Confederate Major General John C. Breckinridge
Vice President J.D. Vance. (Photo by Peter Hall/Pennsylvania Capital-Star, States Newsroom.)
In his book JD Vance talks a good humble game of Humble Roots. I demand to see his family tree – and his family cemetery! Are there……family photos?
Was it two months ago the spirits of Lucretia and Henry Clay entered my being, and have haunted my soul? Henry worked his whole adult life trying to find a solution for Slavery, not in America – BUT IN HIS FAMILY! So did Thomas Hart Benton. Did they know John Breckenridge – personally? John ran with Joseph Lane against Lincoln – AND LOST! What if – HE WON! What if John stormed the capitol with and army of his kin – and took Abe Lincoln’s Victory away? Would they hang Lincoln, or, shoot him in the back of the head?
I was going to come at Vance ‘King of Hillbilly Clodhoppers’ with my Hillbilly Clodhoppers’ but this dude is the Vice President making Foreign Policy – after insulting a foreign President – who has sent me into battle, and who has seen DEATH! How much DEATH did Vice President John Breckenridge see. How much did the Civil War cose – both sides!
In the photograph below, Zelenskyy has his arms folded – after he realised Trump and Vance….
ARE STUPID
And know nothing about their own history, or the history of Uktaise and Russisa!
I will be covering the New Civil War between Two Vice Presidents. These two men have declared a Civil War against Canada – and are considering giving Putin Ukraine Land, that tends of thousands of loyal troops fought and died – DEFENDING! Mr. Kentucky fled to England after LOSING THE WAR, and went on a……
EUROPEAN TOUR!
JD Vance’s Cousin Critisises Trump’s Treatment Of Zelensky At Oval Office Meeting
Nate Vance, who volunteered with the Ukrainian military for three years, criticised JD Vance and President Donald Trump for their anti-Ukraine stance.
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Nate Vance called JD Vance a “good guy” but described the meeting with Zelensky as unfair. (File)
Nate Vance, the cousin of US Vice-President JD Vance, has slammed the Trump administration for its treatment of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Oval Office meeting in February.
Nate Vance, who volunteered with the Ukrainian military for three years, criticised JD Vance and President Donald Trump for their anti-Ukraine stance. He also condemned them for belittling Mr Zelensky and asking the Ukrainian delegation to leave the White House.
He said, “There’s a certain level of decorum that I expect from political leaders, especially in front of cameras”, as per BBC. He also expressed his dissatisfaction with the way his cousin and Mr Trump handled the White House meeting.
Nate Vance previously said that Mr Trump and Mr Vance were treating the situation like “useful idiots” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On December 15, 1863, Breckinridge took leave in Richmond.[152] Premature rumors of his death prompted The New York Times to print a quite vituperative obituary suggesting that Breckinridge had been a hypocrite for supporting states’ rights, then abandoning his home state when it chose to remain in the Union.[153] Confederate leaders were skeptical of Bragg’s claims against Breckinridge, and in February 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis assigned him to the Eastern Theater and put him in charge of the Trans-Allegheny Department (later known as the Department of East Tennessee and West Virginia).[130]
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On May 5, the same day that Jefferson Davis officially dissolved the Confederate Government,[181] Breckinridge discharged most of the men escorting him, retaining only a small contingent of Kentuckians under the command of his cousin, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge. Feeling honor bound to protect Davis, he attempted to create a diversion that would allow him to escape. The next day, his party encountered a large Federal force; while his cousin negotiated with the force’s commander, Breckinridge and a small detachment escaped.[180] Riding southward across Georgia, they reached Milltown (now Lakeland) by May 11 and remained there for a few days.[182] Learning of Davis’s capture, he left Milltown with only a military aide, a personal servant, and his son Cabell.[183] On May 15, 1865, in Madison, Florida, he was joined by fellow fugitive John Taylor Wood, who had been a captain in the Confederate Navy.[183] Breckinridge and Wood decided to flee to the Bahamas, but because Cabell was allergic to mosquitoes, Breckinridge told him to surrender to the nearest federal officer.[184]
At Gainesville, Florida, the group found Confederate Colonel John Jackson Dickison, who gave them a lifeboat he had taken from a captured federal gunboat.[184] Traveling down the St. Johns River, they reached Fort Butler on May 29. From there, they continued on the St. Johns to Lake Harney where the boat was loaded on a wagon and hauled about 12 miles (19 km) to Sand Point (today’s Titusville) on the Indian River.[185] They reached the river by May 31, but as they followed its course southward, they had to drag the boat across the river’s mudflats and sandbars.[183] They stopped at the John C. Houston place on Elbow Creek (Melbourne), where their boat was brought ashore and caulked. When the repairs were completed, Colonel John Taylor Wood, again led the party south.[185] Transferring the boat to the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter Inlet, they continued along the Florida coast and landed near present-day Palm Beach on June 4. Strong winds prevented them from navigating the small craft out to sea, so they continued southward down the coast.[186]
On June 5, the party was spotted by a federal steamer, but convinced the crew they were hunters scavenging the coast.[186] Two days later, they encountered a larger boat with a mast and rigging; chasing it down, they disarmed the occupants and hijacked the craft.[186] As compensation, they gave their old boat and twenty dollars in gold to the owners of the larger craft, and returned some of their weapons after the exchange was complete.[186] With this more seaworthy craft, they decided to flee to Cuba. Departing from Fort Dallas, they survived an encounter with pirates, two significant storms, and a dangerous lack of provisions before arriving in Cárdenas on June 11, 1865.[183] A Kentuckian living in the city recognized Breckinridge, introduced him to the locals, and served as his interpreter. The refugees were given food and stayed the night in a local hotel.[187] The next morning, they traveled by rail to Havana, where Breckinridge was offered a house.[188] He declined the offer, choosing to travel with Charles J. Helm, a fellow Kentuckian who had been operating as a Confederate agent in the Caribbean, to Great Britain.[183]
Arriving in Britain in late July, he consulted with former Confederate agents there and arranged communication with his wife, then in Canada. Re-crossing the Atlantic, he was reunited with his wife and all of his children except Clifton in Toronto on September 13, 1865.[189] The family spent the winter there, living first in a hotel and then in a rented house. There were enough Confederate exiles in the city, according to Mrs. Breckinridge, “to form quite a pleasant society among ourselves.”[190][191] The family moved to Niagara in May. In August, doctors advised Breckinridge’s wife that the climate of France might benefit her ailing health. Cabell Breckinridge returned to the U.S. to engage in business ventures with his brother Clifton, and Mary, just 12 years old, was sent to live with relatives in New York.[192] The remainder of the family journeyed to Europe, where the children attended school in Paris, Versailles, and Vevey, Switzerland. From mid-1866 to early 1868, Breckinridge toured Europe and the Middle East– including visits to Germany, Austria, Turkey, Greece, Syria, Egypt, and the Holy Land; because of her poor health, his wife remained in France until February 1868, when she joined him in Naples. During their tour of Italy, Breckinridge met with Pope Pius IX in Rome, and also visited Pompeii.[189]
Desiring to return to the U.S. but still fearing capture, Breckinridge moved his family back to Niagara in June 1868.[193][194] He steadfastly refused to seek a pardon, although 70 members of the Kentucky General Assembly had requested one on his behalf from President Andrew Johnson on February 10, 1866.[193] On January 8, 1868, the Louisville City Council instructed the state’s congressional delegation to seek assurance that Breckinridge would not be prosecuted on his return.[193] James Beck, Breckinridge’s old law partner, was then in Congress and wrote to him on December 11, 1868, that it appeared likely that Johnson would issue a general pardon for all former Confederates; he advised Breckinridge to return to the U.S. before the pardon was issued because he feared it might only apply to those in the country.[195]
The Republican vice presidential nominee heaped praise on Kevin Roberts, one of the main architects of Project 2025, in a foreword to Roberts’ forthcoming book.
August 1, 2024
By Emily Singer
As former President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, Trump’s own vice presidential running mate is praising the man whose organization created the document billed as a transition plan for a potential second Trump term.
Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to “Dawn’s Early Light,” a forthcoming book from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, whose organization created Project 2025.
“Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance wrote in the foreword, according to a copy of the text obtained by the New Republic. “The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill; it is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.”
Vance goes on to say that conservatives should rally around Roberts’ ideas in the book, writing: “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”
In the book, Roberts declares that “America is on the brink of destruction” and seeks to lay out a “promising path for the American people to take back their country,” according to a description of the book from publisher HarperCollins.
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In the last week we have seen Trump inflict the ideals of the Heritage Foundation on all Americans. The president of the HF just came out in support of the release of Jan.6 Insurrectionists. He can’t believe he had a chance to JOIN THE ONGOING INSURECTION, because he cant believe the majority of American Voters – put Trump back in office!
Study the Heritage Foundation that was founded on the ideals of Ronald Reagan. Look up the meaning of HERITAGE! If Reagan was sitting in the Oval Office and saw the attack on Capitol Police, what would he do?……Blame it on the Hippies is the correct answer!
Here’s the definition of HERITAGE….
features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance:
Does “buildings” stick out? Trump offers a defense of his involvement in Jan.6 He claims the Democrats destroyed all the evidence he was innocent – and The Violent Traitors. Who saw this evidence. The Republican are going to launch their own Jan. 6 hearing. Will any Democrats be involved?
Henry Clay is in the Benton Family Tree. He struggled to deal with the abolition of slaves. He invented WOKE. He even looked at deportinng freed slaves to Africa. Did Ronald Reagan ever consider this? I think he did? But, the Heritage Foundation destroed all the evidence.
Stop playing Whack-O-Mole! Concentrate in the largest think tank in the world! Write them and get their answer on paper!
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WASHINGTON— President Trump’s decision to pardon the January 6 defendants marks a pivotal moment in restoring the integrity of America’s justice system. The Heritage Foundation, a staunch defender of the rule of law, commends this move as a clear rejection of the politicized double standards that have plagued our nation under left-wing leadership.
Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage, commented on the pardons:
“President Trump’s decision to pardon nearly all January 6 defendants is a necessary corrective to the brazen weaponization of our justice system by the Left. The Democrats turned January 6 into a political cudgel, using it to distract from their disastrous policies and to smear their opponents.
“This move sends a clear message: justice in America should be blind—not a tool for leftist power grabs. The glaring double standard that turned peaceful dissent into a partisan witch hunt has no place in a free nation.”
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| Colonel Thomas Hart (1730 – 1808) | |
| Birthdate: | December 11, 1730 |
| Birthplace: | Hanover County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America |
| Death: | June 30, 1808 (77) Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States  |
| Place of Burial: | Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States |
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| Immediate Family: | Son of Colonel Thomas Hart and Susannah Rice Husband of Susan Hart Father of Susan Ann Halley; Eliza Pindell; Susanna Price; Thomas Pindell Hart, IV; Anne Brown and 5 others Brother of Charles Hart; Henry Phillip Hart; John Hezekial Hart; Keziah Ann Gooch; David Hart and 6 others |
| Occupation: | Colonel in Colonial Army, Sherriff, State Senator, Col. of NC in Rev War |
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About Colonel Thomas Hart
Children of Thomas and Susanna Gray of North Carolina: 1) Thomas, 2) Nathaniel G, 3) John, 4) Eliza, 5) Susanna, 6) Nancy, 7) Lucretia
Thomas Hart, merchant, public official, and militia officer, the son of Thomas and Susannah Rice Hart, was born in Hanover County, Va., on a plantation settled in 1690 by his English-born grandfather, also named Thomas. John, Benjamin, David, and Nathaniel were his brothers, and Ann his only sister. The family moved to Orange County, N.C., in 1755 after their father died. By 1779, Thomas had received a total of 2,282 acres of land in grants and erected his home, Hartford, near Hillsborough. In addition to farming, he built a gristmill on the nearby Eno River and conducted other business enterprises at the location that became known as Hart’s Mill. Later he became a partner with Nathaniel Rochester and James Brown in a mercantile establishment in Hillsborough.
After establishing himself financially, Hart married Susannah Gray, the daughter of the wealthy and politically prominent Colonel John Gray. In 1775, the colonel died and left his entire estate to his son-in-law, including the large plantation Grayfields. With capital resources thus increased, Hart shrewdly expanded his business and by his industrious management accumulated a considerable fortune according to the Orange County tax books for 1779. In addition to his financial prosperity, Hart was successful politically. Shortly after settling in North Carolina, he became an intimate of James Watson, James Thackston, Thomas Burke, James Hogg, William Johnston, and Richard Henderson, and an acquaintance of Governor William Tryon and Edmund Fanning. This led to his appointment as a vestryman of St. Matthew’s Parish as well as county sheriff for a two-year term and another beginning in 1768. In the latter year he was also made a captain in the Orange County militia and commissary for the troops of Orange and Granville counties.
Throughout his tenure of office, the sheriff was in constant controversy with the increasingly active Regulators. In 1765, the Assembly passed a bill introduced by Edmund Fanning to award Hart £1,000 for his losses as sheriff, and the previous legislature had included Hart in a group exempt from the payment of taxes. These acts infuriated the Regulators, who claimed the sheriff had no losses, but was being rewarded at public expense for using his influence in the election of Fanning to office. Hart also displeased the government by his failure to collect the unpopular poll tax, either because he disapproved of the law or did not understand it. In 1765, the Assembly ordered him to make the collection. Whether or not he did, he settled his financial account in the colony satisfactorily, which won for him a tribute from Orange County residents because he was the only sheriff ever to do so.
When Governor Tryon decided in 1768 to have Herman Husband arraigned in court for his Regulator activities, Sheriff Hart served the warrant and took the accused into custody. In the same year, and again in 1771, Hart was ordered to raise five hundred troops for the defense of the colony. He was unable to enlist the requested manpower but on both occasions accumulated sufficient provisions to sustain the troops Tryon assembled at Hillsborough. The actions of the royal government increasingly incited the wrath of the Regulators, and the sheriff was one of a group of officials they severely whipped in 1770. In view of such treatment, Hart undoubtedly received considerable satisfaction in serving as quartermaster for Tryon when the governor dispersed the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance.
During the relative calm that ensued after the War of the Regulation, Hart was able to concentrate on business enterprises. The role of an entrepreneur appealed to him, and in 1774 he became one of the partners in Richard Henderson’s Louisa Company to buy and develop lands in what became Tennessee and Kentucky. Hart journeyed to the Watauga section of Tennessee as one of the company’s representatives at a meeting arranged by Daniel Boone with the Cherokee Indians. John Sevier and Isaac Shelby, who attended as spectators, saw the Indians accept several loads of “trading goods” in return for their titular rights to a huge area of western land. After this transaction, the company was reorganized as the Transylvania Company with Richard Henderson, Thomas Hart, Nathaniel Hart, William Johnston, James Hogg, John Luttrell, John Williams, David Hart, and Leonard Henly Bullock as shareholders. Trading with the Indians for western lands strictly violated the Royal Proclamation of 1763, but, as many Americans were engaging in land speculation despite the king’s fiat, the Transylvanians ignored it also. The potential profit in the venture was enormous, and the partners lost no time in enlisting settlers to buy or rent land in the territory. Thomas Hart visited the Watauga again in 1775 and his brother, Nathaniel, became a resident agent for the company in the west until he was killed by Indians in 1782.
The outcome of the American Revolution relieved the Transylvania Company of any interference in its affairs from the British government but presented a new dilemma because the states of North Carolina and Virginia claimed Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively, as part of their territory. The partners determined to establish their claim to the western land if possible and years of litigation followed. The final decision rendered that the company’s purchase was illegal but a tract was awarded the partners to recompense them for the expenses incurred in the transaction. Hart traded part of his share for land in Kentucky and eventually settled on it.
After the War of the Regulation, Hart continued to fill an important role in political affairs, serving as a juror; member of a commission to build a new jail in Hillsborough; member of the colonial Assembly from Orange County in 1773; and then representative in the First, Second, and Third Provincial congresses. When the Revolution began, he was appointed commissary for the Sixth North Carolina Regiment with the rank of colonel. In addition, he was elected a senator in the North Carolina General Assembly for the 1777 session where he became involved in the work of so many committees that he resigned his military commission in order to attend to them.
Although Hart, with many others, could not condone the violent tactics of the Regulators, he felt no compunction in becoming an ardent patriot in the American Revolution when independence was formally declared. In doing so, he incurred the hatred of the loyal Tories who unleashed their persecutions when Lord Cornwallis approached Hillsborough with the British Army. Concerned for the safety of his wife and several daughters, Hart removed to Hagerstown, Md., accompanied by Nathaniel Rochester, one of his former business partners. Shortly after his departure the Battle of Hart’s Mill was fought on his property, which the British occupied.
Hart and Rochester built a mill and a nail and rope factory, both of which prospered. The colonel gradually disposed of his North Carolina property and never returned to the state. He sold his homeplace, Hartford, to Jesse Benton, husband of his niece, Nancy, and father of Thomas Hart Benton. As the purchaser died before paying for the place, Hart became the mortgagee of the property through a friendly lawsuit and allowed the widow and her family to continue to live there. The mortage was never fully redeemed, which apparently caused no ill will as Hart left the Bentons an additional tract of land when he died.
In 1794, Hart moved to Lexington, Ky., where he resided for the remainder of his life. He built up his rope and hemp business into a highly profitable commercial enterprise and engaged in various forms of trade and investment. Due to his affluence, pleasing personality, and shrewd mind, Hart soon became one of the most prominent men in Kentucky. His daughter, Ann (Nancy), married James Brown who had engaged in business with the colonel and Rochester back in Hillsborough, and who later became the U.S. minister to France. Another daughter, Lucretia, born after the Harts left North Carolina, married Henry Clay. A niece married Isaac Shelby, and the other members of the family made marital connections in influential circles.
In Maryland, Hart was a communicant of All Saints’ Parish (later renamed St. John’s), of the Protestant Episcopal church. In Kentucky, he joined an Episcopal society which eventually became Christ Church in Lexington. He was buried in the Old Episcopal Graveyard in that city. No portrait of Hart has been found.
Tim Bartl, CEO of the HR Policy Association, which represents hundreds of senior human resource executives across the country, said his organization would work with the Trump administration to ensure America’s largest employers can seek “the best talent regardless of race, sex, religious beliefs in order to win in the marketplace.”
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly talked about shutting down the United States Department of Education. Vice President-elect JD Vance has called universities the “enemy” and “hostile institutions”.
And while Trump’s pick for education secretary, former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, stands out primarily for having no apparent experience in the field of education, advocates are anxiously waiting for what many believe will be an all-out war against universities under the incoming administration.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.
Complaints by veteran soldiers about younger generations who lack discipline and traditional values are as old as war itself. Grizzled veterans in the Greek phalanx, Roman legions, and Napoleon’s elite corps all believed that the failings of the young would be the ruin of their armies. This is not the chief worry of grizzled American veterans today. The largest threat they see by far to our current military is the weakening of its fabric by radical progressive (or “woke”) policies being imposed, not by a rising generation of slackers, but by the very leaders charged with ensuring their readiness.
LGBT rights opposition
In 2013, a Heritage Foundation panel denounced the Boy Scouts of America organization’s proposal to allow membership for gay boy scouts, but not gay scout leaders. Heritage’s panelists variously argued that the proposal, if implemented, would be a “fatal concession” that would lead to “increased boy on boy contact”, “moral confusion”, and damage to “understanding of fatherhood” or “character formation”.[169][170]
The Heritage Foundation has controversially opposed gay marriage,[171][172] including both the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision by the Supreme Court,[173][174][175] and the 2022 Respect for Marriage Act.[176][171] Ahead of the Obergefell ruling, Heritage’s Ryan T. Anderson argued that gay acceptance is linked to single motherhood, sexual permissiveness, and reformed divorce laws. He added that the issue should be left to the states, but that the states should not legalize gay marriage either.[173] Arguing against the 2022 Respect for Marriage Act, Heritage’s Roger Severino stated: “Marriage is the exclusive, lifelong, conjugal union between one man and one woman, and any departure from that design hurts the indispensable goal of having every child raised in a stable home by the mom and dad who conceived him.”[177] In 2010, the Heritage Foundation also conducted meetings, which included social researchers opposed to gay marriage, which reportedly helped lead to the publication of the controversial New Family Structures Study.[172][178]
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House Republicans create new panel aimed at undermining Jan. 6 committee
Days after Trump pardoned the Capitol’s violent attackers, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) will lead a new subcommittee investigating what led to the attack.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) speaks with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol Sept. 13, 2023. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) | AP
By Hailey Fuchs and Kyle Cheney
01/22/2025 02:50 PM EST
Speaker Mike Johnson has launched a new effort intended to cast doubt on the findings of a now-disbanded congressional panel, charged with investigating President Donald Trump’s role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol.
A day after Johnson stood by Trump’s decision to pardon hundreds of rioters who assaulted police officers that day, the Louisiana Republican announced plans to appoint a new select subcommittee — led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) — to take aim at the work of the previous Jan. 6 subcommittee that first probed the attack.
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That Democrat-led panel, appointed by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), attributed the chaos and violence that day to Trump’s months-long campaign to sow doubt about the 2020 election results. The select committee’s efforts amassed an extraordinary trove of witness transcripts that helped fuel criminal cases against Trump in Washington and Florida for efforts to subvert the election.
This new panel will be a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally. It comes after Loudermilk had already spent two years probing the work of the Jan. 6 committee, as well as failures of Capitol security that helped facilitate the rioters’ breach of the building.
Johnson’s announcement also follows Trump’s decision to pardon or dismiss charges against virtually all of the 1,600 people arrested for storming the Capitol. Those decisions included dropping cases against hundreds of violent perpetrators, as well as 18 people convicted of seditious conspiracy.
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“The president’s made his decision; I don’t second guess those,” Johnson said, adding, “we move forward, there are better days ahead of us, that’s what we’re excited about. We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forwards.”
Loudermilk, however, told reporters Wednesday that “looking backwards” was a key aspect of the panel’s ability to make changes for the future.
“You’ve got to look backwards to look forward,” Loudermilk said
Loudermilk emphasized that a big task of the panel will be to consider “significant changes in how we secure this building and how we secure the people that are here, and also member security, and also looking at the number of intelligence failures that we have found.”
Though Loudermilk’s comments didn’t speak to the Pelosi-appointed Jan. 6 select committee, both Johnson and Jordan said its work would be a focus of Loudermilk’s panel. It’s not yet clear how many members will serve on the committee and how many slots will be marked for Democratic appointees.
When asked if Democrats would serve on the committee, Jordan told reporters, “you’d have to ask” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Jordan also said the subcommittee was looking to collaborate with Trump’s picks at the Department of Justice, specifically attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, deputy attorney general nominee Todd Blanche, and Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI Kash Patel.
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