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January 6 Hearings Live

SLD said:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...e-committee-investigate-jan-6-attack-n1272055

What’s there to fucking mull? Just do it. Should’ve been done a long time ago. Fuck bipartisanship with traitors.
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I'd imagine it has to do with subpoenas. (OMG!!! I just spelled that word right for like the first time that I can remember!!! *balloons*) The White House will be hesitant to provide information because it'll create a precedence. And other people, who knows. Personally, I want to know what was exactly happening in the White House, what Trump was doing and saying. His attitude. But there are likely no digital recordings of anything. So it'll just be personal testimony ("PARTISAN!!!").

And this is also why having a bipartisan investigation changes everything. Whatever Pelosi does, whatever witnesses say, it'll be a partisan witch hunt.
 
Giuliani's Law License Is Suspended Over Trump Election Lies - The New York Times
The former mayor of New York, once the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is temporarily barred from practicing law in the state and faces possible disbarment.

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The move was a humbling blow to a man who was once known as a law-and-order crusader and whose political ambitions and creative courtroom tactics against mob bosses turned him into a fixture on national television.


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In its 33-page decision, the court said that Mr. Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January.

“The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be overstated. This country is being torn apart by continued attacks on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and of our current president, Joseph R. Biden,” the decision read.
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Matter of Giuliani (2021-00506) PC.pdf - titled link for that legal brief
For the reasons that follow, we conclude that there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020. These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client. We conclude that respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law, pending further proceedings before the Attorney Grievance Committee (sometimes AGC or Committee).
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What will Trump say about that?
 
Biden campaign workers and ex-state lawmaker sue 'Trump Train' members involved in dangerous Texas highway incident

(CNN)A White House staffer and former Texas state representative are among those suing several participants of a "Trump Train" that allegedly harassed a Biden campaign bus last October in Texas, claiming in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the Trump supporters engaged in coordinated, illegal political intimidation in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act.

The complaint was filed on behalf White House staffer, David Gins; former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis; former Biden campaign volunteer Eric Cervini; and the driver of the Biden campaign bus, Timothy Holloway. The plaintiffs wrote in their complaint filed in the Western District of Texas that on October 30, the Trump supporters "terrorized and menaced the driver and passengers on the Biden-Harris Campaign's bus" for at least 90 minutes, forcing the bus to slow to a crawl on a major highway while swerving in front of the bus to block its path.

"They played a madcap game of highway 'chicken,' coming within three to four inches of the bus," the lawsuit alleges. "They tried to run the bus off the road," referring to the defendants.

The complaint alleges that the defendants -- named as Eliazar Cisneros, Hannah Ceh, Joeylynn Mesaros, Robert Mesaros, Dolores Park, and a Jane and John Doe -- conspired beforehand to surround and block the bus in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed by Congress in 1871 to prohibit the obstruction of free and fair elections via the coordinated intimidation of voters. As a result of their actions, they claim, the campaign was forced to cancel its stops in San Marcos and Austin out of fear for their safety.
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Video of the incident in the link.
 
[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wow. One day after making a tearful apology in court, January 6 defendant Anna Morgan-Lloyd is downplaying the attack and doing a sympathy tour on Fox News.<br><br>Yesterday, in court, she said: "I’m ashamed that it became a savage display of violence that day." <a href="https://t.co/Ovh3CbiTDa">pic.twitter.com/Ovh3CbiTDa</a></p>— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) <a href="https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1408257042570256385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]..
 
Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol - The New York Times - "A six-month Times investigation has synchronized and mapped out thousands of videos and police radio communications from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, providing the most complete picture to date of what happened — and why."

Also
Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations - YouTube

Great documentary.

Trump and GOP turning MAGA 'terrorist' Ashli Babbitt into a martyr for this disturbing reason - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

"Donald Trump is trying to turn the pointless death of MAGA rioter Ashli Babbitt into a rallying cry for future terrorists."

Will some of them compose an "Ashli Babbitt Song"?

Like the Nazis'  Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Horst Wessel Song")?
The lyrics to "Horst-Wessel-Lied" were written in 1929 by Sturmführer Horst Wessel, the commander of the Nazi paramilitary "Brownshirts" (Sturmabteilung or "SA") in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. Wessel wrote songs for the SA in conscious imitation of the Communist paramilitary, the Red Front Fighters' League, to provoke them into attacking his troops, and to keep up the spirits of his men.
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As to Horst Wessel himself,
Wessel was the son of a pastor and educated at degree level, but was employed as a construction worker. He became notorious among the Communists when he led a number of SA attacks into the Fischerkiez, an extremely poor Berlin district (he did this on orders from Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Gauleiter [regional party leader] of Berlin).[3] Several of these incursions were only minor altercations, but one took place outside the tavern which the local German Communist Party (KPD) used as its headquarters. As a result of that melee, five Communists were injured, four of them seriously. Communist newspapers accused the police of letting the Nazis get away while arresting the injured Communists, while Nazi newspapers claimed that Wessel had been trying to give a speech when Communists emerged and started the fight.[3] Wessel's face was printed together with his address on Communist street posters.[2] The slogan of the KPD and the Red Front Fighters' League became "strike the fascists wherever you find them."[3]

Wessel moved with his partner Erna Jänicke into a room on Große Frankfurter Straße.[4] The landlady was the widowed Mrs Salm, whose husband had been a Communist. After a few months there was a dispute between Salm and Wessel over unpaid rent. Salm requested Wessel's partner to leave but Jänicke refused. Salm appealed to Communist friends of her late husband for help.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter on 14 January 1930, Wessel was shot and seriously wounded by two Communist Party members, one of whom was Albrecht "Ali" Höhler.[2][8][9] Wessel died in hospital on 23 February from blood poisoning, which he contracted during his hospitalisation.[8][9] Höhler was tried in court and sentenced to six years' imprisonment for the shooting.[10] He was taken out of prison under false pretenses by the SA and shot dead three years later, after the Nazi accession to national power in 1933.[2][11]
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The Nazis then made a martyr out of him.

The words of that song look rather innocuous, much like "Make America Great Again":
Raise the flag! The ranks tightly closed!
The SA marches with calm, steady step.
𝄆 Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries
March in spirit within our ranks. 𝄇

Clear the streets for the brown battalions,
Clear the streets for the storm division!
𝄆 Millions are looking upon the swastika full of hope,
The day of freedom and of bread dawns! 𝄇

For the last time, the call to arms is sounded!
For the fight, we all stand prepared!
𝄆 Already Hitler's banners fly over all streets.
The time of bondage will last but a little while now! 𝄇[23]
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More and more books are coming out about Trump's Presidency.

'How can this be happening?' Eric Trump reportedly 'flipped out' on campaign aides as election results rolled in - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism
According to excerpts from "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" by the Washington Post's Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, former president Donald Trump grew so furious on election night 2020 over the state by state returns that showed he was going to lose that a close aide to the former president was forced to call former Bush administration White House chief of staff Karl Rove for help.

As the clock ticked past midnight in Washington, D.C., on election night, Trump grew angrier and angrier as key states he needed to remain in office slipped away. Already upset that his lead in Pennsylvania was rapidly shrinking, the president reportedly lost it when Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden.

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According to the book, "Rove phoned the president and tried to give him a pep talk. 'Hang in there,' he told Trump. 'There's a lot of ballots to be counted and it's not going to be done for some time. You fought a good fight … You're not out yet.'"
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’I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: Inside Trump’s Election Day and the birth of the ‘big lie’ - The Washington Post
At the end of a tumultuous day, the defiant president refused to accept the signs that he was losing the White House contest to Joe Biden. “I won in a landslide and they’re taking it back,” Trump told advisers.
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Nancy Pelosi rather desperately wanted to avoid a repeat of the 2016 elections.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been working toward this night for four years. For her, election night in 2016 had been a nightmare, and she was determined not to allow a repeat in 2020. “That night was like getting kicked in the back by a mule over and over again,” she said in an interview. The California Democrat recalled thinking that night about Trump’s surprise victory: “It can’t be true. It can’t be happening to our country.”

Pelosi added: “You understand that this is not a person of sound mind. You understand that. You know that. He’s not of sound mind … When he first got elected, I was devastated because I thought Hillary Clinton was one of the best prepared people to be president — better than her husband, better than [Barack] Obama, better than George W. Bush. Maybe not better than George Herbert Walker Bush, because he had been a vice president. I don’t think any of the people I just mentioned would deny that she was better qualified, experienced, all the rest of it. So, the idea that he would get elected was shocking. It was shocking.”
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Nice plug for George Bush I. To me at least, he was the last halfway decent Republican President. Not great, but not horrible.
 
Furious Trump demanded leaker who revealed he fled to his bunker during protests be executed: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism
According to Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender's bombshell book, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, a furious Donald Trump demanded that officials in his government find out who leaked the story that he fled to his bunker during the George Floyd protests in D.C. and wanted them tried for treason and then executed.
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What a horrible sore loser. He has all the emotional maturity of a toddler. "Terrible twos" and all that. I don't see how any serious conservative can put up with him. That's contrary to the sort of image that they have of themselves, that they are mature, rational, pragmatic, realistic, and the like. Sort of like Mitt Romney.

Nine Juicy Details to Come Out of the Barrage of New Trump Books
  • Frankly, We Did Win This Election by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender
  • Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
  • I Alone Can Fix It co-authored by the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
"I alone can fix it" was his famous boast from his 2016 campaign.

The details:
  1. Trump believed that the Democratic Party would withdraw their nomination for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the last minute and replace them with Andrew Cuomo and Michelle Obama as the presidential and vice presidential nominees, respectively.
  2. Trump suggested using the pandemic as an excuse for indefinitely postponing the 2020 election.
  3. Trump said that he wanted the military to “beat the fuck” out of protesters for racial justice and “to crack their skulls,” Wolff reports.
  4. Trump feels betrayed by all three Supreme Court justices that he nominated, but he ”reserved particular bile for [Brett] Kavanaugh,” Wolff writes.
  5. Trump allegedly told one of his many White House chief of staffs John Kelly that Adolf Hitler “did a lot of good things.”
  6. According to Bender, Trump thinks that Mitch McConnell is as “dumb as a rock.”
  7. Rudy Giuliani’s plan during election night was to urge Trump to say that he won, regardless of the truth.
  8. Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol openly admitted that they were there to overthrow the government
  9. Trump’s notorious remarks before supporters stormed the Capitol were not in the speech that his staff had prepared.
 
Trump has given over 22 interviews for 17 books since leaving office - Axios
Former President Trump has given at least 22 interviews for 17 different books since leaving office, with authors lining up at Mar-a-Lago as he labors to shape a coming tsunami of Trump tomes, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Trump advisers see the coming book glut as proof that interest in "POTUS 45," as they call him, has never been higher. These advisers know that most of the books will paint a mixed picture, at best. But Trump is working the refs with charm, spin and dish.
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Trump, after agreeing to sit for a raft of book interviews, declares them a ?total waste of time? - The Washington Post
Former president Donald Trump, who reportedly agreed to sit for at least a dozen interviews in recent months for forthcoming books about his tenure, said Friday that doing so was “a total waste of time.”

“It seems to me that meeting with authors of the ridiculous number of books being written about my very successful Administration, or me, is a total waste of time,” Trump said in a statement in which he accused the authors of producing “pure fiction.”

“These writers are often bad people who write whatever comes to their mind or fits their agenda,” he said. “It has nothing to do with facts or reality.”
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What a big baby. Crying when he discovers that he is not universally loved. What does he expect? Hagiographies?
 
'Disappointed in Kavanaugh': New books on Trump offer behind-the-scenes looks at presidency
According to Bender, Kelly “told the president that he was wrong, but Trump was undeterred,” emphasizing German economic recovery under Hitler during the 1930s. Per Bender, Kelly “pushed back again and argued that the German people would have been better off poor than subjected to the Nazi genocide.”

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“Senior officials described his understanding of slavery, Jim Crow, or the Black experience in general post-Civil War as vague to non-existent,” Bender writes. “But Trump’s indifference to Black history was similar to his disregard for the history of any race, religion, or creed.”
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So he's not only grossly ignorant, he is reluctant to learn a lot of things.

"Throughout his time in office, Trump was slow to condemn right-wing militias, many of which contained neo-Nazi sympathies or elements of white supremacy."

It seems to me that he reveals which side he is on.

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"I'm very disappointed in Kavanaugh" he said.

Why?
Kavanaugh’s record shows he was more likely to side with the liberal wing of the court compared with other conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. Most recently, he joined the majority opinion that rejected a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in June.

“I can’t even believe what’s happening. I’m very disappointed in Kavanaugh,” Trump says. “In retrospect, he just hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice.

“I’m basing this on more than just the election,” he adds, referring to Kavanaugh's not overturning the 2020 presidential results from the bench.
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I keep on being struck by how emotionally immature Trump is, and how his family and friends and underlings seem willing to enable his immaturity.
 
Then the 2020 election.
“The morning of Nov. 3, 2020, President Trump was upbeat. The mood in the West Wing was good. Some aides talked giddily of a landslide,” they write in the book, which will be out next week. “Trump’s voice was hoarse from his mad dash of rallies, but he thought his exhausting final sprint had sealed the deal. He considered Joe Biden to be a lot of things, but a winner most definitely was not one of them. ‘I can’t lose to this f***ing guy,’ Trump told aides.”
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But the election returns weren't as good as he hoped.
What the f*** is Fox doing?” Trump screamed, according to the book. “Then he barked orders to [Jared] Kushner: ‘Call Rupert! Call James and Lachlan!’” And to campaign spokesman Jason Miller: “Get Sammon. Get Hemmer. They’ve got to reverse this.” The president was referring to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan, as well as Bill Sammon, a top news executive at the network. “Trump’s tirade continued. ‘What the f***?’ he bellowed. ‘What the f*** are these guys doing? How could they call this this early?’”
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What to do as votes continued to come in? PA and MI were too close to call.
“‘Just say we won,’ Giuliani told them. ‘Just say we won Pennsylvania,’ Giuliani said,” according to Leonnig and Rucker’s account. “Giuliani’s grand plan was to just say Trump won, state after state, based on nothing. Stepien, Miller and Meadows thought his argument was both incoherent and irresponsible. ‘We can’t do that,’ Meadows said, raising his voice. ‘We can’t.’”
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Unfortunately, those three aides never got through to Trump about that, it seems. He kept on believing that gross and dangerous falsehood that he won the election but seemingly lost because of fraud on a huge scale.
 
Frankly, We Did Win This Election review: a devastating dispatch from Trumpworld | Books | The Guardian
On election night in 2016, Donald Trump paid homage to America’s “forgotten men and women”, vowing they would be “forgotten no longer”. Those who repeatedly appeared at his rallies knew of whom he spoke. Veterans, gun enthusiasts, bikers, shop clerks. Middle-aged and seniors. Life had treated some harshly. Others less so.

Some had voted for Barack Obama, only to discover hope and change wasn’t all it was advertised to be. Regardless, the Democratic party’s urban and urbane, upstairs-downstairs coalition didn’t mesh with them. Or vice-versa. Politics is definitely about lifestyles.
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Then on why one Trumpie participated in the Jan 6 attacks. About the Capitol building: “It looked so neat,” she said. She and her fellow attackers were not there “to steal things” or “do damage”. Instead: “We were just there to overthrow the government.”

Trump considers Mitch McConnell as “dumb as a rock”, and MMC believes him to be rather unintelligent and "nuts". Yet "The Senate minority leader has made clear he will back Trump if he is the nominee again." Thus enabling Trump yet again.

About his Vice President,
Mike Pence dwells in purgatory.

“I don’t care if he apologizes or not,” Trump says of his vice-president presiding over the certification of Biden’s win. “He made a mistake.”

Once before, in their second year in office, the two men reportedly clashed over a political hiring decision. Back then, Trump reportedly called Pence “so disloyal”.
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Why did MP put up with that abusiveness?

He now endorses the martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt.
“The person that shot Ashli Babbitt,” he said this week. “Boom. Right through the head. Just, boom. There was no reason for that.”

To say the least, that is highly contestable.

Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, cowered behind the doors Babbitt rushed. Hours later, the bulk of the House GOP opposed certifying Biden’s win. The party of Lincoln is now the party of Trump.
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H.R.1085 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To award three congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress - Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-12] (Introduced 02/18/2021)

Mar 17, 2021, 05:57 PM | 117th Congress, 1st Session passed 413 - 12, but it did not go anywhere in the Senate.

H.R.3325 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To award four congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress - Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-12] (Introduced 05/19/2021)

Jun 15, 2021, 05:29 PM | 117th Congress, 1st Session - passed 406 - 21, but it did not go anywhere in the Senate.

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This was bipartisan, but the Republicans then rejected it.

H.R.3233 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

May 19, 2021, 06:49 PM | 117th Congress, 1st Session - it passed 252 - 175, with 35 Republicans voting for it and no Democrats voting against it.

May 28, 2021, 11:24 AM - U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 117th Congress - 1st Session - On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture Re: Motion to Proceed to H.R. 3233) - the vote was Y 54 N 35 nv 11, not enough to pass cloture.

Six Republicans voted for this commission: Cassidy (R-LA), Collins (R-ME), Murkowski (R-AK), Portman (R-OH), Romney (R-UT), Sasse (R-NE)

Eleven Republicans and two Democrats did not vote: Blackburn (R-TN), Blunt (R-MO), Braun (R-IN), Burr (R-NC), Inhofe (R-OK), Murray (D-WA), Risch (R-ID), Rounds (R-SD), Shelby (R-AL), Sinema (D-AZ), Toomey (R-PA)
 
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