You Know It’s Coming. Trump’s Coup Rehearsal Will Go Unpunished. But Watch Anyway.
You Know It’s Coming. Trump’s Coup Rehearsal Will Go Unpunished. But Watch Anyway.
A kid caught shoplifting in [fill-in the name of any major American city] has a better chance of suffering consequences than the self-proclaimed billionaire who conned his way into the White House in 2016.
A shoplifter confronted with authority may start with excuses, but those rarely go far. The former president, on the other hand, has made his excuses into accusations and accusations into dogma: the claim that the election was stolen.
The sad part here is that bluster, bullshit, and barristers really do work in denying justice.
Heck, look at the transgressions Trump’s already skated by with zero consequences, taking advantage of the protections offered to sitting presidents by Justice Department policy. That legal safe haven ended the day President Biden was sworn in.
If the former president was just an ordinary shmoo, he’d be facing up to 4 dozen criminal federal charges, and this number doesn’t include offenses committed subject to state jurisdictions.
Here’s some typical clickbait, coming from sources that ought to know better.,
So, while the House Select Comnmmitt’s public hearings on the events of January 6, 2021produce jaw-dropping headlines and denunciations of some of the biggest names in U.S. politics, one thing is all-but-certain: The Big Guy will escape unscathed.
Who knows? Maybe a few of the rattones with some name recognition will get charged for criminal acts. My personal view is that none of the conspiracy/sedition type cases will make it through appeals. They’re hard to prove. Juries are skeptical when it comes to establishing intent.
Don’t get me wrong. Crimes were committed by just about all the players; the suckers believing they were part of some made-for-tv movie, the hustlers who hoovered up money, and/or the government officials looking the other way as chaos consumed the Capitol.
From what I can tell, the aims of the committee are focused on discrediting former President Donald Trump. Despite protests on his teeny-weeny social media program, the former guy really does not care as long as his name gets spelled right in the headlines.
Facts don’t matter, as long as the flow of fecal matter dressed up as “truth” floods the media, conjured up daily by the likes of his lackeys, and spread by officials who put politics over the country.
Today’s hearings will highlights the origins of the “Big Lie” about the 2020 election, show how it spread and attempt to prove that Trump’s actions and rhetoric led to the insurrection. California’s Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgfen will play a “key role” in presentations, which will look like a more traditional congressional hearing, with two separate panels of witnesses testifying.
Speaking of layin’ down manure, it gives me pleasure to announce the recent arrest of former San Diego whack-a-doodle and Trump advisor Peter Navarro over the weekend. He’s gone on record saying the arresting FBI agents refused to let him call his lawyer, which should be a thing, except that Navarro’s representing himself.
His brand is built upon sleaze; spun to cast the “deep state” and associated other entities as deserving the byproducts of audacity. To be a true MAGA is to believe, no matter what you’re hearing or seeing, that whatever cruelty involved is justified; those people deserve it.
The goonies at Fox News chose to ignore the first night of the hearings. Tucker Carlson even ran the first hour of his show on the night of the house hearings sans commercials, lest any viewers be tempted to sneak a peek away from the spectacle of a grown man with his fingers in his ears yelling , blah, blah, blah,....etc. It looks like they've decided to take a gamble on Day Two.
Former Fox News staffer Chris Stirewalt, dismissed from his post for correctly reporting election results from Arizona not favorable to the network's preferred candidate, will be an opening witness. He will no doubt document what we all know about Fox serving as a propaganda organ.
Losing Arizona served as a trigger for the former president, unleashing anger at anyone within reach.
Mr. Trump and his advisers erupted at the news. If it was true that Arizona was lost, it would call into doubt on any claim of victory the president might be able to make.
What ensued for Mr. Trump was a night of angry calls to Republican governors and advice from campaign aides that he ignored, leading to a middle-of-the-night presidential briefing in which he made a reckless and unsubstantiated string of remarks about the democratic process. Standing in the East Room at 2:30 a.m., he dismissed the election as a “fraud” and claimed he wanted to stop the counting of votes and leave the results to the Supreme Court.
The Trump campaign knew Arizona could be up for grabs, but the Fox News call putting it in Mr. Biden’s column was symbolic, making it the first state that appeared to have flipped from the president’s 2016 batch of winning states.
We’ll were also supposed to get to glimpse a public round of “i don’t recall” and “I’Il plead the Fifth” from call Bill Stepien, the final chairman of the Trump campaign, but he’s bailed at the last minute due to his wife going into labor.
A statement from Stepien’s lawyer will likely not admit to anything and that’s okay. The committee already knows the answers to the questions they’d have asked. It’s all about getting this stuff out in front of the public.
Stepien’s testimony was expected to shed some light on the former President's frame of mind, as investigators have placed him at several key meetings where Trump was informed that the actual data did not bear out the outcome he desired: It showed that he lost.
This testimony (or lack thereof) is laying the groundwork for the day’s second panel, featuring accounts from witnesses who had investigated Trump’s claims of fraud and found them to be false:
Benjamin Ginsberg (GOP election lawyer who helped craft Republican recount strategy in the 2000 election
Bjay Pak ( the former U.S. attorney who resigned after being pressured by Trump to pursue bogus election fraud allegations in Georgia following the 2020 election), and
Al Schmidt ( who was on the board overseeing Philadelphia’s falsely accused by Trump of refusing “to look at the mountain of corruption & dishonesty.”
My favorite part of the June 13 show will be the follow the money segment, wherein the former president’s tales about a stolen election were used as a fund-raising tool, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars between Election Day 2020 and Jan. 6.
Was it crimin’ or griftin’ going on? And will the Department of Justice be interested?
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