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On the recordJune 9, 2022
It is my pleasure to take a few minutes. The first point I will talk about, the most fundamental aspect that this needs to be contextualized with is that the Democrats have basically corrupted every institution in America, not the least of which is this institution, not the least of which are the committees and the roles of committees. The gentleman from Pennsylvania said this is a show trial. He is exactly right. This is designed for television. It is not designed to find truth. It is not designed to say, let's come up with a legitimate legislative purpose, which is what the Supreme Court says you have to have if you are going to have a subpoena in the first place. You have to have a legitimate purpose. They don't have any. So these are the same folks that sit on this committee, that are running this committee. Don't forget, they ran the two sham impeachments. The last sham impeachment was such a debacle, such an embarrassment to our institutions and the Constitution that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said, I am not going to show up. So who do we have and what do we see? Well, they are not going to talk about tonight that four witnesses--four witnesses have testified under oath that 4 days before January 6, President Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops. Why won't they present that? Because it is indicia of what we would call in law the mens rea or culpability, your state of mind.…
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Andy Biggs
Republican · Arizona
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Jun 9, 2022

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