Bennie Thompson's Hypocrisy?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Piece in the Washington Examiner today by Byron York What
Benny Thompson did in January of two thousand five. Benny
Thompson is the guy running the January six committee talking
about the two thousand four presidential election, which was close.
George W. Bush one reelection with two six electoral votes

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beating John Kerry. It was a close election. It came
down to Ohio. If you don't remember that, they're counting
late into the night, and if Bush won Ohio, he
gets a second term. Carry wins Ohio, He's the next president.
I don't I didn't remember that it was that close
and we were counting into the night. But that's way
it worked. Exit polls had showed Carry with a solid
lead in Ohio. Many Democrats and in the press assumed

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that he would win. In the evening, Carry's top advisor
told him, may I be the first to say Mr
President to John Kerry as they are accounting, because his
internal numbers showed that they they were gonna win. O
high excellent ass kicking kissing too, but kicking. But Carry's lead,
if it ever did actually exist, did not last, and

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his account continued. Bush took the lead in one Ohio
by about he prevailed by about a hundred thousand votes.
Then something odd happened. Byron New York writes, Democratic activists
claimed that Bush had cheated. First they accused the Republicans
of suppressing the vote, Then they blamed the GOP for
long lines. Then some of the more crazies joined in,

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with all kinds of discussion amplified on the Internet about
machine maker die Bold and the alleged security flaws and
the machines that made them susceptible to hacking, and all
these different things. Any of this sound familiar going back
to two thousand four? Then some Democrats in Congress joined
the speculation. The leader among them was the late Representative

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John Conyers, who started an investigation of the allegations less
than one month after the election. Democrats were in the
minority at the House at the time, so he had
limited investigative authority. But a lead Democrat started an investigation
into the voting machines, really with no evidence of wrongdoing,
but because it whipped up his people about the two

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thousand four election. Any of this sounding familiar to anyone?
Conyer's held a forum on the Ohio situation filed or
filled rather with suspicion and speculation about the election. Maybe
the CEO of Diebald who was a Bush supporter, manipulated
the machines to throw the election for the president. Blah
blah blah blah blah, um, all kinds of different stuff,

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but that too. But there was nothing to it, and
they looked into it, and nobody ever came up with
any actual evidence. And you know, again, does that sound
for me here at all? Um? In the House? Though, Um,
they continued the investigation and looking into various things. And
that's where represented Bertie Thompson comes in, the guy who's
currently chairing as a Democrat, the January six Committee. At

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the time, Thompson was beginning his seventh term in the House.
She's way back then. He was in wait a minute,
and had become the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee.
He was becoming an influential member of the House, although
not as influential as uh as Um, uh, Clive Burns,
some others that they mentioned earlier in this article. Uh
Thompson could have joined the eight Democrats who voted to

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recognize the vote in Ohio, or even the eight Democrats
who did not vote, but he did not. Thompson joined
the protests that would have overturned a presidential election had
it succeeded. He led a protest to not certify the
vote out of Ohio based on freaking nothing. Thompson is

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now chairman of the House January six committee is now
investigating Trump supporters who, in the aftermath of the election
acted on the base of Internet rumors, wild theorizing, and
Republican policy grievances about the conduct of the elections with
nothing to back it up. But Bernie Thompson was the
lead guy among the Democrats who refused to certify the
vote for Ohio back in two thousand four.