For the few that watched the Jan. 6 commission's bawling-cops spectacle, where four Capitol Police officers testified through tears about fearing for their lives in the wake of an out-of-control crowd breaching the Capitol, there was ample reason for skepticism.
The Washington Post reported it like this:
Four police officers delivered emotional testimony Tuesday about the physical and verbal abuse they endured defending the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 from a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump, as a House select committee held its first hearing on the insurrection.
Afterward, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the panel's chairman, said that the hearing set "the right tone for the work of this committee" and that the panel would probably hold its next hearing before the end of Congress's August recess. He said the committee would start issuing subpoenas for additional witnesses "soon."
They blubbered about "democracy" and one of them, Officer Harry Dunn, even claimed that Trump-supporters surrounded him and shouted the "N-word" at him, something he didn't show video on, even though he presumably has access to thousands of hours of video that the defendants don't have. Turns out he's a Black Lives Matter activist, has taken selfies with House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and has defended BLM's violence in the past.
Well, surprise, surprise: it turns out that the sob-show politics isn't going over well with the public. A new poll shows a drop in public support for the entire Jan. 6 commission, which happened just after all the tears and flapdoodle.
According to the New York Post:
An emotional hearing this week in which police officers attacked in the Capitol riot testified before a House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 turned more Americans against the need for the probe, according to a Morning Consult poll.
Among voters of all parties, 53 percent supported the investigation, down from 66 percent in the survey in June and 58 percent just a week ago. Four out of five Democrats were in favor, while only a quarter of Republicans were, along with half of independents.
Only 49 percent of those polled said they had watched all or even part of the committee hearing that dominated the news cycle on Tuesday.
What's more, decreasing numbers of the public now believe that President Trump is responsible for the Capitol riot, which is kind of the entire point of the commission.
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