Joe Neguse, who represents Colorado’s Second District in Congress, is everything that Ben Cline isn’t. I mean that as a compliment.
Among other distinctions, Neguse features the following on the home page of his Congressional website:
There is, of course, no similar count on Cline’s website or anywhere else. Maybe that’s because Cline hosted precisely one town hall (limited to a tiny number of constituents) during all of 2025.
As it happened, after Cline’s foolish questioning of former Special Counsel Jack Smith at a committee hearing Thursday, Neguse was the next committee member to face the witness. He took the opportunity to call out Cline.
My colleague from Virginia, a Republican colleague who was questioning you right before the break, do you know what he said in the days after January 6th? Let me share this with you. This is a quote of his from a press release on January 8th: “Congress stands united in our rejection of the violence that occurred this week, and I’ll continue to urge the swift prosecution of those involved to the fullest extent of the law.” Mr. Smith, this is theater. Republicans are trying to rewrite history. That’s what this is. Many of them were with us in the House chamber on January 6th. I remember it well. The chairman [Cline’s pal Jim Jordan] was there, as was I. There’s been a lot of discussion about witnesses today. Perhaps the chairman could muster the courage to call the four witnesses who I see, the American public may not see, I see standing behind you, Mr. Smith, the four police officers who risked everything, life and limb.
To do what? To protect the Republican members on the dais. It’s an outrage that they now sit here and have the audacity to try to rewrite history in front of the very officers who sacrificed everything to protect them.
Cline has never said a word about Donald Trump’s pardon of all the January 6 insurrectionists, including those who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers. Unlike some Republicans, he has never acknowledged that Trump had any role in provoking the violence. He voted against impeaching Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol and against a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6. And he has shown no sympathy for in the officers who bear the physical and mental scars of that day.
Joe Neguse has Ben Cline pegged.
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