Questions Linger About Jan. 6 After Hearing Full Of Finger-Pointing And Conspiracy | Talking Points Memo

The Senate’s first major hearing on the Capitol insurrection provided new details about the Jan. 6 assault on the electoral college certification.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1361703

Republicans will soon be blaming Neera Tanden’s tweets for the insurrection.

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It is not an intelligence failure when Al Qaeda openly spends weeks threatening to hijack airliners and fly them into the World Trade Center on September 11, and Osama Bin Laden holds a “Crash Those Towers” rally in Lower Manhattan.

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“Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) used the vast majority of his time not to ask questions, but rather to read a column which suggested that it wasn’t Trump supporters but antifa that attacked the Capitol.”

TASS, Pravda, or Izvestia?

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Hard to tell if more evil emanates from Harvard or Yale.

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Johnson read excerpts which suggested that the entire attack was a false flag, a conspiracy hatched by “fake Trump supporters.”

He left out the part that proves he himself is Antifa, working hard to make MAGA look bad.

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(1) There will be a Commission on this

(2) Merrick Garland

Until then, this is just cowpokes at the Long Branch who are braggin’ to Miss Kitty that Matt got nothin’ on 'em

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It was a Trump production for sure. Nobody else stages such massive failures. He planned to take what he couldn’t earn in an election. But couldn’t get it accomplished either through Hawley’s sedition action or with armed domestic terrorists storming the doors of The Capitol.

But it did end up killing people which seems to always get lost in coverage of all of Donald’s “greatest” endeavors. Everything he touches dies.

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The Clintons have degrees from Yale and the Obamas have degrees from Harvard.

Hope this helps.

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“This little peace of shit with his @Yale law degree should be run out of DC and Disbarred ASAP @HawleyMO @tedcruz aaa hats,” it read. “These @Yale and @Harvard law grads is high order white privilege.”

I’m down with Gen. Honore’s sentiment, so all I can say is more power to him. (ed.)

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Definitely Yale.

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Dershowitz tips the scale?

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Hearing? My ass. Hawley should have been arrested on the spot, in chambers, for incitement.

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Thomas, Alito, Rapey McBeerface, and thousands of law school graduates who have been taught philosophy of law and learned not a damned thing about how to practice it.

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Jesus fucking Christ, another “intelligence failure?”

That’s what they said after 9/11. But it was a POLICY failure. Bush and his cronies didn’t take the Aug 6 PBD seriously. They set up intel to take the fall, and Congress was stupid enough to bite. Then they created that useless bureaucratic monstrosity, DHS.

When there were no WMD discovered in Iraq, it was yet another “intelligence failure.” But the damned UN inspectors SAID there was no WMD in Iraq, and that Saddam was complying, reluctantly or not.

Now this.

Why didn’t the Capitol Hill cops turn on goddamned CNN??? And doesn’t the fact that at least 35 Capitol Hill cops have been suspended suggest at least a degree of cop collusion with the rioters?

Uh, should we figure out whether the cops in this country are loyal to the Constitution, or whether they will support a fascist overthrow of government?

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I could give you an equivalent list of Harvard Law graduates!

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Not only were some of “Nancy’s Fake Trump Insurrectionists” endangering poor innocent real Trump patriots, at least one of them was TRANS!

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Honore, in a tweet, had described Hawley as a “little peace of shit with his @Yale law degree” and suggested that he and Sen. Ted Cruz be “run out of DC.”

Made my day.

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I confess I didn’t watch, but from the reports, it doesn’t seem like these guys are the A team. At this point, I’m almost shocked no Senators or congressmen were killed. More luck than skill.

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