The House Select Committee Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack is holding its first hearing on Tuesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1382421
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1382421
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Is it too late to add Katie Porter?
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I dunno ā did Pelosi fill all the other positions after McCarthy withdrew his nominees?
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I am interested in 2 things: 1. Are they going to call senior Trump Administration officials (Including the former POTUSā¦) as witnesses? 2. How aggressively will they explore collaboration among sitting members of Congress?
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YEARS In The Making
The lie continues
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āThe extraordinary events in this matter constitute exceptional circumstances warranting an accommodation to Congress,ā wrote Bradley Weinsheimer, an official in the office of Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
Would be more than a little odd and, to my mind, over the top, to say coup plotting was covered by executive privilege.
But I guess the ruling was necessary since we know Donnieās gonna go there.
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And we can expect far-right GOPers to try to raise hell on the sidelines to distract from the hearing throughout the day.
I eagerly await one of these loons to be called as a witness. Itāll be interesting to see if they think they can lie to the committee like they do every other day from their seat on the floor.
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āThe Justice Department is allowing former Trump administration officials to testify about Jan. 6, per a letter obtained by the New York Times.ā
Sort of ambiguous. Big difference between āallowsā and ācompelled to if subpoenaedā, no?
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I fully endorse this idea. Speaker Pelosi should, at the very least, get Rep. Porterās whiteboard onto the committee.
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Porter has a killer CV in the world of law. She could latch onto some white shoe law firm and drag down high seven figures tomorrow if she chose to. There are big things in her future.
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That footage made me feel they should have just shot a few dozen of them and let the others decide if they felt equally patriotic or if maybe leaving seemed like an option as well. I know why they didnāt. But itās what those animals deserved.
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Thompsonās opening statement and the video brings a lot of clarity to this 6 months later. There can be no doubt that this was an organized coup attempt. The intent was to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump should be charged and tried for crimes. Those folks didnāt show up there on a whim. Trump brought them there.
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I was going to say cultish.
Itās really doltish
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A thin line, my friend, a thin line.
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Iām hearing song lyrics in thereā¦
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If MacArthur or Patton had been at the top of those Capitol steps events would have gone much differently than they did.
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At the risk of sounding like a broken recordā¦ I, myself, remain utterly mystified as to why anyone who was inside the capital building that day without permission was permitted to leave. Why is the FBI having to track them all down? They had them in one place. Bar the damn doors, and then haul 'em off to an Army base to keep 'em under armed guard. That they let any of those motherfskers leave is simply a scandal. Heads should roll.
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Louie and Ella, āYou say cultish, I say doltish, . . .ā
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Methinks Ashli Babbit meets the criteria for āsuicide by copā.
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