'Shoes dropping like hail': Here's how Jan 6 committee's 'bombshells' have gone off even before the final report

Matthew Chapman
April 21, 2022



Capitol Rioters (Screengrab)


On Thursday, writing for POLITICO, Kyle Cheney outlined how the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have already dropped "bombshells" about the events of that day and the state of U.S. democracy — even before they deliver their final report.

"Shoes have already been dropping like hail for more than 15 months, as the contours and consequences of Donald Trump’s plan to overturn a democratic election have gone from hazy to technicolor to HD," wrote Cheney. "But the panel’s goal isn’t necessarily about unloading new salacious details (though there will certainly be some): It’s about reminding Americans with vivid and bone-chilling granularity just how close American democracy came to the brink, based on what's already been revealed."

Moreover, wrote Cheney, "The desire for some new smoking gun — some hidden email or stunning confession — risks obscuring the succession of jaw-dropping revelations that have already emerged since that mob ransacked the Capitol, overrunning police while the extremists among them hunted down Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi."

Among those revelations, wrote Cheney, are that Trump actively pressured state officials like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" him extra votes; that he likely violated federal law plotting with attorney John Eastman to overturn the counting of presidential electors; that he spent hours on January 6 calling allies to continue to try to get them to overturn the election rather than do anything to stop the violence unfolding at the Capitol; that he strategized with conspiracy theorists who wanted him to declare martial law; and that the rioters at the Capitol have repeatedly argued it was Trump who summoned them there.

"If you’re looking ahead with tremulous anticipation for the new, shocking, final reveal of the Jan. 6 select committee investigation, you may be facing the wrong way," wrote Cheney.

You can read more here.



https://www.rawstory.com/january-6-committee/

 

Stupid "what if" questions...

Antifa was not involved. Period.

 

Bullshit! Trump was commander in chief, he had sole authority over the national guard.

Pelosi has no say in any of this.

 

The excerpt from the new book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns specifically lists Sen. McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) as being anti-Trump leaders on Jan 6th, along with Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN). We all know Scalise as the Rep. almost assassinated at a softball game practice a few years ago. I know nothing of Rep. Emmer. But this kind of behavior from McConnell and McCarthy is to be entirely expected. Both are well known RINO's of which the party would be well rid.

As far as how much two New York Times reporters can be trusted -- on or about anything -- I'll leave to the judgement of each of you.

GOP Leaders Plotted Against Trump on Jan. 6
Shane Trejo | Apr 21, 2022



A new book is revealing how top GOP leaders Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) betrayed President Donald Trump on Jan. 6. After the mostly-peaceful protest in and around the U.S. Capitol, McCarthy and McConnell were plotting behind closed doors to destroy President Trump, including the possibility of colluding with Democrats to impeach the President. The new book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns details the backroom dealings that McCarthy and McConnell were working on amidst the chaos of Jan. 6.

“I’ve had it with this guy,” McCarthy told a group of Republican leaders on Jan. 6, adding that Trump’s actions “inciting people” in the Capitol were “atrocious and totally wrong.” “What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it,” the House Minority Leader stated, also contemplating the use of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. McCarthy also told confidants he would implore Trump to resign from office.

Shamefully, McCarthy also called for more Big Tech censorship against America First leaders, such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for refusing to accept the phony narrative about Jan. 6. “We can’t put up with that,” McCarthy said, adding, “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?”

Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN) joined McCarthy in his anti-Trump plotting, suggesting the need for a “post-Trump Republican House” and the need to censure the president. In the days following Jan. 6, Mitch McConnell was working back channels in an attempt to impeach President Trump to prevent him from ever running for office again.

“The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” McConnell said, adding that “if [Trump’s behavior on Jan. 6] isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is,”

Big League Politics has reported on President Trump wishing he marched with his supporters on Jan. 6, refusing to back down regarding the necessity of that patriotic protest on behalf of election integrity: “President Donald Trump said that he regrets not marching with supporters to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020 like he originally planned to do.

Trump said this during an interview with the Washington Post where he also blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for allegedly ordering Capitol Police to stand down while the violent display was staged. “I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it,” he added.


Trump ultimately blamed Secret Service for not allowing him to live up to his word and march with his supporters to the U.S. Capitol on that fateful day. “Secret Service said I couldn’t go. I would have gone there in a minute,” he said.”

McCarthy and McConnell deserve worse than just getting voted out of office for their crimes against their party, their country and their constituents. They need to be remembered as negatively as Benedict Arnold for their treasonous actions in supporting the vote steal.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/gop-leaders-plotted-against-trump-on-jan-6/

 

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and former President Trump are on good terms following the leaked audio recording in which McCarthy said he was going to recommend the former president resign following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

A source with knowledge of the conversation confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Republican leader and the former president spoke on the phone after the audio was leaked.

Trump and McCarthy are on good terms, according to the source.

The Washington Post first reported on the call between Trump and McCarthy.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported on a recording from Jan. 10, 2021 where McCarthy reportedly told House Republican leadership that he had “had it” with Trump and that he was going to recommend the then-president “resign.”

“I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy explained what he would tell Trump in the audio recording published by the Times, referring to the impeachment resolution.

According to the recording, the Republican leader said that it was not likely that Trump would listen to his suggestion and that nobody can defend the then-president’s actions on January 6 “and nobody should defend it.”

McCarthy rebutted the Times reporting as “totally false and wrong” in a Twitter statement released Thursday morning, hours ahead of the published recordings.

The Times’ report also said that McCarthy called Trump’s actions on January 6 “atrocious and totally wrong” in a call with Republicans on January 8, and reportedly floated the idea of getting certain lawmakers banned from social media.

 

McCarthy must have forgotton this!



Thinskin

 

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Here is Glenn's view!



Thinskin

 

Anonymous sources? I thought you guys didn't trust them?

 

Mark Meadows Had Been Warned of Possible Jan. 6 Violence: Official

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had been advised of intelligence reports indicating the potential for violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to new evidence released Friday night connected to the House committee’s investigation into the incident.

Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a special assistant in White House during the Trump administration, told the investigating committee “there were concerns brought forward” to Meadows, according to the newly released transcripts of the testimony.

It was unclear what, if anything, Meadows did with the intelligence, Hutchinson said.


“I just remember Mr. Ornato coming in and saying that we had intel reports saying that there could potentially be violence on the 6th,” Hutchinson said, apparently referencing Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official. “And Mr. Meadows said: ‘All right. Let’s talk about it.’”

Hutchinson’s testimony was submitted to by lawmakers to federal court in Washington DC in an effort to legally compel Meadows to meet with the panel after he sued them in an attempt to prevent speaking on the record.

The select committee said Friday that Meadows initially turned over 2,319 text messages, but withheld more than 1,000 others on grounds of executive privilege, which was waived by President Biden.

Friday’s filing also includes a number of new texts that Meadow submitted to the committee, including some from House Republicans pushing him to act.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio suggests in a late text on Jan. 5 that Vice President Mike Pence “should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.”


Meadows responded to Jordan via text early the next morning. “I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen.”

Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry was texting Meadows as early as Dec. 26: “Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. 11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. We gotta get going!”

Hutchinson, according to the testimony released Friday, also described several calls involving Meadows and members of the House Freedom Caucus in late November and early December.
https://resistthemainstream.org/ex-...-to-meadows-reveals-what-he-knew-about-jan-6/

 

Source confirms GOP group chats discussing martial law: 'If they ever get out, we have a problem'

Travis Gettys
April 25, 2022



Marjorie Taylor Greene (Screen Grab)


House conservatives discussed the possibility that Donald Trump could declare martial law to remain in power, and they're concerned about those conversations leaking into public.

CNN obtained more than 2,300 texts between former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and various Trump allies and family members, and one of those shows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-A) discussing those group chats among GOP lawmakers.

"In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall (sic) law," Greene told Meadows on Jan. 17, 2021. "I don't know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!"

RELATED: New texts reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene’s panicked response on Jan. 6

CBS News independently confirmed those texts with Meadows through a source on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, and someone close to the House conservatives also confirmed their existence.

"Just spoke with someone close to House conservatives, who has seen some of the group chats from late 2020 and early 2021," the source told CBS reporter Robert Costa. "Cringed at the MTG texts. Said the group chats were, and remain, 'stupid' and 'everybody texted too much' in them. 'If they ever get out, we have a problem.'"



Robert Costa

@costareports
Just spoke with someone close to House conservatives, who has seen some of the group chats from late 2020 and early 2021. Cringed at the MTG texts. Said the group chats were, and remain, "stupid" and "everybody texted too much" in them. "If they ever get out, we have a problem."
11:27 AM · Apr 25, 2022

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-martial-law-2657210723/

 

Mike Lindell told Mark Meadows he was 'praying' that Trump would consider seizing voting machines

Brad Reed
April 25, 2022



Real America's Voice/screen grab


Text messages to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows show that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell actively pushed for the administration to seize voting machines that he believed were responsible for stealing the 2020 election.

In a text message sent to Meadows on December 20th, 2020, Lindell enthusiastically endorsed the conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems machines espoused by attorney Sidney Powell, and he encouraged Meadows and the former president to take action.

"We have to get the machines and everything we already have proves the President won by millions of votes!" Lindell falsely claimed. "I have read and not validated yet that you and others talked him out of seizing them... if true... I pray it is part of a bigger plan."

Lindell then brought up nonsensical claims about the machines breaking on election night, even though no such thing occurred.

"I am grateful that on the night of the election the algorithms of the corrupt machines broke and they realized our president would win in spite of historic fraud!" he wrote. "I look for deviations every day in my business... when I find one I investigate relentlessly until I know why it happened."

See a screen cap of Lindell's full message to Meadows below.


Molly Jong-Fast

@MollyJongFast
And here’s the mypillow guy https://cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/read-mark-meadows-texts-sean-hannity-ivanka-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene/index.html



11:12 AM · Apr 25, 2022

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-mark-meadows/

 

Funny that they list party first.

 

Meadows aide testified that GOP lawmakers knew Jan. 6 scheme not ‘legally sound’ but pushed to overturn election anyway

Travis Gettys
April 26, 2022



Mark Meadows on Facebook.


Testimony from a former aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows helped provide context to the back-channel communications her boss had with Republican members of Congress after Donald Trump's election loss.

A new trove of text messages Meadows exchanged with Trump's allies and family members between the election and Joe Biden's inauguration discussing various schemes to keep the former president in office, and former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the House select committee that she recalled at least 11 members of Congress discussing a plan to have vice president Mike Pence throw out the election results, reported the New York Times.

“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the states or the electors back to the states,” Hutchinson told congressional investigators.

Hutchinson testified that the members of Congress appeared to support a plan promoted by conservative attorney John Eastman that has been widely described as a coup attempt, and she told investigators that at least three of the GOP lawmakers -- Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) -- were present when White House lawyers said the alternate electors scheme was not "legally sound."

READ: REVEALED: Leading advocates of Trump's Big Lie touted evidence they knew to be disproven, disputed or dismissed as dubious

However, she said, Meadows allowed the plan to move forward despite doubts about its legality.

The newly revealed text messages show Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) was an early supporter of that scheme, which he conceded was "highly controversial," and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) promoted the strategy up to Jan. 5, 2021, in a text message to Meadows.

Hutchinson also testified that Perry backed the plan to encourage Trump supporters to march on the Capitol, and she said no one present objected to the proposal, and the former Meadows aide made clear those members of Congress were “inclined to go with White House guidance” about sending a crowd to the Capitol as lawmakers certified the election results.

Some members of Congress spoke at the Trump rally that preceded the Capitol riot, amplifying the former president's lies about election fraud and using fiery language steeped in Revolutionary War rhetoric.

“Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” said Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who wore body armor to the Ellipse rally. “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?”


https://www.rawstory.com/cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6/

 

Yet it still wasn't about over-turning an election...was more about delaying the electoral college certification.

''Overturning an election'' sure sounds better for the hack fuck cause tho....ding bat.

 

More audio....



Thinskin

 

They shouted that Trump and Putin conspired to steal the oval office from Hillary.

Turned out, the whole thing was a despicable plot to destroy Trump for daring to challenge the queen.​

Then they claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop story was all fake news.

Turned out, it wasn't fake news, but they buried the story for over a year so Biden would steal the oval office from Trump.
​

Now they claim Trump tried to overthrow the government and install himself as dictator for life.

Turns out, it's all just more lies and propaganda from the enemies of America.​

 

Just to be clear it was all about trying to overthrow a free and fair election and the government of the United States of America. And we know that because treasonous conservative/Republicans knew there was no massive voter fraud but pushed the big lie anyway. They knew Pence could not unilaterally over turn the election. They created slates of fake electors to do that knowing that was illegal. And not only were warned the rally would turn violent they did everything they could to create that violence to not only try to stop the certification of Biden as president but also tried to spirit Pence away from the Capitol so they could try to kick the election down to the house of representatives to complete their successful coup. But Pence refused to get in the car knowing full well what they intended to do.

And its all getting exposed now.


Lauren Boebert involved in 'beginning stages' of White House Jan. 6 planning, ex-aide says

Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline
April 27, 2022



Lauren Boebert speaking with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado was involved in the “beginning stages” of talks with senior White House officials that ultimately led to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to decertify the 2020 election results, a former top aide told congressional investigators.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, identified Boebert as one of a small group of Republican lawmakers who met with Meadows as early as the last week of November 2020 to “raise the idea” of former Vice President Mike Pence intervening to prevent the certification of election results by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. The ensuing assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters that day led to the deaths of five people and Trump’s eventual second impeachment trial.

Hutchinson named Boebert in testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in February. Portions of her testimony were made public this week as part of a legal filing made by lawyers for the committee in a lawsuit brought against it by Meadows in an effort to block several subpoenas.

Under questioning from committee investigators, Hutchinson recalled several meetings in the weeks after Thanksgiving in which “campaign officials and a few members of Congress” discussed the possibility of Pence aiding an effort to overturn the election results on Jan. 6.

“Mr. Scott Perry, Mr. Jim Jordan… Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are the four members that immediately jump out to me,” Hutchinson said.


“I recall those individuals being involved in the earlier stages at this time,” she added. “I’m sure there were other individuals involved, but those are ones that I remember specifically being involved that Mr. Meadows had outreach to.”

Boebert, a controversial first-term lawmaker from Silt, has been scrutinized for giving tours of the Capitol to a “large group” of people on the day prior to the insurrection, and for sending tweets that some characterized as relaying “intel” about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack. On the morning of Jan. 6, she tweeted, “Today is 1776.”

Hutchinson also said that “Ms. Ellis” was among the campaign officials who had early meetings with Meadows on the issue — an apparent reference to Colorado attorney Jenna Ellis, a legal advisor to the Trump campaign. Ellis authored a memo sent to Meadows on Dec. 31, 2020, in which she argued Pence had the power to overturn the election, ABC News reported last year.

Constitutional scholars have overwhelmingly rejected the argument that vice presidents have any authority to influence the counting of electoral votes in the congressional certification process, and conspiracy theories alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been exhaustively debunked by state and local officials, experts, law enforcement authorities and the courts.


Colorado Newsline is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Colorado Newsline maintains editorial independence.

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