Mar 28, 2023
Mark Meadows’ testimony matters enormously.
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Mark Meadows’ testimony matters enormously.
Days later, when her post attracted attention, Thomas noted she wrote it before the violence began.
Authoritarian corruption has permeated the GOP.
In their statements about Trump and Bannon, GOP leaders abandoned democratic norms and the rule of law. On Oct. 21, as Republicans worked to sabotage the resolution against Bannon, a reporter asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, “Are you OK with people defying congressional subpoenas?” In response, McCarthy dismissed the subpoena as “invalid,” arguing that among Republicans, the committee was “not viewed as a committee” but as a cabal of Trump haters. McCarthy didn’t like the committee’s composition, so he deemed it illegitimate.
Rep. Steve Scalise, the second-ranking House Republican, went further. In an Oct. 10 interview, he was asked three times whether, as Trump alleged, “the 2020 election was stolen.” Each time, Scalise repeated Trump’s complaints that the election was conducted improperly. Last week, when Scalise was asked about the importance of enforcing subpoenas, he again parroted the former president, arguing that Republicans should sabotage the Bannon subpoena because the investigation was a “witch hunt.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican, got her job by promising not to contradict Trump’s lies about 2020. Since then, she has promoted his propaganda about election “integrity” and his fake audits of the election results. In August, she joined Bannon on his “War Room” podcast—the same program on which, a day before the Jan. 6 attack, he had told listeners that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.” Last week, as she voted to protect Bannon, Stefanik spoke of her excitement that Trump was launching a social media platform. Meanwhile, Rep. Gary Palmer, the fourth member of the GOP’s House leadership team, shrugged off questions about whether it was wise to gut Congress’s subpoena power. He scoffed that the Jan. 6 committee was “nothing more than a distraction because they’re [Democrats] getting killed in the polls.”
The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel.
Scott Perry repeatedly refuses to appear. What does he have to hide? He talks alof of shit here in Pennsylvania so if he’s such a “Patriot” he should appear, be honest and be done with it. But no...he claims the January 6th committee is illegitimate, it’s a witch hunt, he’s a victim....he’s a sickening piss poor excuse for an elected official and human being.
Evidence reportedly shows he was involved in meetings with co-conspirators. He then attempted to to corrupt the Justice Department by recruiting Pennsylvania attorney Jeffrey Clark - a Trump loyalist - to install as Acting Attorney General of the US. Clark was up to his neck in the crimes committed for Trump to try to overturn the results of Election 2020.
Perry is a scum-bag Fake Patriot - a seditionist and co-conspirator. Lock Him Up!
The peaceful transition of power has failed.
Seriously, literally, actually: On Jan. 6, at the president’s direction, the constitutionally scheduled process for the transfer of power was interrupted by violence. By night, police had cleared the building, and Congress set out to try again.
In the meantime, the National Guard was called in for additional security—but not on the president’s orders. By the account of the secretary of defense (or the acting secretary, in the preexisting shambles of the Trump administration), the decision to deploy the guard was made in consultation with Vice President Mike Pence and the leaders of Congress.
This was not a minor distinction. Earlier in the day, Trump denounced Pence to his followers after the vice president, preparing to oversee the Electoral College count, publicly denied that he had the power to personally reject the votes, as the president claimed he did, because he wanted him to do it. Trump kept attacking Pence on Twitter even after the vice president had been taken underground by the Secret Service to escape the president’s mob.
That is: Confronted with this split between the president and the vice president, the military rejected its constitutional commander in chief and sided with Pence. It was the reasonable thing to do, with political violence spinning out of control in the nation’s capital.
The attempted GOP rehabilitation of an attack on the U.S. Capitol continues.
(Pictured above: A totally normal tourist visit to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.)
A list of the usual suspects who voted against awarding a medal to the police for defending the Capitol on January 6:
1. Lauren Boebert (Colorado) 2. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia) 3. Matt Gaetz (Florida) 4. Louie Gohmert (Texas) 5. Thomas Massie (Kentucky) 6. Paul Gosar (Arizona) 7. Andy Biggs (Arizona) 8. John Rose (Tennessee) 9. Andy Harris (Maryland) 10. Barry Moore (Alabama) 11. Bob Good (Virginia) 12. Ralph Norman (South Carolina) 13. Matt Rosendale (Montana) 14. Chip Roy (Texas) 15. Warren Davidson (Ohio) 16. Scott Perry (Pennsylvania) 17. Greg Steube (Florida) 18. Andrew Clyde (Georgia) 19. Jody Hice (Georgia) 20. Mary Miller (Illinois) 21. Michael Cloud (Texas)
Days later, when her post attracted attention, Thomas noted she wrote it before the violence began.
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“I’m certain that Michigan inspired these folks.”