Back in June of 2024, when speaking to Just the News’ John Solomon on the John Solomon Reports podcast, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounded off on the January 6 Committee, hammering it for what it has been up to and arguing that the GOP-controlled House of Representatives should repudiate it with all possible haste.
As background, the January 6 Committee was formed in the wake of the riot and protest on January 6, 2021, and focused on investigating the event. It was despised by many on the right who saw it as just being another avenue for Democrats and RINOs like Liz Cheney, now out of Congress and supporting Kamala, to attack former President Donald Trump.
Speaking to Solomon about the committee and what he sees Speaker Johnson’s Congress needing to do with their power, Gingrich said that the committee must be repudiated. “This committee, the J6 committee, was so fraudulent, that the current House should repudiate it, define it as an illegal or unethical, runaway investigation of no standing,” he said.
Continuing, he argued that those who were attacked with lawfare for not going along with the committee’s demands should be helped, saying, “[A]nd [it] should send a letter to both the Department of Justice and to the appropriate judges, saying that any action based on the J6 committee should be considered null and void and that people like Steve Bannon should not be going to jail because they want to fight with a committee which was literally operating outside the law.”
Then, Gingrich argued that the whole committee’s process was “tainted and corrupt,” saying, “I think this is such a tainted and corrupted process. And I think it has to be repealed by the House and repudiated by the House. And I think that the court and the Justice Department have to take into account that anybody who had a conflict with this committee was dealing with an out of control, illegal operation.”
Building on that, he claimed that all the findings of the committee are false, saying, “Their findings are based on a totally false product. And the people who were subpoenaed by them who refused to agree, we now know, we’re on the right, that in fact, what you have here is a runaway select committee. That was totally dishonest.”
He also said, attacking former Rep. Liz Cheney, “I mean, we’ve we’re in a period here where the establishment is just sick. And we have a chance to correct the record historically. And I think people will be astonished at how bad was Cheney was, how much she broke the rules, and how basically, she wanted to destroy Trump so badly, that she didn’t care that in the process, she was breaking the laws.”
Then, further skewering the committee, he said, “This committee destroyed all of its records. Now. That is, that is totally illegal, because we have others talk about Trump and Biden and their records. While I tell you what the J6 committee did, deliberately and methodically, was 1000 times worse than anything either Trump or Biden had done in terms of records.” He added, “They did it deliberately. And they did it because they didn’t want other people to figure out what they’ve been doing.”
Watch Gingrich roast President Biden here:
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