Second J6 Hearing Criminalizes What Democrats Have Been Doing for Decades

The House select committee established to probe the Capitol riot held its second hearing Monday after its prime-time special last week. But instead of probing the violence at the Capitol, the committee dedicated another two hours to former President Donald Trump’s stolen election claims.
California Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren led Monday’s questioning with testimony from GOP operative Ben Ginsberg, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia BJay Pak, and former Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt. Also testifying was fired Fox News Political Director Chris Stirewalt, who announced his upcoming appearance before the committee after his prior network refused to air Thursday’s Soviet-style performance.
“If something doesn’t add up with the numbers, you go to court to get resolution,” said Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., at the onset of the proceedings. “We accept those results. That’s what it means to respect the rule of law. That’s what it means to seek elective office in our democracy, because those numbers aren’t just numbers. They’re votes.”
The same standard would ostensibly apply to failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose past campaign manager, Robby Mook, testified less than a month ago that the former Democratic nominee personally signed off on the grand scheme to frame Trump for Russian collusion. Six years after her historic loss, however, Democrats are left covering for their own long record of election conspiracies while depicting political opponents as domestic enemies of democracy.