Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the Democrat who led the now-defunct January 6 Committee, <a href="https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/legislation/ranking-member-thompson-introduces-legislation-to-ensure-no-secret-service-protection-for-convicted-felons-sentenced-to-prison#:~:text=This%20legislation%20would%20reform%20the,the%20protection%20of%20all%20inmates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> legislation last week that could disqualify former President Donald Trump from keeping Secret Service protection.
The <a href="https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/disgraced_former_protectees_act_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, which comes as Trump faces multiple criminal cases as he runs for another term in the White House, does not mention the former president by name. However, Thompson, who is the top-ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, released a <a href="https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/disgraced_former_protectees_act_factsheet1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;fact sheet&#8221;</a> that says Trump would be affected if the proposal passes and he is convicted of a felony.
&#8220;Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee — even a former President. It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality,&#8221; Thompson said.
&#8220;Therefore, it is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment — and that those who are sentenced to prison will indeed serve the time required of them,&#8221; he added.
Trump is facing dozens of felony charges in federal and state courts that stem from election matters and his handling of classified documents while out of office. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts and claims prosecutors and others are waging a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; against him in an effort to boost his 2024 rival, President Joe Biden.
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Should Thompson&#8217;s bill get approved — a long shot considering Republicans control the House and largely back Trump — <a href="https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/disgraced_former_protectees_act_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it would amend</a> a section of the U.S. Code to &#8220;terminate&#8221; Secret Service protection for &#8220;any person upon sentencing following conviction for a Federal or State offense that is punishable for a term of imprisonment of at least one year.&#8221;
The bill is called the &#8220;Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act,&#8221; or the &#8220;DISGRACED Former Protectees Act&#8221; for short, and Thompson&#8217;s office said it several co-sponsors among fellow Democrats.
Under Thompson&#8217;s leadership, the January 6 Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-j6-committee-recommends-criminal-charges-against-trump-over-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommended</a> the Department of Justice charge Trump over the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-charges-jan-6-panel-considered-but-did-not-approve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chastised</a> the January 6 panel as being the “Unselect Committee of political hacks.&#8221; In March, Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and other members of the committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-liz-cheney-should-be-jailed-former-congresswoman-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">should be jailed</a>.

Bennie Thompson

Former January 6 Panel Chair Unveils Bill That Could Strip Trump Of Secret Service Protection

2024 Election

Congress

Donald Trump

House Democrats

Politics

Secret Service

Trump Derangement Syndrome

U.S. House of Representatives

A panel of the GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> released on Sunday two articles of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment</a> against Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shatters-record-with-historic-number-of-illegal-aliens-encountered-in-december" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handling of</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a>.
The <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Articles-of-Impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first article says</a> Mayorkas has &#8220;willfully and systemically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws,&#8221; and the second claims the secretary &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; by making false statements and &#8220;knowingly obstructed lawful oversight&#8221; of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Members of the Homeland Security Committee are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-committee-picks-date-to-consider-mayorkas-impeachment-articles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled to meet</a> on Tuesday morning to consider the articles of impeachment. If one or both articles pass through the panel, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mike-johnson-house-republicans-to-impeach-mayorkas-as-soon-as-next-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)</a> said the House would vote on whether to impeach Mayorkas <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/26/news/speaker-johnson-vows-mayorkas-impeachment-vote-soon-as-possible/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;as soon as possible thereafter.&#8221;</a>
&#8220;Having exhausted all other options to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable, it is unmistakably clear that Congress must exercise its constitutional duty and impeach him,&#8221; Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1751620055773639156" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Sunday.
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Having exhausted all other options to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable, it is unmistakably clear that Congress must exercise its constitutional duty and impeach him. <a href="https://t.co/t8MpwAQ0tE">pic.twitter.com/t8MpwAQ0tE</a>
&mdash; Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1751620055773639156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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House Republicans face a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/slim-house-gop-majority-gets-narrower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tight margin</a> as they contend with vacancies and absences within their own ranks, but Green said last weekend that he believes there will be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homeland-security-chair-says-we-have-the-votes-to-impeach-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enough support</a> to ultimately impeach Mayorkas when it comes to a House floor vote. Still, the effort faces long odds in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (R-MS), the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, encouraged the House to reject what he called a &#8220;sham&#8221; resolution. &#8220;What is glaringly missing from these articles is any real charge or even a shred of evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors — the Constitutional standard for impeachment,&#8221; he added in a statement on Sunday.
When pressed on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; on the prospect of the impeachment articles going nowhere in the Senate, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important we respond to the American people&#8221; after pinning millions of border encounters, including people on the terrorist watchlist, and fentanyl deaths on Mayorkas.
There is a bipartisan appetite in the House for changing the status quo, even if there is disagreement on how to address the border crisis amid <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fueled-unprecedented-border-crossings-record-3-million-cases-106378442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a surge in crossings</a> and blue cities around the country getting <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-governor-complains-blue-cities-suffering-abbott-bussing-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overwhelmed with migrants</a>. Fourteen House Democrats recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14-house-democrats-vote-to-denounce-biden-admins-open-borders-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke ranks</a> and joined with most Republicans in voting to denounce the Biden administration&#8217;s “open-borders policies.&#8221;
Several <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/01/28/media-advisory-homeland-security-committee-markup-of-mayorkas-impeachment-articles-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interim reports have been released</a> during the Homeland Security Committee&#8217;s probe into Mayorkas, and hearings <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-gop-is-moving-swiftly-toward-mayorkas-impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrapped up</a> earlier this month. Members of the Senate are working to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-says-border-security-talks-face-quandary-as-the-politics-have-changed-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hash out a border deal</a>, with the help of Mayorkas, while the impeachment effort comes to a resolution.
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DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/opa/24_0128_OPA_memo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a memo</a> to reporters on Sunday that argued Mayorkas has &#8220;upheld and enforced&#8221; border security and immigration laws and seeks to refute &#8220;false allegations&#8221; of lying about operational control during testimony and dereliction of duty.
&#8220;This markup is just more of the same political games from House Homeland Security Committee (CHS) Republicans. They don’t want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it,&#8221; the memo said.
&#8220;That’s why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas,&#8221; it added. &#8220;This farce of an impeachment is a distraction from other vital national security priorities and the work Congress should be doing to actually fix our broken immigration laws.&#8221;

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

House Panel Releases 2 Articles Of Impeachment Against Mayorkas

Alejandro Mayorkas

Biden Administration

Border

Border Crisis

Department of Homeland Security

Impeachment

Mark Green

Michael McCaul

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> panel has recovered more than 100 &#8220;deleted&#8221; and encrypted files from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a>, a GOP investigator announced on Monday.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, affirmed the retrieval as part of a counter-inquiry into the January 6 Committee that <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/jan-6-panel-shutting-down-after-concluding-18-month-investigation#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20The%20House,prosecuting%20former%20President%20Donald%20Trump." target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down</a> at the beginning of 2023.
&#8220;The former J6 Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing all the evidence produced in their investigation,&#8221; Loudermilk <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLoudermilk/status/1749487685972971608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;Our Subcommittee has recovered over 100 deleted &amp; encrypted files. What else were they trying to hide?&#8221;
Loudermilk was responding to a Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-committee-jan-6-deleted-encrypted-117-files-was-required-share-house-gop-sources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> that said he wrote to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chaired the January 6 Committee, demanding a list of passwords that would allow his forensic team to gain access to the locked files. Thompson replied with a letter that <a href="https://twitter.com/BennieGThompson/status/1749912931913933006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed he had &#8220;no idea&#8221;</a> what Loudermilk was talking about when it came to encrypted, password-protected files.
The pair have traded a number of letters over the past year in which Loudermilk <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/08/Loudermilk-Letter-to-Thompson-6.26.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised</a> concerns about the January 6 Committee not properly archiving video recordings of interviews and depositions in the House as well as transcripts mentioned in a letter to the Homeland Security Department that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-panel-alerts-white-house-about-anonymous-witnesses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referenced</a> &#8220;important information&#8221; gained &#8220;from an unnamed Secret Service witness.&#8221;
Thompson has <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/08/Thompson-letter-to-Loudermilk-7.7.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> the January 6 Committee was &#8220;was not obligated&#8221; to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions, but he conceded the panel &#8220;did not have the opportunity to properly archive&#8221; certain sensitive materials because it was dissolved before the completion of an executive branch review of information that could be damaging to witnesses if released.
In his newest letter, Loudermilk said one of the recovered files &#8220;disclosed the identity of an individual whose testimony was not archived by the Select Committee.&#8221; He added that the &#8220;hard drives archived by the Select Committee with the Clerk of the House contain less than 3- terabytes of data,&#8221; suggesting some data may be missing as Thompson had touted a 4-terabyte digital archive.
Loudermilk also wrote to the White House and DHS general counsels seeking &#8220;unedited and unredacted transcripts&#8221; of testimony given to the January 6 Committee by the White House and DHS, per Fox News. He set a January 24 deadline for those requests.
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Whatever information may be in the protected files remains a mystery, though the <a href="https://twitter.com/KerryPicket/status/1749810781540245782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Times noted</a> that Loudermilk said the missing documents include information shared with the Department of Justice and Fulton County District Attorney. Former President Donald Trump, who is being prosecuted in January 6-related cases, said the records <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111800280605939981" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would have &#8220;exonerated&#8221;</a> him.
The January 6 Committee was bipartisan, with then-Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) as members, but many Republicans have criticized the endeavor. Loudermilk himself accused the panel of spreading false allegations about him giving a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-of-reconnaissance-tour-story-fires-back-at-january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;reconnaissance tour&#8221;</a> a day before the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021. Now, there are obstruction claims.
&#8220;It should come as a surprise to no one that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney’s fake committee illegally deleted records of their sham investigation and obstructed justice,&#8221; House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said on Tuesday.

House GOP Investigator Says More Than 100 ‘Deleted’ Jan 6 Committee Files Recovered

GOP Investigator Says More than 100 'Deleted' Jan 6 Committee Files Recovered

Capitol Riot

House Republicans

January 6

January 6 Committee

A Republican congressman auditing the Democrat-driven investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> says the now-disbanded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> select committee manipulated its findings to craft a political narrative.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, received a request from House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> to audit the January 6 committee’s findings. After gathering the piles of evidence – documents, depositions, videos, and other information – uncovered by the January 6 Committee, Loudermilk says there are conspicuous gaps in the records.
“Basically, all they did after spending $18.5 million was come out with a manifesto against [former President Donald Trump], trying to tie Donald Trump to the attack on the Capitol,” Loudermilk said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “That was their narrative. Everything that they did appears to be to just come up with that narrative.”
The Georgia Republican requested all of the January 6 committee records from its former chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). What Loudermilk received showed how the January 6 committee omitted key facts about the riot in its final report, he said.
The most shocking discovery that Loudermilk made, he said, was evidence that showed “there were some plain-clothes law enforcement officers” among the rioters “who were encouraging people to go into the Capitol.”
He said the January 6 committee also manipulated evidence and made false claims, in one instance targeting him. The report says Loudermilk gave a tour of the U.S. Capitol to a man later accused of joining the riot. The man “took a tour of the Capitol with Representative Barry Loudermilk, during which he took pictures of hallways and staircases,” the <a href="https://www.jan-6.com/_files/ugd/acac13_ffa28ed6c2694272a265860e447122c7.pdf?gclid=Cj0KCQjwldKmBhCCARIsAP-0rfz2KznjL2iAGt2_CakMqdwXLHYukr_NvfAs5yF0JsGe6we6pp5EE0MaAu-kEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> says.
The Georgia congressman says that is false. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-releases-new-surveillance-video-tour-eve-riot-rcna33713" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the committee that, while Loudermilk did lead a tour of several people around some of the Capitol Hill offices and hallways, they never entered the Capitol building.
In addition, Loudermilk says he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j6-committee-records-white-house-correspondence-missing-gop-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> little about the security around the Capitol building that day. The committee investigated it; it assigned its “blue team” to cover that part of the investigation into the riot. But Loudermilk says that little evidence from the blue team’s research was included in the files he received.
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“That’s a set of documents that we don’t have. Now our question is: did these documents ever exist?” he said. Loudermilk posited that “it’s more than likely” that the blue team did investigate, but found something that “somebody didn’t want them to,” so “they suppressed the records.”
Notably not included in the boxes of evidence, Loudermilk found a letter Thompson sent to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security appearing to show a manifest of records the committee received from both as part of its investigation. Thompson’s letter catalogued what it was returning as the committee was shutting down. Loudermilk said those records never should have been returned, and is now attempting to retrieve them.
“We need to get to the truth of what really happened and look into the conduct of the January 6 committee,” Loudermilk said. After all of his discoveries, one of his primary concerns now is working out “how much more of this report is just made up narrative.”

Barry Loudermilk

Investigate The Investigators: J6 Committee Ignored, Manipulated Evidence For ‘Narrative,’ GOP Rep Says

U.S.

US Capitol

Washington D.C.

The House committee assembled to investigate the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a>, 2021, riot at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a> did not properly document and save its communications or records it collected.
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, is heading a GOP effort to audit the January 6 committee’s findings but says his probe has been hampered because of a lack of documentation, according to Fox News. Numerous documents and recordings, as well as the January 6 committee’s communications with the White House, appear to be missing from the stores of information and data left for Loudermilk to sort through.
“It took us a long time going through it and one thing I started realizing is we don’t have anything much at all from the Blue Team,” Loudermilk told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/j6-committee-failed-to-preserve-records-has-no-data-on-capitol-hill-security-failures-gop-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, referencing a subgroup on the January 6 committee tasked with probing security failures. “We’ve got lots of depositions, we’ve got lots of subpoenas, we’ve got video and other documents provided through subpoenas by individuals. But we’re not seeing anything from the Blue Team as far as reports on the investigation they did looking into the actual breach itself.”
Loudermilk said, based on people he spoke with, the select committee on January 6 intentionally did not investigate security failures that contributed to the riot in order to focus blame on former President Donald Trump. Former January 6 committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said last month that he believes his committee’s work “put significant pressure” on the Department of Justice to indict Trump over January 6.
“I think up until that point of the hearings, it could have gone either way. But I think the compelling argument that we made as a committee for millions of Americans as to how close we came to losing our democracy, [the Justice Department] really didn’t … have a choice,” Thompson <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4127211-bennie-thompson-says-jan-6-hearings-helped-pressure-doj/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “And when the special prosecutor was put forth, I think we helped make his case.”
The gaps in the January 6 committee records came to light after defense attorneys representing clients charged over the riot began requesting documents and other evidence from Loudermilk for their cases. The congressman said some of what he was asked for, he did not have.
Loudermilk relayed his concerns to Thompson, who said that his committee turned over all that was required of it, totaling four terabytes of information. Loudermilk contested that claim, saying he had only received 2.5 terabytes of data. He also said that Thompson’s committee violated federal law and admitted as much in a footnote of a letter Thompson sent Loudermilk on July 7. Thompson has denied the accusation.
The footnote said in part: “Consistent with guidance from the Office of the Clerk and other authorities, the Select Committee did not archive temporary committee records that were not elevated by the Committee’s actions, such as use in hearings or official publications, or those that did not further its investigative activities. Accordingly, and contrary to your letter’s implication, the Select Committee was not obligated to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions.”
Loudermilk told Fox News: “It was clear in law they had to especially and, I mean if there was any question, the fact that they used the videos in the hearings would dictate that it had to be preserved. The more we go in the more we&#8217;re realizing that there&#8217;s things that we don&#8217;t have. We don’t have anything about security failures at the Capitol, we don’t have the videos of the depositions.”
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The Georgia Republican also discovered that missing from the January 6 files are an unknown number of communications sent between the committee and the White House. Loudermilk made the discovery when he obtained a letter sent from Thompson to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was not included in the committee’s files.
&#8220;No version of the letter to Mr. Sauber — either redacted or unredacted — or the letter to the DHS General Counsel was archived by the Select Committee or provided to this Committee,&#8221; Loudermilk wrote in a letter to Thompson.
The January 6 committee was largely a Democratic effort, except for former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who joined the committee after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy refused to countenance the committee over restrictions on which Republicans could join.

Liz Cheney

J6 Committee Records, White House Correspondence Missing: GOP Lawmaker

General

Former House Jan 6 committee Chairman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jan-6-committee-boss-plays-dumb-on-tucker-carlsons-bombshell-footage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bennie Thompson</a> (D-MS) claimed on Wednesday that he and other members of the January 6th Committee had not had access to all of the footage of that day&#8217;s events, saying that &#8220;a team of employees&#8221; had been responsible for going through the video.
CNN political reporter Alayna Treene shared Thompson&#8217;s comments in a series of tweets, saying, &#8220;[Thompson], former chair of the Jan. 6 committee, said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress. &#8216;It’s strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place,&#8217; he told CNN.&#8221;
&#8220;Thompson said he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it,&#8221; Treene continued her report. &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.'&#8221;
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Thompson said he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it. &quot;I&#39;m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.&quot;
&mdash; Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) <a href="https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1633578749374464005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Thompson&#8217;s claim comes after Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-jan-6-video-changes-narrative-brings-knives-out-for-tucker-carlson-says-ben-shapiro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> — who was given access to thousands of hours of video from January 6 after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took the gavel — aired several clips that appeared to show that several key Democratic talking points had been presented without necessary context.
Among them was a clip of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) — who has been labeled &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/josh-hawley-seen-fleeing-trump-mob-riled-newly-released-jan-6-footage-rcna39490" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-insurrection</a>&#8221; by the far Left because he raised a fist in support of peaceful protesters prior to entering the Capitol that day — running toward an exit to evacuate the building. The clip shared by the committee only showed Hawley and was used to suggest that he was running in fear of the people he had supported just hours earlier.
But <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/7/bennie-thompson-jan-6-committee-chairman-denies-pa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage aired</a> earlier this week by Carlson suggested that Hawley was not the only one running from the building at that point — he was simply the last in a long line of senators from both parties who were being escorted from the building.
&#8220;The actual videotape shows that Hawley was one of many lawmakers being ushered out of the building by Capitol Hill police officers, and in fact, Hawley was at the back of the pack. The coward tape was a lie,&#8221; Carlson remarked after airing the footage.
Thompson, when asked about that specific clip, doubled down: &#8220;I stand by the tape.&#8221;
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In addition to the &#8220;employees&#8221; Thompson claimed were responsible for handling the video footage, the January 6 committee hired former ABC News president James Goldston to &#8220;produce&#8221; the entire affair for &#8220;maximum impact&#8221; — a move which also could have impacted which clips were shown to the public and which ended up on the cutting room floor.
&#8220;The plan is to present the case in six tight, thematic episodes that will unfold in prime time and during the day, running 90 to 150 minutes. The idea is to make them as compelling as the marathon Watergate hearings — some of which stretched for hours — but tailored for the streaming era and a media world fueled by viral moments,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/us/the-committee-hired-a-tv-executive-to-produce-the-hearings-for-maximum-impact.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.

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J6 Committee Chair Claims Members Didn't Have Access To Footage — Shifts Blame To Staffers And ABC Producer

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Conservative attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/harmeet-k-dhillon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harmeet Dhillon</a> is celebrating the House January 6 Committee withdrawing its subpoena against former President Donald Trump.
The victory for The Dhillon Law Group, which Trump hired to fight the subpoena seeking testimony and documents, comes as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/famed-conservative-attorney-harmeet-dhillon-to-challenge-ronna-mcdaniel-for-rnc-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dhillon is challenging Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel</a> to lead the Republican National Committee. After Trump was subpoenaed in late October, a lawsuit was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/11/trump-sues-block-subpoena-jan-6-committee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed in November</a>.
&#8220;After my firm filed suit on separation of powers grounds to block January 6 House Select Committee’s illegitimate subpoena to President Trump over his activities while president — the committee waved the white flag &amp; withdrew subpoena,&#8221; Dhillon said in a tweet Wednesday.
&#8220;We were confident of victory,&#8221; she added, &#8220;in court, given precedent &amp; refusal of prior presidents to testify in Congress. J6 committee wasted millions for a purely political witch-hunt, total abuse of process &amp; power serving no legitimate legislative purpose.&#8221;
Dhillon shared a screenshot of a letter signed by January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) that announced the withdrawal and offered a brief explanation.
&#8220;As you may know, the Select Committee has concluded its hearings, released its final report and will very soon reach its end. In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,&#8221; the letter said.
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1/ BREAKING! After my firm filed suit on separation of powers grounds to block January 6 House Select Committee’s illegitimate subpoena to President Trump over his activities while president— the committee waved the white flag &amp; withdrew subpoena. We were confident of victory/ <a href="https://t.co/7ElOXljpt1">pic.twitter.com/7ElOXljpt1</a>
&mdash; Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1608266017628901376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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After a year and a half of investigating efforts to challenge the 2020 results and the Capitol riot, the January 6 Committee <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/jan-6-committee-final-report/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released its final report</a> last week, recommending Trump be barred from holding office again. Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-j6-committee-recommends-criminal-charges-against-trump-over-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel also voted unanimously</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-charges-jan-6-panel-considered-but-did-not-approve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommend Trump be charged</a> with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection.
Trump, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-launches-third-bid-for-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced last month</a> he is embarking on a third campaign for the White House, has broadly denied any wrongdoing, and he <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-january-6-committee-final-hearing-watch-live-stream-today-2022-12-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has castigated the January 6 panel</a> as being the “Unselect Committee of political hacks.” Trump celebrated the news Wednesday in a Truth Social post in which he exclaimed <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109594266191175004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;the Subpoena is DEAD!&#8221;</a>
Dhillon, whose law firm represented The Daily Wire in the legal fight that led to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-massive-blow-against-bidens-employer-mandate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Supreme Court</a> blocking the Biden administration from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandates for private employers, is now running against McDaniel and <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/28/my-pillow-mike-lindell-rnc-chairman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to lead the RNC</a>, which is scheduled to meet on January 27 in California, where 168 party members will vote on the chair.
&#8220;We must beat the Democrats at their own game,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-must-beat-democrats-at-their-own-game-rnc-chair-hopeful-harmeet-dhillon-tells-ben-shapiro?s=09" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent interview</a>, referring to the ballot-gathering process. She also said about her campaign, “I’ve already received a tremendous outpouring of support.&#8221;

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Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon Claims Victory As January 6 Panel Drops Trump Subpoena

Harmeet Dhillon

Republican National Committee (RNC)

The House January 6 Committee recommended to the Justice Department on Monday several charges against former President Donald Trump and his allies, but left out referrals for multiple conspiracy allegations that were under consideration.
During their final business meeting on Capitol Hill, members did not vote on a seditious conspiracy charge, which is a serious allegation federal prosecutors have levied in cases against members of the right-wing groups the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-trial-begins-f6ddc3072ab1a855f9af038dcd3584cc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Proud Boys</a> and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oath-keepers-trial-stewart-rhodes-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-verdict-today-2022-11-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oath Keepers</a> in connection to the Capitol riot, and one other mentioned in a summary released on Monday.
“It was just something that the committee didn&#8217;t come to agreement on,&#8221; Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FarnoushAmiri/status/1604926275046481929" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> about the seditious conspiracy charge.
The January 6 Committee did vote unanimously to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-j6-committee-recommends-criminal-charges-against-trump-over-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommend Trump be charged</a> with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection. Despite the highly publicized move, the Justice Department is under no obligation to act on the recommendations, and under the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-special-counsel-sends-subpoenas-to-officials-in-7-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leadership of special counsel Jack Smith</a> could seek other charges not included in the slate of referrals. The January 6 panel also voted to make ethics referrals against several House Republicans for refusing to comply with subpoenas.
The <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23466439/j6-executive-summary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive summary</a> of the January 6 panel&#8217;s report offers insight into the referral decision-making process, including statutes members took under consideration for referrals but did not act upon during the public meeting Monday. One was the seditious conspiracy statute, which prohibits “conspir[acy] to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States &#8230; or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of any law of the United States.&#8221; The other charge that was considered focused on a statute against conspiring to impede and injure an officer of the United States.
Although these particular statutes did not come to a vote Monday, the summary stresses that members &#8220;believe sufficient evidence exists for a criminal referral of President Trump,&#8221; and notes the Justice Department &#8220;through its investigative tools that exceed those of this Committee, may have evidence sufficient to prosecute&#8221; him.
“There is a rigorous factual proof following particular legal elements that are there. And we brought forth those offenses where we think it’s just clear that criminal conduct took place,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the panel, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/1604938906956357632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an Associated Press reporter</a>.
The summary also mentions &#8220;concerns&#8221; about possible obstruction of the panel&#8217;s investigation and notes that the committee &#8220;concluded that it is critical&#8221; to hold accountable anyone who may have assisted a broad plan to overturn the 2020 election results. A final report is expected to be released on Wednesday.
Trump, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-launches-third-bid-for-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced last month</a> he is embarking on a third campaign for the White House, has broadly denied any wrongdoing, and he <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-january-6-committee-final-hearing-watch-live-stream-today-2022-12-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has chastised the January 6 panel</a> as being the &#8220;Unselect Committee of political hacks.&#8221; A group of House Republicans, including those denied membership in the January 6 Committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-prepare-rebuttal-january-6-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have prepared their own rebuttal report</a>, which is expected to focus on law enforcement issues as well as intelligence gathering and dissemination by the FBI as they relate to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

The Trump Charges Jan. 6 Panel Considered But Did Not Approve

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Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin grilled several <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden officials</a> on camera for a Fox News segment that aired Monday afternoon.
Many of the Democrats that Melugin questioned either ignored him altogether or refused to answer his questions.
The segment comes as the Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-clinton-adviser-hillary-clinton-setting-up-2024-presidential-run-after-latest-shot-at-biden">policies</a> on the southern border have led to national security and humanitarian catastrophe with more than 2.3 million illegal border crossings over the last 11 months, an all-time record, and more than 4 million total since Biden was inaugurated.
&#8220;250,000 unaccompanied migrant children arrived at the border since President Biden&#8217;s took office. Some of them trafficked, some of them drowning in the river. Any issue with that?&#8221; Melugin asked Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).
Pressley completely ignored Melugin.
&#8220;Last question, ma&#8217;am. Is the border secure?&#8221; Melugin pressed. &#8220;Do you agree with the administration that the border is secure?&#8221;
Pressley refused to answer.
Melugin then asked Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, &#8220;Chairman, one question, in your opinion, is the border secure?&#8221;
&#8220;I have to go give a speech,&#8221; Thompson responded. &#8220;Did you hear me?&#8221;
&#8220;I heard you,&#8221; Melugin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a quick question, is the border secure?&#8221;
Thompson refused to answer the question.
Melugin then pressed President Joe Biden&#8217;s (D) secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, about his thoughts.
&#8220;I&#8217;m Bill Melugin with Fox News. Do you have a few moments to talk about the border real quick?&#8221; Melugin asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I don&#8217;t,&#8221; Mayorkas snapped back.
Melugin showed an email that Fox News sent to Homeland Security last week requesting an interview because Melugin and his team were going to be in town. Melugin received no response from the Biden administration.
&#8220;A few moments of your time is all we&#8217;re asking for and we&#8217;ll let you go,&#8221; Melugin said. &#8220;We reached out to your office, asked to talk to you last week. They blew us off.&#8221;
&#8220;I appreciate it,&#8221; Mayorkas chided.
&#8220;Is 900,000 got-a-ways a secure border?&#8221; Melugin asked.
&#8220;Have a good day,&#8221; Mayorkas said. &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;
Melugin said that the only Democrats who would talk about the border were Democrats from the state of Texas, the state that has been hit the hardest by the crisis.
&#8220;This is unsustainable,&#8221; Rep. Veronica Escobar said. &#8220;It has been unsustainable for years.&#8221;
&#8220;This is our administration. I&#8217;m a Democrat. And you know, they need to understand they own it now,&#8221; Rep. Henry Cuellar told Melugin. &#8220;They own it now. And they have to take the steps to correct this otherwise, you know, when are we going to see an end to this?&#8221;
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NEW: We’ve been in D.C. for the last week, questioning politicians on Capitol Hill face to face about the border crisis. Several refused to talk to us, including DHS Secretary <a href="https://twitter.com/AliMayorkas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AliMayorkas</a>, who we tracked down in person after <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> never responded to our interview request. <a href="https://t.co/RfwePkDlkJ">pic.twitter.com/RfwePkDlkJ</a>
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS</a> said on Friday it had removed from its website confidential information on over 100,000 Americans it had exposed through a mistaken disclosure. 
In a letter from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/treasury-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Treasury Department</a> to House Committee on Homeland Security Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bennie-thompson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bennie Thompson</a>, the agency said that the data of about 120,000 Americans had been exposed through an “inadvertent disclosure.” 
“This notification follows the IRS discovery that some machine-readable (XML) Form 990-T data made available for bulk download section on the Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) should not have been made public,” <a href="https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/IRSBREACH.pdf">wrote</a> acting Assistant Secretary for Management at the Treasury Anna Canfield Roth. “In some instances, the data did include individual names or business contact information.”
Roth said the information did not include Social Security numbers, individual income information, or information that would impact a person’s credit. She also said that the agency had taken “immediate action” to take down the confidential information. 
The IRS generally uses Form 990-T data to collect information about individual retirement accounts and their investments into entities like real estate or master limited partnerships, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-says-it-exposed-some-confidential-taxpayer-data-on-website-11662145232">according</a> to the Wall Street Journal.  
The tax enforcement agency will also be conducting a review of their operations per the Treasury Department’s direction following the mistake. 
“The Treasury Department has instructed the IRS to conduct a prompt review of its practices to ensure necessary protections are in place to prevent unauthorized data disclosures,” Roth’s letter says. 
The mistake is another hit for the embattled agency, which has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-help-us-lindsey-graham-blasts-plan-to-add-87000-new-irs-agents-vows-to-redirect-funding-to-the-border">criticized</a> by Republicans over concerns that the nearly $80 billion in funding given to the IRS through the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” will increase audits on middle class Americans. 
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said that the audit rates for middle class Americans will not increase, but some remain skeptical of her claims and point to her language about comparisons to audit levels in the past. 
“I direct that any additional resources — including any new personnel or auditors that are hired — shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold that are audited relative to historical levels,” Yellen said last month. “This means that, contrary to the misinformation from opponents of this legislation, small business or households earning $400,000 per year or less will not see an increase in the chances that they are audited.”
With the funding from newly passed legislation, the IRS could hire up to 87,000 new employees, some of whom are expected to be enforcement agents.

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IRS Admits To Exposing The Confidential Data Of Over 100,000 Americans

IRS Admits To Exposing The Confidential Data Of Thousands Of Americans

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Former acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf slammed The Washington Post over a report that it published Thursday evening that alleged that his text messages went missing for a key period leading up to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The report <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/28/homeland-security-texts-jan6/">claimed</a> that acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s text messages also went missing and that the department notified its inspector general that the messages were lost in a &#8220;reset&#8221; of their government-issued phones when they departed from their positions as Democrat President Joe Biden took over.
The report was largely speculative, claiming for example that the text messages &#8220;could have shed considerable light on Trump’s actions and plans.&#8221;
“It is extremely troubling that the issue of deleted text messages related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is not limited to the Secret Service, but also includes Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, who were running DHS at the time,” Democrat House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson claimed in a statement. “It appears the DHS Inspector General has known about these deleted texts for months but failed to notify Congress.”
Wolf responded to the report in a statement, saying that it was hard for him even &#8220;to know where to begin with the inaccuracies in this reporting.&#8221;
&#8220;@mariasacchetti @CarolLeonnig gave me just hours to &#8216;respond&#8217; while I was traveling,&#8221; Wolf said. &#8220;Had they actually attempted to reach me this is what I would have said… I complied with all data retention laws and returned all my equipment fully loaded to the Department. Full stop. DHS has all my texts, emails, phone logs, schedules, etc. Any issues with missing data needs to be addressed to DHS. To imply otherwise is lazy reporting.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Reporting&#8217; goes on to say that I deployed personnel to &#8216;tamp down on BLM protestors in Portland,&#8221; Wolf continued. &#8220;This is a lie that has been debunked over and over and over again. DHS personnel were attacked with baseball bats, hammers, IEDs, and endured more violence than most could imagine.&#8221;
The newspaper published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-under-federal-criminal-investigation-over-actions-related-to-2020-election-report-says">report</a> Tuesday afternoon that claimed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s actions related to events after the 2020 election are under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice.
Prosecutors have reportedly questioned former White House officials in front of a grand jury about any conversations that Trump or his advisers may have allegedly had about trying to replace electors in states that Biden won with pro-Trump electors.
Prosecutors have also reportedly asked about Trump’s alleged attempt to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the election and any instructions that Trump may have given his legal team about fake electors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said during a Tuesday evening interview with NBC News that the criminal investigation into the events of January 6 was “the most wide ranging investigation in its history,” and there will be things that the DOJ finds that the House Select January 6th committee “haven’t found.”
When asked by anchor Lester Holt about whether indicting Trump would “tear the country apart,” Garland responded, “We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable.”
“That’s what we do,” he continued. “We don’t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that.”
When asked if Trump announcing another campaign for president would impact how the DOJ would proceed with the case, Garland responded, “I’ll say again that we will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next.”

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Former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Slams The Washington Post Over Report On Missing Text Messages

Chad Wolf

Washington Post

The chairman of the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol riot previously called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an &#8220;Uncle Tom,&#8221; claimed the justice disliked black people, and accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of making &#8220;racist&#8221; remarks.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a 74-year-old Democrat representing Mississippi&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District, made the comments in 2014 while appearing on a New Nation of Islam radio program during Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency. He has not responded to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in Washington. I saw three presidents now. I never saw George Bush treated like this. I never saw Bill Clinton treated like this with such disrespect,&#8221; Thompson said, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/democratic-congressman-makes-shocking-racial-comments-about">Buzzfeed News reported at the time</a>. &#8220;That Mitch McConnell would have the audacity to tell the president of the United States — not the chief executive, but the commander-in-chief — that &#8216;I don&#8217;t care what you come up with we&#8217;re going to be against it.&#8217; Now if that&#8217;s not a racist statement I don&#8217;t know what is.&#8221;
&#8220;And there&#8217;s Uncle Tom, Clarence Thomas,&#8221; he said, prompting the host to laugh and distance himself from the remark, saying, &#8220;You said that, I didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s almost to the point to say this man doesn&#8217;t even like black people, he doesn&#8217;t like being black,&#8221; he said as they discussed Thomas, the Supreme Court, and affirmative action, according to Buzzfeed. &#8220;Because every decision where color had something to do with it, he went against it.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes sir,&#8221; responded the host. &#8220;That man don&#8217;t care nothing about us.&#8221;
Shortly after Thompson made the remarks, he was pressed by CNN to address whether &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; was a racially charged term. But the Mississippi Democrat stood by his remarks rather than backing down.
&#8220;For some it is, but to others it&#8217;s the truth,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2014/04/30/bennie-thompson-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom/81226252/">responded</a>, before critiquing Thomas&#8217; vote on voter identification and affirmative action Supreme Court cases.
&#8220;The people that I represent, for the most part, have a real issue with those decisions,&#8221; added Thompson. &#8220;All those issues are very important and for someone in the court who&#8217;s African-American and not sensitive to that is a real problem.&#8221;
Thompson is the chairman of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The committee will air its first public hearing during primetime on Thursday at 8 pm ET.
Lawmakers on the House’s Jan. 6 committee have hired the former president of ABC News, James Goldston, to promote its findings as a “blockbuster investigative special,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-047a583d-c615-4c68-8351-eb4cf5698698.html?chunk=0&amp;utm_term=twsocialshare#story0">Axios reported earlier this week</a>. Goldston reportedly intends to make the findings “raw” enough that journalists will deem them credible but also sensational enough to capture the attention of Americans who have not followed the matter closely.
Our democracy is at stake,&#8221; Thompson <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/bennie-thompson-chair-january-6-investigation-voting-rights/index.html">told CNN</a> of the investigation. &#8220;We have to defend our democracy. We have to defend our government.&#8221;

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Jan. 6 Committee Chair Called Clarence Thomas An ‘Uncle Tom,’ Mitch McConnell Remark ‘Racist’

Chairman Heading The Jan. 6 Committee Once Called Clarence Thomas An 'Uncle Tom'

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