So it appears, boys and girls, that the lesson here is if you’re arrested for robbing a bank you sue the police department, the cops who arrested you, the bank, the bank president, the teller who handed you the money, the bank security guard, the district attorney, the prosecutor, and the judge at your trial. Just basically throw sand in the gears and watch everyone come to a grinding halt.
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Yes that clown decided to double down on being an SCHMUCK!
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It’s all a stall. The game is to throw just enough sand in the gears to slow everything down until corrupt Republican statehouses appoint enough illegitimate and corrupt Republican members of congress to shut it all down.
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So…
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Congress asking questions and requesting documents = democracy is under attack
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Thousands of Trump supporters violently attacking Congress during session = peaceful tour
Got it.
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h/t @randyabraham
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What silly obfuscations! This guy is sitting on some key information.
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“I un-recant my recantation of my previous re-recanting of my un-recantation!”
(Or something.)
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Probably not necessary. He had his fingers crossed, doncha know.
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There is the first problem. Mr. Grab’em ain’t no gentleman.
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Waiting for that other shoe to drop.
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Somewhere in this process an incantation went awry.
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I like, from the Committee’s authorizing legislation, the phrase “a domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol”. Used properly, it can blow up claims that it was just tourists sightseeing (not that should be necessary, but . . . here we are). It needs to be reported as a bombshell finding, pointing with evidence directly to the ex-president.
This lawsuit was written rather quickly, over the weekend. Nice way to spend the Christmas holiday. The sections claiming the committee is not legally constituted, and “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose” are weak boilerplate, and do not help his cause. The section claiming he did not have time nor a meaningful opportunity to respond have more merit. OTOH, it is nice to see hardball tactics being employed by the committee.
Substantively, I wonder what think he may be hiding. Did he use his personal account to hide a payment that is revelatory? Why would he resist this so much, given what he has already provided? I also wonder if the records have already been delivered.
Stay tuned!!
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Yep, we knew he was doing this, but even though we’d expect it from Trump, it’s apparently common on the Hill as well. It’s been reported that most if not all Congress critters carry an official phone and also a private personal phone, sometimes more than one of those.
Something I’m curious about is whether the 1/6 committee has metadata records from the phone company on Trump’s own personal phone(s). They’re getting information like this phone call record to the Willard from Trump, and it could just be from records on the other person’s phone. But it could also be that they have Trump’s own metadata.
There is no reason other than “propriety” for them to avoid it; no law protecting a former President’s private phone metadata from scrutiny by Congress as far as I know. Although it would obviously be viewed as highly controversial by the other side. I’m just wondering if they’re going this far.
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The trump crowd I like to think of as the Star Wars dark side of the Force.
I prefer very much Yoda’s take on it. Hopeful and thrilling…
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Reminds me of that old guy a few years ago who made a Martin Luther Coon joke and was then puzzled that he was not rewarded with appreciative applause and cable tv gigs.
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For me, it is a high suspicion that there is a big shoe, lurking beneath the water’s surface. You can hear the French horn and the slow dum dump! as it circles about, trying to not show it’s telltale fin.
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Budowich’s lawsuit was filed a month after the committee wrote in its letter to him that he had “solicited a 501(c)4 organization to conduct a social media and radio advertising campaign to encourage people to attend” a rally supporting Trump and the former president’s election fraud falsehoods.
“The Select Committee has reason to believe your efforts include directing to the 501(c)(4) organizations approximately $200,000 from a source or sources that was not disclosed to the organization to pay for the advertising campaign,” the committee wrote.
Is somewhere in this officialese a reference to Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), and their call to go to the J6th rally?
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The MAGA crowd is beginning to look like proto-Orc.
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Oh, this keeps getting more and more interesting.
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