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2021-07-09 at 7 PM UTCPolice testimony will lead off panel's first Jan. 6 hearing
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and PADMANANDA RAMA, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is expected to hold its first public hearing this month with police officers who responded to the attack and custodial staff who cleaned up afterward, chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson said Friday.
The probe will examine what went wrong around the Capitol when hundreds of supporters of then-President Donald Trump broke into the building, hunted for lawmakers and interrupted the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.
Thompson, D-Miss., says the committee hopes to “set the tone” of the investigation by hearing from those first responders, many of whom were brutally beaten by former President Donald Trump’s supporters as they pushed past law enforcement and broke into the Capitol. The rioters screamed at officers and verbally abused them as they fought their way inside and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
“We need to hear how they felt, we need to hear what people who broke into the Capitol said to them,” Thompson told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. “And so we want to frame that first hearing so that everybody would know the committee is serious, but also that we take those individuals who either secure the Capitol or clean the Capitol — that we care about them.”
Thompson said the select committee is eyeing the week of July 19 for the hearing, which is likely to be a dramatic curtain-raiser for the new investigation. An increasing number of police officers who responded to the attack, including members of the Capitol Police and Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, have lobbied for Congress to launch an independent investigation of the insurrection, but the proposal was blocked by Senate Republicans. The officers have pressured Republicans who have downplayed the violence to listen to their stories, and several watched from the gallery last week as the House voted along party lines to form the select committee.
Two Senate committees have already investigated the attack and made security recommendations, but they did not examine the origins of the siege, leaving many unanswered questions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed eight members to the select committee, including seven Democrats and Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has discretion over five additional appointments, though Pelosi must approve them.
McCarthy has not yet said who he will appoint or if Republicans will even participate in the probe, as many in the party are still loyal to Trump and have sought to downplay the insurrection and deny the political motives behind it.
Thompson said the panel welcomes Republican members, but will be moving ahead regardless of whether McCarthy chooses to participate. Under the committee's rules, only eight members are required for the committee to have a working quorum. He said a lack of GOP participation won't diminish what the committee is trying to do.
“As chair, my role is to keep the committee moving forward, making sure that whatever deflections that come up basically would not impede the work of the committee. And I plan to do that.”
Thompson said the central focus of the investigations will be why the systems that were in place that day failed — why there wasn’t a greater presence of law enforcement, why the military was delayed for hours as the police were quickly overwhelmed and why crucial intelligence predicting the attack was missed.
The panel is also expected to probe the links that some rioters had to white supremacist groups. Thompson said an assessment by FBI Director Christopher Wray that racially motivated violent extremism, and especially white supremacy, is one of the biggest threats to U.S. security, coupled with the insurrection, “tells me that the significance of this committee’s work is as important as it can ever get.”
Thompson hasn’t said whether the panel will call Trump to testify, but said, “I don’t think anyone is off limits.”
And if any witnesses resist, Thompson reiterated that he is willing to use the panel’s subpoena authority "to the fullest extent of the law.”
He said the panel is hiring professional staff who will have the skills and experience to obtain and sort through vast amounts of data, and their work will continue through the summer break. At the Wednesday strategy session, he told his colleagues on the committee that “whatever recess you might have planned for August, you might have to reassess it.”
The committee is still deciding how much of its work will be done behind closed doors, Thompson said, as some witnesses may not want to testify in public and some information could be sensitive or classified.
He said there will also be no foregone conclusions — on timing or otherwise — as the committee begins its work.
“We don’t have a timetable,” Thompson said. “The goal of the committee is to be as thorough as we can in the investigation, but also flexible to the point that we know that things change along the way.” -
2021-07-09 at 7:09 PM UTC"Where would he be without me?" Trump reportedly said. "I saved his life. He wouldn't even be in a law firm. Who would have had him? Nobody. Totally disgraced. Only I saved him."
YET HE NOMINATED HIM! WAY TO CLEAR THAT SWAMP LIKE YOU PROMISED BBECAUSE YOU WERE ONLY GOING TO NOMINATE THE BEST. DONNY!
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'I saved his life': Trump criticized Brett Kavanaugh after the Supreme Court threw out an election-fraud lawsuit, book says
oseddiq@insider.com (Oma Seddiq)
Trump slammed Kavanaugh after the Supreme Court dismissed an election-fraud lawsuit last year.
"Where would he be without me?" Trump said, per a new book. "I saved his life."
Trump's reaction was detailed in a book by journalist Michael Wolff.
Former President Donald Trump was disappointed in his three Supreme Court justice appointments after the court tossed out an election-fraud lawsuit that he backed last December, according to a new book by journalist Michael Wolff.
"There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to," Trump said at the time, per Wolff's reporting in his book, "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency."
The lawsuit launched by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that President Joe Biden's victories in key swing states including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia should be rejected because of unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. The Trump campaign threw its support behind the bid, which Trump had referred to as "the big one."
But the Supreme Court dismissed the case, saying in a one-page opinion that it lacked standing. The move effectively shut down yet another longshot effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Trump's favor.
The court's rejection infuriated Trump, who was particularly upset with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, according to the book.
"Where would he be without me?" Trump reportedly said. "I saved his life. He wouldn't even be in a law firm. Who would have had him? Nobody. Totally disgraced. Only I saved him."
Trump nominated Kavanaugh, then a federal judge, to the Supreme Court in July 2018. What followed was one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation processes in recent history. The nation grew divided after research psychologist Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both teenagers. Kavanaugh denied the allegations. He was ultimately confirmed to the court in a narrow 50-48 Senate vote.
Like the Supreme Court justices, federal judges around the country shut down dozens of cases brought by the Trump campaign to challenge the election results. Federal, state, and local election officials have repeatedly said that the 2020 election was fair and accurate, and that no widespread voter fraud occurred. -
2021-07-09 at 8:18 PM UTCJan 6th is a Nothing Burger. These desperate fools have been losing forever, so this is their celebratory delusion, which only serves to pet their deluded fantasies, but nothing else. The vast majority of these people involved are merely being used as political fodder and will see their charges eventually dropped as such.
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2021-07-09 at 10:51 PM UTCYou still waiting for the Feds to knock on your door, Speculum?
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2021-07-09 at 10:52 PM UTC
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2021-07-09 at 10:57 PM UTCGood.
Excellent even.
Patriotic. -
2021-07-09 at 10:57 PM UTC
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2021-07-09 at 11 PM UTCMine.
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2021-07-09 at 11:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Mine.
You don't have a country any more than a macdonalds worker has his own multinational corporation. You are a peon, shit, dirt, scum, just like all of us.
You will be shitcanned when it suits, just like all those Trump fans.
Does holding all the opinions you are told to hold and fantasising about being proximate to power as a result make you feel like you matter?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-07-09 at 11:13 PM UTCThis from a guy with your handle?
And, last I checked, St. Louis was in Missouri which is in the USA.
I was even born on a Marine base.
How are your bone spurs these days? -
2021-07-09 at 11:22 PM UTC
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2021-07-10 at 3:48 AM UTC
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2021-07-10 at 5:19 AM UTCDonald Trump has regrets
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
In the next 10 days, no less than THREE major books examining the Trump presidency will be released.
Tidbits of each -- one by Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal, one by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker of The Washington Post and the last by Michael Wolff -- have begun to leak. And those early returns paint Trump in a decidedly disastrous light.
Trump himself acknowledged as much in a statement released via his Save America PAC on Friday. Here it is:
"It seems to me that meeting with authors of the ridiculous number of books being written about my very successful Administration, or me, is a total waste of time. They write whatever they want to write anyway without sources, fact-checking, or asking whether or not an event is true or false. Frankly, so many stories are made-up, or pure fiction."
There's more. But you get the idea.
Let's first dispense with the idea that these books are "pure fiction." They are not. Having worked directly with Leonnig and Rucker at the Post, I can assure you they are two of the best reporters operating in America. Having admired -- and chased -- Bender's journalism from afar, he, too, is at the top of his class. And as for Wolff, well, his first book seemed to capture the chaos of the Trump White House pretty nicely.
OK, now to the really telling thing from Trump's quote above: He is, retroactively and publicly, admitting that he shouldn't have given interviews to the various reporters writing these books.
This, for those of you new to Trump-ology, is a regular refrain for Trump. He gives reporters some of his time and they don't write the story like they should. Somehow, though, he never learns and always seems to find time for that next book author!
Here's why:
1) Trump doesn't really hate the media.
He, more than just about anyone, understands what positive press coverage (or, really, any press coverage) can do for someone. He also likes the banter, the back-and-forth. Notice how Trump knew every reporter's name who covered him regularly -- and called on them by first names? Because he craves the attention that they -- and their publications -- can provide him.
2) Trump believes he is the greatest salesman ever.
To Trump, each interview with a book author or any other reporter is a chance to convince that person that a) he is awesome and b) he has always been right about everything. Despite lots (and lots) of evidence that his powers of persuasion are not what he believes them to be, Trump just keeps at it -- talking and talking and talking.
The Point: Trump will NEVER stop talking to reporters, authors, random Mar-a-Lago visitors or anyone else who happens to be in earshot.
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2021-07-10 at 5:35 AM UTCMSNBC
Michigan AG to probe 'election fraud' grifters; Trump lawyers may face reckoning Monday
Rachel Maddow reports that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will follow up on a recommendation in a state Republican-led report that found that some false election fraud claims were so egregious and tied to fundraising schemes that they warranted investigation for fraud. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's lawyers who pushed false election fraud claims are facing possible disciplinary action in court on Monday. -
2021-07-10 at 6:56 AM UTCwhy does Rachel Maddow even have a job after the last 5 years
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2021-07-10 at 12:45 PM UTC
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2021-07-10 at 12:50 PM UTC
I still have nightmares about the time I wound up in Mexico and they wouldn't let me back. -
2021-07-10 at 4:49 PM UTCThat was because you made Mexico pay for the border wall, remember?
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2021-07-10 at 5:17 PM UTCaudits in AZ Ga and Penn., when AZ tells the truth about the results the world is going to be a little upset
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2021-07-10 at 5:25 PM UTCAlready saw the governor of Penn. say they’ve already swatted that down. The freak mastriano has demanded ballots and machines from certain counties. He HAS NOT asked for a subpoena. The county officials have already been told they are not to supply these things😂😂😂. mastriano is merely licking donald’s ass. Sorry ‘bout your loss.
Have a good day😁
