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Shocking new information from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., appears to prove that President Trump was right yet again when it comes to the Jan. 6 Select Committee, which closed up shop earlier this year after an inconclusive investigation and hours of witness testimony.
During an interview on Real America’s Voice with “Just the News, No Noise,” Rep. Loudermilk stated that the Jan. 6 Committee did not preserve their deposition tapes, based on a conversation he had with Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who served as the Jan. 6 Select Committee chairman.
“That is true, I can confirm that,” Rep. Loudermilk stated when asked if the videotapes of infamous witness Cassidy Hutchinson were gone. “And all of the video tapes of all the depositions are gone.”
He said that he found out about this “early in the investigation” after receiving a call from someone who was looking for information on one of the tapes. After searching for the tapes, he said they couldn’t find them.
In fact, this summer, Fox News Digital reported that Rep. Loudermilk had been unable to access documents and information that he needed for an investigation of Rep. Thompson’s chairmanship of the Jan. 6 proceedings.
Rep. Loudermilk explained on RAV, “I wrote a letter to Bennie Thompson asking for them and he confirmed that they did not preserve those tapes. He didn’t feel that they had to. But according to House rules, you have to preserve any data and information and documents that are used in an official proceeding – which they did. They actually aired portions of these tapes on their televised hearings, which means they had to keep those, but yet, he chose not to.”
He added that he believes “they exist somewhere, we’ve just got to find where all these videos are.”
The mind-blowing revelation that the Jan. 6 Committee allegedly failed to preserve their deposition tapes may come as a shock to some, but it is worth noting that President Donald Trump accused them of destroying evidence and records this past summer when Rep. Loudermilk raised a red flag on the issue.
In August, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “THE JANUARY 6 UNSELECT COMMITTEE EXTINGUISHED AND DESTROYED ALL ‘EVIDENCE’ & RECORDS. CRIMINALS!”
He also stated in August that the “Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents.”
The president called the alleged action “unthinkable.”
