There is still an element of “horse away, barn door shut,” but on Wednesday evening, a bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives passed a measure to establish a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday evening to establish a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted murder of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the panel earlier this week and said it will have the full investigative power of the House, including the power to issue subpoenas. It will consist of seven Republicans and six Democrats chosen by Johnson and Jeffries, who have not yet announced their selections.
The resolution requires the task force to submit a final report on its findings by December 13, 2024 at the latest.
For once, the timing of this does not seem suspicious: the final report is due to be available after the election, and the influence of the assassination attempt on former President Trump on the election has already occurred – and is probably considerable.
It will be engaging to see who Representatives Johnson and Jeffries select for this task force. Their selection will tell us very quickly how much actual investigation will be conducted and how much political sensationalism will be involved. As for the latter, there will probably be plenty of it.
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But frankly, it’s still worth doing; it might well provide insights into what exactly went wrong on that fateful day, and some of those insights might make some politicians quite uncomfortable.
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, and Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, said the task force will seek to determine what went wrong on July 13, the day of the shooting; hold those responsible accountable and prevent such law enforcement failures from happening again. At the end of its investigation, the panel will make recommendations to appropriate government agencies and propose necessary legislation to enforce reforms.
The resolution to establish the task force was introduced by Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, whose district includes Butler County, where the rally took place.
Will “eliminating DEI hiring practices” be among those recommendations? We can only hope.
One engaging takeaway from this is that this is actually a bipartisan issue. During Congress’s questioning of Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle on Monday, even the notorious “progressive” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came down strenuous on Director Cheatle (and not with the hammer and sickle, as AOC is wont to do).
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In December, many will be waiting with bated breath for this report. But will it lead to any action? Especially if it means sacrificing one of the left’s sacred cows, diversity, equity and inclusion. That remains to be seen.
