(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked Jan. 6 investigative committee is conducting an unconstitutional and unprecedentedly invasive partisan witch hunt whose purpose is to trace “every dollar raised and spent” on supposedly “conspiratorial” claims that there were problems with the 2020 election, according to the Washington Post.
“Officials with the committee said the day’s events cannot be viewed in a vacuum — and argued that the fundraising and political appeals that happened in the months leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, are a reason the pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol,” the Post reported.
The partisan fishing expedition has therefore sought, as Mollie Hemingway noted in The Federalist, to access “the private financial records of its political opponents and the donors who support them” on the pretext that fundraising appeals may have “radicalized” J6 protestors.
The aim, of course, is to damage Republicans’ ability to fundraise, criminalize dissenting views, and compromise ongoing investigations into election integrity.
According to the Post, the J6 inquisitors have wasted millions in taxpayer money examining “hundreds of email fundraising pitches” and seeking “to match donors who contributed money to records of who was inside or arrested at the Capitol.”
The Committee has even investigated “the owners of a portable-toilet company to find out who paid them to put toilets on the Ellipse the day of the insurrection,” the Post reported.
Liz Cheney and her fellow J6 inquisitors have faced pushback in the form of lawsuits as the Committee seeks to subpoena everything from Taylor Budowich’s bank records to Stephen Miller‘s phone records.
“Does anyone possess Constitutional Rights in the face of a partisan committee?” Budowich asked the Post.
A lawyer for Trump White House aide Dan Scavino told the Post the J6 panel is “acting like a rogue congressional committee trying to conduct themselves like a law enforcement agency.”
Hemingway suggested that if the Committee was really interested in investigating stolen-election claims, it should look into Democrats’ hysterical reaction to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, and the far more damaging consequences of the Russia Hoax.
“If claiming elections were stolen were a crime, the entire Democrat Party and much of the media establishment would be in prison,” Hemingway wrote.
