“This case is much worse than someone who falsely shouts ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater. It’s more like a case where the town fire chief who’s paid to put out fires sends a mob not to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater but to actually set the theater on fire, and who then when the fire alarms go off and the calls start flooding into the fire department asking for help, does nothing but sit back, encourage the mob to continue its rampage and watch the fire spread on TV with glee and delight.
So then we say this fire chief should never be allowed to hold this public job again, and you’re fired and you’re permanently disqualified.â€
Newly elected Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told reporters Wednesday night, following the second day of the former president’s impeachment trial, that Trump had called for his help in delaying election certification the afternoon of the U.S. Capitol attack but he had told Trump that Pence had just been taken from the Senate and he couldn’t talk just then.
“He didn’t get a chance to say a whole lot because I said, ‘Mr. President, they just took the vice president out. I’ve got to go,’†Tuberville said.
According to video footage from that day, Pence was removed from the Senate at 2:14 p.m. after rioters had broken into the Capitol, meaning that when Trump lashed out at Pence at 2:24 p.m., he already knew Pence’s life was in danger.
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,†Trump wrote in his tweet.
.@GovChristie says on @ABC he is unsuccessfully trying to reach President Trump to get him to call off his supporters storming the Capitol.
— Ben Siegel (@bensiegel) January 6, 2021
"The president caused this protest to occur. He is the only one who can make it stop."
Many of the videos used as evidence by the impeachment managers this week were originally posted to Parler, a social media platform that was popular among Trump supporters at the time of the insurrection.
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The programmer sprang into action and began downloading videos from Parler before the site was taken fully offline. "I had an efficient way to download it all. I knew what was there, but it seemed that nobody else could see the value,†she told CNN on Wednesday. In total she gathered 30 terabytes – that’s 30,000 gigabytes – of video, she said.
Swalwell points out that Trump spent $50 million on national "STOP THE STEAL!" ads that ran until January 5 -- the day before the insurrection pic.twitter.com/ZKVMaG22d4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2021
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It was planned, This was a stunning revelation. Ran out of time to put it in the blog.Swalwell points out that Trump spent $50 million on national "STOP THE STEAL!" ads that ran until January 5 -- the day before the insurrection pic.twitter.com/ZKVMaG22d4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2021
Swalwell points out that Trump spent $50 million on national "STOP THE STEAL!" ads that ran until January 5 -- the day before the insurrection pic.twitter.com/ZKVMaG22d4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2021
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Good morning, bloggers!!
It was planned. However, I fear that the GOP will not convict as they care more about their political power and not facing primary challenges than the good of the nation and the Constitution of the United States that they have sworn to defend and protect.
I am not sure where our country goes from here. We have one party dominated by cowards and traitors, Can a house divided against itself stand?
Quote by BobR:Quote by Will in Chicago:
Good morning, bloggers!!
It was planned. However, I fear that the GOP will not convict as they care more about their political power and not facing primary challenges than the good of the nation and the Constitution of the United States that they have sworn to defend and protect.
I am not sure where our country goes from here. We have one party dominated by cowards and traitors, Can a house divided against itself stand?
Where the Republicans in Congress fail, we should be able to count on the essentially non-partisan courts.
Also - we've withstood worse and managed to get it back together. tRump too shall pass.
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There will come a day when they will have to answer to their children and grandchildren for the betrayal of the country.
(CNN)The Justice Department is now making clear that a leader among the Oath Keepers paramilitary group -- who planned and led others in the US Capitol siege to attempt to stop the Biden presidency -- believed she was responding to the call from then-President Donald Trump himself.
"As the inauguration grew nearer, [Jessica] Watkins indicated that she was awaiting direction from President Trump," prosecutors wrote in a filing Thursday morning.
This is the most direct language yet from federal prosecutors linking Trump's requests for support in Washington, DC, to the most militant aspects of the insurrection.
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Oh, and since I randomly saw a photo of AF One earlier today -
It is ludicrously far down the list of priorities, but President Biden WILL cancel the re-paint, yes?
WASHINGTON — One of the first queries posed to President Joe Biden’s new administration was whether the president would seek to undo a controversial change to the iconic Air Force One paint scheme proposed by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
For now, it’s a question that the White House has no intention of answering.
“I can confirm for you here the president has not spent a moment thinking about the color scheme of Air Force One,†White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters during a press conference Friday. Psaki was first asked about the Air Force One’s paint scheme shortly after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.