By Mike Huckabee
January 3, 2025
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In a particularly in-your-face story, the White House announced on Thursday that President Biden would be awarding Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, co-chairs of the House “Select” Committee on January 6, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest award that’s given to civilians. And that’s what he did, in a White House ceremony that very day.
Cheney and Thompson were among a group of 20 whom Biden said had “performed exemplary deeds of service” (right, for him!) and are bonded by “their common decency and commitment to serving others.”
“The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
In reference to Cheney, Biden said, “Throughout two decades in public service, including as a Congresswoman from Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January 6 attack, she has raised her voice --- and reached across the aisle --- to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible if we work together.”
(We’ll pause while you fall to the floor and roll around laughing helplessly. Biden uses the word “decency” a lot, but we do not think he knows what it means.)
Of course, Cheney didn’t just reach across the aisle; she sailed all the way across, and that’s what she was being rewarded for. President Trump has made much more fitting comments about Cheney --- for example, when he said last month on “Meet the Press” that she and Thompson deserve to go to jail for their work on that committee but that he would not direct his AG or FBI director to go after them. By all appearances, they tampered with at least one witness (fabulist Cassidy Hutchinson), suppressed exculpatory evidence, and deliberately destroyed records that they were required to turn over to congressional Republicans. The J6 Committee was a sham, and they were the ones in charge.
Fortunately, the fed-up voters of Wyoming had the final say about Cheney, who couldn’t even win her primary this time around, losing in a landslide to challenger Harriet Hageman. So Liz can take her award and stuff it...well, into a drawer back home, mercifully far from Washington, DC.
Yet the DC crowd reveres her for throwing the rules out the window to go after Trump and paint him as an “insurrectionist.” Oh, yes, she’s in very good standing with them. In fact, during Thursday’s awards ceremony in the East Room, they gave her a standing ovation. If you just can’t bring yourself to believe that something this preposterous actually happened, here’s the video; fast-forward to 9:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The uproarious applause and standing O for Cheney were sparked when the announcer said she was being honored for “putting the American people over party.” Sorry, should have warned you to have your barf bags handy. This recognition of Cheney and Thompson marks the least deserved awards since President Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize for being born.
Soon after this spectacle, Thompson was also singled out for his own standing O, after being acknowledged for “his lifelong dedication to safeguarding the Constitution.” Again, not kidding. He’s the one who, before his committee’s public hearings, said he’d be holding them because “the public needs to know what to think.”
When asked by CNN last month if he would accept a pre-emptive pardon from President Biden, Thompson said, “It’s his prerogative. If he offers it to me or other members of the committee…I would accept it, but it’s his choice.”
Heck, Biden has commuted the death sentences of vicious murderers, so why not this? According to sources for NBC NEWS, Biden and his senior aides have discussed issuing pre-emptive pardons “for those who could become targets of Trump in his next administration.” See, Biden HAS to pardon them! It’s Trump’s fault, for daring to seek retribution! Or as many other Americans would call it, “justice.”
Brit Hume has it right, in a post on X: “This is repulsive. That investigation was done by a committee all of whose members were chosen by Nancy Pelosi, and was produced like a TV show. There was no cross examination of witnesses. The media fell for it, but it was utterly one-sided. A show trial.”
By the way, as Guy Benson posted on X, Bennie Thompson refused to certify George W. Bush’s win in 2004. Isn’t that an act of insurrection?
Recall that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in violation of the rules establishing the committee, personally chose the two Republicans on it, Cheney and then-Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, whose work on the committee was so unpopular that he retired ahead of the 2022 election.
Tyler Durden at LIBERTY DAILY offers a good refresher on the allegations of witness tampering against Cheney, as reported by Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House subcommittee looking into the J6 Committee. Loudermilk says he’s concluded that “numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney” and called for an investigation by the FBI.
As Durden notes, if Trump’s DOJ pursues Cheney, she’ll undoubtedly invoke immunity under the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, which protects lawmakers from criminal liability related to their legislative duties. We shall see how that goes. It’s probable that she won’t need to, though, as Biden’s likely going to preemptively pardon her, anyway. He might as well, having already debased the pardon power just as he’s debased the honor of receiving this medal.
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Of Cheney’s selection for the award, Miranda Devine of the NEW YORK POST said on X, “She should have had enough self-respect to refuse it.” Well, she doesn’t, though she did look kind of uncomfortable up there.
https://x.com/mirandadevine/
As reported at REDSTATE, the J6 Committee has been accused by congressional colleagues of failing to preserve a massive number of documents --- 1.5 to 2 terabytes’ worth of information --- and deleting over 100 encrypted files, despite then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy demanding they preserve all records. Fortunately, they were later recovered by a forensics team.
President Biden politicized last year’s awards, too, holding them on January 6 and giving awards to several Capitol Police officers, including a posthumous award for Officer Brian Sicknick, whom the administration falsely maintained had died as a result of injuries that day. Biden actually said that Sicknick, along with officer William Evans, were killed by insurrectionists. (As you know, Sicknick died of a stroke, after the riot, and his death was ruled by natural causes. Evans was killed months later by a follower of the Nation of Islam.)
Well, that’s about all we can stomach about Liz Cheney for one day. But in case you missed it in Thursday’s newsletter, here’s a very intriguing prediction she made in December 2020, before Trump’s January 6 rally and the vote certification: that the joint session of Congress that day was likely to be disrupted by a bomb threat and possible evacuation.
Sure enough, on January 6, two pipe bombs were “discovered” very close to the Capitol. So, where did Liz get her crystal ball? What did she know back then that we didn’t know? For when you have time, if you didn’t see it, there’s much more detail here...
https://www.declassified.live/
Speaking of the J6 pipe bombs, the committee headed by Barry Loudermilk and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie has released its report on the events of January 6 and the work of the J6 “Select” Committee, and it’s quite damning about the search for the so-called pipe bomber.
As Julie Kelly reports, “...the failure to locate the J6 pipe bomber doesn’t add up considering the extensive investigative tools still being used by the FBI to track down and arrest j6 protesters, a caseload now approaching 1,600 individuals.” If they can find all those people, why can’t they find this person? Sure seems as though they don’t want to find him. With so many questions remaining, Kelly’s report is a must-read…
https://www.declassified.live/
According to THE GATEWAY PUNDIT, the FBI has stopped cooperating with congressional investigators on the pipe bomber case. For when you have time, theirs is an excellent write-up…
Finally, as David Spunt reported Thursday night on FOX NEWS “Special Report” --- in a segment tellingly called “Whatever happened to…?” --- the FBI has just released “new footage” (huh?) of the hooded pipe bomber suspect. He’s shown at “approximately 7:54 PM” on January 5, 2021, sitting on the bench outside the DNC headquarters, the location where one of two pipe bombs was “discovered” on January 6, just about the time the vote certification was scheduled to start.
Spunt said that “agents know now the person’s height --- 5-foot-7.” Are they telling us it’s taken four years to figure out his HEIGHT??
The FBI says it’s assessed over 600 tips, reviewed about 39,000 video files and conducted over 1,000 interviews during the past four years. They’ve even produced an illustration of the suspect’s Nike shoe, the Air Max Speed Turf. This seems to be all they’ve got on the mystery guy after FOUR YEARS. But, hey, the $500,000 reward still stands (and will continue to).
The fact that the FBI is releasing new video now is just bizarre. Did they time this to distract from Loudermilk’s J6 report? Here’s the FOX story, but we can’t wait to see what Julie Kelly has to say about it.
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