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|Lie=Representative Perry Calls January 6 Committee Hearings a "Soviet-Style Show Trial"
|Accusation=Rep. Scott Perry, Republican-PA, blasts the January 6 Committee ahead of a series of public hearings on the attack on the Capitol for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars for a "Soviet-style show trial" that is "an affront to our American republic, and to the order and the rule of law and to justice."

I contend that this not only partisan hyperbole but also and intentional mis-characterizion of the committee's purpose and process.

Perry is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It is generally considered to be the most conservative bloc within the House Republican Conference. Its members hold socially and fiscally conservative views, and most are supportive of Donald Trump.

Perry was also specifically mentioned by Rep. Liz Cheney during the first hearing as being one of several House Republican lawmakers that contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021 to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the presidential election results. He was supoenaed by the committee about to testify about his role in the insurrection which he defied.

A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt or innocence of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal the presentation of both the accusation and the verdict to the public so they will serve as both an impressive example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.

Show trials tend to be retributive rather than corrective and they are also conducted for propagandistic purposes. When aimed at individuals on the basis of protected classes or characteristics, such trials are examples of political persecution. 
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial</a>

Was Benghazi a show trial?
June 28, 2016
The Benghazi Select Committee, a Republican-lead effort that cost about $7 million dollars and held 33 hearings over more than two years into a topic that had already been investigated by seven other Congressional committees. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loomed large in the House Republican probe of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack. Hauled before a GOP panel, she was grilled for eight hours. On Tuesday, an 800-page report landed and House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, denied the probe was ever about Clinton. 

In a Sept. 29 [2015]interview with Fox News Channel, House Majority Leader (and then-speaker-in-waiting) McCarthy was pressed by Sean Hannity to name an accomplishment in the Republican-led Congress. He finally said:

"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? They're dropping."
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