The Jan. 6 Committee made public ten subpoenas it issued this week, signaling a new direction for the probe: the far-right, its fever swamps, and its paramilitaries.
‘It’s Stewart Rhodes who helmed the Oath Keepers throughout the Big Lie and Jan. 6, and it’s he who repeated that, according to the subpoena, the group would “engage in violence to ensure their preferred election outcome.”’
That sounds pretty interesting.
I believe that’s loosely the definition of terrorism.
You have to just laugh at the idiots referring to themselves as the personal bodyguards of an emperor while subverting a Republic to try to install one.
While there is a lot of money floating around in right wing circles, Trump is vacuuming up a lot of those monies for himself (RNC money as an example). Many of these people are going to run up significant legal expenses with no real way to pay. I imagine you really don’t want to testify in front of a Congressional committee with a public defender. Probably better just to spill the beans.
How about the leaders of the Michigan Republican Party? I thought they sent several busloads of “demonstrators” to DC for the big event.
?Jones also used his Infowars platform to promote the Big Lie, memorably describing Trump’s tweet that Jan. 6 would “be wild” as “one of the most historic events in American history.” The panel is interested in learning the details of Jones’s support for the Big Lie."
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Yep, a coup against the American government would indeed be historic. Just not exactly the way Alex Jones intended. I hope he goes to jail for his actions.
jones’ reaction to the subpoena…
Or maybe it was that ghost chili in his sandwich…
What about Virginia Thomas? Didn’t she brag about sending busloads of people to the event?
I think the issue goes way beyond the actual event and to the question, was 1/6/2021 one part of a larger scheme by Trump and others in his circle to subvert the democratic process.
In that regard, down the road they might very well go after the Michigan Republican Party and those who tried to stop the certification of election results in Detroit. The real problem however, in going after those trying to nullify the will of the voters in several states is that they were simply following the road map on how to steal elections laid out for them by the current majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.
There has been much talk of “The Wall” in the Trump Era…
Of course that refers to the Wall that Mexico would pay for. It was a bogus promise but it worked…at least to be one of the tricks that nabbed him the White House.
But there is another Wall that–to me–is as important (or more) than the Mexican Wall. And that is the wall of non-cooperation of Trump’s minions.
Remember Alan Weisselberg?
And so forth. Here we face the result of the delay tactics and obstruction that impact cooperation from a variety of people. It’s easier to surmount and crush a collapsing wall (as an engineering problem)…and it’s easier to surmount and crush a collapsing wall (as a getting-people-to-cooperate problem).
“I think the issue goes way beyond the actual event and to the question, was 1/6/2021 one part of a larger scheme by Trump and others in his circle to subvert the democratic process.”
Good point. I think there’s no longer any question about that.
Assuming committee ultimately gets responses to its subpoenas, think it has two challenges:
Complete its report before this Congress ends in December 2022.
Write a report with a crystal clear storyline and unambiguous conclusions—not the bafflegab Mueller gave us hoping everyone would see what he meant.
We do… but… when the Naugahyde Noriega came down that crappy gilt escalator, to the applause of all those otherwise unemployed actors, he entered a whole new arena, with rules and players, and timelines he’d never even had nightmares about. Delay can only get you so far, and against the resources that are now arrayed [potentially] against him… that is the exact equivalent of bringing a premium feather pillow to an artillery battle.
BREAKING NEWS: "Donald J. Trump has just been awarded a Black Belt in Cheeseburger Consumption. Update at 11:00 PM."
(I stole that from @irasdad just a little while ago.)
So many capture the color of The Loser™. To capture his texture is another level.
Yes. It’s brilliant on so many levels. I like to think that on a good day, right after my espresso has kicked in, I might be one, or maybe 2, percent as clever and funny as @irasdad.
Edit: But, likely I flatter myself.
As do we all. Wait that’s too close for comfort.
“Today is the day that true battles begin,” the group tweeted on Jan. 6, as people were first breaching the Capitol.
In all fairness, that’s when their “true battles” with creditors began.
(“Say hello to Mr. Repoman, boys!”)
True legal battles. Bigly.