Ok...but you're not verified so yeah
TRUMP is baaaaaaaaaaaack !!!!!
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jesus they have texts between sean hannity and mcinaney about how they need to control trump and get him to stop trying a coup
haha kushner is such a fucking twerp
the entire white house counsel was threatening to resign and he called it "whining"
the entire white house counsel was threatening to resign and he called it "whining"
wow....to dangerous to be left alone?
gotta get the kiddo ready for bed can't live blog this all night. I'll check in later
You guys use the treason crap almost as much as you cry "racist"... Both claims are a red herring.
Who gives a fuck?
And that’s why you’re a bamma lol
checked back in and it's mostly first-hand accounts from the reporter embedded with the proud boys and from a capitol police officer about how fucking insane the crowd was
trump saying mike pence deserved hanging was definitely the most shocking revelation so far
trump saying mike pence deserved hanging was definitely the most shocking revelation so far
I'm not against him or for him but I'm wise enough to know that politics is just a form of entertainment for the people that think politicians are the highest tier of leaders and given that fact that you use the term " bamma" says your the exact type that falls for that idea
So basically, a giant nothingburger...
Remember the day you tried to bully me in the chat? Remember me telling you what you could go do with yourself?
Remember when you made a point?
Don't worry, nobody does.
I'm not saying trump should be in jail......but executed for treason is very reasonable
Florida traitors called the shots in lead-up to Jan. 6 attack. Televised details were damning | Editorial
On the first night of prime -time hearings of a House Select Committee’s investigative findings into the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection last year, it became clear the despicable role Floridians played in the attack on the Capital.
It was painful to hear witness connect the dots that culminated in the attack, down to the initial security breach
Evidence from the Committee shows that the far right-wing rioters and their leaders, Miami’s Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys national chairman, and Kelly Meggs, of Dunnellon, head of the Florida chapter of another extremist group, The Oath Keepers, were largely calling the shots in the hours before and in igniting the attack on the Capital.
All to keep the loser, President Donald Trump, in power, despite the fact that Joe Biden defeated him in the 2020 election.
““He called us all to the Capitol and wants us to make it wild!!! Sir Yes Sir!!!,” Meggs wrote in a social-media post. And they did. Meggs was among the pack looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Heaven knows what would have happened if they had found her?
“Make no mistake . . . we did this,” Tarrio bragged in an encrypted chat after the insurrection. They did.
Takeaways: 'Carnage' at the Capitol and a case against Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — An injured officer who slipped in ******* and spoke of “carnage." Video of a huge, violent mob pushing through the U.S. Capitol. Former President Donald Trump’s allies and family members acknowledging his lies.
House investigators worked to lay out a devastating case Thursday in the first of a series of June hearings examining the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. The House panel probing the attack showed violent video of the siege and showed clips of testimony examining the weeks beforehand in which Trump pushed falsehoods about widespread fraud in the election he lost.
While the basics of the attack on the Capitol are well known, the committee is trying to tell the story of how it happened, and how to prevent it from ever happening again, for history. The made-for-TV hearings — including video of police officers being brutally beaten and right-wing extremists leading the crowds into the Capitol — come as some have tried to downplay the violence.
“We can’t sweep what happened under the rug,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the panel, as he opened the hearing. “The American people deserve answers.”
The committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews with people connected to the siege and collected more than 140,000 documents. They will use that evidence over the course of seven hearings this month to show how the attack was coordinated by some of the rioters in the violent mob that broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory — and how Trump’s efforts started it all.
Takeaways from the Jan. 6 committee’s first hearing:
LAYING IT ALL ON TRUMP
Thompson laid out the committee’s initial findings that Trump led a “sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election” and the insurrection was a culmination of that “attempted coup.” The panel’s vice chairwoman, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, called it a “sophisticated seven-part plan.”
“The attack on our Capitol was not a spontaneous riot,” said Cheney, one of two Republicans on the nine-member panel.
The hearing featured never-before-seen video testimony from Trump’s family and close aides, many of whom were interviewed by the committee remotely.
The panel started by showing a video interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr, who said he told Trump at the time that his fraud claims had no merit. Barr, who said publicly a month before the insurrection that the Justice Department had not found fraud, told the committee members that he had told Trump it was all “bull——.”
The panel also showed video testimony from Trump’s *******, Ivanka Trump, who spoke to the committee in April. Ivanka Trump told the panel that Barr’s declaration “affected my perspective.”
“I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he said,” she told the committee.
Another Trump adviser, Jason Miller, told the panel that campaign advisors had told the president in “clear terms” that he had lost the election.
‘THIS ISN'T EASY TO WATCH’
The committee showed new, graphic video from the insurrection, moving through a timeline of the violence. It started with rioters angrily walking toward the Capitol, then showed them breaking through thin police barriers and brutally beating police.
Using security footage, police body cameras, video from those who broke in and audio from the police scanner, the video showed rioters using flagpoles, tactical equipment and other weapons to hit officers as they overwhelmed them and broke inside. Some of the body camera footage was from the ground looking up, as officers watched their attackers beat them.
At the same time, it showed what was happening inside — the beginning of the joint session to certify Biden's election win and, people fleeing from the violence.
And it showed the rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” referring to the vice president who had defied Trump's orders to try to thwart Biden's certification, and chanting “Nancy! Nancy!” as they walked up a staircase inside the Capitol, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
AN OFFICER OVERWHELMED AND INJURED
Caroline Edwards, a Capitol Police officer, testified in graphic terms about the bloody scene outside the Capitol that day and the traumatic brain injury she suffered when members of the Proud Boys and others pushed her to the ground as they led the mob into the Capitol.
Edwards was alone and holding two bike racks together at the front lines as the mob heaved toward her, pushing her and the racks to the ground. She hit her head on a concrete stairway, briefly falling *******.
Even with her injury, Edwards continued to fight off the crowd. She described a “war scene” out of the movies and hours of hand-to-hand combat that no law enforcement officer is trained to handle.
"They were throwing up — I saw friends with ******* all over their faces," said Edwards, who has still not returned to duty in the first responders unit where she worked then. “I was slipping in people’s *******. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos.”
EXTREMIST GROUPS' INVOLVEMENT
The panel's other witness was British filmmaker Nick Quested, who was with members of the Proud Boys as they walked from Trump’s rally in front of the White House to the Capitol. Quested was also filming members of the group the day ahead of the attack as they planned and met with members of the Oath Keepers in an underground garage.
The committee used some of Quested's footage of the war zone in front of the Capitol.
“For anyone who didn’t understand how violent that event was, I saw it," he said. "I documented it and I experienced it.”
Thompson said Trump’s call for people to come on Jan. 6 “energized” members of the Proud Boys and other extremist groups. They highlighted Trump’s comment at a presidential debate that the Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by.”
The panel showed video testimony with a witness named Jeremy Bertino, a member of the Proud Boys, who said the group's membership "tripled, probably” after Trump's comment.
MADE FOR TELEVISION
The committee took the unusual step of launching the hearings with a prime time show — aimed to gather as many viewers as possible.
It’s still unclear how many will tune in, but the panel is producing the hearing in hopes of becoming must-see television, featuring never before seen video footage of the violent insurrection.
The hearing room was also set up for impact, with a huge screen hanging over the lawmakers.
'WE WERE THERE'
Lawmakers who were trapped together in the House during the insurrection are attending Thursday’s hearing after having dinner together. The members, all Democrats, were caught in an upper gallery of the chamber as rioters beat on the doors.
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., said the House members, who were eventually evacuated without harm, are dismayed that an event that exposed the fragility of democracy could “somehow be whitewashed by tens of millions of people."
Some GOP lawmakers have tried to downplay the insurrection, charging that Democrats are overly focused on the attempt to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.
“We want to remind people, we were there, we saw what happened. We know how close we came to the first non-peaceful transition of power in this country,” Phillips said.
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Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were in contact with Trump inner circle, Jan. 6 chairman says
The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were in contact with members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, claimed after the panel held its first prime-time hearing on Thursday.
When pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper, Thompson said the Jan. 6 panel has witnesses that can attest to conversations that took place between the members of the two right-wing groups and Trump's allies, but declined to elaborate further.
"Are there going to be witnesses that describe actual conversations between these extremist groups and anyone in Trump’s orbit?" Tapper asked.
"Yes. Obviously, you’ll have to go through the hearings but we have a number of witnesses who come forward that people have not talked to before. It will document a lot of what was going on in Trump's orbit while all of this occurring," Thompson replied.
The Proud Boys describe themselves as a "pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world." The Oath Keepers is a loosely organized group largely composed of former law enforcement and military personnel, according to the Justice Department.
Prosecutors have hit members of both groups with seditious conspiracy and other charges for their actions surrounding the Capitol riot.
"Everything that the public heard tonight is factual. We can prove it," Thompson further emphasized. He stressed that the committee made a conscious effort to only present facts.
Tapper pressed about whether the panel was working to build a criminal case for the Justice Department to use against Trump. He noted comments from vice chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) about seditious conspiracy in which she insisted the "attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous riot."
"That’s not our job. We are there to look at the facts and circumstances and provide recommendations to Congress. The Justice Department has inquired [about] our sharing of our information," Thompson responded. "We expect to make that available to them at some point."
"We are building a case based on the facts and circumstances that our investigation determines," Thompson said.
