Two key Trump administration officials are reportedly set to testify in Thursday’s primetime Jan. 6 Committee hearing, potentially shedding light on the crucial three-hour period in which Donald Trump sat on his hands as rioters attacked Congress.
Their testimony could be interesting. Up until now, there have been anonymous assertions of that former guy avidly watching the insurrection riot on the teevie, even rewinding to watch key violence again and again, and refusing to be disturbed by any requests that he do some presidenting.
Oh, and SECOND!
“ Both Pottinger and Matthews were dutiful Trump administration officials during their time in the White House, with Pottinger later saying last year, “I’m proud of a lot of things that the administration did, and I think I’ll look back on those years as ones that I’m proud of.”
For the life of me, I don’t know what those things were.
The Covid vaccine warp speed thing, and Covid relief bill were somethings trump adm did well. But then trump did everything to undo them.
Yes, that. I’ve sometimes had my Republican friends say that, although they didn’t like the former guy’s antics, they approved of all the many, many great things he did. When asked what those things may have been, they either list a few items that did NOT get done, ever, although tfg may have talked about them at some point … or had nothing to say.
She joined his reelection campaign organization in June 2019 as a deputy press secretary.
I dunno…I guess good that she resigned, but she had, apparently, willingly joined the RE-election campaign, so yeah a “dutiful” Trumper. Going into re-election with eyes open, makes one wonder why she resigned other than the fact that she knew she had no job going forward.
Appointing extremist judges to the SCOTUS? That’s about the only “accomplishment” Trump has claim to.
I’m told that when a ship sinks, the rats attempt to leave. This may be a similar situation
A dutiful republican in all probability. But she didn’t expect that the leopard would actually start eating people’s faces.
Pfizer refused to touch any of that warp speed money because they didn’t want the white house fucking up their delivery of the vaccine.
The covid relief bill originated in and was drafted in the House.
Trump’s crowning achievement was the overturning of Roe. That’s why the Evangelicals love him and that’s all that matters.
And here’s the thing that bugs me about a president getting acclaim for appointing this judge or that one.
I believe in all cases the President doesn’t just pick the person because they know his/her’s background. They have a team do some research, the Pres will meet with them, and they get nominated.
Presidents like Clinton and Obama were lawyers, so right off the bat they have some knowledge of the law. They know how they want their administration to run and want SCJs that will think along those lines.
Then there’s Shrub, not a lawyer, outsourced his selection process. Which is why we got Roberts and Alito. Sort would have liked to been a fly on the wall during those interviews.
Then there’s Trump…just think who epitomized the “perfect” lawyer type in his experience. Pretty sure that as opposed to the three above Trump was told to outsource the search to Leonard Leo. And more than the Shrub interview I really would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when Donnie met with Gorsuch, Kav, and ACB. Who briefed them on how to deal with Donnie dipshit?
Pfizer took tons of warp speed money. What they didn’t take was the seed money upfront to develop the vaccine.
And they only did that because of money. The warp speed money to develop vaccines came with strings attached-- if the government is funding the development, they’re getting part ownership of the results.
Since Pfizer had deep pockets, they went that part at risk, knowing that if mRNA paid off, they’d make a ton more money along the way, including for all the new possible drugs out there using the tech, by outright owning all the drug patents.
Nothing altruistic, and they had hard contracts to deliver the drug if it passed the FDA.
Well, that and killing many thousands of people through physical and/or psychological infection.
More recently, Matthews has reportedly been part of an informal support group of former Trump staffers who’ve stayed in touch and shared best practices for safety during the Jan. 6 hearings.
Excuse my vulgarity, but I guess TPM comments is my support group for getting repeatedly fucked over by Republicans in general and Trump and McConnell in particular. I hope these folks feel real pride as they watch SCOTUS declare open season on people who are not Christian straight shooting man and wife couples and who just want to be allowed to shove their homophobic and misogynist beliefs onto all of us.
Sorry, just have no use for these folks. They haven’t seen the light - they have just seen the real truth behind this guy they apparently worshipped and discovered they weren’t down for the entire carnival ride of narcissistic cruelty. But they feel real pride in all of their good accomplishments. Yay.
Judges and tax cuts for the wealthy.
Both were McConnell’s doing.
That’s especially true for Trump. His administration was basically given a list of Federalist Society candidates to nominate and he nominated them. McConnell did all the heavy lifting after that. He probably never gave two shits about federal judges beyond the pomp surrounding SCOTUS justices.
Exactly how he’s lived for the past 40 years, slapping his name on someone else’s efforts, taking the credit for the “accomplishment,” despite expending no actual effort and not having any actual interest in the outcome.
Exactly. And even that, we can—if we get more solid control of the Senate, and keep the House—undo. The current approval levels make Court Reform a definite option, and while I can understand not wanting ‘court packing’ on the ballot this November, if we want any chance at limiting the damage this SCOTUS does, it needs to be done basically first thing next January, and then drop 4 more Justices onto things before these assholes can get anything decided.
I don’t know if the testimony will be revealing or a reason to douse myself in bleach cuz of listening to two trump supporters spout their undying loyalty to that … … man…
I was just thing about Rump’s phone call to someone slated to testify at the Jan 6 investigation. Do we know who that person might be?