A panel is being put together of a so-called “bipartisan” group of House members to examine Donald Trump’s attempted assassination, and Democrats want Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to be on it. In the immortal words of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!”
Thompson attempted to take away Trump’s Secret Service protection. He also participated in the January 6th committee.
Thompson is unfit to be involved in this investigation.
From The Federalist:
“House Democrats are pushing to have the former Jan. 6 Committee chairman who sought to strip former President Donald Trump of his security detail earlier this year serve on a bipartisan commission investigating the recent assassination attempt.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELOn Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported that former Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is one top candidate Democrats are considering for an appointment to the 11-person panel established by House leadership.
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries can choose five Democrats to serve along with six Republicans,” Punchbowl reported. “Democrats are still sorting through potential candidates. But one name we’ve heard is Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). Thompson is the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security panel and chaired the Jan. 6 Committee.”
In the spring, however, Thompson introduced legislation to leave Trump vulnerable to assassination with the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081). The bill, proposed in April, would have terminated Secret Service protection for otherwise qualified candidates who are convicted of a felony. Trump was convicted by a New York jury in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records when the Manhattan real estate mogul labeled payments to a lawyer as legal expenses.”
Another House Democrat who played a key role in former President Trump’s first impeachment is now responding to GOP-fueled complaints that he should not be on the task force probing the attempted assassination of the former president.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who was chastised last year for saying Trump “has to be eliminated,” is one of the Democrats being considered for a position on the bipartisan commission to investigate the July 13 shooting at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, according to a source familiar with the situation.
“As someone with a lifelong commitment to democracy and the rule of law, Congressman Goldman immediately clarified a misstatement from last November to emphasize his strong condemnation of all political violence. The Congressman demonstrated with pointed questioning during congressional hearings last week that the Secret Service must be held accountable for its unacceptable security lapse, and he is determined to ensure such a failure never happens again,” Goldman’s spokesperson Madison Andrus said to Fox News Digital.
Nancy Pelosi was the first House Speaker in US history to deny the minority leader the right to choose who would sit on a committee from the minority party when she made Bennie Thompson the chairman of the House January 6 Select Committee.
I think it is imperative that Speaker Mike Johnson should do the same in this case. Pelosi denied minority leader McCarthy’s choices because she knew Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer would not go along with the nonsensical reasoning for the committee in the first place, which was a “Get Trump” witch hunt. In this case, Johnson should deny these two choices based on the fact that they both would be a monkey wrench to the attempt of investigating anything that had to do with the assassination attempt of Trump.
The Republicans must fight these two appointments with everything they’ve got, otherwise, the investigation will fail before it’s begun.
