Impeachment managers mentioned Trump's Twitter messages on January 6...They criticized Mr. Trump for not condemning the violence strongly...They criticized him for expressing affection for his supporters...
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”
Democrats pointed to that message to argue that Mr. Trump defended people who destroyed property and attacked cops...
I am sure that I could find examples of Democratic politicians defending violent BLM protestors by stating that their "rage" is justified...
That said...I am disappointed that Mr. Trump sent out such a message on January 6...I wish Mr. Trump stated instead that there is absolutely no excuse for destroying property and attacking police officers...
Maybe President Trump could not believe what was taking place...Maybe he could not believe that some of his supporters were involved in the riot...Maybe that is why he did not want to sound too harsh on January 6?
golf courses aren’t typically hotbeds if unrest.
Convict for what he might do? Setting a great precedent.
Show trial, completely worthy of Stalin.
It makes sense. The DemocRATs did the bidding of the USSR for decades. Now they do China’s bidding.
And they have to demonstrate that we, the people are powerless and must never again challenge their supreme right to absolute power.
CIA Media front “NBC Nudes”
Ah ha, so you ARE afraid of a revolution. Hmm...
Convicting won’t stop him from speaking, how long before they start talking about the death penalty?
I didn’t watch a second. But did follow on here. It’s disgusting that they got 3 full days and our side is taking 3 hours. What is wrong with them. I’d make those senators sit for 3 more days even if all they did was read the constitution over and over again.
The Democrats and NeverTrumper Repukes are dumber than dirt. If they thought this clown show was going to reduce Trump’s visibility and standing with the people they’re full of it. If anything, I agree with Don Jr when he says this will only enhance his father’s position in American politics.
Though the Dem’s notion that mobs are “controlled” is an oxymoron, here’s a poser. If Trump was controlling the January 6th mob, who was controlling the months of rioting looting, arson, murder, and mayhem unleashed by the Democrats throughout 2020? Would that be the Democrat Party? Numerous Dems including Harris actively encouraged these rioters and contributed to bailing them out of jail. These bums give hypocrisy a bad name.
If Trump is “convicted” he won’t be imprisoned. He can still hold rallies.
If Trump is “convicted” he can still appear on the radio, tv, in books, etc.
Or are they planning to put him in a wood chipper like Madonna and Kathy Griffin would so hope for?
Presidents are expected to take a ‘measured response’ when emergencies occur. If the president is republican, they will get criticized, guaranteed.
Think George W. Bush’s “My Pet Goat” moment, when he was told of 9/11 happening, while visiting an elementary school and reading a children’s book entitled “My Pet Goat”.
Mr. Bush did not drop the book on the tiled floor and run out to his limo, surrounded by bodyguards. He chose instead to finish what he had start, so not to panic the children or the school staff. For years afterward, Bush was maligned by liberals for his calm and measured response.
Years later, Obama is standing at a press conference, days after Nidal Hasan, a marine killed 13 other marines in November of 2009. Barack takes a long, long time to address the issue at hand, delaying that point. First, he decided to ‘call out’ some of his friends standing near at the press conference. Polite, muffled applause followed.
Many thought he seemed oddly detached from the moment, while most the media praised his ‘measured approach’.
1) How would conviction stop him from stoking violence if he wanted?
2) If his behavior is really criminal then why can't the criminal justice system deal with him?
3) If this is really an Impeachment and not a Bill of Attainder, why would preventing stoking violence be a goal? The only legal remedy the Senate can enforce is removal from office and prevention from being in office in the future.
4) Being that the only people killed on Jan 6 were Trump supporters (including the policeman), and being that almost all political violence and political rioting is part of the regular decades old institution of the Democrat party. If we want to prevent violence, should not the entire Democrat party apologize and disband?
NBC news is inciting the fear.
Guess what that does.
Show the Democrats are saying that if they vote to convict Trump suddenly that will make the 70+ Million people that voted for him just say OK, I was wrong, Orange man was bad it’s time to forget he never existed and unite around Joe Biden?
That ain’t gonna happen.
Every time I attempt to comment on these things... words fail me... there are no words for what I’d like to say.
I was born with no computers.... no phones.... no cars.... no electricity..... no modern kitchen... no running water... no liars .. no hate filled beings that wanted to destroy.... I knew no one who lived to destroy another person....
I know how to survive if we lost power... and many other things.... but I don’t know or understand what the dem party is doing today to our President. I don’t know how biden got to sit in the oval office.. he was not elected by the votes... he just took over on a lie... a huge lie and stealing the rest of the way.
I dare say if you ask 1000 seniors, you would get answers that you would not get from the younger..
I’m just ramblin... but this stuff going on.. disturbs me to the core!!!!!!!!!!
As I wrote very early Thursday morning, Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md) is a “Red Diaper Baby”, i.e. the son/child of either an old Communist Party USA member(s) or of a “Marxist” (non-party ideologue).>There is a very strict legal delineation/meaning for the use of these terms.
Regarding Raskin’s father, Marcus Raskin, once an aide to McGeorge Bundy and staff member of the National Security Council, (p. 28, “Covert Cadre” Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”, 1987, Green Hill, S. Steven Powell), joined with Richard Barnet, a so-called liberal turned covert Marxist “at a White House/State Dept. conference in 1961.
“Barnet was deputy director for political research of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. When he met Raskin, he “recalled how he had noticed Raskin’s alientation and contempt for “the whole military-industrial establishment sitting there at one table. “”Marc and I both grimaced at the same moment,” said Barnet, and “knew we didn’t belong here.”
Two years later they helped found the Marxist-funded and staffed Institute for Policy Studies, p. 28-29.
[Chapter 3: “Political Pilgrims Turn Militant Hub of Activism at Home and Links with Revolutionaries Abroad”].
Marcus Raskin’s Marxist philosophy was written about on various pages of “Covert Cadre” including p. 10 where Raskin stated that, as written by Powell “The mission of the Institute for Policy Studies, commonly known as IPS, is to “liberate” people from their colonized status and to “ reconstruct” society - an ambitious if rather vague undertaking.”
Chapter 5: p. 54. ...’Barnet and Raskin called “dismantling the national security state” as a key goal of the IPS.
Raskin was outed as a Marxist in a book, “First Harvest”, 1983, about the IPS on p. 246, “Chapter 15: “Power and Influence on Capitol Hill IPS and Congress”. Author Powell wrote about this in the second paragraph as follows:
“While IPS is usually identified as a liberal institution by the major media, Marxist would be the more accurate term. In the institute’s twentieth-anniversary publication, “First Harvest” (ed. John Friedman), Raskinw rites that “such positive social philosophies as Marxism are beginning to have a larger following...We are all Marxists - either by using that analysis or playing out, as actors, the tragic role Marx foresaw” (cited at footnote 3).
While Marcus Raskin had a decades long record of ties to Soviet fronts, causes, conferences and KGB or suspected KGB agents in America, Richard Barnett had an even longer record of ties to various communist parties and their fronts from the Moscow-directed Communist Party USA to the Trotskyite/now Stalinist “Workers World Party” and even some support for fronts of the Trotskyite “Socialist Workers Party (now fragmented to hell).
He was a key “Hanoi Lobby” leader and visitor to Hanoi in support of their aggression in Indochina during and after the wars of conquest ended.
He was outted as a Marxist by an article in the maoist-oriented US radical newspaper, “(The) Guardian”, on April 19-21 1984 concerning his participation in, the “Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference”. “Guardian”, May 2, 1984 edition, p. 2, “John Trinkl”, “Socialists Confer and Differ”.
Under the subsection “Middle East Panel”, second paragraph, the writer said: “In other panels, Marxist writers Richard Barnet, Richard Falk (another Hanoi Lobby legal activist and law professor) and Gabriel Kolko (Marxist professor in Canada) all broadly agreed that the resurgence of the Cold War was due to the U.S. trying to reassert itself to counter its declining influence.”
This may be one of the only descriptions of Barnet as a “Marxist” by a Marxist publication while those of us who have heard him speak and followed his communist life-long activities path, knew that he was a “red” all along.
In fact, Barnet, Fellow IPS, gave one of the “Introductory Remarks” on Jan. 25, 1978 at the Soviet KGB-Central Committee of the CPSU “peace” front, the World Peace Council’s “World Dialogue on Disarmament and Détente, Wash. DC, Jan 25-27, 1978.
It was sponsored by the CPUSA-controlled, and probably created “DC Committee for a Dialogue on Disarmament and Détente” which included the CPUSA WPC affiliate, the Paul Robeson Friendship Society and CPUSA members Alfred Henley (CP’s W.E. B. DuBois School of Marxist Studies; George B. Murphy Jr. Washington Afro-American newspaper; CP - sympathizer Acie Byrd, Robeson Society; James True - affiliated with either the CP front, the National Lawyers Guild or their youth organization, the YWLL; Sam Abbott - old CPUSA organizer since the 1930’s; Susan Cepeda, WREE - Women for Racial and Economic Equality, a CPUSA front; Josephine Butler, DC Statehood Party and Robeson Society; William Simon, head of the Marxist controlled Wash. Teachers Union, and Michigan Marxist; Prof. Archie Singham, a longtime CPUSA fronts supporter/activist in the WPC; to Jack O’Dell, covert/id. CPUSA national leader, private secretary to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./SCLC (one reason for the FBI surveillance on King), Jesse Jackson’s top “foreign affairs/department” aide for Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH, the Rainbow Coalition, the PLO front, the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, Mobilization for Survival, etc.
Just thought I’d throw in the kitchen sink here to make sure that my identifications of the people mentioned in this posting were well documented. The fronts were identified by congressional committees (HCUA, HISC, SISS, SACB), by reports put into the Congressional Record over the years by Rep. Ashbrook, Zion, McDonald, Fannin, etc., by special reports from the Sen. Select Committee on Intelligence, the USIA’s “Disinformation” project, articles in Human Events Weekly newspaper, The Pink Sheet on the Left/American Sentinal, and books such as those by Powell, Romerstein/Breindel/Vassiliev; M. Stanton Evans, Haynes/Khlehr and Western Goals - “The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive”, Rep. Ashbrook/MP Helmut Sauer/John Rees and Julia Ferguson, 1982.
As I always admonish FR writers, try to document your primary sources as much as possible for our readers to see, look up and read.
Two other sources on some of these people and groups are:
www.keywiki.org, search under the name of a person or organization
www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org, David Horowitz’s group, search by same terms.
Now on to the next post!