A House Republican committee chairman is preparing to ask Congress to formally repudiate the so-called “findings” of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked Jan. 6 Committee because evidence uncovered over the past two years has found them to be false.
The probes by Just the News and the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, led by chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), “have whipsawed the original, official narrative of what transpired during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots,” the outlet reported Friday.
Among the initial claims made by the disbanded committee and its witnesses that have since been debunked:
— Trump did not try to grab the wheel of the presidential limo, driven by a Secret Service agent, and force his team to take him to the Capitol Building during the riot there.
— Pelosi admitted being largely responsible for the lapses in security that fateful day, not Trump, to include the pre-deployment of National Guard troops.
— Trump did, in fact, order the military to ensure that the Capitol grounds were secure, but the military and political leadership refused to do so.
“My intention is to bring the House floor a resolution that lays out all the evidence that we found that contradicts the evidence that they supposedly or the narrative they put in their report because future generations need to know, do not use this document that the select committee produced as any reflection of a historical record,” Loudermilk told the “Just the News, No Noise“ television show on Thursday night.
There is currently no established procedure in Congress for formally retracting an official report from a previous session. Consequently, Loudermilk’s team is working on legislation that would urge current members of Congress to repudiate and disavow the earlier committee’s findings, the outlet reported.
This resolution would specifically target the findings and assertions of the Thompson-Cheney report—widely accepted by mainstream media—that have since been shown to be false or misleading. It aims to present concrete evidence that provides a more accurate account of the events leading up to January 6, during the Capitol breach, and afterward.
Loudermilk emphasized that the objective is to ensure future generations of Americans understand that the Democratic January 6 committee crafted a politically motivated narrative filled with inaccuracies and insinuations rather than delivering an impartial presentation of facts, Just the News noted.
“It’s a narrative,” he said. “It’s more fiction than fact, and we can show that through the evidence that we’ve uncovered.”
One of the more recent findings: That Trump specifically ordered military brass and top civilian Pentagon leaders to “do whatever it takes” to secure the U.S. Capitol Building three days prior to the riot. But they defied him.
“There is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. military forces at the Capitol, period,” acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller told the Defense Department inspector general during a March 2021 interview, capturing the outright defiance of Trump’s order.
“The transcripts undercut the Democrat conclusion that Trump meant for violence to occur at the Capitol while affirming the former president’s long-held claim he authorized up to 10,000 troops to be deployed in advance to protect the Capitol and capital city,” Just the News reported.
Trump claimed he was vindicated in a social media post after the latest findings regarding his order to protect the Capitol.
“The Deep State chose to disregard my direct authorization of at least 10,000 National Guard Troops to ensure that Washington, D.C., was safe and secure on January 6, 2021,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “These Deep State subversives disobeyed the President’s directives, which would have prevented any unrest that day – January 6th, as it is known, would never have taken place.”