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I don\u2019t want to say the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s final hearing was mostly old news, but much of the time was consumed by literally playing the greatest hits.<\/p>\n

There was a video presentation yesterday that was just clips of the testimony the panel has taken over the past year and a half \u2013 as if to remind people of all the witnesses from its heyday. While Fox, CNN and MSNBC all carried the meeting, there was no pretense of any new evidence during the Christmas-week session.<\/p>\n

The panel \u2013 all Democrats plus two anti-Trump<\/a> Republicans \u2013 unanimously adopted the final report.<\/p>\n

The hearings were at their strongest when Republican witnesses \u2013 from former Trump administration officials to state lawmakers \u2013 delivered the facts as they recalled them. This wasn\u2019t liberal Democrats or Resistance journalists making the case, it was people who had served and supported Donald Trump \u2013 until the Capitol riot<\/a> and his effort to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE HOLDS FINAL MEETING MONDAY, TAKES ACTION AGAINST TRUMP, ALLIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The only thing that marred that testimony, in my view, was the Trump-is-guilty speeches that the committee members \u2013 led by chairman Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney \u2013 would deliver before they got to the first-hand accounts.<\/p>\n

There was, in truth, one new piece of business yesterday \u2013 the criminal referrals.<\/p>\n

But even here, as it has done throughout its existence, the panel leaked that in advance.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never understood why the committee systematically funnels to the press all the news it plans to break. Once the media were filled with details of which criminal charges the panel would invoke against the former president, the only reason to tune in was to hear the speechifying.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE OUTLINES CRIMINAL REFERRALS FOR TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As telegraphed in advance, the panel is asking the Justice Department to look into criminal allegations that Trump incited an insurrection, conspired to defraud the U.S. and obstructed an act of Congress<\/a>. A fourth one was tossed in: conspiracy to make a false statement.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s historic. Yes, no such referral has ever been made against a former president.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s purely symbolic.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department is already investigating<\/a> the hell out of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The probe is looking at Jan. 6, the storing of top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago and the pressure against state officials, a number of whom have been subpoenaed by the special counsel.<\/p>\n

So what do the referrals really matter, beyond a chance for the soon-to-be-extinct panel to have its last moment in the television sun?<\/p>\n

Sometimes a subcommittee will break new ground in an investigation and refer to Justice some allegations that are news to the department. That\u2019s hardly the case here.<\/p>\n

The panel also referred to Justice four GOP members of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas. They are Kevin McCarthy, who could become the next speaker<\/a> in two weeks \u2013 how strange it that? \u2013 along with Andy Biggs, who\u2019s challenging him, Jim Jordan and Scott Perry.<\/p>\n

The committee also asked DOJ to look at Mark Meadows, Trump\u2019s last chief of staff, and attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Cheseboro.<\/p>\n

And the panel posted a 100-page executive summary of its report, which in the end is almost entirely focused on Trump, as Cheney wanted.<\/p>\n

The report emphasized, among many other things, that Trump watched the riot on television for hours, ignoring a deluge of pleas sent to Meadows, before finally asking his supporters to go home.<\/p>\n

SUBSCRIBE TO HOWIE’S MEDIA BUZZMETER PODCAST, A RIFF ON THE DAY’S HOTTEST STORIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“None of the events of Jan. 6th would have happened without him,” the report says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Without in any way diminishing the importance of what happened on that dark day \u2013 or how the top election deniers lost in the midterms \u2013 this might be receding into history except for one thing.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump still constantly argues, to this day, that the election was stolen from him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/media-buzz\/jan-6-panel-predictable-swan-song-legally-irrelevant-referrals-doj <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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