Trump Haters Impeached Him For ‘Inciting A Riot.’ Now They’re Claiming The Riot Was Premeditated BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE for The Federalist
The idea of a coordinated assault undermines the narrative Donald Trump was responsible for spontaneously inciting an ‘insurrection.’
In a rare moment of focus on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, the House Select Committee recently took a break from prosecuting political dissidents to claim the violent protest was premeditated. Yet House Democrats impeached Donald Trump on Jan. 13, 2021 on the basis of claiming that riot was spontaneously triggered by the president’s speech at the White House that day despite the first violent action occurring before Trump finished speaking.
“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said in a statement announcing her intent to impeach. “Everything that followed was his doing.”
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The committee Cheney now serves on as vice chair, however, has embraced a new theory with claims the Capitol assault was a pre-planned attack by far-right extremists.
“The House select committee investigating January 6 appears to believe the Capitol attack included a coordinated assault perpetrated by the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys militia groups that sought to physically stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory,” The Guardian reported Friday. “The panel’s working theory – which has not been previously reported though the Justice Department has indicted some militia group leaders – crystallized this week after obtaining evidence of the coordination in testimony and non-public video, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
In August, the FBI threw cold water on the idea of an “organized plot” staged by far-right groups to storm the Capitol when it briefed the nine-member panel on the agency’s findings. What evidence the Jan. 6 Committee may use conclude otherwise, however, remains under seal as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s deputies have blocked shared access with minority lawmakers. The FBI has simultaneously stonewalled GOP requests to circumvent the speaker’s embargo on relevant information to Republicans. Both of these actions may make the committee legally suspect.
Last summer, Pelosi took the self-described “unprecedented” step of barring Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s appointments on the Select Committee for the first time in congressional history. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who was appointed to serve as ranking member, has spearheaded Republicans’ separate investigation into the Capitol security failures instead, centered on Pelosi’s culpable negligence in the run up to Jan. 6. The Jan. 6 Select Committee has explicitly pledged to avoid probing Pelosi’s conduct despite testimonyfrom former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund that the speaker rejected National Guard requests to help six times.
