Hallow 1/6 war of Liz Cheeny
IT must be nice to be Liz Cheney these days. There she is sitting on the Jan. 6 committee with her fellow GOP turncoat, Adam “Crybaby” Kinzinger, surrounded by new Democrat friends who flatter her and pay her great respect.
The New York Times just delivered a glowing profile of the Trump-hating Wyoming congresswoman (right), claiming she has “emerged as a leader and central figure,” is “known for drilling down into the details of the assignment” and is “well-versed in the criminal code.”
Eric Swalwell quoted Cheney reverentially on CNN this week, too. Nancy Pelosi butters her up with saccharine praise for her “courage” and “patriotism.”
It’s fair to say that Pelosi has deputized Cheney to be the face of the select committee, which ostensibly is investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Adam “Steele Dossier” Schiff played a supporting role this week as Cheney read aloud text messages of former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows as a prelude to charging him with contempt of Congress.
Don’t buy the myth that the committee is bipartisan just because it has two Republicans on board. Cheney and Kinzinger were handpicked to be useful idiots by the spitefully partisan House speaker. The committee was illegitimate the minute Pelosi rejected Republicans Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, who would at least have asked why the Capitol was left unprotected on Jan. 6. Every Republican has rightly condemned the violence in the Capitol, which was appalling.
Holes in Pelosi story
But why did Pelosi, via her sergeant-at-arms, reject repeated requests from Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund for National Guard backup for his overwhelmed troops, even after the building had been breached? What Machiavellian games were at play that day? How can we ensure the Capitol is never despoiled again?
We will never know because Pelosi’s committee is focused on a naked search-and-destroy mission against its political enemies.
It was created for one reason, to denigrate and destroy Donald Trump and his supporters, to buttress the toxic narrative led by the Great Unifier, Joe Biden, that 75 million Trump voters are incipient domestic terrorists and white supremacists.
Biden’s Democrats want to hound suspected Trump sympathizers out of Congress, the military, Fox News and any other institution that dares to harbor them.
Preferably they must be jailed. That’s the point of bringing criminal contempt charges against Meadows and former White House strategist Steve Bannon over their refusal to comply with subpoenas from Pelosi’s star chamber, even though a court has yet to rule on whether Trump’s claims of executive privilege extend to his former advisers.
The standards of integrity in the committee are so low that Schiff was called out this week by The Federalist doctoring text messages between Meadows and Rep. Jordan that he was reading aloud with theatrical flourish, as he is wont to do.
The scalps claimed by the committee seem to please the president. Hearing the word “Meadows” emanating from the chirping press pack near his helicopter on the South Lawn yesterday, Biden made a rare beeline to the reporters.
Oh, yes, indeedy, Meadows was “worthy of being held in contempt,” he half snarled-half gloated.
DC’s own ‘Gitmo’
You get the feeling the president would like nothing less than to see all his detractors in jail, suffering the same fate as about 40 Jan. 6 defendants who still languish in pretrial detention in DC’s “Gitmo,” as defense lawyer Joseph McBride calls the wretched prison a few miles from the White House.
Jail conditions were slammed by a District Court judge as “deplorable” and “beyond belief” in October when he ordered the transfer of a J6 defendant who has not received treatment for cancer or surgery for a broken hand in seven months.
Judge Royce Lamberth’s concern for the physical and mental deprivation of J6 defendants is rare in Washington.
While BLM-Antifa rioters who set police stations ablaze during months of rioting last year have had most of their charges dropped, J6 defendants are still in jail. Most have no criminal record, and are not charged with crimes of violence, yet they are locked in solitary confinement while violent repeat offenders in places like New York are released back on the street almost as soon as they are arrested to menace victims anew.
The J6ers are being treated with “unusual cruelty,” according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the few politicians who has taken up their cause.
Exhibit A: the deranged antiTrump, anti-Republican, antiwhite-man tweets pumped out by the jail’s Deputy Warden Kathleen Landerkin, accused by Greene this week of “torture and abuse of pretrial defendants.”
Landerkin deleted her account, but her tweets live forever on the Internet.
Vulgarities
“F--k everyone who supports Trump” was one example. She has also tweeted puerile insults at Trump, like “mushroom d- -k.”
“The Trump family is a crime family and the GOP in [sic] complicit,” she tweeted in 2019. “Schiff is a hero.”
“Trump is doing more damage to this country then [sic] foreign terrorists ever have,” she tweeted last year.
She has called Republican members of Congress “people who conspired with traitors before and during the insurrection on 1/6/21.”
She describes herself as a “white female that works for social justice” and tweeted that “white men are more dangerous than immigrants.”
She posted photographs of bumper stickers on her vehicle, including one depicting Trump as a baby in a diaper.
Landerkin even boasted in a tweet that she had denied entry to Greene, GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert and Rep. Matt Gaetz when they tried to check on conditions at the jail in July.
“That was me,” she gloated. “Another good story about the job.”
This woman controls every aspect of the daily lives of the J6 defendants who are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
The fact she still has a job tells you everything about the dual standards of justice in Washington, DC.