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Former President Donald Trump Friday dismissed the January 6 panel over a unilateral vote issuing a subpoena for him to testify as a “committee of highly partisan political hacks and thugs.”
Mr. Trump
dismissed the work of the committee as a “Charade and a Witch Hunt”.
On Thursday
the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 violent siege at the
U.S. Capitol unanimously voted to issue a subpoena to Donald Trump to testify
before the panel.
Responding
in a 14-page statement issued Friday and dated Thursday 13th October 2022,
Trump accused the Democrats of seeking to “destroy the lives of many
hard-working American Patriots, whose records in life have been unblemished
until this point of attempted ruination.”
Drawing parallels between “the double standard
of the Unselects between what has taken place on the “RIGHT,” and what has
taken place with Radical Left, lawless groups such as Antifa, Black Lives
Matter, and others,” the former President said it “is startling and will never
be acceptable, even to those who will be writing the history of what you have
done to America.”
Trump
expressed “anger, disappointment, and complaint” with Congress for approving
“the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a
Charade and Witch Hunt.”
Mr. Trump
who repeated his baseless claims that the 2020 presidential elections were
“rigged and stolen” said “despite strong and powerful requests, you have not
spent even a short moment on examining the massive Election Fraud that took
place during the 2020 Presidential Election, and have targeted only those who
were, as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself.”
Mr. Trump
said “days before January 6, 2021, I recommended and authorized thousands of
troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at
the Capitol and throughout Washington, D.C. on January 6th because I knew, just
based on instinct and what I was hearing, that the crowd coming to listen to my
speech, and various others, would be a very big one.”
“The
Department of Defense timeline shows that National Guard troops could have
easily been present at the Capitol before January 6th and that I fully
authorized this recommendation and request. Following my authorization, the
Department of Defense was surprised to receive a wholesale refusal, in writing,
from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Capitol Police, who do not report to me,
but report to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.”
Making
reference to the law, Mr. Trump said no troop deployment could be utilized in
Washington, D.C. without the authorization of D.C. Mayor and House Speaker.
“Why the
failure to act or use this ready force? Mr. Trump contended. “Had even a small
percentage of National Guard or fencing been there, there would have been no problem,
January 6th would have been just another date.”
“I did my
job long ahead of schedule. Some people call it good instinct, but the troops
were ready to go. Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser didn’t do their job, they
didn’t like the look of soldiers, and sadly your Committee refuses to say
anything about it, because if they did, it would be clear that I did everything
correctly, and that is not what the Committee wants to see,” the former
president said.
Trump dismissed the January 6 work as a “Show Trial the likes of which this Country has never seen before,” adding “It is a Witch Hunt of the highest level, a continuation of what has been going on.”