{"id":1695498,"date":"2022-10-14T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695498"},"modified":"2022-10-16T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:05:45","slug":"trumps-testimony-could-cripple-the-january-6-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-testimony-could-cripple-the-january-6-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Testimony Could Cripple the January 6 Committee"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ftrumps-testimony-could-cripple-the-january-6-committee%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=1695498&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><strong>Trump\u2019s Testimony Could Cripple the January 6 Committee: <\/strong>Following what could be the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/3686309-live-coverage-january-6-committee-takes-aim-at-trump\/\">conclusion<\/a> of \u201cinvestigations\u201d ahead of the midterms, the January 6 Committee voted on Thursday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/the-donald-trump-subpoena-is-impeachment-3-0\/\">subpoena<\/a> former President Donald Trump. It is the culmination of 15 months of work by House Democrats to paint a picture of Republican-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/could-joe-bidens-maga-speech-help-get-reelected-in-2024\/\">political violence<\/a> and an attempted \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/donald-trumps-january-6th-coup-attempt-what-would-thucydides-think\/\">coup<\/a>\u201d orchestrated by the former president. <\/p>\n<p>While some may have been shocked by the revelation that Trump is now expected to be quizzed by the committee over their wild accusations, the truth is that this was always going to happen. Not only that, but this decision is part of a broader campaign not just to demonize Trump and his millions of supporters but to imprison the former president and send a message that standing up to the D.C. \u201cBlob\u201d will not be tolerated. <\/p>\n<p>Subpoenaing the president, however, might also prove the downfall of the January 6 committee as it launches a last-ditched effort for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/what-a-second-trump-term-would-look-like\/\">Democrats<\/a> to fundraise ahead of a difficult election for the governing party. <\/p>\n<p>A Flawed Committee <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/the-january-6-committee-is-just-political-porn-for-trump-haters\/\">I\u2019ve written before<\/a> about how the January 6 committee was fundamentally flawed. This committee was founded on the supposed basis that Trump incited a riot and insurrection \u2013 a contested claim not backed by the evidence. It\u2019s a committee that also claims to investigate the \u201corigins\u201d of the riot.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/21\/1018850848\/pelosi-rejects-2-gop-nominees-for-the-jan-6-panel-citing-integrity-of-the-probe\">did not seat<\/a> a single member who disagrees with this contested notion and has not taken any steps to explore evidence that suggests the contested claim is not valid to begin with. A proper investigation would have allowed the Republicans\u2019 picks to sit on the panel and spent time exploring the possibility that the claims made against the former president may not be true. <\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not what happened. Instead of an investigation, we have a politically motivated, partisan committee that has made no attempt to hide the fact that this is an effort to \u201csave\u201d the United States from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/donald-trump-wins-2024-polls-show-biden-would-lose-in-a-rematch\/\">another Trump presidency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Democrats Fear Trump 2.0 <\/p>\n<p>In an unhinged essay for Slate, Dahlia Lithwick described her fear of a future Trump administration and argued against the decision to subpoena the former president. For Lithwick, allowing Trump to speak after the \u201cinvestigation\u201d concludes takes away from what she claimed was \u201cdevastating evidence\u201d that Trump incited a \u201ccoup.\u201d Lithwick\u2019s \u201cdevastating evidence\u201d was a hyperlink to <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/10\/jan-6-last-hearing-trump-knew-he-lost.html?fbclid=IwAR3z7wvl1DZLHypDFCZvKrV8EvraHodc55mzF8ZRPsMcqRhnn8bM3DHpPNY\">another Slate article<\/a> in which no evidence was provided that Trump endorsed, facilitated, or encouraged a riot or insurrection. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I also scared out of my mind about Trump evading accountability for his myriad crimes, running for office in 2024, and vaulting us all into what will doubtless be the end of the free world as we know it immediately thereafter? Why yes, yes I am,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/10\/january-6-hearings-ending-trump-subpoena.html\">Lithwick wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithwick is not alone. For Democrats, the investigation was just another way to fill the airwaves with obsessive anti-Trump smear campaigns and propaganda. With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/the-federal-reserves-big-interest-rate-hike-could-spark-an-economy-crisis\/\">faltering economy<\/a>, rising costs of living, and the prospect of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/a-winter-war-in-ukraine-favors-russia-and-will-be-bloody\/\">World War Three<\/a> on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s Testimony Could Cripple the January 6 Committee: Following what could be the conclusion of \u201cinvestigations\u201d ahead of the midterms, the January 6 Committee voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump. It is the culmination of 15 months of work by House Democrats to paint a picture of Republican-backed political violence and an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695498","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=1695498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}