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During an appearance on the always unhinged Deadline: White House hosted by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday, Washington Post congressional investigations reporter Jackie Alemany almost blew her back out moving the goalpost for the Democrat-led January 6 Committee. Claiming the hearings and the point of the committee was never to prosecute a literal case against former President Donald Trump, but rather “to create a historic account” and “try this case in the court of public opinion.”
“At the end of the day, as we said a million times, the committee does not have a prosecutorial mandate. This is an explanatory process for them to create a historic account,” Alemany said, while others in the liberal media were saying just the opposite.
She acknowledged “Yes, they obviously are laying out the evidence in a prosecutorial way” but admitted it was all about getting certain Democratic policy proposals enacted. “[T]heir objective at the end of the day is to garner – to try this case in the court of public opinion and garner enough of a groundswell in support of potential legislative remedies that they're going to put forth,” she told Wallace.
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