Staff Reports
President Donald Trump’s timing could not have been better as he took swift action on Monday night to fulfill his promise to pardon the Jan. 6 defendants. With a total of 1,500 pardons issued, Trump has put House Speaker Mike Johnson in a precarious position, nudging him to denounce the findings of a dubious panel driven by Democrats, whose legitimacy has been undermined by glaring factual inaccuracies and questionable motives. One can almost hear the gears of accountability grinding as a response to this unprecedented clemency.
In a move that raised more eyebrows than a circus tent, departing President Joe Biden also decided to issue pardons for lawmakers and staffers of the Democrat-led Select Committee on Jan. 6, along with several police officers who testified before it. This strange act has led to some eyebrow-raising questions: What wrongdoing did the committee members need absolution for, and what kind of secret society were they running to necessitate such a preemptive strike? Apparently, even in politics, it seems one does not simply issue a pardon without leaving a trail of smoke behind.
Representative Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican, has been on the warpath for months, demanding that Congress take a definitive stand against the findings of the Jan. 6 committee. He has continually pointed out the numerous factual errors and the committee’s tendency to withhold exculpatory evidence, traits that surely raise suspicions about their intentions. After Biden’s sweeping actions, Loudermilk is now standing on firmer ground, suggesting that this reckless pardon was an implicit admission of guilt on the part of the Democrats’ committee.
Trump delivered his J6 pardons, now Congress must decide fate of panel that required clemency. Pressure builds on Speaker Mike Johnson to repudiate Democrat J6 panel’s flawed findings. https://t.co/Wl0LN8NAZf
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 21, 2025
Biden argued that his pardons were meant to protect the committee members and his own family from “unfair retributions.” However, some have labeled this rationale as an insult to anyone who took the actual pursuit of justice seriously. Legal analysts are raising their own brows as they question the constitutionality of Biden’s actions. Many, including Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch, believe that these pardons not only mock the Constitution but also open a Pandora’s box that could lead to unforeseen legal turmoil for the pardoned individuals.
While Trump has thrown his support behind further investigations into the Jan. 6 committee, it appears the Democrats may have inadvertently dug themselves into a deeper hole. With the prospect of accountability hanging in the balance, both Trump and Speaker Johnson seem aligned in their resolve to keep the investigation alive. They could potentially shine a spotlight on the alleged misuse of taxpayer dollars and questionable narratives presented by the former committee. Loudermilk even hinted at pursuing civil fraud statutes against committee members for their failure to disclose documents that contradicted their narrative — proving that sometimes the truth truly is stranger than fiction.
