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Something gotta give here
Author: Raine    Date: 10/25/2021 13:00:23

Last night, potentially huge news broke over at Rolling Stone Magazine. I can't read it because it's behind a paywall. It basically goes a step further to confirming what many people have suspected, and what appeared to be right before our eyes. From Business Insider:
Two pro-Trump rally organizers who planned election protests across the US, including demonstrations in Washington DC on January 6, said they regularly met with GOP representatives or their top staff in the weeks leading up to the event of the Capitol attack.

In an exclusive interview published by Rolling Stone on Sunday, the organizers said they allegedly spoke to "a dozen" representatives or their teams, naming Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama.

"We would talk to Boebert's team, Cawthorn's team, Gosar's team like back to back to back to back," said one of the organizers.

"I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically," the same organizer also said. The names of both sources have been kept secret because they are cooperating with the House select committee's probe into the Capitol insurrection, per Rolling Stone. (snip)

It's unclear what was discussed with each representative, but the organizers gave Rolling Stone an example with Gosar, saying he offered them the possibility of receiving a "blanket pardon" to motivate them to plan the rallies.

Three of these representatives - Biggs, Brooks, and Gosar - were previously credited by "Stop the Steal" movement organizer Ali Alexander for helping plan a rally on that day, which Brooks and Biggs denied.
The Daily Beast says "Rolling Stone also reports that at least three rally organizers are cooperating with the House panel probing the riot, and have alleged several members of Congress were “intimately involved” in the plans."

This comes on the heals of another pretty explosive article about the Willard Hotel here in DC. WaPo reported on Saturday that there was a command center for the January 6 'events'.
They were led by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Former chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon was an occasional presence as the effort’s senior political adviser. Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was there as an investigator. Also present was John Eastman, the scholar, who outlined scenarios for denying Biden the presidency in an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 4 with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. (snip)
In those first days in January, from the command center, Trump allies were calling members of Republican-dominated legislatures in swing states that Eastman had spotlighted in his memos, including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona, encouraging them to convene special sessions to investigate fraud and to reassign electoral college votes from Biden to Trump, two of the people familiar with the operation said.

On Jan. 2, Trump, Giuliani and Eastman spoke to 300 state legislators via a conference call meant to arm them with purported evidence of fraud and galvanize them to take action to “decertify” their election results. “You are the real power,” Trump told the state lawmakers, according to a Washington Examiner report. “You’re the ones that are going to make the decision.”


I'd like to see more sources confirm the Rolling Stone information. This seems a little too detailed to be a coincidence. One of my favorite tweeps directed people to read this thread from over the weekend, and it is chilling, infuriating, and terrifying.

Something has to give already. The events on 1/6 were just the beginning of it, and people need to be held accountable so we can stop it. It's as bad as I feared it would be, and maybe even worse.

Happy Monday!

&.
Raine

 ETA: link to the Rolling Stone article not behind a paywall.
 
 

7 comments (Latest Comment: 10/25/2021 17:18:35 by TriSec)
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Comment by Raine on 10/25/2021 13:20:19
Both describe Katrina Pierson, who worked for Trump’s campaign in 2016 and 2020, as a key liaison between the organizers of protests against the election and the White House.

“Katrina was like our go-to girl,” the organizer says. “She was like our primary advocate.”

Pierson spoke at the Ellipse rally on Jan. 6. She did not respond to requests for comment.


Comment by Scoopster on 10/25/2021 13:21:57
Mornin' all..

I thought I heard something about this on the early news but missed it by the time I went to check it out. I am NOT ONE BIT SURPRISED tho. All of these criminal insurrectionists need to be arrested and removed from Congress.

Comment by wickedpam on 10/25/2021 13:29:22
Morning

Color me shocked.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 10/25/2021 13:39:27
Good morning, bloggers!!!

Actually, I expected news of this to come out. TFG is known as a micromanager. Logically, his team and his allies would be involved in planning the rally and an insurrection.

If it is proven that members of Congress were involved, they should be expelled and then prosecuted. We need to follow the rule of law -- a major GOP rallying point -- and ensure that those who would overthrow our country face the bar of justice.



Comment by Raine on 10/25/2021 13:54:18
I still wanna know about this:
Rep. Mikie Sherrill and 33 other House members want an investigation into access given by fellow House lawmakers to visitors to the Capitol on Jan. 5 before the violent attacks on Congress the next day.

The New Jersey Democrat alleged Tuesday night that members of Congress led guests on what she described as “reconnaissance” ahead of the insurrection on Jan. 6.

A letter issued Wednesday asks the acting House sergeant-at-arms, acting Senate sergeant-at-arms, and United States Capitol Police to investigate “suspicious behavior” on Jan. 5 and changes to visitor access.

“The visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day,” Sherrill wrote.


Comment by livingonli on 10/25/2021 15:08:12
Good morning. A lot of people need to be in jail for this. If they aren't stopped, it will get worse in 2022 and 2024, especially if the GQP gains control of Congress.

Comment by TriSec on 10/25/2021 17:18:35
Afternoon, comrades.

I really wish we would stop dicking around and just send the damn army to Mar-a-Largo to deal with rebels in the way we do it best.