Midway through Thursday’s hearing on whether former President Trump can block a subpoena issued by the House Jan. 6 Committee for records from his administration, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had a question: Why was the panel asking for records going all the way back to April 2020?
Trump began laying the groundwork for the insurrection very early and at every opportunity that he could -April 2020. Doug Letter may have missed the opportunity to explain this more fully to the Judge.
Great catch Josh Kovenski.
Should note that it was soon after those early complaints about vote by mail that Louis DeJoy was installed at the USPS and promptly started tearing out sorting machines and slowing down mail delivery. It would be interesting to know who thought up destroying the USPS as a way to sabotage the vote.
They request records back to April 2020 and aren’t ready to explain why ?
Don’t really need to hear this after yesterday.
Da.
If not by the time he married Wife #1 from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, then certainly by the time he married Wife #3 from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
(And don’t even get me started on Alfa-Bank or “Russian orphan” meetings at Trump Tower!)
Totally forgot about the Russian adoption stuff and who could forget Alfa-Bank. Doh 
Sometimes I wish that Mary Trump had arrived on the political scene earlier. Family members KNOW each other.
The WI primary + Supreme Court election - the one where the GOP-run legislature refused to make any accommodations for the pandemic and Wisconsinites turned out anyway and the GOP Supreme Court candidate lost- that election was on April 7, 2020
Wife #3, the coked up whore from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Upon assuming Office, the public demeanor of DeJoy was unusual (and has continued). It was almost like he anticipated being the autocratic head of a national mail-delivery system.
And that is a frightening matter indeed.
I remember when Don Jr. claimed, while testifying before congress, “client-attorney privilege” and refused to answer a question. He’s obviously guilty of 18 USC 1001, and yet… no indictment. I’m more than a little bitter.
Excellent reporting.
Of course might as well go back to 2016, when Trump was anticipating he was going to lose and screeched that the election was “rigged.” This also served the same purpose as the usual GOP projection – he was the one attempting to cheat by using whatever help the Russians were ready to give him.
I’m glad you put this up. I recall that he said he’d only lose in 2016 if the election was rigged, and so by god, he tried his best to make it happen.
On this week’s episode of Now & Then, historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman have a very good discussion about how the postal service is woven into the very fabric of the country.
…[April 2020] was the point at which the month-old COVID pandemic began to impact election administration across the country. Trump first started casting doubt on the election because of COVID-related election measures that made it safer.
And we have a winnah! Excellent story.
Thanks.
"Judge Chutkan asked Justin Clark (Trump’s lawyer) his authority for putting in his brief the “startling claim” that the FBI had cleared Trump of wrongdoing in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.
Clark admitted that he took that from a Reuter’s news article…"
Better call Saul !
h/t@GlennKirschner…full thread
Ah yes, and the smart folks here, who are smart and no disrespect at all, keep telling us to be patient or we’ve accomplished much already and the House will get to the bottom of this or whatever, yet, here we are, the House General Counsel has no clue of the case and is not prepared.
The Democrats who ae running this shit show are running us all to the ground. Don’t get me wrong, I like Joe, and Kamala, ans Nancy, and Adam, and Amy and all the rest of them, And AOC and Bernie and Katie and all the real Democrats, but jeebus effing christ on a burning pogo stick, and great FSM, but when do these fools wake up and smell the forest fire they’re standing in the middle of? Do they want to burn, is that it?
I do not want republicans in charge of anything, thank god I live in California, but how long will we remain a State and not a protectorate of Amon Bundy and the Free Texan Militia?
There’s not enough smoke from us. We aren’t storming meetings and holding rallies and draping our cars in voting reform flags.
I don’t understand why the House gives a damn what a judge says. The branches are separate but equal, which means each can do whatever it wants to do, regardless of what the other two branches might want. There’s nothing in the Constitution about investigations, which means the House is empowered to set the rules. Power is not dependent on documents or courts or “law”. Its only constraint is political will. Democrats need to stop playing by rules that no longer exist.