Meanwhile....

Crazy business as usual, among the #GQP / #Fox cult and friends.
As 'followers' en masse express anger at #democracy and especially #Cheney and the #Jan6Committee

Some #truth here in an article framing the closing words, warning of how narrowly We the People of USA dodged a bullet.

Breaking the Republic

Excerpt:

"This man who shamelessly pounds his chest with protestations of patriotism, who literally wraps himself in the American flag, who demonizes his political opponents as haters of America is really the one who views our imperfect experiment in self-governance with disgust."

"The rule of law. Peaceful transfers of power. The will of the people. These are the pillars of our nation’s foundation. But for Trump, that’s all just for suckers. He had the presidency, & he didn’t plan on relinquishing it, no matter what the voters or the Constitution said."

"January 6 wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t a rally that spun out of control. It was a dangerous and violent storm threatening our nation’s core principles and our whole system of representative democracy."

And of course the reaction of her colleagues in the once "Republican", now solidly #TrumpVirus 'party. To applaud her honesty?
Right. Instead they double-down on the on the Dark Lord. Still waiting to see how low they can go - hopefully to Hell. Jail for now.

#tyranny #psychopathology #sedition #accountability #justice #MakeAmericaSaneAgain

Some stuff you probably already know; some stuff you may not.

The Fish Stinks From the Head

So the January 6th Committee subpoenas Donald Trump.

BY HAROLD MEYERSON OCTOBER 13, 2022

... Some new details, however, strengthened the committee’s case. Detail one was the revelation that, just one week after the election, Trump ordered the Defense Department to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Somalia by January 15th, so he could claim to have ended those interventions before his presidency ended. (The ancillary message the committee was putting out, of course, is that if you think Biden’s Afghan withdrawal was precipitous, you should have seen what Trump ordered—which Defense officials resolutely ignored.) [emphasis mine]

Detail two came closer to what makes Trump tick than anything the committee has previously revealed. In this case, it was a new snippet of testimony from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s assistant Cassidy Hutchinson, who was discussing Trump’s rage at the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his case on December 11th—three days before the states confirmed their electoral voters. On that date, Cassidy testified, in the midst of his tirade, Trump walked by Meadows and Cassidy and told them, Hutchinson said, “I don’t want people to know we lost. This is embarrassing.” [emphasis mine]

... Detail three was a little more from the recorded conversation Trump had with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he implored Raffensperger to “find” just enough votes for Trump to carry that state. “I need 11,000 votes,” Trump said, “give me a break.”...

[Evidence of premeditation:]

Detail four was a host of email and other messages among Secret Service agents and other security agencies, detailing their advance knowledge of just how violent January 6th would be, and that White House officials were privy to these messages... [emphasis mine]

Detail five came from the testimony of a presidential security agent who recalled how the security detail was “in a state of shock” about Trump’s insistence, as the insurrectionists surged around and into the Capitol, that he go there as well, to lead the mob he’d sent.

Detail six was a previously unheard question-and-answer sequence in which Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone was asked by Rep. Liz Cheney about the many people who urged Trump to tell the mob to leave the Capitol. “Who in the White House,” she asked, “didn’t want those people to leave the Capitol?” Cipollone paused and then said, “I can’t think of anybody on staff who didn’t want them to leave.” Then Cheney asked him whether Trump did, to which Cipollone, as Trump’s lawyer, said he couldn’t answer that.

#Trump #Jan6 #Jan6Committee

https://prospect.org/politics/fish-stinks-from-the-head-january-6th-committee-subpoena-trump/

Here we go, an uplifting segment of last night's Late Show with #Colbert and his guest #Jan6Committee participant/former #TrumpVirus impeachment manager #JamieRaskin - Some smiles & hope borne of #truth BOLUS may be losing his magic! 🤞

No Houdini, #DJT, even if lucky enough thus far, #TeflonDon. A tough spot to be in, televising your every crime of #sedition.

T**** Is "Like Houdini," But He Met His Match With The Jan 6 Committee - Rep. Jamie Raskin

Lord StableGenius of the slippery was also described as being a "Houdini" who (please G-d) met his match.

For all of you that were concerned about @Judgeluttig at #Jan6Committee hearing. He thanks you for your concern but assures everyone that there was nothing wrong with him. He was just choosing his words carefully. https://threadreaderapp.com/convos/1538266496371245057