Jasmine Crockett Uses GOP's 1/6 Revisionist Hearing to Torch Their Gaslighting
Rep. Jasmine Crockett used the GOP's revisionist January 6th hearing to torch MAGA gaslighting by getting facts on the record about the over 1,000 convictions resulting from the deadly attack.
“In this Committee hearing, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett methodically dismantles the conspiracy theories surrounding January 6 and puts facts on the record.”
Republicans were trying to use the GOP’s new Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack hearing to rewrite history.
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Enter, Jasmine Crockett, current Texas Democratic Representative and former defense lawyer who focused on criminal defense and civil rights, serving as a public defender in Bowie County, Texas. In other words, when it comes to discussing the violent 1/6 criminals Donald Trump pardoned, few have more expertise.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett used the hearing to probe the misleading narrative presented by Republicans. Her six minutes of questioning is a must-listen bulwark against MAGA gaslighting.
Crockett: I don't know where I want to start, like I am so frustrated with this country, and I don't think that I'm the only one, and to know that we have former law enforcement here as someone who worked with law enforcement consistently as a practicing lawyer, I'm quite concerned. I'm alarmed by some of the things that you said specifically.
Crockett pointed out the hypocrisy of Republican stories about January 6th versus how the Trump DOJ is behaving in her questioning of former Senior Collections Strategist for Domestic Terrorism at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Thomas Speciale, who provided a transcribed interview to the original House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in February 2022.
Crockett: Mr. Speciale… You were warning your family about the possibility of the FBI busting into your home. Is that correct? Close enough?
Speciale: Yeah, because they were raiding American citizens all over the United States for trespass.
Crockett: And you'd agree with me that that's,
Speciale: I mean, no, I don't agree that you should use FBI tactical teams to raid people who are trespassing.
Crockett: That's not what I was saying. Sorry. I was moving a little slow because I wanted to make sure I quoted this correctly.
Are you aware that the FBI recently executed a search warrant at a Washington Post reporter's home?
Mr Speciale: No, I'm not aware of them
Crockett: But you'd agree with me that doing something like that with the FBI sounds like what you were afraid of happening. And to be clear, that never happened to you, correct?
Speciale: No, it didn't. But I was aware of the FBI investigation.
Crockett: You did not, so they never busted into your home. But you you were concerned and you felt like that that would be wrong.
And so what I'm trying to understand is that there's a lot of complaints about the Wray FBI, and I won't opine on that, but I will make it clear, and Mr. Romano help me out if I'm wrong. But was Mr. Wray appointed by Donald J Trump himself, Mr. Christopher Wray, who was the FBI director. Okay, so he was appointed by Donald Trump.
And right now it's interesting, because we sit here and we're talking about domestic terrorism, and every day there are Americans concerned about ICE and what ICE is doing.
So let me ask you a different question that you may be familiar with. As it relates to the training that the average FBI officer gets before they are admitted as officers, is it longer than 47 days? Yes or No,
Speciale: I don't think that I'm the person that you should be asking that question. I think that the retired FBI agent should be.
Crockett: Anybody want to answer that? Who? Who's been in law enforcement?
Mr. Piehota: Yes, ma'am. The FBI Academy ranges anywhere from the changes in length and duration. It can go from 12-14, 16, it's up in up to 18 -20, weeks.
Crockett: Okay, thank you so much. So here it is. We have people, and I know that there have been conversations about political opponents. I believe it may have been you, Mr. Piehota, that you talked about political opponents being prosecuted.
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