Sunday, June 19, 2022

The Political Theater of the January 6 "Hearings"

 

"The Jan. 6 show trial features no dissenting views. Its subtext was right out of Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria’s credo: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”

If Trump was not considering a third run for the presidency, would the committee even have existed?

Its slick Hollywood-produced optics demonstrate that the committee has no interest in inconvenient facts. Why did a Capitol officer lethally shoot a petite unarmed woman entering a Capitol window? And why was the officer’s identity and, indeed, all information about his record withheld from the public?

Why did the committee not investigate whether large numbers of FBI agents and informants were ubiquitous among the crowd? After all, progressive New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg who was there on Jan. 6 claimed, 'There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.' ”

Read the entire article here at The Daily Signal by Victor Davis Hansen.


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