Speaker of the House? Take 2
Jim Jordan, the GOP nominee for Speaker of the House, has zero legislative accomplishments in 16 years in Congress and he tried to undermine the Constitution after the 2020 election.
This is really the best they’ve got?
Fox News is Deceitful Fiction
Whether it’s The Big Lie or Tucker Carlson’s rants about January 6th, Fox News is looking to corner the market in deceptive fiction. Just in time for the Oscars, too!
A Gift
The January 6th Congressional Committee has referred to the Department of Justice investigations of 4 criminal charges against former President Donald J Trump.
Just in time for the holiday gift giving season.
Trump and His Documents
The Congressional Committee on January 6th voted unanimously to subpoena former President Trump to seek his testimony about the day of the Capitol Insurrection.
I’m sure Trump will fight the subpoena. The only sensible legal strategy is for Trump to exercise his rights under the 5th Amendment for every question. But sensible legal strategies are not a strong point for Trump.
On the plus side, he likes collecting government documents, so this gives him one more to take home with him.
Bye, Liz
So, Liz Cheney has lost her primary. Left unsupported by the GOP. Abandoned by her party. For the offense of a relentless pursuit of the truth behind January 6th and an unwillingness to support the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
I disagree with a large number of Liz Cheney’s policy positions. But this is yet another sign that the GOP continues to put support for Trump over the truth and over the country.
And that’s a scary realization.
Trump Raided by FBI
In a surprising move today, the FBI raided the Mar-A-Lago home of former President Donald Trump. Confirmed by Trump himself.
This is a move that doesn’t happen without a clear idea of what they’re after and why, signed off by a federal judge. Likely all the way to the top of the DOJ.
The mind boggles at what they might find.
Wake Up!
Lots of people have been wondering when Merrick Garland would wake up and start looking into the January 6th insurrection and the roles key Trump administration members played that day and the plot to decertify the election.
Finally there are more signals that the Department of Justice is looking into it.
Not sure what will come of it. But it’s about time DOJ woke up to the alarm bells going off.
187 Minutes
187 minutes. Over three hours. Trump watched on TV as the crowd he drew to DC, riled up, directed to the Capitol, and encouraged to stop the legitimate certification of the election stormed the Capitol building, violently attacked police, and chanted violent threats at the Vice President and Congress.
His aides tried to get him to say something to stop it. He tweeted about his disappointment in Pence. Pence’s security detail, meanwhile, was contacting their loved ones in case they didn’t make it out alive.
Congress people tried to get the President to stop the crowd. But many knew he wouldn’t disavow the rioters. And he wouldn’t. He said they were special. He wouldn’t even say the election was over the next day.
It was so bad that the acting Secretary of Defense was not getting orders from the President. He was getting orders from the Vice President, who’s not even in the chain of command. But they knew they couldn’t listen to the President at that time. He was dangerous and trying to subvert our democracy for his own power.
Trump just watched. For three hours. As our democracy hung by a thread. He wouldn’t act to stop it.
Even the Uvalde police didn’t wait that long to act.
It’s unfathomable to me that people can still support Trump.
Josh Hawley Running
Tonight’s January 6th Committee hearings presented a cornucopia of damning evidence about the fragility of our democracy.
It also gave us some awesome social media fodder to mock several people who encouraged the Big Lie and the rioters. And I’m all here for that.
Josh Hawley deserves every ounce of mockery heading his way.
Secret Service Text Messages
The Secret Service, too?? So now we are left to question the veracity of claims from the Secret Service. Text messages from the day of the January 6th insurrection are unavailable to the Congressional committee since they’ve been deleted. Allegedly during a phone migration.
Yet the Secret Service was told to retain those texts and records twice: once on January 16, again on January 25. Their phone migration started January 27.
Seems to be a pattern of lost information, whether it’s White House call logs from the day, confidential and top secret records that were taken to Mar a Lago, and now Secret Service communications.
No wonder the public continues to lose trust in the government.
Trump Knew
Trump knew. We learned that from yesterday’s very compelling testimony at the January 6th Committee hearings.
A person with direct contact to Trump’s top administration officials and Trump himself helped connect several dots.
Trump KNEW he lost in November 2020.
Trump KNEW there was no election fraud. And when he learned his Attorney General wouldn’t go along with his lies he threw his lunch at the wall, leaving staff to clean the ketchup dripping down the wall.
Trump KNEW there would be violence on January 6th (with his Chief of Staff saying ahead of time that it could get “real, real bad” on January 6).
Trump KNEW the rioters were armed and ordered his people to remove the metal detectors at his rally since, “They aren’t here to hurt me…. Let them march to the Capitol.”
Trump KNEW these armed people would march on the Capitol.
Trump KNEW they were chanting to hang Mike Pence and felt Pence “deserves it.”
Trump knew this was all going to happen and encouraged and invited it.
Trump knew. The writing is on the wall.
