The Congressional Integrity Project Challenges Republicans to Focus Investigation on the Activities of the Violent Insurrectionists Pardoned by Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an attempt to rewrite the history of January 6th – the worst domestic attack on our Capitol and democracy in U.S. history – House Republicans quietly buried language in a procedural vote to establish a new GOP-led subcommittee tasked with “investigating” the original January 6th Committee. While Republicans desperately try again to whitewash the violent insurrection, their time would be better spent focused on public safety by investigating what the thousands of violent rioters have been doing since Trump released them into society this January (particularly since at least 10 pardoned insurrectionists have been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for other crimes).
In response, the Congressional Integrity Project released the following statement:
“Congressional Republicans don’t want you to look at the Epstein scandal, they don’t want you to look at RFK Jr.’s dangerous vaccine misinformation, and they don’t want you to look at the disastrous August jobs report. And in case you missed it, they also don’t want you to know that they’re launching a full-scale effort to whitewash January 6th by investigating the very committee that documented what happened.
“House Republicans are so committed to rewriting history that they’re now investigating the investigators while providing cover for the violent insurrectionists Trump has already set free. Here’s what would help the American public: knowing what the violent criminals pardoned by Trump have been up to since January.”
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- By the numbers:
- 1,575 people were charged with a federal crime for their actions on January 6, 2021.
- Nearly 170 people were charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.
- Nearly 600 people were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement agents or officers or obstructing those officers during a civil disorder.
- Law enforcement recap:
- U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards “saw officers writhing in pain from bear spray and tear gas.”
- U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Sergeant Aquilino Gonell said, “What we were subjected to that day was like something from a Medieval battle.”
- Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone recounted hearing “chants of, ‘kill him with his own gun.’”
New Gaslighting Subcommittee Coverage Below:
Politico: House votes to establish a new committee to investigate Jan. 6 attack
- House members voted Wednesday to officially establish a new panel to investigate the events around the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
- It’s the latest chapter in the Republican effort to rewrite the history of the events at the Capitol on that day, when a violent mob stormed the building as lawmakers attempted to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden over Donald Trump.
- Language to create the new, GOP-led select subcommittee was buried in a larger “rule” that included a host of other provisions, including a formal approval of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. It will fall under the purview of the House Judiciary Committee and be chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who will, in his new role, have unilateral authority to issue subpoenas.
- He plans to use his gavel to review security and intelligence failures around the attacks; many GOP lawmakers have blamed then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for allowing the Capitol to be breached in the first place and have in general downplayed the significance of the event.
- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) served on the Democratic-led Jan. 6 committee and will be an ex officio member of the new panel in his capacity as the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
- In a statement, he said the Republican-chaired panel will present an opportunity “to examine the constantly growing criminal records of all the hundreds of violent felons, cop-beaters and white nationalists who Donald Trump pardoned and released onto our streets on his first day in office.”
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