The J6 Committee will begin televised hearings Thursday night, 8-10 PM. You can help ensure that the news media does not try to “balance” the hearings with Republicans claiming the Committee is illegitimate or the findings are somehow not important.
Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman at the Washington Post let us know we need to fight back:
Memo to Democrats: Hammer the GOP as complicit in Trump’s coup
… Democrats need a strategy to push back. Whatever they do should foreground a simple truth: Many Republicans were either complicit in Trump’s effort to destroy our constitutional order to remain in power illegitimately, have since worked hard to cover it up or both.
So Republicans have zero credibility on these matters, and they should be granted zero standing to address them. Democrats need to say this clearly and forcefully. …
… One of the key facts about the GOP pushback is that the Republicans who will be most visible in trying to discredit the committee’s findings are some of the very people who were allegedly among the most involved in the coup attempt. That includes [Jim] Jordan, who had multiple phone conversations with Trump on the day of the insurrection.
What’s more, as many as a dozen House Republicans were reportedly involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the election in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6. And GOP leaders such as [Kevin] McCarthy are refusing to honor a lawful congressional subpoena in order to keep direct knowledge of Trump’s state of mind during the violent insurrection attempt shielded from the public. ...
If you see newscasters quoting Republicans (especially Gym Jordan or some of the other people deeply involved in the effort to overthrow the government), please phone or write to those newscasters using the contacts below. We need to hammer them for both-sidesing their coverage. There is absolutely no evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election or that there was any significant fraud — and saying he did is promoting the Big Lie. Republicans are at fault and ONLY Republicans are at fault for promoting the Big Lie. Democrats did not try to overthrow the government. The January 6th committee has spent months gathering evidence, including examining thousands of documents and conducting thousands of hours of interviews. We need to hear what they have found. Republicans refused to participate in this process, so they should be ignored when they complain about not being included.
Contacts for national news outlets:
Kossack JLFinch has provided some twitter resources that you can forward in appropriate twitter threads to help stymie the effort by Republicans to pretend January 6 was somehow not important or a hoax:
Here is your resource for aggressive January 6 messaging on twitter in support of the Commission