During an explosive House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) grilled former Special Counsel Jack Smith and four former DC cops in attendance, vowing accountability and a real investigation by the new Select Committee into the events on January 6.
Former DC Metropolitan Police Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, and former Capitol Police Aquilino Gonell and Harry Dunn were invited to sit in the front row at the hearing to back Smith’s testimony and support his assault on the US Constitution.
Nehls’s comments caused the dirty cops and the Democrats to unravel, Fanone interrupting him mid-speech to say, “Go f*ck yourself,” disguising his words with a fake cough. He later appeared to cough, “bullsh*t” when admonished by Committee Chairman Jim jordan.
But it didn’t end there. Eventually, Fanone openly flipped Nehls off after he gave the floor to GOP Rep. Jefferson Van Drew of New Jersey.
Nehls later responded, “Mr. Fanone, you need medication!”
Fanone’s antics during the hearing on Thursday, where he screamed profanities and threatened another attendee, then flipped Nehls off.
What prompted the disgraceful behavior was Nehls telling the ex-DC cops that the new January 6 Select Committee is going to “actually examine what happened that day, and I can tell you, gentlemen, that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with Yogananda Pittman and the US Capitol leadership team.”
He earlier tore into Jack Smith for weaponizing the government against Republican Lawmakers and President Trump. “You tried to criminalize political speech, slap unlawful gag orders on a presidential candidate, and spy on Republican members of Congress in violation of the Speech or Debate Clause, including the sitting Speaker of the House,” Nehls said. “This wasn’t, Mr. Smith, about upholding the law. It was about tearing down President Trump and anyone, anyone close to him. You even tried to ram through a politically motivated final report after your cases collapsed, including the Presidential Transition Act and basic fairness.”
Nehls continued, “Here’s the good part. The American people saw right through it. They rejected, sir, your witch hunt loud and clear in November, handing President Trump a commanding victory. The voters spoke loud and clear. They wanted an end to the weaponization of our justice system.”
“We know the Capitol Leadership team, specifically Yogananda Pittman, had the intelligence, and there was going to be a high propensity for violence that day. And the Capitol itself was the target. We knew the extremist groups were going to be there,” Nehls told the former cops. “We know what the committee wanted to do is to not allow Donald Trump to come back and win again. And they failed, and they failed miserably, and I hope you now can see that.”
And when Jefferson Van Drew was delivering brief remarks, another shouting match ensued, with Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) also becoming unhinged and interrupting to blame President Trump for the security failures on January 6.
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