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Liz Cheney and the J6 Committee Are Dangerous Jokes
The walls are closing in! This past week, they had Cassidy Hutchinson talk about her second-hand reports of Trump’s alleged actions on J6. The Secret Service agents who were there contradict her story. Any reputable committee would have asked her about that. In fact, a reputable committee would have not called since the people who were there disagree.
I’m an amateur historian and I know how important primary sources are. Presumably, there are staffers to the J6 committee who are also aware of this. The J6 committee is either incompetent, fraudulent, or both. They don’t care about the truth. They’re a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.
Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan told Ali Velshi that the Pelosi-Picked Panel is "taking some heat" for failing to do the "very basic step" reporters do, and checking this "Trump lunged for the wheel" claim with the Secret Service before rushing it onto national TV. pic.twitter.com/cCBuQmDEGq
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 3, 2022
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Having witnessed evidence of the financial part of the transaction followed by the (evidently) desperate recipient of the funds rather passively laying back and letting the rich old man aggressively and openly have his way with the goods and services available (while figuratively giving the middle finger to all his neighbors), I am left only to ponder if there would have been a better descriptor more palatable to the overlords of the Upper Member Feed.
I guess some mysteries are just meant for another day…
I shall update my redaction count.
Trump gave the order from Mar-A-Lago to kill the January 6th Commission and McCarthy and McConnell obeyed him.
A Commission could have gone into Ray Epps, etc. but we Republicans killed the January 6th Commission.
If they obeyed him, why does it still exist? If “we” Republicans killed it, why is it still going on?
This makes no sense.
No, it doesn’t. It’s also a non-sequitur. But the point is not to have a conversation, it’s to bleat out slogans and talking points in an effort to drown out the message from the right.
Pelosi killed it by breaking with tradition and vetoing McCarthy’s choices. The commission is controlled by the Ds. They could have investigated Ray Epps but he appears to be a Fed and didn’t fit their narrative.
There is a lot about Jan. 6th that needs investigating. But most of it is outside the allowed Narrative — that being “Orange Man Bad” and nothing else.
The destruction of norms is acceptable to Never Trump as long as it lets them get Trump.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cherry-picking-and-spoon-feeding-jan-6
Are you referring to Fred Garvin?
I think it’s the first time you’ve had committee members read off of a Teleprompter. It’s a show trial.
They used the intelligence committee so they could hide it. I forget the details but this is specifically talked about in the federalist papers that it shouldn’t be done this way.
The article that Brian posted is devastating. Of course Byron will talk about it on his podcast.
I finally remembered and straightened this impeachment stuff out in my head. I heard a guy that read all of the federalist paper you know what. This is the way it was supposed to work. You do an ordinary investigation and finish it and then you show it to the senate. If it looks like you are going to get 2/3 of the Senate that basically means the whole population is behind it. That is the idea. It’s not supposed to be used as a political cudgel when you don’t think the Senate is going to overwhelmingly agree or there isn’t broad, bipartisan national agreement.
Some local never Trump here need to understand this or make a better argument.
Then somebody is going to say something about Clinton and “move on”.
He is the head of the justice system and he has a bar card. It is not ideal when this person lies under oath, but the country didn’t care for some reason. He seriously should have been impeached.
He was impeached, but he was not convicted, because Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) could not get to “high crime and misdemeanor” over BJ Clinton’s blatant lies (including to a Grand Jury) and obstruction of justice. A complete lack of courage by Freddy at the time. Even Thompson’s closed door impeachment statement (link) detailed a vast number of facts which surely rose to a “high crime and misdemeanor” but good old boy Fred didn’t want to derail his own personal career, national presence and Hollywood acclaim by bringing down Clinton over “just sex”.
I see that another woman from the Trump Administration will be testifying next week. You probably won’t watch her either.
I thought this was good comprehensive analysis of what’s her name and the actual nature of the J6 and what is going to happen when the Republicans take over the house.
David Bossie says they are going to push to have a 100% Republican committee going after Hunter Biden.
Why bother with Hunter? There’s enough on Joe to impeach him now. (Well, actually, there was enough to impeach him before he even took office.)
All of this stuff about throwing plates and trying to grab the steering wheel never came out until after the third interview with the committee.
I would like Gary or anybody knowledgeable to criticize Byron York’s analysis of the J6 committee.
The two bracketed words/phrases do not comfortably reside together. ;-)
Good luck waiting for that!
Depends. Is it KellyAnne Conway, or Kayleigh McEnany?
The next hearing is on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 10:00 EDT.
Why do you keep calling it a hearing? It’s not a hearing. It’s a TV show. It’s a paid, professionally-produced serialized TV show.
You know if you’re acting in a TV show and the script calls for you to say you’ll tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, you’re not swearing any oath, you are just saying your lines, which are scripted.
It’s Perry Mason. It’s Les Misérables. It’s Cats!