Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he will establish a new select subcommittee that will probe the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — and likely dig into the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee that was led by Rep.
President Donald Trump tore into former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Monday after she received a last-minute pardon from former President Joe Biden.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, on his end, praised Loudermilk's previous work, while the Georgia Rep. said he is looking forward to "continue to uncover all the facts and begin the arduous task of making needed reforms to ensure this level of security failure may never happen again."
His presidency was just an hour old when Donald Trump excoriated Joe Biden for pardoning GOP officials who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots—and promised retribution, in the form of salvation.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced plans to extend the GOP-led chamber's investigation into the select, Democrat-led committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
() − President Joe Biden issued a series of high-profile pardons Monday, citing a commitment to protecting public servants from politically motivated threats and prosecutions.
House Republican leaders announced the plan days after Trump issued pardons for rioters. The aim is to reexamine the 2021 Capitol attack.
Notably, Loudermilk had given a tour of the Capitol to people the day before the insurrection, which included a man who was caught on footage during the Jan. 6 riot, later released by the select committee that investigated the attack, making violent verbal threats against top Democratic lawmakers.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that Congress will “look into” Joe Biden pardoning his family—but said Donald Trump’s clemency for Jan. 6 rioters was about “redemption.” The top House Republican also announced another select committee on January 6,
Though Biden, for his part, explicitly indicated that he did not consider the acceptance of his pardon to be an admission of guilt, House Republicans considered their mere issuance to be indicative of some wrongdoing.
Congressional Republicans are looking to press on in scrutinizing some of those who received pardons from former President Biden in the last hours of his presidency. “Implication is that they
“Dear President Trump” is the address of the letter, which Trump discovered inside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with some assistance from Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.