One should assume [if one were sane] that the people organizing the attack on the Capitol thought they would succeed in their aim and that to the winner go the spoils. That might not include the incipient leader of the gang who seems to be a reckless gambler with other peoples fortunes. There lies the chance that he might get away blame-free if enough of his conspirators don't turn states evidence to save themselves by testifying that he attended at, was aware of and directed the meetings and discussion themes there-in.
The USSC has to be given enough information through the committee chair to make an unbiased legal majority decision that it will NOT hear any application from the leaders defence team against allowing the committee taking evidence from any of the leaders former W/House staffers on spurious claims of executive privilege. It has to be assured that what the committee chair provided to it amounts to evidence that members of congress involved themselves in the conspiracy to attack the congress sitting in the Capitol building on the 06th Jan 2020 and deigned to act with treasonous intent against the US and its constitution, including the court itself.
This article from Rolling Stone suggests much more active involvement by the White House and Republican Members of Congress than has been evident up to this. Apparently there were numerous planning meetings involving Trump aides and Members of Congress, including a mention of a 'blanket pardon' for the organisers.
Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289/
In an interesting turn of events rolling stone is reporting today that the January 6th protest organisers are saying that held “dozens” of meetings with members of congress and the White House in the lead up to the day. If you wondered why the GOP want to downplay and in some cases invent alternative reality of that day, now we know(I think we knew anyway) and it’s because they are up to their necks in this.
The utter lack of anything even resembling a human empathic emotion from Trump would be surprising if it weren't so typical, so boilerplate at this stage. And remember, this is the man the GOP is cosying up to, for fear of losing "the base". They're hog tied to a cretinous human. You can really tell just how much he keeps grudges by the fact he trots out McCain's death and his family's response yet again. But still can't resist that childish urge for superlatives with the "world's longest funeral" blather.
There is not a shred of decency or dignity in that statement. It is completely off the wall bonkers. If it had been an off the cuff interview comment then it would almost be possible to see how someone could say it, but to formulate it into a written statement is beyond disgusting. And some one else was involved it in, there is no way he can construct even slightly complex sentences, evidently any advice was overruled.
Oh there’s a protester who used an apprentice reference to say he got arrested and trump left and would say that trump was fired.
Also, how the hell can these people try to say it was peaceful. There’s **** video that shows CLEARLY it was anything but peaceful.
He’s a **** cretin. Jesus h Christ and it wasn’t up to him to allow John McCains funeral as he said.
this documentary on the riot on BBC two is eye opening because the amount of mental gymnastics is startling.
Give him a mike and he's unstoppable.
I thought his attack on Colin Powell was a new low for Trump, I honestly thought WOW there's no way he could possibly go any lower.
But it's Trump, he always has to set a new bar
It was 11:05pm and I missed the first five minutes but I’m recording it and I’m watching it now and it’s **** surreal because this lot genuinely believe the **** they are saying. It was nuts to see the TV coverage on that evening but to see footage I’ve never seen and interviews with the people who broke into the building, it’s a wonder this hadn’t happened before and you’d wonder what the future is for America because there’s a lot of people who have this alternative version of reality.
FYI, on matters Capitol Insurrection bid, BBC 2 TV is playing the documentary "Four Hours At The Capitol" covering the storming of the Capitol building at 5 minutes past midnight again.
Oh and in more lols rolling stone is reporting that the new social media has gone dark already because it’s violated it’s own software agreement. Amateurs Ted, complete cowboys.
Now I’m sure we all remember when Kevin McCarthy put forward his picks for the January 6th commission that didn’t happen and one of those picks was rep. Andy Biggs of Indiana and Nancy pelosi said no and McCarthy threw toys out of several prams. Well it seems rep briggs has been requesting documents from the same federal agencies that the committee is asking from and signing it ranking member which he isn’t. Liz Cheney called him on it on the house floor and he’s not happy.
One of the fund market players who had put forward funding to the media venture has reportedly withdrawn his offer made to the group behind the venture as he had not known the group and the venture was connected to Trump. He said he cancelled his involvement because Trump was connected to it.
On another matter related to Trump, Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas was found guilty today of all 6 criminal charges by the jury related to the secret movement of funds from Russia for Trumps campaign in the hope of getting the OK from US politicians to set up a weed business. Parnas may now face a civil lawsuit from the SEC in NYC which was put on hold while the criminal funds trial was ongoing.
This source seems to think the new Trump social media venture is just another way of him making money and it doesn't matter if it fails or not. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2059403?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS&fbclid=IwAR25Gznce3qWbINe6YMcSeNEJf_Vwwon2NNFt5B2uZOX_3DAUNy3960SqNg
Surprised Donnie's cybersecurity advisor Rudy Giuliani wasn't able to prevent this hacking 🤔
According to a post on The New Civil Rights Movement F/B page, a gent named Mikael Thalen [a tech writer with the Daily Dot based in Austin Texas] hacked the site using the handle @donaldtrump and the site has been taken offline.
WaPo's Tech reporter, Drew Harwell is following a report that accounts for Donald Trump and Mike Pence on it were either created by other persons or the accounts were vulnerable and hacked.
Prepare for it to to be now ground down to dust
So his new America (YUUUHHH!!!) "TRUTH" site is part of Ynho g holdings (CHYNA)
Meanwhile Trump rants about how he is going to be taking on the auld demons in the "big tech" world
Meanwhile under the T&C's we have the below, is this another subscription service? Does anyone else see yet another Trump bankruptcy in the near future going by these?
And just to finish off your irony meter for the day, Donald J Trump, the bastion of free speech, the man who will take on big tech because the big meanies took away his Twitter will not let you have carte blanche to say what you want, oh no no no, they will ban you if you break those T&C's
And just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier
I actually had to check that this wasn’t old news because there was something similar post January 6th. I see the launch date in the beginning of next year, which falls under the release of taxes, healthcare plan(although he did give a timeframe for that), and I’m sure I’m forgetting some others but we’ve seen this box office flop before.
The sure fire way to know it won’t happen is trump talking about it.
Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a social media platform called TRUTH Social
My irony meter just shattered into a thousand pieces.
Trump has announced his next failed company to big fanfare as always.
Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a social media platform called TRUTH Social that will rolled be out early next year.
Trump announced the news in a press release on Wednesday, saying the platform will be open to “invited users” for a beta launch in November, with plans to make it available to the broader public in the beginning of next year.
Concerning matters the first Trump presidential-election campaign [2016] and the election campaign of Ted Cruz, The AG for the DC area, Karl Racine, has tweeted that facebook majority shareholder Mark Zuckerberg has been attached to a privacy lawsuit against Facebook as Mr Zuckerberg was personally involved in deciding to allow Cambridge Analytica access to the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook members. The lawsuit was filed in 2018.
If so, he'll probably also pass comment about the honour being given to Powell ref permission in whatever location the General is being waked at in the same way he did McCain.
According to a Washington Post interview with Senator Tommy Tuberville, the GOP lawmakers were already in a secure room when they decided to huddle in the closet. What they were seeking was not safety, but privacy, so they could plot their next move in light of the insurrection. For these senators, the original plan that day was to challenge the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in several states, in support of Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to overturn the results.
But now that hundreds of violent marauders were demanding the same thing, the Republicans in the closet worried that solidarity with the mob might not be a good look.
“One thing that was brought up was that people were hurt,” Mr Tuberville said.
Besides, the senators knew they didn’t have the votes to stop Mr Biden from becoming president.
“Do we want to continue this,” Mr Tuberville remembered wondering, “if there’s not going to be a result we are looking for anyway?”
Looking at what the senator reportedly said in the interview, it seems to me that he was being very candid there. I cant help but think, seeing as it's printed in the W/Post, Trump won't like it one bit.
Would I be reading too much into it by thinking that the senator has thrown in the towel as far as Trump being a GOP candidate for 2024 is concerned and is splitting himself completely from Trump, or is it only as far as the present Capitol Riot mob court trials AND committee hearings are concerned?
Is he a lawmaker who has woken up and admitted the 2020 GOP strategy was wrong when it came to standing with Trump and his fake re-election rhetoric is concerned?
'Hope that happens to me someday'
So busy being snide and sarcastic that he didn't really think that through!
And in another episode of not even Nixon would do this/act this way. Above is Richard Nixon's letter to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of JFK in November 1963.
There's just a bone spur between Trump and Powell.
Well to elicite empathy don’t you need to have some ?
Just when you think you can’t be surprised any more by Donald trump, he proves us all wrong by sinking even lower. I mean there have been bad things you can say about most US presidents of the modern era, but one thing that had in common is when they were and are called upon to do the basics of offering condolences to a family as ex president, they can at least do that with some degree of decency. All except Donald trump who couldn’t even lower the flags at the White House and as was mentioned he had to get a slight in.
whatever else you may think of Colin Powell, he due to his military service in Vietnam and after that deserves the flag lowering and whatever else is due him. I mean Trump at least once complained that he didn’t get credit for lower the flags, when in reality he didn’t even do anything special.
I'm sure he will have another rant when he isn't invited to the funeral and will blame the usual Liberal lefties or "fake news" somehow.
