The Trump Riot Aftermath (Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Proud Boys join the club)

[Larry]

Hope he can prove it. 

[China]

Newly revealed text messages to Meadows undercut GOP whitewashing of the insurrection

 

Donald Trump Jr. was frantic. Fox News personalities who now dismiss the violence at the US Capitol were begging the White House to do something. On January 6, then-President Donald Trump wasn't listening to his kids or his media enablers.

 

"He's got to condemn this sh*t ASAP," Trump's namesake son and chief cheerleader told then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows via text that day, saying "we need an Oval office address."

Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House select committee investigating January 6, read the text aloud Monday night as the committee gathered to advance contempt of Congress charges against Meadows. It was one of a string of messages the former North Carolina congressman received from Trump Jr. and many others who now downplay the severity of the insurrection. But on that day, they were privately crying out for an Oval Office statement or anything by Trump to call off the rioters. Still, the then-President did nothing while the sacking of the Capitol carried on.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video

[China]

 

[Larry]

Granted, back then, they were clamoring for Trump to Do Something, because they were worried that it might hurt them politically.  
 

And by now they've figured out that once again, there is no crime that they'll be punished for. 

[China]

Mary Trump Taunts Cousin Don Jr. Over Jan. 6 Texts To Meadows Instead Of His Dad

 

Mary Trump attributes her cousin Donald Trump Jr.’s texts during the U.S. Capitol riot to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to one thing: “cowardice.”

 

Trump Jr. was among multiple conservative figures who pleaded with Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to call off the violence from his supporters, according to text messages released Monday by the House select committee investigating the insurrection.

 

“He’s got to condemn this **** ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough,” Trump Jr. wrote to Meadows.

 

“I’m pushing it hard,” Meadows replied. “I agree.”

 

“We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now,” Trump Jr. continued. “It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”

 

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked Mary Trump why Trump Jr. texted Meadows and not his own father.

 

“I wish that the answer you had given was the right one ― caller ID,” she cracked in response. “But in this particular instance, it’s simply cowardice, because Donny knew that the message he was delivering was the message his father did not want to hear.”

 

Mary Trump predicted her uncle will lash out at the release of the messages. But his inner circle has “become so small” there may not be anyone left for him to fire, she noted.

 

Click on the link for the video

 

Edited December 14, 2021 by China

[Cooked Crack]

 

Makes you wonder why he didn't text Pelosi instead

 

[Cooked Crack]

On 1/14/2021 at 10:41 PM, China said:

QAnon believer who plotted to kill Nancy Pelosi came to D.C. ready for war

 

The day after a Colorado man driving a truck loaded with weapons made it to Washington, D.C., last week, he texted a frightening forecast of what could come with President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

 

“I predict that within the next 12 days, many in our country will die,” wrote Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr., who had threatened to kill Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), according to federal court records.

 

 

[visionary]

 

[China]

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Jan. 6 rally organizers sue Verizon to block release of cell phone data to congressional committee

 

Four organizers of the Jan. 6 rally filed a lawsuit Monday against Verizon, in an attempt to prevent the telecommunications company from releasing cell phone data with the congressional select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

 

In their lawsuit, Justin Caporale, Tim Unes, Megan Powers and Maggie Mulvaney argued the committee doesn’t have the proper authority to obtain the data. The Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena to Verizon, requesting, call, text and location information “lacks a lawful purpose and seeks to invade the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to privacy and to confidential political communications,” the suit says.

 

The suit says the plaintiffs have personally complied with the committee’s investigation, sitting for “lengthy” interviews and providing “thousands of documents to Congressional investigators.”

 

“The Plaintiffs are four private citizens who were not involved in any federal government activities or programs. They have only one apparent connection to the matter Congress claims to be investigating: They served as vendors to help staff a peaceful, lawful, orderly and patriotic assembly to promote First Amendment-protected speech,” the suit says.

 

On Sept. 29, the House select committee issued subpoenas to Unes, head of a company called Event Strategies; his associate Caporale, who was listed as “project manager” for the event; Powers, listed in paperwork as an “operations manager”; and Maggie Mulvaney, the niece of former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who was described as “VIP Lead” for the rally in official paperwork.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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Things getting ugly in the chamber. 

[China]

On 9/11/2021 at 4:35 PM, China said:

6 More People Connected To The Capitol Riot Plead Guilty

 

Six more people pleaded guilty on Friday to charges connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including a man who threatened to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head.

 

Cleveland Meredith Jr. missed the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, but stuck around long enough to tell family members that he planned to shoot Pelosi. He pleaded guilty to one count of interstate communication of threats.

 

According to court papers, Meredith sent a relative a text message saying he wanted to attend an event with Pelosi and put "a bullet in her noggin on Live TV." The relative contacted Meredith's mother, who got in touch with the FBI. Soon after, agents located Meredith in a downtown D.C. hotel, and found a handgun, rifle and 2,500 rounds of ammunition in his possession.

 

Meredith's sentencing is scheduled for December.

 

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On 9/11/2021 at 4:55 PM, LadySkinsFan said:

 

I hope that creep goes away for a long time.

 

Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi sentenced to more than two years in prison

 

A Georgia man who drove cross-country with an assault rifle and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 28 months behind bars in an emotional hearing on Tuesday.

 

Cleveland Meredith Jr. pleaded guilty in September to sending threatening communications. Though he missed the January 6 rally because of car troubles, Meredith was one of the first people charged in relation to the Capitol riot after his mother reported concerning texts to the FBI on January 7. Agents found Meredith in a hotel one mile from the Capitol with thousands of rounds of ammunition, a handgun and an assault rifle stashed in his trailer.

 

"Let the record be crystal clear that it is not patriotism, it is not justified to descend on the Capitol at the behest of a candidate who lost an election and terrorize others," Judge Amy Berman Jackson said, calling the riot the "definition of tyranny."

She added, "Canceling the votes of others at the point of a gun is the antithesis of what this country stands for."

He will get credit for the 11 months he has already spent behind bars.

 

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[Ball Security]

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Things getting ugly in the chamber. 

Why aren’t they naming the lawmaker with the 11/4 text?

[PCS]

 

 

[Ball Security]

 

Hate to see it.

[Llevron]

2 hours ago, Ball Security said:

Why aren’t they naming the lawmaker with the 11/4 text?

They think he/she commuted a crime and they are going to refer for criminal prosecution at some point. I think it amounts to bad practice if you know it will be the subject of an open investigation? Something like that. 
 

Clearly think there is a crime committed by this person though. And trying to scare out the goods I bet. 

[LD0506]

[LadySkinsFan]

Only two years for threatening the life of the Speaker of the House. He should serve ten years. These sentences aren't enough to send the message that the insurrection is unlawful.

[Dan T.]

About Those Fox News Hosts’ Texts to Mark Meadows…Five Key Takeaways

 

Political observers are starting to recover from the shock of hearing Rep. Liz Cheney read aloud texts from three Fox News Hosts to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The texts demonstrate the need for Meadows to testify about what he knows, heard and saw. But they also shine a harsh light on Fox News itself. There are at least five big takeaways to consider as we assess the fallout.

 

Fox News Created the Very Monster It Feared

 

The texts demonstrate alarm and even panic by three Fox News hosts over the violent attack on Congress. But these same three individuals spent months after the election questioning its legitimacy.

 

“Do you trust what happened in this election?” Sean Hannity asked his audience. “Do you believe this was a free and fair election?” Following the election, Hannity tapped into the deep mistrust over the process that Trump had stoked without basis. “Tonight every American should be angry, outraged and worried and concerned about what happened in the election and the lead up to the election,” he declared. For her part, Laura Ingraham claimed she had “many questions” about the process and alleged there were “unverifiable dumps of votes” infecting the total numbers. Ingraham asked, “Is the fix already in?”

 

Media Matters analyzed and reported the number of instances in which Fox News cast doubt upon the election in the two weeks following the network calling the election for Joe Biden. It was an astounding 774 times. After whipping their viewers into frenzy, these hosts seemed stunned in their texts to Meadows that things would ever grow so violent and extreme. In short, they apparently had no concept of the damage they had done and no way to effectively control it.

 

Rest here:

About Those Fox News Hosts’ Texts to Mark Meadows…Five Key Takeaways (substack.com)

 

 

[Larry]

One thing I'm seeing, in those texts?  

 

Those "news hosts" aren't gathering information or asking questions about an ongoing story.  They're giving political advice.  

 

 

[Ball Security]

Need to be on the lookout for the snitches.

 

 

 

[Larry]

Also notable, with all the texts and call records and all.  

 

I'm getting the impression that all of these are on personal cell phones, not White House switchboard.  Which, I'm pretty sure, is subject to federal law about retaining records on who calls who.  All these people have created a communications system designed to avoid the kind of records that they demanded Hillary maintain.  

 

And - not one mention of any of them communicating, or even attempting to communicate, with Trump.  

 

No mention of any of them asking Trump to call off the coup.  Nope, they're asking Trump's CoS, to go ask Trump to do it.  

[LD0506]