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JUST IN: Speaker Johnson Prepared to Add ‘Intensity’ to J6 Hunt for Truth
House Republicans close to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are revealing that he is on the cusp of injecting a new level of “intensity” into the GOP’s search for the truth behind the January 6th, 2021 riots at the Capitol.
According to the Conservative Brief, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) disclosed in a recent interview that the Republican leader is prepared to grant additional resources to the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, which is probing the totality of footage, documents, and witness testimonies left in the wake of J6.
“Speaker Johnson has been phenomenal in helping us with this,” Loudermilk said. “He’s given me a commission to not only press forward in the method we’ve been doing but increase our intensity into this.”
Since taking control of Congress, Republicans have entrusted Rep. Loudermilk to hunt for evidence that they claim was suppressed by the original bipartisan select committee, run by Democrats and co-chaired by notorious anti-Trumper and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. Most recently, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told a CNN town hall audience that Cheney’s committee released just 12 hours of footage out of more than 200 taken that day, skewing the narrative to blame former President Donald Trump, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), and others who objected to the certification of President Joe Biden’s election.
“We’ve uncovered a lot of evidence that is contrary to what they were telling us. There are not only flaws in their report; there are some flat-out lies in the report,” he said of the select committee. “And the further we go down this path, the more that we’re uncovering. Probably one of the biggest things I think that we saw happen in the last year that we discovered had happened was the number of documents that were not preserved and were not passed along to our committee as the House Rules mandated.
“We are going to find these documents. And the reason it’s important is because I believe it’s what’s in those documents, which is why they don’t want us to see it,” he told Just The News.
According to Rep. Loudermilk, his presentation to Speaker Johnson about the progress behind made by his committee left the Louisiana Republican impressed.
“When Speaker Mike Johnson came in, one of the first meetings that he had was with me, and I kind of gave him an update of where we are,” Loudermilk said. “He was so impressed with what he found out we had been working on. He said, ‘I will give you whatever resources or material you need to expand this investigation, dig deeper and get the truth out to the American people.’”
The release of additional evidence from J6 could have massive implications for President Trump, both in court and on the campaign trail. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to review arguments made by the GOP frontrunner that he is immune from prosecution over statements and actions related to J6, a charge that special counsel Jack Smith has rebuffed. In response, Smith has indicated that he plans to unveil Trump’s private Twitter communications as part of evidence against the former president.