{"id":545875,"date":"2021-05-30T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=545875"},"modified":"2021-05-30T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:50:20","slug":"fmr-rep-comstock-despite-senate-defeat-of-jan-6-panel-truth-will-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-rep-comstock-despite-senate-defeat-of-jan-6-panel-truth-will-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr. Rep. Comstock: Despite Senate Defeat Of Jan. 6 Panel, &#039;Truth Will Come Out&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Ffmr-rep-comstock-despite-senate-defeat-of-jan-6-panel-truth-will-come-out%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=545875&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-593.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., who helped lobby for a panel to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Sunday she\u2019s not disheartened&nbsp; by the Senate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/capitol-breach-commission\/2021\/05\/28\/id\/1023117\/\">defeat&nbsp;<\/a> of the commission, declaring \u201cthe truth will come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on NBC News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1398993388435816455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cMeet The Press,\u201d<\/a> Comstock hailed&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/sicknick-commission-jan-6\/2021\/05\/27\/id\/1022986\/\">efforts<\/a> to press for a commission by D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn as well as Gladys Sicknick and Sandra Garza, the mother&nbsp;and girlfriend of Capitol Police Officer Brian&nbsp;Sicknick, who died after the assault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know&nbsp;the truth will come out,\u201d Comstock said. \u201cWhen people try and hold&nbsp;these things back, it always&nbsp;comes out in the end. That\u2019s why I think both for the&nbsp;country as well as for&nbsp;Republicans, it would be better&nbsp;to do it sooner rather than&nbsp;later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Comstock, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., \u201cdid promise to&nbsp;advocate that Officer Fanone and&nbsp;Officer Dunn and others on the&nbsp;front lines fighting in what was&nbsp;a medieval battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of&nbsp;people don&#8217;t realize how violent&nbsp;that was&nbsp;officer Fanone was tased 12&nbsp;times at the back of his neck, that he has traumatic brain&nbsp;injuries,\u201d she said. \u201cHe almost died that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are still talking about&nbsp;[the attackers] like [they were] tourists,\u201d she added. \u201cWe need to have the full story&nbsp;out.&nbsp;It&#8217;s going to get out one way or&nbsp;the other, and I think because of the courage of Mrs. Sicknick&nbsp;and the sadness she&#8217;s going to&nbsp;have over this Memorial Day&nbsp;weekend, as will all of the&nbsp;Sicknick family, I think their courage will&nbsp;prevail and we&#8217;ll get to the&nbsp;truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comstock insisted the issue isn\u2019t partisan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis&nbsp;is not about Democrats or&nbsp;Republicans,\u201d she said. \u201cIt&#8217;s about the country and it&#8217;s&nbsp;about getting to the truth and&nbsp;it&#8217;s about protecting the&nbsp;Capitol, the people who work&nbsp;there and also making sure this&nbsp;never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/capitol-police-riot-republicans-senate\/2021\/05\/27\/ba6dfa24-bee9-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a>&nbsp;the probe \u201cextraneous,\u201d and an effort that would not shed light on what happened Jan. 6. Other Republicans decried the commission proposal as a Democratic-driven pursuit of former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related Stories:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., who helped lobby for a panel to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Sunday she\u2019s not disheartened\u00a0 by the Senate\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313523,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-593.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Fmr. Rep. 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