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Dumb: Taking part in the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. Dumber: Insisting she "did nothing wrong." Dumbest: Asking Donald Trump to pardon her, which he couldn't have done because he was no longer the President.
Real estate agent who asked Trump for a pardon pleads guilty in Capitol riot
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/polit...iot/index.html
The two charges this Proud Boys leader pleaded guilty to are unrelated to the January 6 Capitol riot – but I wonder if he really thinks he has anything to be "proud" of.
Proud Boys leader sentenced to more than 5 months in jail for burning BLM banner and bringing high-capacity rifle magazines to DC
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/polit...rio/index.html
A review determined "the officer's conduct was lawful" – as opposed to the conduct of the blindly loyal Trump supporters who believed The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election but it was stolen from him and then obeyed his command to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell." Nothing they did on January 6 was lawful!
Officer who fatally shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt cleared after internal probe
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/23/ashl...r-cleared.html
The committee is investigating possible security failures related to the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. The committee is also looking at Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Trump's insistence that he won in 2020 but the victory was "stolen" from him, coupled with his command to his blindly loyal supporters to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell," is what led to the riot. Inciting a riot on federal property is punishable by fines or up to five years in prison – or both. Donald Trump should be in prison but he hasn't even been charged with the crime! Teflon Don is somehow able to get away with everything he does, no matter how illegal or how unconstitutional.
House committee seeks documents from government agencies on January 6 Capitol attack, signaling massive investigative effort
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/polit...ion/index.html
Donald Trump has spent many months promoting The Big Lie that he won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "rigged" and "stolen" from him. On January 6, he told his blindly loyal supporters – who inexplicably believe The Big Lie – to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell." Following the deadly riot, Trump has been telling another lie: He is not responsible for the riot. Really?
Seven US Capitol Police officers sue former President Trump, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Stop The Steal organizers over January 6 riot
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/polit...ers/index.html
Cawthorn, like the majority of Retrumplicans, believes The BIg Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "stolen" from him. News flash, Cawthorn: If Trump had won the election, he would still be the President. Cawthorn, like the majority of Retrumplicans, also sympathizes with the blindy loyal Trump supporters who took part in the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. And Cawthorn, like the majority of Retrumplicans, is opposed to COVID-19 vaccinations. Cawthorn is 26 years old. How did he get so stupid in only 26 years?
Madison Cawthorn calls January 6 rioters 'political prisoners,' suggests he wants to 'try to bust them out of jail'
The Congressman also suggested there would be 'bloodshed' if elections 'continue to be stolen.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-...isoners-2021-8
Congressional Retrumplicans consider Liz Cheney to be a traitor because she is serving on a committee investigating the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot and she refuses to believe The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election but it was "rigged" and "stolen" from him. Retrumplicans are looking for a way to remove Cheney and fellow Republican Adam Kinzinger from the committee. Retrumplicans have sold their souls to Donald Trump and they do not want Americans to know the truth. What are they so afraid of?
Liz Cheney named vice chair of January 6 select committee
NBC News, Sep 2 2021 3:07 AM
Representative Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, has been named vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the panel’s Democratic chairman announced today Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said it’s important that the committee keep the probe bipartisan.“We are fortunate to have a partner of such strength and courage, and I look forward to continuing our work together as we uncover the facts, tell the American people the full story of January 6th, and ensure that nothing like that day ever happens again,” he said. Cheney said each member of the committee is “dedicated to conducting a non-partisan, professional and thorough investigation of all the relevant facts. We owe it to the American people to investigate everything that led up to, and transpired on, January 6th. We will not be deterred by threats or attempted obstruction and we will not rest until our task is complete.”
https://www.aol.com/news/liz-cheney-...122731018.html
Retrumplican Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia compared the rioters marching through the Capitol building to "a normal tourist visit." Well, one of those "normal tourists" – who was tattooed and bare-chested and wearing red-white-and-blue face paint and a bearskin headdress with animal horns – has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstruction.
'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley pleads guilty to felony in US Capitol riot
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/polit...ley/index.html
More than 600 blindly loyal Trump supporters – who believed The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "stolen" from him and who obeyed his order to "march to the Capitol and fight like hell" – have been arrested and charged with federal crimes. Sixty-one have now pleaded guilty.
Seven more US Capitol riot defendants plead guilty, including armed man who threatened to shoot Nancy Pelosi
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/polit...eas/index.html
Two more blindly loyal Trump supporters who believe The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election have been arrested. How can anybody believe the Big Lie? Biden won the popular vote, 81,268,924 (51.3%) to 74,216,154 (46.9%). Biden won the Electoral College vote, 306 to 232. Trump lost. He is a loser. L-O-S-E-R, Loser!
Mom and teen daughter arrested for alleged roles in January 6 attack
Video shows Jean Lavin and Carla Krzywicki using a bike rack as a ladder to enter the U.S. Capitol while carrying a sign reading “Trump won."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jean-...b09519c50adbe5
Donald Trump spent many months spreading lies about widespread voter fraud and a "rigged" and "stolen" election and then ordered his blindly loyal supporters to "march to the Capitol and fight like hell." He promised he would be there with them – but of course he wasn't. He stayed in the White House and watched the deadly riot – which he incited – on television. When is Trump going to be subpoenaed?
January 6 committee issues first subpoenas for witness testimony to four Trump loyalists
CNN, Sep 23 2021 7:54 PM ET
The select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol issued its first round of subpoenas today, targeting close aides and allies of former President Donald Trump. The subpoenas come as the select committee seeks to investigate efforts the Trump White House took to potentially overturn the 2020 Presidential election and how the spread of misinformation fueled the anger and violence that led to the Capitol insurrection. The four subpoenas are going to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, former adviser Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. The former Trump staffers are being issued subpoenas for private depositions and records.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/polit...sts/index.html
Keller won gold medals in swimming at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. Maybe he thought Donald Trump would award him a gold medal for rioting in 2021.
Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller pleads guilty in Capitol riot and will help prosecutors in future cases
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/polit...iot/index.html
The House select committee investigating the deadly, Trump-incited insurrection at the US Capitol has issued 11 additional subpoenas. If I were on that committee, the first question I would ask these blindly loyal Trump supporters would be "Why do you believe Trump's lies?" I bet none of them would be able to answer.
January 6 select committee subpoenas 'Stop the Steal' rally organizers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/january...ly-organizers/
The FBI's website includes a list of "defendants charged in federal court in connection with crimes committed at the US Capitol." More than 620 blindly loyal Trump supporters have been charged with federal crimes relating to the deadly, Trump-incited riot – and arrests are continuing almost daily.
FBI arrests 'airhead' mother-son team who raided Pelosi’s office during Capitol attack
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capit...b099230d2095e4
Police radio calls reveal pro-Trump mob overwhelmed cops hours before Capitol riot
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/park-...b050254230d5ab
Demented, deranged, delusional Donald incited a deadly riot by pushing The Big Lie that he won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "rigged" and "stolen" from him – and then telling his blindly loyal supporters to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell." He doesn't call it a riot, though, No, it was "a day of protesting the fake election results." Welcome to Trumpworld.
Donald Trump justifies Capitol riot, says election was the 'real insurrection'
The former President is continuing to tell the same kinds of lies that incited the January 6 attack.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donal...b069a0b3b83962
Can a former President invoke "executive privilege" and order witnesses to withhold information subpoenaed by Congress? Donald Trump – who lies constantly and is afraid of the truth – seems to think he has that power. He wants Dan Scavino, Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon and Kash Patel to refuse to comply with subpoenas. They are not obligated to obey Trump's directive. We shall see what happens.
Trump indicates he will try to assert executive privilege to prevent House investigators from getting information from certain witnesses
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/polit...ena/index.html
Not surprisingly, Steve Bannon – who headed Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign, served as White House strategist for seven months and continues to spread conspiracy theories, and whose Twitter account was permanently suspended after he said Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray should be beheaded – is obeying Trump's order to refuse to cooperate with the House committee investigating the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. Bannon is a blindly loyal member of The Cult Of Donald Trump and will protect and defend Trump at all costs.
Steve Bannon defies January 6 committee subpoena as Trump instructed
Trump ordered four of his associates to refuse to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Capitol attack. At least one is following his demands.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve...b024dc5280c658
White House to allow release of Trump records from January 6 attack
“These are unique and extraordinary circumstances,” White House counsel Dana Remus said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white...b0c1ab4bb45006
White House counsel Dana Remus says Donald Trump should not be allowed to invoke executive privilege to shield documents relating to the "unprecedented effort to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power, threatening not only the safety of Congress and others present at the Capitol, but also the principles of democracy enshrined in our history and our Constitution." The matter may ultimately have to be decided by the Supreme Court – which Trump has packed with conservative, pro-Trump Justices.
Trump could force courts to decide if executive privilege has a 'coup-plotting’ exception
The Biden White House offers a rationale that says attempts to "subvert" the Constitution shouldn't be protected by a Constitutional "executive privilege" idea.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b0cc44c50c9a16
The seven Democrats and two Republicans on the House select committee are determined to discover the truth about the deadly, Trump-incited Capitol riot. Retrumplicans are equally determined to whitewash the riot and paint it as a love-fest and a "tourist visit" and to protect and defend Donald Trump, to whom they have sold their souls. Trump instructed four of his closest advisers to ignore subpoenas to testify and to provide documents. Steve Bannon, one of the four, is choosing to obey Trump. Adam Schiff told MSNBC, "If witnesses do not show up, we will hold them in criminal contempt. We will vote them in contempt in the House and we will refer them for prosecution."
Pressure on January 6 panel ratchets up amid new explosion of Trump election lies
CNN, Oct 13 2021 12:33 AM ET
The House's US Capitol insurrection probe is fast turning into a race against time, up against Republican efforts to delay an accounting on ex-President Donald Trump's coup attempt after losing the 2020 election even as he preemptively begins undermining the next one. It's hardly a shock that members of Trump's orbit are seeking to evade accountability and the rule of law. But it represents a problem for the committee nonetheless, as potential witnesses seek to drag out the process as long as possible. They do so in the knowledge that Republicans who have high hopes in the midterm elections would almost certainly shut down probes into January 6 if they reclaim the House.
There is little hope that even an expansive report on the insurrection will change the minds of millions of Republicans who are convinced that the last election was stolen from Trump and of conservative media propaganda networks. But at least there will be an accurate, institutionalized version of the truth, which will provide voters confronted with the whitewashing tactics of the GOP running into the next election a chance to find out what really happened.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/13/polit...ion/index.html
He is known as "Teflon Don." Donald Trump gets away with everything he does: Lying, cheating, tax fraud, abusing women, intimidating witnesses, violating the law, violating the Constitution, violating the Presidential oath of office, attempting a coup, inciting a deadly riot – the list goes on and on.
Trump may get away with obstruction of Congress. Again.
He was impeached on that count in 2019 for his actions in the Ukraine probe but not removed by the Senate. Now he is trying to block the January 6 probe.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b0f3be08ddf8be