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The Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has been primarily focused on what role former President Trump may have played leading up to the riot. The committee has subpoenaed a number of Trump’s former administration officials — most recently White House counsel Pat Cipollone — to ascertain what the former president may have known. While the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former VP Mike Pence have been called to testify, Straight Arrow News contributor Rashad Richey believes he knows why they have not been subpoenaed or officially investigated:
Here’s what I think is going down. I think they know that if Ginni Thomas is fully investigated, if she testified, truthfully, that if Mike Pence is fully investigated, and if he testifies truthfully, that it will then be so conclusive that criminal charges must be applied against Donald Trump, which means the current Department of Justice would be in the political pickle of having to indict a former United States president.
Remember, the Constitution does not allow, does not give, does not provide any special protections to a former US president. He’s a citizen just like you and I, he’s indictable. Okay.
This comes down to Biden being an institutionalist to his department of justice, wanting to uphold the sanctity of the institution of the presidency. They don’t want to be put in the position of actually having to indict a former US president.
And either Ginni Thomas or Mike Pence or maybe a combination of them both will surely land them to that conclusion. And that’s why they do not want them to testify.
Now, here’s the other part. It doesn’t mean it can’t happen. That’s why it’s up at this point to progressives in the Democratic Party, who actually care about following all of the evidence to its natural conclusion rather than protecting institutions here and there and given some people immunity, that don’t deserve it whatsoever.
So those who are conscious enough of the political game that’s being played most push the agenda, contact your congressional leader and pose the question. I had a great conversation with Congressman Ro Khanna out of California just a couple of days ago. And I said, listen, this doesn’t make sense. And he agreed.
Ginni Thomas should be investigated.
He agreed that the committee has decided to bypass certain people who obviously were engaged in criminal activity. Food for thought, at some point, the truth has to come out.
