Yes, the January 6th Committee will end up fully cooperating with the DOJ
On Tuesday, the news broke that the DOJ has asked for the transcripts of all the testimony that the January 6th Committee has obtained. This is huge news, as it further underscores that the DOJ – which has had a January 6th grand jury targeting Trump world for at least four months – is indeed looking to take everyone down.
But good news can never be allowed to simply stand as good news these days, and within hours, the media and pundit class managed to find its phony scandal in order to spin this great news into a more ratings-friendly doomsday narrative.
January 6th Committee Chair Bennie Thompson stated that he’s not inclined to immediately give the DOJ copies of his committee’s transcripts. Thompson didn’t state why, but the reason is obvious enough: such transcripts could turn around and leak out to the media, blunting the impact of the upcoming public hearings that the committee has long been building up to. It makes perfect sense, if you think about it; the DOJ can wait its turn until after the public hearings.
But we’re already seeing media narratives about how the January 6th Committee is never going to cooperate with the DOJ, so the DOJ will never be able to prosecute anyone, and so we’re all doomed. Of course the media says it all in a more stately manner than that, but “this good news is actually bad news and we’re all doomed” is indeed the gist of it.
Let’s get real. The January 6th Committee will, of course, end up fully cooperating with the DOJ. If the DOJ has to wait another couple weeks until after the public hearings, then so be it; it’s not going to have a major impact on the timeframe for the high level January 6th criminal indictments that the DOJ has long been working on. This is a non-story, but we’re about to see a whole lot of hand wringing performance art from those media outlets and pundits whose brands are built on spinning things as negatively as possible in order to scare and outrage you into paying attention to them.
