Washington On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, announced the formation of a select subcommittee to look into incidents that occurred before to and following January 6, 2021.
There is certainly more work to be done, but House Republicans are proud of our efforts thus far in dispelling the myths spread by the politically driven January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, Johnson said in a statement.
According to Johnson, the goal of the subcommittee is to find the whole truth that the American people deserve.
The speaker did not specify which misleading narratives he claims the initial select committee spread.
The new subcommittee, which will be under the purview of the House Judiciary Committee, which is led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga.
Notably, the day before the uprising, Loudermilk had given a tour of the Capitol to people, including a man who was shown on video from the Jan. 6 riot and later made public by the select committee that looked into the incident, threatening top Democratic lawmakers with violence.
According to the final report issued by the previous Jan. 6 select committee, Trevor Hallgren, the rioter who made the threats, took photographs of the stairwells and halls during Loudermilk’s tour.
“What transpired at the Capitol that day was the consequence of a number of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at multiple levels within numerous entities,” Loudermilk said in a statement today.
When Democrats controlled the House, a bipartisan select committee conducted an investigation into the attack on the Capitol on January 6 that lasted almost two years.
Biden preemptively pardoned all members of the committee and their staff before he left office on Monday, including the committee’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
In a report, Loudermilk, the chair of the House Administration Committee that looked into the select committee in the previous Congress, stated that the FBI ought to look into Cheney’s involvement on the committee, stating without proof that “numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney.”
During ten hearings in 2022, the select committee heard testimony from a range of witnesses who provided insight into President Donald Trump’s attempts to rig the election and the Capitol attack.
Trump pardoned almost all of the Jan. 6 defendants on Monday, more than two years later, during his second term as president.
In recent years, Republicans have minimized or denied the events of January 6, with some even making the untrue claim that the Capitol was stormed by members of the antifa group. It was a day of love, according to Trump, who was impeached by the House and charged by the federal government for his involvement in an attempt to rig the election.