Posted on 10/13/2022 11:49:27 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The January 6 Committee on Thursday plans to vote on whether to subpoena Trump.
Americans DO NOT care about the January 6 panel.
NBC reported:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News Thursday.
Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering seeking an interview with Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence.
Members of the committee focused the hearing Thursday on how the central cause of Jan. 6 was to Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said in her opening statement.
“None of this would have happened without him. He was personally and substantially involved in all of it,” she said. “Today, we will focus on President Trump’s state of mind, his intent, his motivations, and how he spurred others to do his bidding. And how another Jan. 6 could happen again if we do not take necessary action to prevent it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I think this is a bluff by Pelosi and Cheney
Obvious political theater in a hail mary attempt to salvage the damage of the upcoming midterms.
Second “J6” hearing on the day inflation numbers are released...hmmmmm....
Anyone with an ounce of honesty sees through this. Might not admit it, but they do.
If they approve a subpoena, what chances do they have enacting it before the midterms, which are 4 weeks away??
They would be setting themselves up for the future coup conspiracy and election fraud trials.
6 years of “we got him now”....”The walls are closing in”. I’m so sick of this stupid Marxist charade
I think I can hear Trump say:
MAKE MY DAY
Would they not also open themselves up to discovery?
I think the Democrats severely mistimed a lot of this engineered circus. Of course, they’ll have a couple of months after the election to salt the earth, but who knows.
No one cares.
I assume Trump could legally tie it up until after the midterms. In fact, a solid strategy would be to agree to answer written questions the first week of December, then go to great lengths to explain that he’d hate to make this about the midterms instead of “saving our democracy,” as the faux committee claims.
Congress has no power to compel a President to testify. Especially when he is clearly the target. Flip em the finger and refuse. Obama would do so...
Dare them to send the FBI to arrest him. Might as well get the party started....
its stochastic terrorism
another junk phrase to kill free speech
if you criticize someone and something happens to them you are guilty
of course it will be applied selectively
so it ends with a whimper, not a bang. a subpoena at this point is a joke as this group is about to be ousted in days. this is their ‘sizzle’ - because they didn’t deliver. so it’s a fizzle.
A solid strategy would be to say “NO”. These bullies and communist conspirators need to hit a brick wall.
All they understand is power. Refuse and dare them to send the FBI to arrest him. Watch what happens.... FAFO.
J6 stasi
(Federalist) The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned.
The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe.
In related - Pelosi’s Capitol Police are alleged to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff, according to reports. The police – now under formal investigation – stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later. Reports suggest Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated.
OBSERVATION - Pelosi has converted the Capitol police into her how personal stazi. The incidents are egregious. Should the democrats lose the house in November, the incoming republicans should clean house an have heads roll (figuratively). This is another step taking govt agencies and targeting protected activity of citizens and their representatives.
In related, Representative Louie Gohmert has accused the DoJ of intercepting mail from his constituents and illegally holding it. In one case, mail was withheld from the Congressman for over four months. “It is gravely concerning that since Congressional mail is constitutionally protected under the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, it could be routed, intentionally or not, through the highly partisan DOJ. This is felonious behavior.”
OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - These Capitol police and DOJ actions point to a more aggressive move by the biden/leftist govt against US citizens.
If a CW2 scenario goes hot, the likelihood of active involvement by govt agencies skyrocket. It ceases to be a more culture conflict between Red and Blue, but Fed Govt vs Red citizens/states.
I recently wrote to my United States senator, a Republican NeverTrump, respectfully asking why the January 6 detainees are still in jail, with many still in solitary and not arraigned for what was essentially trespassing on public property (forgetting for the moment the role of FBI instigators).
(Incidentally, we should all be writing.)
His reply saddened me profoundly. I received back a two-page harangue of how horrible January 6 was and how it imperiled our democracy. Buried within that harangue were unexpected admissions about the unconstitutional conditions in which far more prisoners are held than most people realize. Surprisingly enough, these admissions gave me hope.
For anyone who lived through Election Night 2020, and watched Trump winning comfortably at 11:00 P.M. EST, only to lose that massive lead by the following morning, skepticism about the election will always remain intense. (And it seems more people are getting skeptical by the day.) That skepticism is hardened by stories of municipalities that actually stopped counting during the night and reopened with large Biden pluralities.But back to my senator’s curious reply. After a lengthy harangue about Jan. 6, the depraved perpetrators, and the evil Donald Trump, he provided two very odd statements. First, he informed me that 570 people are still held in D.C.’s jails.
Five hundred seventy! I had no idea that so many were incarcerated for so long, without trial.
Second, and unexpectedly, he revealed that these 570 were mostly kept in “restricted housing,” which translates to solitary confinement or other extreme denials of privileges normally granted to the general prison population. I knew that was the case, but to have a senatorial office confirm it was curious.
Image: Cover of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s report about conditions in the D.C. Jail (cropped). Only three other congressmen (Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, and Louie Gohmert) joined her in the report.
Land of the Free? Really? This reminds me more of the CCP’s China than the America I grew up in.
So here a large number of Americans are being held without trial under conditions that the Geneva Conventions would object to.
Moreover, they violate the Constitution’s promise of both a speedy trial and the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment (especially before a trial is carried out with the proper due process and an actual conviction).
The slimesters who call themselves “The Jan. 6th Committee” are well on their way because of everything they say and do and write to being remembered in the history books as “The January 6 Congressional Fiction Writers.”
Why Jan. 6 is mostly absent from the midterms
Most House Republicans voted for Trump-backed election challenges after a violent riot. Less than 2 percent of broadcast TV spending this cycle has focused on it.
Pic......Rioters loyal to former President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol.
Criticism of the 139 House Republicans who voted to challenge Trump’s loss on Jan. 6, 2021, has largely stayed off the TV airwaves with 25 days to go before the midterms. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo
By JORDAIN CARNEY, SARAH FERRIS and ALLY MUTNICK, Politico
10/13/2022 04:30 AM EDT
The GOP lawmakers who backed Donald Trump-driven election challenges that metastasized into violence on Jan. 6, 2021, aren’t taking much campaign-trail heat for it.
Democrats don’t lack for material to slam Republicans as election-denying riot boosters, and in fact many of them deploy that attack while in Washington: A majority of House Republicans voted to oppose certifying 2020 results — a sentiment backed by many of their candidates, too. But given that most GOP objectors occupy comfortably red seats, Democrats are limited on where they can use those certification votes as a successful issue this fall.
As a result, criticism of the 139 House Republicans who voted to challenge Trump’s loss on Jan. 6, 2021, has been all but absent from the TV airwaves with 25 days to go before the midterms. Just a handful of them are in close races, where they’ve faced questions about their election objection in debates, social media and smaller-scale ads. Democrats view that as part of their larger focus on “extremism.”
Overall, less than 2 percent of all broadcast TV spending in House races has gone toward Jan. 6 ads, according to ad-tracking firm AdImpact — or just $2.7 million of $163 million. Taken in total, Democrats have aired just two dozen spots focused on threats to democracy this cycle, in roughly 16 different battleground districts.
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Still, in the places they do appear, Democrats say the election-protection message is making a difference in some unlikely turf, helping them paint GOP challengers and incumbents as too extreme in places like rural Wisconsin, suburban New Jersey and Phoenix’s East Valley. Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), for one, called his battle against GOP opponent Kelly Cooper — who has sown doubt about the 2020 results — a “test case.”
“My opponent is way, way outside the mainstream. He’s an extremist candidate. … This guy is a threat to our democracy, and I’ve got to bring it up in this race because it is a real problem that people are concerned about,” Stanton said.
Greg Stanton middle speaks while seated at a table.
Stanton’s race is one of his party’s few must-win contests where Democrats have seized on GOP candidates with ties to the events on Jan. 6. | Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
The very first ad that Democrats’ campaign arm ran in Stanton’s Phoenix-area swing district featured video of the Capitol attack as it hammered Cooper for vowing to help free convicted Jan. 6 rioters on “day one” of his term. Cooper also leans into questioning the 2020 election on his campaign website, characterizing the election as “a disaster” and that Arizonans “wonder if their vote really counted.”
Stanton’s race is one of his party’s few must-win contests where Democrats have seized on GOP candidates with ties to the events on Jan. 6, such as attending the rally that preceded the violent attack by Trump supporters, or to the former president’s false claims to have won the 2020 election. The strategy is a gamble in this year’s economy-focused midterm: For the vast majority of swing seats, voters’ top issue is high inflation.
And Trump’s post-presidency legal trouble may matter to the Democratic base, but it registers far less for independent voters. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s leadership team, said that in “really tough races, you’re going to hit them on everything” but compared the political impact of certification votes to the effect of Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign on subsequent congressional elections — negligible.
“If you thought it really moved the needle, don’t you think you would see it in a six-point race or a five-point race somewhere? I mean, you have plenty of target-rich environments,” said Armstrong, who was among the minority of House Republicans to oppose GOP election challenges.
We’ll be on Twitter Spaces after today’s Jan. 6 hearing to discuss the biggest takeaways. Join Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu at 5:30 p.m. ET.
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