It’s almost time for the season finale of the J6 hearings. They start at 8 pm EST. I can’t wait! I understand they may be showing outtakes of the video Trump eventually made to address the violence at the Capitol. Please feel free to comment before, during, and after the hearing.
In related news, CNN is reporting that the Homeland Security inspector general has told the Secret Service to stop its own investigation into the missing text messages because of an “ongoing criminal investigation.”
Greg Sargent writes that Kevin McCarthy said the quiet part out loud —
On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Wednesday night, the California Republican essentially came right out and said it: We Republicans refused participation in the committee’s investigation for the express purpose of enabling us to cast it as a partisan exercise and therefore illegitimate.
A Tennessee man on trial for storming the Capitol is not doing well with his testimony. For example,
When prosecutors confronted him with a text he sent to his wife, saying it was “good” that someone planted bombs near the Capitol, Bledsoe said he really didn’t mean “good.” He also claimed he didn’t really mean it when he wrote that he “stormed the Capitol.”
In an attempt to explain why he climbed a wall to get to the Capitol, Bledsoe said his home in Tennessee was “quite a bit different” than D.C., and that he climbed walls back home regularly.
Yeah, they haven’t introduced “stairs” or “doors” into Tennessee yet. They’re still working on paved roads and plumbing, I take it.
"LOOK!!!! This place has an indoor outhous… Outhouseinroom.
An' a CEEEEEEEEEEMENT POND!
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!"
Do you realize it’s been 60 years since the Beverly Hillbillies went on the air? And the “ceeement pond” still breaks me up.
One particular episode of the Beverly Hillbillies I got a kick out of was the one where Granny and Jethro were in the billiard room. There was a stuffed head of a water buffalo hanging on the wall, and Granny reasoned that if they were in the billy-yard room playing on the billy-yard table that the water buffalo's head must be a billy-yard.
That's kind of the same logic that Tucker Carlson used when he asked his audience how can you have an insurrection without guns? Makes you wonder how the Romans delt with insurrectionist who didn't have guns.
My immediate reaction after conclusion of today's episode of "Wake the hell up America! Wake the hell up Merrick Garland" is…
Until Donald Trump is indicted and prosecuted for J6 and its planning, all politicians have a green light to try coups in the future.
Other news from today discussed in more detail that the DOJ was essentially avoiding discussing J6 and Donald Trump until the testimony a couple weeks ago by the Mark Meadows aide. Your basic 18 months of failing to have a serious investigation of Trump's role directing the coup attempt.
My four posts at MockPaperScissors tonight:
Killer testimony: Pence’s SS detail were saying goodbye to their families.
2 hours in: Well, it’s now gone from dereliction of duty straight to treason.
Yoo hoo! Merrick Garland, are you watching?
His final statement shows that he’s properly named KinZINGER.
I suspect Trump is more worried than ever about prosecution.
I suspect Trump is more worried than ever about defections. (somebody pointed out Trump is trying to call potential witnesses himself – because he doesn't trust anyone.) It's not just defections of potential witnesses – Trump can see that Republicans who cling to the big lie this year know they will be permanently politically doomed if Trump goes down legally. (Dr. Oz is already deleting Trump's endorsement from his website, I read. He's won the primary and one would guess, thinks he will lose in the General if he's identified as Trump's lap dog.)
So Trump plans to escape criminal prosecution by being elected POTUS. But (maybe) more and more Republicans will want to avoid taking a stand on the 202 election or whether Trump is responsible for J6. And a potentially crowded field of Republicans running against Trump, in just months.
The wheels are coming off the clown car… as it reaches max speed.
Good episode. I particularly liked the fact that they layed all the blame for J6 at Trump's feet. There was no pussyfooting around concerning suspicions of culpability. All statements by the committee were positive and unambiguous regarding Trump's guilt.
I was also pleased to hear that another round of hearing will be coming in September. I suspect that the next round will focus on Trump's co-conspirators and henchmen.
I liked Rep. Lauria's statement saying, "to me this is personal". I share that same sentiment. It really irks me to think that a draft dodging bag of shit who can't speak a complete sentence without a lie being found somewhere within that sentence can have such a total disregard for our country. Trump is a man without honor who needs prison time to reflect on his moral and ethical shortcomings.
Swami,
As far as morals and ethics are concerned, tRUMP is like an orange black-hole that rips those out of others who come too close.
As a "human being," he's a moral and ethical void.
The man is a monster.
A Super-sociopath.
A political T-Rex.
This was the most damning presentation yet. The committee is doing a great job putting the pieces together and plainly presenting them. That they're going to spend the next month sifting through more evidence and taking on more witnesses doesn't bode well for Trump's plan to regain the presidency to avoid prosecution. Stuff is sticking now. His fundraising is down, supporters are jumping ship, and its no longer a done deal that if he runs everyone will stand back and get out of his way to await his inevitable anointing.
Then there was Sen "Hee" Hawley who provided SNL grade comic relief last night when he stole the show in ways he'll never live down. One minute you see the brave patriot, raising a near skeletal fist in solidarity with the insurrectionists while safely behind the barricades and phalanx of cops. Next you see him giving Usain Bolt a run for his money as he leaves cops in the dust sprinting down a hallway to make good his get away as the people he riled up are closing in.