It’s crystal clear to both Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan that dastardly Democrats are “weaponizing” Nancy Pelosi’s hand picked Select Committee. They’re using their so-called “investigation” of the possibly “engineered” barbarian invasion on January 6, 2021, “as a way to go after Republicans.”
Weaponizing the process
The same way that Barack Obama’s plumbers were caught “weaponizing” the Justice Department against Donald Trump, in what’s been called “Obamagate” or “Spygate,” Nancy Pelosi’s laser focused inquisition of the January 6 events is a really serious infraction.
One which shouldn’t be happening in the first place.
Pelosi’s star chamber is so “packed” with partisans that any “House Republican cooperation with the committee,” the lawmakers write, will “change the House forever.” The weaponizing part comes in because the committee has “no effective check on its power.”
Without any guardrails in place, they’re “trampling on fundamental Constitutional rights.” The pair took out a full page in the Wall Street Journal, on Thursday, May 26.
The committee has stooped so low that they are “investigating the political speech of private citizens and demanding access to their personal records and private communications.”
That, right there, is weaponizing the process. “When disputes over the requests arise, the Committee refuses to engage and seeks to punish.”
No presumption of innocence
In America, we have a Constitution which says that everyone is “innocent until proven guilty.”
As part of the Deep State weaponizing of the one-sided committee, Chairman Bennie Thompson unilaterally declared that “citizens who invoke the Fifth Amendment are ‘part and parcel guilty to what occurred.‘”
There were supposed to be some legitimate Republicans on the panel but Nancy Pelosi didn’t like them. More weaponizing happened when they stacked the committee against conservatives.
“Pelosi’s rejection of Republican suggestions for committee members” violated “more than 232 years of House precedent,” the lawmakers write. Democrats on the committee have “prejudged the outcome,” by “cherry-picking data and working behind closed doors,” they added.
The worst of the weaponizing incidents involve evidence tampering. “The Republicans also noted the few instances in which the committee was caught ‘deliberately altering documents,‘ such as when it acknowledged altering messages between Jordan and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.” By subpoenaing Republican members of Congress the committee members are “escalating its abusive tactics.”
This “attempt to coerce information from members of Congress about their official duties is a dangerous abuse of power, serves no legitimate legislative purpose, and eviscerates constitutional norms.” Their final conclusion was the “American people deserve better than Democrat weaponization of its majority rule.“
