The Jan. 6 Committee kicked off a string of hearings Thursday night with an intense focus on the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two right-wing extremist groups that the committee appears prepared to tie to the official Trump effort to overturn the election.
Keep adding to the picture. Stroke by stroke…
Excerpt from NYT’s ‘The Morning’ in my inbox–
"There are still many Republican voters disgusted by what happened on Jan. 6. Nearly half say that finding out what happened that day is important. Almost 20 percent consider the attack to have been an attempt to overthrow the government, according to a recent CBS News poll. About 40 percent believe, accurately, that voter fraud was not widespread in the 2020 election.
“I actually think that there is an opportunity,” Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican strategist, said this week on our colleague Kara Swisher’s podcast. The hearings, Longwell added, can help prosecute the case for how extreme some Republican politicians have become.
If Republican voters are divided over the attack and Democrats are almost uniformly horrified by it, the politicians making excuses for it remain in the minority. Candidates who base their campaigns on lies about voter fraud — as some are now doing in Arizona, Pennsylvania and elsewhere — will have a harder time winning elections. Future efforts to overturn an election will be less likely to succeed."
From Trump’s standpoint, yesterday was much, much worse than he expected. And the hits need to keep coming, hard and fast.
Perhaps we should stop referring to the Proud Boyz and Oaf Keepers as “right wing” groups. I doubt any of those guys has conservative sentiments or could voice a coherent political argument. They’re just a wad of overweight, over the hill dead enders that saw a no effeort way to be somebody and like sheep jumped in. There’s nothing to them.
Over the next month, Dotard will be looking like he is doing a hat dance - as he tries to put out all the fires that his previous actions are now causing.
Just 5 more months of this, please. And also full-court press on media and “social” to keep the radical domestic terrorists on their heels.
R’s will just have to double down on their old tried and true methods of stealing elections through voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
His layers have probably informed him, correct;y, that he’ll face no legal consequences for his acts on that day. What’s going to piss him off the most his his game is going to suffer. It will be easier to accept that Trump lost and harder to hang onto the big lie. Doing so, if the Committee does its job well. will be embarrassing.
May wish to refresh that thinking.
Proud Boys have taken over the GOP as party leaders in Dade County–
https://www.salon.com/2022/06/02/increasingly-radical-members-of-the-proud-boys-are-taking-over-miami-dade-leadership-roles_partner/
There’s nothing to them except lots of rubles, the same ones provided to military-veteran biker gangs all over eastern Europe, but funneled through Roger Stone and similar operatives.
I think it would be a good tactic to keep the pressure on his enablers for months. Grassley would be a good example. Post-Mueller report, Grassley was disseminating the lie that Mueller vindicated TFG. With enough dishonest sound-bites by corrupt republican senators, the PAC “anti-” commercials write themselves.
We’re still a democracy. Let’s vote out the anti-democratic scum.
Jan. 6 Panel Is Drawing A Straight Line From Trump To The Proud Boys And Oath Keepers
…and to entire GOP and to Ginni Thomas and SCOTUS and…
The shortest distance between two indictments is a straight line … or something like that.
Yep, this all started before the election in 2020. He knew he was going to lose, and he was ready to ensure that result. Thanks to the failure of Mike Pence to join this conspiracy (although he knew full well he had no Constitutional right to change the results) and the bravery of a few Capitol Police officers, we still have a functioning (sort of) republic. The next national elections in November are absolutely crucial for its continued survival.
My point is who cares. They’re not going to do a damn thing but mess that operation up.
Would “Brown Shirts” do?
You are correct. They are “domestic terrorist groups”, as they are utilizing criminal threats and actual violence to achieve political goals.
Hope they get to play the tapes of Roger’s phone calls to his boys inside.
Another Oath Keeper’s plea agreement stated that near the end of the attack, he heard the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, repeatedly implore an individual over the phone “to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose the transfer of power.” The individual on the other end of the line apparently rebuffed the request.
Paging Mark Meadows, paging Mark Meadows…
Oath Keeper Joshua James, for example, was one of multiple Oath Keepers to provide security for Trump confidante Roger Stone the day before the attack.
Anyone remember the scope of Roger Stone’s pardon?