A Republican candidate for speaker of the House said he would share all the security footage from the January 6 Capitol breach. This comes months after Fox News was given a batch of tapes.
Fox News co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) if he would share all the footage from January 6, 2021. He said, “I will, absolutely.”
Republicans are worried about how the Department of Justice is handling people who were arrested for crimes linked to January 6. They say these people have been mistreated or given harsh sentences. For their part in the Capitol breach, more than 1,000 people were charged with different crimes.
A number of Republicans have said that the whole set of Jan. 6 security tapes should be made public so that people can make their own decisions.
During the January race for House speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was just voted out of office, promised to make the J6 video public. He gave some of the tapes to Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host. Carlson showed the footage on his show in March and said that Democrats and government officials lied to the public about what happened, saying that it wasn’t a “violent insurrection” as some have called it.
Since March, McCarthy hasn’t put out any more videos, and Carlson was fired from Fox News in April for reasons that aren’t clear. We do know that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to Fox News threatening them if they didn’t stop Carlson from showing more videos. The Democrats don’t like sunlight as a disinfectant. Schumer doesn’t want Americans to know what really happened that day because the Democrats exploited the events since the day they happened for political gain.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELSince then, Carlson has had a daily show on X (Twitter).
Julie Kelly, a journalist on X who leans conservative, said that House Republicans have broken their promise by not releasing any of the tapes.
“The pledge by GOP to release all the Jan 6 videos has been broken. I believed my involvement to make footage available was a temporary fix until staff could protect innocents from DOJ and thugs like Sedition Hunters. Now I see GOP has capitulated to DOJ and Capitol police,” she wrote on September 3.
But letting the public see the video has caused some worry, even among some House Republicans who have criticized the government for how it has treated the suspects in the January 6 case. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote in September that she hasn’t called for the release because she is worried that facial-recognition tools would be used to target “more vulnerable people.”
After hearing that groups like Sedition Hunters would use facial recognition software to go after weaker people, Taylor Greene stopped calling for the tapes to be made public. She wrote this in response to Kelly’s comment on X. “After seeing the horrific inhumane treatment of pretrial J6 defendants in the DC jail in 2021 and being one of the few members of Congress that is against the persecution of J6’ers, I was afraid the DOJ would unjustly target more people.”
Later, she wrote that Republicans can also “use facial recognition” to go after “feds and/or provocateurs who were involved in J6 that the DOJ protects.”
“I’m all for releasing the tapes! Enough of this Kabuki theater; it’s time to end this,” she said. “Everyone needs the truth and the weaponized government must be stopped.”
After McCarthy was fired a few weeks ago, House Republicans have not been able to find a good candidate for speaker of the House. Actually, they did. Jim Jordan (R-OH) would have been the perfect Speaker for this time, but the disgusting RINOs voted against him because RINOs love to hide behind omnibus bills where they can throw in any request for money for their districts or pet causes and Jordan said he’s against omnibus bills because they are bad for the country.
At least nine Republicans in the House have said they are running for speaker so far. These are Representatives Pete Sessions (R-TX), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Mike Johnson (R-LA), Dan Meuser (R-PA), Gary Palmer (R-AL), (R-GA), and Jack Bergman (R-MI).
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on “Fox News Sunday” that the House GOP was being slow to act. He also said that he wished women like Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) were running for office.
Late last week, Representative Mike Flood (R-NE) put forward a “unity pledge” that asks Republicans to promise to back the “Speaker Designate elected by the House Republican Conference—regardless of who that candidate is—when their election proceeds to the House Floor.”
“I’m urging all my colleagues to join this pledge so we can move forward with electing a speaker and get on with the people’s business,” Flood said in a statement. We don’t yet know if any of the nine Republicans running have signed it.
