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

[The 12th Commandment]

20 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

Don't let the door knob hit ya...

[China]

51 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

So a seditionist and a traitor.  Hitting the daily double.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.  I assume he's not allowed back in this country, and if he does try to enter would be immediately arrested.

[Bang]

How hilariously funny will it be when they conscript him and send him to fight for his beloved Vladimir.

 

~Bang! Bang!Bang!Bang!SheeerrroooBOOM!!Bang!Bang!KrrrakaBOOM!!!Bang!Bang!

[China]

Cowboys for Trump Head Hits Marjorie Taylor Greene For Missing Jan 6 Ruling

 

Couy Griffin, the founder of "Cowboys for Trump" who on Tuesday was convicted of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 riot, slammed GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for missing his trial.

 

After his ruling on Tuesday, Griffin addressed supporters and media outside of the courtroom, where he denounced the conviction and called out several Republican lawmakers for not showing up to the trial.

 

"I know Marjorie Taylor Greene personally," he said. "I didn't see Marjorie one time around this trial right here that's affecting January 6. I didn't see Louie Gohmert here. I didn't see Matt Gaetz."

 

He went on to question if the lawmakers believe "they're too good to come down to the federal place where all of this is taking place, or going to the jail where those guys are still locked up."

 

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He's just figuring out they don't really care about him and the other 1/6 defendants, they are just using them for publicity and to try and score political points.  Ha Ha!

[Die Hard]

24 minutes ago, China said:

Cowboys for Trump Head Hits Marjorie Taylor Greene For Missing Jan 6 Ruling

 

Couy Griffin, the founder of "Cowboys for Trump" who on Tuesday was convicted of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 riot, slammed GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for missing his trial.

 

After his ruling on Tuesday, Griffin addressed supporters and media outside of the courtroom, where he denounced the conviction and called out several Republican lawmakers for not showing up to the trial.

 

"I know Marjorie Taylor Greene personally," he said. "I didn't see Marjorie one time around this trial right here that's affecting January 6. I didn't see Louie Gohmert here. I didn't see Matt Gaetz."

 

He went on to question if the lawmakers believe "they're too good to come down to the federal place where all of this is taking place, or going to the jail where those guys are still locked up."

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

He's just figuring out they don't really care about him and the other 1/6 defendants, they are just using them for publicity and to try and score political points.  Ha Ha!

 

[mistertim]

17 hours ago, China said:

Cowboys for Trump Head Hits Marjorie Taylor Greene For Missing Jan 6 Ruling

 

Couy Griffin, the founder of "Cowboys for Trump" who on Tuesday was convicted of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 riot, slammed GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for missing his trial.

 

After his ruling on Tuesday, Griffin addressed supporters and media outside of the courtroom, where he denounced the conviction and called out several Republican lawmakers for not showing up to the trial.

 

"I know Marjorie Taylor Greene personally," he said. "I didn't see Marjorie one time around this trial right here that's affecting January 6. I didn't see Louie Gohmert here. I didn't see Matt Gaetz."

 

He went on to question if the lawmakers believe "they're too good to come down to the federal place where all of this is taking place, or going to the jail where those guys are still locked up."

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

He's just figuring out they don't really care about him and the other 1/6 defendants, they are just using them for publicity and to try and score political points.  Ha Ha!

 

Holy crap. It's almost as if...they're actually just political grifters and don't give two flying ****s about their supporters.

 

[PokerPacker]

17 hours ago, China said:

He's just figuring out they don't really care about him and the other 1/6 defendants, they are just using them for publicity and to try and score political points.  Ha Ha!

 

I've got Michael Jackson playing in my head ironically.

[Dan T.]

Breaking: Clarence Thomas' Wife Ginni Urged WH Chief Mark Meadows to Pursue Unrelenting Efforts to Overturn the Election, Texts Show

In messages to chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after Election Day, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called Biden’s victory “the greatest Heist of our History” and told him that President Donald Trump should not concede.

 

by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa

 

Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in a series of urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks after the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News.

 

The messages – 29 in all – reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and President Donald Trump’s top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to negate the election results.

 

On Nov. 10, after news organizations had projected Joe Biden the winner based on state vote totals, Thomas wrote to Meadows: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History."

 

When Meadows wrote to Thomas on Nov. 24, the White House chief of staff invoked God to describe the effort to overturn the election. “This is a fight of good versus evil,” Meadows wrote. “Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.”

 

Thomas replied: “Thank you!! Needed that! This plus a conversation with my best friend just now… I will try to keep holding on. America is worth it!"

 

The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump’s inner circle to promote and seek to guide the president’s strategy to overturn the election results – and how receptive and grateful Meadows said he was to receive her advice. Among Thomas’s stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to be “the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team.

 

Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show - The Washington Post

[NoCalMike]

Maybe Clarence Thomas's "flu like symptoms" are a ruse to get him some time away to avoid the spotlight as his wife's corruption starts to make it's rounds?

[Dan T.]

20 minutes ago, NoCalMike said:

Maybe Clarence Thomas's "flu like symptoms" are a ruse to get him some time away to avoid the spotlight as his wife's corruption starts to make it's rounds?

 

Apparently he's been in the hospital since Friday.

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

 

[EmirOfShmo]

 

[Dan T.]

Thread with intriguing background on the Capitol rioter who fled to Belarus.  Russian ties, likes to build bombs as a hobby. Shady guy.

 

 

[LadySkinsFan]

1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

 

Tucker is a creep.

[TheGreatBuzz]

1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

Trump doesn’t even pay his own legal fees.

[TradeTheBeal!]

 

[China]

Florida man who took Pelosi’s lectern in Capitol riot is hosting ‘going to prison’ party

 

Before surrendering to serve 75 days in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection of the U.S. Capitol, including taking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern, Adam Johnson is hosting a “going to prison” party.

 

“Come help me celebrate my last Friday of freedom before I go to prison for the lamest charge in history,” the Facebook event states. The event is scheduled for April 1 at Caddy’s Bradenton. Johnson, 38 of Parrish, pleaded guilty in November to one count of entering or remaining in any restricted building as part of a plea agreement.

 

Last month, Senior U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton sentenced Johnson to 75 days in federal prison, with credit for time he has already served.

 

Following his release, Johnson will be on probation for one year, have to complete 200 hours of community service, pay a $5,000 fine and pay $500 restitution — his share of the nearly $1.5 million in damage caused at the Capitol.

 

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Bannon’s escape plan: how the Trump strategist is trying to dodge prison

 

As the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack was negotiating with Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon to cooperate with its inquiry, the panel affirmed one of their rules: no third-party lawyers could attend witness depositions.

 

That meant when Bannon’s then-attorney asked whether a lawyer for Trump could be present for the closed-door interview to decide what issues were covered by the former president’s invocation of executive privilege, the select committee flatly refused.

 

Now, that refusal appears set to feature as one of Bannon’s central arguments to defend against his contempt of Congress indictment that came after he entirely skipped his deposition last October and refused to produce documents as required by his subpoena.

 

The former Trump aide is advancing a high-stakes – and arcane-sounding – defense as he battles the justice department (DoJ) in a case that could mean up to a year in federal prison and thousands of dollars in fines if convicted – but potentially defang congressional power should he prevail.

 

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Jan. 6 panel seeks contempt charges for Navarro and Scavino

 

The Jan. 6 select committee is seeking criminal prosecution for two of Donald Trump’s top White House aides, saying they illegally defied subpoenas.

 

The panel announced Thursday that it will commence contempt proceedings Monday against Dan Scavino, Jr. and Peter Navarro. If the matter is approved by the committee, the full House would then vote on whether to make a formal referral to the Justice Department. Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C. would then decide whether or not to file charges.

 

Scavino is one of Trump’s longest-serving and closest aides. He handled social media for the former president and is regarded as a trusted ally. He was in the White House with Trump during the Jan. 6 attack, the committee has said, and was also one of the first people the panel subpoenaed, back on Sept. 23.

 

Scavino’s attorney, former House general counsel Stan Brand, declined to comment. Scavino has already sued to block the committee’s subpoena of his phone records from Verizon.

The panel subpoenaed Navarro last month, who responded with a lengthy statement indicating he would not comply with the summons. Navarro, who served as Trump’s trade adviser, had boasted of his role in organizing the congressional effort to contest the election on Jan. 6.

 

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[China]

Sen. Blumenthal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should appear before Jan 6 panel

 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to "voluntarily" appear before Congress to answer questions about his wife's communications with the White House regarding efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

 

And Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the justice should recuse himself from any cases related to the January 6th investigation, saying his wife's apparent role in trying to reverse the outcome constitutes a "conflict of interest."

 

The requests from the two senators come on the heels of news reports first published by the Washington Post and CBS News that Virginia Thomas "repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts" to challenge the presidential contest that Joe Biden won over Donald Trump.

 

Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CBS that Justice Thomas should "voluntarily appear" before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol to discuss what he knew. USA TODAY confirmed Blumenthal's statement with his office.

 

Blumenthal has not formally asked the committee to invite the justice nor does he have any power to compel Thomas' appearance before the House panel which is reviewing the text messages and other communications Meadows had in the weeks following the election.

 

Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, responded to USA TODAY with a "no comment" Friday when asked about Blumenthal's suggestion.

 

But apparently the issue of inviting or even subpoenaing Ginni Thomas has been discussed by at least two unnamed members of the committee, a person familiar with the committee told USA TODAY.

 

Raskin said he's not been a party to or is even aware of any discussions to question the justice's wife. 

 

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Ginni Thomas’ West Wing contacts raise new questions for another Trump ally: John Eastman

 

Ginni Thomas’ unfettered access to Donald Trump’s chief of staff — and potentially others in his West Wing — raises new questions about another figure at the center of Trump’s gambit to subvert the 2020 election: attorney John Eastman.

 

Eastman spent the final weeks of Trump’s presidency driving a strategy to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory, a plan that relied on legal theories so extreme the Jan. 6 select committee says they could amount to criminal conspiracy and fraud.

 

The select committee has evidence that when a top Pence aide challenged Eastman’s plan on Jan. 4, 2021, Eastman initially told him he believed two Supreme Court justices would back him up. One of them was Ginni Thomas’ husband, Justice Clarence Thomas.

 

Eastman’s assertion, described by Pence’s counsel Greg Jacob to the select committee earlier this year, appeared to be a guess based on analysis of Thomas’ long legal career. Eastman had reason to know Thomas’ views well: He clerked for the George H.W. Bush appointee in the 1990s before becoming a mainstay in deeply conservative legal circles.

 

But the revelation that Thomas’ wife kept in contact with Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after Trump’s defeat — pressing him to keep trying to overturn the election — adds a new wrinkle to the timeline. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told POLITICO that the new details raise important questions about whether Eastman had a specific reason to believe Justice Thomas would support his radical gambit, or if he was simply voicing a hunch.

 

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Trump likely committed crime with plan to obstruct Congress, U.S. judge rules

 

A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overturn his election defeat on Jan. 6, 2021.

 

The assertion was in a ruling that found the House of Representatives committee probing the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol has a right to see emails written to Trump by one of his then-lawyers, John Eastman.

 

U.S. District Judge David Carter in Los Angeles said that Republican Trump's plan to overturn his November 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden amounted to a "coup."

 

"The Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," Carter said in a written decision, adding: "The illegality of the plan was obvious."

 

Representatives of Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

 

Carter's findings marked a breakthrough for the Democratic-led Jan. 6 Select Committee, which earlier this month said it believed Trump might have committed multiple felonies.

 

The panel is expected to make a formal request to the U.S. Justice Department that it consider charging Trump.

 

Both Carter and the committee lack the power to bring criminal charges against Trump. That decision would need to be made by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, for violations of federal law.

 

Eastman will comply with the court order even though he disagrees with it, Eastman's lawyer Charles Burnham said.

 

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[China]

The Absence of “The Donald”

 

In the several hundred criminal cases brought against individuals involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice and FBI have included scores of incriminating communications posted by defendants on social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Parler. That makes even more conspicuous the near complete absence of any reference in the government documents to another public social media site – The Donald, where much of the Capitol attack was planned.

 

On Dec. 19, 2020, at 1:42 a.m. EST, then President Donald Trump tweeted, “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Within five minutes after Trump’s tweet, a user on The Donald posted: “Trump Tweet. Daddy says be in DC on Jan. 6th.” The site’s moderators pinned the post to the top of the homepage where it remained until the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, attracting nearly 6,000 comments and 24,000 upvotes.

 

It was the first of thousands of posts and comments on the site related to Jan. 6. Users of The Donald declared that Trump’s tweet about Jan. 6 was “marching orders,” and one user interpreted a video from Dan Scavino — a well known figure to the community — as “literal war drums.” “The capitol is our goal,” posted another user. “Everything else is a distraction. Every corrupt member of congress locked in one room and surrounded by real Americans is an opportunity that will never present itself again.”

 

Tracking the reaction on The Donald, SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that monitors political extremism, explained that “the general consensus among the users was that Trump had essentially tweeted permission to disregard the law in support of him.”

 

The groundwork for a zealous subset of The Donald users to prepare to storm the Capitol was laid well before Jan. 6. The online forum started on Reddit, before being banned and migrating to its own domain. Launched in 2015 it quickly rose to the attention of then-candidate Donald Trump, who helped nurture the growth of the community while his senior campaign officials engaged with its content and reportedly “privately communicat[ed] with the most active users to seed new trends.” By Jan. 1, 2021, The Donald had high enough traffic to break the top 500 most-visited websites in the United States according to Alexa rankings, reaching #441 on New Year’s Day.

 

Now, nearly a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection that was planned in significant part on The Donald, a number of questions remain outstanding.

 

We focus here on the FBI investigations. The conspicuous absence of references to The Donald in the FBI special agent affidavits and other DOJ court filings raises concerns about the criminal investigations and efforts to achieve accountability for Jan. 6. We identify specific costs that come with the current approach.

 

The absence of references to The Donald, as we explain, also raises concerns about whether federal law enforcement agencies adequately understand ongoing and future threats of domestic political violence.

 

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