Trump Was 100% Making Phone Calls During the Jan. 6 Attack: Here’s The List

[enceladus]

Thank you, I did not remember that.

[godwit]

Calling Sen. Mike Lee when you really meant to call Sen. Tommy Tuberville

Ever since we learned that Mike Lee personally vetted the White House’s fraud claims, I’ve become convinced that he wasn’t called by mistake. Trump called Lee because Lee was part of the plot- right up until shit got real. So he passed the phone to Tuberville, the nearest co-conspirator still up for a coup

[lastroth]

@txlawyer

@mattinpa

Something in all this mess must be a crime.

Oh, there are definitely some crimes, just probably not any significant ones for the White House phone logs. I’d point you instead towards:

1. Conspiracy to defraud the United States, based on Trump and others’ attempts to reverse the election results via fraudulent electors and the Pence Gambit.
2. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, for which we still do not have direct evidence that Trump agreed to unleash the mob on the Capitol, but c’mon, that evidence is almost certainly going to turn up.
3. Seditious conspiracy, which is a long-shot but still might be viable if/when the evidence turns up on item no. 2.

So nothing on Crimes against Humanity? I guess the perp and/or the victim must first both be found to be human.

[mondfledermaus]

And yet Americans prefer Trump…

Poll: Trump leads Biden, Harris in 2024 match-ups

[ralph_vonholst]

Trump’s insurrection lair discovered!

[ronbyers]

@generalsternwood

This indicates that the call was “coming from the White House” so Trump may have started using Meadows’ phone. The sole reason for doing so would be to avoid logging the call. This is a separate crime from overturning the election, and there seems to me no reason the DOJ should not immediately begin an investigation.

Except some sort of belief by the DOJ that the President is above the law.

[ralph_vonholst]

Of course they do. On the other hand anything The Hill and this dude:

Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey,

are involved with is of dubious credibility from the gitgo!

[blogamator]

In an early January game of dumbass fealty limbo, Tuberville probably under-performed even Ron Johnson thereby clearing the bar with more headroom which no doubt impressed America’s greatest criminal. But then Tuberville scratched-out a football-field play diagram on how to insurrect with Donnie as QB and sealed the deal. He’d get the call on game day. Trump was giddy with the prospect of out scoring the Constitution and announcing on the TV how he had scored the big insurrection touchdown, all by himself. Or something like that.

[mattinpa]

@ralph_vonholst

Trump’s insurrection lair discovered!

Confiscated from bookies, I suppose? That is some OG gangsta stuff right there. Goes all the way back to “gangster” actually.

[karlwlewis]

@txlawyer

3. Seditious conspiracy, which is a long-shot but still might be viable if/when the evidence turns up on item no. 2.

A couple of points on this bit:

1. It is undisputed that a person now facing Seditious Conspiracy Charges was visiting the White House on January 5th.
2. Our boys Ruddles and that super genius John Eastman were at the Willard “Command Center” on the 6th.
3. People who currently stand charged with Seditious Conspiracy were in contact with certain other people in that very same WIllard “Command Center.”

[ralph_vonholst]

They’re like dogs who’ve been given a nylabone.

Jennifer 'I stand with Ukraine' Rubin 🇺🇦🇺🇦 (JRubinBlogger)

Just gnawing away until, after a time, they finally realize it’s not edible.

[ralph_vonholst]

I know. Early 1950s Los Angeles. Isn’t it great? LA Confidential energy.

[tena]

@txlawyer

and he didn’t want to be bothered by anyone else. Ivanka practically had to break down the doors to the bunker to see him.

Motherfucker was scared - that’s what that tells me. He’s such a coward and all the chaos looked good to him until it didn’t and he got scared.

[pshah]

McConnell Declined Trump’s Call On Jan. 6

His momma dint raise no fools.

You’ve really got to hand it to Mitch. Accepting that phone call would have meant, at the least, subpoenas and invitations to testify in front of various Committees and investigatory agencies, and the cost of hiring attorneys, not to mention a risk, no matter how small, of prosecution. By not taking that call, he can focus on his true love - the impoverishment of widows and orphans.

[gargoyle]

@Hatmama

I’m glad you are on our side …

“castor_troy is for castor_troy. castor_troy is against no one.”

[txlawyer]

@karlwlewis

It is undisputed that a person now facing Seditious Conspiracy Charges was visiting the White House on January 5th.

I don’t think this is actually correct. Could you specify?

[ralph_vonholst]

Somehow, Melania would not be surprised, I think.

Irreverent Testimony (IrreverentDuo)

[karlwlewis]

@tena

He’s such a coward and all the chaos looked good to him until it didn’t and he got scared.

Fact Check: ENTIRELY TRUE.

Mr. Trump’s [severe, debilitating] personality disorder is marked, chiefly by fear, of… well… everything. He experiences other emotions only fleetingly; fear is a constant; the constant backdrop to his existence.

[leftcoaster]

Bolton is on it.

Robert Costa (costareports)

ETA

Robert Costa (costareports)

[txlawyer]

@coimmigrant

Add to that the new liability theory adopted by the Louisiana Supreme Court that protest organizers can be held personally liable for the actions of those who attend their event.

Negligently precipitating another person’s crime can be tortious, but I can’t imagine how they’re going to get past proximate cause on that one, much less the First Amendment.