Things seem to be unfolding rather quickly. Former White House aides and advisors are scrambling to cover themselves as they receive subpoenas to appear and produce documents.
It’s rare when lawyers — as opposed to their clients — take the Fifth Amendment. But Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department lawyer who reportedly tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, is now claiming the privilege against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He has just been joined in that posture by one of Trump’s main outside legal advisers, John Eastman.
The lawsuit comes after the committee signaled it would pursue a criminal contempt referral against Meadows because of his refusal to sit for a deposition in the investigation into the Capitol riot. Meadows alleges that the subpoenas are "overly broad and unduly burdensome," while claiming that the committee "lacks lawful authority to seek and to obtain" the information requested.
And apparently Mark Meadows had a power point outlining how to overturn election results.
The 38-page presentation, entitled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 Jan," is dated one day before the Capitol riot. It's believed to have been submitted by Meadows after he was subpoenaed by the panel in connection with the insurrection.
Watching for the first time. I guess I had figured by now we were past that there was an attack on the capitol, and that Trump should have tweeted sooner asking the protestors to go home.
I guess it's titalating material for the Trump haters.
Watching for the first time. I guess I had figured by now we were past that there was an attack on the capitol, and that Trump should have tweeted sooner asking the protestors to go home.
I guess it's titalating material for the Trump haters.
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2 hours ago, Beerman said:
Watching for the first time. I guess I had figured by now we were past that there was an attack on the capitol, and that Trump should have tweeted sooner asking the protestors to go home.
I guess it's titalating material for the Trump haters.
I watched most of it, but I was also trying to cook dinner at the same time.
Parts I found striking:
The number of White House staff, family members, and congressmen who pleaded for the president to say something was sobering. And the lack of response for hours was sickening. In fact, there were tweets issued to egg the protesters on, even while the violent clashes had started. And he was personally calling senators to delay the tally while they were under attack.
Senator Hawley giving raising his fist to protestors and then running away from them.
The radio recordings of the Secret Service and another unidentified security person talking about the danger they felt, and actually calling family to say goodbye.
The outtakes of the man-baby whining about saying the election was over, or that yesterday is a hard word to say.
The brief period of fortitude of republican leadership to stand up to Trump and get the elector tally completed.
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1 hour ago, nursej22 said:
I watched most of it, but I was also trying to cook dinner at the same time.
Parts I found striking:
The number of White House staff, family members, and congressmen who pleaded for the president to say something was sobering. And the lack of response for hours was sickening. In fact, there were tweets issued to egg the protesters on, even while the violent clashes had started. And he was personally calling senators to delay the tally while they were under attack.
Senator Hawley giving raising his fist to protestors and then running away from them.
The radio recordings of the Secret Service and another unidentified security person talking about the danger they felt, and actually calling family to say goodbye.
The outtakes of the man-baby whining about saying the election was over, or that yesterday is a hard word to say.
The brief period of fortitude of republican leadership to stand up to Trump and get the elector tally completed.
The details are sobering. It's a bit unnerving to know that there are people currently holding public office who continue to facilitate the lies which are threatening our republic. Those people are elevated at both the state and the national level and their voting base seems completely unaware of or in agreement with the anti-american agenda to undermine elections.
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1 minute ago, subee said:
I guess that the Republicans who testified today aren't extremist enouth for Beerman.
I have no idea. It's just interesting that people proudly announce that they are ignoring the congressional hearings on one of the most significant political crisis in their own history. Would they have ignored Watergate?
I have no idea. It's just interesting that people proudly announce that they are ignoring the congressional hearings on one of the most significant political crisis in their own history. Would they have ignored Watergate?
I guess that the Republicans who testified today aren't extremist enouth for Beerman.
A few of you like to throw out the extremist label on me, but aren't able to articulate what makes me one.
I wasn't aware there was any testimony today. What did I miss?
I only watched briefly last night. When they started up with the "187 minutes" theme, you knew some good theatre was coming. Who says that? "Only 187 minutes left of my shift", or "my flight is 187 minutes long."
From what I gather, nothing new was learned.
How about those SS agents that were in the car when Trump tried to hijack the limo. Were they there?
It'd be interesting to here from Pelosi, wouldn't it? Have her under oath say what she did or didn't know about security plans for the day, or what role if any she had in making those plans.
But, we know this is only about damaging Trump. And, I think it's been effective.
If it makes the path easier fir DeSantis, or someone else who has a better chance of winning than Trump...well, carry on!
It'd be interesting to here from Pelosi, wouldn't it? Have her under oath say what she did or didn't know about security plans for the day, or what role if any she had in making those plans.
Hmm, what makes you think she hasn't already been deposed? The security response was covered in an earlier hearing.
So, let's just say, there were serious errors in the planning for security on Jan 6. Does that excuse the commander in chief from refusing to defend the Capitol? Is he excused from telling his followers whom he exhorted to "fight like hell" to stop attacking the Capitol police? As was stated last night, the press briefing room has a live camera available 24/7 that he could have addressed the rioters with. We know he still had his Twitter account. He had could have contacted the acting Secretary of Defense in the blink of an eye to shut things down. And he did none of those things for more than 3 hours.
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Watching for the first time. I guess I had figured by now we were past that there was an attack on the capitol, and that Trump should have tweeted sooner asking the protestors to go home.
I guess it's titalating material for the Trump haters.