After outlining the large scope of the select committee’s investigation Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) announced that it had “reached a series of specific findings.” She then proceeded to outline conclusions the investigation had reached that seem to be the bases for potential criminal referrals against former President Trump from the committee to the Justice Department. Lofgren began by accusing Trump of deliberately making fraudulent allegations about the 2020 election.
This Kangaroo court has been nothing more than a vanity project that insults Americans’ intelligence and makes a mockery of our democracy,” the Trump campaign spokesperson said.
“ It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.”
Attempted bribery, witness tampering. Quid pro schmoe?
Lofgren continued to discuss the situation and said the lawyer offered this witness “potential employment that would make her financially very comfortable.” According to Lofgren, this offer was made to the witness as their “testimony approached.” Lofgren also suggested this type of behavior was part of a broader pattern and not an isolated incident.
That is, to me, the most incredible part of all this. How stupid do you have to be to engage in witness-tampering when it’s almost completely certain you’ll get busted on a national stage? At least in the run-up to the insurrection, they could claim delusion.
“The January 6th un-Select Committee held show trials by Never Trump partisans who are a stain on this country’s history. This Kangaroo court has been nothing more than a vanity project that insults Americans’ intelligence and makes a mockery of our democracy,” the Trump campaign spokesperson said.
A vanity project?
Like Mar-a-Lago’s decor, Scotch golf courses or electronic trading cards?
The witness tampering charges are easy to prove, and they will turn whoever made the offer simply because that person won’t want to go to jail. It will be multiple people too, all of whom may receive subpoenas to set up a pattern of interference and obstruction. It was also super stupid, but that’s nothing new here.
My initial take on this article was “who the hell wrote this?” Why are there multiple places where words and phrasing like “findings”, “has evidence”, “others”, “unnamed others” are put in quotation marks? This type of writing would be at home in “both-sides-ist” journalism, not in TPM. Then I looked at the author, Hunter Walker, of recent “Meadows Texts” fame, and realize that this must not have been his intent.
But still, since typography does not differentiate between sneer quotes and regular quotes, I think quoting single words or short phrases, for whatever reason, is more apt to be seen as a sneer quote and should be avoided.
Why wouldn’t they witness-tamper? Worked like a charm with the Mueller investigation, not to mention with every other investigation that Trump has faced over the course of his life. His dad’s life too!
He never imagined he’d be in such deep shit. Even when his lawyers told him he was bringing trouble on himself, he ignored them. He’s skated on everything including rape and assaults on women.
