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(CNN) What we learned from the January 6 hearings
cnn ^ | July 23, 2022 | Jeremy Herb

Posted on 07/23/2022 7:51:10 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

The House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection concluded its series of eight hearings this week with a presentation intended to be the final piece of its narrative puzzle that painted former President Trump as responsible for the violent attack on the US Capitol -- and more broadly, American democracy -- on January 6, 2021.

The committee presented a devastating case that Trump sought multiple avenues to overturn the 2020 presidential election even after he was told he lost, that the former President knew ahead of time January 6 could turn violent, and that he chose not to act when his supporters attacked the Capitol and put the lives of lawmakers -- not to mention his own vice president -- in danger.

The most damning accounts came his inner circle, as multiple former Trump White House aides gave firsthand accounts of the President's unwillingness to accept reality and abandon his delusions about the election.

The committee, which consisted of seven Democrats and two Republicans, relied almost exclusively on testimony from GOP officials and nonpartisan civil servants, in an attempt to rebut criticisms of partisanship. "

For two years, congressional Democrats ran into White House stonewalling while they tried to investigate all aspects of the Trump administration. Beyond some notable exceptions -- notably the officials who came forward during Trump's first impeachment -- the blockade was successful at evading accountability.

Things have been different with the January 6 committee. Former Attorney General Bill Barr said how Trump reacted when he told him the voter fraud claims were "bulls***."

And Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified live in a surprise hearing at the end of June, provided easily the most damning testimony about how she heard Trump say he did not care that the January 6 crowd was armed.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: capitol; chat; cnn; jan6; january6
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1 posted on 07/23/2022 7:51:10 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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...The committee which consisted of seven Democrats and two Republicans

"Two Republicans. LMAO. Yeah, right.

Cassidy Hutchinson provided easily the most damning testimony about how she heard Trump say he did not care that the January 6 crowd was armed.

That's all they have got? From a sworn perjurer and liar to boot?

2 posted on 07/23/2022 7:57:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
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To: MarvinStinson

We learn absolutely nothing until we find out who Ray Epps is and why he has not been prosecuted.


3 posted on 07/23/2022 8:00:40 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: MarvinStinson
...Capitol Hill insurrection...

No biased reporting here! Interesting how they viewed that the burning of Seattle, Portland, LA, etc. during 2021 was just a "protest"...and CNN is so stupid they can't figure out why their viewer stats are falling off a cliff. Maybe they might try reporting the news rather than an editorial page.

4 posted on 07/23/2022 8:01:38 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Walrus

Democrat Party, low life & their Media did nothing....these televised BS sessions were failures from A-Z!!! Few Americans cared about or tuned in on Media Broadcasts!!!

Go Trumpie!!!


5 posted on 07/23/2022 8:04:20 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Jeremy Herb is a reporter for CNN.

Prior to CNN, Herb was a defense reporter at Politico and The Hill,

Herb has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Journalism School.

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6 posted on 07/23/2022 8:08:33 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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What hearings?


7 posted on 07/23/2022 8:09:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MarvinStinson

The Communist News Network loves socialist tribunals.


8 posted on 07/23/2022 8:09:36 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: MarvinStinson

He must have been the only one that watched this drama because no one else did. He can talk to himself.


9 posted on 07/23/2022 8:11:10 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: MarvinStinson

Annnnnnddddd.....No one in America cares. Gas, groceries, heating oil and gas, electricity, and all the other things Biden has touched and effed up......


10 posted on 07/23/2022 8:12:44 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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This is what we have learned: The American People and the USA are in serious, very severe danger, and the existence of this Committee exemplifies it.

We have never been in such great danger, even at the time of the Civil War, because the present danger is decadence, moral rot coming from within America itself, and no nation, no civilization, has ever survived suicide.

11 posted on 07/23/2022 8:13:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You are not walking this path alone--all who walked before you are lifting you. --Michael Singer)
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12 posted on 07/23/2022 8:14:23 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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About the same thing that we learned from the years of Russia Hoax hearings. That the Dem House Investigations are a political clownshow spreading lies about Trump and Republicans.


13 posted on 07/23/2022 8:18:20 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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And the border is secure.


14 posted on 07/23/2022 8:19:57 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: MarvinStinson

Hi...

“The committee, which consisted of seven Democrats and two Republicans, “

LOL.

Number one, the “committee” is two people short of a “select” committee and two, there are no Republicans represented, according to House rules.

The J6 committee is a farce, and Congress deserves our contempt.

5.56mm


15 posted on 07/23/2022 8:20:03 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Good, put The Herbster on defense.


16 posted on 07/23/2022 8:24:31 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: MarvinStinson

No Cross Examination. All members of this inquisition are anti-Trump. It’s a joke. A sick joke.


17 posted on 07/23/2022 8:26:47 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: MarvinStinson

We learned that those who stole the election also set up a destroy Trump scheme afterwards. Watch who supports them and you can see who was involved. Obviously the media, old and new were involved. Obviously the military was involved. The two republicans were on the defense committees. The CIA and justice department were in on it. Because of how they handled the crowd. The courts are involved. Roberts made sure that the courts were denied to Trump.

But the most important fact is that the powers that be, are the ones running the country not Joe. Its the elites with full force of the government who are failing so badly. What is going on now is not Biden. Its the Swamp who is running things. And this is their choices. This is what they want done.

Notice the war in the same country as Trumps impeachment. Notice the attack on the oil industry. Our elites have set up our enemies against us. They are now together. They now see who really runs America. We are not a democracy. We are the same as the CCP. But our fascist government is hidden. Or was hidden. Trump exposed it. The elites had to flex to remove Trump. And that exposed them. Our government is inside FB and Microsoft and Amazon. They are in the old media. And they are in certain areas of the government that are more immune to democracy like the CIA and military and court system.

For some reason its important for our fascist elites to control energy and control medicine as well as media. They don’t like the constitutional restraints. They are like the genie who is constrained by its bottle. They are trying to break those chains. Democracy and constitutions are in their way.


18 posted on 07/23/2022 8:45:14 AM PDT by poinq
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“Herb has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Journalism School.”

He needs to get a refund.


19 posted on 07/23/2022 8:46:45 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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"the former President knew ahead of time January 6 could turn violent"

If he knew it, so did the FBI, the DC mayor, the DC chief of police, Nancy Pelosi, and the chief of the Capitol police. So why was security so light? Why were only a handful of police present when Ray Epps and his buddies breached the outer perimeter? The January 6th Committee doesn't want to ask those questions, and neither do CNN, The New York Times, or MSNBC.
20 posted on 07/23/2022 9:09:43 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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