Dems Trying to Put Anti-Trump Lawmaker on Rally Shooting Task Force

According to reports, House Democrats are considering appointing a well-known proponent of the debunked Russiagate theory to the committee that would look into the abortive attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump.

Punchbowl News reports that Democratic Representative Dan Goldman from New York is a “strong contender” to be included on the congressional task committee that will look into the July 13 incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, that almost claimed Trump’s life. Before being elected to Congress in the 2022 election cycle, Goldman served as lead counsel during the first Trump impeachment. He has been an outspoken critic of the former president for years, constantly portraying him as a danger to democracy and pushing the false narrative that Trump is essentially a Russian catspaw.

After declaring in 2020 that “there not only was evidence of collusion but there was, in fact, collusion,” Goldman asserted in 2021 that “the Trump administration withheld evidence that definitively proves collusion” and that “there is no longer any doubt about collusion” between Trump and Russia.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law” in its investigation into the alleged Trump-Russia collusion, according to the Durham Report, which looked into the investigation’s beginnings. It also found that investigators used “uncorroborated intelligence” to launch the investigation despite knowing information indicating that the collusion narrative may have started inside Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

In addition, Goldman has recently used forceful, disparaging language toward Trump.

“It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be, he has to be eliminated,” Goldman said on the air during a November 2023 appearance on ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s MSNBC program.

Subsequently, he retracts his statements and expresses regret for “a poor choice of words.”

More recently, Goldman has repeated similar rhetoric against Trump’s alleged threat to American democracy.

A few weeks before a gunman almost assassinated Trump on national television, Goldman stated in a June 24 post on X that “Donald Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”

He went on, citing Project 2025, a 900-plus page paper put together by conservative think institutes that Trump has distanced himself from, as evidence of Trump and his associates’ intention to march America into fascism.

Thirteen people will be on the bipartisan congressional task committee that will look into the Trump assassination attempt; seven of them will be Republicans, and the other six will be Democrats.

Requests for comment from the offices of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Speaker Goldman were not immediately answered.