'Gripping television': Jan. 6 committee expected to air video of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner testimony
The House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to air video of former White House aides Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner answering investigators' questions about the attempted coup.
"On Thursday night, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) will launch a series of televised hearings featuring a combination of live witnesses, pretaped interviews with figures that include Trump family members and previously unseen video footage," The Washington Post reported Saturday. "The hearings mark the culmination of an inquiry that has involved more than 1,000 interviews and reviews of more than 125,000 records."
The Thursday hearing will air 519 days after Jan. 6 and 157 days before the 2022 midterm elections.
"To tell that story, the committee will draw on testimony from administration insiders, including a previously obscure aide who has given the committee a detailed reconstruction of meetings and movements in the West Wing. The committee also has video recordings of interviews with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, that some inside the process believe will make for gripping television,
They must let the American people into their deliberations, share with them key facts and exhibits, grill witnesses in front of them, and through it all begin to build a compelling narrative of how ferociously Trump attempted to subvert the 2020 election – and how close he came to succeeding to overturn the Presidential election results and giving himself a second term, despite losing both the popularity majority and electoral college certification.
This website will provide false claims, and declare it a hoax.
President Biden visits a remote Native American reservation. With news and camera crews following him around as they tour the place, the President asks the Indian chief if there is anything they need.
"Well," says the chief, "We have three very important needs. First, we have a medical clinic, but no doctor to run it.”
Biden whips out his cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your well-trained doctor will arrive in five days.” "Now what was the second problem?”
"We have no way to get clean water. The local mining operation has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for hundreds of years. We've been flying bottled water in, but it's terribly expensive.”
Once again, Biden dials a number, yells into the phone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "The mine has been shut down permanently per my orders, and the owner is being billed for setting up a water purification plant for your people.”
"Now what was that third problem?" asks Biden. The chief stares at him and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"
Donald Trump not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history.
Trump’s diabolical instincts exploited a weakness in the law. In a highly unusual and specific manner, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 says that at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6 following a presidential election, the House and Senate will meet in a joint session. The president of the Senate, in this case Vice President Mike Pence, will preside. The electoral votes from the 50 states and the District of Columbia will then be opened and counted.
This singular moment in American democracy is the only official declaration and certification of who won the presidential election.
In a deception that exceeded even Nixon’s imagination, Trump and a group of lawyers, loyalists and White House aides devised a strategy to bombard the country with false assertions that the 2020 election was rigged and that Trump had really won. They zeroed in on the Jan. 6 session as the opportunity to overturn the election’s result. Leading up to that crucial date, Trump’s lawyers circulated memos with manufactured claims of voter fraud that had counted the dead, underage citizens, prisoners and out-of-state residents.
We watched in utter dismay as Trump persistently claimed that he was really the winner. “We won,” he said in a speech on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse. “We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.” He publicly and relentlessly pressured Pence to make him the victor on Jan. 6.
On that day, driven by Trump’s rhetoric and his obvious approval, a mob descended on the Capitol and, in a stunning act of collective violence, broke through doors and windows and ransacked the House chamber, where the electoral votes were to be counted. The mob then went in search of Pence — all to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Trump did nothing to restrain them.
By legal definition this is clearly sedition — conduct, speech or organizing that incites people to rebel against the governing authority of the state. Thus, Trump became the first seditious president in our history.
President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,” he warned.
Two of his successors — Richard Nixon and Donald Trump — demonstrate the shocking genius of our first president’s foresight.
As reporters, we had studied Nixon and written about him for nearly half a century, during which we believed with great conviction that never again would America have a president who would trample the national interest and undermine democracy through the audacious pursuit of personal and political self-interest.
Donald Trump not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history.
LOL.
If only that were true, psychiatric hospital inmate.
Trump broke no laws and any inquiry into the election result was entirely legal.
You clowns simply fear him so much you're desperate to find a way to disqualify him from running again.
The actions of cowards.
How was your day around here yesterday alky?
Me? I went to that wedding I told you about a few weeks ago. Amazing service and celebration. And the band? Outstanding. Amazing talent. Mostly black, or as you call them - NEGROES. Except for the sax and trumpet player. Some of the most genuinely nice people I've ever met. Oh, and without giving TMI, there were several folks there with close personal ties to the Bad Orange Man.
IOW's a great time had by all, and in sharp contrast to another lonely day of being locked down in a psychiatric facility where you can "come and go and you please" except you can't, because you don't possess the coveted "door code to freedom."
Keep pushing that J6 myth alky as the impending doom of the mid-terms edges closer and closer. I suppose that does serve as a balm for that perpetual gaping wound of yours that the rest of us sane people refer to as chronic TDS.
Woodward visited Trump on Dec. 30, 2019, at Mar-a-Lago to interview the president. The Democratic-controlled House had voted to impeach him for withholding military aid to Ukraine at the same time he was asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens. After an hour of Trump defending his request to Zelensky, Trump’s media director, Dan Scavino, joined the interview. Trump asked that Scavino open his laptop and show a clip of the president’s 2019 State of the Union speech. Instead of Trump’s words, hyped-up elevator music played as the camera panned for extended shots of members of Congress watching and listening to the president. The first shot was of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who looked bored. Trump was watching over Woodward’s shoulder and was agitated. “They hate me,” the president said. “You’re seeing hate!” The camera stopped on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts liberal. She was listening and had a bland, unemotional look on her face. “Hate!” Trump said. A shot of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was next. She had no expression on her face. “Hate! See the hate!” Trump said. The camera lingered a long time on Sen. Kamala Harris. She would be chosen as Biden’s running mate the next year. She had a bland, polite look on her face. “Hate!” Trump said loudly within inches of Woodward’s neck. “See the hate! See the hate!” It was a remarkable moment. A psychiatrist might say it was a projection of his own hatred of Democrats. But it was so intense that it did not resemble the subdued reaction of the Democrats. His insistence that it was “Hate!” was unsupported by the images on Scavino’s computer. Many Democrats, of course, did hate him. They were vocal and angry opponents of his presidency. But this Trump spectacle was unforgettable and bizarre.
More than a year after Joe Biden’s inauguration, polling shows that only 21 percent of Republicans say they believe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States.
Their reasoning shows how the Trump rhetoric and playbook have convinced them. Between 74 and 83 percent of the Republicans who denied Biden’s victory were swayed by Trump’s false claims of massive voter fraud.
Trump’s claims have always been presented with unwavering, emotional consistency, revealing little or no self-doubt. As the 2024 election approaches, Trump seems on the verge of once again seeking the presidency.
Both Nixon and Trump have been willing prisoners of their compulsions to dominate, and to gain and hold political power through virtually any means. In leaning so heavily on these dark impulses, they defined two of the most dangerous and troubling eras in American history.
As Washington warned in his Farewell Address more than 225 years ago, unprincipled leaders could create “permanent despotism,” “the ruins of public liberty,” and “riot and insurrection.”
Mark Meadows burned his notes to cover us the fact that he and the former President were directly involved in the insurrection.
Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson plays a similar role in the upcoming Jan. 6 hearings as White House counsel John Dean in the Watergate hearings.
"Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, has sat for multiple depositions with investigators — more than 20 hours — and is expected to play a starring role in the hearings, according to people familiar with the matter. Hutchinson, people familiar with the committee said, has provided extensive information about Meadows’s activities in trying to overturn the election,"
It could be like the Nixon tapes, if she has direct knowledge, it might get enough Republicans who have remained loyal to Trump to recognize that Biden was the duty elected President of the United States of America πΊπΈ Only 31% of Republicans believe that he was elected President.
Many other top Republicans have invoked their fifth amendment right to silence in answer to every question they were posed. Those resisting testifying include five members of Congress, McCarthy among them.
That’s a sign of how far the canker of political discord has spread within Congress, and how far the Republican party has shifted in a fundamentally anti-democratic fascist direction.
The lefts nonstop pushing the absurd Trans culture is showing up as a war on women. Democrats are losing suburban women once again. Along with minorities.
Senile people forget that they already told you that story.... and continue to repeat it over and over and over and over....
It's just a mental illness. We should feel sorry for him. Maybe even placate him and humor him...
Like this...
Yes Roger...
I was unaware of this Jan 6th commission, but now that you have informed me I plan to take vacation days next week in order to watch every minute of the coverage.
Thank you Roger for making us all aware of this. We were completely out of touch! This is the most important thing that has ever happened to this country and I am pretty sure we should all vote Democrat even though they are completely ruining the country!
With the obvious joy and approval of the Federalist Society's Christofascists in SCOTUS, the GQP have admitted they will at the state and federal level ban abortion, ban sex between consenting adults, restrict marriage, destroy tuition-free public education, further restrict voting rights, criminalize being born non-cis normative, etc.
These asshats want Gilead. We can tell them no - thru letters, on the streets, and in the voting booth.
"The Court cannot both be the willful instigator of radical changes in the law based simply on disagreement with the views of prior justices, and remain the faithful steward of a legal system that commands widespread trust and respect...
The plurality opinion of three Republican-appointed justices in Casey reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion as a form of liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s language, which says that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” Sudden major changes in basic rights or rules that result directly from a change in judicial personnel are a problem regardless of the theory invoked to justify them...
First, the right embodied in Roe and Casey rests on certain ideas about personal privacy that support a collection of other Supreme Court decisions concerning intimate personal and sexual activity, and protecting activities such as contraception use, gay sexual conduct, and interracial and gay marriage. Much of what is said in the leaked opinion demonstrates forcefully the majority’s disagreement with the legal foundation of these rights, and, as the solicitor general argued to the Court, overruling Roe and Casey would seem to “threaten the Court’s precedents holding that the Due Process Clause protects other rights.”
Second, even more consequentially, as has been apparent at least since some quite radical decisions were handed down last term, the five justices listed as joining Alito’s opinion are likely to spearhead changes going far beyond the elimination of these particular rights. Just recently, following in the path of recent decisions invalidating electoral spending limitations on First Amendment grounds, the same majority struck down an act of Congress limiting to $250,000 the amount that candidates can be repaid when they loan money to their own campaign. In the Court’s view, the corrupt appearance of very substantial post-campaign contributions going directly into the elected official’s pocket to repay a loan was insufficient to justify the limitation enacted by Congress...
And pending on the docket, with a decision expected this month, is a case in which the five joiners of the leaked opinion are expected to lighten the regulatory burden on electric power plants by reading narrowly the statutory powers of the EPA, thus dramatically reducing its ability to protect the nation’s clean air and take action to stave off climate change.
This term’s cases using personal rights to hamstring governmental action build on a number of cases from the previous term, in which the same majority acted in the same way. Among those cases were opinions second-guessing the preeminent powers of state and local government over health and safety policies in order to invalidate rules governing the size of assemblies deemed to offend the free-exercise right to assemble in church.
These were the latest and most extreme instances of the conservative justices’ recognition of an extraordinarily broad right of free exercise, which has been applied directly and through the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, including one case last term that limited governments’ ability to impose generally applicable requirements of many types. On top of this, the justices also sharply narrowed the key remaining enforcement provision of the Voting Rights Act."
You "already" forgot what was brought out in the Sussman trial...
How can you explain that? It happened like last week?
You also forgot that you brought up Jan 6th commission like 100 times.
Has your memory always been that hazy? Is that the reason why you scored so low on your SAT and struggled in school? Bad memory? Really really bad memory?
Too many people like you have fallen for the big lie πͺ
The "big lie" and "election deniers" are examples of childish rhetorical hyperbole designed to shut off dissent and squelch debate...
No offense Roger...
But when one side is arguing facts, citing examples, criminal prosecutions, statistical evidence, and confessions...
While the other is calling people names....
I am glad I am on the side of the real arguments..
and not surprised you are on the side of childish name calling!
Funny thing, Roger...
It doesn't work. Intelligent well informed people are not taken in by rhetoric and name calling. Only uninformed people with a lack of intellectual ability fall for such things.
Thursday prime time is going to be tough on people who have a conscious.
The committee has collected 125,000 documents, pursued almost 500 leads through its confidential tip line. It has examined text messages between Trump’s closest advisers and family members discussing how to keep the defeated president in power; reviewed memos from conservative lawyers laying out a roadmap to an electoral coup; and listened to recorded conversations in which top Republicans revealed their true feelings about Trump’s actions “inciting people” to attack the heart of US democracy.
Seventy percent of Americans think enacting new gun control laws should take precedence over protecting ownership rights, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday.
Why it matters: The findings indicate widespread support for stricter gun control laws in the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The big picture: On the flip side, 29% of respondents believe protecting the right to own a wide variety of guns should be a higher priority than enacting new gun control laws, the poll suggests .
The gap between the two positions has widened by 9 points since March 2021, when the same poll found that 66% of people favored new gun control laws, while 34% preferred protecting gun ownership rights.
The results were split along partisan lines, with 90% of Democrats and 75% of independents surveyed prioritizing new gun laws. Fifty-six percent of Republicans in the poll said protecting gun ownership rights takes priority.
Thirty-five percent of respondents approved of President Biden's handling of gun violence, an increase from when the question was asked in January and December.
Any individual murder in the United States right now is unlikely to make much of an impression—not when elderly Black people at a grocery store or young children at school are being gunned down in large groups. But the Friday murder of a retired judge in Wisconsin is ominous enough to give some pause.
Although little is known so far, authorities say they believe that the killing was politically motivated. The victim, Jack Roemer, 68, had served on the local circuit court. Police said he was found tied to a chair and shot at his home. (The alleged assassin was found with a self-inflicted wound and hospitalized.) What relationship, if any, the two men had is not clear—“It appears to be related to the judicial system,” Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a news conference—but the suspect also had a list of other potential targets, which news outlets have reported to include Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat; Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, also a Democrat; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican.
Given McConnell’s presence, that list doesn’t lend itself to straightforward ideological interpretation. More information might shed some light on what agenda, if any, the shooter had that linked all of the targets, or if there were others. Regardless, the incident is chilling for what it might augur. Assassination remains rare in the United States, but in the past it has spiked at times of acute national tension, including following the Civil War, around the turn of the 20th century, and in the ’60s. In a country as divided and angry as the United States is today, it’s surprising that more assassinations haven’t occurred. Perhaps this one is a sign of what’s to come.???
The House's Jan. 6 committee has split behind the scenes over what actions to take after the public hearings: Some members want big changes on voting rights — and even to abolish the Electoral College — while others are resisting proposals to overhaul the U.S. election system, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Televised hearings begin Thursday night. Committee members are in lockstep about capturing Americans' attention by unfurling a mountain of evidence connecting former President Trump and those close to him with the attack on the Capitol.
But the committee's legacy depends in large part on what reforms it pursues after those hearings to prevent another Jan. 6 from happening — and that's where the united front breaks down.
The big picture: Disagreements arise whenever proposals are raised such as abolishing the Electoral College, vastly expanding voting rights like same-day registration or tightening the Insurrection Act to make it harder for a president to deploy the military domestically for use on civilians.
Behind the scenes: Nobody on the House select committee is more committed than Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to pursuing Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol. But she flatly opposes some of the more sweeping election law reforms backed by several committee Democrats.
The broadest differences are between Cheney and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), according to three sources familiar with the committee's private discussions. The two have a warm personal relationship but fundamentally disagree on what needs to be done to reform America's election laws
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'Gripping television': Jan. 6 committee expected to air video of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner testimony
The House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to air video of former White House aides Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner answering investigators' questions about the attempted coup.
"On Thursday night, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) will launch a series of televised hearings featuring a combination of live witnesses, pretaped interviews with figures that include Trump family members and previously unseen video footage," The Washington Post reported Saturday. "The hearings mark the culmination of an inquiry that has involved more than 1,000 interviews and reviews of more than 125,000 records."
The Thursday hearing will air 519 days after Jan. 6 and 157 days before the 2022 midterm elections.
"To tell that story, the committee will draw on testimony from administration insiders, including a previously obscure aide who has given the committee a detailed reconstruction of meetings and movements in the West Wing. The committee also has video recordings of interviews with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, that some inside the process believe will make for gripping television,
They must let the American people into their deliberations, share with them key facts and exhibits, grill witnesses in front of them, and through it all begin to build a compelling narrative of how ferociously Trump attempted to subvert the 2020 election – and how close he came to succeeding to overturn the Presidential election results and giving himself a second term, despite losing both the popularity majority and electoral college certification.
This website will provide false claims, and declare it a hoax.
President Biden visits a remote Native American reservation. With news and camera crews following him around as they tour the place, the President asks the Indian chief if there is anything they need.
"Well," says the chief, "We have three very important needs. First, we have a medical clinic, but no doctor to run it.”
Biden whips out his cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your well-trained doctor will arrive in five days.” "Now what was the second problem?”
"We have no way to get clean water. The local mining operation has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for hundreds of years. We've been flying bottled water in, but it's terribly expensive.”
Once again, Biden dials a number, yells into the phone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "The mine has been shut down permanently per my orders, and the owner is being billed for setting up a water purification plant for your people.”
"Now what was that third problem?" asks Biden.
The chief stares at him and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"
h/t: AoS
Donald Trump not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history.
Trump’s diabolical instincts exploited a weakness in the law. In a highly unusual and specific manner, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 says that at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6 following a presidential election, the House and Senate will meet in a joint session. The president of the Senate, in this case Vice President Mike Pence, will preside. The electoral votes from the 50 states and the District of Columbia will then be opened and counted.
This singular moment in American democracy is the only official declaration and certification of who won the presidential election.
In a deception that exceeded even Nixon’s imagination, Trump and a group of lawyers, loyalists and White House aides devised a strategy to bombard the country with false assertions that the 2020 election was rigged and that Trump had really won. They zeroed in on the Jan. 6 session as the opportunity to overturn the election’s result. Leading up to that crucial date, Trump’s lawyers circulated memos with manufactured claims of voter fraud that had counted the dead, underage citizens, prisoners and out-of-state residents.
We watched in utter dismay as Trump persistently claimed that he was really the winner. “We won,” he said in a speech on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse. “We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.” He publicly and relentlessly pressured Pence to make him the victor on Jan. 6.
On that day, driven by Trump’s rhetoric and his obvious approval, a mob descended on the Capitol and, in a stunning act of collective violence, broke through doors and windows and ransacked the House chamber, where the electoral votes were to be counted. The mob then went in search of Pence — all to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Trump did nothing to restrain them.
By legal definition this is clearly sedition — conduct, speech or organizing that incites people to rebel against the governing authority of the state. Thus, Trump became the first seditious president in our history.
Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump.
Perspective by Bob Woodward
and
Carl Bernstein
June 5, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. EDT
President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,” he warned.
Two of his successors — Richard Nixon and Donald Trump — demonstrate the shocking genius of our first president’s foresight.
As reporters, we had studied Nixon and written about him for nearly half a century, during which we believed with great conviction that never again would America have a president who would trample the national interest and undermine democracy through the audacious pursuit of personal and political self-interest.
And then along came Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/05/woodward-bernstein-nixon-trump/
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/05/31/tom-cotton-gop-conservatives-00035784
A rational Republican.
Democrats will watch the hearings, Republicans will not and indy voters won't care.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Donald Trump not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history.
LOL.
If only that were true, psychiatric hospital inmate.
Trump broke no laws and any inquiry into the election result was entirely legal.
You clowns simply fear him so much you're desperate to find a way to disqualify him from running again.
The actions of cowards.
How was your day around here yesterday alky?
Me? I went to that wedding I told you about a few weeks ago. Amazing service and celebration. And the band? Outstanding. Amazing talent. Mostly black, or as you call them - NEGROES. Except for the sax and trumpet player. Some of the most genuinely nice people I've ever met. Oh, and without giving TMI, there were several folks there with close personal ties to the Bad Orange Man.
IOW's a great time had by all, and in sharp contrast to another lonely day of being locked down in a psychiatric facility where you can "come and go and you please" except you can't, because you don't possess the coveted "door code to freedom."
Keep pushing that J6 myth alky as the impending doom of the mid-terms edges closer and closer. I suppose that does serve as a balm for that perpetual gaping wound of yours that the rest of us sane people refer to as chronic TDS.
Pictures from a different era. What changed?
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2022/06/pictures-from-different-era.html#more
It looks like it's time for "common sense knife control" legislation -
Witness describes 'bloodbath' at Encino hospital, says bystanders shut stabbing suspect in storage room
https://www.yahoo.com/news/witness-describes-bloodbath-encino-hospital-203838059.html
We need to sue the manufacturer of that knife into bankruptcy.
Woodward visited Trump on Dec. 30, 2019, at Mar-a-Lago to interview the president. The Democratic-controlled House had voted to impeach him for withholding military aid to Ukraine at the same time he was asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.
After an hour of Trump defending his request to Zelensky, Trump’s media director, Dan Scavino, joined the interview. Trump asked that Scavino open his laptop and show a clip of the president’s 2019 State of the Union speech. Instead of Trump’s words, hyped-up elevator music played as the camera panned for extended shots of members of Congress watching and listening to the president.
The first shot was of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who looked bored.
Trump was watching over Woodward’s shoulder and was agitated.
“They hate me,” the president said. “You’re seeing hate!”
The camera stopped on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts liberal. She was listening and had a bland, unemotional look on her face.
“Hate!” Trump said.
A shot of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was next. She had no expression on her face.
“Hate! See the hate!” Trump said.
The camera lingered a long time on Sen. Kamala Harris. She would be chosen as Biden’s running mate the next year. She had a bland, polite look on her face.
“Hate!” Trump said loudly within inches of Woodward’s neck. “See the hate! See the hate!”
It was a remarkable moment. A psychiatrist might say it was a projection of his own hatred of Democrats. But it was so intense that it did not resemble the subdued reaction of the Democrats. His insistence that it was “Hate!” was unsupported by the images on Scavino’s computer. Many Democrats, of course, did hate him. They were vocal and angry opponents of his presidency. But this Trump spectacle was unforgettable and bizarre.
More than a year after Joe Biden’s inauguration, polling shows that only 21 percent of Republicans say they believe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States.
Their reasoning shows how the Trump rhetoric and playbook have convinced them. Between 74 and 83 percent of the Republicans who denied Biden’s victory were swayed by Trump’s false claims of massive voter fraud.
Trump’s claims have always been presented with unwavering, emotional consistency, revealing little or no self-doubt. As the 2024 election approaches, Trump seems on the verge of once again seeking the presidency.
Both Nixon and Trump have been willing prisoners of their compulsions to dominate, and to gain and hold political power through virtually any means. In leaning so heavily on these dark impulses, they defined two of the most dangerous and troubling eras in American history.
As Washington warned in his Farewell Address more than 225 years ago, unprincipled leaders could create “permanent despotism,” “the ruins of public liberty,” and “riot and insurrection.”
George Washington warned us 225 years ago.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/05/woodward-bernstein-nixon-trump/
Wow, Roger is becoming more boring.
Where is your new Wife Alky?
So much for all that money to Ukraine
KALIBR CRUISE MISSILES HAVE DESTROYED BESKYDY RAIL TUNNEL - MAJOR NATO WEAPONS ROUTE!!
Mark Meadows burned his notes to cover us the fact that he and the former President were directly involved in the insurrection.
Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson plays a similar role in the upcoming Jan. 6 hearings as White House counsel John Dean in the Watergate hearings.
"Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, has sat for multiple depositions with investigators — more than 20 hours — and is expected to play a starring role in the hearings, according to people familiar with the matter. Hutchinson, people familiar with the committee said, has provided extensive information about Meadows’s activities in trying to overturn the election,"
It could be like the Nixon tapes, if she has direct knowledge, it might get enough Republicans who have remained loyal to Trump to recognize that Biden was the duty elected President of the United States of America πΊπΈ Only 31% of Republicans believe that he was elected President.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/04/jan-6-committee-set-make-its-case-public-with-prime-time-hearing/
Ok, so Roger is stuck in a loop.
Trump, πΊπ¦ Ukraine, Trump.
"Isolated thunderstorms today. A few storms may be severe tonight."
We have received so much beneficial rain over this late winter and spring .
Everything is lush and green.
Spring calves which we always time around my Wife's birthday are making great gains .
Notice the FBI and Local COPS are at the School Board Members.
So guns work their to protect power.
Many other top Republicans have invoked their fifth amendment right to silence in answer to every question they were posed. Those resisting testifying include five members of Congress, McCarthy among them.
That’s a sign of how far the canker of political discord has spread within Congress, and how far the Republican party has shifted in a fundamentally anti-democratic fascist direction.
The lefts nonstop pushing the absurd Trans culture is showing up as a war on women. Democrats are losing suburban women once again. Along with minorities.
We have received so much beneficial rain over this late winter and spring .
SO FUCKING WHAT!!!! IM SURE THE REAL FARMERS IN CA ARE APPLAUDING !!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Not 5th amendment. They're saying it's all illegitimate thus non-binding.
Roger is senile...
Senile people forget that they already told you that story.... and continue to repeat it over and over and over and over....
It's just a mental illness. We should feel sorry for him. Maybe even placate him and humor him...
Like this...
Yes Roger...
I was unaware of this Jan 6th commission, but now that you have informed me I plan to take vacation days next week in order to watch every minute of the coverage.
Thank you Roger for making us all aware of this. We were completely out of touch! This is the most important thing that has ever happened to this country and I am pretty sure we should all vote Democrat even though they are completely ruining the country!
C.H. Truth said...
Roger is senile...
Senile people forget that they already told you that story.... and continue to repeat it over and over and over and over....
It's just a mental illness. We should feel sorry for him. Maybe even placate him and humor him..
Obviously roger feels he is the senile demented spokesperson for a demented president.
and needs to be on that job 24/7
Since he still has the ability to copy/paste he prefers to do that instead of his often mocked word salad
his bunky is probably even mocking him now
but roger forges on
from hoax to hoax
did you know he is a genius ?
With the obvious joy and approval of the Federalist Society's Christofascists in SCOTUS, the GQP have admitted they will at the state and federal level ban abortion, ban sex between consenting adults, restrict marriage, destroy tuition-free public education, further restrict voting rights, criminalize being born non-cis normative, etc.
These asshats want Gilead. We can tell them no - thru letters, on the streets, and in the voting booth.
"The Court cannot both be the willful instigator of radical changes in the law based simply on disagreement with the views of prior justices, and remain the faithful steward of a legal system that commands widespread trust and respect...
The plurality opinion of three Republican-appointed justices in Casey reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion as a form of liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s language, which says that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” Sudden major changes in basic rights or rules that result directly from a change in judicial personnel are a problem regardless of the theory invoked to justify them...
First, the right embodied in Roe and Casey rests on certain ideas about personal privacy that support a collection of other Supreme Court decisions concerning intimate personal and sexual activity, and protecting activities such as contraception use, gay sexual conduct, and interracial and gay marriage. Much of what is said in the leaked opinion demonstrates forcefully the majority’s disagreement with the legal foundation of these rights, and, as the solicitor general argued to the Court, overruling Roe and Casey would seem to “threaten the Court’s precedents holding that the Due Process Clause protects other rights.”
Second, even more consequentially, as has been apparent at least since some quite radical decisions were handed down last term, the five justices listed as joining Alito’s opinion are likely to spearhead changes going far beyond the elimination of these particular rights. Just recently, following in the path of recent decisions invalidating electoral spending limitations on First Amendment grounds, the same majority struck down an act of Congress limiting to $250,000 the amount that candidates can be repaid when they loan money to their own campaign. In the Court’s view, the corrupt appearance of very substantial post-campaign contributions going directly into the elected official’s pocket to repay a loan was insufficient to justify the limitation enacted by Congress...
And pending on the docket, with a decision expected this month, is a case in which the five joiners of the leaked opinion are expected to lighten the regulatory burden on electric power plants by reading narrowly the statutory powers of the EPA, thus dramatically reducing its ability to protect the nation’s clean air and take action to stave off climate change.
This term’s cases using personal rights to hamstring governmental action build on a number of cases from the previous term, in which the same majority acted in the same way. Among those cases were opinions second-guessing the preeminent powers of state and local government over health and safety policies in order to invalidate rules governing the size of assemblies deemed to offend the free-exercise right to assemble in church.
These were the latest and most extreme instances of the conservative justices’ recognition of an extraordinarily broad right of free exercise, which has been applied directly and through the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, including one case last term that limited governments’ ability to impose generally applicable requirements of many types. On top of this, the justices also sharply narrowed the key remaining enforcement provision of the Voting Rights Act."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/nih-covid-vaccine-research-studies/661182/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The bottom line is that the investigation into the January 6th insurrection is the most important thing in our history.
You really don't use how a person who is a lot smarter than you operates.
You really can't comprehend how I work...
If I was demented I would admit it and try to figure out how to fight it or something else..
One of the great things about taking the 12 steps is it opened my mind about a lot more things.
Unlike you I can multi task about multiple issues
Calling me senile is surrendering
I have enjoyed messing with your mind for decades.
During the hearings open up a thread for comments ✨️
Donald Trump is the most dangerous man in our history π³.
Too many people like you have fallen for the big lie πͺ
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You really can't comprehend how I work...
If I was demented I would admit it and try to figure out how to fight it or something else..
One of the great things about taking the 12 steps is it opened my mind about a lot more things.
demented people don't even realize it as they slide away from reality
and taking 12 steps covering your entire living space doesn't impress anyone
unless they are demented
so maybe your bunky applauds you
thanks for "explaining"
sure convinced me
Those who do, don't say
Those who say, don't do
-Chinese proverb
* so I guess roger posting here is his "fighting something else"
can't fight the dementia
Roger has won.
π
Roger...
You "already" forgot what was brought out in the Sussman trial...
How can you explain that? It happened like last week?
You also forgot that you brought up Jan 6th commission like 100 times.
Has your memory always been that hazy? Is that the reason why you scored so low on your SAT and struggled in school? Bad memory? Really really bad memory?
Too many people like you have fallen for the big lie πͺ
The "big lie" and "election deniers" are examples of childish rhetorical hyperbole designed to shut off dissent and squelch debate...
No offense Roger...
But when one side is arguing facts, citing examples, criminal prosecutions, statistical evidence, and confessions...
While the other is calling people names....
I am glad I am on the side of the real arguments..
and not surprised you are on the side of childish name calling!
Funny thing, Roger...
It doesn't work. Intelligent well informed people are not taken in by rhetoric and name calling. Only uninformed people with a lack of intellectual ability fall for such things.
"Roger...
You "already" forgot..."
Roger forgot he has a fiance.
Waaaa!
Read it free. https://wapo.st/3O086VX
Facebook admits the truth: ‘Fact checks’ are really just opinion.
Ending the debate in court, nice.
Facebook lost.
where is your π fiancΓ©e, Roger?
You really don't use how a person who is a lot smarter than you operates.
Wow
The intellectual capacity to spit word salads by the multitudes
red-flag laws and background checks might get the 60 votes in the Senate
Cali, Roger can "mulitask".
He can tell us about getting married and make her disappear.
Sun light is beneficial Alky.
Go outside.
He can’t unless someone checks him out.
Lol, yep, that ever elusive door code.
Before Joe got involved the outs were 34%.
Today "Baby formula shortage: Out-of-stock rate continues to worsen, jumping to 73.5%"
http://retsports.com/mlb/angels.php
Angels game free
Thursday prime time is going to be tough on people who have a conscious.
The committee has collected 125,000 documents, pursued almost 500 leads through its confidential tip line. It has examined text messages between Trump’s closest advisers and family members discussing how to keep the defeated president in power; reviewed memos from conservative lawyers laying out a roadmap to an electoral coup; and listened to recorded conversations in which top Republicans revealed their true feelings about Trump’s actions “inciting people” to attack the heart of US democracy.
A well organized coup and insurrection according to a real Republican π.
https://twitter.com/CBSSunday/status/1532784254148657155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1532784254148657155%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2022%2F06%2F05%2Fjan-6-hearings-liz-cheney-adam-schiff%2F
Seventy percent of Americans think enacting new gun control laws should take precedence over protecting ownership rights, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday.
Why it matters: The findings indicate widespread support for stricter gun control laws in the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The big picture: On the flip side, 29% of respondents believe protecting the right to own a wide variety of guns should be a higher priority than enacting new gun control laws, the poll suggests .
The gap between the two positions has widened by 9 points since March 2021, when the same poll found that 66% of people favored new gun control laws, while 34% preferred protecting gun ownership rights.
The results were split along partisan lines, with 90% of Democrats and 75% of independents surveyed prioritizing new gun laws. Fifty-six percent of Republicans in the poll said protecting gun ownership rights takes priority.
Thirty-five percent of respondents approved of President Biden's handling of gun violence, an increase from when the question was asked in January and December.
Still not good news π
David Graham..
Any individual murder in the United States right now is unlikely to make much of an impression—not when elderly Black people at a grocery store or young children at school are being gunned down in large groups. But the Friday murder of a retired judge in Wisconsin is ominous enough to give some pause.
Although little is known so far, authorities say they believe that the killing was politically motivated. The victim, Jack Roemer, 68, had served on the local circuit court. Police said he was found tied to a chair and shot at his home. (The alleged assassin was found with a self-inflicted wound and hospitalized.) What relationship, if any, the two men had is not clear—“It appears to be related to the judicial system,” Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a news conference—but the suspect also had a list of other potential targets, which news outlets have reported to include Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat; Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, also a Democrat; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican.
Given McConnell’s presence, that list doesn’t lend itself to straightforward ideological interpretation. More information might shed some light on what agenda, if any, the shooter had that linked all of the targets, or if there were others. Regardless, the incident is chilling for what it might augur. Assassination remains rare in the United States, but in the past it has spiked at times of acute national tension, including following the Civil War, around the turn of the 20th century, and in the ’60s. In a country as divided and angry as the United States is today, it’s surprising that more assassinations haven’t occurred. Perhaps this one is a sign of what’s to come.???
The House's Jan. 6 committee has split behind the scenes over what actions to take after the public hearings: Some members want big changes on voting rights — and even to abolish the Electoral College — while others are resisting proposals to overhaul the U.S. election system, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Televised hearings begin Thursday night. Committee members are in lockstep about capturing Americans' attention by unfurling a mountain of evidence connecting former President Trump and those close to him with the attack on the Capitol.
But the committee's legacy depends in large part on what reforms it pursues after those hearings to prevent another Jan. 6 from happening — and that's where the united front breaks down.
The big picture: Disagreements arise whenever proposals are raised such as abolishing the Electoral College, vastly expanding voting rights like same-day registration or tightening the Insurrection Act to make it harder for a president to deploy the military domestically for use on civilians.
Behind the scenes: Nobody on the House select committee is more committed than Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to pursuing Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol. But she flatly opposes some of the more sweeping election law reforms backed by several committee Democrats.
The broadest differences are between Cheney and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), according to three sources familiar with the committee's private discussions. The two have a warm personal relationship but fundamentally disagree on what needs to be done to reform America's election laws
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