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

[PleaseBlitz]

4 hours ago, Ball Security said:

 

Speculative, of course.  But food for thought.

 

I think Pence has simply realized he won’t be getting what he was promised in exchange for his 6 years of defending and normalizing Trump. 

[The Evil Genius]

12 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

I think Pence has simply realized he won’t be getting what he was promised in exchange for his 6 years of defending and normalizing Trump. 

 

A Johnny Quest reboot?  

 

[mistertim]

30 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

I think Pence has simply realized he won’t be getting what he was promised in exchange for his 6 years of defending and normalizing Trump. 

 

It's still amazing to me how any of these asshats ever thought they'd actually be rewarded in any way for doing Trump's bidding.

 

Demanding loyalty but giving none back and never rewarding anyone (or even paying them, when he could get away with it) was literally his entire M.O. before and during his time in office.

[Llevron]

28 minutes ago, mistertim said:

 

It's still amazing to me how any of these asshats ever thought they'd actually be rewarded in any way for doing Trump's bidding.

 

Demanding loyalty but giving none back and never rewarding anyone (or even paying them, when he could get away with it) was literally his entire M.O. before and during his time in office.

You would think they of all people would notice a ****ing scam right? 

[PleaseBlitz]

34 minutes ago, mistertim said:

 

It's still amazing to me how any of these asshats ever thought they'd actually be rewarded in any way for doing Trump's bidding.

 

Demanding loyalty but giving none back and never rewarding anyone (or even paying them, when he could get away with it) was literally his entire M.O. before and during his time in office.

 

Yep.  Mike Pence is getting treated like the the golf course architect guy from the 2016 ads.

 

 

[Bang]

That's called "extortion"

~Bang his fat ****ing head in a car door

[Califan007 The Constipated]

2 hours ago, China said:

Sasse: January 6 Was ‘Shameful Mob Violence,’ Not ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’

 

Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse issued a brief statement in response to the censure: “January 6th was not ‘legitimate political discourse’ and I’ll say it again: It was shameful mob violence to disrupt a constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress to affirm the peaceful transfer of power.” 

 

Following Sasse’s statement, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee sent me this statement from RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: 

 

 

To justify McDaniel’s claim that the January 6 committee is engaging in “persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol,” the RNC spokesman sent me this Federalist article titled “Only 10 Percent Of J6 Committee Subpoenas Relate To The Capitol Riot.” 

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

 

Get the **** out of here with that **** lol...the GOP is in industrial-strength spin mode. Hoping that's a sign that the walls are starting to close in.

[Simmsy]

7 hours ago, China said:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/02/05/capitol-rioters-threaten-politicians-january-6-nr-vpx.cnn

I don't know who decided to release this video at this moment, but it was genius! Does that look like "legitimate political discourse" to you? Let the GOP defend this **** and then release info that makes them eat their words.

[China]

Conservative National Review Calls GOP 'Morally Repellent' For Latest Jan. 6 Response

 

The conservative National Review magazine on Saturday savaged its usual ally the Republican National Committee as “morally repellent” and “politically self-destructive” for how it recently addressed last year’s violent attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters.

 

The magazine slashed the RNC for censuring Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Friday for daring to serve on the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

 

Particularly startling, in censuring the lawmakers, the RNC described the attack on the Capitol as “legitimate political discourse.” Some 140 police officers were injured when the mob stormed the Capitol that day and more than 740 people have been arrested in conjunction with the riot.

 

“The action of the mob on January 6 was an indefensible disgrace,” the Review flatly declared in its editorial. “It is deserving of both political accountability and criminal prosecution. Aspects of it are also fit subjects for a properly conducted congressional inquiry. It is wrong to minimize or excuse what happened that day.”

 

The RNC’s massive misstep in labeling the Capitol action “legitimate political discourse” is “political malpractice of the highest order coming from people whose entire job is politics,” the Review noted.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

Morally repugnant is more like it.

[Bang]

Those traitorous assholes couldn't spell "morals" if you spotted them the M, O, R, A, L, and S.
 

~Bang open the trapdoor beneath their feet

[China]

WHY TO DELAY A MARK MEADOWS INDICTMENT: BANNON IS USING HIS CONTEMPT PROSECUTION TO MONITOR THE ONGOING JANUARY 6 INVESTIGATION

 

In this post, I described that DOJ would be smarter to charge Mark Meadows with obstruction for his destruction of records relevant to an ongoing investigation than to charge him for misdemeanor criminal contempt of Congress. That’s because obstruction, a felony, would pose the risk of real jail time, which would be more likely to convince Meadows to cooperate with investigators and explain what he did as part of an attempt to steal the election.

 

When I’ve pointed this explanation out to those wondering why DOJ has yet to (visibly) act on the Meadows contempt referral the January 6 Select Committee the House sent over on December 14, they ask why DOJ can’t just charge Meadows with contempt now and then follow up with obstruction charges later.

 

The answer is clear. Doing so will make any ongoing investigation far more difficult.

 

We can see why that’s true from the Bannon case. Bannon has already used his contempt prosecution as a means to obtain evidence about an ongoing obstruction investigation implicating Trump.

 

In the early appearances after Bannon’s indictment, DOJ said it wanted to go to trial immediately and believed the trial could take a matter of hours. Bannon, by contrast, wanted a fall trial, and believed the trial could take weeks. Carl Nichols, the Trump appointee who had a key role in the Harriet Miers contempt conflict who is presiding over the case, split the difference on time, and has otherwise seemed unconvinced by Bannon’s maximalist challenges to the indictment.

 

Nevertheless, because the trial did not happen immediately, until Bannon does go to trial (currently scheduled in July), then DOJ will be obliged to provide him a range of information that would be (as the Costello records clearly are) relevant to an ongoing obstruction investigation implicating Trump personally. And until DOJ has reason to claim a conflict has arisen between Costello’s representation of Rudy and Bannon (which would effectively tip Rudy off that he’s being investigated for January 6), anything shared with Bannon’s defense team will be shared with Rudy’s defense team (and probably, through Schoen, Trump’s).

 

Those wailing for immediate action got an indictment of Steve Bannon … which will, at most, lead to his jailing for a few months.

 

And in exchange, Bannon got records that suggest that DOJ treated his attorney as a suspect in a conspiracy to obstruct this (and the J6) investigation. Bannon got records that suggest that DOJ is investigating his lawyer’s activities going back at least to March 5. He was able to see some of the evidence DOJ has obtained in that ongoing investigation.

 

Until something resets the current status, the contempt prosecution of Bannon is far more useful to Bannon as a means to monitor the ongoing investigation into him and his co-conspirators than it is for DOJ. And DOJ is likely now limiting investigative steps into Bannon and Costello, accordingly, to avoid triggering a discovery obligation to share information with Bannon.

 

There are a whole lot of really good reasons why DOJ probably hasn’t acted on the Meadows referral yet — most notably that Judge Nichols, who would likely preside over a Meadows case as a related prosecution, has made it clear he believes criminal contempt is used only for those whom DOJ has no hope of coercing cooperation. If they charge Meadows with contempt, per Nichols, they have foresworn any hope of getting his cooperation.

 

Given what Meadows has already done, DOJ surely views the potential of Meadows’ cooperation as more useful than a time-consuming and restrictive contempt prosecution.

 

And that’s true, first and foremost, because charging Meadows with contempt now would further limit their ability to shield parts of their investigation from the suspected co-conspirators.

 

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Edited February 8, 2022 by China

[China]

Americus attorney keeps working while facing Jan. 6 charges in D.C.

 

Attorney William McCall Calhoun Jr. questioned potential jurors Monday for his client’s pending murder trial, probing for biases that could affect his chances.

 

At one point during the proceeding, a court-ordered ankle monitor could be seen poking from beneath the pantleg of Calhoun’s slate-blue suit.

 

Later, Sumter County Superior Court Judge Jimmie Brown told the jurors not to do any of their own research about the case.

 

“Don’t Google any of the attorneys,” he said.

 

Calhoun, 58, is one of the more than 725 people criminally charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, although he is believed to be the only practicing criminal defense attorney. He faces five federal charges related to the breaching of the Capitol. The most serious is obstructing an official proceeding, a felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

 

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[Bang]

The judge isn't wrong.. the jury must be as impartial as possible regardless.

 

~Bang

[tshile]

Don’t Google his name

 

but do take note of the ankle monitor. 
 

draw your own conclusions. 

As a serious note -

 

like hell I’d use a lawyer who is wearing a court mandated ankle monitor. 
 

doesn’t even matter what the details are. What an awful look. 

[EmirOfShmo]

Perhaps you're a ****ing idiot.

 

 

[China]

Imagine that, actions have consequences:

 

Jan 6th Insurrectionist Claims He Lost Six Figure Job, Retirment, And Credit Rating.

 

 

And if this is true, what the court sentenced him to is not even a slap on the wrist:

 

Barnard was sentenced on Friday to 12 months probation, 30 days of home confinement, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution, according to the Department of Justice.

So what did Barnard do on Jan 6th?  I’m so glad you asked.  Here it is in all of its “glory.”

 

WARNING:  This will make your head hurt!  He had a partner in all of this by the name of Witcher.

 

In a video from inside the Capitol obtained by the FBI, Witcher appeared to falsely believe that he and Barnard were in the White House.

 

“I am in the White House! We crashed this. Our house! We did it, family, we did it! We did it! We’re in the White House!” Witcher said.

 

Other Trump supporters also appeared to believe they had stormed the White House, where then-President Donald Trump was living at the time.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[Larry]

Only the best people. 

[tshile]

I’d also like to add:

if your direction to me is to not Google someone’s name

 

the first thing I’m doing when you aren’t looking, is googling their name. 

[EmirOfShmo]

2 minutes ago, tshile said:

I’d also like to add:

if your direction to me is to not Google someone’s name

 

the first thing I’m doing when you aren’t looking, is googling their name. 

 

However, to comply with the specific request to not Google the name, I'd use Bing & wait 4-5 minutes for a response. 

[China]

Prosecutors' witness list offers glimpse into Jan. 6 trial strategy

 

Prosecutors late Monday began laying out their trial strategy for Jan. 6 cases in the clearest detail yet, indicating they intend to call multiple Capitol Police officers, a former Senate aide, a member of the Three Percenters militia who was granted immunity and the Secret Service agent who helped supervise then-Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the Capitol that day.

 

Prosecutors revealed their proposed witness list in the case of Guy Reffitt, a Texas man who was charged with storming onto Capitol grounds, attacking multiple Capitol Police officers and carrying a firearm. Reffitt is charged with civil disorder, obstructing Congress’ proceedings, carrying a semiautomatic handgun to the Capitol and later, after returning home, attempting to obstruct justice.

 

Secret Service Special Agent Paula Wade will tell jurors about preparations for the Jan. 6 session and Pence’s visit to the Capitol with his family members. Wade will also walk jurors through surveillance footage of Pence’s evacuation.

 

“Wade will generally explain the ‘emergency actions’ that the USSS took in response to the riot: relocating Vice President Pence and his family members, bringing additional USSS personnel to the Capitol, and relocating the Vice President’s motorcade,” prosecutors say.

 

The witnesses also include three Capitol Police officers who say they attempted to stop Reffitt’s advance with pepper balls and chemical spray.

 

The witness list also reveals that jurors will get a history lesson on the Electoral Count Act from former Senate aide Daniel Schwager, who was counsel to the secretary of the Senate on Jan. 6, 2021, and was on the Senate floor when rioters broke into the building and forced them to evacuate. Schwager, prosecutors say, will explain to jurors how the Jan. 6 session of Congress worked and its significance in finalizing the results of presidential elections.

 

The Justice Department revealed it plans to call Reffitt’s two children — including his son Jackson Reffitt, who reported his father to the FBI in December 2020 and then secretly recorded him after he returned home from Washington in January 2021. Jackson Reffitt has publicly talked about his efforts in variousmedia interviews over the past year.

 

Both of Reffitt’s children are expected to testify about what the government has described as threats their father made to his family to prevent them from reporting him to federal investigators.

 

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[China]

Fox News Guest Upset That Capitol Police Officers ‘Were Attacking Protestors’ on Jan. 6

 

Conservative pundit Julie Kelly appeared on Tuesday’s Ingraham Angle and said Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using the Capitol Police to target Republican lawmakers.

 

Her appearance on Fox News came a couple hours after Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) claimed on Tucker Carlson Tonight that Capitol Police had snooped around his office. Nehls initially made the claim earlier in the day on Twitter, saying that police “illegally” entered his office Nov. 20 without his knowledge and “photographed confidential legislative products.”

 

Nehls further alleged that two days, later “three intelligence officers attempted to enter my office while the House was in recess.” He claimed that these officers were dressed as construction workers and encountered an aide, who was questioned. He concluded that Pelosi is targeting him because he’s been critical of her and the police “about their handling of January 6th, the death of Ashli Babbitt and the subsequent SHAM investigation.”

 

Laura Ingraham played a clip of Nehls rehashing his allegations and asked Kelly, “Do you agree with that assessment that it’s Pelosi targeting him?”

 

Kelly responded in the affirmative and claimed that Capitol police attacked “protestors”:

 

Quote

Absolutely, and she has been using the Capitol Police, she used them on January 6th. In some instances, they were attacking protesters. In other instances, they were letting hundreds of them into the building. Congress doled over $2 billion to them in emergency supplemental funds that, now I guess they’re using to expand this intelligence unit.

 

But look, this is part of Capitol Police, the [January 6] committee, the justice department – as I write about in my book – all working collaboratively together to use this four hour disturbance on Capitol Hill as a pretext to unleash this war on terror against Americans on the political right, and this goes from everyone from Donald Trump to congressmen down to regular Americans who walked into the building for 10 or 15 minutes.

 

The Capitol Police union said that more than 100 officers were injured during the storming of the Capitol, where last year supporters of Donald Trump tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election in a violent insurrection.

 

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Someone's trying to sell their book

[China]

Pelosi blasts McCarthy for dodging press on RNC resolution, GOP for hitting 'rock bottom'

 

 

[China]