Jan. 6 Hearing Will Focus On New Secret Service Docs Showing Trump Was Warned About Violence - TPM – Talking Points Memo

The Secret Service handed over a trove of electronic communications surrounding the January 6 insurrection to the House select committee ahead of the panel’s likely final hearing on Thursday, which will reportedly reveal more evidence of what President Trump knew about the violence that day and when he knew it.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1435550

$100 TrumpBucks™ that Tony Ornato has flipped or will do so.

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"As the world changes, the forms of corruption also gradually become more cunning, more difficult to point out – but they certainly do not become better." – SØREN KIERKEGAARD

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Neither Ornato nor Engel have confirmed or denied the account up until this point.

Why have neither of these men, to our knowledge, merely been put under oath and made to affirm their denials under penalty of perjury?

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Great timing by the J6

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My choice for the word of the day is escalate.

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“New Secret Service Docs Showing Trump Was Warned About Violence”

“The calls are coming from inside the (White) House!”

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Tangential, to be sure, but I am sincerely hoping for our keeping the House this Term. Jaime Raskin is an incredible Congressman.

Imagine MTG in his place.

GOTV

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Experts can’t agree if the lack of oversight was part of a cover-up or just negligence,

I am not an expert, but I’ll happily offer my ‘citizens’s opinion’ on the lack of oversight, and I’ll give it free of charge. It was part of a coverup by some of those in the Secret Service and other embedded trumpers. My opinion is strictly based on common sense, you could call it a ‘hunch’.

While my opinion means nothing in a court of law I’m confident it can be validated by continuing the thorough investigation of the attack and its instigators and enablers.

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The Secret Service is so riddled with abusive, drunken, incompetent and negligent knuckleheads it’s a cinch a few of them were somehow involved in making matters worse on J6, if not outright part of the insurrection itself. I’d bet a bit of money on it. At minimum Tony Ornato should be zip tied to a chair and severely interrogated by a couple veterans of Abu Ghraib.

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Because DOJ wants each to think that the other has flipped, in order to persuade both of them to do so.

1:17 onward nails it: “The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.”

See above. They don’t need zip ties.

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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” - Samuel Beckett, ‘Worstword Ho’

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And, on top of it all: A federal judge has denied a request by former president Donald Trump to pause proceedings in a defamation case brought against him in 2019 by an author who said he raped her in a department store dressing room decades ago.

It’s amazing how many awful, unjust things just keep happening to this poor victim of a man, isn’t it?

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The folks on the Trump periphery aren’t so much “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” as they seem to be deciding how close they need to stay to the lifeboats while the ship slowly settles.

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Well folks the GOP has and continues to support this kind of activity. It dose not end with TFG.

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How long until $100 TB™ is worth less than the paper its printed on?

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How many US dollars would you need to equal $100 in TrumpBucks? For that matter, I wonder how many of these Trump IdiotNotes are needed to equal the money sacrificed for them?

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Speaking of bucks, Alex Jones’ wallet is getting kicked right now

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Let me know when they reach his safety deposit box(es).

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