https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/10/j6-committee-pulls-dismal-ratings-in-prime-time-show-trial/

 

Great false propaganda spin with of course one big lie but let's have a look at what it really says.



Jan. 6 Committee Pulls Dismal Ratings In Prime-Time Show Trial
By: Tristan Justice
June 10, 2022
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Television networks that broadcast the Jan. 6 Committee’s first summer hearing in prime time Thursday night failed to attract more viewers than on a typical weeknight.

“The world is watching what we do here,” Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in his opening statement. “America has long been expected to be a shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope and freedom, a model for others when we are at our best.”


Thompson’s viewership, however, missed the mark.

According to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen published by The New York Times, more than 19 million tuned in for what was anticipated to be a blockbuster event. While 19 million may seem high at first glance, a look at what cable and broadcast networks typically pull for an average evening reveals Thursday’s viewership as little to brag about, especially when all but one, Fox News, aired the livestream.

ABC News, a former president of which produced Thursday’s show trial, drew 4.8 million viewers. NBC and CBS each pulled just more than three million. The legacy networks, then, pulled about 11 million viewers combined Thursday night. According to AdWeek’s latest analysis of weekly television news ratings for the week of May 30, the broadcast networks’ evening programs collectively averaged nearly 18 million viewers, 7 million more than tuned into Thursday night’s Democrat programming.

Nielsen data published by The Hill revealed bumps for CNN and MSNBC which drew 2.6 and 4.1 million viewers respectively. The numbers are major jumps for the struggling networks which now typically struggle to reach an average 1 million viewers for their prime-time lineups. According to AdWeek, CNN averaged 555,000 viewers between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday and MSNBC averaged about 1.2 million. In contrast, Fox News Channel pulled an average of more than 2.8 million Wednesday night between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., and on Thursday, averaged 3 million without carrying the Jan. 6 Committee proceedings as did every other network.



This is actually all quite laughable and looking for really stupid people to believe it. First the J6 hearing counts as one show. And that one show had about three times as many people watching it as the most popular TV shows.

And now just look at their math.

ABC News, a former president of which produced Thursday’s show trial, drew 4.8 million viewers. NBC and CBS each pulled just more than three million. The legacy networks, then, pulled about 11 million viewers combined Thursday night.

That's 21.8 million viewers by their numbers.

And now the big lie.

18 million viewers, 7 more than tuned into Thursday night’s Democrat programming.

Well no that's a lie. Even Nielson puts the number at 17.67 million and that does not count the people watching on the internet.

No wonder you were too embarrassed to post anything except the link. One of your favorite dishonest tricks hoping people won't actually click on it.

 

And for more proof of just how stupid the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican leadership is their claims that the J6 committee is partisan is getting laughed out of the court of opinion. But they got nothing else in the face of the overwhelming proof of Trump's seven point coup armed insurrection and failed attempted violent coup.

'Stupid' GOP 'has no one but themselves to blame' for lack of Trump supporters on Jan. 6 committee: reporter

Sarah K. Burris
July 26, 2022



Congressman Kevin McCarthy. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)


Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman explained that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has no one to blame but himself for the GOP's inability to fight back against the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

McCarthy, along with several other Republicans, have complained that there's no way to have their own say about the evidence being presented in public hearings. Sherman recalled that McCarthy had the chance to have his members on the committee, but he refused. He appointed Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN) along with three others. Speaker Pelosi vetoed Jordan and Banks but not the other three. McCarthy claimed it was all or nothing and walked away from the committee.

"This was nobody's decision besides Kevin McCarthy's, so it's not like Republicans were shut out of the room," said Sherman. "Republicans could have taken a role on this committee. they could have had a bipartisan commission. They could have had any number of involvements in this process, but they chose not to. It's important to remember that, chose. Conscious decision."

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He went on to say that only time will tell about whether it was the right decision, but that he would argue "it was stupid from every point of view, the Republicans' point of view, the Democrats' point of view, history's point of view. They have no one but themselves to blame that they are not in the room. So, the argument that this is a one-party hearing, A. it's not. B. it's not. I mean, they chose to take themselves out of the arena, which is their decision."

"I mean, what was Pelosi supposed to do at that point? Oh, well, if Kevin McCarthy's not going to put his people on, we're going to fold our tents and go on. Idiotic, stupid criticism. Not sure where it's going and it doesn't really deserve any real debate at this point, and the leadership doesn't like when people say that, but it's just the reality."

Watch video below or at this link.




https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-stupid-january-6/

 

Theres no fight.
Deplorables are sitting back watching nancy antoinettes star chamber as it continues to over promise and under deliver.

The prime time circus is entertaining, but not in the way Nancy intended.

No matter. Nancy has her scapegoats primed to go.

 

DOJ is looking past J6 and are on to something much bigger — Trump's attempt to overthrow American democracy: Adam Schiff

Sarah K. Burris
July 26, 2022



Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump (Photo by Saul Loeb for AFP)


It was revealed on Tuesday evening by the Washington Post that the Justice Department is looking into former President Donald Trump and his actions in an attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

The report came out not long after NBC News host Lester Holt posted his full interview with Attorney General Merrick Garland in which he reiterated that attempting to overthrow an election is a crime. Holt asked Garland specifically about Jan. 6, but in his response, Garland pivoted to talk about how important it is for the DOJ to hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which is a fundamental part of our democracy."

Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 said that the report from the Post doesn't say that witnesses are being asked about Trump's role in the attempt to overthrow American democracy. So, the Post report "doesn't necessarily mean the [former] president is under investigation."

"You would expect that witnesses would be asked of interactions with anyone involved in the plot to overturn the election," said Schiff. "But look, I think the attorney general today was saying all the right things. And I notice a difference at least I perceived a difference between what he had been saying earlier about focusing on all those involved in the attack on Jan. 6 and now talking more broadly about the overall plot to overturn the election. So, I would hope that if the department is truly following the evidence wherever it leads, it will recognize it is leading to Donald J. Trump."

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He went on to explain that the piece that caught his ear was that he has moved on from talking about the violence on Jan. 6 and onto talking about the overall attempt to overthrow the United States.

"Frankly this was the main criticism I had previously about the department, that is yes, it was doing an expansive investigation in 50 states of all of those who participated in the attack, those who conspired in a seditious way about the attack," Schiff continued. "But it was very focused on the violence of Jan. 6, which is obviously a key and important but they are multiple lines of efforts to overturn the election. And some of those other lines of efforts, the president on the phone with a secretary of state in Georgia. pushing him to find 11,780 votes that don't exist. The president telling people, 'just say the election is corrupt. Let me and the Republican members of congress do the rest.' You know, that says that there are other actions beyond the violence of that day that need to be investigated and today it sounded like that is what the department is doing."

See the full interview below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/adam-schiff-trump-doj-probe/

 

Schiff ................... Schiff .................. Wasn't he the one who so officiously looked into the cameras on the capitol steps and in the media and told us he'd seen absolute, irrefutable proof that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the election? Course, he said, we can't share what we have with the American people, but trust us ............

That Schiff?
Come to think of it, how come Trump is still walking around free if Schiff had that absolute, irrefutable proof?

Adam Schiff lied about the Trump probe — and the media let him (nypost.com)

 

The revelations that Trump is now a target of the DOJ investigation into trying to illegally overthrow the election, and conducting an armed insurrection and deadly attempted coup kicked of quite the debate. Whose investigation is further ahead. It was widely assumed that the J6 committee was way ahead of the DOJ investigation. But then it was revealed the DOJ got the phone records of Trump's inner circle including Mark Meadows clear back in April. Long before the J6 hearings even began.

And probably the best explanation came from Carol Leonnig at the Washington post. In some aspects the DOJ investigation is much further along on certain aspects than the J6 investigation. But when it comes to just raw evince and testimony the J6 committee has much more on the bigger picture of Trump's seven point plan to try and overthrow the election, and staging an armed insurrection and attempted coup. But Leonnig said it really didn't matter because the J6 committee is handing over all their evidence and transcripts of testimony to the DOJ which is a gold mine for them and will drastically speed up the DOJ investigation.

Which we are now seeing.


DOJ is reaching out to Jan. 6 Committee witnesses as criminal probe accelerates: former Trump official

Brad Reed
July 27, 2022



US Attorney General Merrick Garland (AFP)


Former Trump administration official Alyssa Farah Griffin on Wednesday revealed that the United States Department of Justice has started reaching out to other former Trump officials to discuss the former president's efforts to illegally remain in power.

During a discussion about Mike Pence chief of staff Marc Short's testimony before a federal grand jury, Griffin revealed that Short is far from the only one-time White House insider to be contacted by the DOJ about testifying.

"I am aware of other White House officials who have been reached out to by DOJ and are planning to cooperate," she said.

This caught the attention of host John Berman, who pressed her for details about whom the DOJ had contacted.

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"I don't want to get ahead of their announcements, but I think you could piece it together based on who has testified before the January 6th Committee," she said. "Again, these are not -- these are related but separate track investigations, and I think DOJ is keeping an eye on... who may have helpful information."

Although the DOJ has been criticized in the past for being too slow to prosecute crimes related to Trump's efforts at overturning the election, recent developments have hinted that the department's efforts to potentially hold former Trump officials criminally accountable are accelerating.

Watch the video below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/doj-trump-prosecution-2657744678/

 

Lets see.
Wasn't it shooter who said way back when nancy antoinette first announced her star chamber circus that nancy ought get with the DOJ/FBI and work together?
Why yes, yes it was!

You see? They really are that incompetent!

 

Kinzinger says J6 committee will secure Ginni Thomas' testimony: We won't treat her differently 'because of her last name'

Matthew Chapman
July 27, 2022



Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois speaks at a political rally. (Shutterstock.com)


On Wednesday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a key member of the House Select Committee on January 6, said that his committee still plans to investigate Ginni Thomas, the far-right activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Ginni Thomas has been implicated heavily in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including calling up state lawmakers in Arizona to try to throw out the results.

"Your vice chair of the committee, Liz Cheney, told me on Sunday the committee is prepared to consider subpoenaing Ginni Thomas ... if she does not appear before the committee voluntarily," said anchor Jake Tapper. "When would that decision be made?"

"So that's — so the lawyers are really good at kind of knowing when they're in legitimate negotiations, which is all standard, or when they're being stalled," said Kinzinger. "And typically what we have seen is they'll come to us and say, they're just stalling right now. that's when we issue a subpoena. I think when we get to that threshold, we will."

She will not receive special treatment because of her family connections, Kinzinger also stressed.

"We're not treating her differently because of her last name," said Kinzinger. "We have discovered more and more involvement, some of which has been reported openly about her involvement with Eastman or trying to convince state electors. We want to talk to her. She said through the media that she's eager to talk to us. Hopefully we can get there. If not, we'll do what we need to do to make sure we can."

ALSO IN THE NEWS: Jan. 6 committee exposes the cowardice of Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz

https://www.rawstory.com/thomas-j6/

 

The rats are really starting to jump off the Trump ship. Treason against the United States of America is all just fun and games until you get caught. Then its time to try and save yourself.

And the interviews with former Trump cabinet members actually has a pretty simple line of questioning. OK how many of you were in favor of invoking the 25th amendment and how close did you come to doing it.

Steve Mnuchin talks to Jan. 6 Committee as Mick Mulvaney and Mike Pompeo prepare to cooperate

David Edwards
July 28, 2022



Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin poses with his wife Louise Linton while holding a sheet full of dollars (Twitter photo).


The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 reportedly interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who served under former President Donald Trump.

According to CNN's Katelyn Polantz, the committee's interview with Mnuchin was in progress on Thursday. She said the committee was also negotiating with former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

NBC correspondent Peter Alexander reported that Trump's former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was in talks to cooperate with the committee.


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https://www.rawstory.com/steve-mnuchin-january-6/

 

If Trump is elected president in 2024 he intends to fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with yes men who will follow orders from Trump. This is why it is necessary for the Democrats to put Trump in prison by 2024. I do not care what they get him on. I want them to get him really good and hard. The only wall that makes us safe will the the wall around the prison yard where Trump spends the rest of his life.

 

Jan. 6 committee reaches deal to share depositions with DOJ

Rebecca Beitsch
Thu, July 28, 2022 at 12:41 PM



The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has “formalized” a process for sharing information with the Department of Justice (DOJ) as the department ramps up its own probe into the deadly riot.

Chair Bennie Thomspon (D-Miss.) said the Justice Department will now be able to obtain copies of depositions from the committee, abandoning an earlier demand that they conduct an “in camera” review rather than take possession of any interviews.

“We just got the process ostensibly in writing and agreed on,” Thompson said Thursday.

“It’s not a catch-all. You know if they have some people you want to look at a transcript [for] you just need to let us know,” he said.


The process represents a compromise on both sides.

Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), a member of the committee, told reporters Wednesday that “the last request was, you know, all 1,000 interviews” they’ve done.

While the committee will get more specificity from DOJ, Justice was able to convince lawmakers it would be more expeditious to simply share the documents.

“We’re just trying to avoid any duplication of work,” Thompson said, noting that DOJ would eventually need documents during any prosecutions.

“It’s not like, ‘Here it is, come look at everything,’ and ‘we have.’ It’s a process we have to manage.”

The breakthrough in the negotiations comes as the Justice Department is reportedly more specifically eyeing the actions of former President Trump in its investigation into the attack.

In recent days, they’ve brought former aides to then-Vice President Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury, and prosecutors are reportedly in discussion with White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

“I think we’ve made a significant case that there are some problems there. And if that is the direction the Department of Justice has taken, then you know, we are a nation of laws, and they are the prosecutorial body to look at it,” Thompson said.

The Jan. 6 panel likewise continues to reach out to new witnesses.

Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney sat with the committee’s investigators Thursday while former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has also recently met with the panel.

Thompson said Thursday the committee remains in discussion with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

And as recently as two days ago it received another batch of documents from the Secret Service as the panel evaluates whether or how any text messages from agents on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 were erased.

It’s also eyeing releasing a report as early as August that would review the National Guard action on Jan. 6 and why they were delayed in getting approval to respond to the danger at the Capitol.

“We’ve done an analysis of the guard. And the question is, is there enough there on a national security perspective to generate a hearing or is it just something that we could release the findings and the report to the public,” Thompson said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-committee-reaches-deal-184145975.html

 

Excellent.
Shooters firmly worded letter got attention then.

 

Why a White House valet may be the big reveal in season two of J6 hearings

Bob Brigham
July 29, 2022



Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP

When the next round of Jan. 6 hearings commence after the August recess, one major focus may be a single White House employee, according to a fascinating new analysis.

Lisa Rubin, the off-air legal analyst for "The Rachel Maddow Show," connected the dots between multiple pieces of testimony that could all involve a single, unnamed individual.

"Based on former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s prior testimony and committee members’ own statements at the hearings to date, an as-yet-unnamed White House employee or employees could be among the most significant witnesses to then-President Donald Trump’s words, actions and inaction on and around Jan. 6," Rubin wrote.

She noted Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) said “a White House employee” met Trump when he returned from his speech on the Ellipse. A copy of Trump's daily diary obtained by The Washington Post recorded Trump "met with his Valet" at 1:21 p.m.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) also discussed the employee.

"As he was gathering his things in the dining room to leave, President Trump reflected on the day’s events with a White House employee," Kinzinger said. "This was the same employee who had met President Trump in the Oval Office after he returned from the Ellipse. President Trump said nothing to the employee about the attack. He said only quote, 'Mike Pence let me down.'”

Rubin explained why this could be so significant.

"Put another way, the person who informed Trump about the eruption of violence on Jan. 6 also never heard him express any regret about what happened other than his regret that then-Vice President Mike Pence did not overturn the election," Rubin wrote. "That he saw Trump on his way in and out of the Oval Office, roughly five hours apart, also suggests he witnessed a host of other conversations relevant to the intent and actions of Trump and others. And given Luria and Kinzinger’s descriptions of those conversations, it seems likely that the unnamed 'White House employee' has spoken to the committee. One possibility is that the unnamed 'White House employee' was one of Trump’s White House valets."

Rubin noted that in the July 12 hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) dropped the bombshell that Trump himself had attempted to call a witness.

"While the identity of the witness Trump tried to phone is still unknown, they have been revealed as a member of the White House 'support staff.' A valet could easily qualify as support staff," Rubin noted. "And if the unnamed 'White House employee' was the recipient of Trump’s call, that would make some sense. Someone on the White House “support staff” who had not already been in communication with the committee or the DOJ likely would not have a lawyer. And if that person were the target of Trump’s attempted call — a call warranting further DOJ investigation and potentially constituting witness tampering — keeping their identity a secret would also make sense."

Read the full analysis.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-j6-hearing-witness/

 

Trump welcomed Cassidy Hutchinson on his post-presidency team despite claims he didn't: report

Sarah K. Burris
August 01, 2022



Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 28, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP)

Business Insider has obtained documents that they say show Cassidy Hutchinson was working with former President Donald Trump even after he left office.

Trump and his allies have set their sights on attacking Hutchinson after she testified to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the effort to overthrow the 2020 election. Hutchinson was previously working with a lawyer paid for by Trump's political action committee, but several months ago, it was revealed she switched to her own counsel. It turned commentators to suspect it meant she was walking away from Trump World to cooperate with the committee. Up until that point, she had been quietly on the team.

Pro-Trump Trump lawyer Stefan Passantino was previously the one representing Hutchinson and he was paid by political donations.

READ: Jan. 6 attacker gets over 7 years behind bars after pleading with judge and calling himself an 'idiot'

"Federal Election Commission reports show that his legal compliance firm received more than $1 million from Trump-related political action committees in the 2021-22 election cycle, and that in the previous cycle Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch Trump loyalist and a House candidate at the time, paid him more than $93,000 for his services," New York Times, reporter Robert Draper wrote in July.

Insider reported that documents from the General Services Administration (GSA) show that Hutchinson was working for Trump's post-presidency office, formally known as the "Presidential Transition Support Team, 2021 Outgoing Transition." She worked on the efforts until April 2021 and was salaried at $90,000 annually. Giving an annual salary would indicate that a person would be working for more than a month.

Sunday evening it was reported by Rolling Stone that Trump's lawyers were already at work trying to beat criminal charges that they anticipate will likely come from the Department of Justice. A significant piece of information in the piece said that the Trump legal team kicked their efforts into high gear after Hutchinson testified in the public hearings.

Following Hutchinson's testimony, Trump attacked her, saying that she wasn't mentally sound and calling her "crazy." He never fully disputed her claims, however.

Trump's former deputy chief of staff, Tony Ornato, who now works at the Secret Service, was among those named by Hutchinson as present during many of the discussions about Jan. 6. After her testimony, the Secret Service said that Ornato and other agents would testify publicly that she was lying, but they still haven't done so.

The GSA documents showing the short employment of Hutchinson are part of Trump's ongoing attacks on her testimony, where he questioned why she went to work for him after Jan. 20 "if she felt we were so terrible." It's the same question activists have asked in the wake of her testimony: if she felt like Trump was so terrifying, why she stay at the White House after Jan. 6?

However, the same question could be used to question Trump's attacks on her. The ex-president claimed that he hardly knew Hutchinson, who was pictured with him on several occasions, and that he turned her down for post-presidency work. The GSA documents prove that wasn't true. In fact, he paid her until April 1, 2021.

"I understand that she was very upset and angry that I didn't want her to go, or be a member of the team. She is bad news!" said Trump in a post on his social media network. If he "didn't want her to be a member of the team," it's unclear why he paid her a salary and continued to pay for legal fees.

Hutchinson was never part of Trump's circle until the final year of the administration when she came to the White House with Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Details about Hutchinson prior to her testimony describe her as Meadows' shadow, present at all of his congressional meetings and

CNN reported in June that Trump was "nervous" and "blindsided" by Hutchinson's testimony.

While Hutchinson cooperated with the Jan. 6 committee, she is now also cooperating with the Justice Department.

Raw Story reached out to Hutchinson through a friend. But she is not speaking to the media.

Read the GSA documents at Business Insider.


https://www.rawstory.com/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-transition-team/

 

Nice summary.



Thinskin

 

So much for Cassidy Hutchinson being the liar. And the Secret Service is so utterly corrupted they would try to call Hutchinson a liar in a publicity stunt but are still refusing to testify to the J6 committee under oath.

Also notice again because it was an incredibly consistent pattern. Trump never really was the president because he is a mentally ill dangerous figure head. So his own White House would often just ignore his orders because Trump could not grasp the consequences of his own actions. So they would ignore the POTUS and just do what they wanted.

Presidential Motorcade Officer Details Trump's Behavior On Jan. 6

Presidential Motorcade Officer Details Trump's Behavior On Jan. 6

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Marita Vlachou
Tue, August 2, 2022 at 6:25 AM·2 min read



A former officer who was part of Donald Trump’s motorcade on Jan. 6, 2021, said Monday that Trump was “upset” at not being allowed to join his supporters attacking the Capitol.

Mark Robinson, a now retired D.C. police officer who was in the front car of Trump’s convoy on Jan. 6, told CNN that Trump was desperate to visit the Capitol grounds following his speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse.

“We’ve heard it several times while it was on the motorcade,” said Robinson, who is also a witness in the House Jan. 6 committee’s probe. “I think during the speech, shortly thereafter, he had finished the speech, that the president was getting into the motorcade and he was upset. And he adamantly wanted to go to the Capitol.”

He continued: “And even when we departed from the Ellipse, it was repeated again. ... It was a heated argument in the limo. And he wanted to definitely go to the Capitol.”


Robinson’s comments appear to be consistent with White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony that Trump got into a physical altercation with his Secret Service detail on Jan. 6, and tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine in the hope of driving to the Capitol.

“The president reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel,” Hutchinson told the panel. “[Secret Service agent Bobby] Engel grabbed his arm and said, ‘Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we’re going back to the West Wing. We’re not going to the Capitol.’”

Hutchinson said the story was recounted to her by the former White House operations chief Anthony Ornato.

While unnamed Secret Service officials had previously said Ornato, Engel and the unnamed driver of the presidential limo would testify under oath that Hutchinson’s account was inaccurate, they have so far not done so. All three have also hired private lawyers.

“Some of the officers said that they would be coming and talking under oath,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a Jan. 6 committee member, told reporters, according to Salon. “They have not come in, and they recently retained private counsel, which is unusual but they have a right to do that.”

Robinson said he now feels relieved the Secret Service did not grant the president’s wish to drive to the Capitol, adding that Trump’s presence would have further motivated the insurrectionists.

“I think it would have probably encouraged more rioting. And [the rioters would have] felt supported,” Robinson told CNN. “If the presidential motorcade came in support of them ... I think the insurrectionists probably would have felt as though they had the support of the president.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/presidential-motorcade-officer-details-trumps-122535780.html

 

So. The Secret Service guys who were actually in the limo with Trump, and drove Trump, have refuted Hutchinson.
They've offered to testify under oath.
They haven't done so.
It isn't clear why, except that the committee also wants to talk about disappeared text messages, which is now a "criminal investigation".
Shooter predicted when this story surfaced that IF the secret service guys testified their testimony would be sealed by the committee.
Turns out Shooter was right.
The committee doesn't want the truth. They want Trumps head. They need to talk with Kathy Griffin if that's what they want.

And in desperation, the propaganda spewers are going with the statements of a motorcade cop who wasn't even in the same car with Trump when all this supposedly happened.

 

'Generals lied:' Top Democrat reveals she didn't know about Pentagon scrubbing January 6 texts until today

Bob Brigham
August 02, 2022



Zoe Lofgren (Office of Rep. Zoe Lofgren).


The scandal over the Pentagon erasing the cell phones of top Trump officials took a bizarre twist on Tuesday when a member of the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed she only learned today about the destruction of potential evidence.

CNN's Pamela Brown interviewed Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who has experience in all the modern presidential impeachments after serving as a staffer during Watergate and a member of Congress during the impeachments of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

"What is your reaction to the phones of top Pentagon leadership under Trump were wiped, removing Jan. 6 records? Brown asked.

"Well, it's a tremendous concern to see these various agencies not living up to their obligation to preserve records," Lofgren replied. "And especially — wouldn't you think on Jan. 6 there might be something worth preserving? And that we would want to know everything about it?"

"And when it comes to the Pentagon records, we can't talk about our interviews, but Col. Earl Matthews of the D.C. National Guard, publicly alleged that generals lied to Congress and that the inspector general's report was erroneous and misleading. I'm not saying that Col. Matthews is correct, but obviously text messages and all kinds of evidence from the Pentagon would be very important in getting to the bottom of who did what and who knew what on Jan. 6.

Brown asked, "Was the Jan. 6 select committee aware of these deleted Defense Department records prior to today?"



"I do not believe so, I was not," Lofgren replied. "Which is another concerning matter, that this was not disclosed to us by the Department of Defense."

Watch below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/pentagon-text/

 

This is just so fucking funny. The J6 committee would probably play hell getting Alex Jones' text messages. At the very least it would be a lengthy court battle. And Jones would have plenty of time to destroy all the evidence. Except Jones lawyer accidentally sent all those text messages to the lawyers for the Sandy Hook parents. So now they are part of a public record court case. And it should be no trouble at all for the J6 committee to get them from the Sandy Hook lawyers.


Jan. 6 Committee Reportedly Ready to Subpoena Alex Jones’ Texts and Emails After Lawyer's Mistake,

The lawyer who accidentally handed the plaintiffs a copy of Alex Jones’ text messages in the Sandy Hook libel case might have left the InfoWars host facing potential jury charges. But that’s not all: Rolling Stone magazine reported that the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots is ready to subpoena any texts or emails recovered from Jones’ cellphone. A lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, who are suing Jones and his bankrupt media company for at least $150 million in damages, revealed Wednesday that Jones’ lawyers had accidentally sent him an entire digital copy of the phone's contents, including text messages about the school massacre—despite Jones having testified under oath that no such messages existed. Legal experts, including Tristan Snell, the prosecutor who brought down Trump University, said Jones could face having to pay millions to the Sandy Hook families and then be indicted over the Jan. 6 insurrection.









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Sure, Alex Jones probably has a malpractice claim against his lawyers for turning over all his phone data to opposing counsel — but first he’ll owe millions to the Sandy Hook families and then likely be indicted as part of the January 6 conspiracy, if he doesn’t flip first.
6:53 PM · Aug 3, 2022

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