Republicans Pushing To Investigate Jan 6 Investigators All Played Parts In Efforts To Overturn 2020 Election

Now that they finally have a new House speaker, some congressional Republicans are mounting an effort to question the select committee investigation into the January 6 attack that wrapped up last year. Their push is the perfect fox and the henhouse type scenario. Some of the members most loudly attempting to question the official probe — including the new speaker — played a part in elements of the conspiracy-fueled push to challenge the 2020 presidential election results that was a major focus of the investigation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1474320
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Church Mouse sez whut?

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The next Congress, not this one, presides over the Electoral College certification.

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Yeah. Thanks for the reminder.

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Mike Johnson’s countenance smacks of smugness.

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Very punchable face. Am I wrong here?

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And the way that the Republicans are acting there may well be two or three other SOTH before the next election.

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We have a party running on retribution and a electorate stupid enough to believe that they will not be personally affected. The president is too old, the southern border is chaos, and inflation is running away, better give Trump another, what could we possibly lose?

Historians mark August 24, 410 AD when the Visigoths under Alaric sacked Rome as the end of the Western Roman Empire. Future historians will mark January 20, 2025 when Washington gets sacked by vindictive horde of Vandals led by Trumperic as the the beginning of the end of the American Empire.

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Johnson would ask for a second one.

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I dunno, but he would probably enjoy a spanking.

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These are not serious people.

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His face says I just ate a butterfly. It feels funny. I’m not sure I can keep it down.

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Or simple idiocy.

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Johnson, like Trump, lips move but the words come out his ass.

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As the Bulwark noted, the footage shows a man who is not a federal agent holding a vape pen rather than a badge.

But was it a Fed vape pen?

Everybody knows that undercover Feds identify each other through vape pens. /s

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They are not mutually exclusive…

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Their push is the perfect fox and the henhouse type scenario. Some of the members most loudly attempting to question the official probe — including the new speaker — played a part in elements of the conspiracy-fueled push to challenge the 2020 presidential election results that was a major focus of the investigation.

Oh, c’mon, these are VERY serious elected officials. I’m absolutely certain they are only investigating to determine why they themselves have not been charged/indicted for their parts in the wonderful Capitol Tour of January 6th… /snark

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Nah. There will be people who talk about violence in Jan 2025 after Trump loses, but the only reason Jan 2021 worked even as well as it did was because they had their guys in charge in key places. Let’s see those yahoos actually engage with a US Government that doesn’t want them to break in.

ETA: Also at least some of them are either in jail or sufficiently scared off after prosecuting them last time.

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And I have no doubt that Hakeem Jeffries will be presiding.

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I don’t even think a punch is necessary. You could shove him and he would crumple.

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