MAGA World appears to be quiet when it comes to the news coming out of the final meeting of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. Other than a few sneers from Donald Trump on his personal social media platform, the House and Senate Republicans haven’t been defending the leader of their party.
Read the Jan 6 Cmte Exec Summary.
Trump said way back when that if you’re guilty of something, you don’t take the Fifth. Well, folks, one of the things we discovered in the executive summary is the number of people around Trump who pleaded the Fifth. More than 30 witnesses before the select committee issued the Fifth Amendment privilege, and refused on that basis to provide testimony.
And another thing — the Jan 6 Committee report was not issued in secret. It’s been advertised for weeks that the Committee would release their findings to the public today. In spite of the fact that there has been a lot of warning that the report was coming, the Republican Party did absolutely nothing to address, attack, or refute the Committee’s findings. Republicans did not have a war room pushing out information things to try to counter this powerful story that echoed through the halls of Congress this afternoon. NO ONE IS STEPPING UP TO DEFEND TRUMP.
Jan 6 Cmte asked Trump’s co-conspirators for proof the election was stolen. They all refused to answer and took the Fifth.
Although President Donald Trump has accused the House Select Committee of turning a blind eye to the purported mass fraud he believes cost him the 2020 presidential election, it turns out that the committee did ask his allies to back up their election fraud claims under oath.
The executive summary of the committee’s final report states that it asked multiple election conspiracists — including John Eastman, Michael Flynn, Jenna Ellis, and Phil Waldron — for evidence of election fraud and that “all invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination” in response.
In addition to this, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani acknowledged to the committee that he did not buy claims that Dominion Voting Systems’ machines had stolen the election from Trump, and his ally Bernard Kerik acknowledged that “it was impossible… to determine conclusively whether there was widespread fraud or whether that widespread fraud would have altered the outcome of the election.”
In sum, writes the committee in the executive summary, “Not a single witness–nor any combination of witnesses–provided the Select Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any State.”