A record number of Black Republican candidates are running for congressional office this year. The National Republican Congressional Committee counted 81 African American candidates running under the GOP banner in 72 congressional districts in 2022. This is more than a 50 percent increase over the 2020 election cycle. And if the GOP knows what's good for it, this will be the start of a new era in right-wing politics.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) told the Washington Times that having more Black conservatives in the House has helped to inspire more Black voters to give GOP candidates a chance. "They see me. They see Burgess. They saw [Rep. Allen West of Florida]. They saw [Rep. Mia Love of Utah]. They see [Virginia Lt. Gov.] Winsome Sears. They see [North Carolina Lt. Gov.] Mark Robinson," he explained. "And what they say is, 'You know what? Maybe I should step up, too.'"
Recent data shows that Donalds' assessment is spot on: In March, the Wall Street Journal published the results of a poll showing that Democrats were bleeding support among Black Americans. Meanwhile support for GOP candidates in the upcoming congressional elections rose to 27 percent from last November.Add to this the recent GOP win in a +20 Democratic district with 83% Hispanic voters and you can see that the GOP is making inroads with minority voters. Ironically this is all happening at the exact same time that White liberal elitists are trying to push the narrative that the GOP is racist as a whole.
The reality is that 98% of the population understands that there are fringe groups on all sides of politics that are not good people. Whether that be Antifa or the Proud Boys, these groups represent themselves and not the larger Parties as a whole. In fact, it is accurate to state that the Democrats embrace these sorts of fringe groups to a much larger degree than Republicans do. You won't hear a Republican anywhere defending the Proud Boys, much less setting up a fund to bail them out of jail. But you see Democrats defending Antifa and other domestic terror groups who are fixated on hate.
The question remaining is simple. What happens to the Democratic Party if they lose their control over the minority vote? How do they get it back when they have no policies in place to do anything but try to stir anger? Do they just push the hateful rhetoric more and more?
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Merrick Garland’s Dilemma
June 16, 2022 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments
The Economist:
“Whether Merrick Garland might charge him is another matter. While prosecuting hundreds of foot-soldiers of the Capitol riot, Joe Biden’s attorney-general has given no indication that he intends to pursue Mr Trump. A cautious institutionalist, Mr Garland is intent on removing Mr Barr’s taint of politicization from his department. Arresting the previous president would make that hard.
“As Ms Cheney knows, the prospects of blocking Mr Trump electorally are receding. Most Republicans say he won the election and hardly any Republican politician dares say otherwise. On June 14th a Trump-backed primary challenger defeated Tom Rice of South Carolina, making him the fifth of the ten Republican House members who voted to impeach Mr Trump to be pushed out. Mr Trump is the clear favorite to be the Republican nominee in 2024. It is why Mr Garland’s decision looks so important. Yet that will perhaps make him even more reluctant to act.”
OF COURSE, IF HE DECIDES NOT TO ACT,
HE COULD EXPLAIN WHY IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE TRUMP LOOK EVEN WORSE.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
EXCLUSIVE
Ginni Thomas corresponded with John Eastman, sources in Jan. 6 House investigation say
June 15, 2022 at 7:19 p.m. EDT
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three people involved in the committee’s investigation.
The emails show that Thomas’s efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known, two of the people said. The three declined to provide details and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
The committee’s members and staffers are now discussing whether to spend time during their public hearings exploring Ginni Thomas’s role in the attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, the three people said. The Washington Post previously reported that the committee had not sought an interview with Thomas and was leaning against pursuing her cooperation with its investigation.
The two people said the emails were among documents obtained by the committee and reviewed recently. Last week, a federal judge ordered Eastman to turn more than 100 documents over to the committee. Eastman had tried to block the release of those and other documents by arguing that they were privileged communications and therefore should be protected.
Thomas also sent messages to President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and to Arizona lawmakers, pressing them to help overturn the election, The Post has previously reported.
While Thomas has maintained that she and her husband operate in separate professional lanes, her activities as a conservative political activist have long distinguished her from other spouses of Supreme Court justices. Any new revelations about Thomas’s actions after the 2020 presidential election are likely to further intensify questions about whether Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from cases related to the election and attempts to subvert it
Why Steve Bannon Is So Dangerous
June 16, 2022 at 10:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 84 Comments
Charlie Sykes:
“Beyond the grift, the key to understanding Bannon — and his influence on the MAGA right— is recognizing that he’s a revolutionary, who knows he doesn’t need to persuade, and who doesn’t need a majority.
Bannon knows that he just needs a hard-core vanguard willing to do whatever it takes.
“And his goal is to burn it all down.
“This also explains the fundamental asymmetry of our politics. On today’s podcast we discuss whether Bannon is playing checkers while his opponents are playing chess.
“But I suggested a different image: Bannon is bringing an axe to a chess game — and his opponents haven’t figured that out yet, even though he’s told us repeatedly who and what he is.”
How the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme Was Supposed to Work
June 16, 2022 at 10:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
Just Security has an excellent backgrounder on Donald Trump’s “fake electors’ scheme and how he hoped it would help him overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The Justice Department has already stated a criminal investigation into this.
Deborah Birx to Testify
June 16, 2022 at 10:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
“Deborah Birx, who served as Covid response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, will give her first public testimony about her time in the Trump administration,” NBC News reports.
“Birx is scheduled to provide testimony on June 23 at a hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina.”
OF COURSE, IF HE DECIDES NOT TO ACT,
HE COULD EXPLAIN WHY IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE TRUMP LOOK EVEN WORSE.b
Actually that would be illegal, unethical, and a violation of Trump's constitutional rights.
Law enforcement investigators have one place to make a case. That is in court. A police investigator is not allowed to investigate John Smith, come up with nothing illegal... but then hold a press conference saying his investigation showed that Smith was cheating on his wife or going to the track when he said he was going to church.
Prosecutors are only allowed to say anything if they decide to indict and prosecute and then they can only talk about the crime or things that come up in court. They cannot "prosecute" to the press and generally speaking (the Mueller case being an exception) even Special Prosecutors reported 95% of their finding to Congress (and not publicly).
Garland is either going to try to indict Trump or not.
He is not allowed to give political speeches in lieu of a prosecution.
He "might" suggest at some point that he will not file charges, but even that is unlikely. More likely than not he just sits back and does nothing.
My, my...
January 6 Committee Wants to Talk to Ginni Thomas
June 16, 2022 at 11:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, said the panel plans to invite Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be interviewed by the panel, the Washington Post reports.
“The conservative activist was not originally expected to be a focus of public hearings this June. But people involved in the investigation say newly obtained email correspondence between her and White House lawyer John Eastman have revealed that her efforts to overturn the 2020 election were more extensive than previously known.”
He should have been appointed by Trump to the Supreme Court. Because he is very conservative. But fortunately, unlike you he has not lost his mind.
Retired judge to warn of Trump's 'well-developed plan' to overturn election
In his testimony before the January 6 committee today, former US appellate court judge J Michael Luttig will warn that the plot to overturn the 2020 election was well-coordinated and threatened the nation’s very existence, according to his opening remarks obtained by CNN.
Luttig is one of two guests in Thursday’s third hearing of the committee, which will focus on Trump’s pressure campaign against vice-president Mike Pence to get him to go along with his plans to stop Joe Biden from taking office.
“The war on democracy instigated by the former president and his political party allies on January 6 was the natural and foreseeable culmination of the war for America,” Luttig warns in his opening remarks. “It was stthe final fateful day for the execution of a well-developed plan by the former president to overturn the 2020 presidential election at any cost, so that he could cling to power that the American People had decided to confer upon his successor, the next president of the United States instead.”
“Had the Vice President of the United States obeyed the President of the United States, America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis,” Luttig says.
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Because it would have gone back to the states and because more states are currently Republican majorities, Donald Trump would be the President of the United States of America.
I don't think it would be illegal for Garland to state that although Trump is technically guilty, for the sake of not increasing our political divide, he will not be charged.
I don't think Garland will do that, and hope not.
Trump is guilty as hell and should be charged, regardless of the political consequences.
If what Trump did is not illegal, criminal, and treasonous, nothing is.
I affirm 11:03.
Here comes another shortage to drive prices higher
Diesel Exhaust Fluid Shortage Affecting Truck Drivers Nationwide
Truck drivers already struggling with extremely high fuel prices are also dealing with more expensive Diesel Exhaust Fluid, which is a key product needed for most everything that runs on diesel.
Truck drivers with newer models must fill up their DEF tank about every other fueling, which is more expensive.
Now, there's a possibility of some shortages, which is adding to the problems.
“We used to spend about $500 a week on fuel, we’re now spending $1,200,” said Larry Miles.
Larry Miles has been driving a truck since 1959.
He now works in the safety department at John Christner Trucking and said the prices of fuel and now DEF are really hurting truckers.
“About every other fueling, you have to duel your DEF tank up," Miles said.
Nearly anything that runs on diesel needs Diesel Exhaust Fluid.
A lot of factors are leading to short supply and high prices, including the war between Russia and Ukraine.
"It uses Urea, which Russia and China are the top two exporters of.”
Urea is also in fertilizer, so with agriculture costs going up, less is going to transportation.
Agriculture teacher Lane Ullrich said his family drives tractors and many farmers are struggling to pay for DEF and diesel.
“You’re spending thousands of dollars a week on diesel," said Ullrich. "That does not include maintenance.”
Because trucks and tractors help supply almost everything, that means the cost of food and supplies is going up.
Miles said it’s scary to see, and it’s forcing smaller trucking companies out of business.
“We just want the freedom to afford to feed out family," said Miles.
Ullrich said keeping people aware of the issues and how it’ll trickle down to each person is the best way to demand change.
“The impact is destroying the industry, but with a solid good company like JCT, we’re striving to go forward," Miles said.
Truck drivers and farmers said this isn't just fuel and DEF prices up.
Everything from oil to antifreeze is increasing too, and it'll keeping coming back to customers.
FJB
Ginni Thomas and lawyer who plotted to overturn 2020 vote exchanged emails
The January 6 committee has obtained emails between Clarence Thomas’s wife and John Eastman, according to reports
Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Thu 16 Jun 2022 11.46 EDT
Ginni Thomas, the rightwing activist married to supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, corresponded with a law professor who advised Donald Trump in his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The Washington Post reported that the January 6 committee, preparing for a third public hearing on Thursday investigating the attack on the Capitol, had obtained emails between Ginni Thomas and John Eastman.
The New York Times then reported that emails showed Eastman told a pro-Trump lawyer and campaign officials of a “heated fight” between justices over whether to hear arguments about Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat, which was driven by his lie about electoral fraud.
The House select committee should subpoena her and her husband should resign.
I'm not sure that what Roger says at the end of 11:03 would actually have happened.
I think the courts owuld have stepped in to prevent it.
The Jan. 6 committee is holding its third public hearing of the month Thursday with the focus on the pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence.
The committee says it will detail efforts from then-President Donald Trump and his allies before and on Jan. 6 to get Pence to reject electoral votes Congress was certifying -- as part of what it says was a plot to overturn the presidential election.
Here is how the hearing is unfolding:
Ginni Thomas will 'soon' be invited to speak with Jan. 6 committee.
Even the conservative justices would not allow it to happen. If they found a way to get it to the Supreme Court
Thursday’s session is also expected to divulge new evidence about the danger Pence faced that day as the mob stormed the Capitol shouting “hang Mike Pence!” with a gallows on the Capitol grounds as the vice president fled with senators into hiding. Nine people died in the riot and its aftermath.
The panel aims to show that Trump’s pressure on Pence directly contributed to the attack on the Capitol.
“The illegality of the plan was obvious,” the committee said in a court filing against Eastman.
Ahead of the hearing, Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, said his boss was determined to stay at the Capitol that night and finish the job, despite the threats.
CNN suffers smallest weekday audience since 2015
CNN’s average audience on Tuesday was just 393,000 total viewers
CNN developed a reputation for relying on critical coverage of former-President Trump to attract liberal viewers under former boss Jeff Zucker, but Tuesday’s gloomy turnout came one day after the Jan. 6 committee spent Monday focused heavily on Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results through litigation. CNN shed a staggering 43% of the 694,000 total viewers who tuned in on Monday when there was no hearing on Tuesday.
By comparison, Fox News averaged 1.6 million total viewers on Tuesday when CNN managed only 393,000.
All data courtesy of Nielsen Media Research.
Well the institutionalized mental patient and the POS Gospel According to Goddard "pastor" still use them
Guess it's a thing with old dying liberal white men
out of touch and unable to see what they've become
The question remaining is simple. What happens to the Democratic Party if they lose their control over the minority vote?
They're done.
How do they get it back when they have no policies in place to do anything but try to stir anger? Do they just push the hateful rhetoric more and more?
Simply look to the J6 Kangaroo Court Clown Car for your answer. With everything ailing the American people these days - issues critical to the survival of some families - the left is laser focused on preventing Trump from running again as their only hope of retaining the white house. Every single member of the current administration and every single policy they've put forth has been an abject failure. It has taken a while for the minority population to realize this, but realize it they have.
The problem for the rest of us is that the left is like a rabid cornered animal... a suicide bomber even. Willing to push the button to kill us all once they've reached the conclusion that they are truly and utterly fucked.
If I can just squeeze in a post on another topic around the shit storm blizzard of non stop Jan 6 posts, there is increasing talk in both parties about whether Biden should run again. It's an interesting debate.
Maybe we could stop the avalanche of Roger Jan 6 spam for a while to discuss something else??
I don't think it would be illegal for Garland to state that although Trump is technically guilty, for the sake of not increasing our political divide, he will not be charged.
Actually it would be a violation of the Fifth amendment, which states that Americans cannot be "held to answer" for any crime unless there is an indictment from a Grand Jury.
So yeah Reverend... that would be a huge problem.
Garland either needs to indict or shut the fuck up about it.
As most "legal" experts have stated... if Garland does not believe he has enough "evidence" to push through anything against Trump - the Jan 6th commission has not provided anything new.
So far it's been political theater to a limited audience. Convincing partisan Democrats that Trump is guilty of something is not a hard task. But if they are really trying to convince Garland to prosecute...
They needed to uncover "evidence" - which in the technical sense of the legal terms that would be required to get a conviction... is not really there. People assuming Trump's state of mind or Liz Cheney concocting a sophisticated 7 point plan that she attributes to Trump might be convincing to you...
But it is not evidence that can be presented at trial.
They can call a million people who claim that they know how Trump felt (for instance) - but none of that testimony would be allowed unless they have Trump actually SAYING something.
Jennifer Granholm
United States Secretary of Energy
Has a solution 👌.
Buy a $8,000. New ac and furnace.
They referred to “The illegality of the plan was obvious,” the committee said in a court filingsing against Eastman.
This is the filing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol said Wednesday for the first time that its evidence suggests crimes may have been committed by former President Donald Trump and his associates in the failed effort to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump and his associates engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, the House committee said in a court filing. Trump and those working with him spread false information about the outcome of the presidential election and pressured state officials to overturn the results, potentially violating multiple federal laws, the panel said.
“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing submitted in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.
Garland is watching the hearings. I honestly think that Trump is still the biggest threat in history. He should be prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
At the end of these hearings the the Department of Justice should open up a Grand Jury investigation on Donald Trump. If they indict him...
And like I said before that President Biden should pardon him because if he accepts the pardon he is admitting guilt and he cannot run again. Because he can't use the 5th amendment rights.
Garland is watching the hearings.
Well la ti goddamn da...
Good for him!
Then I am sure he has seen the same new legal evidence that all other legal experts have seen... which is nothing.
This is a tired round and round in circles argument. Nothing this committee has pushed forward has not been brought up before. Interviewing more Capitol police officers or showing different footage of the riot...
is not new evidence against Trump.
This is the entire Democratic Party pounding their fist...
When that doesn't work, they will pound louder.
When that still doesn't work, they will grab a hammer and pound some more.
But none of that table pounding is new evidence. It's just trying to present the same stuff again... only louder.
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
They referred to “The illegality of the plan was obvious,” the committee said in a court filingsing against Eastman.
Right.
Just like when Adam Schiff was telling us that the evidence of Trump-Russia collusion was "in plain sight," when it was complete and utter bullshit the whole fucking time.
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Judge Carter "Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower — it was a coup in search of a legal theory.
Scott you don't trust the law of the land. His statement said that he could be charged for obstruction by a federal Grand Jury.
This is the entire Democratic Party pounding their fist...
When that doesn't work, they will pound louder.
When that still doesn't work, they will grab a hammer and pound some more.
It could be that the dems know they're fucked, and are left with using the J6 Clown Show as a desperate attempt at trying Trump in the court of public opinion as a last resort.
Just spit-balling here.
WH Spokesman said the gas price increase is because of Big Oil Greed.
Not, Putin?
Specific law violations are
Plenty has been said about specific federal laws Trump likely violated. These were suggested by the committee in March when it asked a U.S. district court in California to compel Eastman to turn over documents. It argued that Eastman’s attorney-client privilege defense was invalidated because his relationship with Trump involved the likely commission of two federal crimes: obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Judge David O. Carter agreed.
Cheney is mentioning this now.
18 U.S. Code § 1505 - Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
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Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress—
Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
Garland should continue to watch this and eventually start a Grand Jury investigation 🔎
His statement said that he could be charged for obstruction by a federal Grand Jury.
Then charge him already. It's already been 18 fucking months. How much more time do they need?
This is the fundamental problem with this whole charade, alky.
At this point every normal person NOT totally consumed by TDS sees this J6 Clown Car for what it really is. A fucking joke. Normal Americans are paying 20%-30% more for everything, and spending $100 to fill up their trucks.
This clown Show not only displays democrats true indifference to the plight of Americans for all to see, they're noticing that democrats do not fucking care. Not even a little bit.
The first rule of holes is when you find yourself in one, stop digging. But not democrats. The party of the super-smart, ultra-educated, intellectual elite is too fucking stupid to master the basics.
Scott you don't trust the law of the land. His statement said that he could be charged for obstruction by a federal Grand Jury.
Garland has not charged him, Roger.
Just like Mueller didn't charge him. Comey didn't charge him. The South District of New York did not charge him.
The Jan 6th commission is not running a "rule of law" hearing or actually providing anything "legal" that could be used to charge Trump.
They are running an emotional appeal to their most livid Trump hating supporters... all for the sake of "changing the 2022 midterm narrative".
They have admitted as much.
Cheney is mentioning this now.
18 U.S. Code § 1505 - Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
So Cheney is explaining the law to the Attorney General?
As if Garland doesn't understand the law?
Cheneyspaining!
Nonsense
Trump put Pence in danger 😳 but you don't care
January 6 committee begins third hearing
The January 6 committee has begun its third hearing, which will be focused on efforts to pressure vice-president Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election.
“We are fortunate for Mr. Pence’s courage. On January 6, our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe. That courage put him in tremendous danger. When Mike Pence made it clear that he wouldn’t give in to Donald Trump’s scheme, Donald Trump turned the mob on him,” the committee chair Bennie Thompson said in his opening remarks.
As with the prior two hearings, today will include in-person testimony from witnesses along with video clips of interviews with former Trump administration officials and others.
we are coming after you mother fuckers.
The committee just aired a video intended to show the threats to the vice-president on January 6, beginning with Trump’s speech to supporters who went on to attack the Capitol: “Mike Pence is gonna have to come through for us and if he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country.”
The video then shows the crowd breaching the building while chanting “hang Mike Pence!” It ends with the image of a makeshift gallows with a hangman’s noose in front of the Capitol.
“How did we get to the point where President Trump’s most radical supporters with a violent attack on the Capitol and threatened to hang President Trump’s own vice president?” asked California Democrat Pete Aguilar, who showed the video.
Thompson has sweared in the day’s two witnesses: Greg Jacob, who was Pence’s counsel during his time in office and with him on the day of the insurrection, and J Michael Luttig, a retired judge and informal Pence adviser.
Jacob has given a lawerly assessment of the origins of the theory that Pence had the power to stop Joe Biden from assuming office.
“What you have is a sentence in the constitution that is inartfully drafted,” Jacob said.
“But the vice-president’s first instinct when he heard this theory was that there was no way that our framers, who abhorred concentrated power, who had broken away from the tyranny of George III, would ever have put one person, particularly not a person who had a direct interest in the outcome, because they were on the ticket for the election, in a role to have decisive impact on the outcome of the election.”
“And frankly, just common sense, all confirmed the vice-president’s first instinct on that point. There is no justifiable basis to conclude that the vice-president has that kind of authority,” Jacob concluded.
Luttig, whom committee chair Bennie Thompson described as “one of the leading conservative legal thinkers in the country” reiterated his belief that if Pence had done as Trump asked, it would have been an unprecedented blow to American governance.
“That declaration of Donald Trump as the next president would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis,” Luttig said.
Scott, J Michael Luttig is a very conservative lawyer. Look him up
He says only Republicans can end this madness: “Only the party that instigated this war over our democracy can bring an end to that war.”
But even that will not change your mind anymore.
They are running an emotional appeal to the people who actually care about our country.
Unlike.
But even that will not change your mind anymore.
No... you are correct.
The Republicans cannot end the Jan 6th madness...
They have moved on a long time ago.
The Democrats have to move on as well in order to end the madness.
The committee is now looking at the actions of John Eastman, the architect of Trump’s theory that he could overturn the election.
Eastman, an attorney who formerly taught law at Chapman University in California, is a recurring character in the January 6 inquiry. Luttig is now taking apart Eastman’s theory, which asserted that rather than certifying slates of electors from swing states that supported Biden, Pence could instead certify alternate electors from those states who would support Trump, handing him a second term.
“He was incorrect,” Luttig said, going on to say, “There was no basis in the constitution or laws of the United States at all for it, the theory espoused by Mr. Eastman, at all. None.”
Eastman was the enabler for Trump.
Every other people who worked for Trump told him that he lost the election.
You still believe the big lie!
Scott the insurrection on January 6th was the biggest threat in history and the architect of the insurrection should never be allowed to be the most again.
But you have lost your mind Scott.
This is what This investigation matters 👏
"They are running an emotional appeal"CHT
This is where Roger lives.
He has displayed the Emotional stabilty of a teen girl.
“That declaration of Donald Trump as the next president would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis,” Luttig said.
On January 6th Attack you instantly declared the Kavanaugh nomination demonstration was even worse.
I knew that day that you were gone forever
But I keep posting the truth.
Hi Roger.
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Former President Donald Trump has rejected the findings of the public hearings, calling the committee “treasonous”.
Yawn
Roger post here, Twitter and Facebook.
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Scott the insurrection on January 6th was the biggest threat in history and the architect of the insurrection should never be allowed to be the most again.
But you have lost your mind Scott.
This is what This investigation matters 👏
Scott.
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Even if the hearings do change some Trump voters’ minds, they cannot save the country from a treacherous, even violent, reckoning
I didn't say it
He said it
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig told the Jan. 6 committee that had Vice President Mike Pence followed through on President Donald Trump’s command to reject certification of election results, that it would have triggered a “revolution within a constitutional crisis” that would be unparalleled in U.S. history.
Roger post here, Twitter and Facebook
Eastman, an attorney who formerly taught law at Chapman University in California, is a recurring character in the January 6 inquiry. Luttig is now taking apart Eastman’s theory, which asserted that rather than certifying slates of electors from swing states that supported Biden, Pence could instead certify alternate electors from those states who would support Trump, handing him a second term.
Well one legal scholar suggesting that another legal scholar is wrong...
Does not prove any crimes...
Besides... the only way to know who is right would have been to see this work it's way through the courts and ultimately wait for a USSC decision.
But the hearings are changing minds now.
A third of the Republicans polled in a new survey said they supported the actions of supporters of former President Trump who broke into the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
While the poll by Global Strategy Group found majorities back the Jan. 6 panel and oppose the actions of those who forced the evacuation of Congress in an effort to stop the count of the Electoral College, it also finds a large minority within the GOP backed those rioters.
The findings underscore the divisions within the GOP over Jan. 6 — a battle that likely to shadow election year debates and the early stages of the 2024 presidential race.
A mob of Trump’s supporters that day overran U.S. Capitol Police to enter the Capitol. Some marched across the House and Senate floors as lawmakers were taken to secure locations.
Numerous police officers were injured and five deaths were connected to the riot.
Most Americans clearly do not support those rioting, the poll makes clear.
It found that nearly two-thirds of Americans support the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 riots and that 71 percent of Americans overall oppose the storming of the U.S. Capitol last year.
Scott they are showing that this might happen later on this year
18 U.S. Code § 1505 - Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
Not Luttig
Bidenomics returning us to the Obimbo lost years.
"Mortgage rates surge to 5.78%, highest level since 2008 Inflation pushing mortgage rates to highest level in 13 years"
Only one third of Republicans agree with you
New poll finds 33 percent of GOP support actions of Jan. 6 rioters
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3526469-new-poll-finds-33-percent-of-gop-support-actions-of-jan-6-rioters/
The price of Oil/ Gas will drop slowly because we are in a Recession.
Scott they are showing that this might happen later on this year
Why?
Either the evidence is there to charge today...
or it is not.
If they are still searching for evidence to prove their crime, then I wouldn't hold my breath. It's been 17 months and they have had 17 months to find their evidence.
Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, White House attorney Eric Herschmann and Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Trump and Ludwig view Eastman’s theory most concisely with his reply when aviewed it: “They thought it was crazy.”
Global Strategy Group is a democrats polling firm. They say so directly on their website.
It's a partisan poll.
If Garland had started a Grand Jury duty before this investigation it would have been dangerous and could have violence like before.
When these hearings end, we will see.
But remember Georgia and New York taxes investigations will not stop.
Anonymous Roger Amick uncensored said...
But the hearings are changing minds now.
Your polling firm team is a pack of self-proclaimed democrats and progressives alky.
https://navigatorresearch.org/support-for-the-january-6th-investigation-remains-strong/
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Changing minds now that are already made up.
THWAP!!!
Well in the middle of all this polling...
The GOP just took an 83% Hispanic district that was rated at +20 for the Democrats.
So there are polls and then there are results.
You can have all the polls you want.
I will take the GOP gaining seats all day long and twice on Sundays!
The GOP just took an 83% Hispanic district that was rated at
In a special election to which many have said will not recur in November......Keep prematurely ejaculating Lil Schitty as today's hearing is a damning testimony to the absolutely corrupt nature of your GOP who don't give a shit about anything but maintaining white power especially on Sundays!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Less than 24 hours after the GOP flipped a congressional district in South Texas, several Latino Democrats cornered their campaign chief on the House floor with a fervent plea: It’s time for the party to make a crucial course correction.
Republicans blew up more than a century of almost uninterrupted Democratic control in that region Tuesday night, earning a special election win in a heavily Latino border district they had rarely even contested since its creation in 2012 — but where the GOP has made rapid gains in the last few years.
That trend has been on Democrats’ minds since former President Donald Trump cut deep into the party’s margins in the Rio Grande Valley in 2020. But national Republicans poured money into the special election in this 85 percent Latino district from the beginning.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its allies, meanwhile, only made a small investment at the end, despite requests from members to get involved earlier.
“I hope the DCCC learns their lesson with this before it happens across the country,” said Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who due to redistricting will face GOP Rep.-elect Mayra Flores this fall in a redrawn district.
Republican Mayra Flores defeated the leading Democratic candidate for an open congressional seat in a historically blue region of South Texas in a Tuesday special election.
Flores, who will be the first Mexican-born congresswoman, garnered about 51% of the vote to top Dan Sanchez, who received 43% of the vote with all precincts reporting.
The seat had been vacated in March by former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela.
Shortly after 9:30 p.m., Flores declared victory at her election party in San Benito, the Texas Tribune reported.
“For over 100 years, we have been taken for granted,” she told her supporters, according to the report. “I will show you what real representation looks like. I will represent all people.”
Sanchez conceded Tuesday night, and blamed Democrats for their lack of support.
Texas Democrat Dan Sanchez walking along a polling site in Brownsville, Texas.
Texas Democrat Dan Sanchez pointed to a lack of support from the Democratic party as a reason for his defeat.
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“Based on the results, we came up short tonight …” he said in a statement to the Tribune.
“Too many factors were against us, including little to no support from the National Democratic Party and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.”
Another election for the seat will be held in November.
Flores, backed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and Senator Ted Cruz., spent over $1 million on commercials for the election while the Democrats decided it wasn’t worth investing in a race that would be up for grabs again in the fall, the paper reported.
President Joe Biden had won the Texas 34th district by just 4 points in the 2020 election.
There was a very recent non-partisan poll that was pretty open ended with no push polling or funny worded questions...
At the end of the day, the people were more interested in the lack of security, possible instigators, FBI involvement, and preventing future occurrences... than they were interested in investigating Trump's role.
At the end of the day... Trump's role is all that the Jan 6th commission is dealing with and why it has been a complete flop. They have not spent one minute dealing with that the non-left partisan Trump haters want to see them look into.
We will have 64 hearings, 2056 sworn statements, 459 interviews....
And not one thing will be about why the police were understaffed, why the National Guard was not there, why security warnings to Congress were not provided to the Capitol law enforcement, whether or not there were paid agitators, what presence the FBI had, etc....
and that is why it fails!
Winning.
"So there are polls and then there are results"
Eastman attended the meeting between the two leaders, and Jacob said the lawyer presented Pence with two options available to him on January 6.
“One of them was that he could reject electoral votes outright,” said Jacob, who was Pence’s counsel at the time and attended the meeting along with Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short and, briefly, Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows.
“The other was that he could use his capacity as presiding officer to suspend the proceedings and declare essentially a 10-day recess,” Jacob said.
During that period, “states that he deems to be disputed — there was a list of five to seven states that the exact number changed from conversation to conversation — but that the vice-president could issue a demand to the state legislatures in those states to reexamine the election and declare who had won each of those states,” Jacob said.
Eastman “did not recommend what he called the more aggressive option” of rejecting the electoral votes entirely “because he thought that that would be less politically palatable,” Jacob said.
While he wouldn’t discuss what he heard Trump and Pence speak about, Jacob said the vice-president rejected Eastman’s argument. “The vice-president never budged from the position that I have described as his first instinct, which was that it just made no sense from everything that he knew and had studied about our Constitution, that one person would have that kind of authority.”
Pence is a great American man
In a special election to which many have said will not recur in November.....
Many? It was already rated a toss up by most every election prognosticator. Now that the GOP will be the incumbent and won by 5 points, I would suspect that it will probably move to leans GOP.
Who are your "many"?
The destruction of wealth by FJB continues apace...
Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
29,832.85
-835.68
More important than anything since the Civil War !!!
Jack Holmes
https://twitter.com/jackholmes0/status/1537495179892035584
NBC is cutting out of the January 6 hearings to go to US Open golf
WSJ
"President Biden has suddenly discovered that a refinery shortage is driving up fuel prices. Naturally, he’s blaming refiners, even as his Administration doubles down on the policies that created the shortage."
YEP.,
😅NBC is cutting out of the January 6 hearings to go to US Open golf🤣
RRB this is my wnd favorite Qoute of FJB
"speaking at an event in Pennsylvania, Biden said wanted to end the "era of shareholder capitalism."
😅NBC is cutting out of the January 6 hearings to go to US Open golf
And you think that is relevant considering the round was finished at 2:30 and both CBS and ABC still have it on?????
Many? It was already rated a toss up by most every election prognosticator
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! At you again, asshole.....most??????? LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! Fuck off Lil Schitty!!!!
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"Donald Trump and his supporters are a clear and present danger to our democracy..... to this day, the former president pledges that in the presidential election of 2024 if the former president or his anointed successor were to lose that election, they would attempt to overturn that election in the same way"
Luttig ends with a bang
Message to AG Merrick Garland:
"With all this s**t,
you cannot acquit."
DOJ has requested all transcripts to aid in their criminal investigations of 1-6!!!!!!! LOCK THE UP!!!!!!!
suddenly discovered that a refinery shortage is driving up fuel prices
And suddenly the goat fucker wakes up to realize that demand is still high which also driving prices up......and he claims to be an economist.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Washington — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol turned its attention to former President Donald Trump's campaign to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes on Thursday, hearing testimony from close Pence aides who said the president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election were nonsensical and "un-American."
"Mike Pence said no. He resisted the pressure. He knew it was illegal, he knew it was wrong," Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said to open the third day of hearings examining the Capitol attack. "We are fortunate for Mr. Pence's courage on January 6. Our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe."
Two Pence advisers appeared in person at Thursday's hearing: Greg Jacob, Pence's former counsel, and J. Michael Luttig, a highly respected conservative jurist and retired federal judge who advised Pence in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The committee also showed taped footage of interviews with Pence chief of staff Marc Short and other aides.
The testimony made clear that Pence and his closest aides repeatedly told Trump and his allies that a theory pushed by conservative lawyer John Eastman, who argued the vice president should single-handedly reject or replace slates of electors, had no basis in the Constitution or federal law. The committee presented evidence that Eastman himself knew the plan violated the law.
But Trump continued to pressure Pence to intervene in the run-up to Jan. 6, including at a one-on-one meeting the night before. Pence's aides said the president's insistence pushed the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.
This will never change your mind Scott.
But Eastman admitted his plan violated the law.
This was bombshells
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