US House speaker to make good on promise to far-right Republicans including Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump

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      There are undoubtedly thousands of hours of footage of no laws being broken they can use to muddy the water.

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        This is 100% it, there’s already so much “bad” footage out there that no one is going to change their mind about jan 6 if more comes to light. But they’re hoping to find a few clips that make it look good that they can play on a loop on fox News

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      It’s enough footage to muddy the waters. Too much to individually review, but a perfect amount to point at and say nothing happened during most of it.

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      Anything that isn’t just footage of people walking around the mall eating ice cream will not be released.

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      The given answers, and so they can act like there wasn’t that much of what happened.

      No one can watch all that, so they’ll claim that violence is cherry picked and it’s the mostly peaceful protest they’ve been claiming the whole time.

      It’s still a lie but it’s one they’re giving “evidence” to their supporters for.

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      The footage is already out there. These seems like an information dump under the guise of transparency. It’s like when a corporation gets sued and has to release records so they send 20 million pages of documents to the plaintiff, far too much to actually wade through.

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        except if it’s released to the public, there’s literally millions of people to comb through the footage

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          Yeah there’s plenty amateur detectives out there with time on their hands who will absolutely find shit that the GOP doesn’t want found. This seems all kinds of reckless.