Dems Involved With January 6 Committee Fear Being Arrested

Several Democrats concerned within the extremely partisan House January 6 Committee are saying they worry they are going to be arrested beneath a future Donald Trump administration.

As reported by (*6*), Trump raised the difficulty, taking to social media final month to say that former Rep. Liz Cheney and different members of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee must be imprisoned. Cheney, one of many two Republicans on the committee, was defeated in her reelection bid in Wyoming in 2022.

“She should go to jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” he wrote in response to a report from Just the News.

The committee was disbanded after Republicans regained management of the House of Representatives after the 2022 midterm elections.

Reps. Adam Schiff, Pete Aguilar, and Zoe Lofgren, all representing California, expressed their severe concern concerning Trump’s threats of imprisoning members of the committee.

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“One of the things that I observed during our Jan. 6 committee work was that when Trump says something, he intends to do it,” Lofgren instructed CBS News. “I take that lesson to heart.”

Police officers who testified earlier than the committee expressed apprehension about potential reprisals from a second Trump administration.

“Anybody who has testified against him or spoken out in a public capacity should be worried,” Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol police officer and Democratic congressional candidate in Maryland, instructed CBS News. “Trump means what he says.”

In a press release to CBS News, a spokesperson for Trump denounced the Jan. 6 committee as a sham, accusing it of deceiving the American public for years and concealing proof that allegedly vindicated Trump and his supporters from participating in an rebellion.

Trump’s remark got here in response to a Just the News report indicating that Cheney attended the deposition of a Secret Service agent who offered a firsthand account of Trump’s presence within the limousine leaving the Stop the Steal rally on January 6. Instead of heading to the Capitol as promised to his supporters, the limousine took Trump to the White House.

Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson, who was introduced earlier than the House Jan. 6 choose committee on the behest of Cheney to talk out towards Trump, alleged that she overheard Secret Service brokers discussing an altercation involving Trump trying to grab management of the presidential limousine’s steering wheel from the again seat.

“The driver testified that he specifically refuted the version of events as recounted by Hutchinson,” the report released by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chair of the House Administration subcommittee on Jan. 6, famous. “The driver of the SUV testified that he ‘didn’t see him attain [redacted]. [President Trump] by no means grabbed the steering wheel.

“I didn’t see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all,’” the agent testified, refuting Hutchinson’s account.

In February, in the meantime, the  House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee, accountable for investigating each the 2021 Capitol riot and the prior Democrat-led inquiry into the riot, discovered that in the course of the chamber’s transition to GOP management in January 2023, over 100 recordsdata had been encrypted and deleted from laborious drives, the New York Post reported.

The choose committee was anticipated to offer Republican Chairman Barry Loudermilk of Georgia with 4 terabytes of archived information. The outlet, nevertheless, reported that his committee solely obtained two terabytes of knowledge.

In an X submit, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) ripped the committee.

“As I said from day one, Nancy Pelosi’s sham January 6th Committee was illegitimate and unconstitutional. 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,” Stefanik wrote in a submit to X Tuesday. “The American people deserve full transparency.”

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