January 6 Hearings Live

[Cheerful Charlie]

Reports are coming in from January 6 committee members that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, under oath, is encouraging more witnesses wanting to testify. Plus a few who have already been interviewed to clarify past interviews with the committee. A number of major figures still refuse to testify under oath.

 

[ZiprHead]

Reports are coming in from January 6 committee members that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, under oath, is encouraging more witnesses wanting to testify. Plus a few who have already been interviewed to clarify past interviews with the committee. A number of major figures still refuse to testify under oath.

Pay attention to those who say these people lie but refuse to testify.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

There are two kinds of people involved here. Ring leaders and willing tools, and lesser persons, aides, assistants, underlings and the like who want to get out from under all of this as quickly and gracefully as possible. It is now obvious that shutting up and laying low and hoping that this will all just go away is probably not a winning strategy.

 

[ZiprHead]

Ginny Thomas has "changed her mind" and now refuses to testify. Probably a smart idea on her part.

 

[Elixir]

Ginny Thomas has "changed her mind" and now refuses to testify. Probably a smart idea on her part.

Ginni was the last to know she was going to change her mind.

 

[Ford]

Reports are coming in from January 6 committee members that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, under oath, is encouraging more witnesses wanting to testify. Plus a few who have already been interviewed to clarify past interviews with the committee. A number of major figures still refuse to testify under oath.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that these "reports" are careful, deliberate leaks meant to send a message to those folks still on the fence: volunteer to testify before we have to ask you. CNN had former White House Communications Director/Hutchinson's friend on for a very enlightening conversation. These are Trump's "best people." Not the inner circle, but not outsiders or "deep state" actors.

 

[ZiprHead]

People can talk all day long about "hearsay". You know what they can do about it? Testify under oath.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

New Yorker Magazine has just published an interview with film maker Eric Holder. Who states that towards the end of his filming as January 6 approached, Trump became utterly irrational. It was impossible to have a coherent conversation with Trump. Who would believe every lie Trump told.

In short, Trump is indeed mentally ill. Holder has been deposed by the January 6 committee, subpeoned by Georgia and maybe others. Holder has stated lately he has been collecting subpeonas.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Dems must stop pussyfooting around and issue the subpoenas.

Bottom line: House Dems are feeding the whole Right-wing propaganda machine and handing more votes to Republicans in the Fall elections if they do not take steps to put those 2 SS agents on the stand to give their testimony.

(Or, if that testimony would discredit their witness, that's just the truth coming out, whatever it is. Is that what they're afraid of?)

The problem is what to do when they lie under oath. Better to get a whole bunch of friendly testimony first so they don't have as much wiggle room.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

People can talk all day long about "hearsay". You know what they can do about it? Testify under oath.

The issue with hearsay is that some of us want granite carved proof to come alongside the implications. It at least provides us momentary hope that Trump and his seditionist crew could be held accountable and go to prison.

 

[Gospel]

New Yorker Magazine has just published an interview with film maker Eric Holder. Who states that towards the end of his filming as January 6 approached, Trump became utterly irrational. It was impossible to have a coherent conversation with Trump. Who would believe every lie Trump told.

In short, Trump is indeed mentally ill. Holder has been deposed by the January 6 committee, subpeoned by Georgia and maybe others. Holder has stated lately he has been collecting subpeonas.

Until Trump has been diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist, that's hearsay.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

There is substantial evidence that demonstrates he is a sociopathic narcissist.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

New Yorker Magazine has just published an interview with film maker Eric Holder. Who states that towards the end of his filming as January 6 approached, Trump became utterly irrational. It was impossible to have a coherent conversation with Trump. Who would believe every lie Trump told.

In short, Trump is indeed mentally ill. Holder has been deposed by the January 6 committee, subpeoned by Georgia and maybe others. Holder has stated lately he has been collecting subpeonas.

Until Trump has been diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist, that's hearsay.

It is eyewitness information. And I have no reason to doubt him.

 

[Gospel]

New Yorker Magazine has just published an interview with film maker Eric Holder. Who states that towards the end of his filming as January 6 approached, Trump became utterly irrational. It was impossible to have a coherent conversation with Trump. Who would believe every lie Trump told.

In short, Trump is indeed mentally ill. Holder has been deposed by the January 6 committee, subpeoned by Georgia and maybe others. Holder has stated lately he has been collecting subpeonas.

Until Trump has been diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist, that's hearsay.

It is eyewitness information. And I have no reason to doubt him.

I get that but without a medical diagnosis from a professional, there is no proof the eyewitness information is correct. Unless of course, the eyewitness is a psychiatrist & Trump was their client. Throwing around the words mentally ill without an actual diagnosis helps nothing. I'd be more willing to accept the observation if it came from a professional.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

One does not have to have a medical degree to realize someone is utterly irrational when that person is in fact utterly irrational. There is a LOT of that going on with Trump and his enablers like Guiliani. That has been on public display for months now.

 

[Copernicus]

...I get that but without a medical diagnosis from a professional, there is no proof the eyewitness information is correct. Unless of course, the eyewitness is a psychiatrist & Trump was their client. Throwing around the words mentally ill without an actual diagnosis helps nothing. I'd be more willing to accept the observation if it came from a professional.

That is not going to happen unless Trump himself grants public release of his medical records or there is a court-ordered psychiatric exam. The HIPAA control access to medical information in the US, and Donald Trump is never going to release his medical records. In fact, he has a known history of using doctors to issue false reports on his health status. The closest thing we've had to professional evaluations of the man's psychiatric status are from professionals who base their opinions on what they know of his public behavior, which can be very erratic at times. Mary L. Trump, his niece, has a PhD in clinical psychology, and she has made extensive comments on his mental health. She has far more intimate knowledge of his past and his behavior than most people, since she grew up inside his extended family and had frequent contact with him during her childhood and adolescence. Unfortunately, she is too close to him and too emotionally involved to be objective about his mental condition, but she has attributed some pathological disorders to his behavior in her book  Too Much and Never Enough. She believes that he becomes quite incapable of handling reality at times. He comes to genuinely believe things that he makes up, for example that he was reelected by the majority of voters and that he was cheated out of the presidency.

 

[laughing dog]

New Yorker Magazine has just published an interview with film maker Eric Holder. Who states that towards the end of his filming as January 6 approached, Trump became utterly irrational. It was impossible to have a coherent conversation with Trump. Who would believe every lie Trump told.

In short, Trump is indeed mentally ill. Holder has been deposed by the January 6 committee, subpeoned by Georgia and maybe others. Holder has stated lately he has been collecting subpeonas.

Until Trump has been diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist, that's hearsay.

Conclusions drawn from direct observation and recorded events are not "hearsay". That does not mean they are necessarily valid, but anyone can certainly conclude that someone has a mental illness or is mentally unbalanced.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Trump is not mentally ill unless all those spoiled brats we've all met are also mentally ill. Orange is just a spoiled rich brat who's never had to answer for anything he's ever done that's been wrong or illegal. A couple good physical ass kickings would do him a world of good.

 

[Copernicus]

Trump is not mentally ill unless all those spoiled brats we've all met are also mentally ill. Orange is just a spoiled rich brat who's never had to answer for anything he's ever done that's been wrong or illegal. A couple good physical ass kickings would do him a world of good.

According to his niece, who is a clinical psychiatrist, he is mentally ill. He is also a spoiled rich brat, and he has lost court cases but never personally been convicted of a crime. He is always well-protected from personal criminal liability. I doubt an ass kicking would do him any good, as he has had those in the past. They just make him determined to get revenge.

 

[Gospel]

New Yorker Magazine has just published an interview with film maker Eric Holder. Who states that towards the end of his filming as January 6 approached, Trump became utterly irrational. It was impossible to have a coherent conversation with Trump. Who would believe every lie Trump told.

In short, Trump is indeed mentally ill. Holder has been deposed by the January 6 committee, subpeoned by Georgia and maybe others. Holder has stated lately he has been collecting subpeonas.

Until Trump has been diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist, that's hearsay.

Conclusions drawn from direct observation and recorded events are not "hearsay". That does not mean they are necessarily valid, but anyone can certainly conclude that someone has a mental illness or is mentally unbalanced.

So how exactly do they go about proving their observation is valid? To my knowledge when validation is missing, it's hearsay.