January 6 Committee Members Facing Criminal Charges

Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) of the United States has proposed that members of the House January 6 Committee may face criminal prosecution if they destroy records.

Since they released their conclusions, Loudermilk has been investigating the actions of the partisan committee, which departed from over a century of House tradition when then-GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was not permitted to choose opposition members.

Loudermilk revealed last year that the committee had deleted text messages, documents, and other records. Despite directives from newly elected House Speaker McCarthy to preserve all records related to the probe, this was not followed.

Earlier this week, Loudermilk suggested that the House would soon be drafting criminal referrals for former Representatives in an interview with John Solomon of Just The News, including Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and others.

"As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be," Loudermilk stated. "But I think that's going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to obtain. And we need to not only uncover the truth for the American people but also understand just how significant this case is for obstructing."

The Georgia Republican also mentioned that if the members are shielded from prosecution, other measures such as censorship or referrals to the House Ethics Committee are being considered.

"We also have to explore what other options are available. There's also censorship, ethics, obviously. But we also have to consider that there are members of that select committee who are no longer in Congress. So they may fall under a different scenario. We have tools for members of Congress, but also active members of Congress have certain protections," Loudermilk explained. "So we'll have to work on that because, as you mentioned earlier, we're in uncharted territory right now."

The January 6 committee came under scrutiny for presenting misleading information to the American public by hiring a Hollywood producer to enhance its prime-time hearings. The committee once showcased testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump aide, who claimed that when the protests turned violent, Trump attempted to take control of a Secret Service vehicle and return to the Capitol. Secret Service agents have strongly denied this claim.

Furthermore, the committee selectively utilized video evidence and excluded information indicating that the violence was instigated by police using crowd control weapons against nonviolent demonstrators. This footage was not shown to the American public; instead, 14,000 more hours of material were withheld in favor of specific segments.