Posted on 06/09/2022 10:24:41 AM PDT by blam
The Jan. 6 panel will use never-before-seen documentation and closed-door depositions on Thursday to present their grand unifying theory to connect former President Trump to the Capitol riot, as part of a broader effort to keep him in power.
Tonight’s televised 90-minute hearing, which begins at 8pm ET and is being produced by a former network television executive, will show that the Jan. 6 2021 attack on the Capitol was the result of a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden,” a House Select Committee aide told reporters during a Thursday call.
“And indeed, that President Donald Trump was at the center of that effort,” the aide added.
House Democrats will also feature live testimony from Nick Quested – a British documentarian who was creating a project about the Proud Boys and was present at a meeting between that group and the Oath Keepers, who participated in the Capitol breach.
“You’re talking about two witnesses who were there at the very initial breach,” said the aide. “We’re going to hear about their experiences from that day — particularly sort of what they heard, what they saw from the rioters.”
Democrats are expected to connect how the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers interacted with Trump’s tweets on Reddit and other message boards, according to Axios, which pointed out two other ‘areas of interest.’
1. Efforts by Trump and aides to destroy documents.br>< ◾Trump often tore up White House documents that should have been preserved as presidential records.
◾Some of the presidential records sent to the Jan. 6 committee by the National Archives had been ripped up, then taped back together, the Washington Post reported.
◾A committee witness testified that then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers in his West Wing fireplace after meeting with a House Republican about challenging the 2020 election, the N.Y. Times and Politico reported.
2. Trump’s consideration of invoking the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows the president to deploy the military domestically.
◾Committee members have studied how close Trump came to invoking the act immediately after the election and leading up to Jan. 6. -Axios
Other witnesses include Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who was the first law enforcement officer injured on the day of the ‘insurrection’ attempt. Both Edwards and Quested, the documentarian, plan top recount their experiences – “particularly what they saw and heard from the rioters,” said a committee aide.
January 6 was the violent culmination of an extensive effort to overturn a presidential election.
The American people know a lot about those events, but soon they will learn more, and see how close we came to losing our democracy.
On Thursday, we will begin to tell that story. pic.twitter.com/hX6RAS9GFR
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 5, 2022
House Republicans, meanwhile, say that the Democrats’ use of former ABC News president James Goldston on the presentation may have violated House rules.
As the Epoch Times notes:
In a letter (pdf) to the Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Committee on House Administration Chairperson Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), GOP lawmakers asked for confirmation that Goldston has been hired as an employee of the committee, and not as a consultant or in an “unofficial capacity.”
The letter was signed by Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), and others.
It comes after Axios first reported Monday that the former network news executive had joined the committee as an “unannounced adviser” and is “busily producing Thursday’s 8 p.m. ET hearing as if it were a blockbuster investigative special.”
Goldston has previously served as a producer for some of the network’s biggest news programs like “20/20,” “Nightline,” and “Good Morning America.” He left ABC in March.
Citing congressional laws pertaining to committee staff, the lawmakers noted that a letter is required requesting approval of the Committee on House Administration regarding Goldston’s hiring, along with a signed contract agreement and resume.
Under that same law, Goldston would be unable to commence work for the committee until the contract has been approved by the Committee on House Administration.
“To our knowledge, the Committee has not received or considered such a request,” wrote the representatives.
The GOP lawmakers also cited reports from CNN that Goldston is working with the select committee “to help produce their upcoming hearings” and “helping the committee with the planning of the hearings and their presentation.”
They noted that the committees are allowed to “obtain temporary or intermittent services of individual consultants or organizations, to advise the Committee with respect to matters within its jurisdiction,” but that Goldston would not be able to act as an employee of the committee.
“The Committee on House Administration will not approve a contract if the services to be provided by the consultant are the regular duties of Committee staff,” lawmakers wrote. “Planning, preparation, and production of hearings are unquestionably the ‘regular duties of Committee staff’.”
Republican lawmakers also noted in their letter that Goldston would be barred from working for the Jan. 6 Committee free of charge, noting that such an arrangement would “violate House Rules and the House Ethics Manual regulations which clearly states that no logical distinction can be drawn between the private contribution of in-kind services and the private contribution of money.”
They have no problem being unGodly Communists now
Yep, if we only had an honest intelligence community we would know the truth. Liz Cheney isn’t getting to the bottom of anything but her bowl of mashed potatoes.
“I think POTATUS is so far gone that he’ll agree to have PDJT arrested and that will be the match to the powder keg.
It’s about to get real”.
It is getting very real.
They want DJT in solitary confinement and on bread and water for life.
“I like DeSantis a lot (so far anyways), but need to hear more from him on topics other than covid lockdowns and mandates before I give him my unqualified support. Specifically does he support our proxy war with Russia? If so then he loses me”.
So you’re a one issue voter.
Millions of people believe there was massive voter fraud in 2020 (and without Donald Trump telling them so ) and those people never went anywhere near DC on Jan 6. Democrats probably haven’t considered that in their narrow view.
This is all the Democrats have. They long ago gave up the notion of campaigning for votes promoting their political agenda because many people across this country have “woken” up to the damage that extreme leftist policies have done to them. Overwhelmingly RAT infested San Fransicko booting out their commie DA Boudin has far greater significance than the national Democrats want to admit. So they’re reduced to making their case to the American people that the GOP is worse than they are and that’s it! The lesser of two evils argument. That’s why the Jan 6 dog and pony show will be prime time tonight.
The Election wasn’t over until the EC sealed the deal.
No one with a functioning brain who is a Democrat, wants to campaign with Fake, Illegal, Criminal, POTUS, Democrat, Joe Biden. End of story!!! The glamour “January 6th” show this evening will deliver lousy viewer ratings...period!!! End of story....Case closed!!!
No, but I do consider these endless neocon wars just as dangerous to our Republic as the covid lockdowns and mandates. So if DeSantis is only against one and not the other, I will surmise that he’s just a clever politician who is still beholden to the deep state and not especially trustworthy.
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Insights welcome.
Also, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
Watching this to me, not kidding, would be the same as picking up horse manure , squishing it between my fingers and slathering it on my face.
They’ve been doing that for 2 years. This is going to flop. SNL skit.
Not much different than the hearing themselves, instead they will be dishing it out.
I am very disappointed that Newsmax will be broadcasting this dog and pony show I will be watching reruns of law and order!! I sent Newsmax an email expressing my anger telling them that Fox is NOT broadcasting WHY in the hell are they???
We could do the exact same thing of the Media-Dem Party’s 4 year-long effort to overturn the 2016 election, and essentially stage an armed insurrection with their rioters.
“Desantis is a yet another lawyer turned career politician, who’s never held a job in the private sector. He’s from their world.”
DeSantis worked his way through college, which included being an electrician’s assistant and a baseball camp coach. He was very athletic and excelled in basketball and baseball. He joined the military and served in Iraq during the Iraq War. Would a career as a KFC GM make him more qualified to be president in your opinion? After Donald Trump, are only billionaire businessmen qualified to be president?
I think your post is disingenuous. You might as well have wrote that DeSantis is not a true Renaissance man. He’s not a man for all seasons. He’s not Jesus Christ.
I, and apparently DeSantis, like most people on this forum, support Donald Trump AND prefer for him to run again and serve a second term.
That being said, DeSantis is shaping up very well to be an excellent candidate for POTUS.
MAGA GOP needs to arrange a “water main break” and building evacuation during these proceedings. Point made.
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