January 6 Insurrection

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Jan. 6 takeaways: From Trump’s lies to the ‘unimaginable’

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee released its final report Thursday on the “unimaginable” 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a mob assault by supporters of the defeated president, Donald Trump, that shook the nation and exposed the fragility of American democracy.

https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-takeaways-56cf44f8809cc76632f91f5c7910ec81?

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Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors

LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.

https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-trump-nevada-election-transcripts-7aa0f2e582778b7beb0f5172c91d7fa9?

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Jan. 6 report blames Trump, aims to prevent return to power

WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive final report released by the House Jan. 6 committee late Thursday places the blame for the 2021 Capitol insurrection on one person: former President Donald Trump.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-823941a7a7a7e8e354d3ce64ac8b5d99?

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Rioter who received call from White House landline on Jan. 6 ID'ed

Ahead of the Jan. 6 committee’s last expected public hearing this week, Denver Riggleman, a former Republican congressman and onetime adviser to the insurrection panel, stirred up a bit of controversy. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/26/2125317/-Controversy-swirls-around-Jan-6-phone-call-from-White-House-landline-to-rioter?

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New documents detail Sen. Ron Johnson asking about electors

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature, rather than voters, choose Wisconsin’s presidential electors, according to newly released documents from closed-door testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-politics-wisconsin-state-government-b7871ade87ff0809bab0103ef03c3432

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Groups urge GOP House leaders to condemn political violence

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of military veterans on Wednesday hand-delivered letters to top Republicans in the U.S. House, calling on them to publicly condemn political violence as the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol approaches.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-house-of-representatives-violence-6b5c8d4075e1387ad31e9fd73c648535

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Did Trump Tweet ‘Stay Peaceful’ on Day of Capitol Riot?

We looked at the context behind a meme that showed two messages purportedly tweeted by Trump on the day of the Capitol riot.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-peaceful-capitol/?

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Man who propped feet on Pelosi desk guilty in Jan. 6 case

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Arkansas man who propped his feet up on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the U.S. Capitol riot was convicted on Monday of joining a mob’s attack on the building two years ago.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-political-and-civil-unrest-united-states-government-legal-proceedings-crime-1b438dad382b530e0aadc195c9b51492

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Judge convicts Capitol rioter who yelled Pelosi threats

A federal judge on Tuesday convicted a Pennsylvania restaurant owner of storming the U.S. Capitol, where she screamed at police officers to bring out then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi so the pro-Trump mob could hang her.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-legal-proceedings-kane-donald-trump-e572f6124ff386b1c1a71d0b8c2e9270

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Edgewater man arrested on criminal charges tied to Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol

Howard Berton Adams Jr., 60, of 2003 Umbrella Tree Drive in Edgewater, was arrested Wednesday according to a federal arrest warrant issued by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/2021/03/13/howard-berton-adams-edgewater-arrest-connection-capitol-riot/4679611001/

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Jury selection begins in trial of Volusia Proud Boys leader in Capitol attack

Jury selection begins today in Washington D.C. for a Volusia County Proud Boys leader who is among four members of the group being tried in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. 

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/courts/2022/12/19/jury-selection-begins-in-trial-of-volusia-county-proud-boys-leader/69739429007/

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Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs focused on Capitol Police in riot, officer says

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards said at first the crowd of Proud Boys and others facing off against her and a handful of officers on Jan. 6, 2021 were focused on Congress. 

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2022/06/10/volusia-county-proud-boys-leader-joseph-biggs-highlighted-attack/7579248001/

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Volusia Proud Boys leader facing new federal charges: 'We've just taken the Capitol'

A Proud Boys leader from Volusia County has been charged  with seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S., a crime with a potential penalty of 20 years in prison.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/crime/2022/06/07/volusia-proud-boys-leader-facing-new-federal-charges-capitol-attack/10001715002/

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Man gets prison for attacking Capitol officer who later died

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers, one of whom died a day after the siege.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-crime-legal-proceedings-capitol-siege-new-jersey-fe8477543a228ef7e3319363d967a075

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Sorry, not sorry: Some 1/6 rioters change tune after apology

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appearing before a federal judge after pleading guilty to a felony charge in the deadly Capitol riot, former West Virginia lawmaker Derrick Evans expressed remorse for letting down his family and his community, saying he made a “crucial mistake.”

https://apnews.com/article/jan6-capitol-riot-participants-change-tune-after-apologies-f0f37e1409da9366d2d3cc3de65502d9?

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3 charged with clashing with cops in separate Jan. 6 cases

Three men have been arrested on accusations that they clashed with police officers during separate incidents at the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-pennsylvania-vermont-illinois-c2afb5400cbbf3999c9f5e8f364a1963

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McCarthy gives Carlson access to Jan. 6 footage, raising alarms

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are being made available to Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, a stunning level of access granted by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that Democrats swiftly condemned as a “grave” breach of security with potentially far-reaching consequences.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-investigation-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-7d302bd512c950f28cd50df4f5d4703a?

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Jan. 6 rioter who threated Ocasio-Cortez online gets 3 years

A Texas man who threatened U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter after he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced on Wednesday to more than three years in prison.

https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-donald-trump-texas-law-enforcement-8fd6fd807b5e03bdba87de0033cf5374

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Trump can be sued for Jan. 6 riot harm, Justice Dept. says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump’s legal vulnerability for his speech before the riot.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-jan-6-capitol-police-congress-immunity-d18d0c6369837c725578cf6e13c18883

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'Bull Manure' one Republican senator says of Carlson's depiction of Jan. 6

Tucker Carlson’s depiction of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a mere sightseeing visit by concerned patriots has generated a little pushback in the Republican Party. But only very little. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/7/2156778/-Tucker-Carlson-s-lies-about-Jan-6-draw-some-Republican-pushback-but-plenty-of-cheerleading?

Tucker Carlson amplifies Jan. 6 lies with GOP-provided video

WASHINGTON (AP) — Handed some 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot.

https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-tucker-carlson-capitol-riot-mccarthy-adc245e22f50b076925eb72948062808

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Military veteran convicted of obstruction in Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran accused of telling an undercover FBI agent about a plan to “wipe out” the nation’s Jewish population was convicted on Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

https://apnews.com/article/hatchet-speed-capitol-riot-sentence-d9fddc4b2ea7275c62ae9d720c05ba95

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On 3/7/2023 at 5:00 PM, phkrause said:

'Bull Manure' one Republican senator says of Carlson's depiction of Jan. 6

Tucker Carlson’s depiction of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a mere sightseeing visit by concerned patriots has generated a little pushback in the Republican Party. But only very little. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/7/2156778/-Tucker-Carlson-s-lies-about-Jan-6-draw-some-Republican-pushback-but-plenty-of-cheerleading?

 

If there is bull manure it is dailykos as a legitimate objective news source.  JUst a step or two above the enquirer. Most are biased to one degree or another, but usually more faith can be placed in the likes of Johnathan Turley, Brit Hume and Alan Dershowitz, Two  democrats,none of the htree are Trump supporters and did not vote for him.

Why the hysteria, the world surely will end with the release of the tapes. 

When you are so terrified of the side of your adversary there is something off about the righteous foaming at the mouth.

 

 

[bonnie1962]

Just now, bonnie1962 said:

If there is bull manure it is dailykos as a legitimate objective news source.  JUst a step or two above the enquirer. Most are biased to one degree or another, but usually more faith can be placed in the likes of Johnathan Turley, Brit Hume and Alan Dershowitz, Two  democrats,none of the htree are Trump supporters and did not vote for him.

Why the hysteria, the world surely will end with the release of the tapes. 

When you are so terrified of the side of your adversary there is something off about the righteous foaming at the mouth.

 

 

Brit Hume,not a Trump supporter

 

 

Published July 1, 2022 4:56pm EDT

January 6 hearing: Brit Hume has never seen a committee where every member is on same side

 

Jan. 6 committee is bipartisan on paper only: Brit Hume

 

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume hasn’t been shy when it comes to criticizing the January 6 committee, regularly saying it’s a "partisan" group that had all of its members selected by Democrats. 

 

"I’ve covered Washington for more than 50 years, including 11 years covering Congress specifically. I’ve never seen a committee all of whose members were chosen by one party, and where there is no cross-examination or any attempt to present both sides," Hume tweeted on Friday. 

Hume was responding to a tweet from Byron York, who wrote "there's a long tradition of adversarial process in congressional hearings/investigations" and "something is wrong" with the Jan. 6 committee. 

 

 

 

Hume had made similar points in the past about the committee made up of Democrats Chairperson Bennie Thompson, Zoe Lofgren, Adam Schiff, Pete Aguilar, Stephanie Murphy, Jamie Raskin, Elaine Luria and anti-Trump Republicans Liz Cheny and Adam Kinzinger. On June 12, Hume retweeted a message declaring the committee is "one-sided." 

On June 11, he referred to the primetime hearing as an "utterly one-sided presentation." 

 

Chairperson Bennie Thompson (D-MS) swears in Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling (not pictured) during the fourth public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. June 21, 2022.  (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS)

"It is not normal for a supposedly bipartisan committee to have its members all chosen by one party," he tweeted on June 6 to echo what he told Bret Baier that evening on "Special Report."

"Let’s be clear about this committee, while it is bipartisan, it is bipartisan on paper only because all the members of the committee, including the two Republicans who serve, were appointed by the Democrats. By Nancy Pelosi in fact, and she was careful to chose the two Republican members who could be counted on to agree with the conclusions already reached by her," Hume told Baier. 

 

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks with members of the press after a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

"This is very much a partisan hearing, which is not to say that interesting facts won’t come out and they won’t make an interesting presentation in primetime but, look, this is only partially a hearing to determine the facts," Hume continued. "It is as much as anything else an effort to give the Democrats an issue that they can run on when nearly all the other issues that people care about are working against them." 

 

Hume’s criticism has included remarks that former President Trump’s behavior was "outrageous" and "utterly disgraceful" after the 2020 election, but he still doesn’t feel the committee has delivered on promises so far. 

On June 23 he tweeted, "The 1/6 committee is pounding home the point that Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election. He certainly did. But the testimony has not come close to establishing Chairman Bennie Thompson's claim that we came ‘critically close to losing our democracy’ that day," before declaring, "Outrageous behavior by a president unable to admit error or defeat to be sure. But the near-death of American democracy? Not even close." 

 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pulled all five of his picks for the Jan. 6 committee last year after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected two of his choices, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind.

 

[bonnie1962]

Even the Salon,not a right wing source questions

 

COMMENTARY

Why didn't Capitol Police mobilize on Jan. 6? They claim intel warning wasn't "specific" enough

I've seen portions of the secret Capitol Police inspector general's report — it doesn't answer the big questions

By DAN FROOMKIN

PUBLISHED APRIL 13, 2021 12:33PM (EDT)

Pro-Trump protestors clash with police during the tally of electoral votes that would certify Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. presidential election outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

 

Asked by the Capitol Police inspector general why they failed to heed their own intelligence unit's dramatic and dire warning on Jan. 3 that violent protesters would be targeting the Capitol three days later, top department officials said the report wasn't specific enough.

That Jan. 3 intelligence report literally alerted officials that "white supremacists, militia members, and others who actively promote violence" had been summoned by Donald Trump himself and could create "significantly dangerous situations for law enforcement and the general public alike" because "unlike previous post-election protests … Congress itself is the target on the 6th." It said that organizers were urging Trump supporters to come with guns, gas masks and body armor.

The inspector general conducted interviews with Capitol Police officials and found what he called "a lack of consensus" among them about whether that intelligence report and others "actually indicated specific known threats." 

Those officials instead pointed the inspector general to a daily update from a single analyst who apparently operated without supervision, who labeled the likelihood of civil disobedience or violence that day by a "PRO-TRUMP group" (capitalized in the original) as "improbable." 

This new but hardly convincing explanation comes from a secret official review of the events of Jan. 6 by Capitol Police inspector general Michael A. Bolton. CBS News reporters Michael Kaplan and Cassidy McDonald broke the news about the review's conclusion two weeks ago after obtaining a copy.

Bolton found that the Capitol Police "did not prepare a comprehensive, Department-wide plan for demonstrations planned for January 6, 2021." Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chair of the House Administration Committee, called the review's findings "disturbing," and has called Bolton to testify on Thursday.

To some extent, the review bolsters what we might call the "Keystone Kops defense" — that Capitol Police leadership was simply too incompetent, uninformed and unprepared for the assault of Jan. 6. 

But the threat was so obvious, so overt and so well-publicized that incompetence alone cannot explain the failure to mobilize, especially in contrast to how enthusiastically the department deployed for Black Lives Matters protests that never posed any danger to the Capital

 

On Jan. 6, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who has since resigned, didn't even equip his frontline officers with tear gas or other non-lethal crowd-control weapons, nor with riot gear. Instead of establishing a defensible perimeter, he sent them out in street uniforms to man barricades made of bike racks. One officer died, dozens more suffered serious injuries and the Capitol fell to a mob.

I have repeatedly written, since the first days after the insurrection, that the biggest mystery behind this entire disturbing event was why the Capitol Police let it happen. I've called on reporters to investigate the obvious possibility that Capitol Police leadership felt some degree of kinship with the Trump mob, and either were too racist to see the threat posed by Trump supporters or looked the other way on purpose.

Since then, mainstream media coverage has continued to be bizarrely lacking. Reporters have credulously accepted the framing of "intelligence failure" — despite that in-your-face Jan. 3 report, which pretty much laid out exactly what would happen. They have inanely focused on the non-distribution of one single Jan. 5 FBI situational report based on one single thread on one message board, rather than on the leadership shrugging off that far clearer and more direct Jan. 3 reportrely mentioned the elephant in the room: Racism. As Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said that very night on MSNBC: "Had it been people who look like me, had it been the same amount of people, but had they been Black and brown, we wouldn't have made it up those steps … we would have been shot, we would have been tear-gassed."

The Capitol Police inspector general's report remains secret, despite requests from members of Congress to release it. The part of the inspector general's review that I obtained — on condition that I not replicate it — focused on the failed threat analysis. 

But to be honest, it's not particularly edifying or compelling. Its big recommendations in this area are for more training and coordination. It doesn't quote anything further from that terrifyingly prescient Jan. 3 memo — which was titled "IICD Special event Assessment 21-A-0468 v.3 Joint Session of Congress — Electoral College Vote Certification" — than the Washington Post did on Jan. 15. That memo should be made public.

 

It doesn't explain why the daily report written by a "single analyst" who has compiled it "for a number of years ... without supervisory review" conflicted so dramatically with the "finished intelligence report" from his own department.

It does note that the finding of "no specific known threats" made it into a Capitol Police "operational plan" for Jan. 6, although officials told the inspector general that language was apparently erroneously copied and pasted from a copy of a previous document. That's right: They're saying that was a clerical error.

But the part of the report I saw doesn't get into why officials weren't more alarmed. It doesn't address the possibility of racism. I see no sign that, to this day, anyone — not the inspector general, not members of Congress tasked with oversight and certainly not journalists — has gotten hold of contemporaneous correspondence between the key players, or other evidence that would offer insight into their states of mind. 

So we still don't know why they let it happen. Will we ever?

 

 

[bonnie1962]

Far more credible than the left lap dogs or Enquirer clone. Alan Dershowitz didn't vote Trump,doesnt qualify as a Trump supporter . But is about as unbiased as you can find and far more educated than most of us

BLOG Alan Dershowitz Calls Dems’ Televised Jan. 6 Hearing a ‘Kangaroo Court, a Fixed Jury’ CRAIG BANNISTER | JUNE 10, 2022 | 4:25PM EDT Alan Dershowitz (Screenshot) "This is a kangaroo court; this is a fixed jury," liberal Democrat and Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday, commenting on Democrats’ nationally-televised Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing. In an interview with Newsmax, the Constitutional scholar condemned the hearing for its unfairness, partisanship and denial of due process, as well as for its predetermined conclusion.