The congressional Jan. 6 Committee is set to spend the entirety of tomorrow’s hearing on what Trump was doing — or, rather, not doing — as the mob he summoned to Washington, D.C. laid siege to Congress and attempted to steal him a second term.
The gaps are by design. Not by accident.! The former administration took the trust granted them and sought to exploit, corrupt, and blaspheme anything they touched. Our nation is much worse off as a result. Even the fund for the veterans was a grift, until the T-mob was called on it.
Damned straight.
I am certain we are going to find out that it is indeed a conspiracy of an unimaginable magnitude. And it will be frightening.
Meadows apparently responded: “He doesn’t want to do anything, Pat.”
True to form.
The number of people in DC among the TFG’s confederates, the fake electors in Georgia targets of the DA’s investigation, and the Secret Service point to a web of insurrectionists at so many levels. This looks like a RICO prosecution could be at hand if coordination can be established.
To my point earlier–
Even though the hearings tomorrow night will amplify all of this in great detail, and even though baseball is on its annual hiatus after the All Star Game last night (until Friday), I have no confidence that this hearing - which will show all that has been written here in great detail and with the ‘as it happened’ timeline presentation - will sway anyone that isn’t already in the camp of preserving Democracy. Its ratings will be a disappointment, as the number of people paying attention is ridiculously small.
The next thing I want to see is the USSS guy in the dock with his ‘not guilty’ plea for allowing those text messages to be erased. This is not a drill, folks. This was deliberate. This, from Heather Cox Richardson this morning:
Like every other branch of government, the Secret Service is required to preserve its records. Today, the chief records officer of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Laurence Brewer, sent a letter to Damian Kokinda, the records officer of the Department of Homeland Security, about “the potential unauthorized deletion” of the texts. Brewer asked the Secret Service to investigate and to send all information about deleted records to NARA within 30 days.
While this seems a bit like locking the door after the horse has left the barn, let me just say that no one with any brains at all messes with archivists. That Secret Service members were willing to purge texts that they knew by law they had to preserve suggests that they calculated it would be better to face the fallout for deleting the texts than the fallout from whatever was in those texts.
Look at the verbs used in these entries:
All of them are, for lack of a better word, active on Trump’s part–except for the making of the video: “participated in.” The language implicitly confirms what we already know about how that video got made, that he didn’t want to do it.
Reads to me like some intern was given the job of filling in some blanks to make it look like FatAss was actually doing something other than sitting in front of the boob tube.
(Like, from 1:21 to 4:03 he was “meeting with his valet”?? Besides the valet trying to squeeze him into his Spanks and taming the dead ferret on his head, what the heck were they doing?? Inquiring minds want to know….)
First good morning laugh of the day.
Now THAT’S what I’m talkin’ 'bout Willis!
1:21 The President met with his Valet.
For what, to assure there’d be a steady supply of Diet Coke’s?
Didn’t want the aggro of havin’ up get up to go to the fridge interrupting his enjoyment? (ed.)
What a cutie pie (the pooch, obviously)!
He moves his ears into a 1000 different positions.
“Is Mike okay?” Trump asked him, according to the Washington Post.
“The Secret Service has him under control,” Kellogg responded. “Karen is there with the daughter.”
“Oh?” Trump reportedly said.
I kept going back to this as I read the article. The idea that they told TFG that the VP was under the control of the Secret Service seems as disturbing as Pence sayin “I’m not getting in that car”. Wouldn’t the natural inclination be to say “He’s safe”? And for the response to be “Oh?”
Did they not count on Karen Pence and the daughter being there? I guess those details are hard to anticipate.
It seems like this session could provide evidence of malfeasance independent of whether TFG genuinely believed he won (the tricky mens rea of the conspiracy). There was a dangerous civil disturbance threatening the Congress. Leaving aside his incitement of it, he failed to protect the government when he had tools to do so. So the sins of omission can be separated from the sins of commission.
I must disagree with you about the numbers being small because the other hearings were during the daytime hours and the numbers watching were decent, plus, we don’t know how many were streaming the hearings during that time, or how many taped the hearings and watched them later that day. All we can go on; did it change people’s minds? Which it did because the polling numbers are showing that it has with a steady increase in those that believe Trump is guilty and believe that Garland and the DOJ should bring charges against Trump and his associates that helped commit the crimes.
I guess Ivanka would let him have the family bible, thus preventing Trump from going to Capital to shush his supporters.
At 2:24 p.m. , Trump took to Twitter to target his vice president, writing that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
61 lost court cases not withstanding.
One of which being ear-hanging-behind-itself.
Troubling that Meadows, who has kept a low profile lately, has resurfaced to brag about trump’s “prowess” right when the Secret Service is scratching its head about the missing texts. He seems pretty confident that with this recent piece of the conspiracy in place, he and his overlord have nothing to fear.
