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According to Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, Democrats’ investigation into the incident that occurred at the Capitol last January is a “political operation” intended to prevent Donald Trump from running for president in 2024.
“There’s been subpoenas issued to 11 individuals, 11 American citizens who asked the government permission on an application to hold the Trump rally,” Jordan told OAN during an interview at CPAC this weekend.
Jordan continued:
“The government granted it and now the January 6 committee petitions them to ask them questions about exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.
“And why would they subpoena me? I didn’t do anything wrong — I talked to the president. I talk to the president all the time. I just think that’s — you know where I’m at on this commission — this is all about going after President Trump. That seems obvious.”
Further decrying the action, Jordan noted “everyone in the country sees this as a political operation. This is designed to get after President Trump. Because they don’t want him to run again.”
WATCH:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accused by a top member of the House committee that oversees Capitol security of attempting to conceal security plans.
Rodney Davis, an Illinois Republican member of Congress, told John Solomon Reports in an interview that Pelosi is refusing to release evidence detailing the security preparations prior to the Jan. 6 riot.
“We know there were intelligence analysis failures at the Capitol Police,” Davis stated. “Our job is to protect the Capitol, and they’re making the same bad decisions.”
In the wake of the incident at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Police made several changes and reforms. However, some lawmakers claim that not enough has been done.
Davis asserted Pelosi blocked the release of information, including contemporaneous communications, that documented the Capitol Police and the House Sergeant at Arms’ discussions regarding security needs. These discussions were made before a planned January 6 protest by Donald Trump supporters. A small percentage of those in attendance became violent.
“They will not comply and give that info to us,” Davis said to Just News.
“At a time when the Speaker through this sham Select Committee is asking and getting voluntarily thousands of communications from people who are no longer employed by the government, she is denying that committee of jurisdiction access to government communications. What is she hiding?” he inquired.
“All we ever asked for is we want communications leading up to and on Jan. 6, we want to be preserved, we want to be turned over to us, because my job, my job is to make sure that the Capitol is secure. And it’s laughable to think that that’s not germane to making sure that we don’t make those same mistakes again,” he explained.
“I fully expect to be chairman when we take the majority. And I guarantee you, we will get these communications. But by then, it’s two years past the time when the American people should have seen what did, or in many cases, did not happen to prepare our cops and our security apparatus prior to January 6.”
The Illinois Republican has submitted a written request for the withheld memos about the security lapses before and during the Jan. 6 incident.
Elise Stefanik, a Republican state representative from New York, incinerated Pelosi on the anniversary of the incident in the nation’s capital on January 6.
As part of a fiery press release, Stefanik stated that Pelosi shares in the blame for the riot of January 6, 2021.
The chair of the Republican Conference in the House, Stefanik, thanked law enforcement for their efforts to contain the chaos last year. She also claimed Pelosi was to blame for leaving the Capitol vulnerable to attacks.
Early last month, Trump blasted Mitch McConnell, saying that he does ‘not represent the voice of the Republican Party’ after McConnell called January 6 an ‘insurrection’ and bemoaned the censure of GOP Reps Adam Kinzinger & Liz Cheney.
Trump ripped into McConnell for not stopping the Biden administration, the ‘fraudulent election’ or the ‘persecution of political opponents’ in a blistering statement. His comments deepen divisions in the GOP, a party some say is on the brink of a civil war.
‘Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters, Trump declared.
‘He did nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history. And he does nothing to stop the lawless Biden Administration, the invasion of our Borders, rising Inflation, Unconstitutional mandates, the persecution of political opponents, fact-finding on the incompentent [sic] Afghanistan withdrawal, the giving away our energy independence, etc., which is all because of the fraudulent election. Instead, he bails out the Radical Left and the RINOs.’
Even after McConnell helped expedite Trump’s tax cuts and court nominees, Trump and McConnell have had a long-running feud. In spite of voting for Trump’s acquittal in his second impeachment, McConnell denounced Trump after the January 6 riot.
McConnell said he believed January 6 was an ‘insurrection’ after the RNC passed a resolution that said the Democrat committee’s probe of January 6 was a persecution of protesters engaged in ‘legitimate political discourse.’ The resolution also censured Cheney and Kinzinger.
Source: The Republic Brief