Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | Approve | Disapprove | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 7/5 - 7/19 | -- | 37.1 | 57.4 | -20.3 |
| Quinnipiac | 7/14 - 7/18 | 1367 RV | 33 | 59 | -26 |
| NPR/PBS/Marist | 7/11 - 7/17 | 1020 RV | 36 | 58 | -22 |
| Reuters/Ipsos | 7/18 - 7/19 | 1004 A | 36 | 59 | -23 |
| Rasmussen Reports | 7/17 - 7/19 | 1500 LV | 39 | 60 | -21 |
| Economist/YouGov | 7/16 - 7/19 | 1278 RV | 40 | 54 | -14 |
| Politico/Morning Consult | 7/15 - 7/17 | 2005 RV | 38 | 58 | -20 |
| FOX News | 7/10 - 7/13 | 1001 RV | 40 | 59 | -19 |
| CNBC | 7/7 - 7/10 | 800 A | 36 | 57 | -21 |
| IBD/TIPP | 7/6 - 7/9 | 1643 A | 40 | 49 | -9 |
| NY Times/Siena | 7/5 - 7/7 | 849 RV | 33 | 60 | -27 |
| InsiderAdvantage | 7/5 - 7/6 | 825 LV | 37 | 58 | -21 |
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January 6 Hearing to Show Trump’s Deliberate Inaction
July 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 158 Comments
“The Jan. 6 committee on Thursday will walk through, in detail, former President Trump’s reported inaction during the 187 minutes that a violent mob attacked the Capitol, aiming to show that he deliberately chose not to intervene,” Axios reports.
During the primetime 8 p.m. hearing, the committee will “demonstrate who was talking to Trump and what they were urging him to do in that time period.”
Yawn....
This guy is the Secret Service’s Trump ally and had the text on erased.
Secret Service Director to Step Down and Join Maker of Snapchat
The director, James M. Murray, was appointed by President Donald J. Trump in 2019 and is departing after nearly three decades with the agency.
A watchdog agency learned in February that the Secret Service had purged nearly all cellphone texts from around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but chose not to alert Congress, according to three people briefed on the internal discussions.
That watchdog agency, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, also prepared in October 2021 to issue a public alert that the Secret Service and other department divisions were stonewalling it on requests for records and texts surrounding the attack on the Capitol, but did not do so, the people briefed on the matter said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal investigations.
The previously unreported revelation about the inspector general’s months-long delay in flagging the now-vanished Secret Service texts came from two whistleblowers who have worked with Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari, the people knowledgeable about the internal discussions said.
The director, James M. Murray, was appointed by President Donald J. Trump in 2019 and is departing after nearly three decades with the agency. Did it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/20/secret-service-national-archives/
A senior Secret Service official said agency employees received two emails — at least one prior to Jan. 6, 2021 — reminding them to preserve records on their cellphones, including text messages, before their devices were essentially “restored to factory settings” and texts were lost as part of a planned reset and replacement program across the agency.
The senior official said employees received a third email on Feb. 4, 2021, instructing them to preserve all communications specific to Jan. 6. At that point, several Congressional committees had asked for Secret Service communications from the day of the insurrection on the Capitol.
I told you that it was fishy
The Secret Service may have violated a federal law stipulating rules on record keeping by undergoing a process that deleted communications between the agency around the day of the January 6 Capitol riot, according to a Wednesday press release from the two chairs of the House select committee investigating the attack.
"The procedure for preserving content prior to this purge appears to have been contrary to federal records retention requirements and may represent a possible violation of the Federal Records Act," a letter from Reps. Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney said.
The Federal Records Act of 1950 outlines rules for employees of federal agencies on what information qualifies as a federal record and which ones are to be collected, retained, destroyed, or permanently archived.
The letter from the January 6 panel chairs also reveals a "system migration process," that the Secret Service previously said resulted in lost data, had occurred just three weeks after the riot.
The missing texts could provide a more detailed road map for Trump’s actions and plans surrounding Jan. 6.
They could also corroborate or discount White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the committee, in which she said a senior Secret Service official told her on Jan. 6 that Trump had lunged in anger at the agent who led his security detail after he was told that he could not join his supporters on their march to the Capitol.
Hutchinson testified that the official — Tony Ornato, then temporarily working as White House deputy chief of staff — told her that Trump had also lunged for the steering wheel of the Suburban in which he was traveling. Ornato has denied telling Hutchinson this, according to a Secret Service spokesman, and Trump’s former detail leader, Bobby Engel, has claimed that no such physical altercation took place.
Unfucking believable
'I smell a rat': J6 panelist questions the Secret Service's 'disappeared' text messages from Jan. 6
Sarah K. Burris
July 20, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was revealed on Tuesday evening that the U.S. Secret Service turned over a single text message from what their agents exchanged on Jan. 5 and 6.
Ahead of a data migration, the Secret Service received four requests from congressional committees to preserve records on Jan. 16, but on Jan. 25 they moved through a migration process anyway, despite knowing the data wasn't backed up to comply with the subpoenas.
"It's still a mystery to me, but I smell a rat," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told reporters on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. "That seems like an awfully strange coincidence for all of those text messages to be vanished into oblivion on two days when there was also the worst violent insurrection after the Civil War."
Former FBI agent has an idea for other text messages that could tell a lot about Trump's secret service agents
What isn't currently clear is if the Secret Service also has no texts or communications from Jan. 4, 7, 8 or other days in Jan. 2021.
Former White House photographer Pete Souza explained that due to the Presidential Records Act, it didn't matter if someone deleted something from their device that all emails and texts were automatically backed up to the system. He asked if the Department of Homeland Security has an exception and if so, why.
Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig revealed "there are a lot of techies out there who think they can recreate their records, but stay tuned. We'll see."
Former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks noted, responding to reporter Hugo Lowell's piece at The Guardian, that the Secret Service is good at reconstructing lost text messages then which likely means "they are also good at deleting them completely from all backup devices and the cloud. Doubtful it's accidental if they can be recovered."
Secret Service may be too close to Trump — and they might even be co-conspirators: impeachment lawyer
Under its umbrella, the Secret Service operates The National Computer Forensics Institute, which calls itself an "innovative facility is the nation’s premier law enforcement training facility in cyber and electronic crime forensics." Their site says that they are there to "educate state, local, tribal, territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges in the continually evolving cyber and electronic crime related threats, and educate, train and equip them with the tools necessary for forensic examinations to combat those crimes."
When asked if she thinks there are more text messages that the Secret Service can find, House Select Committee member, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), simply told Raw Story, "We'll find out
Panel Has Outtakes of Trump’s Message to Supporters
July 20, 2022 at 11:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 75 Comments
“One day after the last rioter had left the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump’s advisers urged him to give an address to the nation to condemn the violence, demand accountability for those who had stormed the halls of Congress and declare the 2020 election to be decided,”
the Washington Post reports.
“He struggled to do it. Over the course of an hour of trying to tape the message, Trump resisted holding the rioters to account, trying to call them patriots, and refused to say the election was over.
“The public could get its first glimpse of outtakes from that recording Thursday night, when the committee plans to offer a bold conclusion in its eighth hearing:
Not only did Trump do nothing despite repeated entreaties by senior aides to help end the violence, but he sat back and enjoyed watching it.”
CNN: January 6 committee has outtakes of Trump’s message to supporters day after riot.
January 6 Committee Plans to Humiliate MAGA Lawmakers
July 20, 2022 at 10:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 48 Comments
“The Jan. 6 committee plans to use its Thursday night hearing to call out insurrection-friendly lawmakers who cowered during the Capitol attack but have since downplayed the insurrection’s severity,” Rolling Stone reports.
Said one source:
“They have plans to paint a really striking picture of how some of Trump’s greatest enablers of his coup plot were — no matter what they’re saying today — quaking in their boots and doing everything shy of crying out for their moms.”
Watchdog Knew Secret Service Texts Were Deleted
July 20, 2022 at 10:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments
“A watchdog agency learned in February that the Secret Service had purged nearly all cellphone texts from around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but chose not to alert Congress,” the Washington Post reports.
“That watchdog agency, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, also prepared in October 2021 to issue a public alert that the Secret Service and other department divisions were stonewalling it on requests for records and texts surrounding the attack on the Capitol, but did not do so.”
IS CH STILL YAWNING?
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