Posted on 06/10/2022 4:11:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Facts don’t matter in Collaboration Theater.
This week produced yet another example of the shameless collaboration between the U.S. Department of Justice, the Democratic Party, and the national news media to destroy Donald Trump and everyone around him. The ink was barely dry on the not guilty verdict for Michael Sussmann, just one of many figures who acted as a pass-through between Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the FBI to manufacture the Russia collusion hoax, before the same players were up to their old tricks.
Members of the January 6 select committee blanketed the Sunday news programs last weekend promising bombshell revelations would shake the nation during a primetime hearing Thursday night. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told CBS News’ Robert Costa the committee would present findings to show an “extremely broad . . . extremely well-organized” conspiracy to overthrow the government that day. What the committee uncovered related to the alleged conspiracy, Cheney warned, is “really chilling.’
Roughly 24 hours after Cheney’s interview aired, Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling the January 6 criminal prosecution, announced seditious conspiracy charges against five members of the Proud Boys, the so-called militia group involved in the Capitol protest. The new indictment, handed down by a D.C. grand jury 13 months after its initial indictments in the case, made instant headlines.
But the 32-page indictment contained no new information aside from a few irrelevant details; much of it rehashed previous filings in the case. Nonetheless, Graves claimed the men conspired to “oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force, by opposing the authority of the Government of the United States and by preventing, hindering, or delaying by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of powerful,” referring to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.
No American has ever been convicted of “seditious conspiracy.” The last time the government attempted to prosecute a seditious conspiracy case 10 years ago, the presiding judge tossed it out of court. Graves has so far charged 17 Americans with the rare offense comparable to treason and threatening life sentences for those who refuse to accept plea deals.
The purpose of the one-two punch by Cheney and Graves was revealed by the New York Times on Tuesday: committee members will present to the audience proof of an alleged “conspiracy” between Trump and the unarmed Proud Boys to execute a coup on January 6.
“A significant portion of the first hearing on Thursday evening will focus on the Proud Boys, a far-right group whose members have been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the storming of the Capitol,” reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater wrote. “It is scheduled to include testimony from a documentary filmmaker, Nick Quested, who was embedded with the group during the storming of the building, and a Capitol Police officer, Caroline Edwards, who was injured in an assault said to be triggered by the Proud Boys.”
A follow-up story in the Wall Street Journal elaborated on the committee’s plans. “The committee is likely to feature previously unseen footage Mr. Quested’s crew filmed of the Jan. 6 attack, according to Mr. Quested. The filmmaker was recording as a Proud Boy member pushed barricades on top of Capitol Police officers, he said,” Scott Patterson wrote on June 8.
So, how will the committee tie this to Trump? No doubt the former ABC News producer hired to create a dramatic video montage of footage recorded that day and witness interviews will feature a clip of Trump’s comment during a September 2020 debate with Joe Biden related to the Proud Boys.
Debate moderator Chris Wallace, who claimed disingenously and without evidence that Proud Boys incited violence during the 2020 George Floyd riots, repeatedly pushed Trump to tell the group to “stand down” while Joe Biden added on, “say it, do it, say it!” When Trump asked both who they specifically wanted him to condemn, Biden answered, “Proud Boys.” So Trump, looking directly at the camera, complied. “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.”
That comment—Trump later said he didn’t know who the Proud Boys were—much like his “very fine people” remark after the 2017 protests in Charlottesville, has been taken out of context ever since. Committee members and the media will once again weaponize an intentionally twisted version of his comment as evidence Trump instructed the Proud Boys to prepare to “storm” the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
The collaboration between the Justice Department, House Democrats, and the media did not go unnoticed by two of the Proud Boy defendants. In a motion filed on Wednesday, Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the group, and Zachary Rehl, noted the timing of their indictment.
“The government filed the Third Superseding Indictment on June 6, 2022 to coincide with the January 6th Select Committee Hearings which are scheduled to commence on June 9, 2022 on prime-time TV,” their attorneys explained to Judge Timothy Kelly, the presiding judge in the case. “Additionally, the select Committee has announced that the hearings will commence immediately and with the central focus of Enrique Tarrio and the Proud Boys. This suspiciously seems orchestrated at the highest levels of government. This Honorable Court should raise caution as to the true intent of why the Government filed a Third Superseding with trumped up allegations with no new supporting facts on the eve of the January 6th Select Committee Hearings.”
The attorneys further argued the government added “no new material facts to the allegations.”
But of course facts don’t matter in Collaboration Theater. The same powerful, unaccountable interests that concocted Russiagate, rigged the 2020 election, and conspired to produce the events of January 6 depend only on the bloodlust of the Democratic Party base and the insatiable vengeance of party leaders such as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Liz Cheney to promote their lies. And now they get to do it in primetime.
These people are terrible actors. And few are asking about all of the evidence being covered up.
The Lying Liz(ard) needs to crawl back under her rock.
If the Republicans take over the House, they need to keep these hearings going and expose the truth and grill the FIB about their role in it.
Make the Dems rue the day they set up this kangaroo court.
This is what you do - after YOU’VE done something so bad that millions of people SHOULD come after you to take off your head.
…say… like, rigging an election.
While the “masses” are still reeling in disbelief, you turn the tables and double-down, triple down, etc…
My tag-line…
“The government filed the Third Superseding Indictment on June 6, 2022 to coincide with the January 6th Select Committee Hearings which are scheduled to commence on June 9, 2022 on prime-time TV,” their attorneys explained to Judge Timothy Kelly, the presiding judge in the case. “Additionally, the select Committee has announced that the hearings will commence immediately and with the central focus of Enrique Tarrio and the Proud Boys. This suspiciously seems orchestrated at the highest levels of government.
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I don’t want to hear a damn peep from this corrupt Administration how it’s “protecting democracy” in Ukraine. Our own fedGov is corrupt to the core.
The Dems stole the election. Biden is an illegitimate President. These hearings remind me of Soviet, Red Chinese, North Korean, and North Vietnamese show trials that demand confessions, verbal and written, to war crimes. I can recall SERE training in the USN during the POW phase when our “captors” wanted us to sign confessions. Some did who couldn’t cope with the physical pressure.
IMO these hearings are part of the election fraud cover-up. So far, they have not been able to convince the majority of the American people that the election was not stolen.
That is exactly what this is. They are thugs telling us that if we don't believe that the election was fair, we better know better than to say the truth out loud.
Unfortunately, that is where things are heading. Trump has had 2 years, and was donated over $250 million to contest the election right after it, but hasn’t done much to actually put his evidence or case forward. Relying on Pillow Guys and foreign-looking movie producers won’t be enough for history to show he was wronged.
Trump should have never had a rally on day of voting in DC, period. After 4 years of BS Russia claims, impeached by House, non stop brutal assault against him, he didn’t have the forethought that they would use this against him by infiltrating Anitfa, anti Trump, Anti America people in the crowd?
Then it took him about 4 hours to finally make a statement on Jan 6 after the media played non stop rioting images on TV. I read the texts to Mark Meadows people pleading with him to tell the President he has to stop this and tell his supporters to not go to capital, not to enter, not even on the steps.
As far as presenting any evidence, remember how all the Judges refused to even allow it to heard and presented.
Remember people saying “there was no wide spread fraud”. Yes fraud in places, but the key word media, Dems, Rinos, Judges all saying “no widespread fraud”.
IMHO, this has now ruined any chance of people challenging future elections in mass from any Republican President. Now we will have to sit down and shut up and accept the fraud elections.
Excuse me, but: What "vote" was being held in DC on the day (Jan. 6) of that rally?
Regards,
The vote was the congressional vote to accept the electors for the presidential election.
Garland should be impeached. The vile people illegally intimidating the justices all should have been arrested.
This Shamwow broadcast is nothing but a desperate,Joseph Goebell’s propaganda launched by the same people who fabricated evidence in Congress in two unsuccessful attempts
to fraudulently impeach Trump , now with this Unconstitutional Kangaroo Kommitee , without due process, with no ranking Republican on their bogus committee, want America to believe that Donald Trump instigated an insurrection just because he challenged the election results from the Electoral College, a tactic used several times by the Dems themselves in the past?
The real problem the Kangaroo Kommittee has is that the election was indeed frasudulent. And the Marxist idiots are trying to cover that up.
All you have to do is read Volumes I, II, and III of the Navarro Report:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oyrcm3d1095xmq9/Navarro%20v%20Pelosi%20et%20al%206-1-22.pdf?dl=0
Aaaaand…. We knew this was going to happen.
The forming of the 1/6 committee could be the darkest day this country had faced. They are forging it as a tool to go after ALL perceived enemies of the STATE.
Welcome to the Soviet Union, America style.
You know The EVIL racist diabolical rats motto...say it enough times and the people will believe it show the altered J6 clips 24/7 and the people will believe it. Unfortunately it always works like a charm for them. Just remembered Charlottesville how people believed the garbage that Trump was a racist and to this day they think he’s a racist.
We’re at the point of no return...stick a fork in our nation she’s done. The peoples voice matters diddley squat now. We are entering a dangerous dictatorship time in the history of our nation. They have all the tools and powerful people at their disposal we have nothing only God but even He is taking a time out. Our nation is in a world of hurt! Continue To pray for our country maybe God will relent from the wrath to come and have mercy on our land. 😢
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people get confused, it is also the most critical element that Washington DC must hide in the aftermath.The systems of government were retooled during the administration of Barack Obama to fundamentally change the nature of the relationship between government and the American people. Their success in that objective is the discomfort you see, feel and deal with every day.
The people who created the Fourth Branch of Government used every tool in their arsenal to outlast and remove Donald Trump; then they turned to the one cognitively challenged candidate who would not be a threat to the construct, Joe Biden, and installed him through fraud and mail-in ballots. Everything is downstream from this construct.
Lizard Cheney “...extremely broad...”.
Indeed.
Perhaps it was ALL part of the plan. Trump might be one of "them". You do need to consider this in light of all that has gone down since Covid hit the shores. He was the original pied piper of the shot "they" wanted all of us to get. "They" knew we would never trust "them" if "they" had championed it so perhaps Trump was "their" Trojan Horse in the endeavor to steal the nation and kill off as many of their enemies as possible in doing so. Trump was one third of the government when the election was stolen. He had all of the necessary powers to right the wrong that had been committed. Instead, he wasted the last two months of his Presidency acting as though he was at the mercy of the justice system, a system HE was in charge of. Something doesn't add up when it comes to trusting Trump in any of this.
The DOJ was corrupted by Holder and has remained so even while Trump was in office.
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