“The American people are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time,” the Georgia Republican told NBC News recently. “They are sick and tired of Jan. 6 — it’s over, OK?”
Quote from Marjorie Taylor Greene. Let us Not forget. OK. It was a violent uprising urged on by the then-President of the United States because he was unhappy that he didn’t win the election.
Fact #1: Five people died that day.
Fact #2: More than 100 police officers were injured by the rioters.
Fact #3: More than 750 people from 48 states have been charged for their roles in the riot, according to a database maintained by USA Today.
Fact #4: It was the first time the Capitol had been breached since the British did it in 1814 as part of the War of 1812.
Fact #5: The rioters broke into the building with the express goal of stopping the certification of the 2020 election that had been won by Joe Biden and lost by Donald Trump.
It is good to see you lefties getting worked up about riots. I wish your angst wasn’t so selective but it is a start. I am glad you are so concerned about the 100 injured police officers. I assume I can find a past post with you decrying the 2000+ injured police officers that were injured during the “mostly peaceful” (laugh laugh) riots during the summer of 20. I know it is out there.
Joseph goebbels said that if you repeat the big lie often enough people will start to believe it. The left spent 3.5 years lying to Americans about Donald Trump. You know, he was a Putin puppet, a Russian asset, a commie in the White House. Despite all the lying Americans knew better and they will figure this one out too. There was no insurrection, no treason no sedition. According to the FBI there was no organization behind the event.
I do not know anyone who was there January 6. But I would bet my social security that if I gathered all of them, 600 , 700, 800, however many there were, and told them America is under attack from a foreign power , will you defend her, the answer would not be “yes”, it would be “hell yes!!! Where is my gun. Now this contrasts quite sadly to the quinnipiac poll of democrats, of whom 52% said they would not defend America under attack. That is 52%!!!
So if I need somebody to have my back I know who to pick and who to avoid.
It is good to see you lefties getting worked up about riots. I wish your angst wasn’t so selective but it is a start. I am glad you are so concerned about the 100 injured police officers. I assume I can find a past post with you decrying the 2000+ injured police officers that were injured during the “mostly peaceful” (laugh laugh) riots during the summer of 20. I know it is out there.
Joseph goebbels said that if you repeat the big lie often enough people will start to believe it. The left spent 3.5 years lying to Americans about Donald Trump. You know, he was a Putin puppet, a Russian asset, a commie in the White House. Despite all the lying Americans knew better and they will figure this one out too. There was no insurrection, no treason no sedition. According to the FBI there was no organization behind the event.
I do not know anyone who was there January 6. But I would bet my social security that if I gathered all of them, 600 , 700, 800, however many there were, and told them America is under attack from a foreign power , will you defend her, the answer would not be “yes”, it would be “hell yes!!! Where is my gun. Now this contrasts quite sadly to the quinnipiac poll of democrats, of whom 52% said they would not defend America under attack. That is 52%!!!
So if I need somebody to have my back I know who to pick and who to avoid.
Character.... Something you clearly don't understand.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Obviously you would not know a fact if was tatooed on your forehead.
fact: hydroxychloroquine
High quality research data show the use of HCQ for treating COVID-19 can be dangerous and has no medical benefit. In fact, the FDA has revoked emergency use authorization for HCQ in COVID-19 patients based on these dangers and because it does not help people recover faster. HCQ should not be taken for COVID-19 infection because it can cause serious heart rhythm abnormalities, severe liver inflammation, and kidney failure.
trump said it is good for you. So go ahead mix it with some disinfectant it will help you with fact checking.
Hold up... FDA gave EUA for hydroxychloroquine? How did that get authorized?
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
I assume I can find a past post with you decrying the 2000+ injured police officers that were injured during the “mostly peaceful” (laugh laugh) riots during the summer of 20. I know it is out there.
If you aren't smart enough to figure it out you're beyond help. When people commit crimes they are to be tied and punished. When this actually happened, almost every poster on this board said the criminal acts should be punished. From both political sides. The sad part is that someone had to explain it to you.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I get it bonefish I really do. You lefties have a need to make Donald trump the villain in all things human. To do it you will distort, exaggerate, lie, what’s ever it takes. You try with everything you have to paint the picture you want but sometimes nasty little facts get in the way.
When the Chicomms dumped this virus on the world we had no vaccine, no therapeutic modalities, really nothing. So as they often do in medicine they start throwing things against the wall hoping something sticks. And we worked our way from nothing to having a variety of therapies and, of course, a vaccine. A vaccine which we would not have if good old joe was President at the time because we would still be jumping thru regulatory hoops that trump bypassed. You can thank him later.
You totally distorted the record of HCQ by the way . To start, HCG was a known antiviral used for decades. The idea of trying it on anew virus made perfect sense, though I am certain the President got it from his medical advisors. In august of 2020 a review of current studies showed it to be effective in an outpatient setting early in the onset of the disease. Less effective when patients were in ICU. The studies were a mixed bag of helps, early onset , and not as effective after hospitalization.
We are now much further along in our therapeutics. We know a lot more now than we did. We should all be glad of that.
By the way adding that really dumb comment about disinfectant just demonstrates how off kilter you lefties are. Haters gotta hate!!
When it was first known that covid hit the US how did trump respond?
Answer. He lied. He lied because he believed it would hurt him politically. He basicaly stuck his head in the sand.
He could have gotten all the governors, news agencies, medical professionals, social media platforms, along with Congress and declared War against a common enemy threat to the country. Provide an honest, scientific, medically based unified message to the Public. On what would take place and how to best protect yourself.
Instead he hid from the facts. Promoted quack cures. Went anti-mask.
His lack of a correct response cost hundreds of thousands of lives. People who wanted honest answers from "The President" fell victim to his lies and lost their lives. That is a fact. He should rot in hell for that.
His lies started on the day of inaguaration about the crowd size, and never stopped. He lied to about everything taxes, Stormy, trump U, his school record, SAT test, the list would take pages. He is still lying about the BIG Lie. He lost.
The only time he did not lie about was when he got off the bus and talked about grabbing Pu**y and how he could do what he wanted.
Historians have already labeled him as the worst president in US history.
But go ahead keep believing your false messiah. Get your reinforced information from Alex Jones and his likes.
Follow your leader down the path of lies, corruption, crime and insurrection. Join up with Proud Boys and try to overthrow the gevernment of the United States.
Then pretend they were on a picnic and didn't mean to trespass.
Maybe. But what I do understand is that when the facts are irrefutable, nonsensical responses will have to do.
What's funny about your comment regarding Nazis, that is exactly what Trump and his Minions (like you apparently) have done. Everything he said about Hillary was a lie, everything he said about Obama was a lie.
And he and his minions like you repeated the lies until the masses to the Right believed them.
The big lie now is that he won the election and it was stolen.
Bull... Not one case presented to any court in the land has found for Trump and his Minions lies. NOT ONE. Not one states election results have been found to be fraudulent.. NOT ONE>
So what does Trump and his Mininons do,,, OK,, Lets get rid of those that won't lie for us.. Like the governor of Georgia.. He didn't fall in line with the Dictator Trump and his Minions so he's gotta go.
As for things like the Russia investigation, Mueller said when questioned, he had enough to charge Trump.. The lie here is that that Trump boytoy AG Barr LIED about what was in the Mueller Report.. That has been proven...You don't believe me,, get hold of the report, read it for yourself if you got the courage to be proven wrong...
So when I make a simple response, it's because I don't want to get into all the lies told by the Trumpians out there..
But you made me do it..
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
trump failed in a time of crisis. He failed his oath of office to protect the American people. He chose to lie. When the country was praying for real leadership. He told the public it will all go away when it gets warm. He attacked science and tried to divert the blame.
Then when he lost the election. He lost the popular vote both times. What was his response to the transition of power?
He gathered his loyalists and went through extensive plans to subvert the will of the people. He incited an insurrection to overthrow the govermnent.
And people like 40 and keith support this traitor.
trump failed in a time of crisis. He failed his oath of office to protect the American people. He chose to lie. When the country was praying for real leadership. He told the public it will all go away when it gets warm. He attacked science and tried to divert the blame.
Then when he lost the election. He lost the popular vote both times. What was his response to the transition of power?
He gathered his loyalists and went through extensive plans to subvert the will of the people. He incited an insurrection to overthrow the govermnent.
And people like 40 and keith support this traitor.
The real traitors in America are those like 40 and Keith that support Trump no matter what he does. Also those that support the actions of Putin.. Also those that glorify Hitler or his Minions.
yet these are the VERY same people that are pointing a finger at Biden.... When pressed they don't have a leg to stand on.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
‘Please tell me what I should be saying.’ Text messages show Sen. Mike Lee assisting Trump efforts to overturn 2020 election
Newly released text messages show Lee knew of scheme to send alternate electors to Congress nearly a month earlier than he claimed.
By Bryan Schott | April 15, 2022, 10:13 a.m.| Updated: 5:58 p.m.
Newly released text messages between Sen. Mike Lee and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows show Lee was advising and assisting former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The messages also reveal Lee was aware of a legally dubious strategy to have then-Vice President Mike Pence throw out Electoral College votes much earlier than he had claimed.
CNN published almost 100 text messages from Lee and Texas Rep. Chip Roy to Meadows in the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 election loss. The texts trace how Lee went from being a fierce advocate for Trump’s efforts to warning the White House that the scheme could backfire. Lee eventually announced he was opposed to a plan to have Congress object to the Electoral College results in some battleground states, but the texts reveal that only came after Lee worked for months to assist Trump’s efforts.
Lee’s efforts to assist Trump began Nov. 7, the day Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner. He texted Meadows a statement signed by the leaders of several prominent conservative groups urging Trump to “exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy” in challenging the results.
“Use it however you deem appropriate,” Lee wrote. “And if it’s helpful to you for you to leak it, feel free to do so.”
Lee also pressed Meadows to help lawyer Sidney Powell gain access to Trump. Powell alleged a secret cabal, including George Soros, the late Hugo Chávez, the CIA and thousands of election officials, conspired to steal votes from Trump in 2020.
“Sydney (sic) Powell is saying she needs to get in to see the president, but she’s being kept away from him. Apparently she has a strategy to keep things alive and put several states back in play. Can you help her get in?” Lee wrote to Meadows on Nov. 7.
Two days later, Lee again reached out to Meadows on behalf of Powell.
“Sidney told us the campaign lawyer who do not know are not focused on this and are obstructing progress. I have no way of verifying or refuting that on my own, but I’ve found her to be a straight shooter,” Lee wrote.
Powell’s conspiracy claims resulted in her being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic. Powell is facing multiple disciplinary actions, including disbarment, in several states for her actions following the 2020 election.
On Nov. 19, Lee realizes his backing of Powell may have been a mistake following a disastrous news conference where she detailed bizarre claims about a global communist plot to rig the election against Trump.
“I’m worried about the Powell press conference,” Lee wrote in the first in a series of text messages. “Unless Powell can back up everything she said, which I kind of doubt she can.”
Over the next three days, Lee reached out to Meadows several times, asking for marching orders.
“Please give me something to work with. I just need to know what I should be saying,” Lee wrote on Nov. 19.
“Please tell me what I should be saying,” Lee asked the next day.
On Nov. 23, Lee first brings up lawyer John Eastman, suggesting some irregularities in several states and proposing an audit.
“Eastman has some really interesting research on this. The good news is is (sic) that Eastman is proposing an approach that unlike what Sidney Powell has propose (sic) could be examined very quickly,” Lee said.
Eastman was behind a scheme to subvert the election results by having a handful of states carried by Biden submit alternate slates of electors. Competing slates would allow the Vice President to reject the results from those states, possibly throwing the election to the House of Representatives to keep Trump in the White House.
Lee claimed he first learned of the Eastman plan on Jan. 2, when he received a copy of a confidential memo from the White House. He told authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa he was “surprised” by the plan and made “phone call after phone call” to see if any states were ready to certify alternate electors but found none.
In reality, Lee was aware of the gambit nearly a month before he claimed.
On Dec. 8, Lee texted Meadows, “If a very small handful of states were to have their legislatures appoint alternative slates of delegates, there could be a plan,” Lee wrote.
“I am working on that as of yesterday,” Meadows replied.
Eastman invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when questioned by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Eastman was asked about his communications with Lee but also pleaded the Fifth.
On Dec. 16, Lee asked Meadows if they wanted any senators to object to the certification of electoral votes, which was part of the Eastman plan to throw out the results. But Lee appeared to be cooling on the plan, realizing such a move may not be legal.
“Also, if you want senators to object, we need to hear from you on that ideally getting some guidance on what arguments to raise,” Lee wrote.
“I think we’re now passed the point where we can expect anyone will do it without some direction and a strong evidentiary argument,” Lee added.
The next available message to Meadows came on Jan. 3, when he warned of the efforts by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and others to object to the election results.
“I have grave concerns with the way my friend Ted is going about this effort,” Lee wrote. “This will not inure to the benefit of the president.”
But, Lee was still hoping that some states would certify alternate slates of electors, making objecting to the results much easier.
“Everything changes, of course, if the swing states submit competing slates of electors pursuant to state law,” Lee said.
Lee warns Meadows that the effort to have Congress give the win to Trump could backfire on the president.
“I know only this will end badly for the president unless we have the Constitution on our side. And unless these states submit new slates of Trump electors pursuant to state law, we do not,” Lee wrote.
The next day, Trump took a public shot at Lee during a rally in Georgia after Lee announced he did not support objecting to the election results.
“Mike Lee is here, but I’m a little angry at him,” Trump said.
Lee was not happy about being publicly called out by the president and vented to Meadows.
“I’ve been spending 14 hours a day for the last week trying to unravel this for him. To have him take a shot at me like that in such a public setting without even asking me about it is pretty discouraging,” Lee said.
Lee explained he had been calling legislators in several states trying to develop a way to defend Congress throwing out results in favor of Trump. In one text, Lee suggested he was trying to convince those state lawmakers to manufacture a pretext for Congress to act.
“We need something from state legislatures to make this legitimate and to have any hope of winning. Even if they can’t convene, it might be enough if a majority of them are willing to sign a statement indicating how they would vote,” Lee wrote.
Ultimately, Lee did not join other Republicans in objecting to the results.
The Tribune has reached out to Sen. Lee’s office for comment.
Lee is facing Republicans Becky Edwards and Ally Isom in a June primary election as he seeks a third term in Congress.
In a statement to The Tribune, Edwards ripped Lee for his involvement in the scheme to overturn the election results.
“Sen. Mike Lee researched overturning a lawful, democratic election for partisan and political gain. The moment Lee realized the gravity of Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election, he should have stopped researching the legality of such actions and stopped pressuring local legislators,” Edwards’ campaign said in a text message.
“Lee has an obligation to protect and defend our Constitution and democratic process, as he swore to do when he took office. Instead, he allowed the situation to continue and enabled those seeking to keep themselves in power, no matter the consequences,” Edwards added.
In a statement, Isom said the text messages from Lee have wrecked his credibility.
“When a sitting US senator asks what he should say, he is freely admitting he is more concerned with playing DC games — with the politics of politics — rather than the people of Utah. Utah wants someone to fight for our state — someone who refuses to be just another chess piece the Washington, DC, apparatus can push around,” Isom said.
Independent U.S. Senate candidate Evan McMullin also jumped on Lee’s text messages, suggesting Lee tried to obscure his involvement in the election scheme.
“Why did Sen. Mike lee advise spurious legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election? And why did he hide those plans in the days leading up to Jan. 6?” McMullin said on Twitter, connecting his post to a fundraising appeal.
Democratic candidate Kael Weston chimed in, saying Lee was acting more like Trump’s lawyer instead of representing Utah.
“Instead of plotting with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to further divide our nation & undermine our democracy, Lee should have been working on behalf of Utahns who pay his salary,” Weston tweeted.
John Eastman blocking 3,200 Trump-related documents from House January 6 committee
John Eastman, a far-right lawyer for then-President Donald Trump who wanted to block his electoral loss in 2020, is still withholding about 3,200 documents from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to a new court filing this week.
Eastman previously was ordered by the court to turn over 101 documents after he unsuccessfully tried to claim some of his emails from January 4 through January 7, 2021, were confidential legal communications related to Trump. Since then, Eastman has continued to work through nearly 100,000 pages of emails from his Chapman University account that the House Committee seeks from other dates around the election.
At this time, Eastman is arguing that the thousands of documents, comprising about 36,000 pages, should stay confidential.
Federal Judge David Carter in Santa Ana, California, may continue to weigh whether Eastman can keep those pages secret.
The judge’s previous decision giving the House access to more than 101 documents was a pivotal moment in the investigation and a setback for Eastman as he continues to try to keep secret some of his emails.
The ongoing Eastman lawsuit also is a reminder that the committee is still tied up in court on multiple fronts, fighting for their subpoenas to be fulfilled.
The House select committee obtained 101 emails two weeks ago that capture extensive discussions among Eastman and others about using court cases as a political argument to block Congress from certifying the vote, according to past proceedings in the court case.
One email, a draft memo for Rudy Giuliani, was obtained by the committee because the judge decided it was potentially being used to plan a crime. The memo recommended that then-Vice President Mike Pence reject some states’ electors during the January 6 congressional meeting.
“This may have been the first time members of President Trump’s team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action,” Carter wrote.
“Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” the judge also wrote.
The judge ordered the release of the other emails in the batch because they weren’t about litigation, so they couldn’t be protected as the work of an attorney.
Carter’s reasoning was a startling acknowledgment by a federal court that Trump’s interest in overturning the election could be considered criminal. The House committee doesn’t have the ability to prosecute Trump or his allies, but the panel has toyed with formally asking the Justice Department to investigate. In the case, the House made the bold move of arguing Trump was trying to obstruct Congress and defraud the government by blocking his loss of the election and discussing it with Eastman, an argument Carter agreed with.
The state of California’s attorney regulators are reviewing Eastman’s legal ethics related to the election, and Trump and Eastman have not been charged with any crime.
“If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself,” the judge wrote.
Eastman did not appeal Carter’s ruling on the 101 documents.
The documents still in dispute are from Election Day 2020 up to January 4, 2021, and January 7 through Joe Biden’s inauguration two weeks later.
Uber driver turned in alleged Jan. 6 rioter who boasted on dashcam
A California man who stormed the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection was arrested after his Uber driver tipped off the FBI, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
Driving the news: Jerry Daniel Braun allegedly told the Uber driver during a trip to his hotel on Jan. 6, 2021 that he tore down a barricade at the Capitol. The encounter was recorded by the driver's dashboard-mounted camera; the footage ultimately allowed the FBI to track him down.
Details: According to the Justice Department's affidavit, the clip shows a man bleeding near his right eye as the driver asks, "So, has it been violent all day?"
"Well, it started around, right when I got there. I tore down the barricades," the man replies. When asked why, he adds, "So we could get to the Capitol."
"Well, how’d that work out for ya?" the driver prods.
"Well, it looks like, uh, Biden’s gonna be our president."
The FBI was also able to identify Braun in an officer's body camera footage, which allegedly shows Braun holding a long wooden plank that looks to be about eight feet in length.
He appears to repeatedly strike a photographer who is wearing a helmet with the text "PRESS" displayed across the front, per the affidavit.
Braun also allegedly sent a text message to someone on Jan. 6 saying, "We tried to stop the steal but they wouldn't let us in, where were you, the writing your next speech, we are sick of all the talk."
The big picture: Braun, who was arrested in California earlier this month, now faces charges of obstruction during civil disorder, entering and remaining on restricted grounds, and violent or disorderly conduct.
Florida man pleads guilty to threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar
A Florida man pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he had threatened to kill Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar after she directed profanities at then-President Donald Trump in a 2019 news conference.
According to a plea agreement, David Hannon, 67, was “upset by [Omar’s] use of curse words directed at then-president Trump during the press conference” when he sent her an email with the subject line “[You’re] Dead, You Radical Muslim.”
The email, an all-caps screed that was reproduced in court documents, came amid an ugly fight between Trump and the so-called “Squad” of progressive female lawmakers, which includes Omar. The Minnesota Democrat held the news conference alongside the other lawmakers after Trump sent racist tweets about their nationalities.
Hannon, identified in the plea agreement as a supporter of Trump in 2019, also called the four congresswomen “radical rats” and wrote, “All four of you will die and the American people will cheer! Patriots Against Islam!”
The Justice Department called Hannon’s threat “hate-motivated” in a news release Tuesday.
“Threatening to kill our elected officials, especially because of their race, ethnicity or religious beliefs, is offensive to our nation’s fundamental values,” Kristen Clarke, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.
In an email to CNN, Hannon’s lawyer, Michael Perry, said his client’s 2019 email “was a mistake and should have never happened.”
“However, Mr. Hannon has no hate for any of the members of Congress referenced in the email and has entered a plea of guilty to resolve the case with the Government. He is taking full responsibility for a single lapse of judgment which happened almost 3 years ago. He is not a threat to the Muslim community and carries no animosity towards them,” Perry said.
CNN has reached out to Omar’s office for comment. In court documents, prosecutors noted that the profanities she had used at the news conference were “specifically repeated quotes containing curse words from then-president Trump regarding social issues involving women and minorities.”
lmao at libtards complaining about increasing the divide when they are 90% of the problem.
You don't see Conservatives on the warpath about libtard BS.
All you see is (so called) Conservatives (should be referred to as Trumpians) complain about anything a Liberal says... ANYTHING.
Who started this BS... I'll tell you who did,, People that didn't like the fact that we elected a black man as president.... (even though the previous conservative President completely screwed this country up) Then as a counter punch, some in this country helped elect a hate mongering hitler clone to be president.
That Hitler wanna be spread hate and racism across the land and still does today with help from people like you.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Wow MGT has memory issues. This line of questioning, questions about history and facts, she's screwed. lol. She looks terrified. And you could see her struggling to try to stay ahead of the prosecutor when he started talking about insurrection. She's hit and she knows it.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
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