A corrupt January 6 committee show trial.
Recall the name Brian Pagliano?
Former Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz does for sure. While in Congress a few years back and serving as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz did to Pagliano exactly what the January 6 committee has done to former Trump aide Steve Bannon.
That would be: the Oversight Committee issued a congressional subpoena for Pagliano, Hillary Clinton’s one-time IT guy who refused to testify to the Oversight Committee about the private email server Clinton used as secretary of state.
Over there at Fox News, the former Oversight Committee chair wrote this:
Though five years have passed since Hillary Clinton‘s State Department IT aide brazenly defied two congressional subpoenas to testify before the House Oversight Committee, which I chaired, Bryan Pagliano has still never been prosecuted.
But in an unprecedented show of alacrity, the Department of Justice (DOJ) last week somehow managed to indict former Trump adviser Steve Bannon for the same charge in record time.
It turns out, congressional subpoenas can be enforced, but only if you play for the right team.
Bingo.
On Monday, Steve Bannon was taken into federal custody with a court appearance scheduled the same day.
Another subpoena has been issued by the January 6 committee for former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, which Meadows has likewise defied.
Just as Chaffetz is saying, what’s really going on here is blatant corruption — a double standard that says if you worked for Trump and defy a subpoena you will be arrested. But if you worked for Hillary and defied a subpoena, well … no big deal. Never mind.
Not to mention that the two Never Trump Republicans on the January 6 committee, Reps. Liz Cheney (WY) and Adam Kinzinger (IL), have made it a point to excuse Speaker Nancy Pelosi from a subpoena to find out what she knew and did on January 6 in terms of protecting the House side of the Capitol.
By JEFFREY LORD
