The Next Speaker Must Deliver on Jan 6 Promises

The Biden regime's war on "MAGA extremists" comes with horrific consequences. The next GOP Speaker better make good on pledges to expose this dangerous trajectory and stop funding it.

Congressional Republicans are poised this week to elect a new Speaker of the House following the shocking ouster of Kevin McCarthy on October 3.

Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Steve Scalise of Louisiana appear to be the leading contenders. Rumors circulated over the past few days that McCarthy, who said in the immediate aftermath that he would not seek to reclaim his post, might reconsider.

It is anyone’s guess as to the outcome--and to say the world has changed since McCarthy was forced to vacate the chair a mere seven days ago is an understatement. 

Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack against Israeli citizens on Saturday took most of the international community by surprise; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately declared war against the Iranian-backed cabal as Joe Biden scrambled to save face. Some attempted to blame the murderous rampage on “chaotic” House Republicans by insisting Hamas capitalized on the temporary leadership vacuum created by McCarthy’s absence.

As inappropriate and far fetched as that may sound, the accusation is not entirely without merit--albeit egregiously misplaced. To the extent Republican lawmakers in Washington are remotely culpable for the bloodshed in the Middle East--which reportedly includes at least 14 Americans--rests on the fact most ignore, if not endorse, the Biden regime’s reallocation of massive amounts of national security, intelligence, and law enforcement resources from resurgent terror threats abroad to alleged “domestic terrorists” here at home.

Real Terrorists Don’t Wear Red Hats

Since the start of the administration, top Biden officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines have insisted “domestic violent extremists”--code for Trump supporters--pose an increasing threat to the safety of the country. Despite a dearth of data to support such serious charges, few Republicans question that assessment.

To the contrary, 18 Republican senators voted to give Garland’s DOJ a big raise this year, a budget boost partially devoted to prosecuting their own voters. During his opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago, Garland again warned that his office continues to work on “holding accountable all those criminally responsible for the January 6 attack on the Capitol.”

And Garland has even bigger plans underway. A few days before Hamas launched its horrific and apparently undetected assault against a close American ally, Newsweek confirmed the DOJ is ramping up its targeting of Trump supporters in advance of next year’s presidential election. The FBI recently created a new category of “extremists” allegedly plotting “violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election.” The new breed of extremists, according to the article, are “Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers.”

The FBI told Newsweek that “the threat posed by domestic violent extremists is persistent, evolving, and deadly. The FBI's goal is to detect and stop terrorist attacks, and our focus is on potential criminal violations, violence and threats of violence.”

As I explained here, this is the latest front in the Democrats’ war on terror against Trump supporters, an extension of the DOJ’s “Capitol Breach” or “Capitol Siege” investigation that so far has ensnared more than 1,100 Americans for their participation in the events of January 6--an incident the Biden regime considers an act of terror.

But Republican voters remain outraged by the ongoing, destructive prosecution of Trump supporters; GOP leaders, including McCarthy, pledged to unpeel the various layers of deceit protecting the mythology of January 6 once they took power. McCarthy promised to make public thousands of hours of surveillance footage captured by security cameras before and during the Capitol protest.

Congressional leaders pitched the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” as a Church Committee of sorts, or at least a comparable version of the January 6 Select Committee. Those desperate for justice, particularly January 6 defendants and their families, envisioned regular hearings featuring the victims of prosecutorial abuse while calling to account the individuals responsible including DOJ officials and federal judges.

At the same time, Republican leaders hinted that the public would learn of the January 6 Select Committee’s deep deceit as it focused on Donald Trump’s culpability rather than address security failures and other unanswered questions. In fact, McCarthy warned the committee last year to preserve all records and documents before it disbanded, signaling plans for a strong counterpunch.

But aside from a limited release of January 6 footage and a few bombshells gleaned from whistleblowers and witness testimony, House Republicans have not fully delivered on their promises. The weaponization committee has held five hearings so far and hasn’t met since July; only one hearing focused primarily on January 6. (Jordan is head of the committee.) While the Judiciary and Administration committees also have held January 6-related hearings and produced some important information, the scattershot approach is not generating the necessary impact to satisfy the base.

Now, there’s no doubt a sizable chunk of the House majority wishes January 6 would go away. So, too, do the GOP presidential candidates. Perhaps that explains some of the foot-dragging.

But it’s not going away among the base; Rep. Matt Gaetz successfully channeled that anger when he initiated the effort to remove McCarthy. In fact, one reason Gaetz sought McCarthy’s ouster was his unfilled promise to release all the January 6 footage.

Regardless of the political considerations to this point, Americans now see the devastating consequences of the government’s fixation on what Joe Biden calls “MAGA extremists.” Real-world terrorists are regrouping, killing U.S. citizens, and threatening the security of the country while Biden officials prepare to escalate the hunt for Trump supporters next year.

The next speaker must expose all of it, which starts and ends with January 6. Release the footage, hold the hearings, publish all the records, cut the funding, and demand the pursuit of legitimate terrorists.