The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to touch on a number of key themes as it runs through six public hearings where it will make the case that Donald Trump violated the law as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The panel has already said – and won – in court that it believed Trump and his top advisers conspired to obstruct a congressional proceeding and defrauded the United States, as part of an effort to obtain otherwise privileged documents.
Representative of Wyoming Liz Cheney (R), attend the House Select Committee meeting to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, to consider a report recommending that the House of Representatives citeTrump administration officials Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino Jr., for Criminal Contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,
Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?
But as it presents the basis for reaching that conclusion, the select committee is also aiming to use the hearings to place the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the former president’s involvement as the central thread.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to touch on a number of key themes as it runs through six public hearings where it will make the case that Donald Trump violated the law as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The panel has already said – and won – in court that it believed Trump and his top advisers conspired to obstruct a congressional proceeding and defrauded the United States, as part of an effort to obtain otherwise privileged documents.
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Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?
But as it presents the basis for reaching that conclusion, the select committee is also aiming to use the hearings to place the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the former president’s involvement as the central thread.
If only this commission were debating both sides of the issue. But Pelosi would not allow it. So just like her 2nd impeachment process, this is an exercise in political hatred.
Edited The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to touch on a number of key themes as it runs through six public hearings where it will make the case that Donald Trump violated the law as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The panel has already said – and won – in court that it believed Trump and his top advisers conspired to obstruct a congressional proceeding and defrauded the United States, as part of an effort to obtain otherwise privileged documents.
epa09856958 Chairperson of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol Bennie Thompson (C), Democratic Representative of California Zoe Lofgren (L), and Republican Representative of Wyoming Liz Cheney (R), attend the House Select Committee meeting to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, to consider a report recommending that the House of Representatives citeTrump administration officials Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino Jr., for Criminal Contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,
Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?
But as it presents the basis for reaching that conclusion, the select committee is also aiming to use the hearings to place the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the former president’s involvement as the central thread.
The televised hearings of the House select committee on the January 6 insurrection, which begin Thursday, mark an historic milestone in the battle between democracy and autocracy. The events that culminated in the attack on the Capitol constitute the first attempted presidential coup in our nation’s 233-year history.
To a large degree, the success of these hearings will depend on the Wyoming Republican congresswoman and vice-chair of the committee, Liz Cheney.
The select committee’s inquiry is the most important congressional investigation of presidential wrongdoing since the Senate investigation of the Watergate scandals in the 1970s.
I vividly recall the televised hearings of the Senate Watergate committee, which began nearly a half-century ago, on 17 May 1973. More than a year later, on 8 August 1974 – knowing that he would be impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate – Nixon resigned.
I was just finishing law school when the Watergate hearings began. I was supposed to study for final exams but remained glued to my television. I remember the entire cast of characters as if the hearings occurred yesterday, and I’m sure many of you do, too – North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, a Democrat, who served as the committee’s co-chair; John Dean, the White House counsel who told the committee about Nixon’s attempted cover-up; and Alexander Butterfield, Nixon’s deputy assistant, who revealed that Nixon had taped all conversations in the White House.
The January 6 insurrection was not an isolated event. It was part of a concerted effort by Trump to use his lie that the 2020 election was stolen as a means to engineer a coup, while whipping up anger and distrust among his supporters toward our system of government. Yet not a shred of evidence has ever been presented to support Trump’s claim that voter fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Consider (to take but one example) Trump’ phone call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in which he pressured Raffensperger to change the presidential vote count in Georgia in order to give Trump more votes than Biden.
“All I want to do is this,” Trump told Raffensperger in a recorded phone call. “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.” Trump threatened Raffensperger with criminal liability if he did not do so. Trump’s actions appear to violate 18 USC § 371, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and 18 USC § 1512, obstruction of Congress.
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into these activities. Attorney general Merrick Garland has said that the Justice Department will “follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead”. As with Watergate, the facts will almost certainly lead to the person who then occupied the Oval Office.
This week’s televised committee hearings are crucial to educating the public and setting the stage for the justice department’s prosecution.
Trump Pentagon first offered National Guard to Capitol four days before Jan. 6 riots, memo shows
Official Capitol Police timeline validates Trump administration's account, shows Democrats' fateful rejections of offers. "Seems absolutely illogical," one official wrote about security posture hours before riot began.
The Pentagon first raised the possibility of sending National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol four days before the Jan. 6 riots, setting in motion a series of rejections by Capitol Police and Democrats that left Congress vulnerable as threats of violence were rising, according to government memos that validate Trump administration officials' long-held claims.
Rodger you realize got to have a fair hearing both sides get the same amount of time. I doubt you know this and you're not seeking the truth or a fair hearing you need what Alan dershowitz calls a show trial
Those who argue that Trump should not be criminally liable because no president in American history has been criminally liable, overlook the fact that no president in history has staged an attempted coup to change the outcome of an election.
Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents and candidates disputing election outcomes and seeking to change them – along with ensuing public distrust, paranoia and divisiveness.
Liz Cheney bears a burden far heavier than Howard Baker bore almost a half-century ago. Please watch this Thursday’s January 6 committee televised hearings. And please join me in appreciating the public service of Liz Cheney.
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism:
It's not hatred. It's patriotic. Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents. Precedence is used by conservative patriotic people.
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overturn his election defeat on Jan. 6, 2021.
U.S. District Judge David Carter in Los Angeles made the assertion in a written ruling that found the House of Representatives committee probing the attack on the U.S. Capitol has a right to see emails written to Trump by one of his then-lawyers, John Eastman.
Carter said that Republican Trump's alleged plan to overturn his November 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden amounted to a "coup."
"The Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," Carter said in a written decision, adding: "The illegality of the plan was obvious."
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Obstruction is a crime.
We can't let it happen again.
Even a Democratic President could do the same thing.
In the modern world, I still feel that the people will come to their senses.
Biden was supposed to come out and rescue his presidency by telling the people all the great things he's accomplished.
But he can't think of any great things he's accomplished, and his stupid, demented brain trails off into Alzheimer's fog until Jimmy Kimmel bails him out by cutting to commercial.
Rodger you realize got to have a fair hearing both sides get the same amount of time. I doubt you know this and you're not seeking the truth or a fair hearing you need what Alan dershowitz calls a show trial
It's a commission.... generally those are populated with members from both Parties and with members who might have opposing views.
Pelosi wouldn't allow the GOP to pick who they wanted on the commission, so they instead have two soon to be "former" Republican members as the only representation from the GOP. One has already dropped out and is not running for reelection and Cheney is done unless she wants to move out of Wyoming and run as a Democrat somewhere.
Pelosi chose to "censor" opinions that she did not want heard and instead turned it into a partisan hatefest!
Too little too late. Jimmy was softball underhanded slow pitching, pre approved questions. The result was as RRB writes it.
"But he can't think of any great things he's accomplished, and his stupid, demented brain trails off into Alzheimer's fog until Jimmy Kimmel bails him out by cutting to commercial.
Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents and candidates disputing election outcomes and seeking to change them – along with ensuing public distrust, paranoia and divisiveness.
So Roger...
We just talked about this.
You said the other day that Trump was not liable because he did not give explicit specific orders....
and I told you it would be just a day or two till you were back to saying Trump should be prosecuted?
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overturn his election defeat on Jan. 6, 2021.
Fine.
Indict him then. TODAY. Right fucking NOW.
A judge didn't "rule."
A judge "mused" their TDS-fueled wet dream.
There has never been a more partisan AG/DOJ than right fucking NOW, so if there were crimes committed indictments would be issued. PERIOD.
I have seen and read "all" the arguments and have actually read and researched the laws themself. If you charged a President with "obstruction of congress" every time a President attempted to get around what congress did or didn't vote for.
Every President we have ever had would be in jail.
There is nothing new to what that Judge stated (quite a while ago) and that argument has been ripped to shreds by many legal experts, including Turley and McCarthy.
The problem here Roger...
Is that this is "emotional" and not "logical". Any action like this requires a bad faith criminal action. You cannot take a set of completely legitimate constitutional actions and decide that when you put them together they are a crime because you don't like what those actions are attempting to accomplish.
There is nothing illegal about alternate electors... they literally have existed for decades and we have had them in multiple elections. There is nothing illegal about asking Pence to delay the electoral college count and it is still an unanswered constitutional question as to whether or not Pense had that authority.
There is no "crime" other than in the minds of people who hate Trump so bad that they would have someone somewhere keep investigating something till the end of time. This is just another example of a long list of hateful people abusing their power for partisan hateful reasons.
They will reveal that he did nothing to stop the insurrection for eight hours..
The committee has identified an almost eight-hour gap in the official White House record of Trump’s phone calls, from a little after 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m. — a time when Trump is known to have spoken with several GOP members of the House and Senate, including Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Tuberville and McCarthy.
White House staff repeatedly asked his daughter, Ivanka Trump’s assistance, the committee has said.
“Is someone getting to potus? He has to tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed,” Griffin texted Ben Williamson, an aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
“I’ve been trying for the last 30 minutes. Literally stormed in outer oval to get him to put out the first one. It’s completely insane,” Williamson wrote back.
The White House was already a ghost town amid staff departures. Nonessential staff had been told they could work from home due to the potential security threat.
Finally, at 4:17 p.m., 187 minutes after the insurrection began, Trump released a video, recorded in the Rose Garden, in which he praised the rioters as “very special,” but asked them to disperse..
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That will get some more people to understand how irresponsible and dangerous he is.
As to your question about changing him. Will Justice Department probe ever reach Trump?
Federal investigators have feverishly rounded up more than 800 alleged rioters, making arrests in almost every state. But the question remains (especially among Democrats): Will the Justice Department go after Trump?
There are some signs that prosecutors are moving up the food chain. FBI agents interviewed Republicans in Michigan and Georgia who were involved in the "fake electors" plot, which puts the probe one step closer to Trump's orbit. The Justice Department is asking witnesses about the role of Eastman and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to The New York Times.
Federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued to at least one figure who planned pro-Trump rallies in Washington, DC, on January 6. The organizer, Ali Alexander, says he is complying. Investigators' interest in Alexander show that they aren't only looking at the rioters themselves.
Separately, the Justice Department has charged former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro with contempt of Congress for defying committee subpoenas. (They maintain their innocence.) Prosecutors declined to charge Meadows and another top Trump White House aide, Dan Scavino, who claimed that executive privilege protected them from having to testify.
It's unclear how far the Justice Department will go to investigate Trump. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he is "committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law," but many legal analysts have expressed skepticism that he'll go after Trump, based on the slowness of the probe and the challenges of charging a former President.
The Unselect Committee didn’t spend one minute studying the reason that people went to Washington, D.C., in massive numbers, far greater than the Fake News Media is willing to report, or that the Unselects are willing to even mention, because January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again. It was about an Election that was Rigged and Stolen, and a Country that was about to go to HELL..& look at our Country now!
The Unselect Committee of political Thugs, essentially the same group who brought you the now fully debunked and discredited RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX (and many others!), refused to study and report on the massive amount of irrefutable evidence, much of it recently produced, that shows the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen. They want NOTHING to do with that topic because they cannot win on the facts. CANCEL & DENY, call it 'THE BIG LIE,' is all they can do. Corrupt Politicians!
By many measures, the attack was set in motion shortly after Election Day, when Trump falsely claimed the voting was rigged and refused to concede once Biden was declared the winner.
The hearings are expected to introduce Americans to a cast of characters, some well known, others elusive, and to what they said and did as Trump and his allies tried to reverse the election outcome.
The public will learn about the actions of Mark Meadows, the president’s chief of staff, whose 2,000-plus text messages provided the committee with a snapshot of the real-time scramble to keep Trump in office. Of John Eastman, the conservative law professor who was the architect of the unsuccessful scheme to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification on Jan. 6. Of the Justice Department officials who threatened to resign rather than go along with Trump’s proposals.
The Justice Department has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.
You keep lying. If you have to flat out "lie" to make your point, then there isn't much of a point.
You and your "big lie" liars are now in a minority. We have more and more proof of fraud in several states... in fact more states that Trump would have needed to win the Electoral College.
Now none of it means he would have won without the fraud, but we will never really know because "some people" don't want to accept it or talk about it.
But a majority of Americans now believe that fraud played a part.
You can choose to just "call them names" and lie about fraud being "debunked" when it has been more than proven...
You know... if name-calling and lying is the best argument you can make!
Biden was supposed to come out and rescue his presidency by telling the people all the great things he's accomplished.
But he can't think of any great things he's accomplished, and his stupid, demented brain trails off into Alzheimer's fog until Jimmy Kimmel bails him out by cutting to commercial.
Does anyone care about Lil SChitty's painfully stupid comment about the Kimmel interview?????? Someone needs to give him a working brain!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Why Lil Schitty and his party of imbeciles will soon be in the scupper of complete failure with so many falling for the bullshit being promoted by the lying GOP!!!!!!
Jason Lange Thu, June 9, 2022, 1:17 PM By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. Republicans believe the false claim that left-wing protesters led the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot to try to make then-President Donald Trump look bad, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
The two-day poll, completed on Wednesday, underscored the deep partisan lens through which many Americans view the assault ahead of high-profile televised hearings in Congress beginning on Thursday.
At the hearing, Democratic-led investigators will spotlight testimony by the Republican former president's top aides and family members in an effort to persuade Americans that the riot was an orchestrated attack on democracy.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey found that many Americans who identify as Republicans hold views at odds with the facts uncovered by the bipartisan congressional investigation and a criminal probe.
I don't think it matters which outlet you view the clips from... they are all the same. An old idiot who can barely stammer through a comfort interview with a comedian. I actually felt sorry for him at times...
I mean he literally started saying that they were having problems communicating and then lost his train of thought and looked to Kimmel to bail him out on what he was trying to say. Kimmel joked at the idea that he was having trouble communicating that he was having trouble communication, but it got a bit lost in the embarrassment and nobody laughs.
Lil Schitty.......Did you or are you just paraphrasing second hand opinion?????BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! BTW Fuck off!!!!!!!! You are the one who has trouble communicating and providing empirical evidence the election was stolen and that there were not more than a couple hundred storming the capital!!!!!!!!!
I suggest you do, then try to defend the President and tell us he didn't look like a babbling old fool who had to be cut off by a second tier late night comedian like he was a supporting actor from an obscure streaming series.
You know... do your own research before you attack others who actually watched it.
Blogger C.H. Truth said... Obviously you did not watch the clips Denny...
I suggest you do, then try to defend the President and tell us he didn't look like a babbling old fool who had to be cut
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! Sorry sports, you fucking lose again!!!!!!! You want babbling idiot....look in the fucking mirror as you are the fool!!!! Your buddy shorty is one card short of a full deck to boot and is famous for jumping on the band wagon of your stupidity!!!!!!!
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The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to touch on a number of key themes as it runs through six public hearings where it will make the case that Donald Trump violated the law as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The panel has already said – and won – in court that it believed Trump and his top advisers conspired to obstruct a congressional proceeding and defrauded the United States, as part of an effort to obtain otherwise privileged documents.
Representative of Wyoming Liz Cheney (R), attend the House Select Committee meeting to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, to consider a report recommending that the House of Representatives citeTrump administration officials Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino Jr., for Criminal Contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,
Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?
But as it presents the basis for reaching that conclusion, the select committee is also aiming to use the hearings to place the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the former president’s involvement as the central thread.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/09/january-6-hearings-key-themes
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to touch on a number of key themes as it runs through six public hearings where it will make the case that Donald Trump violated the law as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The panel has already said – and won – in court that it believed Trump and his top advisers conspired to obstruct a congressional proceeding and defrauded the United States, as part of an effort to obtain otherwise privileged documents.
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Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?
But as it presents the basis for reaching that conclusion, the select committee is also aiming to use the hearings to place the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the former president’s involvement as the central thread.
If only this commission were debating both sides of the issue. But Pelosi would not allow it. So just like her 2nd impeachment process, this is an exercise in political hatred.
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The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to touch on a number of key themes as it runs through six public hearings where it will make the case that Donald Trump violated the law as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The panel has already said – and won – in court that it believed Trump and his top advisers conspired to obstruct a congressional proceeding and defrauded the United States, as part of an effort to obtain otherwise privileged documents.
epa09856958 Chairperson of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol Bennie Thompson (C), Democratic Representative of California Zoe Lofgren (L), and Republican Representative of Wyoming Liz Cheney (R), attend the House Select Committee meeting to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, to consider a report recommending that the House of Representatives citeTrump administration officials Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino Jr., for Criminal Contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,
Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?
But as it presents the basis for reaching that conclusion, the select committee is also aiming to use the hearings to place the Capitol attack in a broader context of efforts to overturn the election, with the former president’s involvement as the central thread.
It's a hearing, not a trial.
The televised hearings of the House select committee on the January 6 insurrection, which begin Thursday, mark an historic milestone in the battle between democracy and autocracy. The events that culminated in the attack on the Capitol constitute the first attempted presidential coup in our nation’s 233-year history.
To a large degree, the success of these hearings will depend on the Wyoming Republican congresswoman and vice-chair of the committee, Liz Cheney.
The select committee’s inquiry is the most important congressional investigation of presidential wrongdoing since the Senate investigation of the Watergate scandals in the 1970s.
I vividly recall the televised hearings of the Senate Watergate committee, which began nearly a half-century ago, on 17 May 1973. More than a year later, on 8 August 1974 – knowing that he would be impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate – Nixon resigned.
I was just finishing law school when the Watergate hearings began. I was supposed to study for final exams but remained glued to my television. I remember the entire cast of characters as if the hearings occurred yesterday, and I’m sure many of you do, too – North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, a Democrat, who served as the committee’s co-chair; John Dean, the White House counsel who told the committee about Nixon’s attempted cover-up; and Alexander Butterfield, Nixon’s deputy assistant, who revealed that Nixon had taped all conversations in the White House.
The January 6 insurrection was not an isolated event. It was part of a concerted effort by Trump to use his lie that the 2020 election was stolen as a means to engineer a coup, while whipping up anger and distrust among his supporters toward our system of government. Yet not a shred of evidence has ever been presented to support Trump’s claim that voter fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Consider (to take but one example) Trump’ phone call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in which he pressured Raffensperger to change the presidential vote count in Georgia in order to give Trump more votes than Biden.
“All I want to do is this,” Trump told Raffensperger in a recorded phone call. “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.” Trump threatened Raffensperger with criminal liability if he did not do so. Trump’s actions appear to violate 18 USC § 371, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and 18 USC § 1512, obstruction of Congress.
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into these activities. Attorney general Merrick Garland has said that the Justice Department will “follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead”. As with Watergate, the facts will almost certainly lead to the person who then occupied the Oval Office.
This week’s televised committee hearings are crucial to educating the public and setting the stage for the justice department’s prosecution.
Trump Pentagon first offered National Guard to Capitol four days before Jan. 6 riots, memo shows
Official Capitol Police timeline validates Trump administration's account, shows Democrats' fateful rejections of offers. "Seems absolutely illogical," one official wrote about security posture hours before riot began.
The Pentagon first raised the possibility of sending National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol four days before the Jan. 6 riots, setting in motion a series of rejections by Capitol Police and Democrats that left Congress vulnerable as threats of violence were rising, according to government memos that validate Trump administration officials' long-held claims.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-pentagon-first-offered-national-guard-capitol-four-days-jan-6-riots-memo
Nancy lied
protestors died
I'm sure the committee will release Nancy's communications on Jan 6 and the days proceeding.
This is a search for "truth" right ?
Or just showing we have turned into a Banana Republic
with a moron in charge
Rodger you realize got to have a fair hearing both sides get the same amount of time. I doubt you know this and you're not seeking the truth or a fair hearing you need what Alan dershowitz calls a show trial
Those who argue that Trump should not be criminally liable because no president in American history has been criminally liable, overlook the fact that no president in history has staged an attempted coup to change the outcome of an election.
Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents and candidates disputing election outcomes and seeking to change them – along with ensuing public distrust, paranoia and divisiveness.
Liz Cheney bears a burden far heavier than Howard Baker bore almost a half-century ago. Please watch this Thursday’s January 6 committee televised hearings. And please join me in appreciating the public service of Liz Cheney.
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism:
It's not hatred. It's patriotic.
Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents. Precedence is used by conservative patriotic people.
Alan Dershowitz call tonight's production a show trial and a stain upon the Democrat Party.
Congressional hearings are not trials like impeachment hearings.
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
It's a hearing, not a trial.
It's not even that. It's a clown show and a joke.
If Trump had committed an actual crime for which he could've been indicted, the FJB DOJ would've indicted him a long time ago.
This is just a Hollywood-produced, prime time circle jerk geared for imbeciles like you.
Trump’s criminality...
Criminality???
Why has he not been indicted yet alky?
This is the bombshell!!
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overturn his election defeat on Jan. 6, 2021.
U.S. District Judge David Carter in Los Angeles made the assertion in a written ruling that found the House of Representatives committee probing the attack on the U.S. Capitol has a right to see emails written to Trump by one of his then-lawyers, John Eastman.
Carter said that Republican Trump's alleged plan to overturn his November 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden amounted to a "coup."
"The Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," Carter said in a written decision, adding: "The illegality of the plan was obvious."
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Obstruction is a crime.
We can't let it happen again.
Even a Democratic President could do the same thing.
In the modern world, I still feel that the people will come to their senses.
No shit. A one sided one.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-likely-committed-felony-by-obstructing-congress-us-judge-rules-2022-03-28/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1534763208564690944
Biden was supposed to come out and rescue his presidency by telling the people all the great things he's accomplished.
But he can't think of any great things he's accomplished, and his stupid, demented brain trails off into Alzheimer's fog until Jimmy Kimmel bails him out by cutting to commercial.
h/t: AoS
Rodger you realize got to have a fair hearing both sides get the same amount of time. I doubt you know this and you're not seeking the truth or a fair hearing you need what Alan dershowitz calls a show trial
It's a hearing, not a trial.
It's a commission.... generally those are populated with members from both Parties and with members who might have opposing views.
Pelosi wouldn't allow the GOP to pick who they wanted on the commission, so they instead have two soon to be "former" Republican members as the only representation from the GOP. One has already dropped out and is not running for reelection and Cheney is done unless she wants to move out of Wyoming and run as a Democrat somewhere.
Pelosi chose to "censor" opinions that she did not want heard and instead turned it into a partisan hatefest!
But that is what you like, right Roger?
Hate and partisanship?
Good for your soul to hate?
Too little too late.
Jimmy was softball underhanded slow pitching, pre approved questions.
The result was as RRB writes it.
"But he can't think of any great things he's accomplished, and his stupid, demented brain trails off into Alzheimer's fog until Jimmy Kimmel bails him out by cutting to commercial.
Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents and candidates disputing election outcomes and seeking to change them – along with ensuing public distrust, paranoia and divisiveness.
So Roger...
We just talked about this.
You said the other day that Trump was not liable because he did not give explicit specific orders....
and I told you it would be just a day or two till you were back to saying Trump should be prosecuted?
Are you so senile that you do not recall this?
Or are you just too easy to fool!
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overturn his election defeat on Jan. 6, 2021.
Fine.
Indict him then. TODAY. Right fucking NOW.
A judge didn't "rule."
A judge "mused" their TDS-fueled wet dream.
There has never been a more partisan AG/DOJ than right fucking NOW, so if there were crimes committed indictments would be issued. PERIOD.
Once again you are full of shit, alky.
Initial jobless claims June 4 229,000
Huge spike.
Scott you probably didn't read it.
But a judge released evidence of criminal actions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-likely-committed-felony-by-obstructing-congress-us-judge-rules-2022-03-28/
Obstruction of Congress process is a felony.
It has a direct link
Bidenomics loved 😍 by Alky.
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Real household net worth Q1. -7.9%"
This probably provide evidence of criminal actions by Trump.
Garland has said he will follow the law.
Obstruction of Congress process is a felony.
It has a direct link
Yet our asshole hack AG has yet to issue a single indictment.
So... Trump is not going to be charged just like all the DUI charges were dropped against Alky Peloshee.
Right alky?
Garland charges Hunter Biden with Federal Firearms violation.
When ??
The attempted Murder of Justice Kavanaugh and his Family 👪 has been quckly broomed.
Sorry Roger...
I have seen and read "all" the arguments and have actually read and researched the laws themself. If you charged a President with "obstruction of congress" every time a President attempted to get around what congress did or didn't vote for.
Every President we have ever had would be in jail.
There is nothing new to what that Judge stated (quite a while ago) and that argument has been ripped to shreds by many legal experts, including Turley and McCarthy.
The problem here Roger...
Is that this is "emotional" and not "logical". Any action like this requires a bad faith criminal action. You cannot take a set of completely legitimate constitutional actions and decide that when you put them together they are a crime because you don't like what those actions are attempting to accomplish.
There is nothing illegal about alternate electors... they literally have existed for decades and we have had them in multiple elections. There is nothing illegal about asking Pence to delay the electoral college count and it is still an unanswered constitutional question as to whether or not Pense had that authority.
There is no "crime" other than in the minds of people who hate Trump so bad that they would have someone somewhere keep investigating something till the end of time. This is just another example of a long list of hateful people abusing their power for partisan hateful reasons.
They will reveal that he did nothing to stop the insurrection for eight hours..
The committee has identified an almost eight-hour gap in the official White House record of Trump’s phone calls, from a little after 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m. — a time when Trump is known to have spoken with several GOP members of the House and Senate, including Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Tuberville and McCarthy.
White House staff repeatedly asked his daughter, Ivanka Trump’s assistance, the committee has said.
“Is someone getting to potus? He has to tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed,” Griffin texted Ben Williamson, an aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
“I’ve been trying for the last 30 minutes. Literally stormed in outer oval to get him to put out the first one. It’s completely insane,” Williamson wrote back.
The White House was already a ghost town amid staff departures. Nonessential staff had been told they could work from home due to the potential security threat.
Finally, at 4:17 p.m., 187 minutes after the insurrection began, Trump released a video, recorded in the Rose Garden, in which he praised the rioters as “very special,” but asked them to disperse..
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That will get some more people to understand how irresponsible and dangerous he is.
As to your question about changing him.
Will Justice Department probe ever reach Trump?
Federal investigators have feverishly rounded up more than 800 alleged rioters, making arrests in almost every state. But the question remains (especially among Democrats): Will the Justice Department go after Trump?
There are some signs that prosecutors are moving up the food chain. FBI agents interviewed Republicans in Michigan and Georgia who were involved in the "fake electors" plot, which puts the probe one step closer to Trump's orbit. The Justice Department is asking witnesses about the role of Eastman and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to The New York Times.
Federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued to at least one figure who planned pro-Trump rallies in Washington, DC, on January 6. The organizer, Ali Alexander, says he is complying. Investigators' interest in Alexander show that they aren't only looking at the rioters themselves.
Separately, the Justice Department has charged former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro with contempt of Congress for defying committee subpoenas. (They maintain their innocence.) Prosecutors declined to charge Meadows and another top Trump White House aide, Dan Scavino, who claimed that executive privilege protected them from having to testify.
It's unclear how far the Justice Department will go to investigate Trump. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he is "committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law," but many legal analysts have expressed skepticism that he'll go after Trump, based on the slowness of the probe and the challenges of charging a former President.
Jan. 6 Committee Finds Trump Was ‘At the Center’ of ‘Coordinated, Multi-Step Effort’ to Overturn 2020 Election Results
https://lawandcrime.com/jan-6-committee/do-not-publish-jan-6-committee-finds-trump-was-at-the-center-of-coordinated-multi-step-effort-to-overturn-2020-election-results
Real lawyers
They will reveal that he did nothing to stop the insurrection for eight hours..
And?
Stopping a riot is not the responsibility of the President and he both issued statements and tweets calling for the people to stand down.
Is that the best they have Roger?
Seriously?
What did Pelosi do to for 8 hours to stop the riot?
After all... she is in charge of the security of the Capital building!
Not the President.
Interesting isn't it...
The person "actually" responsible for securing the capital building is the one holding hearings blaming everyone else for her failure.
Boom. This debate is over.
Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
Garland has said he will follow the law.
Does this mean he has started arresting the illegal "protestors" at the justices homes ?
That is against the law.
or does he only "follow" what his politics are ?
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
They will reveal that he did nothing to stop the insurrection for eight hours..
LMAO. If this is what you guys are hanging your hat on, you're fucked alky.
Until the hearings today unless something happens 🤔 not much of say
The Unselect Committee didn’t spend one minute studying the reason that people went to Washington, D.C., in massive numbers, far greater than the Fake News Media is willing to report, or that the Unselects are willing to even mention, because January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again. It was about an Election that was Rigged and Stolen, and a Country that was about to go to HELL..& look at our Country now!
The Unselect Committee of political Thugs, essentially the same group who brought you the now fully debunked and discredited RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX (and many others!), refused to study and report on the massive amount of irrefutable evidence, much of it recently produced, that shows the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen. They want NOTHING to do with that topic because they cannot win on the facts. CANCEL & DENY, call it 'THE BIG LIE,' is all they can do. Corrupt Politicians!
USSC Justice Kavanaugh and his family were going to be exicuted by a Radical Biden Voter.
He had duct tape and zip ties.
BIDENOMICS HAS DESTROYED Wealth .
DOWN OVER 7 %.
By many measures, the attack was set in motion shortly after Election Day, when Trump falsely claimed the voting was rigged and refused to concede once Biden was declared the winner.
The hearings are expected to introduce Americans to a cast of characters, some well known, others elusive, and to what they said and did as Trump and his allies tried to reverse the election outcome.
The public will learn about the actions of Mark Meadows, the president’s chief of staff, whose 2,000-plus text messages provided the committee with a snapshot of the real-time scramble to keep Trump in office. Of John Eastman, the conservative law professor who was the architect of the unsuccessful scheme to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification on Jan. 6. Of the Justice Department officials who threatened to resign rather than go along with Trump’s proposals.
The Justice Department has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.
The Justice Department has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.
Dragnet.
For "Obstruction of Congress" & "Parading."
LMAO.
Well Roger...
You keep lying. If you have to flat out "lie" to make your point, then there isn't much of a point.
You and your "big lie" liars are now in a minority. We have more and more proof of fraud in several states... in fact more states that Trump would have needed to win the Electoral College.
Now none of it means he would have won without the fraud, but we will never really know because "some people" don't want to accept it or talk about it.
But a majority of Americans now believe that fraud played a part.
You can choose to just "call them names" and lie about fraud being "debunked" when it has been more than proven...
You know... if name-calling and lying is the best argument you can make!
Alky is always so spectacularly wrong.
"consumer spending robust"
My how he is so void of knowledge.
"Consumer spending contracted 26.7 per cent year-on-year in May,2022"
"Consumer spending contracted 26.7 per cent year-on-year in May,2022"
Spending contracted but the spending that is happening for essentials is happening on credit. This will not end well.
Credit card debt increased by $17.8 billion in April, the second highest amount ever.
The highest was March, when it increased by $25.6 billion.
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1534898358325682176
But, But, But. RRB the board Economist (* Alky) assures us Bidenomics is the bestest Eva'.
Did anyone see that painful Biden interview on Kimmel last night?
Someone needs to put this guy out to pasture.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1534763208564690944
Biden was supposed to come out and rescue his presidency by telling the people all the great things he's accomplished.
But he can't think of any great things he's accomplished, and his stupid, demented brain trails off into Alzheimer's fog until Jimmy Kimmel bails him out by cutting to commercial.
h/t: AoS
Does anyone care about Lil SChitty's painfully stupid comment about the Kimmel interview?????? Someone needs to give him a working brain!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Why Lil Schitty and his party of imbeciles will soon be in the scupper of complete failure with so many falling for the bullshit being promoted by the lying GOP!!!!!!
Jason Lange
Thu, June 9, 2022, 1:17 PM
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. Republicans believe the false claim that left-wing protesters led the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot to try to make then-President Donald Trump look bad, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
The two-day poll, completed on Wednesday, underscored the deep partisan lens through which many Americans view the assault ahead of high-profile televised hearings in Congress beginning on Thursday.
At the hearing, Democratic-led investigators will spotlight testimony by the Republican former president's top aides and family members in an effort to persuade Americans that the riot was an orchestrated attack on democracy.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey found that many Americans who identify as Republicans hold views at odds with the facts uncovered by the bipartisan congressional investigation and a criminal probe.
Biden On Jimmy Kimmel Is An Absolute Mess…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/482827-biden-on-jimmy-kimmel-is-an-absolute-mess/
https://www.weaselzippers
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Fucking Hilarious asshole!!!!!!
Denny...
Did you watch the Kimmel clips?
I don't think it matters which outlet you view the clips from... they are all the same. An old idiot who can barely stammer through a comfort interview with a comedian. I actually felt sorry for him at times...
I mean he literally started saying that they were having problems communicating and then lost his train of thought and looked to Kimmel to bail him out on what he was trying to say. Kimmel joked at the idea that he was having trouble communicating that he was having trouble communication, but it got a bit lost in the embarrassment and nobody laughs.
Denny...
Did you watch the Kimmel clips?
Lil Schitty.......Did you or are you just paraphrasing second hand opinion?????BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! BTW Fuck off!!!!!!!! You are the one who has trouble communicating and providing empirical evidence the election was stolen and that there were not more than a couple hundred storming the capital!!!!!!!!!
Obviously you did not watch the clips Denny...
I suggest you do, then try to defend the President and tell us he didn't look like a babbling old fool who had to be cut off by a second tier late night comedian like he was a supporting actor from an obscure streaming series.
You know... do your own research before you attack others who actually watched it.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Obviously you did not watch the clips Denny...
Of course he didn’t, he only comes here to bleat and attack ad hominem, he’s like the other octogenarians here, incapable of independent thought.
Just spew shit.
It’s why no one, no one reacts to him anymore
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Obviously you did not watch the clips Denny...
I suggest you do, then try to defend the President and tell us he didn't look like a babbling old fool who had to be cut
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! Sorry sports, you fucking lose again!!!!!!! You want babbling idiot....look in the fucking mirror as you are the fool!!!! Your buddy shorty is one card short of a full deck to boot and is famous for jumping on the band wagon of your stupidity!!!!!!!
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