I Guess it's Time to Discuss January 6th

[Chuck Naill]

Excellent analogy. Why would you place a person who believes in something verifiably incorrect and expect objectivity? You wouldn't.

Juries consider evidence and render verdicts. False analogy.

How did Adam Schiff get on the committee? Russian Collusion, and all his claims of having evidence, were verifiably incorrect.

Juries bring their biased perspectives. That is why the attorneys choose who sits. Excellent analogy.

Mr. Schiff got there the same as Liz and Adam.

You're wrong. The Russians admit it and we have the gang meeting to get dirt on Clinton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_meeting

[dneal]

Chuck, even if it were a good analogy (and it isn't), analogies don't prove a point.

Hillary paid for the Steele dossier, which kicked the whole thing off. The FEC fined her for it.

Keep running circles though...

[Chuck Naill]

I provided documentation that proves you are incorrect. Of course, run around in circles as well.

[TSherbs]

Another one, carrying a hammer:

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-s...9a28ec747f85a0

[Chuck Naill]

"The determination of Trump and his team to dominate the government, and through it the country, has been illustrated powerfully once again today with the release of more transcripts from testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Former White House director of strategic communications Alyssa Griffin recalled how Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, dismissed the idea that the Trump administration should coordinate with the incoming Biden officials over the coronavirus pandemic. “It was the first COVID... meeting that Jared led after [Biden won],” Griffin recalled, “& Dr. Birx... said, "Well, should we be looping the Biden transition into these conversations?" & Jared just said, ‘Absolutely not.’”


"Similarly, in an extraordinarily petty exchange, the chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, Stefanie Grisham, recalled that Trump wanted to fire the chief White House usher, Tim Harleth, for being in contact with the Biden team about the presidential transition. (Secret Service agents told Trump about the contact, raising more questions about the role of the agents around Trump.) Melania Trump stopped the firing out of concern for the stories Harleth could tell about the Trump family, but he was let go just before Biden’s inauguration, lleaving the Biden’s standing before the closed doors of the White House for an awkwardly long time when they entered for the first time."


https://heathercoxrichardson.substac...m_medium=email

[TSherbs]

No surprises there.

[Chuck Naill]

Me either, but had Americans not had this endeavor, we’d never have known.

[Chuck Naill]

Trump’s tax documents released. How do his supporter who pay more taXes respond?

[kazoolaw]

“Therefore, through this letter, I hereby formally withdraw the subpoena issued to former President Trump, and notify you that he is no longer obligated to comply or produce records in response to said subpoena,” Rep. Bennie Thompson

[kazoolaw]

Trump’s tax documents released. How do his supporter who pay more taXes respond?

Excellent tax planning.
Now let's see Joe's.

[Chuck Naill]

Trump’s tax documents released. How do his supporter who pay more taXes respond?

Excellent tax planning.
Now let's see Joe's.

Overpaid .

[Chuck Naill]

Hope Hicks said they all look like domestic terrorists, that another aid looks like genius now for getting out early.

"Among that information is that an email on January 2, 2021, from January 6 rally organizer Katrina Pierson shows that Trump’s invitation to supporters to march on the Capitol was not spontaneous; it was part of the plan. By January 2, people knew that Trump would urge his followers to march to the Capitol. To another organizer, Pierson wrote: “POTUS expectations are to have something intimate at the ellipse, and call on everyone to march to the capitol. This actually works out, because Ali [Alexander]’s group is already setting up at the Capitol, and SCOTUS is on the way.”

After the riot of January 6, Trump advisor Hope Hicks exchanged horrified texts with Julie Radford, Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff, bemoaning that the Trump family was now “royally f*cked.” “In one day, he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boy’s chapter,” Hicks wrote, “And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed…. I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now.” “Not being dramatic, but we are all f*cked,” she wrote."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substac...m_medium=email

[TSherbs]

A new legal avenue being explored:

ABC News: Longtime partner of officer who died after Jan. 6 files wrongful death lawsuit against Trump, others.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/part...ry?id=96252071

[Chip]

Another January 6th, with the House subject to another Republican attack on democracy.

Meanwhile, here's a graphic from the NY Times.

[Chuck Naill]

A new legal avenue being explored:

ABC News: Longtime partner of officer who died after Jan. 6 files wrongful death lawsuit against Trump, others.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/part...ry?id=96252071

I read yesterday "beyond a reasonable doubt" might not be possible to convict Trump. Of course, he was responsible, and we know that the plan was developed long before it occurred. However, was his intent to bring harm or did he care. Of course, I am no legal mind, but maybe manslaughter as with someone participating in a street rod race.

[TSherbs]

Copy-catting down in Brazil

The Associated Press - en Español: Pro-Bolsonaro rioters storm Brazil's top government offices.

[TSherbs]

What Trump previously posted about Bolsonaro seems, well, *revealing* :

“‘Tropical Trump’ as he is affectionately called, has done a GREAT job for the wonderful people of Brazil,” Trump said on his social media outlet. “When I was President of the U.S., there was no other country leader who called me more than Jair.”

via HCR post

[TSherbs]

Proud Boys trial part 2 is underway now....

[Chuck Naill]

Proud Boys trial part 2 is underway now....

Kelly Ann Conway has an op-ed at NYT today if interested. Oddly the title of her op-ed changed this morning. FYI.

I know this is off topic, but Paul Krugman is discussing reducing Medicare, SS, Medicare, and Medicaid funding at NYT. SS recipients pay federal and and sometimes state income tax.

[TSherbs]

An acquittal in this case, on one of the counts:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...ction-00077971