Treason is just all fun and games until you get caught.

MAGA rioters ‘both wept’ as they were sentenced to over 3 years in prison for J6 violence: report

Bob Brigham
July 15, 2022



Cody Mattice / DOJ photos.


Two supporters of Donald Trump cried in court on Friday as they were sentenced for their role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"Two New York state men who led a mob that overwhelmed police at the perimeter of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — then bodysurfed over the top of the crowd at a building entrance and pepper-sprayed officers — were both sentenced Friday to 44 months in prison," The New York Times reported. "Cody Mattice, 29, of Greece, N.Y., and James Mault, 30, of Brockport, N.Y., both wept as they stood before Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell and asked for leniency, apologizing for their actions and saying they hoped to return soon to their families and young children. But Howell noted that prosecutors had already cut them a reasonable deal by dropping charges that could have led to far more prison time, and she imposed the sentences requested by the government. Only four other Jan. 6 defendants have been sentenced to longer prison terms."

Judge Howell said, "they were not patriots on Jan. 6, and no one who broke the police lines and stopped the democratic process was a patriot that day."

Mattice reportedly took video of the two.

"Text messages obtained by the FBI showed that Mattice and Mault planned for violence on Jan. 6, initially expecting resistance from antifa. They texted family members during the mayhem, and then congratulated each other in the days after the riot, which temporarily halted the certification of the presidential election," the newspaper reported. "Howell read from many of the messages, using the same profanity the men had."

The two men pleaded guilty in April.

"Shortly before the police line was breached, Mault attempted to convince officers to stand down and join with the mob," the DOJ announced. "At approximately 2:30 p.m., Mattice pulled down a segment of the metal barricades that stood in front of a police line. He quickly grabbed it with both hands, pulling it away from officers and onto the ground. A short time later, rioters overwhelmed the police line, forcing officers to retreat up a central staircase to the Lower West Terrace. Mattice and Mault were part of the group that assaulted the police line. They stood at or near the front of the group, pushing forward against the officers, who attempted to keep the rioters from advancing."

Both men maced officers.

"At approximately 4 p.m., Mattice and Mault approached the tunnel leading into the Capitol Building from the Lower West Terrace," DOJ said. "They attempted to push through the crowd and climbed up and body-surfed over other rioters. After reaching the tunnel, they grabbed onto and hung from the wooden frame surrounding the arch. Mattice reached out to another rioter and grabbed a small object appearing to be a canister. He then sprayed chemical spray at police officers. After doing so, Mattice fell back and into the crowd. Mault likewise obtained a small canister containing chemical spray from another member of the crowd, and he, too, sprayed it at officers defending the tunnel."

Watch:



https://www.rawstory.com/j6-cody-mattis-james-mault/

 

Federal prosecutors seek 15-year sentence, the longest thus far, for Capitol rioter

• Ivana Saric

U.S. Capitol Police scuffle with rioters after they broke through security fencing outside of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Federal prosecutors are asking that Jan. 6 rioter Guy Reffitt, who was the first Jan. 6 defendant to go to trial earlier this year, receive a 15-year prison sentence, according to a court filing on Friday.

Why it matters: If accepted by the presiding judge, Reffitt's sentence would be the longest given to a Capitol rioter so far.

• Reffitt's prison sentence would be nearly triple the more than five-year prison term handed down to Capitol rioter Robert Palmer, who is currently serving the longest sentence given to date.

The big picture: Reffitt carried a gun onto Capitol grounds and interfered with the police line during the riot. He also threatened to harm his son and daughter when he returned to Texas if they turned him in to the FBI.

• A jury found him guilty of all charges back in March.
• In the court filing, federal prosecutors argue that Reffitt played a central role in "overwhelming officers and showing the mob the way forward at the outset of the riot."
• The filing notes that Reffitt has not shown any acceptance of responsibility for the events of Jan. 6 and is "defiant that he is a political prisoner."
• The filing also notes that Reffitt took part in the insurrection with the "intention to use his gun and police-style flexicuffs to forcibly drag legislators out of the building and take over Congress."

What to watch: Reffitt is set to be sentenced on Aug. 1, AP reported.

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/17/guy-reffitt-jan-6-rioter-longest-sentence

 

'Very suspicious': Secret Service expert questions use of texts on Jan 6th instead of agents using radios

Tom Boggioni
July 18, 2022



Donald Trump and Secret Service agent -- (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)


Appearing on CNN on Monday morning, the co-author of a book on what it is like to be a Secret Service agent found Secret Service agents using texts during the Jan 6th insurrection -- instead of their radios -- to be highly "suspicious."

Speaking with host John Berman, Jeffrey Robinson, who co-wrote "Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service," claimed the entire story that the texts from Jan 5 and 6th were accidentally erased was not credible and suggested a cover-up by the Secret Service.

"Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) says it's quite crazy that anything would be deleted. How crazy do you think?" host John Berman prompted.

"It's criminal," the author immediately shot back. "First of all, you have to understand something, and you've been in the business long enough to know that when you do any sort of investigative journalism there are two pillars, first is there is no such thing as a coincidence and the second thing is everybody lies. That explains the Secret Service response."

RELATED: Secret Service scrambling to explain deleted Jan. 6 texts to 'skeptical' House committee members: report

"Also, emails and texts do not get erased," he continued. "You may take them off of your phone, you may take them off of some server, but they exist somewhere out in cyberspace. So if the Secret Service cannot find them, cannot turn them over or, more relevantly, is not willing to turn them over, the NSA [National Security Agency] can get them and the committee should turn immediately to the NSA to have everything."

"But there's something else at work here," he continued. "These are texts and emails. You've followed the president, you know that when the secret service goes out with the principal, the president, there may be 150, 200 agents at every stop along the way in advance of where he's going, where he's been, whatever. They are all on the earpiece in their ear and the microphone on their sleeve. That's radio traffic going around all the agents in real time and that's all recorded. Why would anybody send a text or an email unless they didn't want to be on radio traffic -- that's very suspicious."

Watch below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-texts/

 

Texas Man Arrested for Assaulting Cops With Bear Spray During Capitol Riot

Authorities arrested a man in Houston, Texas, on Monday for allegedly assaulting cops with bear spray during the Jan. 6 insurrection. William Hendry Mellors, 50, allegedly told FBI agents during a voluntary interview that he brought two cans of the dangerous substance to the Capitol on the day of the riot, and court documents explain that photographs capture him mid-spray. A criminal complaint says that, in the photos, Mellors can be seen wearing a backpack with multiple patches sewn on, including one that says “BLACK GUNS MATTER.” So far, authorities have arrested more than 850 people across all 50 states in connection with the insurrection.

Read it at Department of Justice


https://www.thedailybeast.com/houst...-with-bear-spray-during-capitol-riot?ref=home

 

Watchdog to DOJ: Secret Service 'likely' broke federal criminal law by deleting text messages

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
July 18, 2022




A well-known non-partisan federal government accountability watchdog has filed a complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, calling for an investigation into the Secret Service deleting text messages, saying it “likely” broke federal criminal law. The deletions reportedly occurred on messages sent between January 5 and 6, 2021, the day before and of the insurrection.

“It is extremely troubling to think that the Secret Service would destroy key evidence in any investigation, let alone one that is central to getting answers and accountability for the unprecedented attack on our democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Chief Counsel Donald Sherman said in a statement.

The letter, dated Monday, is addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

“The Federal Records Act requires that agencies like the Secret Service preserve records so that there is a complete and accurate history of the government’s actions and decisions,” Sherman added. “It is especially distressing to see such behavior from a federal agency that had such critical duties during the attack on the Capitol and had a front row seat to former President Trump’s behavior that day. The Justice Department must take this apparent violation of federal law seriously.”

The Secret Service has offered differing explanations for the deletions.



https://www.rawstory.com/watchdog-t...deral-criminal-law-by-deleting-text-messages/

 

Consequences!



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48-pages of Pentagon emails provide ‘dramatic’ insight into Trump admin J6 activities: report

Bob Brigham
July 19, 2022



Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller / DoD photo by Marvin Lynchard.


The U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday released 48-pages of Jan. 6 communications following a Freedom of Information Act request from Business Insider.

"As an armed mob rushed toward the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, an aide sent Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley an urgent update about congressional office building evacuations and 'escalating protests.' The sources of this information: journalists' tweets," Insider reported.

"Together, this initial release of emails provides dramatic, if decidedly incomplete insight into Trump administration activities in the hours immediately before, during, and after a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6," Insider reported. "One email includes a highly redacted exchange — subject: 'fencing' — between Kash Patel, chief of staff to then-Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, and Anthony Ornato, Trump's deputy White House chief of staff for operations, who drew national attention earlier this month after Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the US House's January 6 select committee about him."







Pentagon emails / FOIA screengrab.


Patel previously worked for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA).

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"Underscoring the chaotic nature of the Capitol attack, many of the newly released emails contain a moment-by-moment mash-up of direct government intelligence, debunked rumors, and "open source" reports curated from media outlets and social media," Insider reported. "Combined with what is already known about text messages sent to Trump's chief of staff and a high-level Homeland Security official who visited the Capitol in person, the new disclosures highlight a lack of preparation to secure the counting of the electoral votes and a disorganized, ad hoc response to the violent attempt to disrupt that process."

The FOIA request is ongoing and further documents are expected.



https://www.rawstory.com/pentagon-jan-6-emails/

 

Secret Service ordered by National Archives to investigate deleted Jan. 6 texts

Brad Reed
July 19, 2022



A U.S. Secret Service agent stands guard during the arrival of President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One in Ronkonkoma, NY, Friday, July 28, 2017. (Shutterstock)


The United States Secret Service is being ordered by the National Archives and Records Administration to launch an investigation into how texts from Secret Service agents dated on January 6th, 2021 went "missing."

According to CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, the National Archives sent a letter to Secret Service Agency Records Officer Damian Kokinda requesting a full report into the records, which the agency says may have been deleted without authorization.

The letter demands that the Secret Service send back a report on its findings "within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter," and it states that the report "must include a complete description of the records affected, a statement of the exact circumstances surrounding the deletion of the messages, a statement of the safeguards established to prevent further loss of documentation, and details of all agency actions taken to salvage, retrieve, or reconstruct the records."

The text messages in question were dated on January 5th and 6th of 2021, which just happened to be the day before and the day of the Capitol riots where supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol building to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

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The Secret Service has claimed that these texts were inadvertently deleted as part of a "device replacement program."









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https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-texts-2657694580/

 

Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans have been trying to push the lie that the domestic terrorist that stormed the Capitol during their armed insurrection and attempted coup are "political prisoners being held without charges." You may have seen @ace's n 8's and @Scotchlass pushing that lie right here on our little forum.

I have already posted the proof that is a lie but this is the definitive proof of what a stupid and ignorant (two different things) lie that is. The story includes the names and charges of every domestic terrorist arrested so far.

You will have to click on the link to view the embedded chat but everyone of them is there including what they have been charged with.


At least 882 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. This searchable table shows them all.
Madison Hall, Skye Gould, Rebecca Harrington, Jacob Shamsian, Azmi Haroun, Taylor Ardrey, and Erin Snodgrass
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George Pierre Tanios watches as a video of the January 6th storming of the US Capitol is shown during his hearing on charges of pepper-spraying Capitol police officers, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on March 22, 2021, in this courtroom sketch from a video feed of the proceedings.
REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

• A pro-Trump mob descended on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and hundreds face criminal charges.
• It took four hours to secure the building so Congress could certify President Joe Biden's victory.
• Over a year later, at least 882 people have been charged. This searchable table shows them all.

Since supporters of then-President Donald Trump swarmed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — forcing Congress to go into lockdown and damaging the halls of government — at least 882 people have been arrested and charged with crimes.

The FBI is seeking the public's help to identify people who took part in one of the most documented crimes in US history.

But since most rioters were allowed to walk free that day, it's taking some time to track them down.

This table includes the names, charges, links to court documents, and links to additional stories of all the people charged so far. We're keeping it updated as the Department of Justice releases more names and info.


Only 329 federally charged rioters have entered guilty pleas so far.


The number of people charged in the insurrection is expected to keep growing as FBI agents pore through video footage, social media posts, phone location data, and tips from the public.

Democratic members of Congress pushed for a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol riot akin to the one made post-9/11, but Senate Republicans blocked the attempt.

The House of Representatives narrowly voted to create a commission on June 30, 2021. Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are the only Republicans on the panel. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the Republican Party would create its own investigation into January 6, 2021.

Since the creation of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, the committee has interviewed hundreds of people, issued dozens of subpoenas, and sorted through thousands of documents relating to the riots. The committee scheduled its first hearing to showcase its findings on June 9, 2022.


On January 13, 2022, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against the leader of the Oath Keepers, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, and 10 associates, charging them with "seditious conspiracy," the most severe charge levied against any of the alleged Capitol rioters so far.

The first jury trial relating to the Capitol riots resulted in a jury finding rioter Guy Reffitt guilty on each of the five counts he faced after fewer than 4 hours of deliberations. US prosecutors said Reffitt brought a pistol and flex-cuffs to the Capitol, but didn't enter the building.

https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1

 

Secret Service agents reminded twice by email to preserve phone records before agency-wide reset: report

Travis Gettys
July 20, 2022



'A Secret Service agent listening to his earpiece' [Shutterstock]


U.S. Secret Service employees were reminded by email to preserve records on their cell phone before they were replaced, according to a new report.

A senior official with the agency told NBC News that employees received two email reminders about preserving the records on their phones, including text messages before they were "restored to factory settings" as part of a planned reset and replacement program in January 2021.

The texts were lost during the agency-wide reset on Jan. 27, 2021, which came 11 days after Congress requested the communications from Jan. 6 and the day before, and the Secret Service said it was able to retrieve one in response to the House select committee's subpoena.

The agency vowed to conduct a forensic search for any other records, but indicated those messages were not likely to be recovered.

IN OTHER NEWS: Witness at Steve Bannon's trial reveals over 1,000 cooperated with Jan. 6 Committee

Secret Service agents were with Trump during the day of the uprising, and were also with vice president Mike Pence, who went into hiding at the Capitol after pro-Trump rioters called for him to be hanged.

On June 29 a former White House staffer told the House January 6 investigation that Trump had attempted to force the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol to join his supporters on that day.

"The Department notified us that many US Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device replacement program," Cuffari wrote in the letter first reported by The Intercept and later published by Politico.

"The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications" for a review of January 6, he said, referring to the Office of the Inspector General.

READ MORE: Witness Garrett Ziegler lashes out at J6 committee in white nationalist grievance rant

In addition, he said, the department has stalled on providing other records to the OIG.

In a statement, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi rejected the inspector general's allegation.

He said the agents' phones were being wiped as part of a planned replacement program that began before the OIG requested the information six weeks after the insurrection.

"The Secret Service notified DHS OIG of the loss of certain phones’ data, but confirmed to OIG that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration," he said.

RELATED: 'Step the hell up': Rick Wilson urges J6 Committee to drop the hammer on Secret Service over lost texts

Cuffari's letter was addressed to the leaders of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committees.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security committee is Representative Bennie Thompson, who is also the chairman of the House committee investigating January 6.

Their investigation has sought to show that Trump knowingly incited the insurrection as an attempted "coup."

The Secret Service has been criticized for not adequately anticipating the threat of the violent action by armed Trump supporters on January 6.

Trump had made a se
nior Secret Service official at the time, Tony Ornato, his personal deputy chief of staff.

Ornato has denied the account given to the January 6 committee by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump tried to force the Secret Service to drive him to the Capitol as his supporters massed at the building, the seat of the US legislature.

But other then-White House officials have backed Hutchinson's story.



With additional reporting by AFP

https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-jan-6-2657702609/

 

Maybe we should check with the russkis, see do they have them.

 

No wonder this Russian false propaganda asset is @ace's n 8's favorite. I wonder if he wasn't copied on the email.

OAN host shared detailed plans about fake electors with Trump campaign officials and attorneys: report

Travis Gettys
July 21, 2022



Rudy Giuliani (Photo: mark reinstein -- Shutterstock.com)


One America News host Christina Bobb emailed several Donald Trump campaign aides the day before electors gathered to cast their states' presidential votes with a detailed plan to send false electors to state legislatures.

Politico obtained the Dec. 13, 2020, email sent to Rudy Giuliani, senior campaign official and attorney Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis, Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing outlining the plan to mobilize pro-Trump alternate electors in multiple states won by Joe Biden, and which indicated a campaign official had spoken to teams around the country and then reported back to Bobb.

“They have a friendly legislator who can get them in,” Bobb said of an effort in Nevada. “They are prepared to do it on the steps if needed."

Bobb also sent the email to Matthew Stroia, then chief of staff to Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and later linked to efforts to send false elector lists to Mike Pence before he presided over the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional certification of Biden's election win, and which was unwelcome to the former vice president's team.

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Stroia's involvement suggest Trump's team viewed him as an ally earlier than previously known.

Bernie Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and longtime Giuliani ally, and attorney-lobbyist Katherine Friess were also listed as recipients.

Bobb notified recipients that Trump campaign official Mike Roman held a call the evening before with teams in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and indicated they may have difficulty getting the phony electors into the state capitols, but were working on getting ceremonial photos and possibly resorting to a "back door option."

The email also provided details about how many people were willing to act as fake electors in those states and showed that alternate electors in five states signed certificates claiming they represented voters, while alternate electors in New Mexico and Pennsylvania said they would do so if Trump won his curt challenges.

WATCH: 'I’m not an idiot!' Republican blows up on Biden appointee at House hearing

Epshteyn thanked Bob a few minutes later and copied Roman into the email thread, but it's not clear whether any other recipients responded to her update.

https://www.rawstory.com/christina-bobb-oan/

 

The investigation into missing Secret Service text messages is now a criminal probe: NBC News

Sarah K. Burris
July 21, 2022



(Shutterstock.com)


NBC News Pete Williams and Julia Ainsley are reporting that the inspector general's investigation into the Department of Homeland Security over the missing text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, has now become a criminal probe. The results of what unfolded could also be referred to federal prosecutors for indictment.

"The DHS Inspector General informed the Secret Service on Wednesday evening that the investigation is now criminal and that it should halt all internal investigations on the missing text messages," a letter relayed to reporters says.

"To ensure the integrity of our investigation, the USSS must not engage in any further investigative activities regarding the collection and preservation of the evidence referenced above,” DHS Deputy Inspector General Gladys Ayala wrote in the letter. “This includes immediately refraining from interviewing potential witnesses, collecting devices or taking any other action that would interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation.”



The letter was sent to Secret Service Director James Murray, but Murray is about to leave the Secret Service to take a job at Snapchat, the social media site that, ironically, allows message senders to erase them after being viewed.

The Secret Service said in a statement that they got the letter and have informed the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress of the probe.

Earlier on Thursday, DHS told the Secret Service to stop its internal inquiry, which could cause some debate.

https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-criminal-probe/




Jan. 6 committee member reveals the Secret Service has retained a private lawyer

 

Merrick Garland does not say much so this says a lot.

Merrick Garland rebuffs speculation that the DOJ isn't probing potential crimes concerning the Capitol riot: 'We do not do our investigations in public'

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Cheryl Teh
Thu, July 21, 2022 at 12:20 AM·2 min read





"We have to get this right," said Attorney General Merrick Garland of DOJ's investigation into the Capitol riot.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

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  Merrick Garland has rebuffed "speculation" about the DOJ's perceived inaction over the Capitol riot.
  
• The attorney general said the DOJ doesn't conduct its investigations "in public."
  
• Garland said the DOJ is committed to holding to account all "criminally responsible" parties.
  

Attorney General Merrick Garland has rebuffed speculation over the Department of Justice's perceived inaction over the January 6 investigation.

During a meeting with the DOJ on Wednesday, Garland said there was "a lot of speculation" over what the department is or isn't doing, and the theories it is working on.

He noted that such speculation is likely to continue because a "central tenet" of the DOJ's process is that "we do not do our investigations in public."


"This is the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into," Garland said. "And we have done so because this represents this effort to upend a legitimate election, transferring power from one administration to another. It cuts at the fundamentals of American democracy."

"We have to get this right," he emphasized.

Garland added that the DOJ is committed to holding accountable "every person who is criminally responsible" for trying to overturn the presidential election. However, he said the process must be carried out with "integrity and professionalism."

Garland's statement came a day after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow presented an exclusive report on a memo in May that the attorney general had sent to the DOJ.

While the memo noted that high-level approval is required for politically-sensitive probes, this doesn't rule out the possibility of the DOJ pursuing investigations into Trump and his allies over the Capitol riot.

Meanwhile, the January 6 committee said last month that it has enough evidence to ask the DOJ to indict Trump.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/merrick-garland-rebuffs-speculation-doj-062035295.html

 

Retired U.S. Military Leaders Speak Out Against Trump's 'Dereliction Of Duty'
Josephine Harvey
Fri, July 22, 2022 at 2:09 AM·2 min read






A group of retired four-star generals and admirals from the U.S. armed forces condemned Donald Trump in a joint article about the former president’s “dereliction of duty” before and during the U.S. Capitol riot.

The Jan. 6 House select committee produced “many startling findings,” but none were more alarming than the fact that Trump “abdicated his duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” while rioters were ransacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, seven former military leaders wrote in an editorial published in The New York Times.

The authors highlighted how, in the weeks leading up to the insurrection, Trump’s allies urged him to hold on to power by ordering the military to seize voting machines and supervise a do-over of the 2020 election.

“Such an illegal order would have imperiled a foundational precept of American democracy: civilian control of the military,” the military leaders wrote. “Americans may take it for granted, but the strength of our democracy rests upon the stability of this arrangement, which requires both civilian and military leaders to have confidence that they have the same goal of supporting and defending the Constitution.”


Testimony at Thursday's hearing revealed that Trump ignored language from aides to urge his supporters to stop the violence, and instead ad-libbed a statement that again repeated his lies about having the election
Testimony at Thursday's hearing revealed that Trump ignored language from aides to urge his supporters to stop the violence, and instead ad-libbed a statement that again repeated his lies about having the election "stolen" from him. (Photo: Kent Nishimura via Getty Images)

“The president’s dereliction of duty on Jan. 6 tested the integrity of this historic principle as never before, endangering American lives and our democracy,” the military leaders added. “The lesson of that day is clear. Our democracy is not a given. To preserve it, Americans must demand nothing less from their leaders than an unassailable commitment to country over party — and to their oaths above all.”

The article was published before Thursday’s prime time select committee hearing, which detailed what Trump did for more than three hours as a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election.

Multiple aides testified that Trump remained in a private dining room off the Oval Office watching TV during the violence. His former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, said he could have walked to the press briefing room in less than 60 seconds to make an announcement, but chose not to.

She also said that Trump had not wanted to mention “peace” in a tweet to supporters during the riot. He eventually agreed to say “stay peaceful” after his daughter Ivanka Trump proposed the phrase.

The editorial was signed by Admirals Steve Abbot, James Loy, John Nathman and William Owens; and Generals Peter Chiarelli, John Jumper and Johnnie Wilson.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-u-military-leaders-speak-080934119.html

 

This is another question I am willing to bet I don't get any answers to.


Hey @shootersa @ace's n 8's @Scotchlass @CS natureboy just in your own personal opinion what should the president, any president, do if the Capitol is being attacked? That should be a very easy question to answer. I am just asking you what YOU THINK. You do know what you think don't you?

 

Former Trump White House security official says that if Trump walked to the Capitol on January 6 it would have become 'an insurrection, a coup'
Brent D. Griffiths
Thu, July 21, 2022 at 6:56 PM·2 min read

• Cassidy Hutchinson
  Former White House aide and assistant to Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff to President Donald Trump

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  A former Trump White House security official said there were fears about Trump on January 6.
  
• The unnamed official testified that if Trump went to the Capitol it would move to an "insurrection."
  
• The testimony was played during Thursday night's January 6 committee hearing.
  

A former Trump White House security official said that there were fears that if President Donald Trump marched to the Capitol on January 6 that a "coup" could be underway.

"To be completely honest, we were all in a state of shock," an unnamed security aide testified before the House January 6 committee. "I think the actual physical feasibility of doing it, and then also, we knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else if he physically walked to the Capitol."

Crucially, the security official's testimony appears to confirm what former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson previously told the panel. Hutchinson said that Trump was aware that armed supporters were trying to attend his January 6 rally and didn't care.

Video: Testimony from first Jan. 6 committee hearing

The security official said it was clear to those around Trump that there could be serious trouble if the president marched to the Capitol as he said during his January 6 speech. Multiple witnesses have testified before the January 6 committee that Trump and his allies planned for days for him to march to the Capitol as lawmakers formally certified his election loss.

"I don't know if you want to use the word insurrection, coup, whatever, we all knew that this would move from a normal, democratic, you know, public event into something else," the security official said.

January 6 panel members said the security official is unnamed because there are credible fears that there could be repercussions to the person based on their testimony.

Trump has previously disputed Hutchinson's claim that he asked for his security officials to stop using metal detectors even though the security precautions were identifying weapons. Hutchinson testified under oath. The former president just made his claims on social media.

This is a breaking news story. Stay with Insider for updates.



Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-white-house-security-005602733.html

 

Wait.
if Trump walked to the Capitol on January 6 it would have become 'an insurrection, a coup'

The resident american hater has been telling us since January 7 that it was an insurrection, or sometimes he calls it a coup and he always calls it an attempt to overthrow the government. But now he's telling us it apparently wasn't and insurrection, a coup, because Trump didn't walk to the capitol on January 6.

We been lied to again. DAMN!!

 

@shootersa

OK first of all take note just as I predicted @shootersa will not answer a very simple question that only asks what he thinks. Just his own opinion. So why won't @shootersa answer a simple question like that? Because the answer is obvious and convicts his Chosen One Traitor Trump which he can never do.

But also note the laughable lie that I am the one stalking @shootersa instead of him stalking me. Anyone can just look for themselves. It does not matter what thread its on or even what is being discussed. As soon as I make a post @shootersa will almost never fail to instantly make a post on the same thread most often with nothing more than a personal attack or some meaningless nonsense.

I am sure just about anyone who follows the politics section has already seen that but if they haven't all they have to do is watch.

 

Yeah no shit. The Secret Service was entirely corrupted under Trump and forgot they are not supped to be working for a dictator and actually work for the American people. The J6 needs to expose that festering cesspool and clean house of the traitors to the Constitution of the United States of America.


Jan. 6 Committee wants Secret Service 'under oath' to explain deleted text messages: Schiff

David Edwards
July 24, 2022



Secret Service agent outside Doanld Trump's vehicle (Photo by Thomas Samson for AFP)


A member of the Jan. 6 Committee revealed that Secret Service agents and staff may be put under oath for interviews about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

On Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told CBS host Margaret Brennan that the committee is keen to recover deleted text messages that were sent by the Secret Service on Jan. 6.

"If they're hiring criminal defense counsel then they probably have a concern about their criminal liability," Schiff noted. "We want to hear from these witnesses. Some we want to hear from again. We want to put them under oath if they weren't previously under oath so that we can understand exactly what was happening on Jan. 5th and Jan. 6th."

"And we have profound concerns about what's going on at the Secret Service," he added. "We are now, for the first time, getting documents that we had requested long, long ago."

Schiff suggested that the committee could investigate the agency for failing to provide the documents in a timely manner.

"And furthermore, we want to obtain those text messages," he said, "if there's any way to retrieve them. But either way, we want to get answers as to why those were destroyed."

Watch the video below from CBS.



https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-under-oath/