Mike Lee says FBI watchdog report exhibits Jan 6 conspiracy theories ‘weren’t so loopy’ | EUROtoday

A Department of Justice watchdog report on the FBI’s operations throughout the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol vindicates Donald Trump’s allies continued suggestion the company had a hand within the chaos, based on Senator Mike Lee — regardless that the report discovered “no evidence” undercover brokers have been there.

“Now it appears we weren’t so crazy after all,” the Republican senator informed Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. “We had perfectly legitimate reasons to asked the questions.”

Lee went on to baselessly recommend that Democrats could also be hiding additional details about the character of January 6.

“What I do know is that after the Democrats lost the majority [in the House of Representatives]when the new majority came in and they started looking for documents, there was  a bunch of stuff missing,” he mentioned. “As far as who may have destroyed what, I don’t know.”

In the months after the 2020 election, Lee encourage the Trump crew to rent attorneys and “set them loose” difficult the election outcomes and urged state legislators to nominate illegitimate pro-Trump “alternative electors,” based on textual content messages obtained by CNN.

“Well, you know, had I known that my texts would be leaked to the public selectively, perhaps I would’ve said less in text messages,” Lee later said in defense.

Nearly four years later, the January 6 insurrection remains a political live wire.

More than 1,500 people have been charged for their involvement in January 6, the largest federal prosecution in U.S. history.

Trump himself has been charged with conspiracy and obstruction for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, though special counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss the case since Trump’s election, citing Justice Department guidelines against prosecuting a sitting president.

Trump has said he will grant pardons to large numbers of January 6 defendants, whom he has referred to as “patriots” and “hostages.”

Critics of the incoming administration fear that FBI nominee Kash Patel will use the company to go after figures who scrutinized Trump on January 6 and different points.

Patel, who has pushed quite a lot of conspiracy theories, has beforehand printed an enemies record of figures, lots of them Democrats, he says deserve prosecution. Patel has additionally mentioned he desires to show the FBI headquarters right into a museum of the “deep state,” a shadowy cabal many on the appropriate consider is operating nationwide affairs.

“Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you,” he mentioned on an episode of War Room final 12 months. “Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.”

Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar warned on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday that Patel is “on a revenge mission when we should be on a national security safety mission.”

“This is not the direction we need to go,” she mentioned.

Senator Adam Schiff of California, who Trump repeatedly pilloried for his work on the January 6 investigation in Congress, warned this week that Patel’s “only qualification” is his “blind obedience” to Trump.

“The president can find other people who are loyal to him and to his interests, but who are also loyal to the rule of law,” Schiff informed ABC. “Patel is not one of them.”

Others like Republican Senator Eric Schmitt argue the FBI is in want of change after years of controversy.

“That agency is in desperate need of reform,” he informed ABC’s This Week. “Kash Patel is very qualified and I think he’s going to get the support in the Senate.”