Cop confirms Hutchinson testimony about Trump’s effort to join Capitol riot: CNN

Bob Brigham
July 14, 2022



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CNN reported on Thursday that a police officer in Donald Trump's Jan.6 motorcade confirmed testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson before the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Hutchinson testified about a discussion with Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato and Robert Engel, who ran Trump's Secret Service detail.

"I looked at Tony, and he had said, 'Did you f*cking hear what happened in the Beast?' I said, 'No, Tony, I just got back. What happened?' Tony proceeded to tell me that when the president got in the Beast, he was under the impression from Mr. [Mark] Meadows that the off-the-record movement to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen, but that Bobby had more information," she testified.

READ: Exclusive: All 50 Senate Republicans weigh in on Jan. 6 hearings – only 8 are watching

"So once the president had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought they were going up to the Capitol, and when Bobby had relayed to him, we're not, we don't have the assets to do it, it's not secure, we're going back to the West Wing, the president had very strong, very angry response to that," Hutchinson said.

"Breaking news, a source telling CNN a Washington police officer who was in Trump's motorcade on Jan. 6 has corroborated details of the heated exchange a Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the U.S. Capitol and he wanted to go," CNN's Erin Burnett reported.

"This development comes as a government watchdog reveals the Secret Service erased messages from the day of the insurrection — after investigators asked for them," Burnett added.

Watch below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/cassidy-hutchinson-secret-service/

 

So the secret service guy is just a fucking liar........perfect for team Trump!



Thinskin

 

Laughable.......the US secret service is inept or culpable!



Thinskin

 

DOJ supports the January 6 committee's subpoena of Mark Meadows amid reports Trump's camp plans to throw him under the bus

Kelsey Vlamis
Fri, July 15, 2022 at 7:59 PM



Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows looks on in the Oval Office in April 2020.Evan Vucci/AP

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  The Justice Department said in a court filing the House was justified in subpoenaing Mark Meadows.
  
  
• The filing was part of a lawsuit Meadows filed against Nancy Pelosi and the January 6 committee.
  
  
• It comes a month after the Justice Department declined to hold Meadows in contempt of court.
  

The Department of Justice said the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot was justified in its subpoena of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

The determination was made in a court statement filed Friday as part of a civil lawsuit brought by Meadows in December against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the January 6 committee. He filed the lawsuit after the committee had subpoenaed him for testimony and documents.



The judge in the case asked the Department of Justice to evaluate whether or not Meadows had immunity that would allow him to ignore the subpoenas. But in its filing Friday, the Justice Department said that as a former adviser to a former president, he did not.

"When a congressional committee demands testimony from an immediate presidential adviser after the President's term of office has ended, the relevant constitutional concerns are lessened," the filing said. "Accordingly, the Department does not believe that the absolute testimonial immunity applicable to such an adviser continues after the President leaves office."

The filing said the adviser does have "a form qualified immunity" but that it can be overruled if Congress can make "a sufficient showing of need" for the information.

The Justice Department's conclusion comes a month after it declined to hold Meadows in contempt of court for not complying with the House subpoenas and refusing to testify. The decision was met with some criticism, including from Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who is also a member of the House select committee.

It also comes as reports suggest Trump's inner circle is anticipating Meadows' downfall over January 6. Lawyers for Trump told Rolling Stone this week that they believe Meadows will be a fall guy.

"Mark is gonna get pulverized," one of Trump's legal advisers told the magazine, which spoke with eight unnamed sources for its report. "And it's really sad."

The lawyer added that he believed Meadows did not buy into the election lies but was "trying to perform" for Trump and may have "screwed himself completely."

Meadows was also tied up in the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to Meadows at the time of the Capitol riot. Hutchinson testified that Meadows was among the Trump allies who preemptively sought a pardon from the former president. She also said that Meadows had told her in January that he thought "things might get real, real bad."

A lawyer for Meadows did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doj-supports-january-6-committees-015904773.html

 

Both President Biden and the J6 committee need to be dragging the Secret Service through a knot hole and exposing their corruption. They are not supposed to be Trump's secret police and spies.

Secret Service hit with Friday night subpoena from J6 select committee

Bob Brigham
July 15, 2022



House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.


The U.S. Secret Service has been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Chair Benny Thompson (D-MS) sent a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray.

Thompson wrote, “The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a ‘device-replacement program.’ In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it ‘began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.’ However, according to that USSS statement, ‘none of the texts it [DHS Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration.’"

“Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.”

"Please contact staff for the Select Committee at 202-225-7800 to arrange for the production of documents," the letter ends.

https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-2657681354/

 

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

Tom Boggioni
July 17, 2022



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According to a report from the Guardian, Secret Service officials can't seem to get their story straight about why crucial texts on the day before and the day of the Jan 6th Capitol insurrection were deleted,

As the report notes, that has members of House select committee investigating Donald Trump and his links to the Capitol riot are skeptical about their claims.

According to the Guardian's Hugo Lowell, "The Secret Service’s account about how text messages from the day before and the day of the Capitol attack were erased has shifted several times, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security told the House January 6 select committee at a briefing on Friday."

The report notes that members were first told that the lost texts were the result of software upgrades only to later be informed that they vanished due to device replacements.

RELATED: House impeachment lawyer pokes holes in Secret Service's claim that only Jan. 6 texts are missing

According to the inspector general who issued the bombshell report, the Secret Service is being less than transparent when asked for answers and has been stonewalling "by slow-walking production of materials."

"Members on the select committee were privately skeptical of the notion that the Secret Service managed to inadvertently erase key messages during a 10-day period that was among perhaps the most tumultuous for the agency, the participants said," the report states before adding, "If some of the texts were deliberately erased after the 16 January 2021 request, that could amount to obstruction of a congressional investigation, one of the select committee’s members added on Friday."

"The select committee has spent recent days trying to establish whether it was all texts from 5 January and 6 January 2021 that were lost or just some, exactly how the texts came to be erased, and whether additional days’ worth of texts from that month were missing," the Guardian's Lowell wrote. "The participants at the briefing said [IG Joseph] Cuffari was not able to provide clear answers on those questions, beyond the fact that he understood a proportion of texts from both the day before, and the day of, the Capitol attack remain unaccounted for."

You can read more here.

https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-2657684040/

 

At this rate they could still be holding hearings in October.

January 6 Committee Members Reveal “We May Have More Hearings” After Thursday’s Primetime Presentation

Two members of the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. capitol indicated this morning that there may be more televised hearings yet to come.

Last week, Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson had declined to say whether the upcoming primetime session on Thursday would be the committee’s final hearing, but told NBC News it would be “the last one — at this point.”

Today on CBS’s Face the Nation committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger told host Margaret Brennan, “This investigation is not winding down. We may be towards the end of this tranche of hearings, [but] we may have more hearings in the future and the investigation is still ongoing.”


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On ABC’s This Week, committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren told host Martha Radditz that “This investigation is very much ongoing.

Echoing other comments by Kinzinger she continued, “The fact that this series of hearings is going to be concluded Thursday doesn’t mean that our investigation is over. It’s very active. New witnesses are coming forward. Additional information is coming forward. There are things that we are looking at still.”

Both Reps emphasized that, at the very least, there could be another hearing in the fall when their report detailing the committee’s findings is released.

Asked if the investigation would be over by the November midterm elections, Rep. Lofgren said, “I can’t say for sure. It depends on what comes in, Frankly, if the president’s supporters had not engaged in frivolous litigation for months on end, we would be farther along.

Late Friday, the news broke that a number of Secret Service text messages sent on January 5th and 6th had been erased shortly after all such messages were subpoenaed by the committee. On Friday, the committee specifically subpoenaed any deleted messages.

“We expect to get them by this Tuesday,” said Rep. Lofgren this morning. Such texts could, of course, help the committee lay out the January 6 timeline, which is its stated intention for Thursday’s primetime conclave.

Both Reps indicated today that the committee is still working out whether the committee would interview former Vice President Mike Pence or his onetime boss, Donald Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/january-6-committee-members-reveal-171900689.html

 

J6 chair announces committee's additional plans

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



House select committee official photo.


The Chairman of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Bennie Thompson, has announced additional steps he is taking to keep the American people informed of the committee's findings.

On Thursday the Committee will hold its final event – at least for now – a primetime hearing that is expected to focus on Donald Trump's actions the day of, and especially during the actual January 6 insurrection. It will be the ninth public hearing the Committee has held, and like the others, it is expected to draw a huge audience.

But as Committee member Adam Kinzinger said over the weekend, they are finding more and more information and people willing to go on the record so the investigation is far from over.

READ MORE: Secret Service Scrambling to Explain Deleted Jan. 6 Texts to ‘Skeptical’ House Committee Members: Report

NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports Chairman Thompson, citing the "flow of new info coming into [the] panel," Monday evening announced the Committee is changing its plans and will issue a "scaled-down" report of its findings in the fall, with its final report to be issued by the end of the year.

Axios' Andrew Solender notes the scaled-down report will likely be in September and adds that Chairman Thompson says the Committee will hold a hearing on both the scaled-down report and its final report.


https://www.rawstory.com/j6-chair-announces-committee-s-additional-plans/

 

Jan. 6 committee reveals some of the Thursday witnesses for prime time hearing

Sarah K. Burris
July 18, 2022



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The House Select Committee investigating the attack on Congress revealed that they will be calling former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews and Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser, to answer questions.

Co-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) made it clear in the last hearing that new witnesses would be heard and that those would be witnesses who Americans have not yet heard from.

Both of the individuals were on hand in the White House on Jan. 6 and could testify to what they witnessed in the 187 minutes that former President Donald Trump didn't act to help the vice president or officials, staff and police at the Capitol.

"Mr. Pottinger, who was in the White House much of the day of the riot, is one of the live witnesses for the hearing, which is expected to focus on the more than three hours in which Mr. Trump watched the violence unfold without taking any substantial steps to call off his supporters even as they threatened Vice President Mike Pence," said the New York Times.

Matthews, in particular, will speak to the efforts by White House staff to get Trump to issue a statement telling his supporters to stop the attack.

The hearing will air at 8 p.m. EST.

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

 

Sheesh..... first the Secret Service kill JFK.... and now this.

Happily though, this all looks great for some kind of conviction against Trump! I can see a rainbow...

 

The January 6 select committee has tapped 21 key witnesses to testify about the Capitol riot. Here's who's up next.
Warren Rojas
Jul 11, 2022, 7:46 AM




Then-White House legislative affairs director Marc Short (L) and Vice President Mike Pence in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 6, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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• The January 6 committee plans to put key witnesses on the stand during its public hearings.
• Key testimony is expected from Trump administration officials and those present at the Capitol.
• Witnesses to date have included Capitol Police, DOJ officials, White House aides, and riot embeds.

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The select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack has interviewed nearly 1,000 people since it converged about a year ago. The panel has mapped out plans for up to eight public hearings related to its investigation and is expected to call some of its key witnesses to testify in what's likely to be a widely-viewed series of events.

The committee's seventh public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, July 12 at 1 p.m.

This story will be updated as new information becomes available.


Rusty Bowers, GOP Speaker of Arizona's House of Representatives

As the leading lawmaker in the Arizona House, Bowers has been pressured by Trumpworld to overturn the 2020 election results. Bowers has rebuffed efforts to interfere with Biden's lawful win advanced by Trump, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, Ginni Thomas, the insurrection-stoking wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and fellow Arizona Republicans.

Bowers testified on June 21.



Pat Cipollone, former Trump White House counsel

Cipollone was one of former President Donald Trump's top legal advisors on January 6, 2021. Cipollone is reportedly in talks with the January 6 committee to publicly testify about last year's Capitol riot and would focus on discussing Jeffrey Clark, a former top Justice Department official who reportedly used his powers to try and aid Trump in overturning the 2020 election.

Cipollone discussed "key points regarding Donald Trump's misconduct" during a private meeting with investigators on July 8, but is not yet scheduled to testify publicly.



Richard Donoghue, former Department of Justice official

Donoghue was serving as Trump's acting deputy attorney general on January 6, 2021. CNN reported that Donoghue jotted down notes about a call he was on during which Trump tried pressuring him and Rosen to overturn the 2020 election results.

Donoghue testified on June 23.


Caroline Edwards, US Capitol Police officer

US Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who was the first law enforcement officer injured by rioters storming the Capitol grounds on January 6, testifies during a hearing by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 09, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol for almost a year, will present its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for Joe Biden. U.S. Capitol Police Officer Pfc. Harry Dunn listens behind.
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Edwards was one of the congressional police officers who confronted the violent mob of Trump supporters as they swarmed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. The New York Times reported that she was thrown to the ground, blinded with chemical spray, and suffered a concussion during the hours-long ordeal. Edwards testified on June 9 about the carnage she witnessed that day.



Steve Engel, former Department of Justice attorney
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Engel was an attorney in Trump's Department of Justice on January 6, 2021. ABC News reported that January 6 committee members want to work him into a panel that would include former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general.

Engel testified on June 23.


Benjamin Ginsberg, GOP election lawyer

Benjamin Ginsberg, right, and Robert Bauer, co-chairs of The Presidential Commission on Election and Administration, prepare to testify before a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing in Russell Building titled "Bipartisan Support for Improving U.S. Elections: An Overview from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration."
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Ginsberg is one of the attorneys who worked on the month-long recount fight in 2000 that ended with George W. Bush becoming president. In 2000, Ginsberg wrote that the GOP was "destroying itself on the altar of Trump" in a scathing op-ed. Ginsberg testified June 13.



Cassidy Hutchinson, former Trump White House aide

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
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Hutchinson worked for then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 6, 2021. She's reportedly been interviewed for more than 20 hours and has provided "extensive information about Meadows's activities in trying to overturn the election."

Hutchinson also testified on June 28 about Trump's erratic behavior on the day of the insurrection.



Greg Jacob, former Mike Pence general counsel

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Jacob is one of the people then-Trump attorney John Eastman blamed for the violence on January 6.

"The 'siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened," Eastman wrote to Jacob during the attack, according to The Washington Post.

Jacob testified on June 16.



Michael Luttig, conservative attorney and former judge

Luttig is a conservative lawyer and former appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence during Trump's attempt to overturn the election, The Washington Post reported.

Luttig testified that Trump is working on rigging the 2024 election "in plain sight" on June 16.


Sarah Matthews, former Trump White House deputy press secretary

Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary, is shown giving a video deposition to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during a clip that was played at the hearing on Thursday, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Matthews was a Trump administration spokeswoman who resigned in the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol because she said she was "deeply disturbed" by what she saw that day.

CNN reports that Matthews has been subpoenaed by the select committee and has agreed to publicly testify at an upcoming hearing.



Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, former Georgia election worker

Wandrea' "Shaye" Moss, former Fulton County, Georgia, election worker delivers remarks after receiving the 2022 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, Sunday, May 22, 2022, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Moss was a full-time employee in the Fulton County, Georgia elections office during the 2020 election who was harassed by Trump supporters who embraced the embattled former president's baseless claims of election fraud.

Moss testified on June 21.


Byung J. Pak, former US attorney for the northern district of Georgia

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Pak was a Department of Justice attorney in Atlanta who resigned in January 2021 because he said he refused to go along with President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud. Pak testified on June 13.



Nick Quested, British filmmaker who documented the Proud Boys

Nick Quested accepts the Courage Under Fire Award at the 33rd Annual IDA Documentary Awards at Paramount Theatre on December 9, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
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The British documentarian had been following the Trump-supporting Proud Boys in the months leading up to January 6, 2021, and was likely privy to planning conversations involving alleged rioter Enrique Tarrio, the New York Times reported. The Department of Justice charged Tarrio with seditious conspiracy on Monday. Quested testified on June 9.



Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state

Raffensperger was one of the Georgia officials Trump famously asked to "find" 12,000 votes he needed to beat Biden in the Peach State. Instead, Raffensperger conducted a recount and certified Biden's victory, compelling Trump to campaign against him in May's GOP primary (which Raffensperger won, anyway).



Raffensperger testified on June 21.

https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-committee-hearings-witnesses-marc-short-jeff-rosen-2022-6

 

This is just hilarious. A few days ago Garrett Ziegler was screaming the J6 committee was going to rue the day they subpoenaed him because he had nothing to hide and was going to march in there and tell the truth exposing the corruption of the J6 proving Trump did nothing wrong. But now he is screaming the J6 committee hates the Fifth Amendment.

And what did his Chosen One Traitor Trump say about people taking the Fifth Amendment?

“You see the mob takes the Fifth,” he said. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

“Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Horrible.”

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"


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

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July 20, 2022



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After invoking the Fifth Amendment and executive privilege more than 100 times to refuse to answer questions from the January 6th Committee on Tuesday, former White House aide Garrett Ziegler opened a livestream to vent his frustrations to his followers in a nearly 30-minute rant laden with white nationalist grievance on Telegram.

Ziegler complained that he has less resources to fight the committee than his older cohorts, including his boss former Trade Advisor Peter Navarro, who is suing the committee, and former White House strategist Steve Bannon, who is being prosecuted for contempt.

“They can pay their attorneys to go to trial,” Ziegler said. “I had to be very smart and circumspect. My goal was to avoid a contempt of Congress charge…. It’s going to be very, very hard for them to pass a contempt of Congress charge on me when I’ve given them documents, and I flew out to DC and sat in front of them. If they have a problem with me, they have a problem with the f***ing Fifth Amendment.

READ: Meet Garrett Ziegler

Citing his decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination, Ziegler portrayed himself as a victim of left-wing persecution.

“They’re Bolsheviks so they probably do hate the Fifth Amendment, and most white people in general,” he said. “This is a Bolshevist, anti-white campaign…. They see me as a young Christian who they can basically try to scare.”

Ziegler, who reshares white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes’ content and has called Cambodia a “s***hole country” on his Telegram channel, quickly added: “I’m the least racist person that many of you have ever met, by the way. I have no bigotry. I just try to see the world for where it is.”

Then, his rant veered into misogyny when he lamented that no one else in his generation was defying the January 6th committee, because “the other people in the White House are total hos and thots.” He specifically named Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows whose bombshell testimony revealed that President Trump wanted to let supporters with guns into the rally at the Ellipse, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president who reportedly showed up to support Hutchinson when she testified.

Ziegler reported that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) logged in to the interview by teleconference, but ducked out when he realized he wasn’t going to learn any new information.

“It was a boring hour,” Ziegler said. It was an awkward hour. I loathe these people.”

While spurning the committee, Ziegler provided additional detail about his role in facilitating a heated meeting at the White House on Dec. 18, 2020 in which attorney Sidney Powell, retired Lt. General Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne urged President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and order the National Guard to seize ballots and re-run the election.

“What I did is I sent them a URL to a form to fill out to then they can request to the Secret Service to be admitted onto the property,” Ziegler said on Tuesday. “That’s exactly what I did. I did nothing more. I wasn’t even at the White House grounds when that meeting occurred. I had gone home because it was very late at night. I had no idea what they were discussing. I hoped that — my reason for sending the URL to the form was that somebody would advise the president to make a call to governors to get the National Guard to hand-count the paper ballots. I had no idea about the machines.”

Previously, Ziegler has told fellow election denier David K. Clements that he and Patrick Weaver, another White House aide in the National Security Council, worked together to let Powell, Flynn and Byrne into the White House.

“Basically, I had the visitor access,” Ziegler said. “And he went down and got General Flynn and Sidney Powell.”

READ: Trump just issued a thinly-veiled threat against Wisconsin GOP leader to decertify the election

https://www.rawstory.com/ziegler-testimony/

PS And its a shame the administration changed the search features to limit only 200 hits because if they had not I could go back and show you what treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans on this forum said when a Clinton aide and Lois Lerner took the fifth. They also said that proved their guilt.

 

Well, but that Clinton aide and Lois Lerner were guilty, weren't they?
Of something. We're not sure what, but guilty of something for damn sure.
And Holder. Lets not forget Holder giving a congressional investigative committee the finger.

 

J6 to air damning video evidence of Trump on Jan. 7 during Thursday primetime hearing: report

Bob Brigham
July 20, 2022



President Donald Trump. (Official White House photograph)


New video evidence of Donald Trump will be played at Thursday's primetime hearing by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"One day after the last rioter had left the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s advisers urged him to give an address to the nation to condemn the violence, demand accountability for those who had stormed the halls of Congress and declare the 2020 election to be decided," The Washington Post reported Thursday. "He struggled to do it. Over the course of an hour of trying to tape the message, Trump resisted holding the rioters to account, trying to call them patriots, and refused to say the election was over, according to individuals familiar with the committee’s work."

The hearing will occur despite the select committee only now getting documents from the Secret Service, which deleted text messages.

"The public could get its first glimpse of outtakes from that recording Thursday night, when the Jan. 6 committee plans to offer a bold conclusion in its eighth hearing: Not only did Trump do nothing despite repeated entreaties by senior aides to help end the violence, but he sat back and enjoyed watching it," the newspaper reported. "He reluctantly condemned it — in a three-minute speech the evening of Jan. 7 — only after the efforts to overturn the 2020 election had failed and after aides told him that members of his own Cabinet were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office."

J6 aides are calling Thursday's hearing the "187-minute hearing."

"The hearing is also expected to tie together details from prior hearings, including the inflammatory presidential rhetoric that drew thousands to Washington that day, Trump’s willingness to grant audiences to fringe figures peddling fabulist and unconstitutional theories on how he could keep hold of the presidency and the many times he was urged to intervene during the violence but refused to do so," the newspaper reported. "All of it points to one conclusion, which the committee plans to argue Thursday: Trump wanted the violence, he is responsible for it and his unwillingness to help end it amounts to a dereliction of duty and a violation of his oath of office."

Read the full report.

https://www.rawstory.com/j6-trump-video/

 

Coincidence?



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The Nancy Antoinette prime time circus continues.

 

The J6 hearing is schedule to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern. But they are giving some previews.


Adam Kinzinger offers video preview of Thursday's blockbuster J6 Committee hearing

Matthew Chapman
July 21, 2022



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On Thursday, ahead of the latest public hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) released a clip showing some of the information that will be discussed during the hearing.

One of the key points laid out in the video — which depicts various witnesses sitting for depositions — is that former President Donald Trump was removed from the fray, watching everything on television and not doing anything to respond to the violence.


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The question of what the former president was actually doing during the attack has loomed large over the proceedings, as it has bearing on whether or not Trump can be considered culpable for the attackers' actions, and whether he approved of their actions.

This comes amid other evidence that the former president did not activate the National Guard to protect members of Congress during the attack, and other people lower or even outside of the chain of command had to step in to keep them safe — something several retired generals and admirals publicly condemned as a "dereliction of duty."

READ MORE: Trump made video condemning Capitol riots because he feared cabinet would use 25th Amendment to remove him: CNN

A previous witness, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, testified that insofar as Trump wanted to do anything, it was to travel to the Capitol and join the rioters — and that at one point he even lunged at his own security detail for refusing to take him to the scene.

The Secret Service has denied this account of events, but their own leadership has come under intense scrutiny after the inspector general reported a trove of text messages from January 6 were deleted from agents' phones in violation of federal records policy.

https://www.rawstory.com/january-6-committee-hearings-2657706858/

 

First shot out of the gate the J6 committee investigation will continue through August with more hearings planned for September.

Then a clip of Mitch McConnell saying Trump sent a mob to the Capitol and is responsible.

Liz Cheney tap dancing on Trump's head he sent the armed mob to the Capitol and he's the only one who could call them off. Instead he did nothing.

Trump knowingly sent an armed to the Capitol and promised to go with them. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were already attacking the Capitol when Trump sent thousands more to the Capitol.

Span of 187 minutes/

 

Now showing clips of McCarthy condemning Trump as well as Gen Milley. Rep Kinzinger why didn't Trump act? Because the mob was doing exactly what he wanted them to do. Which is why he chose not to act.

First witnesses deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews.

Pottinger: For most the day I was in the White House Matthews I was in the White House on J6.

By the time Trump sent his armed mob to the Capitol and left the stage the Capitol wa already under attack.

Now they are confirming Hutchinson testimony that Trump did attack Secret Service agents in the car.

Also confirming reports of people armed with guns including at least on in a tree.

After they returned to the White House Trump was still demanding to go to the Capitol. Motorcade waited at the White House for nearly an hour.