I’m working my way through the Jan. 6 Report and I’ve read the names of several House Members listed among the different conspiracy referrals, including Reps. Scott Perry, Andy Biggs, and Paul Gosar. All were to some degree involved in trump’s many-headed plot to stop the certification or overturn the 2020 election results. Before Jan. 6 they attended meetings and were on conference calls about VP Mike Pence’s role and other illegal means to interrupt the certification, and they were participants in post-riot discussions, when the insurrectionist, bigoted bunch sought pardons and tried to block a Congressional investigation of the coup they helped stage.
What I haven’t read so far is a story about General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, encouraging a violent attack on the US Capitol, which put Pelosi and her staff in grave danger. I haven’t read about it because it didn’t happen, but that won’t stop Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar from investigating the Milley-Pelosi conspiracy.
On Twitter, Gosar, R-Ariz., this month wrote that the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives will conduct "a real investigation" into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and "the effort to attempt a coup between traitor Gen. Mark Milley and (then-House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi will be reviewed and exposed."
According to Gosar, Gen. Milley’s Jan. 8 call to China, assuring them that the US government was indeed sound after the Jan. 6 riot, was “treasonous,” as was Speaker Pelosi not warning Members that the day would end violently. Gosar himself might have known about impending violence on Jan. 6—there’s little doubt he did—but to blame the deaths, injuries, and damage on Speaker Pelosi is a stretch, as will be all of the “Weaponization” Committee’s inquisitions.
The extremists have been in charge a few days, and already they’ve passed abortion restrictions and IRS cuts that benefit the wealthy, while defanging the ethics office and investigations of the insurrectionists.
Perry, Gosar, and Biggs were all referred to the DOJ for further investigations, after they refused to comply with the Jan. 6 Committee’s subpoenas. It’s well-documented that Gosar, for example, was identified by insurrection planner Ali Alexander as a central player in the coup; he was an early voice at Arizona’s Stop the Steal rallies after the 2020 election; he participated in Giuliani’s lying press conferences claiming fraud in Arizona (leading to the stupid “audit”); he was the first Congressperson to object to his state’s certification on Jan. 6; and he has since refused to explain his role in trump’s scheme to send fake elector documents or convince legislatures to overturn their election results, among other insurrection plans.
The Arizona white supremacist, according to his own siblings, is knee-deep or deeper in trump’s plot to stop the peaceful transition of power. This Milley-Pelosi stunt may blur his central role for a moment, and that’s all this “investigate the investigators” bullshit is about, but ultimately the DOJ can’t not indict a sitting Member of Congress who so brazenly helped stage a coup—only to later seek a pardon, even though it was Pelosi’s fault.