The White House rejected former President Donald Trump’s attempt to shield Jan. 6 documents from Congress Friday, declining to exert executive privilege on his behalf.
Go, Joe!
Team Trump can now challenge the decision in court.
The supreme court will be happy to take the case, and with all due speed remand it back to lower court in July 2022 on the last day of their session, take it up again in October then render their ultimate decision in January 2023 after having carefully noted whether or not control of the House has changed hands. That’s pretty much how the cases over congress getting access to TFG’s tax returns went.
Bad day for the Trumpanzees.
Rick Wilson looks rather foolish at the moment.
I really want to see some perp walks before Halloween.
Let’s flood Bannon’s zone with shit.
He doesn’t really. His point, and I rather agree with him, is that “criminal referrals” are utterly useless. Congress should use its power of inherent contempt. Requiring that first the Executive Branch, via the DoJ, begin to pursue these motherfsckers will cause a delay. Then, bringing charges, and arranging a trial via the Judicial Branch, could, quite reasonably, take more than a fscking year. And justice delayed until after the midterms, is justice that is NEVER going to come.
The executive privilege claim is particularly flimsy in Bannon’s case — the one-time chief strategist left the White House years before the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection to overturn it.
While I don’t disagree that Bannon’s claim to privilege is is flimsy, his attorneys might (reasonably, it seems) argue that as he had left so long before Janurary 6th, 2021 his testimony might very well be irrelevant to the committee’s inquiries. I hope they lose that argument, but still…
Trump-era EPA board member sues over firing. Fox sues when no longer allowed to oversee the hen house.
Elsewhere on the Hive, various posters–myself among them–are surmising that perhaps he sent the hair-on-fire tweet precisely to push Committee into statements.
Which happened.
His twitter feed would tend to suggest the same thing:
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1446543820087300121
That’s not exactly what Wilson said. He said it’s already over.
Trump wins. The 1/6 terror plot will go unexamined and unpunished. To say I’m livid is putting it mildly.
Slow down, Rick, and breathe.
Trump-era EPA board member:
https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/s-stanley-young
A pure case of industry capturing the EPA. Good to be rid of this guy. Look at the Heartland Institute’s funding (on Wikipedia).
A meaningless argument that would not prevent him from showing up and proving that his testimony is irrelevant by answering questions. The president can and most certainly did have meaningful conversations every day with non-employees of the federal government. The court would toss any such pleading as frivolous.
Hmm. Perhaps. Better than the alternative - that he was played.
OT…but deliciously stupid. Charlie Kirk has released a video explaining that Democrats want to bring about sexual anarchy. Wait What?
“Republican Deep State thinks It Is Entitled to Exist”…story at 11.
If he was played, who was the maestro?
WTF is sexual anarchy, and can these guys talk about anything else besides sex or pedophilia? Good grief.
The most interesting part of the committee Co-Chairs’ message was:
Meadows and Patel might cooperate? One can smell Trump’s flopsweat halfway across the country.
