January 6th hearings on Trump's failed insurrection.

DIY-HP-LED

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I wonder how many republicans this will put in prison? It will deeply damage the party organizations in 5 states and perhaps take out many of their key players with serious prison time. It might also send a message to others who are thinking about fucking around in the 2022 election.
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As the documents come in from the archives, the congressional assistants leak them to their contacts in the press. It's gonna be real busy in the news business for awhile, as the sewage floodgates are opened and all the shit comes rushing out.
 

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Voices: Time is running out for Ivanka Trump – and fast


Ivanka Trump hits back at Jan 6 committee request saying she didn’t ‘speak at the rally’

Poor little rich girl.

New York AG says Trump's company misled banks, tax officials

 
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Trump aides feared he would make Capitol riot worse with initial videos, Jan. 6 committee says
A Thursday letter from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection shed new light on the frenzied scene at the White House as supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol.

In particular, the committee revealed that its investigation shows a roughly two-hour period in which White House staff, including Ivanka Trump, pleaded with the president to tell his supporters to go home, but could not get him to do so.

In fact, the letter — which was sent to Ivanka Trump and invites her to speak with the committee — states that “certain White House staff believed that a live, unscripted press appearance by the President in the midst of the Capitol Hill violence could have made the situation worse.”

Ivanka Trump was central, according to testimony by several Trump officials before the committee, to the effort to get her father to stop his supporters from rampaging through the Capitol. The ensuing riot delayed the certification of the 2020 election from moving ahead.

“Did you think that she [Ivanka Trump] could help get him [President Trump] to a place where he would make a statement to try to stop this?” committee staff asked Gen. Keith Kellogg, who was national security adviser to the vice president but was also close to Trump and with him on Jan. 6 at the White House.

“Yes,” Kellogg replied.

The committee asked Kellogg if Trump had rejected pleas from top staffers to try and stop the assault, including Kellogg, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany — and whether these staffers then concluded that “he might say yes to his daughter.”

“Exactly right,” Kellogg responded.

Kellogg said that Ivanka Trump made multiple trips to the Oval Office to reason with her father. This took place as many others were frantically trying to get the president to stop the mayhem, which came after he called on his supporters to march on the Capitol.

“Is someone getting to [Trump]? He has to tell protesters to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed,” read one text from an unnamed person outside the White House to a White House staffer, according to documents obtained by the committee.

The White House staffer, also unnamed, responded: “I’ve been trying for the last 30 minutes. Literally stormed in outer oval to get him to put out the first one. It’s completely insane.”

The “first one” was an apparent reference to Trump’s first tweet in which he asked supporters to be peaceful, but did not ask them to leave the Capitol. “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!" Trump tweeted at 2:38 p.m.

A former Trump White House official has already told CNN that Trump did not want to include the words “stay peaceful” in his 2:38 tweet.

Earlier, Trump had egged on the crowd with a tweet blasting Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to throw out the election results in an effort to reject a democratic election and hand the presidency back to Trump. “Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done,” Trump tweeted at 2:24 p.m.

It wasn’t until 4:17 p.m. that Trump released a video in which he told his supporters to “go home,” even as he continued to falsely claim that the “election was stolen from us.”

And the letter sent Thursday to Ivanka Trump says that “the select Committee understands that multiple takes of the video were filmed but not utilized. Information in the Select committee’s possession suggests that the President failed in the initial clips to ask rioters to leave the Capitol.”

The committee said the unused videos are on file with the National Archives, and it is seeking access to them.

It adds up to a two-hour period in which Trump watched the riot on TV, refusing entreaties from his closest staff and his daughter to tell his supporters to go home. The committee has asked Ivanka Trump to testify voluntarily, and has declined so far to issue a subpoena compelling her testimony.

The committee also said it wants to talk to Ivanka Trump about whether her father ever took action to order National Guard or

“The Committee has identified no evidence that President Trump issued any order, or took any other action, to deploy the guard that day. Nor does it appear that President Trump made any calls at all to the Department of Justice or any other law enforcement agency to request deployment of their personnel to the Capitol,” the letter stated.

The letter comes a day after the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on Wednesday that the National Archives could turn over materials requested by the committee, rejecting a request by Trump’s lawyers to withhold the materials under executive privilege.

And on Thursday, the Fulton County district attorney in Georgia requested the formation of a special grand jury to aid her investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in that state.

Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report Tuesday alleging that Trump’s family business had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices.

“We have uncovered significant evidence that suggests Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization falsely and fraudulently valued multiple assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions for economic benefit,” James said.

It’s not yet clear whether James, a Democrat, will file a civil lawsuit against Trump. She is not conducting a criminal investigation.

 

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Sidney Powell is cooperating with the federal investigation into her fundraising org and has been producing documents in response to grand jury subpoena.
 

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These clowns should be fun under oath
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Fraud: See Jan. 6 Witnesses Confronted With Coup Evidence On TV

Former assistant to Donald Trump and trade adviser Peter Navarro; lawyer and former Trump campaign strategic adviser Boris Epshteyn; and one of the organizers of the Trump rally that occurred on January 6th, Dustin Stockton, join MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber for an exclusive panel to discuss the failed MAGA plot to overturn the presidential election, the House Select Committee’s probe into the insurrection, and the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot. Melber fact checks Navarro, Epshteyn, and Stockton in real-time.
 

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See the Ari Meber interview I just posted
 

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National Archives transfers contested presidential documents to Jan. 6 committee
The National Archives on Thursday evening released to the Jan. 6 committee hundreds of presidential documents that former President Trump sought to shield from the House panel.

"Yesterday evening [National Archives and Records Administration] provided the Select Committee with all the records at issue in the litigation," the agency said in a statement provided to Axios.

The House panel received more than 700 pages of contested documents, The Associated Press reported.

The move comes after the Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a bid by Trump to keep the documents out of the hands of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“Because the Court of Appeals concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former President necessarily made no difference to the court’s decision,” the court wrote.

The Supreme Court agreed with a December ruling by the Washington, D.C., federal appeals court.

The House select committee applauded the decision.

“The Supreme Court’s action tonight is a victory for the rule of law & American democracy. The Select Committee has already begun to receive records that the former President had hoped to keep hidden & we look forward to additional productions regarding this important information,” the committee tweeted on Wednesday.
 

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Texas AG rejects demands to hand over documents related to Jan. 6
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) this week refused to turn over records of his participation at a pro-Trump rally that occurred just before supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year.

The Travis County district attorney’s office allotted Paxton four days to turn over the records or face a lawsuit, according to The Associated Press. But in a Friday letter, Paxton's office reportedly denied the district attorney’s demands and refused to acknowledge any violations, the news outlet noted.

The request from the DA's office comes after several Texas news outlets including The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman, filed a complaint to investigate an alleged violation of open records laws.

Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton (R), were present at the rally held in Washington, D.C., last year on the National Mall.

During the event, former President Trump repeated unsupported claims that widespread voter tainted the 2020 presidential election and encouraged his supporters to go to Congress and demand they halt the certification of the election results.

Paxton, for his part, made a speech at the rally detailing an unsuccessful attempt to overturn Biden’s victory in the presidential election, the AP reported.

The news comes after a series of allegations made against Paxton including bribery, abuse of office and others. The FBI is conducting a probe into these allegations.

The attorney general is up for reelection this year and faces several primary challengers.

Do as I say and not as I do.
 

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Texas AG rejects demands to hand over documents related to Jan. 6
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) this week refused to turn over records of his participation at a pro-Trump rally that occurred just before supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year.

The Travis County district attorney’s office allotted Paxton four days to turn over the records or face a lawsuit, according to The Associated Press. But in a Friday letter, Paxton's office reportedly denied the district attorney’s demands and refused to acknowledge any violations, the news outlet noted.

The request from the DA's office comes after several Texas news outlets including The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman, filed a complaint to investigate an alleged violation of open records laws.

Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton (R), were present at the rally held in Washington, D.C., last year on the National Mall.

During the event, former President Trump repeated unsupported claims that widespread voter tainted the 2020 presidential election and encouraged his supporters to go to Congress and demand they halt the certification of the election results.

Paxton, for his part, made a speech at the rally detailing an unsuccessful attempt to overturn Biden’s victory in the presidential election, the AP reported.

The news comes after a series of allegations made against Paxton including bribery, abuse of office and others. The FBI is conducting a probe into these allegations.

The attorney general is up for reelection this year and faces several primary challengers.

Do as I say and not as I do.
The 1/6 panel will want to talk to him and his wife and after that a grand jury. Paxton already has the FBI on his case and is a crook.
 

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Starting to think some people MIGHT be held accountable here.
Trump is gonna take a lot of assholes down with him eventually, if the DOJ works normally, the way it used to work. I figured he might end up imprisoning a couple of thousand republicans, but I now think the number could be higher. Donald overwhelmed the legal system with crime, like covid overwhelmed the hospitals. It's not just a case of bringing back extra DOJ and FBI people from retirement, there is no room in the courts and not enough judges!
 
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