January 6th hearings on Trump's failed insurrection.

[DIY-HP-LED]

i dunno about that, he still has a hand picked supreme court to fall back on, till they either pass or rule on this, he still has weasel room

His corner is getting tighter every day. I doubt the SCOTUS will even hear the case, if they do they will support this strongly worded 68 page unanimous decision. He has two weeks to appeal, so I'd say after the new year, just as the committee is gearing up. There are other sources of the "official" documents they want and they have many already, most time people forward a copy of their work email to their home account to cover their ass. Also most of those involved kept notes memorializing conversations to cover their ass, or use for a future book and they haven't even scratched the surface there. Then there are the text messages and apparently Meadows texted his head off during 1/6 and it might cost him his head.

All the lawyer/ prosecutors on the committee have grins they can't hide and all are saying they pretty well have the whole picture. They've got these guys by the balls, the real guilty ones will either rat, refuse to show, or plead the 5th, Trump will end up in a NY prison before he goes on trial for conspiracy with these clowns in 2023.

 

[CunningCanuk]

I don’t think the Supreme Court will take up the case either.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Did Trump White House Put Coup Plan In A PowerPoint Presentation?

24 hours before the January 6th insurrection, Donald Trump's White House circulated a PowerPoint presentation laying out various options to try and keep Trump in office, even though he had lost the election. Glenn Kirschner joins Zerlina to discuss what it means for the Jan. 6 investigation.

 

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Latest Round Of Subpoenas Expands The Wide Net Cast By The 1/6 Committee

NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake, former assistant U.S. attorney for SDNY Daniel Goldman, and executive editor of the Recount John Heilemann discuss the January 6th select committee issuing new subpoenas to rally organizers, and whether or not the committee should make their investigation more public

 

[CatHedral]

Latest Round Of Subpoenas Expands The Wide Net Cast By The 1/6 Committee

NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake, former assistant U.S. attorney for SDNY Daniel Goldman, and executive editor of the Recount John Heilemann discuss the January 6th select committee issuing new subpoenas to rally organizers, and whether or not the committee should make their investigation more public

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Did Trump White House Put Coup Plan In A PowerPoint Presentation?

24 hours before the January 6th insurrection, Donald Trump's White House circulated a PowerPoint presentation laying out various options to try and keep Trump in office, even though he had lost the election. Glenn Kirschner joins Zerlina to discuss what it means for the Jan. 6 investigation.

they laid it all out in a powerpoint presentation...that is motherfucking hilarious...these guys should quit politics and get into comedy, i haven't had that good a laugh in a while.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Schiff can't keep the grin off his face, he's got them by the balls, it will make a great exhibit at their trial!
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Jan. 6 PowerPoint: Rep. Schiff Says Trump Aide Demolished His Own Legal Defense

A detailed letter from the Democratic House Committee Chair states that Trump ally Mark Meadows gave investigators a January 5th email regarding a PowerPoint briefing titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 [of] JAN.” Congressman Adam Schiff joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to discuss this development in the probe into the January 6th insurrection, what the evidence shows, and how Rep. Schiff believes this is all about the fight over legal privilege and evidence. Melber also asks if the Committee has the PowerPoint document itself.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

they laid it all out in a powerpoint presentation...that is motherfucking hilarious...these guys should quit politics and get into comedy, i haven't had that good a laugh in a while.

They were lazy, sloppy, arrogant idiots, lead and whipped by a desperate moron. Yep a fucking power point presentation is something the prosecution would create to explain the case to the jury, these clowns did it for them and left a paper trail a mile wide with a ton of underlings and desperados looking for a deal as guides.

 

[HGCC]

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

They were lazy, sloppy, arrogant idiots, lead and whipped by a desperate moron. Yep a fucking power point presentation is something the prosecution would create to explain the case to the jury, these clowns did it for them and left a paper trail a mile wide with a ton of underlings and desperados looking for a deal as guides.

no wonder trump wanted to keep as much from the committee as he could. just more proof that trump was, is, and always will be crazy as fuck...they really thought they could pull this shit off, and wouldn't have to hide anything...that powerpoint presentation might have been the center of a display at the trump memorial museum, if they had pulled it off

 

[CunningCanuk]

I love the irony in the fact a Microsoft product could help bring the whole thing down.

betcha 20 bucks the software was pirated.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

I love the irony in the fact a Microsoft product could help bring the whole thing down.

betcha 20 bucks the software was pirated.

Meta data on their MS office package was probably set up by a government IT guy as SOP, it includes author info and a bunch of other shit like tracking edits etc. Also, a copy of a lot of electronic communications went to the national archives automatically, but I'll bet most of these idiots didn't know that.

All the really guilty ones will plead the 5th and some will have used burner phones, but not all. There were a lot of text messages on that day too and Meadows sent many of them in real time, apparently he had a real "stream of consciousness" thing going on text as events unfolded. This shit will give them all something to think about before the screws go on in the new year, the smart ones and lawyers among them will want a squeal deal IMHO. Every one of these assholes is an amoral or immoral misanthrope who would sell out their own mother, of course the rats are gonna run, squeal and deal.

 

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Trump says his Jan. 6 speech was 'extremely calming'
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Friday, Trump discussed the Jan. 6 congressional panel that is investigating the events leading up to the Capitol riot that killed several people, Business Insider reported.

"I have nothing to hide," Trump said. "I wasn't involved in that and if you look at my words and what I said in the speech, they were extremely calming, actually."

Trump said the attack on a Capitol was a “protest,” and condemned the 2020 election as the real “insurrection.”

"It was a protest. The insurrection took place on Nov. 3, which was election day. This was a protest and a lot of innocent people are being hurt. A lot of innocent people are being injured," he said.

Trump says his Jan. 6 speech was ‘extremely calming’

Former President Trump said his speech on Jan. 6 which preceded the Capitol riot was “extremely calming.”

thehill.com

Nothing to hid but blocking the committee.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

I wouldn't assume Mitch would oppose an independent special counsel. Most of the republicans who he is at war with are the Trumpers who supported and participated in the insurrection and this might be a useful way to deal with them, especially when Trump goes down in NY and Gaetz goes down for being a pervert, both have dates with the courts.

All those lunatics who are being a pain in the ass to Mitch and fucking up the 2024 election, might be gone or scared into silence, in one fell swoop. An independent special counsel with grand juries will keep it out of the news until after the 2022 election and probably start prosecutions for the insurrection conspiracy ringleaders in 2023 or sooner. It sure seems like they have the complete picture and overwhelming evidence.

So ya never know, Mitch might muster up the 10 votes to consolidate his power over the GOP after Donald goes down. He needs to either hold his ground or win back control of the senate and talk of Trump being house speaker would be a nightmare for Mitch, Joe and America. I still think NY will handle and imprison the Trump's and the feds will end up dealing with the 1/6 conspirators and other corruption. Trump will only get out of a NY prison in a bag so federal imprisonment would be moot, but he will go down with the rest for the insurrection though.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup

Presentation turned over by Mark Meadows made several recommendations for Trump to pursue to return himself to presidency

www.theguardian.com

 

[CunningCanuk]

Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup

Presentation turned over by Mark Meadows made several recommendations for Trump to pursue to return himself to presidency

www.theguardian.com

trump must be losing his shit. I’m surprised he isn’t blasting Meadows already.

 

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With Trump's COS Meadows' Democracy-Ending PowerPoint, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like . . . RICO

In a staggering development, Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee, pursuant to a subpoena, a 38-page PowerPoint presentation setting out how to corruptly overturn Joe Biden's election win and install Trump for a second term as president.

With each new revelation about the democracy-busting crime and corruption of Trump and his associates, it looks more and more like our nation's RICO laws might apply to certain segments of the Trump administration.

Although our RICO - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations - laws came into existence in 1970 to combat organized crime in the form of the Mafia, the RICO laws can be applied to any organization operating as a corrupt enterprise, as is discussed run this video.

 

[CunningCanuk]

I’m wondering if he sent the PP to the committee by mistake and that’s why he changed his tune regarding cooperating.

I read something today that Meadows’ lawyers are saying someone forwarded the PP to him and he never even opened it.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Donald Trump's Court Delay Tactic Losing Ground To Pace Of January 6th Investigation

Rachel Maddow points out Donald Trump's standard operating procedure of using appeals and other court delays to to ease his way out of trouble, and notes that in the case of the January 6th Committee's investigation, the courts are moving too quickly to keep the investigation away from Trump much longer.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

I’m wondering if he sent the PP to the committee by mistake and that’s why he changed his tune regarding cooperating.

I read something today that Meadows’ lawyers are saying someone forwarded the PP to him and he never even opened it.

He supplied them with several thousand documents before changing his tune, obviously he or his lawyer never reviewed them! This is just icing on the cake though, the fucker wrote a book and they will want his notes from that too. All the lawyer committee members were smiling uncontrollably in interviews these past few days for a reason. Trump is already in shit up to his eyeballs and this won't make much difference, but his henchmen are fucked if the RICO them or convict them of conspiracy. We haven't even mentioned the underlings and rats who will testify for the government when this hot mess spews wide open. From what I've seen so far the federal judges will throw the fucking book at them and there are a few in DC who will very likely oversee their trial(s) who will take a very dim view of them.