As the House Republicans clearly will dismiss the January 6 Committee when they assume power in January to focus on investigating Hunter Biden and his laptop, the good work of the House select committee into the insurrection should continue on — in the Senate — where Democrats have the majority even with recently declared independents (don’t get me started).
The House select committee is considering criminal referrals for five people — former President Donald Trump, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Chapman University Law School professor John Eastman, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, and Rudy Giuliani. The committee has not yet determine which charges should be filed against whom and doesn’t have the power to indict. That will be up to the very cautious Merrick Garland-led Department of Justice.
By taking the House Jan 6 committee’s work to the Senate and creating a Senate committee, the heat stays on even if investigations into Hunter Biden’s laptop — in the possession of the FBI since 2019 — increase under Republicans in Congress who would have already looked the other way on Ivanka Trump’s secured Chinese trademarks and her husband Jared Kushner’s $2 billion “investment” from the Saudis is a far greater scandal than anything Hunter Biden might have done. And what’s to stop a Senate Committee from investigating the grift the Trump family enjoyed while in office?