Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage Trump was informed the Capitol was under attack. He went into the dinning room and started watching the attack on Fox News.

No entries in phone logs. No entries in daily diary. Trump would not allow photos.

Trump did not make any phone calls to DOD National Guard FBI or law enforcement and would not take calls from them. But he was on the phone to Senators telling them not to certify the election but they are not on the call logs.

Tweeted out a link to his Elipse speech.

Staff pleading with him to call off the mob. Trump refused. Cippolone also said Trump needed to act.

Ivanka told Cippolone she was trying to get her dad of board with calling off the mob .

Cippolone started hearing the chants to hang Mike Pence. Mark he has to do more. Pat you heard him he agrees.

 

Smoking gun this time?
Or do we have to wait till August?
When are sweeps?

 

Trump could have easily gone down to the briefing room at any moment. It would have taken him less than 60 seconds. There is a camera on in the briefing room at all times.

By 2 pm everyone was aware the Capitol was under attack and Trump was refusing to do anything.

At 2;03 Trump called Giuliani again. By that time the armed mob was breaking into the the Capitol itself.

Emergency path cleared to get Pence to a more secure location. Secret Service Agents do not sound good right now. Fearing for their own lives and asking for reinforcements. Contemplating resulting to lethal force. Or worse being overwhelmed.

 

Trump tweets Pence didn't have the courage to do the right thing as security detail is trying to move him to a safer location.Pottinger sees the tweet and resigns. Pence is in danger and Trump is pouring fuel on the fire. Matthews: I have seen the impact Trump's words have on his supporters and agrees it was pouring gasoline on the fire.

Cippolone: I saw that tweet and felt it was wrong.



Scenes at the Capitol are getting worse and Trump is egging them on.

At 2:26 Pence has to be evacuated again because Trump had escalated the situation and the mob was getting closer.

Trump goes back to calling Senators telling them not to certify election.

Video of Hawley giving power fist to protesters. Then Hawley fleeing for safety when the mob entered the Capitol.

As commander in Chief Trump had a constitutional duty to protect the Capitol Pence and members of Congress and refused to do it.

Revelations so far. Confirmation from witness of Hutchinson testimony about confrontation over not taking him to the Capitol.

No call logs no diary entries no photos while Trump watched TV. But confirmation Trump was making phone calls especially to Senators demanding they not certify the election.

Confirmation that multiple people in the White House and Trump family members telling Trump he must call off the armed insurrectionists.

National security official monitoring radio traffic in real time hears desperate pleas for reinforcements completer chaos. Members of security detail calling family members to say goodbye. Total chaos as the situation deteriorates. Security detail getting ready to use lethal force to move Pence for the second time to a more secure location.

Trump was not actually doing nothing. He was pouring gasoline on the fire and egging his insurrectionists on.

Incredible to listen to the panicked radio communications from Pence security detail as they try to clear a path to take him to a safer location and watch it on the security camera video.

 

Now revealing the text messages between Don Jr and Meadows. This is the time to go to the mattresses. All in. Then Hannity telling Meadows Trump has to stop this now. Telling Meadows Trump needs to go on TV. Other fox hosts texting the same thing.

Cippiolene giving another long list of people in the Whit House telling Trump he must go on TV and call off the insurrectionists.

Trump refuses.

Intercepted communications between Proud Boys and Oath keepers sharing real time intelligence about where members of Congress are and decoding Trump's tweet to say keep going after them.

Trump can't condemn his supporters because it would send a win to the media.

Now more communications from McCarthy calling Trump telling him to call off the mob. He refuses so McCarthy puts in calls to Ivanka and Jared telling him to call it off.

McCarthy is scared and begging for help.

President Biden goes on national TV demanding Trump call off his siege instead.

After three hours Trump tells his domestic terrorists to go home and he loves them and they are very special.

Finally after three hours the National guard mobilizes to clear the Capitol.

Showing script of what Trump was supposed to say telling the armed mob to leave the Capitol and goes home but he ad libs. Also showing multiple takes of Trump trying to tell his domestic terrorists to go home still ad libbing.

Trump retires to his living quarters. While the insurrection continues. Jared claims they were all drained while the insurrection continues at the Capitol.

Shows McConnell and other conferring with Sec Defense Miller asking if its safe to go back into session. Assured they will clear the Capitol and secure it. Pence tells them to get their ass down there.

Meadows calls Gen Milley to say to kill the narrative that Pence is calling the shots. Tell them Trump is still in charge even though he has retired to his personal residence.

 

Matthews testifying that after the insurrection Trump tweets, refusing to do anything, and then the video telling the Capitol insurrections he loved them and they are very special she would be called on to defend it. But it was indefensible so she decided to resign.

Showing video and testimony of Capitol rioters seeing Trump's video saying to go home and starting to leave the Capitol.

Trump tweets again at 6 pm they are great patriots and remember to remember this day forever. Last thing Trump says to an employee as he goes back into his residence Mike Pence let me down.


Giuliani still calling member of the Senate asking them to buy more time and not certify the election. Need to get this back to the state legislatures.

Now Moscow Mitch condemning Trump from the well of the Senate. Kevin the Coward as well.
Chip Roy as well.

Trump banned from twitter but still pushes the big lie. Miller drafts another statement to cover Trump's ass saying there will be a peaceful transfer of power.

 

White House advisors, Sean Hannity, multiple others tell Trump he must address the nation condemning the violence and his domestic terrorists and agreeing to a peaceful transfer of power because forces are moving to remove him from office under the 25th amendment.

24 hours after the armed insurrection and attempted coup Trump finally agrees. But the J6 committee shows all the out takes where he cannot bring himself to actually do it. Ivanka is there like a mother watching her kid at a school play rehearsal feeding Trump the lines one at a time. And they splice the address together often at only one word at a time while Trump continues to throw fits about it. And still refuses to say the election is over.

They also play the tape of Kevin McCarthy discussing using the 25tj amendment with members of his caucus and telling them he is going to tell Trump he must resign.

Also playing the tape of Bannon days before the election telling donors exactly what Trump will do. On election night he wll just say he won. The Democrats have more Black voters who won't be counted until later and Trump is going to use that to just say he won on election night.

 

I keep hearing about the armed insurrection. Only people armed was Pelosi's capital police. Only person who knew about weapons and their location was Pelosi.
Only people that died that day was an older man from a heart attack and an unarmed woman, killed by a well armed capital police officer while she stepped through a broken window.

 

Last thing Liz Cheney said, Our committee has much more work to do and we will see you again in September.

 

TH...TH...THATS ALL FOLKS!

 

It took about an hour to record what ended up being a three-minute video.

 

And I will have to see if I can find the you tube video of Josh Hawley giving his triumphant fist power symbol to the protesters standing safely behind police lines that morning and then running for his life when the domestic terrorists entered the Capitol. That one is hilarious and oh so telling.

 

Key takeaways from Thursday's primetime Jan. 6 hearing on the Capitol attack

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Thu, July 21, 2022 at 11:29 PM·9 min read


Thursday’s primetime hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol shined an unflattering light on then-President Donald Trump’s reaction to the violent riot waged by his supporters.

Committee members Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., walked viewers through a minute-by-minute recap of how Trump spent the hours that the riot raged, relying heavily on testimony from a variety of witnesses who were in the White House that day, including former national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews, both of whom testified in person on Capitol Hill.

The gripping presentation focused on the 187 minutes between the end of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse, south of the White House, at around 1:10 p.m., and when he finally released a videotaped statement, at 4:17 p.m., in which he grudgingly urged his supporters to leave the Capitol.


Kinzinger and Luria made the case that the violent attack on the Capitol was the culmination of Trump’s multistep effort to remain in power despite having lost the 2020 election, and that his failure to call off the mob intent on blocking the certification of the Electoral College votes showing Joe Biden had won was a deliberate choice.

By effectively delaying the electoral vote count by several hours, Kinzinger said, “the mob was accomplishing President Trump’s purpose, so of course he did not intervene.”

“On Jan. 6, when lives and our democracy hung in the balance, President Trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power,” said Luria.

Using a combination of live and videotaped testimony, text messages sent by Trump allies, and phone transcripts from those demanding that Trump call off his supporters, the committee filled in the gaps on how Trump spent that fateful afternoon on Jan. 6. Here are some of the most shocking revelations.

Inaction at the Capitol

A slide shown during the hearing on Thursday. (House TV via Reuters video)
Luria said the committee’s investigation found that Trump knew the Capitol was under attack within 15 minutes of leaving the stage following his rally at the Ellipse. And yet, she said, from 1:25 p.m. until shortly after 4 p.m., he remained in the White House dining room watching the siege unfold on Fox News.

Witnesses who were at the White House during that period described how advisers, allies on Capitol Hill and the president’s own children repeatedly urged Trump to make a statement condemning the violence and telling his supporters to leave the Capitol.

But instead of heading to the White House briefing room to record such a message, Luria said, Trump was busy making calls to senators, encouraging them to object to the Electoral College certification.

It was only after the Defense Department had mobilized the entire National Guard, elected officials had been moved to secure locations and the failure of the insurrection was apparent that “Trump finally relented” and tweeted a video at 4:17 p.m. telling the rioters to go home, Luria said.

Witnesses refuted a number of Trump’s key talking points

Trump has repeatedly insisted, without evidence, that prior to Jan. 6 he offered to send 20,000 National Guard troops to secure the Capitol that day but that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to accept the offer. Hours before Thursday’s hearing got underway, Trump repeated that assertion on his social media platform, Truth Social. But the select committee swiftly knocked down the claim, showing clips from interviews with multiple former White House staffers, including White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Gen. Keith Kellogg, who served as national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. Both stated definitively that they were not aware that Trump issued orders to send the National Guard or any other law enforcement personnel to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

The committee also introduced testimony from two new witnesses who confirmed some details from the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who previously testified that she had been told about an alleged altercation between Trump and his Secret Service detail after he was told it would not be safe for him to join his supporters at the Capitol following his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6. Thursday night's witnesses, however, did not confirm details about Trump's alleged actions during the altercation.

Hutchinson said she heard about the altercation, which involved Trump grabbing for the steering wheel of his presidential vehicle and lunging at Secret Service agent Robert Engel. Trump has forcefully denied the account, but on Thursday Luria revealed that the panel has since obtained “evidence from multiple sources regarding an angry exchange in the presidential SUV, including testimony we will disclose today from two witnesses who confirmed that a confrontation occurred.”


A video of retired Washington Metropolitan Police Sgt. Mark Robinson is played at the hearing on Thursday. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
One witness, who Luria described as “a former White House employee with national security responsibilities,” said they also were told by Engel and former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato that Trump was “irate” when he was told he could not go to the Capitol.

The other witness, retired D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Mark Robinson, was assigned to Trump’s motorcade on Jan. 6 and sat in the lead vehicle with a Secret Service agent, also known as a “T.S. agent.” In a filmed interview played at the hearing, Robinson told the committee that the T.S. agent told him that “the president was upset,” that he’d been “adamant about going to the Capitol” and that “there was a heated discussion about that.”

Trump’s supporters reacted to his tweets in real time
Throughout the hearing, Kinzinger and Luria wove together testimony about Trump’s inaction at the White House, the efforts by others to convince him to issue a statement condemning the rioters, and video footage of the violence unfolding at the Capitol to show how all these aspects influenced the others.

Some of the starkest examples of this were video and audio clips showing how members of the mob reacted in real time to tweets Trump sent that day, demonstrating, as Matthews said, “the impact that his words have on his supporters.”


Former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews testifies before the committee on Thursday. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
In particular, the committee showed footage of rioters reacting angrily to Trump’s 2:24 p.m. tweet criticizing Pence for refusing to go along with the illegal plot to block the certification of some Biden electors. Later it played a recording of walkie-talkie communications between members of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, some of whom were inside the Capitol, reading a subsequent tweet in which Trump urged the mob to “stay peaceful” and to “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement.”

“He didn’t say not to do anything to the congressmen,” a person on the recording is heard saying in response to Trump’s tweet. “He didn’t ask them to stand down.”

Trump’s supporters were similarly receptive when he finally did issue the video statement at 4:17 telling them to go home. In footage shot at the Capitol shortly after that tweet was sent, the rioter known as the QAnon Shaman is seen yelling: “I’m here delivering the president’s message. Donald Trump is asking us to go home,” as others in the crowd watch the president’s video statement on their phones.

The committee also played a clip of testimony given last week by Stephen Ayres, an Ohio man who was charged with participating in the riot, who said he and others at the Capitol began to disperse as soon as Trump’s video message from the Rose Garden came out.

Trump refused to stick to the script

A still from video released by the committee shows Trump recording a video statement at the White House on Jan. 7, 2021. (House Select Committee via AP)
Even after Trump finally gave in to his allies’ pleas to call off the mob and condemn the violence at the Capitol, he struggled to stick to the scripts that staffers had written for him to read on camera. The committee played never-before-seen outtakes from two video messages — one filmed on Jan. 6 in the Rose Garden and a second shot on Jan. 7 in the White House. In both, Trump veered from the script, struggled to condemn those who had stormed the Capitol and continued to assert his false claims of a stolen election.

In a particularly telling outtake from the Jan. 7 message, Trump refused to acknowledge that his options for staying in power had been exhausted.

“This election is now over. Congress has certified the results,” he said before stopping. “I don’t want to say the election is over. I want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, OK?”

Pence’s Secret Service detail feared for their lives

A slide from the video presentation during the hearing on Thursday. (House TV via Reuters Video)
The committee played chilling testimony from an anonymous White House security official who described hearing “disturbing” radio communications from members of Pence’s Secret Service detail while the Capitol was under siege, before Pence and his family had been moved to a secure location.

“Members of the VP’s detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives,” said the official, whose voice and identity were shielded to protect him. “They’re screaming, saying things like ‘Say goodbye to family.’”

There will be more hearings to come

Thursday’s presentation marked the eighth in the series of public hearings the select committee has held this summer to share the findings of its ongoing investigation into the attack on the Capitol. Though the primetime hearing had previously been billed as a “finale” of sorts, the committee’s leaders confirmed Thursday that the panel plans to reconvene again in September to share more of the findings it has continued to uncover since it began this round of hearings last month.

“Our committee understands the gravity of this moment and the consequences for our nation,” the panel’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said in her closing statement Thursday. “We have much work yet to do, and we will see you all in September.”

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The rioters got within two doors of Vice President Mike Pence's office. See how in this 3D explainer from Yahoo Immersive.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-take...-hearing-on-the-capitol-attack-052904288.html

 

Can hardly wait for them to resume in September.
You know, after the summer hiatus and in the middle of sweeps.
Wonder if they'll include the testimony of Trump's limo driver on January 6, and the secret service agents present with Trump that day?

Oh.
They haven't been called to testify yet?

Wonder why not?

 

Love this........runs like a pansy!



Thinskin

 

'Fleeing coward' Josh Hawley buried by hometown paper after becoming a national 'laughingstock'

Tom Boggioni
July 23, 2022



Josh Hawley (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)


The editorial board of the Kansas City Star joined the pile-on being experienced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) after the House committee investigating the Jan 6th insurrection juxtaposed the infamous photo of him encouraging the pro-Donald Trump rioters with a clenched fist to a video of him fleeing from them hours later.

As the editors were quick to point out, Hawley is now a national "laughingstock" because he has been exposed for the "fleeing coward" he is.

Getting right to it, the editors wrote, "During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Elaine Luria showed video of Missouri’s junior senator that will surely follow him the rest of his life."

After noting that the conservative senator has already taken his lumps on social media after the nationally televised humiliation that has spectators at the committee hearing openly laughing, the board buried him for his oft-stated worries about American "masculinity."

RELATED: GOP's Josh Hawley suffered a 'complete and utter political emasculation' during Jan. 6 hearing: former RNC head

"A signature Hawley issue is masculinity — as in, how little of it American men seem to have these days. It’s a frequent topic in his speeches and on his podcast, where 'the left-wing attack on manhood' is a dire threat to our society. Regnery Publishing is set to release his book 'Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs' next year. Twitter didn’t see much virile bravado as he ran from the mob," they wrote.

"Shame, clearly, is not a motivating factor for any number of Republicans still caught up in Trumpworld. Hawley has never apologized for attempting to reinstall a man who everyone around him knew had lost the election, as witness testimony continues to confirm. Surely the Yale and Stanford grad isn’t gullible enough to believe the craven lies about tampering with voting machines and dead people casting ballots that ooze through social media," they wrote before concluding, "Sen. Josh Hawley might not fear a little mockery of his hasty flight from Capitol marauders. But he might be justified if he’s afraid of what emails or text messages some previously-loyal staffer might be considering turning over to the House committee. Stay tuned to the hearings."

You can read more here.

https://www.rawstory.com/josh-hawley-running/

 

You say that as if it were normal for her to be stepping through a broken window. If I saw you stepping through a broken window in my house, is shoot you too!

 

Had no idea you live in a place of business. Not going to guess where, but if a woman in broad daylight came through a window while the people paid to protect it held the doors open for people to enter, it seems odd shooting people invited in your home

 

Just a thought to disturb the more paranoid among us, concerning the Secret Service and the missing texts.

Secret Service agent communicate with each other and headquarters by radio. They aren't licking their watch or chewing their shirtsleeve.

This brings up the question. On January 6th, who would a Secret Service agent need to communicate with, who was not in the Secret Service radio system?