondence worthy of sedition or an in-depth coordinated plan to overthrow the U.S. government. However, it has spent significant time crafting the illusion that racist, white supremacist groups (in reality, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are neither) act as Trump\u2019s own Praetorian Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Mere minutes into the first hearing, committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/bennie-thompson-invokes-kkk-slavery-lynching-january-6-hearing\/\">told us<\/a> about how the Jan. 6\u00a0riot was the moral equivalent of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan\u2014just to make sure there were no misgivings as to what this was all <em>really<\/em> about. A black Capitol police officer was called to testify how Trump supporters hurled racist insults at him because he said he had voted for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the body cam footage that was taken on that day, one wonders whether this was also captured. If it was, it is surprising that the committee does not have it running on video loop behind the entire hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A constant focus on the ethereal concept of white supremacy means that political opposition can be castigated as racist, making it not only illegitimate but a threat. The fight to keep any supporters of the president out of office\u2014increasingly, through whatever means necessary\u2014subsequently becomes a moral duty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4531468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bennie-thompson-1200x800-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-4531468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bennie-thompson-1200x800-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Bennie Thompson\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4531468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bennie-thompson-1200x800-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Bennie Thompson\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rep. Bennie Thompson, Jan. 6 Committee chairman, speaks during a \u201cHouse Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol\u201d in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 13, 2022. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>As a side note, Thompson is also chair of the Homeland Security Committee. That means that the man who is clearly attempting to depict his political opposition (regardless of what party they are affiliated with, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are <em>not<\/em> his political opposition) as white supremacist-domestic terrorists, is also heading congressional oversight of security legislation and the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>The June 9\u00a0hearings ended with members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers on video saying that they had shown up in Washington largely because Trump had told them to, the implication being clear: they had stormed the Capitol because that is what they believed Trump was calling on them to do. This has also been a central focus of the subsequent commission hearings. The misrepresentation has the intended side-effect of poisoning the well of potential jurors for the defendants\u2019 own day in court.<\/p>\n<p>That could prove to be crucial for prosecutors, as a specific and rare legal definition must be met in order to convict on sedition charges. According to the standards of American justice, those prosecutors <em>should<\/em> still be facing an uphill battle against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers currently in custody.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2022\/06\/09\/justice-department-colludes-with-congress-to-bolster-the-insurrection-narrative\/\">stated<\/a> by Julie Kelley at American Greatness:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the 32-page indictment [of Proud Boys for sedition] contained no new information aside from a few irrelevant details; much of it rehashed previous filings in the case. Nonetheless, Graves claimed the men conspired to \u2018oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force, by opposing the authority of the Government of the United States and by preventing, hindering, or delaying by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of powerful,\u2019 referring to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, if the odds can be stacked against the defendants beforehand, the likelihood of getting even just one conviction increases. The Sussmann case (among many others) clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-establishment-wins-in-sussmann-case-and-no-one-is-surprised_4508163.html?utm_source=ref_share&#038;utm_campaign=copy&#038;rs=SHRLXJQM&#038;\">exhibited<\/a> the fact that the Washington establishment is not afraid to play dirty. At least one of the Proud Boys awaiting trial has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/philly-proud-boys-leader-rehl-says-jan-6-hearing-jury-2022-6?op=1\">requested<\/a> that the sedition trial be moved out of Washington due to \u201cprejudicial pretrial publicity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 Committee has worked hard to show the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were acting on behalf of orders from Trump. If a conviction does arise, then it becomes more feasible to say that Trump himself is guilty of sedition. Criminal charges against the former president then become plausible, and the Washington establishment gets that much closer to ensuring that Trump can never run for office again.<\/p>\n<p><i>Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-dominick-sansone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ttl7daynwd_WEB_DominickSansone.jpg\" alt=\"Dominick Sansone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dominick Sansone is a PhD student at the Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. He is a regular contributor to The Epoch Times, and has additionally been published at The American Conservative, The Federalist, and the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CommentaryEveryone knows the common adage that \u201cthose on the left think that the right is evil, whereas those on the right just think that the left is wrong.\u201d Our current<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523923","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\/1523923","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523923\/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=1523923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}