Despite Pardon, House Subcommittee Could Force Liz Cheney To Testify About Jan. 6 1/2

A new U.S. House subcommittee will investigate the events that took place before and after Jan. 6, 2021, which could involve requiring former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney to testify. "Buckle up," said U.S. Rep. William Timmons.

Leo Wolfson January 27, 2025 (Many lawyers are saying these pardons will backfire on them, because they no longer have 5th amendment rights and they have to answer all the questions, so if they had no pardons, they would never have had to answer the questions they will now.Same goes for Hunter Bidan, but if he thinks he can continue his monetary shake down and corruption in the future, those crimes are not covered by the pardon. Hunter can’t stop himself from crime, so rest assured he will go back to his corruption, it’s an addiction.)

Former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney would likely have to testify before a new U.S. House subcommittee that’s investigating the events that took place before and after Jan. 6, 2021, if she gets subpoenaed, which a subcommittee member has already said is likely to happen.

Despite Cheney receiving a pardon from former President Joe Biden during his final hours in office,presidential pardons come with the caveat that they remove Fifth Amendment privileges for the recipient. The Fifth Amendment grants the constitutional right to not answer questions in a court of law.

Many Republicans have criticized the work of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, which Cheney was vice chair of, as a partisan attack. Cheney has been one of the most outspoken Republican critics of President Donald Trump since he mounted efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

New Investigation And Cheney

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, announced the creation of the new select subcommittee to investigate events before and after Jan. 6, 2021, last week.

• “House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done,” he said in a statement.

• Rep. William Timmons, R-South Carolina, said on X (formerly Twitter) last week that pardoned Jan. 6 committee members should expect a subpoena soon.

• "Buckle up, because we're going to get to the bottom of the nonsense select committee for January 6th," Timmons said. "There's a reason that everybody on that committee was pardoned. It's because they were not telling the truth.

• "They embellish, they lie, and we're going to show them exactly what happened."

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia, will chair the new subcommittee, which will fall under the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee, of which Rep.

Harriet Hageman is a member. Cheney lost her 2022 reelection bid to Hageman by a landslide margin.

It was Loudermilk who helped issue an interim report calling for the Justice Department to investigate Cheney’s communications with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to then-President Donald Trump, over alleged witness tampering.

“Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that ‘numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI,’” Trump posted on social media at the time.

Even before Biden issued his pardon, President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t direct any of his staff to seek criminal prosecution against her.

Cheney has consistently defended her work on the Jan. 6 committee and never publicly requested a pardon from Biden or said she wouldn’t testify on the topic in the future.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/01/27/despite-pardon-house-subcommittee-could-force-liz-cheney-to-testify-about-jan-6/

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“Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did,” Cheney said after it was released.

“No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously,” she added.

Loudermilk’s Democratic colleagues have similarly accused him and other House Republicans of attempting to whitewash Jan. 6.

In a statement last week, Loudermilk said,“What happened at the Capitol that day was the result of a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at multiple levels within numerous entities.”

In his first day in office, Trump pardoned or commuted sentences for all of the people convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot.

How It Works

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” This constitutional protection can be used in a variety of circumstances when an individual is under investigation by authorities or asked to testify.

According to the Constitution Annotated from the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court confirmed in several decisions from 1955 that witnesses in congressional investigations can invoke the protections of the Self-Incrimination Clause

It is widely believed by numerous legal scholars that a conflict exists between the Fifth Amendment’s Self-Incrimination Clause and the president’s pardon powers.

This precedent dates back to the 1896 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Walker. According to the National Constitution Center, Justice Henry Billings Brown found that if a “witness has already received a pardon, he cannot longer set up his [Fifth Amendment] privilege, since he stands, with respect to such offense, as if it had never been committed.”

President Woodrow Wilson granted a full pardon to George Burdick, a newspaper editor, even though Burdick was not charged with a crime. The Constitution Center reported that Wilson’s pardon may have been made in an effort to compel Burdick to testify since Burdick could not “take the Fifth” if he received a pardon under the Brown precedent. Instead, Burdick refused to accept Wilson’s pardon, and then he was held in contempt when questioned again by Congress and cited the Fifth Amendment.

But a person can still plead the Fifth Amendment if he or she could face criminal prosecution under a state level charge that a federal pardon does not cover.

Leo Wolfson can be reached at leo@cowboystatedaily.com.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/01/27/despite-pardon-house-subcommittee-could-force-liz-cheney-to-testify-about-jan-6/

The lawyers working with Bidan had to know how this could backfire on all of them, and it will. Were they just trying to deceive the ones asking for a pardon. It's bizarre lawyers did this, they knew the consequences.

Graham: Senate needs to investigate Trump decision to pull Bolton’s security

by Alexander Bolton - 01/27/25 10:35 AM ET (Both Bolton and Pompeo have likely been working with and for the CIA for many years, seemingly as contractors. They are both warmongers and are prolific blockers of everything Trump wanted to do in the first term. If Graham is willing to take this on, it will only reveal his engagement in blocking Trump also. Isn’t every high profile appointee in danger when they leave government?)

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the Senate needs to investigate President Trump’s decision to end his former national security adviser John Bolton’s personal security protection.

Bolton, who clashed with Trump at the end of his first term, had been under Secret Service protection because of a threat on his life from Iran.

Graham, during an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” argued the U.S. government can’t leave former national security officials “hanging” after they’ve confronted one of the nation’s adversaries, such as Iran.

And he said the Senate needs to get involved and figure out why Bolton and Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lost their personal security details.

“Whether you like Bolton or anybody else, we need to make sure that if you serve in our government and you take a foreign power at the request of the administration, that we do not leave you hanging,” Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash.

“The Senate needs to look at what happened and sit down and figure out what’s the best way forward,” he said.

He said Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told him that the threat against Bolton and other former national security officials “seemed to be real.”

“And I don’t want to leave them hanging. It makes it hard to recruit people in the future,” he said.

Graham warned that Trump needs to think of the potential consequences if one of the officials who lost their personal security protection were to get seriously injured or killed by an assassin. (Bullshit, he’s worried about his collaboration with Bidan in Ukraine and many other evils designs. Graham is the target now.)

“And, you know, if something happened to these people and, you know, President Trump needs to think about, you know, getting people to serve in the future. Owning that decision,” he said.

(My theory is that Graham is trying to cover up some collusion he worked with Bolton & Pompeo on against Trump, he certainly had time to discuss his opposition to Trump on what he was going to do on Bolton. Graham just stuck his neck into a very dangerous situation, and there’s no way Trump’s attorneys hadn’t looked at all the pros and cons of this decision.What is Graham hiding?)

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5108473-graham-trump-john-bolton-security/

https://youtu.be/dv4U6Q0UcGQ?si=myrSEkq1-oboiP0M

Armed man at Capitol threatened to kill Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth, Mike Johnson

As Ryan Michael English headed to D.C. from Massachusetts, he stopped at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and saw Reddit posts about Bessent’s confirmation hearing. He then altered his intended target, court records say.

By Andrea Swalec • Published 1 hour ago January 28,2025

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The Heritage Foundation, federal authorities say.

Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts, was found with a knife and two Molotov cocktails onMonday afternoon near the south door of the Capitol, U.S. District Court records say.

“I’d like to turn myself in,” English said after he approached a U.S. Capitol Police officer, the records say.

Officers detained and searched him and found he had a folding knife, a lighter and two 50-mililiter bottles of vodka with a gray cloth attached to the top.

English told officers he went to the Capitol to kill Bessent, who was being confirmed as Treasury secretary. He said he had more Molotov cocktails in his car.

He said he left home on Sunday with the intention to kill Hegseth, who he called a “Nazi,” and Johnson, as well as burn down The Heritage Foundation. He said he aimed to “depose” the officials and send a message, records say.

As English headed to D.C., he stopped at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and saw Reddit posts about Bessent’s

English considered lighting the Molotov cocktails and throwing them at Bessent’s feet.

His car was found in the 900 block of Independence Avenue SW. Officers searched the car and found a 750-mililiter bottle of vodka and a gray sweatshirt with cloth cut from the sleeves. The cloth matched what officers found on the Molotov cocktails in English’s pockets.

In English’s pockets, officers also found a letter of apology to a woman written on the back of a receipt.

“Dear god I am so sorry. You must understand I can feel myself dying slowly b/c of my heart. This is terrible but I cant do nothing while nazis kill my sisters. I love you. This is awful. Im so sorry. I love u,” it said, in part.

English said he would have stabbed Bessent if he were able to get close to him. After looking at security at the Capitol,English thought he would have to kill at least three officers to be able to get to Bessent. He realized he might be killed by police during the attack.

English is accused of weapons possession and carrying a weapon on Capitol grounds.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/armed-man-at-capitol-threatened-to-kill-scott-bessent-pete-hegseth-mike-johnson/3827471/

28 Jan, 2025 20:19

Denmark addresses discrimination against Greenlanders

Copenhagen’s plan comes after US President Donald Trump suggested purchasing the territory

The Danish government has announced a comprehensive initiative to combat racism and discrimination against Greenlanders residing in Denmark, the Copenhagen Post has reported. The move has prompted criticism that the issue has been addressed only after the US began pushing to acquire Greenland, according to the newspaper.

On Monday, officials unveiled a plan that allocates an additional 35 million DKK (approximately $4.9 million) over the next four years to implement 12 targeted measures aimed at addressing longstanding issues facing the Greenlandic community.

A central component of the plan is the recognition of Greenlanders’ distinct identity. The government will now allow individuals to list their nationality as “Greenlandic” on their passports, acknowledging their unique cultural heritage within the Kingdom of Denmark.

Additional initiatives include enhancing interpretation services to bridge language barriers and fostering dialogue with educational institutions. Boarding schools will also engage in discussions to improve conditions for Greenlandic pupils, ensuring a more inclusive and supportive environment.

“Racism and discrimination against Greenlanders in Denmark are a separate problem,”said Minister of Immigration and Integration Kaare Dybvad Bek, according to The Copenhagen Post.

Greenlandic Member of Parliament Aaja Chemnitz of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party welcomed the plan, the newspaper reports, describing it as an “important tool” for combating racism against not only Greenlanders but also other ethnic groups.

However, critics have noted thatDanish institutions have largely remained inactive on these issues until recent years, when the US began expressing heightened interest in Greenland, the Post writes. This includes US President Donald Trump’s controversial suggestion to purchase the territory, which drew international attention to Greenland’s strategic importance and its relationship with Denmark.

In a related development,Denmark has decided to discontinue the use of controversial “parenting competency” tests on Greenlandic families. These tests, part of child protection investigations, have been criticized for being culturally unsuitable and leading to the separation of children from Inuit parents. The government plans to replace the tests with a special unit knowledgeable in Greenlandic culture to assist municipalities in related cases.

https://www.rt.com/news/611800-denmark-greenland-racism/

Denmark is admitting they treated Greenlanders like shit for many, many years!And they have. The only way they would get any respect is when Trump made the country and people an issue.

Fetterman defends Trump to 'View' hosts: 'He's doing what he campaigned on'

'Outnumbered' panelists discuss Sen. John Fetterman's, D-Pa., appearance on 'The View' where he defended his position as a Democrat and his opinion on President Donald Trump.

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https://youtu.be/1mdu6unob2s?si=5F1CL9ApmdfyIhlb

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NEW: Migrant deportees land in Colombia after Trump feud

The 'Outnumbered' panel discussed the latest on the Trump administration's effort to curb illegal immigration and the left's reaction to the mass deportations. (Not only men either)

10:15

https://youtu.be/ay_W_ShYSbg?si=m3RfSdxa20oGXO-Z

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Excellent, and don't come back you won't like the Barge ride, going home.

N.J. restaurant hammered for ‘Proud Boys’ burger. It was an ‘ignorant’ mistake, owner says.

Updated: Jan. 26, 2025, 8:06 p.m.|Published: Jan. 25, 2025, 5:09 p.m.The lies of the FBI and Rogue government have taken hold

The phone at Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails has been ringing off the hook for days. Its email inbox has been flooded with hundreds of passionate messages. The restaurant has been a popular fixture of the Toms River scene for the past 13 years. But attention like this? Never.

“It’s a nightmare,” owner Cathy Varriale said. The reason: the Proud Boys Burger, a short-lived special that Varriale said she deeply regrets. “We truly do apologize,” she told NJ Advance Media in an occasionally emotional phone interview. “It was a bad decision. It was stupidity. It was ignorance. But we do not support hatred or Nazism or any of that.”

The Proud Boys Burger was put on Aqua Blu’s menu on Thursday. A description of the burger — made of “white American cheese, onion ring layers of truth, resilience pickles, freedom fries, cancel culture coleslaw, and liberty sauce” — was posted by a customer to social media, where it quickly gained traction and fueled outrage.

The Proud Boys are a far-right extremist organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In 2023, four of the group’s leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their part in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. One, Enrique Tarrio, was sentenced to 22 years in prison, the harshest punishment handed down in relation to the attack.

Tarrio and his co-conspirators, along with more than 1,500 other rioters, have since been granted clemency by President Donald Trump this past week.

Aqua Blu posted an apology to Facebook, saying it would “reflect and learn from this experience,” and closed their comments. But that hasn’t stopped the backlash. ==People have called the Aqua Blu team Nazi-lovers]], threatened to hold a rally outside the building, and accused her of backpedaling, according to Varriale.

“I know this may sound ridiculous, but I didn’t know what a Proud Boy was,” she said. “I thought it was, you know, a proud boy.” The burger was an idea hatched by one of her chefs, according to Varriale.

Every Thursday for the past eight years, Aqua Blu has done a themed burger night. Past specials have been named after sports teams or the restaurant’s regulars. Occasionally the burgers are political — there’s been both a Sleepy Joe and a Trump Burger — but they’ve always been meant as a lighthearted joke, Varriale said. This week, the kitchen was asked to create two burgers based on a server’s family.

The first burger, a “flavorful tribute to a life well lived,” according to the menu, was meant to memorialize the woman’s father, who’d just died. The second was meant to honor her husband, who’d just returned from deployment.

The resulting burger was touted in a since-deleted post on the restaurant’s Facebook page as “layered with boldness and liberty.” Varriale said that server’s husband has no links to the Proud Boys.

She had been out of the restaurant for most of the day, attending a funeral that morning and a town hall meeting in the afternoon. She didn’t realize anything was wrong until her phone began buzzing, she said.

Confused by the fury she was seeing online, Varriale said she asked her chef whether the name of the burger symbolized something disrespectful. Her staff took down the posts and reprinted the menu, but it was already too late.

“Now that I know what it is, I completely understand,” she said, getting choked up. “But how do you fix it? I don’t know how to fix it.”

While she was speaking to NJ Advance Media on Saturday, Varriale had to pause to field several other phone calls. During one, she could be heard apologizing to the person on the other end of the line, a Marine Corps veteran who told her that the burger was “disgusting.”

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“You are absolutely right, sir,” Varriale replied. “Someone made a bad decision and we’re paying the consequences. I apologize and I appreciate you calling.”

https://www.nj.com/ocean/2025/01/nj-restaurant-hammered-for-proud-boys-burger-it-was-an-ignorant-mistake-owner-says.html

“Reliable” NATO Ally Sánchez Refuses to Spend on Defense

Despite being a vocal supporter of military and financial aid to Ukraine, the Spanish PM appears unwilling to prioritise Europe’s self-defence capability.

Nick Hallett — January 27, 2025

As NATO chief Mark Rutte visits Madrid to meet Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez, criticism mounts overSpain’s lacklustre defence spending, which remains the lowest among NATO’s 32 members]]. Despite being a vocal supporter of military and financial aid to Ukraine, Sánchez appears unwilling to prioritise Europe’s self-defence capability==.

Spain’s military expenditure, at just 1.28% of GDP, is far below NATO’s recommended 2% threshold—a target most alliance members have already achieved. While Sánchez has pledged to reach this level by 2029, Rutte recently emphasised the urgency of bolstering collective defence, warning that NATO cannot afford further delays. “Those who are not at 2% have to get to 2% in a couple of months,” Rutte said at the World Economic Forum.

Sánchez insists that Spain is a “reliable” NATO ally and has boasted about a 70% increase in defence spending over the past decade. Yet critics argue this is still nowhere near enough given the escalating security threats in Europe. Spain’s geography, distant from NATO’s eastern flank, and its historical aversion to militarism—rooted in the legacy of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship—have contributed to public scepticism about defence investments.

Spain’s relatively tiny defence budget also comes despite public spending rising to record levels. In the second quarter of 2024, it reached an all-time high of €75.52 billion.However, much of this has gone on socialist welfare policies rather than defence.

The debate is not isolated to Spain. In the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also resisting calls from U.S. president Donald Trump to raise military spending to 2.5% of GDP, citing strained public finances—a concern that was conspicuously lacking when he recently made lofty promises of support to Ukraine’s Volodymyr ZelenskyWhile acknowledging the need for increased defence investment, he is currently only committed to a strategic review.

As Rutte’s visit highlights, Sánchez’s reluctance to prioritise defence spending jeopardises Europe’s security and undermines NATO’s cohesion. His unwavering support for Ukraine contrasts sharply with his apparent indifference to building Europe’s defence capability, a stance that leaves allies questioning Spain’s long-term reliability.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/sanchez-claims-to-be-reliable-nato-ally-while-refusing-to-spend-on-defense/

MUST-SEE | WarRoom Announces White House Correspondent: Natalie Winters Live From White HouseYAHOO!

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There's a real shake up in the WH press corp, and it's driving the MSM crazy to see any Bannon's War Room reporters. I love this, it's almost the funniest thing we'll ever see. All the arrogant MSM is losing their heads.

>>22454087 FBI agents calling in sick since attorney general ordered them to assist with deportationsPN

These idiots are only making it easier to identify those the FBI that will be let go or furloughed without pay for a year, until the government can get around to reviewing their employment.

Raheem Kassam On MAGA's Takeover Of America's Politics, Society, And Future

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