House Speaker Candidate Says He Will Release ALL J6 Footage

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is among the House Speaker candidates after the GOP ousted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as the party’s nominee.

Donalds interviewed with Fox News to explain his pitch for House Speaker.

One of the questions for the Florida Republican related to January 6th.

“If you become Speaker, will you release all of the January 6th footage?” Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked.

“I will, absolutely,” Donalds replied.

Watch Donalds’ entire House Speaker pitch:

Rep Byron Donalds says he will release all the Jan 6 tapes @ByronDonalds pic.twitter.com/wrqFnAGPh8

— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) October 22, 2023

According to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), all House Speaker candidates agreed to release the J6 footage to the public.

“Every candidate for House Speaker agreed to fully, promptly release the J6 tapes to the public. We will hold them to it,” Gaetz said late Monday night.

BREAKING: Every candidate for House Speaker agreed to fully, promptly release the J6 tapes to the public.

We will hold them to it.

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 24, 2023

Although House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) emerged as the favorite, Donalds has picked up some support among Republicans.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) endorsed Byron Donalds for House Speaker.

WATCH:

Newsweek reports:

The January 6 tapes have been a key sticking point for House conservatives as the Republican Conference strives to elect a speaker.

In January’s race for the position, McCarthy pledged to release the footage while he tried to win over support from the most conservative members of the House. He upheld that promise by providing some tapes to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, drawing criticism even from some Republicans. He later said he planned to send footage to other networks but did not do so before his removal as speaker.

Conservative journalist Julie Kelly called out House Republicans for not releasing the tapes in a September 3 post on X (formerly Twitter).

“The pledge by GOP to release all the Jan 6 videos has been broken. I believed my involvement to make footage available was a temporary fix until staff could protect innocents from DOJ and thugs like Sedition Hunters. Now I see GOP has capitulated to DOJ and Capitol police,” she wrote.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, previously faced backlash from conservatives for pivoting on the release of the tapes. She said in a September 4 X post that she stopped calling for their release because of concerns that facial recognition software would be used “to go after more vulnerable people.”

In related news, President Trump spoke with several candidates for House Speaker as they prepared for the House GOP’s internal election to nominate a third candidate.

House Speaker Candidates Seek President Trump’s Endorsement

Trump on the GOP candidates for Speaker: They all called asking for support pic.twitter.com/fnO9qKhhzH

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 23, 2023

Some of the candidates Trump spoke to include Kevin Hern, Pete Sessions, Byron Donalds, Mike Johnson, and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer.

While he was speaking to reporters in New Hampshire, President Trump did not appear ready to make an endorsement in the race.