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Question Trump and Fox News are they inciting Riots
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[link=https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1600166569807872000]https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1600166569807872000[/link]
Video worth watching.
Congressional police getting Medals of Honor today. They shake Schumer’s hand and then go out of their way to avoid McConnell and McCarthy. Full snub as McConnell has his hand out to shake.
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the explanation why –
[link=https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1600173400420278286]https://twitter.com/MacFa…us/1600173400420278286[/link]
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BREAKING:[link=https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FJanuary6thCmte]@January6thCmte[/link] is going to submit criminal referrals for at least 4 individuals in addition to Trump.
They are:
Mark Meadows
John Eastman
Jeffrey Clark
Rudy Giuliani-
Smiling. Thanks. Was down a bit from a friends cancer diagnosis.
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[link=https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1602706159890272256]https://twitter.com/MacFa…us/1602706159890272256[/link]
Another Proud Boy wants a change of venue…
Proud Boys seditious conspiracy defendant Joe Biggs makes latest motion to transfer case from DC to Virginia
He argues possible DC juror bias “will only be bolstered” by next week’s release of House Jan 6 Cmte report
“That is particularly true in the tightly knit, relatively insular Washington DC residential community from which even the most well-meaning jurors are drawn”
(sounds like the lawyer who wrote that filing needs a little bias trying themselves)
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[link=https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-obsessed-capitol-riot-ringleader-douglas-jensen-gets-5-years-in-prison?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social]https://www.thedailybeast…_campaign=owned_social[/link]
Douglas Jensen, who wore a QAnon t-shirt as he stood at the front of the Capitol riot mob, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison after he was found guilty in September of seven charges including assaulting a police officer.
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[h1]January 6 Panel Voting on Referral of Criminal Charges Against Trump[/h1]
The January 6 Committee is preparing to vote on urging the Justice Department to pursue at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection, [link=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral-00074411]Politico[/link] reports.
Among the charges that subcommittee proposes for Trump: 18 U.S.C. 2383, insurrection; 18 U.S.C. 1512(c), obstruction of an official proceeding; and 18 U.S.C. 371, conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
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Patriots and political prisoners!
[h1]January 6 defendant arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents who had investigated him[/h1]
[link=https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fpolitics%2Fedward-kelley-january-6-fbi-agents%2Findex.html]https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/polit…nts/index.html[/link]
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House Jan 6 Select Committee releases executive summary of its final report It includes a referral against FOUR GOP Members “for sanction by the House Ethics Committee for failure to comply with subpoenas”
Kevin McCarthy
Rep Scott Perry
Rep Jim Jordan
Rep Andy Biggs -
[link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-report-summary-ivanka-trump-not-forthcoming-rcna62362]NBC News[/link]:
Jan 6 Committee report calls out many in the Trump circle as “not forthcoming”
Not surprisingly on that list… Tony Ornato, the Secret Service member who for a hot minute “refuted” Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony … until he didn’t
Its executive summary takes a highly skeptical view of Tony Ornato, who went from a high-level role at the Secret Service to become Trumps White House deputy chief of staff in 2019, before returning to the Secret Service after Trump left office in 2021 an unusual trajectory. He retired in August as his actions and the decisions of the agency were under scrutiny by the Jan. 6 panel.
The committee alleges former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows made false claims in his book that Trump never intended to travel to the Capitol on Jan. 6. The panel became increasingly wary that other witnesses might intentionally conceal what happened. That appeared to be the case with Ornato, according to the executive summary.
Ornato does not recall that he conveyed the information to Cassidy Hutchinson regarding the SUV, and also does not recall that he conveyed similar information to a White House employee with national security responsibilities who testified that Ornato recalled a similar account to him, it continues. The Committee is skeptical of Ornatos account.
The panel adds that Ornato had access to intelligence about Capitol violence on Jan. 6 but couldnt recall if he informed Meadows and Trump, even though he was duty-bound to do so. The committee says it has significant concerns about the credibility of this testimony, according to the executive summary, and says it will release the transcript of his November interview.[/QUOTE]
Also on the FOS list… Ivanka Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, Hope Hicks, Other Trump lawyers and supporters, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, Phil Waldron and Michael Flynn, all invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination when asked by the Select Committee what supposed proof they uncovered that the election was stolen,
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Mitch McConnell about Jan. 6 report: The entire nation knows who is responsible for that day. Beyond that, I dont have any immediate observations.
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[h2][link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/trump-jan-6-house-republicans/]Trumps Jan. 6 enablers in Congress can now exhale[/link][/h2]
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… Despite those {30 Republican} legislators having been actively involved in the broader effort and serving in positions that require an oath of fealty to the Constitution, the committee offered only formal objections over the failure of four legislators House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Biggs, Jordan and Perry to comply with the committees requests for information. Instead of doing so, several of them were explicit in casting the committee as illegitimate or partisan, intentionally weakening the potency of the committees work.
Its unlikely that the Ethics Committee will offer much of a slap on the wrist, if any, particularly since that bipartisan committee will soon be chaired by a Republican. Those members of the House who amplified Trumps false claims, worked to assist with his efforts to retain power, voted to block electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania and then blocked or minimized the investigation undertaken by their colleagues will simply continue to serve in Congress.
On Jan. 3, they will once again take a sworn oath to defend the Constitution, as they did on the same day two years prior.[/QUOTE]
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[h1]Cassidy Hutchinson’s First Lawyer Denies Panels Claim of Interference[/h1]
A former lawyer for a White House aide who became a key witness for the House Jan. 6 committee took a leave of absence from his law firm on Tuesday and defended himself against what he said were false insinuations by the panel that he had interfered with his clients testimony, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/politics/stefan-passantino-cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6.html]New York Times[/link] reports.
The lawyer, Stefan Passantino, represented Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to the White House chief of staff at the end of the Trump administration, in the early stages of the committees investigation. He made the comments in a statement [link=https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/20/trumps-former-ethics-lawyer-told-witness-to-lie/]first reported by CNN[/link], a day after the committee released an executive summary of its findings.
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[link=https://news.yahoo.com/jan-6-committee-says-donald-193417307.html]Jan. 6 Committee Says Donald Trump Associates Tried To Bribe Witnesses
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Weve learned that a [witness] was offered potential employment that would make her, quote, financially very comfortable as the date of her testimony approached, by entities that were apparently linked to Donald Trump and his associates, Lofgren said.
These offers were withdrawn or didnt materialize as reports of the content of her testimony circulated, she added. The witness believed this was an effort to affect her testimony, and we are concerned that these efforts may have been a strategy to prevent the committee from finding the truth.
The committee first described [link=https://www.yahoo.com/now/donald-trump-could-illegally-tampering-094507389.html]possible efforts to interfere with its witnesses[/link] over the summer. Committee co-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in June that witnesses described efforts from Trumps inner circle to influence their testimony.
What they said to me is, As long as I continue to be a team player, they know that Im on the team, Im doing the right thing, Im protecting who I need to protect, you know, Ill continue to stay in good graces in Trump World, the witness said, according to Cheney.[/QUOTE]
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[h1][b]Informant Warned FBI Ahead of January 6 Insurrection[/b][/h1]
On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a wild protest in the nations capital on Jan. 6, one of the FBIs own confidential sources warned the bureau that the far-right considered Trumps message a call to arms, according to an email reviewed by [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/informant-warned-fbi-weeks-jan-6-far-right-saw-trump-tweet-call-arms-rcna62683]NBC News[/link].
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[h1][link=https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fjanuary6th.house.gov%2Fsites%2Fdemocrats.january6th.house.gov%2Ffiles%2FReport_FinalReport_Jan6SelectCommittee.pdf]The Final Jan 6 Committee Report[/link][/h1]
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/22/jan-6-committee-report-transcripts-live-updates/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert]Washington Post[/link]
The report finds that Trump actively inspired his supporters to commit violence in his name as he attempted to remain in office despite losing the 2020 election. It comes nearly two years after a pro-Trump mob of supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the counting of votes for election winner Joe Biden, and follows a unanimous vote by the committee Monday to [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/19/trump-referrals-jan-6-committee/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4]refer Trump to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.[/link]
The report, released as Trump begins his bid for reelection, recommends that Congress consider banning the former president from holding office again, citing the 14th Amendment, which bars those who have engaged in an insurrection or offered aid and comfort to the enemies of the Constitution. It also details how ahead of the Jan. 6 attack, red flags about potential deadly violence were ignored. The committee behind the report will disband within days.
[b]200 apparent acts of outreach to lawmakers, election officials ahead of riot[/b][/h2]In the weeks between the November election and Jan. 6, the committee estimated that Trump or his inner circle engaged in what it described as at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation that targeted lawmakers or election officials in numerous states he lost but that had Republican-controlled legislatures.
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[b]White House aide suggested Trump invite GOP state lawmakers to WH meeting after loss[/b][/h2]
Imagine if every red state legislature slated zero electors, Haley wrote. It would reveal that we are a red country. To do this we would have to jack this to the nth degree as a battle of tribes. Haley pressed the strategy in texts and emails, including to Johnny McEntee, assistant to the president and director of presidential personnel, whom Haley cast as a direct conveyor to Boss with ideas.
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[b]Trump normalized extremists[/b][/h2]
Far-right groups including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and Three Percenters mingled at events that provided an opportunity for radicals and extremists to coalesce. These gatherings are portrayed as dry runs that helped build the momentum for January 6th.
In the year leading up to the insurrection, according to the report, there were at least nine incidents involving far-right actors entering state capitols. At least four of those incursions in Michigan, Idaho, Arizona and Oregon involved identifiable individuals who later participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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[b]Pence staffer prevented handoff of alternate electors list[/b][/h2]Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and his staff were contacted by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and a Trump campaign lawyer in Wisconsin on Jan. 6 to coordinate handoff of a document of so-called[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/26/trump-fake-electors-arizona/?itid=lk_inline_manual_62] alternate electors[/link] to Vice President Mike Pence
Johnsons chief of staff told Chris Hodgson, Pences director of legislative affairs, that the senator needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise.
Hodgson asked what Johnson needed to hand off, and was told: Alternate slate of electors for MI and WI because archivist didnt receive them.
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Trump on Truth Social “WITCH HUNT!”
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[link=https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fcongress%2Fjan-6-committee-unveils-final-report-capping-18-month-probe-rcna62629]NBCNews.com story[/link]
Chapter 1 is titled, “THE BIG LIE,” a nod to Trump’s widespread effort to delegitimize the 2020 election and falsely claim it was stolen, while Chapter 2, titled “I JUST WANT TO FIND 11,780 VOTES,” focuses on Trump’s attempt to pressure state and election officials in Georgia and other places to overturn the election results.
Witnesses, nearly all of them Republicans, testified that Trump and his inner circle had furiously worked to sow doubt about Joe Bidens legitimate election victory; launched a [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jan-6-committee-turns-focus-trumps-efforts-pressure-states-overturning-rcna33005]multi-pronged campaign to pressure[/link] state officials, senior members of the Justice Department and then-Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the election; directed a mob of thousands of his supporters to march on the Capitol to disrupt lawmakers counting of the electoral votes that would certify the results of the election; and [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/prime-time-jan-6-hearing-focuses-trumps-inaction-187-minutes-mayhem-rcna36737]refused to call off his supporters[/link] as they brutally assaulted police officers and stormed the Capitol.
“Among the most shameful of this committees findings was that President Trump sat in the dining room off the Oval Office watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television. No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again,” Cheney said at Monday’s meeting. “He is unfit for any office.”
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[i]Election Law Blog[/i] founder Rick Hasan –
[link]https://electionlawblog.org/?p=133967[/link]
[h1]My Reflections on the Release of the January 6 Committee Report on Trumps Attempted Election Subversion and the Expected Passage This Week of Electoral Count Act Reform: Gratitude, Awe, and Partial Relief[/h1]
That this comprehensive and damning, detailed report got completed and ECA reform accomplished in two years in a hyperpartisan atmosphere following an attempted self-coup and insurrection is nothing short of remarkable. It took courageous Republicans coming together with Democrats to recognize the urgency of the matter and the need for immediate reform or else the risk of election subversion in future elections would only increase. Some Republicans did so likely sacrificing their political careers in an act of courage.
The report is careful, lawyerly, and fact-based, and the picture it paints is damning of those, beginning with the former President, who were willing to manipulate legal theories and engage in baldfaced lies about voter fraud in an attempt to steal a presidential election. Even though most of the information in the first 5 chapters of the report was familiar to someone who has been following this closely, [b]the set of narratives makes an unmistakeable record for history of unprecedented treachery and sedition. [/b]This is true whether or not criminal charges are brought and convictions obtained. [b]There are strong reasons to prosecute the former President, [/b]and [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/opinion/trump-jan-6-prosecution.html]as I argued [/link]in the [i]New York Times[/i], [b]the risk of not prosecuting Trump is greater than the risk of prosecuting him.[/b]…
In the end, the risk of election subversion [link=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/arizona-midterm-results-2022-democracy-good.html]is lessened [/link]but not behind us. Trump copycats like Kari Lake are still out there. Fortunately, courts a[link=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/courts-election-deniers-democracy/671957/]re mostly functioning like they should[/link] and must in combatting attempted subversion via unsubstantiated claims of fraud or irregularities, and Kari Lake [link=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/12/23/kari-lake-trial-election-challenge-arizona-governor-ends-judge-decides/69752580007/]will soon lose her bogus case too.[/link]
We are not out of the woods, but we are in much better shape thanks to the courageous work of the January 6 committee, and the work of Democrats and Republicans coming together, especially in the Senate, to fix the Electoral Count Act. There is much to be thankful for this holiday season.[/QUOTE]
