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

[China]

You know impeachment has no teeth when impeached people recommend it:

 

Trump Sinks Himself While Whining That Bill Barr Refused To Take The Fall For His Failed Coup Attempt

 

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday inadvertently admitted that he pressured then-Attorney General Bill Barr to take the fall for his failed coup attempt, by complaining that Barr refused to get impeached for trying to help him overturn the 2020 election results.

 

Trump’s stunning admission came during an interview with Fox News influencer Sean Hannity.

 

Asked to comment about investigations into his family company, Trump pivoted to attack his own Cabinet official after warning of revolt if the investigations continue.

 

“I just don’t think the people of this country are going to take it,” he said. “Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn’t want to be impeached.”

 

“He didn’t want to get impeached. How do you not get impeached? You just sit back and relax and wait out for your term to end — and that’s what he did. And it was a sad thing and a sad day for our country,” Trump told Hannity.

 

 

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Edited April 17, 2022 by China

[China]

AP sources: Trump aide Stephen Miller speaks to 1/6 panel

 

Stephen Miller, who served as a top aide to President Donald Trump, was questioned for hours Thursday by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

 

Miller was a senior adviser for policy during the Trump administration and a central figure in many of the Republican’s decisions. He had resisted previous efforts by the committee, filing a lawsuit last month seeking to quash a subpoena for his phone records.

 

Miller was interviewed virtually for about eight hours, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private testimony. A second person also confirmed that Miller appeared before the committee. A spokesperson for the committee said the panel had no comment, and Miller did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

 

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A High-Ranking Proud Boy Is Now Snitching for the Feds

 

Federal prosecutors appear to have made their biggest breakthrough yet in their sprawling investigation into the violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A high-ranking Proud Boy has flipped, agreeing to testify in any and all cases where his testimony might be “deemed relevant by the government.” 

 

It’s the latest example of the government strengthening its case against the far-right street-fighting gang that’s become a national household name since its leaders and dozens of members have been charged in relation to the Capitol riot. 

 

Late last week, the Justice Department announced that Charles Donohoe, leader of the North Carolina Proud Boys chapter, had pleaded guilty to two charges—conspiring to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers.

 

Donohoe was charged with conspiracy along with five prominent Proud Boys, including the group’s former national chairman Enrique Tarrio. 

 

But Donohoe’s agreement with the government could have cascading effects beyond his case.

 

There are dozens of Proud Boys facing charges in relation to Jan. 6, and under the terms of his agreement, Donohoe could well be asked to testify in their cases.

 

“Donohoe’s guilty plea is a significant development in the case against the Proud Boys defendants,” said Barbara McQuade, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. “His agreement to cooperate means that any trial against other Proud Boys members will include his testimony, which will be important evidence for the prosecution.”

 

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Audio: Far-Right Paramilitary Member Warned 1/6 Committee Witness Against Speaking Out

 

In a phone call last month, a member of a far-right paramilitary group warned an Arizona woman who gave congressional investigators information about the outfit’s efforts to push Donald Trump’s Big Lie that she might be hurt or killed if she continued to speak out.

 

“You put **** out there. You follow people around and take pictures,” Michael Kenny, a member of 1st Amendment Praetorian, or 1AP, a shadowy group of former military members that has worked with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, told Staci Burk on the March 1 call. “You talk a lot publicly, and that’s what makes you a target.” Burk is onetime Republican activist who is now studying for her law degree.

 

“There was a number of people, you ruffled their feathers,” Kenny said moments later. “If you put anybody in jeopardy of prison time, or you know, if you might hurt them financially or whatever, people get edgy, you know? People don’t think clearly. You need to think about the easy way.”

 

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[EmirOfShmo]

 

[mistertim]

I still love hearing yokels like that talking about how Trump is going to declare martial law and how he won't let Biden in the WH and how if Biden tries to get into office they'll start a civil war and take over.

 

Bunch of dudes in their mom's basement with Rambo fantasies. Where's your civil war, bro? I thought you were Billy Badass, right? What happened to the tough guy who was going to go out and take on the government?

[China]

 

[China]

Eastman shielding 37,000 pages of Trump-related email from Jan. 6 committee

 

Attorney John Eastman revealed Monday that he has asserted attorney-client privilege on 37,000 pages of emails related to his work for then-President Donald Trump in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

 

The Jan. 6 select committee has objected to “every claim” over those pages, which now sends the gargantuan dispute to U.S. District Court Judge David Carter for a case-by-case review.

 

Eastman revealed the scope of the dispute in a status report to Carter, concluding a three-month review that Carter demanded he undertake. Since January, Eastman has been reviewing 1,000 to 1,500 pages per day.

 

Carter has already ruled that he believes Eastman and Trump “more likely than not” engaged in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct Congress, an effort he called “a coup in search of a legal theory.” He has described the select committee’s work as urgent, but he must now determine how to parse these 37,000 pages in time for the committee to employ them in its ongoing investigation of Trump’s effort to subvert the transfer of power.

 

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[Dan T.]

3 hours ago, China said:

 

 

That scumbag needs to be charged.

[China]

 

[China]

Donald Trump Jr. expected to meet with January 6 committee

 

Donald Trump Jr. is expected to meet in the coming days with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection, a source familiar with the probe told CNN.

 

If the interview takes place, Trump Jr. would be the latest member of the Trump family to appear before the committee. Trump's daughter and former senior White House adviser Ivanka was interviewed for nearly eight hours and her husband, Jared Kushner, has met with the panel as well.

Trump Jr.'s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle also appeared before the committee this week after receiving a subpoena. A committee spokesman declined to comment on Trump Jr.'s expected interview.

CNN has reached out to Trump Jr.'s attorney.

The committee has text messages between Trump Jr. and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in its possession.

CNN exclusively reported earlier this month that one of the texts handed over to the committee was sent from Donald Trump Jr. to Meadows on November 5, 2020, two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied.

In that message, Donald Trump's eldest son told Meadows, "We have operational control" to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.

In the text, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.

"It's very simple," Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, 2020, adding later in the same missive: "We have multiple paths(.) We control them all."

In a previous statement to CNN, Trump Jr.'s lawyer Alan S. Futerfas said, "After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded."

 

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[Bang]

Percentage chance Donald Trump Jr accidentally tosses a ½ gram of coke in the x-ray tray before he goes through the Capitol security screening:

79%

 

~Bang

[skinsmarydu]

2 hours ago, Bang said:

Percentage chance Donald Trump Jr accidentally tosses a ½ gram of coke in the x-ray tray before he goes through the Capitol security screening:

79%

 

~Bang

Bets on it being a larger amount (of coke)?  Hopefully, that won't even come close to getting him through the testimony.  And the bathroom breaks will make him look like a pregnant woman.  

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Judge Warns Lawyer for Man Accused of Assaulting Police on Jan. 6: Your Client’s ‘Mouthing Off’ Won’t End Well

 

After a Colorado man accused of assaulting law enforcement on Jan. 6 indignantly disrupted his pretrial proceedings about his “First Amendment right” to speak on his own behalf, a federal judge informed his attorney that his client’s protections do not extend to ranting out of turn in a courtroom.

 

Accused police assailant Robert Gieswein “will be back in a lockup in a second if he keeps mouthing off,” Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan warned.

 

Already jailed pending trial, Gieswein faces multiple felony charges, including assaulting police officers, civil disorder, and obstruction of an official proceeding. Decked out in military-style gear including a helmet, goggles, and tactical vest, Gieswein allegedly entered the Capitol through a broken window. He allegedly sprayed law enforcement with a chemical spray and brandished a baseball bat as he and other supporters of Donald Trump overran police and swarmed the Capitol building as Congress was certifying Joe Biden‘s win in the 2020 presidential election.

 

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FBI says Proud Boy tried to derail Jan. 6 investigating by menacing agent

 

A Florida man has been arrested and accused of pepper-spraying officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and then making a menacing call to the FBI special agent investigating his role in the riot, law enforcement officials said.

 

Barry Bennett Ramey, who officials say was affiliated with the Proud Boys, was arrested Thursday in Florida, according to court records. He is charged with assault on federal law enforcement officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon, obstructing law enforcement, entering or remaining on restricted grounds with intent to impede, knowingly engaging in an act of physical violence while using or carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon and an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.

 

According to the FBI affidavit, Ramey called the FBI special agent investigating his case this month and read the agent's home address aloud. He then texted the agent's former vehicle identification number, according to the affidavit.

 

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[Larry]

A thought is occurring about this guy threatening cops. 
 

As I understand it, there's laws that restrict access to things like the driver's license info, on people like cops and judges. 
 

About the only people who have access to those records, are other cops. And they keep records of which cop pulled the records on this cop. 

[Larry]

Reflecting. 
 

I'm often finding myself believing that we're facing the rise of organized, open, terrorist organizations. Being openly cheered by a large chunk of society. 
 

And I'm reflecting that years ago, I was really worried that the GOP et al were intentionally creating the KGB, in the name of preventing terrorism. 
 

And part of me wishes that we had such a thing. For example, if the Jan 6 Committee could simply direct the NSA to send over the metadata for all phone traffic within two blocks of the White House, or the Capitol, on Jan 5 and 6. 

 

If we could call up the records of everything this person has done, from say Jan 1st, till now. 
 

The Libertarian in me is horrified that the government has this data. 
 

The ethical part of me says that if we Go There, then Devin Nunes will be doing the same thing to Hunter Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and whoever operates the "Devin Nunes' Cows" Twitter account. 
 

The cynical political observer in me reflects that they're going to do that anyway, so why not at least use the tool to actually punish some Nazis, before the GOP turns it into the KGB?

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[Barry.Randolphe]

The sad part is that none of this will move the meter for the rubes on the right. They're so entrenched and Fox/OANN won't discuss this more than a few seconds, if that. Instead, they'll have multiple stories on Hunter Biden to fill the time.

[Captain Wiggles]

Nancy Pelosi is in charge of border security? 🤣

[Llevron]

1 hour ago, Barry.Randolphe said:

The sad part is that none of this will move the meter for the rubes on the right. They're so entrenched and Fox/OANN won't discuss this more than a few seconds, if that. Instead, they'll have multiple stories on Hunter Biden to fill the time.

 

They will probably fundraise off of it.

[Califan007 The Constipated]

1 hour ago, Captain Wiggles said:

Nancy Pelosi is in charge of border security? 🤣

 

 

"Oh! No, wait!...Hold on now..."

 

Border security was the best she could come up with on the spot lol...

[88Comrade2000]

Time is rapidly running out for this commission. Where are public hearings?