The Jan 6th committee has even lost the Washington Post

Here is your new Jan 6th thread - so stop spamming the other threads!

Let’s admit it: The Jan. 6 committee isn’t uncovering anything new

Despite breathless previews of coming attractions, little has changed since the hearings began beyond what was already established: By insisting against all credible evidence that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, President Donald Trump incited the Capitol riot, dangerously directed his anger toward his own vice president and, most damning of all, refused to participate in the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2021.

But the effort to connect Trump to some grand conspiracy involving a shadowy network of fanatical backyard warriors and armchair militants is a bridge too far. It risks making him seem a victim of this overzealous and partisan committee, as evidenced by a new New York Times/Siena College poll showing Trump in a virtual dead heat with President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 rematch — a reality check in the midst of these “bombshell” hearings.

The effort to link Trump to the actions of militant groups, such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, continues to fall flat. On Tuesday, the committee failed to demonstrate any direct coordination beyond the delusions of the militia members and right-wing media personalities. Likewise, the video testimony of former White House counsel Pat Cipollone provided nothing new; it has long been known that he quickly accepted the election results and tried to persuade Trump to do the same.

The case against Trump is often focused on “things Trump almost did,” such as ordering the seizure of voting machines or appointing Sidney Powell as a special counsel. The committee also enjoys presenting salacious tidbits of information for the purposes of titillation. In the last hearing, it was a tale — later contested — of Trump grabbing a steering wheel and lunging for a person’s throat while demanding to be taken to the Capitol. On Tuesday, it was a Dec. 18 White House meeting featuring a screaming match and a near-physical altercation over how far to go to contest the election. Lots of sound and fury in both cases, but in the end they signify nothing.

The funny thing is how true the statement about things "Trump almost did" being such a main focus for this committee. But to be honest, it has been the focus of anti-Trumpers from day one. Nothing really too new there. Generally you have seen this from someone demanding that they heroically prevented Trump from doing any number of things that were never actually done or someone who states that he was "just about do this one thing" before changing his mind.

One might think that of the 1001 times that someone had to "stop" Trump from doing the unthinkable or that Trump "almost" did something horrible... that there might be at least one or two times that he "actually" did those things. But alas... he never quite "does" the monstrous stuff that the left would like to accuse him of doing. 

I also heard that Cheney has suggested that in the wake of the Hutchinson testimony that they have more people coming forward who have similar "stories". Ironically the entire problem with the Hutchinson testimony is that it was simply a "story" and an unverified story at that. I think that there is a limit to what people will put up with in terms of allowing people to get on a witness stand and tell stories that they were not first hand witnesses of. One was more than enough. 

Either way, this opinion piece from the Washington Post strongly suggests that even liberals are getting tired of the bark but no bite Jan 6th commission. Perhaps they expected more and are horribly horribly disappointed. Perhaps they understood that it would be a flop, and just waited till the time was right to criticize it. But more and more liberals are turning their back on this sham of a process, understanding that it is doing literally nothing to help Democrats, much less the Country as a whole.

Won't stop the true crazies from getting all up in arms over this... 

But there is no fixing stupid!