THE SWORD OF JUSTICE, NOT VENGEANCE
'His Terrible Swift Sword" - Time to Enforce the Just Rule of Law on Lawbreakers
This morning when I fired up my Yahoo home page, the following was one of the news items listed there:
After investigating Jan. 6, House GOP sides with Trump and goes after Liz Cheney (scroll down for full article)
The opening paragraph of this Yahoo News piece reads as follows:
"Wrapping up their own investigation on the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded it's former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney who should be prosecuted for probing what happened when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election."
Instantly recognizing this deceitful attempt at misdirection, I scrolled down to the comments section and posted a response as follows:
You Yahoo people are incorrigible. As in the past, your ongoing coverage of the landslide election victor and now popularly mandated President Donald Trump and his supporters simply reeks of dishonest, hateful bias. Your opening sentence is a prime example:
"Wrapping up their own investigation on the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol attack, HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE CONCLUDED IT'S FORMER GOP REP. LIZ CHENEY WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR PROBING WHAT HAPPENED when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election."
This is pure deceit, and you know it. The GOP investigation did not conclude that Cheney and her Democrat/RINO January 6th Moscow show trial collaborators should be prosecuted "for probing what happened" on January 6th. The problem was not the inquiry itself, but in the lawless, grossly biased and unjust methods employed by the Jan 6th committee - all targeted at condemning and destroying DJT.
The prosecution of Cheney and her fellow Democrat/RINO Jan 6th Committe conspirators is thus merited - and indeed mandatory for the sake of reestablishing the just rule of law in America - trashed for four years under the illegitimate Biden - based on the outrageous, lawless and unjust way the committee conducted the inquiry - most egregiously, among much other glaring misconduct, the subsequent illegal destruction of evidence:
House Jan. 6 Committee Deleted Files Days Before GOP Majority in House: Report
"If the law be down, such a wind will blow in the land that no man can stand." - Sir Thomas More
Put them in jail!
It will come as no surprise that Yahoo, opening yet another window on the depth of their corruption and dishonesty - their hostility to the truth - flagged and blocked my comment, declaring it not in keeping with their "community standards".
Not a “community” I care to be a part of…
The second paragraph of the Yahoo News piece is no better than the first:
"The findings issued Tuesday show the Republican Party working to reinforce Trump's desire to punish his perceived enemies including Cheney and members of the Jan. 6 committee that the president-elect has said should be in jail."
Indeed, is it a revolutionary idea that those who break the duly constituted laws of the land should be called to account and, where and how the law requires, punished for their lawbreaking?
Notwithstanding Trump's repeatedly stated intention to get his revenge not by attacking his enemies as they lawlessly attacked him, but by "making America great again", the writer here, ignoring the underlying legal issues, insults the intelligence of readers, as the liberal media is wont to do, by imputing wicked, vindictive motives to Trump and the GOP - alleging their purported desire to "punish [their] perceived enemies" - rather than focusing on the elephant in the room - the fact that the Jan 6th Committee, in their determination to discredit and destroy Donald Trump, ran roughshod over the just rule of law, conducted a pathetically transparent Moscow show trial and richly deserve to be called to account for the laws they broke - including, as above noted, the illegal destruction of evidence.
As Donald Trump observed long ago, "Either the law means something, or it doesn't."
We are about to witness just how much the just rule of law matters in America.
A big battle won in the election, but the war goes on...
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, patriotism vs. treason, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless...
Torquemada
After investigating Jan. 6, House GOP sides with Trump and goes after Liz Cheney
LISA MASCARO
Updated Tue, December 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM MST·5 min read
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wrapping up their own investigation on the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded it's former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney who should be prosecuted for probing what happened when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.
The findings issued Tuesday show the Republican Party working to reinforce Trump's desire to punish his perceived enemies including Cheney and members of the Jan. 6 committee that the president-elect has said should be in jail.
House Administration Committee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., wrote, “Until we hold accountable those responsible, and reform our institutions, we will not fully regain trust.”
The panel Republicans' 128-page interim report arrives as Trump is preparing his return to the White House and working to staff his administration with officials at the highest levels, including Kash Patel as FBI Director, who appear like-minded in his efforts at retribution. Trump also vows to pardon people who were convicted for roles in the riot at the Capitol.
It revisits long-running Republican arguments that Trump is not to blame for the attack on the Capitol. The Department of Justice has prosecuted some 1,500 people including the leaders of the militant Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, and indicted Trump on four criminal charges, including conspiracy to overturn the election. Special counsel Jack Smith has since abandoned the case against Trump ahead of the inauguration in adherence to Justice Department guidelines that sitting presidents cannot be charged.
But the new report's conclusion singles out Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, and herself once a rising conservative star who was kicked out of GOP leadership after her vote to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. Once she became vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, Cheney lost her own reelection to a Trump-backed challenger in Wyoming. By fall, Cheney was working to stop Trump from returning to the White House, having campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Cheney on Tuesday delivered a detailed defense of her committee’s painstaking work, the 900-page Jan. 6 report released in December 2022, and said Loudermilk’s own report “disregards the truth.”
"January 6th showed Donald Trump for who he really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said in a statement.
“Now, Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”
President Joe Biden is considering issuing pardons to spare members of Congress and others from Trump’s wrath. But several of the people involved have said they are not seeking or don’t want pardons from Biden.
Among those Trump wants prosecuted are Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Cheney and others members of the Jan. 6 committee, as well as Smith, the DOJ special counsel who indicted Trump.
The report's release comes at a timely moment when Congress will be asked in the weeks ahead to confirm the results of the 2024 election. But unlike four years ago, when Republicans refused to accept Biden's victory over Trump and claimed voter fraud, the Democrats say they trust and accept the election results.
The GOP panel's findings revisit the multiple security failings on Jan. 6, 2021, and revive the dispute over the lag in calling in the National Guard, which along with police reinforcements, restored order at the Capitol by nightfall. Congress returned to work that evening and worked into the next morning to certify the 2020 election for Biden.
"This report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6," Loudermilk wrote in an introduction. “The Capitol is no safer today.”
But Loudermilk focuses just as intently on the Jan. 6 committee that then-Speaker Pelosi stood up in the aftermath to investigate what happened, and its leaders Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Cheney.
The report singles out Cheney for prosecution for her role in working with one of the star witnesses against Trump, a former young White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, who provided some of the most detailed descriptions of the defeated president's actions that day.
Hutchinson had testified before the Jan. 6 committee in 2022 hearing that she had not been forthcoming during her first interviews with the panel and had a “moral struggle” and wanted to return.
She eventually ditched her Trump-aligned lawyer and later delivered a blockbuster public hearing, describing Trump at the White House as the Capitol riot unfolded.
Cheney, in her own account in her book “Oath and Honor” of the committee's work, had been crucial in meeting with Cassidy and worried for her safety as she decided to come forward.
Loudermilk's panel concludes these actions are witness tampering and grounds for prosecution.
“Numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney,” the committee wrote in its conclusion. “These violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
It also says Thompson broke House rules in the handling of files and transcripts.
Thompson said the report was filled with “baseless” allegations. “There’s no escaping the reality that Donald Trump bears the responsibility for the deadly January 6th attack no matter how much Mr. Loudermilk would love to rewrite history,” he said.
Trump in an interview earlier this month revived his campaign promises to go after those who blamed him for Jan. 6.
“Honestly, they should go to jail,” referring to members of Congress who investigated the Capitol attack.