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Today, after Nancy Pelosi objected to Jim Jordan and Jim Banks serving on the investigative committee, Kevin McCarthy threw a hissy fit and decided to pull all five of his picks. He accused Pelosi of an "egregious abuse of power" and said the committee "has lost its legitimacy." Hey, Kevin, how "legitimate" would the committee be with Retrumplicans who believe Trump won the election? Republican Liz Cheney was chosen by Pelosi and will serve on the committee. Cheney today called McCarthy's rhetoric "disgraceful" and said his "lack of commitment to the Constitution" should disqualify him from serving as Speaker of the House if Republicans regain the House in 2022. She said, "At every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened. The idea that anybody would be playing politics with an attack on the United States Capitol is despicable and disgraceful."
McCarthy pulls his 5 GOP picks from January 6 committee after Pelosi rejects 2 of his picks
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/polit...tee/index.html
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With very few exceptions, Congressional Retrumplicans have sold their souls to Donald Trump. They are blindly loyal members of the Cult of Donald Trump. They worship him. They protect him and defend him at all costs. Thus, it comes as no surprise that they want to investigate the Capitol riot but may ignore Trump's role in inciting it.
Kevin McCarthy says GOP will do its own, more partisan Capitol riot probe
The Republican leader suggested his investigation won’t look at Donald Trump’s role in the attack.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin...b0d1bafbfa0d0a
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Six gigabytes of video of the January 6 Capitol riot. That's six more gigabytes of evidence for Retrumplicans to refuse to acknowledge while they continue to insist the insurrection was "peaceful" and a "tourist visit" and, anyway, certainly was not provoked and incited by Donald Trump.
Judge forces US Capitol rioter to unlock laptop seized by FBI
CNN, Jul 21 2021 7:09 PM ET
A federal judge today forced a US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop after prosecutors argued that it likely contained more than 6 gigabytes of videos of the January 6 insurrection filmed on a helmet-worn camera. Judge Dabney Friedrich granted the Justice Department's request to place Capitol riot defendant Guy Reffitt in front of his laptop so they could use facial recognition to unlock the device. Investigators seized the laptop and other devices earlier this year pursuant to a search warrant.
Reffitt has been in jail since his arrest in January. His case received national attention after his son spoke publicly about how Reffitt had threatened to kill family members if they turned him into the FBI. The case became an example of how former President Donald Trump's lies tore some families apart. Reffitt's son and daughter testified against him in court or before the grand jury. He pleaded not guilty to five federal crimes, including bringing a handgun to the Capitol grounds during the insurrection and obstructing justice by allegedly threatening his family. The felony gun charge undercuts false claims from Trump and prominent Republican lawmakers that the rioters weren't armed and that they had "no guns whatsoever."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/polit...top/index.html
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Kevin McCarthy and his Retrumplican cohorts in the House of Representatives live in Trumpworld, the topsy-turvy land of delusions where wrong is right, bad is good, down is up, Trump won in 2020, the election was "rigged" and "stolen" and the mob that rioted at the US Capitol on January 6 was, as Trump put it, a "very loving crowd." CNN White House reporter Stephen Collinson notes that "the House Republican Party will do anything in its quest to shield Trump from accountability and to prevent Americans – and ultimately history – from having a true understanding of what happened on January 6." Yes, when you've sold your soul to Donald Trump and you're a blindly loyal member of the Cult of Donald Trump, you have to protect him and defend him at all costs.
Analysis: Trump and the GOP spin fantasies to hide his crimes against the Constitution
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/polit...osi/index.html
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Pelosi said the GOP's "antics" will not keep the committee from discovering the truth about the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. McCarthy said the committee is a "sham" and is "politically driven" by Pelosi. Hey, Kevin, the riot was politically driven! And in newly released audio, Donald Trump on March 31 described the rioters to two Washington Post reporters: "It was a loving crowd, too, by the way. There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody." Pelosi and the Democrats seek the truth. Delusional Donald, mendcaious McCarthy and the Retrumplicans seek to downplay the riot and prevent Americans from learning the truth.
Pelosi fires back at McCarthy after he called January 6 committee probe a 'sham process'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pelo...ry?id=78990436
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According to Insider.com, 586 Capitol rioters have now been charged with federal crimes. It is truly scary that so many people believed Donald Trump's Big Lie of a "rigged" and "stolen" election" and were willing to fight for him and even willing to kill for him. Delusional Donald called the mob "loving." In truth, they were rioting, vandalizing the Capitol building and chanting, "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!"
Latest man arrested in Capitol riot accused of attacking police with rod
Michael Leon Brock was filmed appearing to hit and push officers with the metal rod while wearing a hoodie reading “God, Guns and Trump.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/micha...b07c153fbcfb4e
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Bennie Thompson, who represents Mississippi's 2nd District in the House of Representatives and is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is heading the House committee investigating the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. The committee will conduct its first hearing July 27. Law enforcement officers who responded to the insurrection will testify. Nancy Pelosi appointed seven Democrats and one Republican (Liz Cheney) to serve on the committee. Kevin McCarthy selected five Republicans to be part of the committee but threw a hissy fit and withdrew all five after Pelosi objected to two of his choices because they support Donald Trump's Big Lie of a "rigged" and "stolen" election and refuse to accept Joe Biden as President. And, speaking of Trump.......
'Almost giddy': Author describes Trump during Capitol riot
Carol Leonnig, a co-author of the book I Alone Can Fix It, describes how former President Donald Trump reacted while he was watching the January 6 Capitol riot unfold on TV from inside the White House.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...vpx-newday.cnn
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In January, Adam Kinzinger – who refuses to believe Donald Trump's Big Lie of a "rigged" and "stolen" election – was one of only 10 House Republicans who sided with Democrats in voting to impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection. In February, the Senate voted 57–43 to convict Trump, falling 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution. Once again, "Teflon Don" got off scot-free. In May, Senate Retrumplicans – whose loyalty is to Donald Trump and him alone – blocked the bill to create an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. Retrumplicans do not want Americans to know the truth. In June, Nancy Pelosi announced the formation of a select committee to investigate the riot. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the only House Republicans to vote in favor of establishing the committee, are now part of it. The investigative panel was to have 13 members – eight chosen by Pelosi and five chosen by Kevin McCarthy – but McCarthy threw a hissy fit and withdrew his five picks because Pelosi objected to two who believe Trump's Big Lie.
Pelosi appoints Adam Kinzinger to January 6 House select committee
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/25/polit...ans/index.html
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A growing number of House Retrumplicans – who have sold their souls to Donald Trump and do not want Americans learning the truth about the deadly, Trump-incited riot – want Kevin McCarthy to punish the two Republicans who will serve on the House select committee. How dare they refuse to believe the Big Lie that Trump won in 2020 and the election was "stolen" from him! How dare they refuse to protect and defend Donald Trump at all costs! How dare they support the Constitution, the rule of law and their oath of office!
Growing group of GOP members wants McCarthy to punish Kinzinger and Cheney for joining January 6 committee
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/25/polit...tee/index.html
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Kevin McCarthy, Retrumplican Speaker of the House, considers Liz Cheney to be a RINO (Republican In Name Only) because she refuses to believe Donald Trump's Big Lie of a rigged, stolen election and she refuses to protect and defend Trump at all costs. Cheney and her fellow committee members are determined to learn the truth about the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. McCarthy has sold his soul to Donald Trump and does not want the truth to be known. What is he so afraid of?
'Pelosi Republicans': McCarthy and Cheney trade barbs ahead of January 6 committee hearing
https://www.aol.com/news/pelosi-repu...172808044.html
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Hawley was the first Senator to oppose the certification of Joe Biden as President. Hawley raised his fist in solidarity with the Capitol rioters. Hawley opposed the creation of an independent, bi-partisan committee to investigate the riot. Hawley is opposed to schools teaching anything about racism and white supremacy. Hawley is an idiot.
GOP Senator who egged on insurrectionists introduces bill about loving America
Josh Hawley’s legislation isn’t even about patriotism. It’s about pandering and whitewashing American history.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-...b05ff8cfcb045f
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At today's first hearing of the House select committee investigating the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol Riot, four Capitol police officers described the "horrific" and "devastating" violence. The officers said they had "no doubt" the mob wanted to "kill or kidnap." Officer Michael Fanone said, "I was grabbed, beaten, tasered and called a traitor to my country." He testified of hearing a rioter yell, "Get his gun and kill him with it!" These are the rioters whom Donald Trump described as "loving." Retrumplicans Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, who claim to support the police, did not watch the hearing. They both said they were "too busy." Fanone said, "The indifference shown to my colleagues [by Republicans] is disgraceful!
Police recount mayhem and 'attempted coup' in US Capitol riot
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pol...ng-2021-07-27/
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Judges, prosecutors and security officials warn that there could be more acts of political violence committed by blindly loyal Trump supporters who believe Donald Trump's Big Lie that he won the 2020 election but it was "stolen" from him. One of those blindly loyal Trump supporters is a former police officer – and he was preparing for war.
Ex-cop who stormed US Capitol is jailed after buying 37 guns and posting that ‘violence’ is better than ‘peaceful protest’
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/polit...cop/index.html
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On January 6, Mo Brooks – wearing body armor and standing behind bulletproof glass – told a crowd of blindly loyal Trump supporters, "Today is the day that American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America? Carry the message to Capitol Hill! The fight begins today!" The riot at the Capitol left five people dead and caused a million dollars in damages. Brooks, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani are being sued by Representative Eric Swalwell for inciting the riot.
If the January 6 rioters were just tourists, why was Mo Brooks wearing body armor?
The Alabama Republican claims his speech that day was nothing more than "a pep talk."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mo-br...b0f9b5a2315dab
Justice Department declines to defend Mo Brooks against January 6 incitement lawsuit
The Alabama Republican is one of several defendants in the suit filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell, who says Brooks knowingly incited a mob of Trump supporters.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...lawsuit-501103
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Retrumplicans have been downplaying the severity of the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. They don't dare say anything that might make their idol, Donald Trump, look bad. They will probably ignore this story:
Officer who responded to January 6 attack is third to die by suicide
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/polit...iot/index.html
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The above CNN story says an officer who responded to the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot was the third to die by suicide. We now know he was the fourth. Last week, Capitol police officers told a House investigative committee of the horrors of that day and the "mental anguish" they've experienced. Tell us again, delusional Donald, how "loving" these rioters were. Tell us again, Representative Andrew Clyde, how the riot looked like "a normal tourist visit."
Fourth police officer who responded to January 6 attack dies by suicide
HuffPost, Aug 2 2021 10:18 PM ET
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Four police officers who responded to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol have now died by suicide, the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed today. Officer Kyle DeFreytag was found dead at his home last month, the agency confirmed to HuffPost. His family later said the cause was suicide. DeFreytag was 26. The news comes just hours after the Metropolitan Police Department said a third officer, Gunther Hashida, was found dead in his home on Thursday.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/offic...b038cedb36e4ae
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On March 17, 2011, the United States Senate voted 97-0 to confirm Amy Berman Jackson, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, to fill a vacant seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She knows what "patriotism" is. It is not being blindly loyal to Donald Trump and believing his Big Lie of a "rigged" and "stolen" election, nor is it rioting and attempting to overturn the results of a free, fair election..
Judge to Capitol riot defendant: 'Patriotism is loyalty to country, loyalty to the Constitution’
CNN, Aug 4 2021 1:33 PM EDT
A federal judge rejected the argument that US Capitol rioters held in jail are being prosecuted for their political views and disavowed attempts to downplay the magnitude of the deadly insurrection during a sentencing today. “You called yourself and everyone else patriots but that’s not patriotism,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson said of defendant Karl Dresch. “Patriotism is loyalty to country, loyalty to the Constitution, not loyalty to a head of state. That is the tyranny we rejected on July 4, 1776.” Jackson called Dresch an “enthusiastic participant” in the effort “to subvert democracy, to stop the will of the people and replace it with the will of the mob.”
Dresch, 41, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally demonstrating in the Capitol building, which has become a typical plea deal that the Justice Department has offered to nonviolent rioters who did not go far into the building. Jackson sentenced Dresch to six months in jail. He will be released today because he has been in jail since mid-January and will receive credit for time already served.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/polit...ism/index.html
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Two Capitol rioters have pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer. What they, and all the other rioters, are most guilty of is believing The Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 Presidential election "in a landslide" but the victory was "stolen" from him. If nobody had believed The Big Lie, the January 6 insurrection would never have happened.
New Jersey gym owner is first US Capitol rioter to plead guilty to assaulting a police officer on January 6
Another defendant pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/polit...mma/index.html
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This blindly loyal Trump supporter believed The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election but it was "stolen" from him. Then he heeded Trump's order to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell." Then he bragged to his co-workers that he "had a great time" and it was "the best day" of his life. Maybe he'll have a "great time" in prison.
A New Jersey man is facing charges after his UPS coworkers told the FBI he 'gloated' and showed them videos of his time at the Capitol riot
https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-...ol-riot-2021-8
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HuffPost senior justice reporter Ryan Reilly wrote on November 20, "Enabled by top Republicans, President Donald Trump and his campaign have made wild, unsubstantiated claims about mass voter fraud in the 2020 election that threaten to undermine American faith in the electoral process and representative democracy. They also may put lives at risk. Current and former law enforcement officials told HuffPost that they’re worried conspiracy theorists will turn violent after latching onto ludicrous claims that election officials engaged in a massive criminal conspiracy to steal the election from Trump." And then Trump told his blindly loyal supporters to march to the Capitol on January 6 and "fight like hell." Trump said he would be there with them. He lied. He remained in the White House where he would be safe. I wonder what he thinks about all the rioters who have been arrested and charged with federal crimes. He's probably thinking, "Suckers!"
FBI arrests 'tunnel commander,' an anti-abortion extremist who fought cops on January 6
David Mehaffie was charged with attacking law enforcement during the riot at the US Capitol Building.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-a...b07c1403123f7e
