TRAITOR TRUMP: the fallout (2)

Ryan J. Reilly (HuffPost) @ryanjreilly | 10:30 AM · Jan 21, 2021:
Some indictments dropping today against people who were already charged.

QAnon Shaman (Jacob Anthony Chansley aka Jacob Angeli) gets six counts, including a civil disorder charge.
https://justice.gov/opa/page/file/1352916/download
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17 charges against Molotov cocktail guy (Lonnie Leroy Coffman).
https://justice.gov/opa/page/file/

Seven counts against a guy (Mark Jefferson Leffingwell) who assaulted cops and then spontaneously apologized for it after he was caught.
https://justice.gov/opa/page/file/

In sum, the initial charges were placeholders and they’re now stacking.

If you’re interested in how that civil disorder law came about, have I got a read for you!

How Segregationists Rushed Through The 1968 Rioting Laws DOJ Is Using In 2020
Ryan J. Reilly | Sept 24, 2020
William Barr, who has criticized federal prosecutors as “headhunters,” has encouraged DOJ to deploy rarely used statutes against violent protesters...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-rioting-act-civil-disorder-law-doj-barr-trum...

Trump Has No Legal Team or Strategy for Impeachment II Trial

Does that surprise anyone? Might make it difficult to defend yourself when in legal trouble when you have a solid reputation of not paying your attorneys. And, on the other hand, Trump isn't known for ever formulating an intelligent plan to address any problem at all. Besides, his trial is possibly not going to start before next Monday. What's the rush?

Since he never did any actual work as president, I imagine he will stick by that behavior now. His preferred method of making trouble go away is to play golf, watch TV, and sell "indulgences."

Considering his position (private citizen with no particular influence) and the evidence and witnesses against him, he may have made the decisicon to act as his own attorney and save money that most suspect he doesn't have, anyway. As for strategy, well lie and lie some more because what's a little perjury when you're charged with inciting a deadly insurrection and attempt to overthrow a legally elected government in order to remain Papa Doc, Idi Amin, Dictator for Life, Prez of the USA, God Emperor?

Remember, he came in as a clown. So, he'll go out as a circus.

>2 Limelite: Apparently House Majority Leader Pelosi hasn't advanced the articles of impeachment to the Senate because Biden's predecessor doesn't have a lawyer yet.

He can't find anyone willing to represent him*.

*Note that this may be because he stiffs everyone. This does not mean that impeachment will not proceed, and it may very well bring out even more evidence as time goes by.

From my pov, she hasn't advanced the charges to the Senate yet because she has yet to learn from the Senate how they intend to proceed. Time may be needed to determine this since Schumer, not McConnell is running the show in the Senate and probably feels changes/modification to whatever McConnell put forward are needed.

I'm not sure that it's Congress' duty to be responsible that an impeachment defendant have legal representation. Since they're not trying the charged for statutory crimes, I wonder if rules of criminal justice -- like competent defense representation -- apply.

I only know for sure that Julie Annie can't be his personal lawyer in this case because he's considered a witness and participant.

Maybe Trump will take Julie Annie's advice to the mob and mount a trial by combat defense. Which would guarantee that circus.

>5 mamzel: Butch Bowers of South Carolina has stepped up to the plate and will represent him. Until I heard that I wondered if he was entitled to a public defense lawyer.

>5 mamzel: Because this is an impeachment trial, it is not considered a criminal trial (Biden's predecessor could be separately charged with criminal acts if applicable). Persons charged with civil offenses do not get assigned public defenders, only those charged with criminal offenses get public defenders.

>6 MsMixte: If they can’t afford to hire one.

>7 2wonderY: Yes, if they can't afford to hire one, and it's beginning to look as if Biden's predecessor may have trouble coming up with cash for one.

>8 MsMixte: Also there's the "there isn't enough money in the world" problem. If there was a competent lawyer in the world willing to represent him, he would not have had Giuliani.

Beyond impeachment, Trump had better turn his attention to hiring a really competent mobster consigliere with a virgin-pure law degree and reputation -- good luck.

He's going to need one badly because it looks like Manhattan prosecutor, Cyrus Vance, is about ready to bring charges after two years investigating Trump and his Enterprises. Last month, you may recall, he hired a firm of forensic accountants to go over the financial papers in the state's possession. Now we hear he's calling back Michael Cohen for 'further questioning.'

Sounds like Vance is firm in his case and is prepping his witnesses for their roles in what parts of the case they will attest to. Stay tuned.

"When he posted a one-word message, “Inside,” he received exhortations and directions describing tunnels, doors and hallways..."
“Tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down”
“Go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps.”
“All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas”...
!!!

Self-styled militia members planned on storming the U.S. Capitol days in advance of Jan. 6 attack, court documents say
Spencer S. Hsu, Tom Jackman and Devlin Barrett | Jan. 19, 2021

...The arrests this weekend of several people with alleged ties to far-right extremist groups, including the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters, suggest that the riot was not an entirely impulsive outburst of violence but an event instigated or exploited by organized groups. Hours of video posted on social media and pored over by investigators have focused on individuals in military-style gear moving together.

“This is the first step toward identifying and understanding that there was some type of concerted conspiracy here...(Whether everyone else just happened to be there and got caught up in the moment, or if this is just the tip of the iceberg, how much this will grow at this point I can’t tell you, but we are continuing to investigate aggressively)” said one senior official with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which is leading the investigation...

In charging papers, the FBI said that during the Capitol riot, (an apparent leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group, Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Berryville, Va., a Navy veteran who allegedly helped organize a ring of dozens who coordinated their movements as they “stormed the castle”) received Facebook messages from unspecified senders updating him of the location of lawmakers. When he posted a one-word message, “Inside,” he received exhortations and directions describing tunnels, doors and hallways...

Some messages, according to the FBI, included, “Tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down,” and “Go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps.” Another message read: “All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas”...

Other arrests Tuesday also underscored law enforcement’s concerns about threats to elected leaders, particularly because so many of the participants in the Jan. 6 chaos are still unidentified...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/conspiracy-oath-keeper-arrest-...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix | 9:54 PM · Jan 22, 2021:
Parler video confirms they knew in real time that insurrectionists needed to go to the basement to find the "traitors".
0:15 ( https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1352811849322909697 )

Annoyed Cicada @AnnoyedCicada | 11:02 PM · Jan 22, 2021:
"Who's first" is chilling

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Don Winslow donwinslow | 12:51 AM · Jan 27, 2021:
How the F do you explain this?
Image* ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1354306125399613441/photo/1 )

* ETA--series of Rep. Lauren Boebert's tweets. Incriminating...

Meeting the evening before the rally
Tuberville, RAGA Director, Michael Flynn and the Trump boys.

https://www.alreporter.com/2021/01/26/trump-appointee-says-tuberville-raga-direc...

Talk about "deep state"...

Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress
Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski | January 26, 2021

...In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said "a bullet to the head would be quicker" to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the "deep state" working against Trump...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violenc...

>14 margd: Despicable Marjorie Taylor Greene, gun activist, harasses David Hogg (then 16-ish survivor of Parkland mass shooting)? Unbelievable.

Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg | 8:26 AM · Jan 27, 2021:
.@mtgreenee, is this you harassing @davidhogg111 weeks after the Parkland shooting, that my daughter was killed in & he was in? Calling him a coward for ignoring your insanity. I will answer all of your questions in person. Get ready to record again.

2:20 ( https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1354420542678441986 )
From Lucy McBath

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ETA: She continues harassing Hogg into the building...
2:17 ( https://twitter.com/funder/status/1354682464850087939 )

>15 margd: Wow!

>15 margd: She's a piece of...work, that one.

I'm in Georgia. A state where we swing wildly between pride and embarrassment.

>17 terriks: I share your pride--and your pain. (I live in Michigan.)

>18 margd: I grew up in Michigan, just outside of Detroit. Still have family there. Totally understand! :)

Ana Cabrera (CNN) @AnaCabrera | 1:29 PM · Jan 27, 2021:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once called Parkland shooting a "false flag" operation,
will join the Education & Labor committee

Zak Hudak (CBS) @cbszak | 11:23 AM · Jan 27, 2021:
A second police officer has committed suicide after responding to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Officer Jeffrey Smith took his own life, the acting DC MPD chief told the House Appropriations Cmte yesterday,
per his prepared remarks

Mehdi Hasan (NBC) @mehdirhasan | 1:50 PM · Jan 27, 2021:
Since we're doing old videos of Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing people, here's her from before she was elected,
in Feb 2019, turning up in Congress to try & get @IlhanMN & @RashidaTlaib
to retake their oaths on a Bible & not a Quran:

1:16 ( https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1354502134914576387 )
From Eric Hananoki

Scorching statement from @BobbyScott, chair of House Education & Labor Cmte, on appointment of Rep. Greene to the panel—says McCarthy "must explain how someone with this background represents the Republican party on education issues"

Image-statement ( https://twitter.com/sambrodey/status/1354819298082975745/photo/1 )

- Sam Brodey @sambrodey | 10:51 AM · Jan 28, 2021:

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-cultivating-trump-asset-40-122505054.html

Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years, former KGB spy says

Mother Jones @MotherJones | 2:00 PM · Jan 29, 2021:
SCOOP: In a pre-election video just uncovered by Mother Jones,
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is seen endorsing political violence.
“The only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood," she says.
More here: http://mojo.ly/3ahQ9Qe

1:08 ( https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1355229440259747841 )

#25--she should set an example them. Be the first to pay the price.

Et tu, Publix??

Jan. 6 Rally Funded by Top Trump Donor, Helped by Alex Jones, Organizers Say
Jan. 30, 2021

The rally in Washington’s Ellipse that preceded the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was arranged and funded by a small group including a top Trump campaign fundraiser and donor facilitated by far-right show host Alex Jones.

Mr. Jones personally pledged more than $50,000 in seed money for a planned Jan. 6 event in exchange for a guaranteed “top speaking slot of his choice,” according to a funding document outlining a deal between his company and an early organizer for the event.

Mr. Jones also helped arrange for Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a prominent donor to the Trump campaign and heiress to the Publix Super Markets Inc. chain, to commit about $300,000 through a top fundraising official for former President Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to organizers. Her money paid for the lion’s share of the roughly $500,000 rally at the Ellipse where Mr. Trump spoke.

Another far-right activist and leader of the “Stop the Steal” movement, Ali Alexander, helped coordinate planning with Caroline Wren, a fundraising official who was paid by the Trump campaign for much of 2020 and who was tapped by Ms. Fancelli to organize and fund an event on her behalf, organizers said. On social media, Mr. Alexander had targeted Jan. 6 as a key date for supporters to gather in Washington to contest the 2020-election certification results. The week of the rally, he tweeted a flyer for the event saying: “DC becomes FORT TRUMP starting tomorrow on my orders!”...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jan-6-rally-funded-by-top-trump-donor-helped-by-ale...

Comprehensive. Damning.

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election
Jim Rutenberg, Jo Becker, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin, Matthew Rosenberg and Michael S. Schmidt | Jan. 31, 2021 .Updated Feb. 1, 2021, 8:23 a.m. ET

Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud — a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.

...(organizers Dustin Stockton, close to Steve Bannon) said he was surprised to learn on the day of the rally that it would now include a march from the Ellipse to the Capitol. Before the White House became involved, he said, the plan had been to stay at the Ellipse until the counting of state electoral slates was completed...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html

An analysis of key words used on Parker on January 6th

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/02/01/civil-war-during-trumps-pre-ri...

>29 2wonderY: Dog whistles received and understood, quantified...

Wonder if one can sue over misuse of a political donation. If a political solicitor represents to a donor that their donation will be used to support a presidential rally, but doesn't include that the rally is intended to incite an attempted coup to follow that event, can the donor sue for damages, or some cause?

I see that Steve Bannon says the announced intention of the Jan. 6th even was ONLY the rally on the Ellipse. There was no revelation of a march from there to the Capitol. Now suppose Publix heir was not told about that last minute march when her funding was solicited. Is that condition enough to sue for being defrauded out of her $300K?

I can't imagine that she would want her grocery chain's reputation damaged/blow up by being blamed for funding an insurrection, no matter how slender the connection between her donation and the resulting violent attack on the Capitol. If a march on the Capitol had been included in the information she was given by the solicitors for money, I doubt she would have donated for that.

Any lawyers out there who can provide an opinion?

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion | 4:56 AM · Feb 6, 2021:
Using a trove of leaked smartphone location data, @cwarzel and @stuartathompson identified some of the Capitol rioters.

In this time-lapse animation, smartphones moved from Trump’s rally to the Capitol.
0:13 ( https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1357991576795041794 )
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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data.
Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson | Feb. 5, 2021

...The data we were given showed what some in the tech industry might call a God-view vantage of that dark day. It included about 100,000 location pings for thousands of smartphones, revealing around 130 devices inside the Capitol exactly when Trump supporters were storming the building. Times Opinion is only publishing the names of people who gave their permission to be quoted in this article.

About 40 percent of the phones tracked near the rally stage on the National Mall during the speeches were also found in and around the Capitol during the siege — a clear link between those who’d listened to the president and his allies and then marched on the building...

While there were no names or phone numbers in the data, we were once again able to connect dozens of devices to their owners, tying anonymous locations back to names, home addresses, social networks and phone numbers of people in attendance. In one instance, three members of a single family were tracked in the data...

...The data presented here is a bird’s-eye view of an event that posed a clear and grave threat to our democracy. But it tells a second story as well: One of a broken, surreptitious industry in desperate need of regulation, and of a tacit agreement we’ve entered into that threatens our individual privacy...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html

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ETA

Convict & Disqualify @LilacsxGirl | 9:34 AM · Feb 6, 2021:

Interesting that a smaller group also suddenly comes from (what looks like) the north to converge.
This was orchestrated.

Norman Ornstein (editor, Atlantic) @NormOrnstein | 7:06 PM · Feb 5, 2021:
The Park Service permit for the January 6 rally says: "This is a static rally not involving any marches."
So when Donald Trump told the crowd to march to the Capitol, he was directly inciting the rally crowd in violation of their permit.
More smoking gun evidence!

Ken Auer (frmr Senate staffer) @AuerKen | 7:18 PM · Feb 5, 2021
That permit also says that permit holder shall be held responsible for injuries and damage to Federal facilities resulting from activities under the permit. Gov needs to go after those folks and make them pay.

>33 margd:

Do you know who's the permit holder? Is it that women for Trump organization/PAC?

When I googled there was a woman named as organizer on a Parks permit. It seemed to describe the Jan 6 rally, but date was Jan 5--typo?--so I didn't post. Will, tomorrow.

The Washington Post is computing the dollar cost of Trump's treason as $519 million, so far.
Half a billion dollars spent, all because one senile old man couldn't get his head around the concept of "you lost"... I remember when Republicans said they cared about government spending...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/cost-trump-election-fra...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/dont-quit-on-the-gop/
Don’t Quit on the GOP

Rich Lowry is in deep denial and/or he has been in a coma for the last 100 days. GOPQers' love for America is an inch deep and a mile wide. Its reps are not from the same mold as the McCarthy or Watergate eras ~ in their minds the party is first and the country is a distant second. Americans are walking away from the present-day party in droves because it is not the same party their parents or grandparents supported for a lifetime.

Traitor Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Screaming Nut Job

Has the Republican Party no loons? Rojo attempts to blame Nancy Pelosi, not Trump, for the Capitol riot as impeachment trial looms to give Qbots something to focus on other than their own and the Cult Leader's guilt.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin claimed on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and not President Donald Trump was to blame for the riot at the US Capitol.

Without a shred of evidence, of course. He only uses the word "suspicious" to excuse his brain fart. Just another case of Republican hypocrite speak, innuendo, and misinformation to feed their reality denying trolls. But let's not overlook the profound stupidity of his suspicion: Why would Pelosi be behind an insurrection whose insurrectionists just came from a Trump rally and want to "put a bullet in Pelosi's head"?

Perhaps there's such a thing as invisible stupid bullets and one has struck Rojo in the head and caused severe brain damage. I "suspicion" that's true.

#38---Johnson is a complete piece of shit. Easily one of the worst Senators and that's saying something.

Trump Administration Influenced CDC Guidance to Suppress Covid Testing

Probably not a high crime for which Trump is currently being tried but certainly a murderous misdemeanor committed by a corrupt Administration. A House committee on Monday released newly obtained emails that indicate political pressure shaped the guidance when in August the CDC revised its Covid-19 testing guidance to say that people who don’t have symptoms “do not necessarily need a test” even if they were exposed to an infected person.

Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brett Giroir, who led the Trump administration’s testing effort, at the time firmly denied allegations the White House was pressuring health officials to change the guidance.

But the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Monday released newly obtained emails from a political appointee within the Department of Health and Human Services that indicate he pushed for the new guidance.

Science-denying Trump gutted the ethical scientists from the CDC and replaced them with quasi-scientist ambitious political agents of DJT. Any scientific procedure or process that might reveal the extent of and/or help predict the future statistical evidence of the devastating truth that this novel virus presented to Trump's glorious leadership was to be suppressed or subverted by his CDC henchmen.

In Trump's world, the CDC was his political arm to deny science and evidence in order to promote employment and business activity because for him to be reelected a strong thriving business environment, economy, and surging stock market were required. To that end, anything counterproductive must needs be quashed.

In the emails, former HHS scientific advisor Paul Alexander defended the change in testing policy and downplayed the importance of testing people without symptoms, saying it “is not the point of testing.” Alexander was brought into HHS by Michael Caputo, a longtime Trump ally who led the department’s communications last year before departing abruptly after he accused CDC scientists of sedition.

“Testing asymptomatic people to seek asymptomatic cases is not the point of testing, for in the end, all this accomplishes is we end up quarantining asymptomatic, low risk people and preventing the workforce from working,” Alexander wrote one day after the change in CDC testing guidance was reported in an email to other HHS officials.

“In this light, it would be unreasonable based on the prevailing data to have widespread testing of schools and colleges/universities. This will not allow them to optimally re-open,” he added, defending the policy change.

See their neat pivot to appeal to the emotions of the working age electorate? It's all about schools and educating our precious children. It's not about dying for Trump's economy and re-election chances for the win in 2020. Of course, getting the little brats in school frees up the workers in the household to go to work! Keeping the kids in college, keeps them from adding to the unemployment figures when they can't get jobs for the defrayal of future college costs. And keeps the liberal thinkers busy with school work and individual pursuits and out of grassroots organizing, in favor of sensible science and public health policies.

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said in letters viewed by CNBC to White House chief of staff Ron Klain and HHS Acting Secretary Norris Cochran that the emails are fresh evidence of political interference at the CDC under Trump.

The email “shows that political appointees were involved in the decision to change CDC’s guidance, and that the Trump Administration changed the guidance for the explicit purpose of reducing testing and allowing the virus to spread while quickly reopening the economy.”

Didn't I learn that the president's first duty is to protect the security of Americans and America, not to being a self-serving liar with no interest in executing the duties of his office that don't promote his personal interests? Silly me.

Trump-Putin Secret Phone Call Records Now Owned by Biden

What was said between the two leaders is a great mystery, one that advisers to the current president say is imperative to find out.

Understanding what was said between the two could help illuminate whether Trump ever revealed sensitive information or struck any deals with the Kremlin leader that could take the new administration by surprise.

Now that President Joe Biden is in the White House, he can see for himself.
(SNIP)
The Biden White House did not comment on whether it had seen the content of the calls. But so far, at least, the National Security Council has not registered any complaints with their ability to access relevant call records from the previous administration.
(SNIP)
Trump closely guarded his private conversations with foreign leaders while in office, going as far as to have some hidden in the NSC’s top-secret codeword system. . . Readouts of Trump's calls with Putin would often come from the Kremlin first, or through Trump’s Twitter feed. But while the calls were not recorded, aides were typically still on the line and taking notes of what was said. The resulting loose transcripts are known as “memcons,” or memorandums of conversation.

Trump went to particularly great lengths to keep his in-person conversations with the Russian leader private, from confiscating his interpreter’s notes to forgoing American translators and notetakers altogether in their meetings. That desire for secrecy has extended even past his time in office. One former Trump official argued last week that records of Trump’s conversations with Putin, which often lasted an hour or more, should not be made available to his successor.

Lordy, I hope there are tapes!

Fulton DA’s probe will include Graham’s call to Raffensperger
Greg Bluestein & Christian Boone | Feb 12, 2021

...Prosecutors are expected to scrutinize the call between the Republican senator and Raffensperger, who previously said Graham contacted him days after the Nov. 3 election to question whether he had the power to reject more legally cast absentee ballots to help Trump narrow his deficit in Georgia.

Graham, a staunch ally of Trump, has denied that allegation...

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/das-probe-will-include-grahams-call-t...

Traitor Trump Anti Insurrection If Antifa, Pro Insurrection If MAGArats

In phone call with House Republican Minority Leader McCarthy during the siege of the Capitol -- and while insurrectionists literally were breaking the windows of the Minority Leader's office to breach the Capitol, Trump revealed his true colors and his treasonous reaction to the actions of the attackers.

At the beginning of the call, McCarthy informed the president that he must call off the attackers, that only he could, that he needed to get out in public and call his supporters off.

Trump protested and told McCarthy that the mob was Antifa.

McCarthy, in righteous anger, told Trump flatly that no, they were all waving his flags and wearing his MAGA hats, and were armed with guns and weapons.

Then, Trump mocked the Minority Leader and answered, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," and refused to repudiate the rioters and demand that his supporters cease and desist; further, he did not immediately send law enforcement assistance. Instead, he further incited the mob, as his tweets following their call prove.

McCarthy, listening to glass shatter, shouted, "Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?"

Just before McCarthy and Trump hung up on each other, Sen. Lee's cell phone rang. It was Trump and he wanted to speak to Sen. Tuberville. Instead of hanging up on a wrong number, Lee, passed his phone to Tuberville.

VP Pence was being evacuated, the Senate is being evacuated, as per Tuberville who informs Trump that Pence has been taken away by SS and that he has to hang up and go into hiding to preserve his own life.

Even after both phone calls to Senate Republicans and learning that Pence -- along with the nuclear codes -- escaped the screaming marauders by mere minutes, Trump willfully refused to defend the Congress, the Capitol, the country's nuclear codes, and the United States of America.

The only credible vote that can be made is "GUILTY." Any other vote, abstention or a nay, is a vote in support of violent overthrow of our government, internicine war on democracy, and craven encouragement of future despotic behavior from a president. In short, it is an admission of complicity to treason.

First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack.
Christiaan Triebert, Ben Decker, Derek Watkins, Arielle Ray and Stella Cooper | Feb. 14, 2021

At least six people who had provided security for Roger Stone entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, according to a New York Times investigation.

Videos show the group guarding Mr. Stone, a longtime friend of former President Donald J. Trump, on the day of the attack or the day before. All six of them are associated with the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia that is known to provide security for right-wing personalities and protesters at public events....

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/14/us/roger-stone-capitol-riot.html

Here's how the 14th Amendment could be used to prevent Trump from running again
Kelsey Vlamis | Feb 15, 2021

Originally designed to prevent Confederates from serving in public office, it could now prevent Trump from running again

...Here's the full text of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-14th-amendment-could-prevent-trump-from-...

Six Capitol Police officers suspended, 35 under investigation in wake of Capitol riot
Cassidy McDonald | February 19, 2021

The U.S. Capitol Police have suspended six officers with pay in the wake of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the department is investigating the actions of 35 police officers from that day, Capitol Police said Friday.

...Capitol Police suspended two officers in January, according to Representative Tim Ryan, the Ohio Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee. One of the suspended officers was seen taking selfies with rioters, and another put on a pro-Trump "Make America Great Again" hat during the attack, Ryan said...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-police-officers-suspended-investigatio...

FBI investigating phone records of lawmakers on day of Capitol insurrection: report
Tom Boggioni | February 22, 2021

...The (Intercept) report states, "In the hours and days after the Capitol riot, the FBI relied in some cases on emergency orders that do not require court authorization in order to quickly secure actual communications from people who were identified at the crime scene. Investigators have also relied on data 'dumps' from cellphone towers in the area to provide a map of who was there, allowing them to trace call records — but not content — from the phones."

While the report does not specify which lawmakers are being scrutinized, it does reveal that "The data is also being used to map links between suspects, which include members of Congress."

"Federal authorities have used the emergency orders in combination with signed court orders under the so-called pen/trap exception to the Stored Communications Act to try to determine who was present at the time that the Capitol was breached, the source said. In some cases, the Justice Department has used these and other 'hybrid' court orders to collect actual content from cellphones, like text messages and other communications, in building cases against the rioters," the Intercept is reporting, adding, "The collection effort has been met with little resistance from telecom providers asked to turn over voluminous data on the activity that day."...

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-2650701427/

An NYPD retiree. Security for DC mayor. May he rot in jail.

ARRESTED: Thomas Webster AKA #EyeGouger is a retired NYPD Cop who had been assigned for a time to work perimeter security at City Hall and at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence. https://nbcnewyork.com/investigations/retired-nypd-cop-once-assigned-to-secure-c...
Image ( https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1364277010067984385/photo/1 )

Thomas Webster AKA #EyeGouger is a retired NYPD Cop accused of attacking Capitol Police with a pipe and gouging out their eyes.
Webster's attorney, James Monroe, declined to comment Tuesday.
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- Cleavon MD @Cleavon_MD | 1:12 PM · 1:17 PM · Feb 23, 2021

How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot
Michael M. GrynbaumDavey AlbaReid J. Epstein | March 1, 2021

On social media, on cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/politics/antifa-conspiracy-capitol-riot.ht...

Capitol security review identifies deficiencies as Congress debates upgrades
Karoun Demirjian | March 8, 2021

A review of security at the U.S. Capitol commissioned after the deadly riot on Jan. 6 found that Capitol Police are too “understaffed, insufficiently equipped, and inadequately trained” — and woefully lacking in intelligence capabilities — to protect Congress from a similar future attack...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-russel-honore/2021...

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Capitol Security Review
TASK FORCE 1-6 | March 5, 2021
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-report-task-force-1-6-capitol-se...

Bill Kristol @BillKristol | 6:58 PM · Mar 11, 2021:
This would seem to be not merely partisan types engaged in partisan efforts. This would seem to show government officials, using government resources and at least implicitly invoking the authority of the federal government, seeking to overturn an election.

BUSTED: Emails reveal further efforts by Trump's White House to influence Georgia elections...
An aide to former chief of staff Mark Meadows' was part of the Trump administration's attempt to pressure Georgia officials into changing the 2020 election results. According to documents that...
rawstory.com
BUSTED: Emails reveal further efforts by Trump's White House to influence Georgia elections officials
Sarah K. Burris | March 11, 2021

An aide to former chief of staff Mark Meadows' was part of the Trump administration's attempt to pressure Georgia officials into changing the 2020 election results.

According to documents that American Oversight obtained,* Cassidy Hutchinson contacted Georgia's Deputy Sec. of State Jordan Fuchs on Dec. 30 to attempt to influence other members of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's (R-GA) team. At one point Meadows actually went down to Georgia to visit with Georgia Chief Investigator Frances Watson....

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-aide-georgia-election/

* https://www.americanoversight.org/document/georgia-secretary-of-state-email-rega...

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The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law. Its main provision prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government,3 except the president and vice president,4 from engaging in some forms of political activity. It became law on August 2, 1939. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico.5 It was most recently amended in 2012. (Wikipedia)

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‘We’ve Lost the Line!’: Radio Traffic Reveals Police Under Siege at Capitol (8:54)
Robin Stein, Haley Willis, Danielle Miller and Michael S. Schmidt•March 21, 2021

The Times obtained District of Columbia police radio communications and synchronized them with footage from the scene to show in real time how officers tried and failed to stop the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007655234/weve-lost-the-line-radio-traffi...

‘Clear the Capitol,’ Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows
LISA MASCARO, BEN FOX and LOLITA C. BALDOR | April 10, 2021

...new details about the deadly riot are contained in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use that was obtained by The Associated Press and vetted by current and former government officials.

The timeline adds another layer of understanding about the state of fear and panic while the insurrection played out, and lays bare the inaction by then-President Donald Trump and how that void contributed to a slowed response by the military and law enforcement. It shows that the intelligence missteps, tactical errors and bureaucratic delays were eclipsed by the government’s failure to comprehend the scale and intensity of a violent uprising by its own citizens.

With Trump not engaged, it fell to Pentagon officials, a handful of senior White House aides, the leaders of Congress and the vice president holed up in a secure bunker to manage the chaos.

While the timeline helps to crystalize the frantic character of the crisis, the document, along with hours of sworn testimony, provides only an incomplete picture about how the insurrection could have advanced with such swift and lethal force, interrupting the congressional certification of Joe Biden as president and delaying the peaceful transfer of power, the hallmark of American democracy...

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-army-racial-injustice-riots-only-on-ap-...

Key Findings of the Inspector General’s Report on the Capitol Riot
Nicholas Fandos | April 13, 2021

(1) Capitol Police leaders ignored or overlooked intelligence reports warning of attacks on lawmakers.
The department’s own intelligence unit, which monitors potential threats, warned three days before the riot that supporters of President Donald J. Trump, motivated by his false election fraud claims, were targeting Congress and could become violent.
Department leaders ordered a special crowd-control unit not to use its most powerful nonlethal weapons.

...the Department of Homeland Security warned the agency that it had found a map of the Capitol complex’s tunnel system posted on pro-Trump message boards. And the F.B.I.’s Norfolk field office also relayed concerns on Jan. 5...

(2) Department leaders ordered a special crowd-control unit not to use its most powerful nonlethal weapons.

(3) Officers responded with defective protective equipment.
...protective shields that had been stored in a trailer without climate control and “shattered upon impact”...locked on a bus.
...some munitions in the department’s armory had expired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/capitol-riot-police-report.html

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Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds
Luke Broadwater | April 13, 2021

...the inspector general, Michael A. Bolton...findings (104-page document,) are scheduled to be discussed on Thursday afternoon, when he is set to testify before the House Administration Committee...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/capitol-police-riot-report.html

#54–trump wanted that riot—that insurrection to happen. For weeks he and his lackeys riled his supporters up with bogus election claims. He tried to overturn state election numbers by hook or by crook and spread the lie that Mike Pence could unelect Biden. On the day he also encouraged a mob to attack the Capitol and in the days prior put his thumb on the scale to make sure the defense of the Capitol was weak—meanwhile cheering on the rioters from his TV room at the White House. His insinuations later that it was BLM or Antifa just more of the bullshit, lies and stupidities that characterized the 4 dark years of his administration and that no one who hasn’t completely disappeared down the rabbit hole of reality finds believable.

"Unambiguous Collusion

Paul Manafort's longtime associate Konstantin Kilimnik was sanctioned by the U.S. government for providing polling data to Russian intelligence during the 2016 election, underscoring Trump's ties to Russia.

Marshall Cohen
@MarshallCohen
For the first time EVER, the US government said Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik provided Russian intelligence agencies with the internal Trump campaign polling/strategy data he received from Manafort and Gates in 2016. Even Mueller didn't go that far. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0126.

DC police on Capitol's west side called for help 17 times during riot: report
John Bowden - 04/15/21

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) forces stationed on the western side of the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection made more than a dozen calls for backup and received little assistance, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Radio chatter analyzed by the Post indicated that Robert Glover, a commander with MPD who was in charge of a unit of several dozen officers stationed on the building's west side, called for backup 17 times over a 78-minute period on the day of the attack, during which dozens of Capitol Police and MPD officers were injured by a pro-Trump mob. One Capitol Police officer was killed, and two later took their own lives.

"Multiple Capitol injuries, multiple Capitol injuries," Glover can be heard saying around 1:18 p.m., according to the Post.

“I need those two other hard platoons up here now,” he is heard saying just a few minutes later.

Despite his calls for assistance, just one unit was dispatched to assist Glover's vastly outnumbered squad and those reinforcements faced difficulty making their way through the thousands of rioters who descended upon the Capitol, the Post reported. It wasn't clear when backup finally arrived, though it was some time after 2 p.m., according to the Post's analysis.

Glover would continue making calls for backup, totaling 17 by 2:31 p.m. A few minutes later, his men fell back after their line was broken by rioters...

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/548488-dc-police-on-capitols-west-side-called...