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Michael Cohen Trolls Jim Jordan As January 6 Committee Focuses On Congressman’s Text Messages

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is under increased pressure and scrutiny as it becomes clear that he was one of the government officials who communicated with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the day of the Capitol insurrection back in January.

According to NBC News, Jordan has admitted that he did indeed send at least one text message to Meadows on January 6:

Rep. Jim Jordan’s office confirmed Wednesday that the Ohio Republican was one of the lawmakers whose text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows were released this week by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The acknowledgement comes two days after the Jan. 6 committee made public numerous documents, including text messages, provided to the panel by Meadows. The House committee revealed several text messages sent to Meadows by GOP lawmakers but did not name any of them.

Jordan’s office said Wednesday that the message cited by the panel on Monday was a forwarded text, and that it was truncated by the committee.

“Mr. Jordan forwarded the text to Mr. Meadows and Mr. Meadows certainly knew it was a forward,” Jordan’s spokesman told NBC News on Wednesday.

That report led Michael Cohen, who served for several years as a personal attorney to former President Donald Trump, to troll Jordan on Twitter:

During that hearing in February of 2019, Cohen did indeed warn Jordan that Trump was a “racist,” “a cheat,” and a “con man.”

Jordan is facing a very uncertain bid for reelection next year which is being made even more risky by redistricting in his home state of Ohio.

 

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Daft Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Incriminating Jan. 6 Texts Prove ‘Trump Is Innocent’

Ever since she opened her mouth for the first time on the floor of the House of Representatives, it’s been painfully clear that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) isn’t exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. As a matter of fact, she’s just a couple of IQ points brighter than a bag of hammers.

But something Greene said Wednesday during an appearance on extreme right-wing television network One America News (OAN) may well qualify the Georgia Republican for a spot in the Dumbass Hall of Fame.

According to Greene, the text messages from people such as Donald Trump Jr., Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and others are proof that the failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president is innocent and so is everyone that allegedly conspired with him to orchestrate a coup on January 6, 2021:

“I think the text messages just completely show that President Trump is innocent. All of us are innocent. The riot shouldn’t have happened and we were all against it just like we’ve said all along.”

A couple of things about Congresswoman Greene’s deeply-flawed logic.

First of all, Trump waited hours after those texts were sent to him before he finally posted a video message on social media telling the insurrectionists to disperse. That doesn’t show any form of innocence whatsoever.

Secondly, be sure and notice that Greene said, “All of us are innocent.” Why does she feel a need to add that unless she’s worried more information is about to be released that will implicate her and others in the GOP who may have been willing co-conspirators and had a hand in the murder of a Capitol police officer, which just so happens to be a capital crime that gets most defendants the death penalty?

Yes, Greene is an imbecile, but her remarks on OAN are the sort of thing that leads attorneys to tear their hair out in frustration.

Nice try, Marj, but it appears you just screwed yourself in royal fashion. Good work, moron.

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New Questions Arise After Lindsey Graham Implicates Ivanka Trump In The Jan. 6th Insurrection

We’ve known for a few weeks now that one-term former President Donald Trump’s oldest son, Don Jr., was in frequent contact with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on January 6, 2021, urging Meadows to tell the ex-president he needed to call off the dogs and urge his supporters to vacate the Capitol where they were rioting.

Now, however, we know that the former president’s favorite child, Ivanka, was acting as a conduit for messages traveling from supporters to the Donald and others in the White House on the day of the insurrection.

Oddly enough, Ivanka’s involvement has become public knowledge thanks to one of the most sycophantic Trump supporters in Congress, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who told CNN’s Manu Raju what he conveyed to the former president’s daughter:

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he didn’t text with Meadows on Jan. 6 —- but told me he spoke with Ivanka Trump to deliver a message to her dad. He said he wanted then-President Trump to “tell his people to leave.”

The Washington Post confirmed Raju’s reporting and added that Graham also told Ivanka:

“You need to get these people out of here. This thing is going south. This is not good. You’re going to have to tell these people to stand down. Stand down.”

Ivanka sent out a tweet on the day of the Capitol insurrection which read:

“American Patriots – any security breach or disrespect to our law enforcement is unacceptable,” she posted at 3:15 p.m. on January 6th. “The violence must stop immediately. Please be peaceful.”

That tweet was later deleted after a wave of criticism because Ivanka had referred to rioters as “Patriots.”

All of this is leading to an inevitable nexus: The Jan. 6 Select Committee will no doubt be demanding all text messages and other communications that were sent by both Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner.

With each day it becomes clearer that many in the Trump family were part of a larger conspiracy which was carried out on Jan. 6 at the Capitol. And if it can be proven they broke the law, they need to be referred to the Justice Department for criminal charges.

 

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Liz Cheney Makes It Clear The January 6 Committee Will Refer Trump On Felony Charges

With all of the new developments and information that have come from the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection over the past week, you may have missed a key moment that transpired Monday and then again on Tuesday while Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was speaking.

Aaron Blake of the Washington Post writes that Cheney is signaling the committee is ready to refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department on felony charges:

Rep. Liz Cheney’s disclosures of intriguing Jan. 6 text messages between Mark Meadows and both Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News personalities are the big news in the committee’s investigation right now. But don’t lose sight of what Cheney said immediately after she read those texts aloud.

In summing up the texts, Cheney … said, “Mr. Meadows’s testimony will bear on another key question before this committee: Did Donald Trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede Congress’s official proceeding to count electoral votes?”

Cheney was making reference to a very specific section of federal law, 18 U.S. Code § 1512, and that’s the first time anyone on the committee has spelled out what law Trump have have broken with his role in the Capitol riots.

Here’s what the law Cheney cited says:

“Whoever corruptly … obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” That law defines an “official proceeding” as including “a proceeding before the Congress.”

Congress was meeting in joint session on Jan. 6 to certify the electoral votes which made Joe Biden president. When Trump sent his minions to march on the Capitol, the hope was to delay that proceeding and prevent naming Biden as 46th President of the United States. Even a 24-hour pause in that process could have set off a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have never seen in this country.

Just last week, a federal judge ruled that the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 was indeed an “official proceeding.”

The judge, Dabney L. Friedrich, ruled that Congress’s counting of electoral votes — the business it was engaged in when Trump supporters overran the Capitol — qualifies as an “official proceeding” under the statute.

“The Joint Session thus has the trappings of a formal hearing before an official body,” Friedrich said. “There is a presiding officer, a process by which objections can be heard, debated, and ruled upon, and a decision — the certification of the results — that must be reached before the session can be adjourned. … Accordingly, the congressional certification at issue here is a ‘proceeding before the Congress.’”

It would certainly seem that the Select Committee is ready and willing to hand over their case to the DOJ for Trump to be charged. And if he were found guilty and sentenced to several years in prison, that would certainly preclude his running in 2024. Or ever again.

 

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Photo Of MTG On The House Floor Suggests She’s Worried What The Jan. 6 Committee Has On Her

The list of Republicans who played an active role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection and attempted coup continues to grow, and as new evidence is revealed by the House Select Committee, it seems many inside the GOP were eager and willing to help subvert the American political system and install Donald Trump as dictator for life rather than heed what the voters wanted.

On Monday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who serves on the Jan. 6 committee, read text messages from various people connected to the Trump White House (including Donald Trump Jr. and former chief of staff Mark Meadows), which revealed that even those who supported the ex-president knew the horrific violence taking place on Capitol Hill was going to leave a permanent stain on whatever legacy there might be from the Trump presidency.

We’re also getting new developments regarding what current members of Congress were doing as the Capitol was under attack.

One of those is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was allegedly laughing and giddy as Trump supporters stormed the nation’s seat of government back in January.

Greene has refused to support the ongoing investigation into the events of Jan. 6, but she finally appears to be worried about what information may be coming out regarding her personal culpability.

Today, as the House debated a criminal contempt referral to the Justice Department for Mark Meadows, Greene was seen sitting behind a colleague who was speaking on the House floor, and it certainly appears like Marj is, to borrow a phrase, going through some things. Take a look:

That image led many on Twitter to remark that Greene does indeed look like she’d just seen a ghost:

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Yes, the committee likely has the phone records of every member of Congress who played a role in Jan. 6. And that’s probably why Greene looks so forlorn and concerned. Imagine her expression when a subpoena and/or indictment with her name on them is handed down. I’m betting she’ll burst into tears and beg her lord and savior Trump to save her.