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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Americans Are ‘Sick And Tired’ Of Hearing About Jan. 6 – It Only Happened ‘One Time’

In the surest sign yet that members of Congress who allegedly participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol are getting worried by what the House Select Committee on the Capitol insurrection have already uncovered as they prepare to hold public hearings next month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) just had a very public meltdown when a reporter from NBC News attempted to ask her a question about what transpired on that fateful day.

Scott Wong was trying to question Greene in the hallway outside her House office when she got very agitated and declared:

“The American people are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time. They are sick and tired of Jan. 6 — it’s over, OK?”

Wong also asked Greene if she thought it had been a mistake for Republicans to boycott participating in the Jan. 6 committee, to which she angrily replied:

“People are rotting in jail pre-trial because they have been arrested for it. Why don’t you go to the jail and visit those people? Everyone is being prosecuted that should be prosecuted. Why don’t you care about things that honestly care about instead of continuing on with this? OK?

“Go ask about BLM and antifa rioters. See of they’re rotting in jail!”

Greene was so concerned about her comments to Wong that she felt it necessary to share video of the encounter on Twitter along with her own spin on the confrontation:

“Every week the press asks Republicans divisive questions about each other like this, trying to get me to say something bad or criticize @GOPLeader.

“Then only report a twisted sound bite of our words.

“I’m not playing the game anymore.”

However, by admitting that she felt a need to comment on the brief interview, Greene made it perfectly clear that she is indeed “playing the game” and certainly sounds more than a little bit worried about what may be revealed regarding her actions prior to and on the day of the Capitol riots that left five people dead, including a member of the Capitol Police Force.

Greene is also facing disqualification from the November ballot in Georgia as a group of her constituents have filed suit to have her declared ineligible to run under a section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which reads:

“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.”

Greene and others like her (i.e. Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley) should be very worried about what is about to transpire for the American people to see and consider just months before they go to vote.

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Donald Trump Jr. Accused Of ‘Treasonous Criminality’ For Planning Coup To Overturn 2020 Election

Just 48 hours after 2020 presidential election, according to an explosive new report from CNN, Donald Trump Jr. texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with the following message:

“We have operational control. “It’s very simple. We have multiple paths We control them all.”

That text is all the evidence a prosecutor needs to prove that Donald Trump Jr. was part of a conspiracy to overturn the results of what was later called by a Trump-appointed election security official, the “most secure in American history,” and that’s very bad news for the ex-president’s son, who is also facing legal exposure on unrelated issues in New York.

Alan S. Futerfas, an attorney for Donald Trump Jr., attempted to minimize the CNN report, remarking:

“After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded.”

The failed, one-term former President’s son also laid out a strategy for how his father would remain as head of state no matter what the election results said:

Trump Jr. makes specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results, as well as having a handful of Republican state houses put forward slates of fake “Trump electors.”

If all that failed, according to the Trump Jr. text, GOP lawmakers in Congress could simply vote to reinstall Trump as President on January 6.

That, of course, would have been an illegal and unconstitutional coup which likely would have led to a crisis the likes of which this country has never seen.

Legal experts said the text messages clearly prove that a crime was committed, with Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, writing:

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner called the texts “treasonous criminality.”

Journalist Keith Olbermann tweeted:

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Jan. 6 Committee Has Found A Way Around The Stonewalling Of Former Trump Staffers

Some former staffers who served in the Trump administration have been more than a bit truculent when it comes to cooperating with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, despite the fact that they have been subpoenaed to do so and still face criminal contempt charges for failing to obey a legal subpoena.

But despite the recalcitrance of people such as former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to show up and testify, the committee has still found a way to get inside the offices of those former officials with a brilliant workaround, according to Politico:

Some of the select panel’s most crucial information has come from Trumpworld staffers, who were often in the room or briefed on sensitive meetings, even if they weren’t central players themselves. It’s a classic investigative strategy that’s paid dividends for select committee investigators, many of whom are seasoned former federal prosecutors.

Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) notes that staffers have been instrumental and shining a light on what their former bosses were doing behind the scenes to try and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election:

“We are definitely taking advantage of the fact that most senior-level people in Washington depend on a lot of young associates and subordinates to get anything done. A lot of these people still have their ethics intact and don’t want to squander the rest of their careers for other people’s mistakes and corruption.”

Among the most notable staffers who have provided invaluable information to the committee are “Cassidy Hutchinson, a close adviser to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Ken Klukowski, who advised former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, have helped the select committee fill in gaps about Trump’s private meetings, calls and efforts to overturn the 2020 election that investigators could otherwise only obtain from the principal players themselves.”

That level of cooperation by those who worked for Meadows, Steve Bannon, and other top Trump officials makes committee members optimistic that they’ll be able to paint a full picture of who did what in the leadup to the violent storming of the Capitol that resulted in the deaths of five people, including a member of the Capitol Police Force.

Having as much detail as possible is essential as the select committee prepares to being public hearings in June, a move that could well seal the fate of several Trump staffers such as Meadows who were allegedly key players in the failed coup attempt, according to Raskin:

“Washington is a place where decision-makers will make decisions but it takes a staff to execute and implement them. Those people are not bound by the kinds of compromising political allegiances that their bosses are.”

Sounds like Meadows, Bannon, and even failed, one-term former President Donald Trump should be very worried.

 

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New Roger Stone Documentary Implicates Several Congressional Republicans In January 6 Coup Plot

Raw footage from a planned documentary shows that Roger Stone — a longtime friend and confidant to failed, one-term former President Donald Trump — shows that Stone thought Trump should issue pardons for members of Congress that played a role in the attempted coup that took place on January 6, 2021.

The Washington Post reviewed the footage and reports:

After he left Washington, Stone lobbied for Trump to enact the “Stone Plan” — a blanket presidential pardon to shield himself, Trump’s allies in Congress and “the America First movement” from prosecution for trying to overturn the election, according to the footage and additional documents reviewed by The Post.

But the plan, along with a bid by Stone to win pardons for other Trump backers including convicted mobsters, was ultimately thwarted by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Stone said in several conversations that were filmed.

What members of Congress did Stone advocate on behalf of because he believed they had played a significant role in the coup plan? Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Stone also mentioned Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL).

With the House Select Committee preparing to start public hearings in the spring, Cruz, Hawley, Gaetz, Jordan, Gosar, Biggs, and Brooks could all be seeing their names on subpoenas. Even if the committee chooses not to subpoena the congressmen, it’s safe to expect their names to be prominent when those televised hearings begin.

Here’s some of the raw footage from the documentary:

Asked for his comments on the article from The Post, Stone issued a typically truculent statement which reads:

“Typical of the Washington Post’s coverage over the last two years in which your newspaper insisted that I was a Russian Intelligence asset in league with Wikileaks to aide the Trump campaign — a lie.”

While Stone received a pardon from Trump for lying to Congress, he can still be charged for his role in Jan. 6. And this time he won’t have a buddy in the White House who can wipe the slate clean for him.

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CPAC Speaker Says Biden Is ‘Terrorizing’ Jan. 6 Rioters By Letting The DOJ Prosecute Them

This is the weekend for the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) to meet, and they’re doing in so in Florida to keep failed, one-term former President Donald Trump from having to travel too far since he’s become a doddering old man who requires frequent diaper changes during the day.

One of the speakers was a woman named Julie Kelly, who is listed as a Senior Writer for something called “American Greatness,” Media Matters reports:

Kelly began her remarks by rattling off a list of things that had been done by an unnamed person:

“He’s using this law enforcement agency, armed agents, military-style vehicles to conduct pre-dawn raids at the homes of political dissidents. Terrorizing these dissidents in front of their children, and, in some cases, their elderly spouses. Hauling them off, concocting charges against them, fabricating evidence, and in almost 100 cases, hauling them off to prison where they have been denied bail.”

Dissidents? That has echoes of the old Soviet Union, where people were hauled away by the KGB and put in gulags for all sorts of nonsensical charges.

Kelly then continued:

“And dozens of them, actually, shipped off to a special political prison in the nation’s capital, where these detainees are then kept away from their family, their defense attorneys, they can’t see the evidence against them – all the rights that those citizens have from their country’s charter are completely gone. No due process. No presumption of innocence. Trials are delays. Evidence is covered up. Their lives are destroyed. Their families are destroyed. Their businesses are destroyed.”

All of that led Kelly to this conclusion, which was eagerly lapped up by the audience:

“The media, of course, helps out the regime in smearing these people and ruining their lives. Now, who am I talking about? Not Vladimir Putin, of course. Joe Biden.”

Apparently, if you storm the Capitol, terrorize members of Congress, and defecate in the halls of the seat of the U.S. government, you’re not a domestic terrorist. To the right-wing Trumpers, such behavior qualifies you as a “dissident.”

While we’ve known for some time now that conservatives are obsessed with Putin, to hear a member of their ranks compare President Biden to a mass murderer like the Russian tyrant is a new level of disgusting.