The big revelation!! Ketchupgate!
I heard you can get 10 years in Federal Prison for wasting good ketchup!CHENEY: "How did the President react" to hearing AG Barr say the DOJ found no evidence of widespread voter fraud?
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 28, 2022
HUTCHINSON: “There was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.” pic.twitter.com/W5s0KzMZRG
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Witnesses tampering.
Jan. 6 panel raises concerns about possible Trumpworld witness tampering
Keep going post away Roger, surely you got Trump, this time.
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LII U.S. Code Title 18 PART I CHAPTER 73 § 1512
18 U.S. Code § 1512 - Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant
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(A)
prevent the attendance or testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(B)
prevent the production of a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(C)
prevent the communication by any person to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation, parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
(b)Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1)
influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2)cause or induce any person to—
(A)
withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B)
alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C)
evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D)
be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or
(3)
hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,,[1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection warned on Tuesday about efforts to pressure witnesses into providing false or untruthful testimony, pointing to possible examples of intimidation campaigns that raise "significant concern."
Why it matters: The warning came after a former top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows gave damning testimony tying former President Trump directly to the attack.
What they're saying: "The easy course is to hide from the spotlight and to deny what happened," Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the panel, said at the committee's sixth hearing before sharing: "we have evidence of one particular practice that raises significant concern."
"Our committee commonly asks witnesses connected to Mr. Trump's administration or campaign whether they've been contacted by any of their former colleagues or anyone else who attempted to influence or impact their testimony."
She then read aloud one example in which a witness described phone calls from people interested in their testimony.
"What they said to me is, as long as I continue to be a team player, they know I'm on the right team ... I'm protecting who I need to protect, you know, I'll continue to stay in good graces in Trump World. And they have reminded me a couple of times that Trump does read transcripts and just to keep that in mind as I proceeded through my depositions and interviews with the committee." In another example, someone called a witness and said an unnamed person "wants me to let you know that they are thinking about you. He knows you're loyal, and you're going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.""I think most Americans know that attempting to influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents very serious concerns," Cheney said. "We will be discussing these issues as a committee, carefully considering our next steps."
As usual you try to use irrelevant data on the topic.
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/28/jan6-panel-possible-witnesses-tampering
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cassidy-hutchinson-to-testify-in-jan-6-hearing-tuesday-11656423562?st=523aosnruskh5aa&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Even they don't act like you have lost your mind Scott.
Hutchinson portrayed a plot, in which Trump was directly involved, to stop the counting of electoral ballots on January 6. Meadows, Giuliani, Mike Flynn, and Roger Stone were also directly involved. Trump knew rioters were coming to Washington with weapons, and knew they had weapons on January 6. He knew they were threatening the life of Mike Pence. He knew they were dangerous. He wanted to be on Capitol Hill when they stormed the Capitol. He could have stopped them at any point, but he chose not to.
It was the most chilling depiction yet of a president in charge of an attempted coup. Trump knew exactly what was happening and what he was doing. He knew he was acting in violation of his oath of office and inciting violence in order to stay in office. He repeatedly refused to listen to reason, or to change course.
Keep going post away Roger, surely you got Trump, this time.
Thousands if US Flights Cancelled .
Madam Buttigeg has no amswers of why.
You know what is most interesting about 95% of this witness testimony today????
That she actually didn't witness any of it herself. I saw a tweet today from someone saying this was the biggest event since the Kennedy assassination or 911 and that for years people will be asked and remember "what were you doing during the Hutchinson testimony"...
I saw another saying something similar and arguing that what she says must be true because she was under oath, while Trump denials are irrelevant because he is not....
But how can see be lying or telling the truth...
When she wasn't there for 95% of what she testified to?
Certainly wasn't in the limo to witness the so called "assault" from the backseat through the divider! How can hearsay be either a lie or the truth?
Oh...
and before Roger gets too excited and fills up his depends...
I hope he realizes that this "bombshell" testimony would not even be allowed in a courtroom BECAUSE it is hearsay.
I wonder out loud why they didn't call the limo driver or anyone who was there instead of this witness?
Perhaps that will be for another "surprise" hearing in the near future? Or perhaps not....
The testimony today means that the Attorney General Merrick Garland should prosecute Trump.
What was the most important thing we learned today?
Today’s testimony added substantial, specific evidence showing new ways that Trump was at the very center of the plot to overturn our democracy, and executed it personally in so many respects, over the fervent objections and opposition of so many of his own people.
You still think dishes is the only reason that matters.
For example, the beginning of the evidence we heard today showed how there was real advanced planning of a major disruptive event on Jan. 6. Hutchinson talked about seeing Rudy Giuliani, on Jan. 2, and him saying to her that Jan. 6 was “going to be a great day” and that they’re going to the Capitol. Clearly the planning was going on a level that was known to leaders in the White House, including Giuliani and others. So that was one of the big pieces — that advanced awareness within the White House and a lot of people in the White House being worried.
Another high point was the substantial evidence Hutchinson offered showing the degree of knowledge on the morning of Jan. 6 that these demonstrators were armed. Tony Ornato mentioned the awareness that they had knives, guns, body armor, spears, and when she mentioned that to Meadows, he didn’t really look up. Then at the rally, when Trump was furious that the enclosure where people could come hear his speech wasn’t full. Trump said let’s get rid of the magnetometers because “they’re not here to hurt me.” He’s aware that they’ve got these weapons. And his reaction is, who cares?
A third incredible spectacle, illustrating the intensity of what Trump was trying to do and his utter lack of concern for any reasonable course of action, was the whole episode that she described of Trump trying to go to the Capitol. He kept pushing. They finally get into “the Beast,” and Trump thinks they can go up there. Secret Service agent Bobby Engel, who’s the head of the detail, says they can’t do it because of security issues. Hutchinson describes what she heard — that Trump grabbed the steering wheel, and Engel put his hand on Trump’s arm. Then Trump lunged toward Engel.
This is not hearsay
.The hearing closed with Cheney offering evidence of attempted tampering and interference with witnesses asked to appear before the committee.
“While our committee has seen many witness, including many Republicans, testify fully and forthrightly, this has not been true of every witness,” Cheney said, adding that the committee has “received evidence of one particular practice that raises significant concerns.”
Cheney said that the committee normally asks witnesses connected to Trump’s administration or campaign whether they had been contacted by any former colleagues who attempted to influence their testimony.
The answer, in some cases, was yes.
Hearsay is used by lawyers. But others have provided direct evidence
So Roger...
You believe that a witness that Garland could not use in any of his prosecution... is the crushing blow that means he now must?
I am wondering out loud if people really do not understand the fundamental point that she was not an actual witness to much of what she states.
Trump Derangement Syndrome = a reasonably deadly IED
She probably provided reasonable evidence of criminal solicitation and direct evidence for the Attorney General Merrick Garland... according to many lawyers.
It should have bothered you but....
He lunged at a Secret Service agent’s throat. He threw dishes during temper tantrums. And he wanted metal detectors taken away so his fans could march with guns and knives.
An astonishing portrait of Donald Trump as an unhinged and personally violent president emerged at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol.
If you didn't have TLS you would have been outraged by his direct involvement of the January 6th Attack on the Capitol building.
You are an example of tribalism. It is in your DNA.
Fortunately I understood that when I was a kid..
Even if he shot Mike Pence you would figure out how to support him.
We got another of Roger favorite words - possible
If, may, might, could, should, possible
It's all his own wishful thinking
For the first time we know that he was directly involved in the insurrection before it started.
Incitement of violence is against the law
Second we have evidence of witnesses tampering.
Third is fake electors is illegal.
Garland is watching this.
By the end of July or early August we will see if he presses charges.
And ✔️ yes I believe that for the first time in history a former President will be convicted.
And of course Georgia 🇬🇪
Perhaps most incredible of all, the first President who sought to overthrow American democracy, is the frontrunner for the Republican party presidential nomination in 2024. For the moment, at least.
And you don't care
President Trump is the frontrunner in 2024 for America.
Despite the insane left
And if he doesn't run he will determine who will
And who will be be our next president
MAGA
Trumps temper tantrum throwing plates again shows what a petulant child he is !!!!! And all lil schitty can do is mock the behavior and still support his lying ways without question....Maybe trumps magic arms can give Lil aSchittty a reach around and a good time!!!
Three Secret Service agents who accompanied Trump on Jan. 6 disputed that Trump assaulted or grabbed at the leader of his security detail and that he grabbed for the steering wheel of the Suburban sport utility vehicle in which he was traveling to try to steer it to the Capitol, according to one current and one former law enforcement official familiar with their accounts.
The three agents — Engel, Ornato and the agent driving the Suburban that carried the president away from his speech at the Ellipse — are also willing to testify under oath to the committee about their recollection of events on Jan. 6 in the Secret Service vehicle, said the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject.
The three agents do not dispute Hutchinson’s account that Trump was furious upon learning they were not taking him to the Capitol and exchanged tense words with Engel when the detail leaders told him it would be unsafe and impossible to go the Capitol alongside Trump’s supporters.
Hutchinson’s lawyer, Jody Hunt, tweeted Tuesday night: “Ms. Hutchinson testified, under oath, and recounted what she was told. Those with knowledge of the episode also should testify under oath.”
The Secret Service incident was not the only fit of presidential rage Hutchinson described. A month prior, she said, she had been summoned to the Oval Office dining room in the moments after the Associated Press published an interview with Attorney General William P. Barr, who said that the Justice Department had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
In an era defined by blockbuster political hearings — James Comey, Robert Mueller, Brett Kavanaugh, Michael Cohen and Fiona Hill, to name a few — Cassidy Hutchinson and the House Jan. 6 committee successfully delivered what few others have.
What happened: Across two full hours of testimony, the 25-year-old former White House aide divulged a flood of jaw-dropping, new and highly relevant information about one of the most reported-on events in American history.
Why it matters: The country's top reporters have spent the last year and a half digging into the Capitol insurrection, plumbing their sources and public records to uncover bombshell after bombshell. And yet without this testimony from Hutchinson and other key figures, some of the most stunning details would be lost to history.
Case in point: In the leakiest White House in modern history, it never leaked that:
Former President Trump knew members of the Jan. 6 crowd were armed but still wanted the metal detectors removed to pack his rally on the Ellipse: "I don't f**king care that they have weapons, they're not here to hurt me," he reportedly said.Trump was livid that Secret Service agents wouldn't take him to the Capitol after his Ellipse speech and allegedly lunged at both his chief of security and the wheel of the vehicle, Hutchinson testified she was told after the incident.Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani sought pardons in the aftermath of Jan. 6.
Trump denied Hutchinson's allegations in a series of posts on his social media platform, Truth Social, and the Secret Service allegation in particular has not been corroborated by other testimony.
Between the lines: The committee wasn't supposed to hold another hearing until July, but made the snap decision yesterday to bring in Hutchinson and keep her identity closely guarded — fearing for her security and knowing the suspense would build expectations.
Hutchinson was previously represented by a lawyer with deep ties to Trump world, before hiring an attorney who served as chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions."I think part of the legal advice she was receiving didn't allow her to be as forthcoming as we thought," Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters. "At some point, she changed attorneys and she began to open up more and more about what was happening around Jan. 6."
The big picture: Hutchinson's testimony adds a new layer to the picture we have — at least in the public understanding — of Trump’s behavior in the lead-up to Jan. 6.
We knew Trump was desperate and listening to increasingly unstable people, as has been extensively reported by Axios and others.What hasn't been part of the popular understanding but now will be — if the public believes Hutchinson's sworn testimony — is that Trump was behaving in ways that were truly unhinged: throwing food at the wall, encouraging armed supporters to march on the Capitol and endorsing calls to hang his vice president.
We knew Trump was desperate and listening to increasingly unstable people, as has been extensively reported by Axios and others.What hasn't been part of the popular understanding but now will be — if the public believes Hutchinson's sworn testimony — is that Trump was behaving in ways that were truly unhinged:
Eat your ketchup 😋
Cassidy Hutchinson, the House Jan. 6 committee’s surprise witness, painted the perfect metaphor for the GOP’s continued violent assault on our nation’s increasingly fragile democracy.
In her damning and chilling testimony on Tuesday, Hutchinson, a former top aide to Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, unleashed an arsenal of smoking guns. She not only implicated the Trump administration but exposed the entire right-wing ecosystem as active and willing participants in a failed authoritarian’s desire to use violence, intimidation, and illegality to ensure power for his radicalized MAGA movement that has now consumed the GOP and replaced all “rational” Republicans.
Next J6 hearings could be even more explosive: Insider hints there's more testimony coming about the riot's 'pivot man for everything'
Bob Brigham
June 28, 2022
Former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, who worked as a senior staff member for the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, suggested that the bombshell testimony at Tuesday's public hearing was just the beginning.
"TRUMP SOUGHT TO JOIN JAN. 6 MOB," was the headline online by The New York Times. "Enraged, He Lunged for Limo Wheel, Aide Says."
"Trump wanted armed mob to march to Capitol, sought to join, aide says," was The Washington Post headline.
Riggleman was interviewed about the hearing by MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.
READ: Trump 'set us up': Capitol cop 'shocked' former president knew he was endangering police officers
"I want to be very careful in how I say this, Nicolle. I said Mark Meadows was the MVP of the committee of the investigation. Today, I think we see Mark Meadows is the Rosetta Stone of the investigation. He was sort of the pivot man for everything happening between these groups and up to the president," he said.
"When you hear an individual on the couch sending text messages -- I have the unique insight into being the first to see some of those text messages after we identified them -- so when I saw that at the beginning, the committee saw the same thing and they automatically knew that what they saw on the text messages -- there was a story here they could break apart," he explained. "We have to know this too, Nicolle, and I'm being very careful, there are 1,000 text messages that we know that we hadn't seen, that he said that were privileged."
Riggleman said, "...I don't think the American public has seen anything yet."
"Oh, wow," Wallace interjected.
"I actually believe that Cassidy Hutchinson was the bridge to the following -- and I will be very careful here -- a bridge to the operational planning and the data the committee still has in his back pocket," he continued. "So again, Mark Meadows is the MVP player for the committee. I think it is the Rosetta Stone. He was in the middle of it all and I think it puts his legal team in a tremendously challenging position.
Trump on Booting Protesters From Rally: 'I Love This'
Trump denied these incidents in a series of statements. But lending credibility to her testimony, almost everything she described had an obvious corresponding moment in Trump’s career.
Among other examples:
Trump famously encouraged supporters to attack protestors, even suggesting he’d pay their legal bills. and saying he’d like to punch a protestor in the face.He talked about illegally ordering torture and committing unspeakable war crimes before screaming crowds.He warned, “I think you’d have riots” if Republicans denied him the nomination.He survived the release of a video in which he bragged about committing sexual assault.He ominously suggested that “Second Amendment people” might prevent Hillary Clinton from appointing judges.As president, he warned “it would be very bad, very bad” if the “tough people” who supported him were pushed too far by the left.He publicly refused to commit to accepting a peaceful transfer of power.Asked in a debate about potential violence from far right supporters, like the Proud Boys, he said they should “stand back and stand by.” Their members have since been charged with seditious conspiracy for their role in 1/6.
This was a dark place that Trump alone was willing to go among his political rivals when he first emerged as a candidate. Even his most conservative opponents condemned his rhetoric and warned it could lead to real-world violence, though many later dropped their concerns and became prominent supporters.
Hutchinson’s testimony would suggest they had it right the first time. These violent delights have violent ends
That’s the problem when you have hearsay testimony, and you rush to put on things that you haven’t vetted–because the truth isn’t your aim, getting Trump is. That’s how you get gored by the truth, as we noted with the Secret Service saying that Bobby Engel, the agent allegedly involved in the car incident, and the driver ready to say that this isn’t true. But the whole story was nonsensical to begin with, and the Committee just overplayed their hand big time and may have just blown themselves up with their lies.
Hutchinson’s testimony won’t be potent enough on its own to undo the Trump hex — it was just an afternoon interview on afternoon television, and Trump has weathered worse. But coming as it does from a White House insider and loyalist who worked only a 10-second walk from the Oval Office and who appears to be a credible witness, the session damaged the Trump edifice in a way that a thousand op-eds and a hundred political speeches couldn’t. Without any apparent animus or any theatrics, Hutchinson artfully sketched the portrait many of us hold in our mind’s eye of the former president: A belligerent oaf who cares for nothing but himself; a porcupinal blowhard who will do anything to maintain power; and a mess-making child who breaks things when he doesn’t get his way and leaves us to clean up after him.
Donald Trump knew the protesters marching on the Capitol on January 6 were armed. He knew they could do harm to someone. He wanted to go to the Capitol with them as they marched that afternoon. And he did nothing to stop them as they attacked.
These are the stark and rattling takeaways from today’s hearing of the House committee investigating former President Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, which centered on first-person accounts from the former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who was deep inside the president’s inner sanctum in the days leading up to the insurrection and that day.
By the morning of January 6, Trump’s attempts to steal the election had largely failed. Every lawsuit had foundered, every state-level ploy seemed to have stalled, and Vice President Mike Pence had declared that he would not engage in chicanery concocted by the attorney John Eastman and his confederates. There was one last hope: somehow disrupting Congress’s certification of the result.
When Trump arrived at a rally on January 6, he saw that the space for the speech was not totally full, Hutchinson testified today. Ever attentive to optics, he wanted the area filled, but many attendees were outside a cordon, because they weren’t allowed in: The Secret Service had set up magnetometers, or mags, and these people were carrying weapons. They didn’t want to disarm, and couldn’t enter while carrying. But Trump didn’t care.
“They’re not here to hurt me,” he said, according to Hutchinson. He demanded that the Secret Service “take the fucking mags away,” and added, “They can march to the Capitol after this is over.”
That is the most damning moment to emerge from the hearings so far. Trump’s supporters’ defense of the president’s behavior that day up until now has been that he simply wanted a peaceful demonstration, and didn’t anticipate the violence that broke out when his supporters stormed the Capitol. Some allies have denied that demonstrators were even armed. The defense has never been especially plausible, but Hutchinson’s testimony demolishes it.
A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
https://twitter.com/peteralexander/status/1541910389289635841
A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
Come on down and put your hand on the Bible......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Denial is your middle name!!!!!!! Funny that assfucking hole rat now puts credence in anonymous sources......keep slurping asshole!!
Sure looks to me that the hearings are starting to have an impact on dumb fuck GOP primiary voters......maybe a sign that trumps grip on his dick is loosening!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Tue, June 28, 2022, 1:10 AM
DENVER (AP) — Republicans in Colorado rejected two prominent candidates whose political profiles were centered on election falsehoods in a fresh reminder that fealty to former President Donald Trump's lies about mass voter fraud is no guarantee of success with conservative voters.
Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk who became nationally known after being indicted for her role in a break-in of her own county election system, lost her bid for the GOP nomination for Colorado secretary of state. Instead, Republicans selected Pam Anderson, a critic of Trump’s election lies and a former clerk in suburban Denver who is well-regarded among election professionals. She is now positioned to challenge Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
“I will continue my fight for restoring the confidence of Colorado voters against lies and the politicians or interest groups that seek to weaponize elections administration for political advantage,” Anderson said after her victory.
One of Peters’ top Colorado allies, state Rep. Ron Hanks, lost his bid for the party’s Senate nomination to Joe O’Dea, a businessman who has repeatedly acknowledged that President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. That was a sharp contrast with Hanks, who attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, doesn’t believe Biden is a legitimate president and says he discovered a new, animating purpose fighting election fraud after 2020.
Cassidy Hutchinson Was In Every Meeting
June 29, 2022 at 2:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments
Brendan Buck, an aide to former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), tweets:
“I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, and I can’t speak to how things worked at the White House, but when Meadows was on the Hill he always insisted that she be in every meeting he had, no matter how small. It was odd then, and doesn’t seem to be working out for him now.”
Kevin McCarthy, Have You No Sense of Decency?
June 29, 2022 at 2:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 51 Comments
David Frum:
“The Republicans do not have to be the cover-up party. That’s a choice. In fact, the story of the hearings has been the courage and integrity of many individual Republicans, culminating most spectacularly with the heroic testimony of the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. But as an institution, the party has to date made a pro-Trump cover-up its policy.
“This policy of protecting the ex-president involves excusing the worst political crime in the history of the presidency—what looks more and more like a fully planned attempt to hold on to the highest office in the land, first by fraud, then by force. A coup d’état.
“One of the things we’ve learned about his administration is that Donald Trump did not get much value from his true believers. They usually turned out to be too crazy, too crooked, or too stupid to gain and exercise power for him. He got most value from the weak and the supine who could wield some power more or less competently. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is on record and on audio condemning Trump’s coup at the time that it happened. Since then, he has shriveled into the enabling role he has played over the past 18 months.”
GOP, HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY?
Trump Has Had Few Worse Moments Than Yesterday
June 29, 2022 at 1:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
Dan Balz:
“Former president Donald Trump has had some bad days recently, but perhaps none worse than Tuesday, when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson delivered the most alarming testimony yet about his behavior during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
“Her testimony before the House select committee’s Jan. 6 investigation probably left the former president more vulnerable legally, though ultimately that will be for the Department of Justice to decide. Equally important, it threatens to further weaken him politically, despite the hold he has retained on much of the Republican Party’s base…
“Trump’s presidency and its aftermath — his actions in office and his perpetuation of the lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud and therefore stolen — have left many Americans without the ability to be shocked or surprised, whether through fatigue or mere disinterest. In measured and careful language, Hutchinson punctured that indifference.”
Hillary threw a lamp.
Trump throws ketchup.
Sad that the spineless members of the GOP have to have a 25 year old girl as the only example of having a set of ballz as you idiots slurp in the lies and deny everything shown to date.....like she is nothing but a liar!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Idiots of the right have a problem with truth as trump has sooooooooo taken over your being, truth negates the power we all crave!!!!! Yeah, she lied about the limo outburst....he is nothing but a petulant asshole like all you slurpers are!!!!
The leader of the free world could't even get his own people to take him to the Capitol?
The leader of the free world couldn't even get the magnometers removed so armed insurgents could get closer to him so he could send them along with the others to the Capitol.
It's sorta difficult to cover up ketchup, isn;'t it?
How about kinives and firearms bearing people he wanted to send to the Capitol?
William Vaillancourt
Wed, June 29, 2022, 1:30 AM
MSNBC
MSNBC
The Secret Service agents who have reportedly pushed back on bombshell testimony about former President Donald Trump in a presidential SUV on Jan. 6 were “very close” to him and have even been described as “yes men,” according to a Washington Post reporter.
In testimony before the House Jan. 6 Committee on Tuesday, former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson said she had heard that after the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally, Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the vehicle and “lunged” at a Secret Service agent in a desperate attempt to be taken to the Capitol.
Hutchinson testified that Tony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as White House deputy chief of staff, told her about it after Trump had instead been driven back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where he apparently proceeded to throw his lunch against the wall in anger.
Later on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that three agents who were with Trump in the vehicle dispute that he “assaulted or grabbed at the leader of his security detail or that he grabbed for the steering wheel,” according to one current and one former law enforcement official familiar with the agents’ accounts. Various outlets also reported that Ornato and Bobby Engel, the lead Secret Service agent in the vehicle, are willing to testify to the committee disputing Hutchinson’s account.
Will This Finally Bring Down Trump?
June 29, 2022 at 7:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Bret Stephens:
“But after Tuesday, the threat of a legal indictment has become very real. The president may indeed be liable for seditious conspiracy, especially if he tried, via Meadows’s calls to Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, to reach out to extremist groups…
“I doubt there will be any sort of moment when the Sean Hannitys and Laura Ingrahams of the world will tell the faithful:
We were wrong; we made an idol of the wrong man. But there may be a quiet drifting away. In a moment like this, that might be just enough.”
‘Planned a Coup’
June 29, 2022 at 7:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
Heather Cox Richardson:
“What emerged from today’s explosive hearing was the story of a president and his close advisors who planned a coup, sent an armed mob to the Capitol, approved of calls to murder the vice president, and had to be forced to call the mob off. Two of the president’s closest advisors then asked for a presidential pardon.”
Why a pardon?
Ch says Nobody done nuthin wrong!
Trump Aides Left Speechless
June 29, 2022 at 7:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was ‘a bombshell’ with potentially huge repercussions for Trump,”
CNN reports.
Said on Trump adviser:
“This is a bombshell. It’s stunning. It’s shocking. The story about ‘The Beast’ — I don’t have words. It’s just stunning.”
BOMBSHELL!
bo
Even scarier was Flynn.....a General sworn to the constitution pleading the fifth whether he supported the peaceful transfer of power when required by the constitution .....wonder why he is affraid of ....just another sniveling feckless GOP ass hole trying to remain in power
Ed Mazza
Wed, June 29, 2022, 3:32 AM
Stephen Colbert broke down the explosive revelations from Tuesday’s congressional hearings on former President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. But one moment caused the “Late Show” host’s jaw to drop.
The committee played footage of Michael Flynn, the former Army general who resigned in disgrace after just 24 days as Trump’s national security advisor, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights in response to basic questions.
Flynn ― a QAnon conspiracy theorist ― was asked if he thought the violence on Jan. 6 was justified and if he believed in the peaceful transition of power. He declined to answer, repeatedly pleading the Fifth, which inspired this reaction from Colbert:
“You were a general in the United States Army,” Colbert said. “You swore an oath to uphold the Constitution ― not deny its bedrock principles.”
Colbert also wondered how Flynn sings the national anthem, then got his audience to join him in the attempt:
The Case for Prosecuting Trump Just Got Much Stronger
June 29, 2022 at 1:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
David French:
“Before today, I’ve been open to the possibility that Donald Trump’s speech and conduct on and before January 6 criminally incited the mob. I was open, but unconvinced. I spoke to a number of leading First Amendment experts, and they were even less open than me. Yes, Trump urged the mob to ‘fight like hell’ and march on the Capitol, but he also said they should ‘peacefully and patriotically’ make their voices heard. That caveat was likely enough to spare him from prosecution.
“That was yesterday’s analysis.
Today’s is different.
Because of a courageous woman named Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Mark Meadows.
“Earlier this afternoon she gave the most extraordinary congressional testimony I’ve ever seen. She testified that the president was so committed to walking to the Capitol with his own supporters that he allegedly tried to grab the wheel of his Secret Service vehicle. She painted the picture of a president utterly out of control, a man so committed to preserving his own power that he approved of the riot and believed that Mike Pence deserved to face mob justice.
Politico:
...the Jan. 6 panel’s star witness drew a roadmap for Trump’s culpability? [link available at politico.com]
A President Untethered
June 29, 2022 at 1:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments
New York Times:
“Former President Donald Trump has never been seen as the most stable occupant of the Oval Office by almost anyone other than himself, but the breathtaking testimony presented by his former aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, at Tuesday’s House select committee hearing portrayed an unhinged commander in chief veering wildly out of control as he desperately sought to cling to power and egged on armed supporters to help make it happen.
“The president that emerged from her account
was volatile, violent and vicious,
single-minded in his quest to overturn an election he lost no matter what anyone told him,
anxious to head to the Capitol to personally disrupt the constitutional process that would finalize his defeat,
dismissive of warnings that his actions could lead to disaster
and thoroughly unbothered by the prospect of sending to Congress a mob of supporters that he knew included people armed with deadly weapons."
Washington Post:
Trump had his own rampage as rioters assaulted Capitol.
NBC News:
Trump’s years of violent rhetoric align with Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony.
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,”
the New York Times reports.
HERE'S AN ARTICLE from way back in April:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
I GUESS THAT QUESTION HAS NOW BEEN WELL ANSWERED BY A 25 YEAR OLD WOMAN WHO WAS KEPT CLOSE TO THE OVAL OFFICE.
I'M BEING CENSORED AGAIN. CH DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THOMAS WINDHAM.
IM BEING CENSORED. CH DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THOMAS WINDHAM.
LMAO:
We went from:
Russian collusion! Treason!
To
"His lawyer will expose everything!" (Cohen)
To
"Mueller will testify to things redacted in his report!"
To
"Impeachment for international bribery!"
To
"Trump ordered his AG to attack protesters"
To
Steering wheels 😂😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1541888973714464769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1541888973714464769%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F2022%2F06%2Ftop-20-tweets-tonight-mass-illegal.html
LMAO:
Brendan Buck, an aide to former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), tweets:
“I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, and I can’t speak to how things worked at the White House, but when Meadows was on the Hill he always insisted that she be in every meeting he had, no matter how small. It was odd then, and doesn’t seem to be working out for him now.”
LOL, right. Starting out with a complete disqualifier as to your actual knowledge of the situation is very impactful there, Brendan.
"I don't know but I've been told, Eskimo pussy is mighty cold!"
No one on the committee to cross examine the witness. This is a travesty.
Was she there or is she merely spreading fun gossip? The agents otoh were actually there. This is quite desperate committee.
It was very funny 😁
Morning Joe" host then offered some unsolicited advice to his friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJIZMj3VOCw
"Hey, Mark, I've known you for a long time, buddy, you're in deep sh*t," Scarborough said. "You're in the middle of this conspiracy. You may want to get yourself a really, really good defense attorney. To quote Donald Trump, you may want to get one of those. Oh, wait, here's an idea, Mark. you can do something that you've refused to do for years now. You can show courage and you can tell the truth. Hey, Mark, Donald Trump won't protect you. He will throw you under the bus, he will stab you in the back, he will let you rot in jail. Defend the country or, well, get ready to pay a criminal defense attorney a lot of money."
Watch the video below or at this link.
Comedy indeed
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
Yeah ballz...your GOP is one fucking giant comedy of errors which you aren't man enough to admit including trump got his ass kicked!!!!!!....!!!!!!BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
Trump calls Hutchinson a phony and that he hardly knew her!!!!!! There is solid proof she is telling the truth!!!
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED
SEVERAL TIMES.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
CNN)
Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was "a bombshell" with potentially huge repercussions for Trump.
Trump was already bracing for an explosive day of testimony from Hutchinson, who previously told the House select committee that the former President approved of rioters chanting violent threats against Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021.
"This is a bombshell. It's stunning. It's shocking. The story about 'The Beast' -- I don't have words. It's just stunning," said one Trump adviser, referring to the presidential limousine.
"This paints a picture of Trump completely unhinged and completely losing all control which, for his base, they think of him as someone who is in command at all times. This completely flies in the face of that," the adviser added.
The Trump adviser, who was in a group text chat with several other Trump aides and allies as the hearing played out, said that "no one is taking this lightly."
"For the first time since the hearings started, no one is dismissing this," the adviser said.
Another Trump ally told CNN the testimony from Hutchinson, a former top aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, would seal Meadows' fate as "persona non grata" to the former President.
"This is one of the reasons [Trump] is furious with Meadows. He was already iced out but now he will be persona non grata," this person said.
The startling revelations from Hutchinson's testimony about Trump's erratic behavior and state of mind on January 6 could make it easier for Republican presidential hopefuls to challenge the former President in a primary should he run, the Trump ally added.
"This is basically a campaign commercial for (Florida Gov.) Ron DeSantis 2024," said the Trump ally.
Re my 7:11
Ch really didn't want
you to see that post.
THE FOLLOWING
GOT CENSORED.
I SUBMIT IT AGAIN:
The Man Helping Drive the Trump Investigation
June 29, 2022 at 7:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“As the Justice Department expands its criminal investigation into the efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss, the critical job of pulling together some of its disparate strands has been given to an aggressive, if little-known, federal prosecutor named Thomas Windom,” the New York Times reports.
________
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED WAY BACK IN APRIL:
DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish
By Cristina Cabrera
April 21, 2022 12:02 p.m.
Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Thomas Windom, a prosecutor from Maryland, was reportedly brought aboard several months ago and has been working with the DOJ’s criminal and national security divisions on the matter.
The Times reports that Windom has been tasked with determining if ex-President Donald Trump and his cronies’ efforts to undo the 2020 election ought to be investigated as part of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, which has largely focused on just the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ’s Windom addition signals a nod at the theory that legal scholars and the Jan. 6 select committee have been poking for more than a year — that Jan. 6 was about much more than the day of the attack.
However, Windom’s reported involvement seems to be in a preliminary stage; he doesn’t have a team of prosecutors working for him yet, the Times reports. [BET HE DOES NOW?]
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland’s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that Windom’s appointment shows that the attorney general is “NOT asleep at the switch.”
The latest development adds to recent reports of the DOJ expanding the scope of its investigation to include looking at the infamous pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse that preceded the Capitol insurrection. The department has subpoenaed several Trump allies who were involved in planning and financing the rally, according to the Washington Post, and one of those subpoenas indicated that investigators were also looking at Trump’s fake elector scheme, according to the Times.
What emerged from yesterday's
explosive hearing was the story of a president and his close advisors who planned a coup, sent an armed mob to the Capitol, approved of calls to murder the vice president, and had to be forced to call the mob off. Two of the president’s closest advisors then asked for a presidential pardon. While they did not get those pardons, Trump’s PAC later gave $1 million to Meadows’s Conservative Partnership Institute.
Typically mobster behavior from a wealthy man who grew up in New York City in the 50s.
Donald Trump rose to power by waging war against Republicans. This war paused temporarily when the party gave Trump its unconditional surrender. But the ceasefire was always tenuous, because any time a Republican—even a loyal, Trump-loving Republican—refused an illegal demand, or came into possession of information dangerous to Trump, Trump’s mob targeted them.
Right now Cassidy Hutchinson is the target. But simply by offering her testimony, she has exposed Meadows and all the rest as being potential dangers. Trump surely sees this, too.
If only these who used to be great Republican personages, could be as patriotic as the young staffer they once ordered around.
Trump Aides Brace for Damage
June 29, 2022 at 8:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
New York Times: “Current and former aides to Mr. Trump sent one another messages as the hearing took place, describing a series of disclosures that they conceded were potentially quite damaging, mostly politically but also, potentially, legally.”
Punchbowl News: “If you asked any Trump world insider who would be the least likely person to testify against the administration, Hutchinson would be atop that list. She was loyal to Trump to a fault – despite what Trump says now. Hutchinson was in every meeting with Meadows and was one of his top defenders.”
Playbook: “Trump allies will seek out any potentially disputable aspect of her testimony and use it to discredit her entirely. … The select committee has also staked a lot on Hutchinson’s credibility holding up — and there was lots of confidence from the panel after Tuesday’s hearing that she had delivered effectively.”
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney: “This is explosive stuff. … I know her. I don’t think she is lying.”
I DON'T THINK SO EITHER.
Secret Service Says Trump Didn’t Assault Agents
June 29, 2022 at 8:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
Washington Post: “Secret Service agents dispute that Donald Trump assaulted any agent or tried to grab the steering wheel on Jan 6. They agree Trump was furious about not being able to go to the Capitol with his supporters. They offer to testify under oath.”
And CNN reports Ornato and Engel “are prepared to testify that neither incident occurred.”
WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE?
@MickMulvaney
My guess is that before this is over, we will be hearing testimony from Ornato, Engle, and Meadows.
This is explosive stuff. If Cassidy is making this up, they will need to say that. If she isn't they will have to corroborate.
I know her. I don't think she is lying.
1:01 PM · Jun 28, 2022·Twitter Web App
I tend to believe the people who were there over someone who wasn't. This isn't rocket science.
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
I knew that this would change many minds in the GOP but not Ketchupgate which is typical distinction tactics by Scott
Distinction tactics, huh
Damn
There were some commentators online who immmediately claimed that Trump was far, far in the back and could not have reached for the steering wheel through several glass partititions.
Not so.
In the particular vehicle in which he was riding, he was right behind the driver, as can be seen by him waving from a window as the car started away from the ellipse..
Obviously, Roger meant "distraction" tactics.
Orange man throws ketchup!
Here’s how Trump did it.
He is Batman
He wanted to lead the armed mob to attack the Capitol building himself.
We survived the first attempted coup in our history.
Donald Trump assaulted an agent and tried to grab the steering wheel on Jan 6.
I knew that this would change many minds in the GOP but not Ketchupgate which is typical distraction tactics by Scott
His tweet got almost zero response.
Just like the pee dossier, never happened
Officer Harry Dunn calls out 'courageous' witnesses who spoke up only after cops were beaten by Trump rioters
One of the U.S. Capitol police officers injured in the January 6th insurrection called out witnesses who came forward to testify about Donald Trump's actions leading up to the riot.
Harry Dunn, who has testified before Congress about the violence and racist abuse he endured during the attack, thanked the Trumpworld witnesses who have spoken to investigators, but also issued a reminder that none of them took sufficient actions to prevent the insurrection.
"I’m always conflicted when I see these 'courageous' men and women coming forward with their testimony," Dunn said. "Like sure, I appreciate it tremendously, I really do, but there wasn’t anything you could’ve done BEFORE we got our asses beat?"
Dunn has appeared at every hearing of the House select committee, along with fellow police officers Michael Fanone and Aquilino Gonell.
Brave men and women who risked the lives to save our Country from Donald Trump and his white supremacist who stormed the Capitol building on January 6th.
“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me,” Trump exclaimed in an extraordinary outburst of fury, according to Hutchinson. “Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags [magnetometers] away.”
The response from the former president is significant for two main reasons: it makes clear that he had been informed that his supporters were carrying weapons, and that he knew those armed people intended to make a non-permitted march to the Capitol.
Trump then took the stage at the Save America rally and told his supporters both there at the Ellipse and around the Washington monument that he would march to the Capitol with them – giving them the strongest incentive to descend on the joint session of Congress.
Trump proven unfit for power again
by Washington Examiner
| June 29, 2022 12:01 AM
Hutchinson’s testimony confirmed a damning portrayal of Trump as unstable, unmoored, and absolutely heedless of his sworn duty to effectuate a peaceful transition of presidential power. Considering the entirety of her testimony, it is unsurprising that Hutchinson said she heard serious discussions of Cabinet members invoking the 25th Amendment that would have at least temporarily evicted Trump from office.
Trump is a disgrace. Republicans have far better options to lead the party in 2024. No one should think otherwise, much less support him, ever again.
The headlines in every single newspaper in the country, showing the same thing.
Punchbowl News
Where the Jan. 6 blockbuster leaves us
June 29, 2022
BY PUNCHBOWL NEWS STAFF
Tuesday’s blockbuster Jan. 6 committee hearing was unprecedented in the array of accusations leveled at a former president and his chief of staff. Not since the days of Richard Nixon and Watergate has the nation been shown a view of a president so seemingly out of control, careening toward a political disaster that still casts a pall over Washington and American politics.
Cassidy Hutchinson, someone who was thought to be a true Donald Trump loyalist, described a series of alarming incidents involving Trump and Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff – the two most powerful men in the country – in the days and weeks leading up to the deadly attack on the Capitol. Meadows, Hutchinson’s former boss, was a particularly acute target of Hutchinson and the committee.
Much of the broad arc of what Meadows did during this period has already been disclosed as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee investigation, media reports and books, or even the select committee’s own probe.
Yet what Hutchinson was able to do on Tuesday was fill in some of the holes in that narrative thanks to her own unparalleled access to Meadows and other key West Wing players.
Trump and Meadows, for instance, were aware of the potential for violence for weeks during the lead-up to the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory on Jan. 6, Hutchinson testified.
After a meeting with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the West Wing on Jan. 2, Meadows cautioned Hutchinson “Things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6,” she testified.
Trump and Meadows were also so inured to the havoc they caused that they dismissed the danger faced by Vice President Mike Pence. Told that some Trump supporters were chanting “hang Mike Pence!” as they marched to the Capitol that day, Meadows informed White House Counsel Pat Cipollone that Trump “doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong,” Hutchinson said.
So let’s get to some news first, and then we’ll look at some broader takeaways from this historic hearing.
News:
At least one of the “witness tampering” messages Rep. Liz Cheney disclosed at the end of the hearing – warnings by unnamed Trump allies to stay loyal to the former president – were sent to Hutchinson, according to a source close to the matter.
Cheney warned that the panel “will be discussing these issues as a committee [and] carefully considering our next steps.” Committee sources didn’t have additional comment late Tuesday.
Takeaways:
We wanted to take a moment to discuss some of our observations from Tuesday, as well as the five previous sessions by the select committee.
→Trump World fomented the unrest, and then ran away when it got bad. As we noted above, one of the main topics we learned from Hutchinson’s testimony was that senior administration officials were aware of the threat of violence in the period leading up to Jan. 6. They’d been advised repeatedly by law-enforcement and intelligence officials this could happen. These reports reached Meadows personally.
Meadows and other top White House officials also knew Trump supporters were openly carrying weapons in Washington on Jan. 6, including AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and handguns, according to police reports and witness testimony. Yet Trump himself suggested easing security around the rally on the Ellipse, claiming “They’re not here to hurt me,” Hutchinson testified.
This all plays into the select committee’s position that
Trump didn’t seek to tamp down the violence,
didn’t take any steps to protect Pence and lawmakers on Capitol Hill,
and didn’t call in the National Guard or other military assets to help during the insurrection.
Trump, in fact, stood by as the violence grew worse throughout the day.
→The wall has cracked. If you asked any Trump world insider who would be the least likely person to testify against the administration, Hutchinson would be atop that list. She was loyal to Trump to a fault – despite what Trump says now. Hutchinson was in every meeting with Meadows and was one of his top defenders. The question is will this spur anymore Trump world insiders to dish? We think probably not.
→What’s DOJ doing on Meadows? The House referred Meadows for criminal contempt of Congress after the former lawmaker refused to comply with the select committees’s subpoena. Earlier this month, the Justice Department said it wouldn’t pursue charges against Meadows for this. But now, following more damning testimony on Meadows’ role in everything leading to the insurrection, will DOJ officials rethink that position?
→An out-of-control president.
Throwing plates against the wall.
Demanding he be driven to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Not caring about the danger to Pence, his own vice president.
Hutchinson painted a picture of Trump as unstable, acting irrationally, completely unable to deal with the fact that he lost the election. It was all an attempt to show that Trump was out of control. And it worked.
→The case for conspiracy got stronger. The select committee made progress in its efforts to prove that Trump’s inner circle knew about the potential for violence at the Capitol and did nothing. To the select committee, the violence was the point. This includes during the insurrection itself, when lawmakers were calling and texting Meadows begging for help. Hutchinson testified that she heard Giuliani discuss the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers – two groups linked to violence – before the attack. If the panel can draw a line between Trump allies and those who planned the attack, that’s extraordinarily damaging. Remember: Giuliani and Meadows sought pardons, Hutchinson testified.
→ Pat Cipollone was one bright spot. There weren’t a lot of heroes in the Trump West Wing, but former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone – as well as lawyers Eric Herschmann and Patrick Philbin – has come off relatively well during these hearings.
Cipollone and the others threatened to resign if Trump appointed Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general. Cipollone wanted to tone down Trump’s Ellipse speech on Jan. 6. Cipollone warned of possible criminal charges if Trump went to the Capitol that day. Cipollone and the others called on Trump to issue a statement during the attack on the Capitol, although Herschmann is disputing some of Hutchinson’s testimony on what exactly occurred. Philbin and other White House lawyers objected to Trump mentioning pardons in any national speech the day after the insurrection. Cheney has praised Cipollone and Philbin, urging them to cooperate fully with the probe, which they have declined to do. Herschmann, of course, has become a star for his colorful testimony and appearance.
The question we got from nearly everyone last night was does Hutchinson’s testimony change anything. And the answer is probably not. Republicans are locked in. As are Democrats. But we got a number of text messages from Republicans saying that this hearing was particularly searing.
– Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan
https://twitter.com/C_H_Truth/status/1541922085903015936?t=zxbKwQC_yEAeumcdH8reaA&s=19
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RE 8:48 & 9:01:
Hate to tell you Cali and Ballsy,
(not really!), but you are TOTALLY wrong. The vehicle Trump was riding in was NOT "the beast" pictured in the 8:48 post.
Trump can be seen waving from a window in the smaller vehicle as it was departing from the ellipse,
and he WAS right behind the driver.
Boy, are YOU two dumb! Stupid! Naive! Uninformed!
Or were you both just out and out LYING again?
Sorry but she didn't confirm anything. She wasn't there and is relaying fun gossip. Nothing more.
And I've said nothing about the vehicle, other than the secret service we're there and she wasn't.
Conservative publication labels Trump 'unfit for power again' in scathing editorial
Sky Palma
June 29, 2022
In an op-ed this Wednesday, the Editorial Board for the Washington Examiner declared that the testimony Tuesday from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson "ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump’s political career."
"In short, Hutchinson was a conservative Trumpist true believer and a tremendously credible one at that," the Board writes. "She did not overstate things, did not seem to be seeking attention, and was very precise about how and why she knew what she related and about which testimony was firsthand and which was secondhand but able to be corroborated."
As the Board points out, Hutchinson gave compelling accounts about how certain figures in the Trump White House likely knew violence would take place at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and how Trump was uncaring, and even supportive of, rioters chanting for the hanging of then-Vice President Mike Pence.
"She also told, in detail, that Trump repeatedly insisted that he himself should join his supporters at the Capitol — even after being informed the crowd contained armed elements and that it was breaching the perimeter against an undermanned U.S. Capitol Police force."
Trump is a disgrace
Scott they got him
Trump proven unfit for power again
by Washington Examiner
| June 29, 2022 12:01 AM
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Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s Tuesday testimony ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump’s political career. Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again.
Hutchinson’s resume alone should establish her credibility. The 25-year-old had already worked at the highest levels of conservative Republican politics, including in the offices of Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (LA), before becoming a top aide for former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
In short, Hutchinson was a conservative Trumpist true believer and a tremendously credible one at that. She did not overstate things, did not seem to be seeking attention, and was very precise about how and why she knew what she related and about which testimony was firsthand and which was secondhand but able to be corroborated.
What Hutchinson relayed was disturbing. She gave believable accounts of White House awareness that the planned Jan. 6 rally could turn violent. She repeated testimony that Trump not only knew that then-Vice President Mike Pence’s life had been credibly threatened that day but also that he was somewhere between uncaring and actually approving of Pence’s danger.
She also told, in detail, that Trump repeatedly insisted that he himself should join his supporters at the Capitol — even after being informed the crowd contained armed elements and that it was breaching the perimeter against an undermanned U.S. Capitol Police force.
Also distressing to hear were Hutchinson’s accounts of Trump’s repeated fits of rage, including dining table contents overturned and ketchup dishes thrown violently across the room. The worst by far, though, was that people immediately returning from being with Trump in the presidential vehicle told of the president trying to grab the wheel of the car to force it to be driven to the Capitol and then violently reaching for the neck of Secret Service agent Bobby Engel, who headed the president’s protective detail.
Hutchinson’s testimony confirmed a damning portrayal of Trump as unstable, unmoored, and absolutely heedless of his sworn duty to effectuate a peaceful transition of presidential power. Considering the entirety of her testimony, it is unsurprising that Hutchinson said she heard serious discussions of Cabinet members invoking the 25th Amendment that would have at least temporarily evicted Trump from office.
Trump is a disgrace. Republicans have far better options to lead the party in 2024. No one should think otherwise, much less support him, ever again.
How is her testimony damning? This is the pee dossier all over again. It's nothing more than gossipy accusations. She wasnt there. She has no more first hand information than you and I have.
I don't understand the obsession and desperation. He left office 17 months ago.
I don't understand the obsession and desperation. He left office 17 months ago.
YOU DUMB FUCK.....HE'S STILL GOT IDIOTS LIKE YOU SUCKING HIS ASS WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT!!!!! HE MUST BE PUT IN JAIL !!!!
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