Have you heard the latest news from the third world? A political party won a recent election and immediately appointed a congressional committee to conspire with the new president to file criminal charges against the members of the previous administration.
While this unfortunate country spirals downward from historic levels of inflation, waves of criminal violence, out of control government spending and debt, floods of illegal migrants, media distortions and propaganda, and general societal decline, the new government is attempting to distract from real problems by pursuing political retribution against its opposition.
You’ve probably already guessed I’m not talking about Venezuela. The country I’ve described above is the United States. Perhaps you missed what’s happening because, with so much nonsense coming out of Washington, most of us have tuned out all the propaganda from the Left and the conspiracy theories from the Right. But what is happening in Congress right now is so egregious, all Americans should wake up and push back against the degradation of our foundations of freedom.
It all began with the “select” committee set up in the House of Representatives to investigate the January 6 riots in the Capitol. The precedent for select committees in the House is for both the majority and minority leaders to appoint representatives. But in the case of the select committee to investigate the riot on 1/6/21, the leader of the Democrats—Speaker Nancy Pelosi—didn’t like the appointees of the Republican leader because they were supportive of Trump. So, she appointed all the members of the committee herself making sure they were anti-Trump.
This made the select committee illegitimate from the start, an abrogation of precedents and the rules of the House. It also meant that every member of the committee was anti-Trump and uninterested in finding the truth about January 6 or how to prevent future incidents like it.
Pelosi’s hand-picked committee has proceeded to subpoena former members of the Trump administration, forcing them to waste countless hours collecting information and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers to help them navigate all the legal traps set by the Democrats. This sinister process appears to violate the long-standing precedent of executive privilege that guarantees the confidentiality of private conversations between a president and his staff.
The Democrats are coordinating their targeted attacks with the Department of Justice who refused to act when the House held Eric Holder in contempt for ignoring a Congressional subpoena in the Obama Fast and Furious scandal.
Here’s how the process is working now. The anti-Trump select committee subpoenas former Trump officials requiring them to appear in front of their media circus and demanding they break presidential executive privilege before the question is settled in court. If these officials fail to defy decades of precedent, defy court proceedings and concede to this public humiliation, the committee recommends the House vote to hold them in contempt. All the Democrats in the House dutifully vote to ask the Justice Department (the agency that lied about Trump’s Russia collusion and worked to have him removed from office) to indict the insolent Trump officials and haul them into court. This could result in jail time for former Trump officials who committed no crime.
This process also includes an abundance of leaks to the complicit press and a public trial in the media—all with the presumption of guilt. This is anything but a justice system. Americans need to stop fretting about distasteful tweets by our former president and wake up to the worst form of corruption and tyranny ever perpetrated on American citizens by our federal government.
The real goal of the Pelosi’s select committee serves no legislative purpose, but is political retribution to keep the “Trump and Republican riot” in the news until the 2022 election. Democrats are doing this because they have nothing else to talk about. Biden, Pelosi and Schumer have no policy platform to improve the country, all they have is a record of economic and cultural destruction.
So you can bet January 6 will be resurrected and used against Trump or any Republican who runs for president again in 2024. In the meantime, dozens of lives will be destroyed by a corrupt Democrat Party and a level of congressional malpractice that should never be allowed in a free country.
Thankfully, the Democrats' desperate screeching isn’t working. They cried “but January 6th!” in Virginia, and Republicans won a historic victory. Biden and Democrats’ poll numbers have plummeted. Americans are sick of the lies and will have their say soon.
Jim DeMint is chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute. You can follow him on Twitter @JimDeMint.
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