KJP Repeats Biden Administration's Fear-Mongering, History-Altering Talking Point on Jan. 6
Earlier on Monday, as Spencer covered, the
members of the January 6 select committee held their final public hearing.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held her press briefing not long
after, during which she was afforded the opportunity to add the administration's
two cents.
The first question,
predictably, was about the select committee's final hearing with a final report
to come out on Wednesday. Jean-Pierre was asked a generic question as to if she
had any comment, resulting in quite the fear-mongering we've heard for so long.
"So I’ll first say,
and you’ve heard me say this many times, and the president as well: We’ve been
very clear from the beginning that what we saw on January 6th was the worst
attack on our democracy since the Civil War," Jean-Pierre declared. She
was, however, correct in that she and the president have so oft-repeated such a
claim. "And the president has been very clear: Our democracy continues and
remains under threat, and we all have a--have a part to protect it."
Biden has been making
that claim since long before Jean-Pierre came into the role. In his first joint
address before Congress in April of last year, the president claimed that he had
inherited "a nation in crisis" in part because the country
experienced "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War."
He was referring to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Jean-Pierre was also on
point in that the president, which she herself has doubled down on in numerous
press briefings, has claimed "our democracy continues and remains under
threat." Biden certainly made it a point leading up to the November
midterm elections, including and especially with his
hyper-partisan political speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September
1. It was during that speech where he demonized his political opponents as
"MAGA Republicans," who, along with former President Donald Trump,
"represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our
republic."
Biden and the
administration certainly kept up this narrative. Former Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich (R-GA) believes it even
helped Democrats in the midterms, as they performed far-better than expected,
based on polls and historic precedence. Despite beating such
expectations, though, Biden and Jean-Pierre continued to warn about
this supposed threat in the days following last month's election.
"The committee has
been doing important bipartisan work to get to the truth of what happened on
that very day so we can--we can make--so we can make sure that that doesn’t
happen again. So I’ll leave it there," Jean-Pierre also added.
As our friends at Twitchy shared,
people certainly picked up on what one user referred to as "disgusting
state propaganda," especially since as, another user pointed out, there
are countless more examples in our nation's history that were far more
deadly.
Earlier on Monday the
select committee had announced four criminal referrals against Trump. Sitting
members of Congress, including House Minority Leader (R-CA) and Reps. Scott
Perry (R-PA), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) were referred to the
House Ethics Committee for refusing to testify after being subpoenaed.
In a statement for
Townhall, Russell Dye, a spokesperson for Rep. Jordan, said the Ethics
Committee referral "is just another partisan and political stunt made by a
Select Committee that knowingly altered evidence, blocked minority
representation on a Committee for the first time in the history of the U.S. House
of Representatives, and failed to respond to Mr. Jordan’s numerous letters and
concerns surrounding the politicization and legitimacy of the Committee’s
work."
Rep. Biggs also issued a
statement over Twitter.
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