cassidy Hutchinson swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help her God, has moved us as decisively beyond questions of incitement and dereliction of duty by President Trump as did the testimony of John Dean before the Watergate Committee 49 years ago.
I too feel frustrated that Orange Cheeto and his co-conspirators haven't been perp walked out of a federal court house. It takes evidence that will stand up in court to get a conviction. Witnesses need first hand knowledge to testify, and their testimony must be corroborated.
Building a case to take down a conspiracy like this takes a long time. It took federal prosecutors approximately 28 months to build the case, gather the evidence, and collect the witnesses to take down John Gotti. Their previous two prosecutions failed (Cheeto's two impeachments failed), so they bided their time and built an unbeatable case. The DOJ is building that case now. People think they're not working because there haven't been any leaks. If the DOJ brings a case against Cheeto that isn't bulletproof, they won't get a second chance and this country will cease to be a democracy. To paraphrase Sean Connery in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade": the quest for a conviction isn't theater, it's a race against evil! If Cheeto is acquitted, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth!
Personally, I'm willing to give the DOJ a bit more time. Eastman gave up his fight about his phone, Fox and OAN struggled to spin Hutchinson's testimony, and I'd bet Meadows, Stone, and Flynn are reevaluating just how much longer they want to carry on being loyal to Cheeto. Gotti had Sammy the Bull turn on him, and Cheeto isn't anywhere near as scary as Gotti.
Has the Jan 6 House Committee found a way to built back trust?
'For would-be authoritarians, the destruction of organizations dedicated to finding out what actually happened is an obvious part of the path to power. If leaders can convince people not to believe anything at all, then they can substitute the false narratives that justify their own limitless power.' (Atlantic)
This is exactly what we have been living through for the last 5+ years but, even so, TC wrote that THE SCAMS DON'T WORK NOW because of the narrative the January 6 House committee has been crafting. Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony didn't happen in a vacuum. It was perfectly laid after five hearings had demonstrated that January 6th attack on the Capitol was not a protest but a planned insurgency by Trump; that the 2020 election was not fraudulent but the cleanest in the country's history; that Trump launched a pressure campaign on Pence to reject the votes and either declare Trump the winner or send the votes back to the states to be counted again; detailed Trump's unsuccessful efforts to stop state legislatures and governors from certifying the results of the election and his wide-ranging efforts to coerce the Justice Department into overturning the 2020 election, … and then SURPRISE, along comes Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows,
Remember folks, except for the moving testimony from former poll workers, daughter Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, former poll workers, all the testimony about Trump's lies where by Republicans.
The Jan 6 House committee has ' …created a giant fact-checking project designed not only to write an accurate account of what happened in the run-up to the Capitol attack, but to convince people to believe it. The point is not to establish whether some detail that one witness reveals is true or false, but rather to tell a larger story, using a wide range of perspectives, delivered in a manner optimally designed to create trust. (Atlantic)
As a supplement to TC's fine depiction of the work by the January 6 House Committee you may be interested in Anne Applebaum's 'The Reason Liz Cheney Is Narrating the January 6 Story',
'The committee is laying out the facts in a way optimally designed to cultivate trust.' See link below.. I was unable to gift it but as I am a subscriber, I hope the link below works for you. I apologize if it does not
Which federal agency is it that removes the Secret Service detail tasked with protecting Thugee Orange when he is being detained on charges of sedition?
Tom, if you haven't already, read Heather Cox Richardson's letter for today (7/1) - she lays out a future case the Supremes have decided to take on, again without any real need to do so, thus proving they have mischief on their little minds. The case is from North Carolina, and if the Court allows the Republican plaintiffs to win, state legislatures will have the right to disregard the voters' choices and select the winners of state elections and national elections by choosing the electors they want..... It really IS for ALL the fucking marbles.....
Although certainly not the most important pieces of information about what occurred behind the scenes before and during J6, the description of plates being broken and catsup dripping down the wall, the temper tantrum in the "Beast," the insistence on taking down the "mags" and the complete abdication of interest by the Chief of Staff in the attack on the Capitol, reminded me so much of a work environment I once experienced. I have long wondered how supposedly "intelligent" people, people who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the law could continue to work for a man who was so clearly a Mob Boss, consumed with his own importance, a pathological narcissist, and half crazy (if not fully nuts) with power.
But I worked for someone like that once. He was, in addition to being all of the above-mentioned adjectives a rageaholic. His fearsome tantrums and threats of violence were terrifying to behold. He was a large man, and he used his size to intimidate others. For some odd reason, I was literally the only person who could bring him down from his towering rages. It was probably because we had at one time been "colleagues" before he was promoted to be my "boss." It was such a trying and emotional effort for me and so additionally terrifying that I would be unsuccessful and then become his next target, that I eventually jumped ship and left his school district. When I did, he threatened me again and insisted I write the press release about my departure in such a way that it lauded him. So, I "get" why a young woman like Cassidy stayed there. It might not have been the glamour of the job, the contact with powerful people, being on a first name basis with her boss, the Chief of Staff, and her feeling that her work was meaningful, but it could have possibly been a deep-seated fear of all those surrounding her - especially the Mob Boss at the top of the heap. These are just thoughts but having heard that description of the chaotic and toxic work environment that was the WH for four years, it did make me think that more revelations are yet to come and more glimpses into that sick and twisted world they like to call Trumpworld.
Cassidy will go down in my book as one of the bravest young persons we have met thus far. She might not have had the courage to "speak truth to power" while being employed, but she certainly spoke truth before a global audience and did so UNDER OATH.
well done again, Tom. I'm not convinced (as I've suggested before) that Engel and Ornato wouldn't lie under oath. obviously, when it happened, they were freaked out and blabbed to someone they assumed was another True Believer, who wouldn't take their stories beyond that moment. they were wrong and, as you say, outrage softens, fear is sometimes hard to recapture, treason becomes trivial etc. etc. but if those guys stay in T***pworld, they figure they'll be amply rewarded, which means that they're unobservant, dumb and, generally, never knew or have forgotten how actual, reasonably normal human beings behave. as for Ginni Thomas: she's both crazy and very crafty (I just read that, twenty years after her hubby's confirmation, she called Anita Hill and asked her to APOLOGIZE), and my assumption is that she NEVER, EVER had any intention of testifying (if it was a public appearance, I have no doubt she'd have tried hard to create chaos to discredit the proceedings), but made the announcement of her "eagerness" performatively, having planned the whole thing with her lawyer. again, just my own hunches. but they feel pretty correct to me.
Seems to me such documented evidence exists that if Giuliani and Meadows aren't both subpeonad next week by the DOJ to appear before a Grand Jury then Biden should dismiss and replace Garland. After all there is the elephantine matter of those many Members of Congress who not only supported but also participated in this conspiracy. They are yet to be fully dragged into the light and need to be exposed before the midterms if the legal proceedings somehow can't be initiated to remove them before then.
As a parent and a former teacher, I know how important it is for discipline to be timely. The consequences need to happen closely in time to the bad behavior. Trump has NEVER been held accountable for his behavior as a child or adult. For the good of the country, he must be held accountable and face real time consequences.
Apparently Hutchinson's "swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help her God" is not enough for my trumper brothers who say ALL her evidence is "hearsay", and hearsay is LYING. Is this Faux News new diversion tactic?
Thanks TC for another great post, laying it on the line. You’re so right: the gop noise machine is set on high and the messaging about trump in the Beast is focused. WHEN are the dim Dems going to realize this really is war. The mob was out to kill. Garland has to move up the chain and reach the top. Now. Not. Later. Dems should have massive attack ads out there. This is no time to think there is any possibility that the basic gop is anything other than evil. Their militias are preparing/prepared and the Gilead Court (love that TC)) has said to them: Arm Up. Sorry to end on that. Peace and Courage.
News Bulletin: 'Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former White House counsel Pat Cipollone' TC's, THE SCAMS DON'T WORK NOW may be more and more true with each passing day. Wouldn't that be nice?
'The decision followed extensive negotiations between Cipollone and the committee, as well as sharply escalating pressure on him in recent days to come forward and testify. Committee members have come to believe that the former counsel’s testimony could be critical to their investigation, given his proximity to Donald Trump and presence during key moments before, during and after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The subpoena is likely to trigger a lengthy legal battle.' (WAPO) See gifted link below.
The fact that the Secret service would dispute her take just smacks of “locker room talk”. Of course they’re team Trump, duh. If the Presidents security was the issue, how could they allow armed “protesters” to proceed to the Capitol? Why weren’t they more concerned about what might occur with armed vigilantes running around DC? Because they knew they were after their enemies. They just didn’t want their prize caught in the crossfire… assuming there would be crossfire. Why wouldn’t the DOJ have started an investigation immediately? Are they team Trump too? We know the SCOTUS is… unabashedly… and boldly stripping freedoms on a near daily basis. Seems we’re careening downhill at a breathtaking pace and not a Dem in sight to save us. I want to be angry but my disgust reigns.
I too feel frustrated that Orange Cheeto and his co-conspirators haven't been perp walked out of a federal court house. It takes evidence that will stand up in court to get a conviction. Witnesses need first hand knowledge to testify, and their testimony must be corroborated.
Building a case to take down a conspiracy like this takes a long time. It took federal prosecutors approximately 28 months to build the case, gather the evidence, and collect the witnesses to take down John Gotti. Their previous two prosecutions failed (Cheeto's two impeachments failed), so they bided their time and built an unbeatable case. The DOJ is building that case now. People think they're not working because there haven't been any leaks. If the DOJ brings a case against Cheeto that isn't bulletproof, they won't get a second chance and this country will cease to be a democracy. To paraphrase Sean Connery in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade": the quest for a conviction isn't theater, it's a race against evil! If Cheeto is acquitted, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth!
Personally, I'm willing to give the DOJ a bit more time. Eastman gave up his fight about his phone, Fox and OAN struggled to spin Hutchinson's testimony, and I'd bet Meadows, Stone, and Flynn are reevaluating just how much longer they want to carry on being loyal to Cheeto. Gotti had Sammy the Bull turn on him, and Cheeto isn't anywhere near as scary as Gotti.
Eventually someone actually says: "The Emperor has no clothes."
I apologize for the imagery.
Has the Jan 6 House Committee found a way to built back trust?
'For would-be authoritarians, the destruction of organizations dedicated to finding out what actually happened is an obvious part of the path to power. If leaders can convince people not to believe anything at all, then they can substitute the false narratives that justify their own limitless power.' (Atlantic)
This is exactly what we have been living through for the last 5+ years but, even so, TC wrote that THE SCAMS DON'T WORK NOW because of the narrative the January 6 House committee has been crafting. Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony didn't happen in a vacuum. It was perfectly laid after five hearings had demonstrated that January 6th attack on the Capitol was not a protest but a planned insurgency by Trump; that the 2020 election was not fraudulent but the cleanest in the country's history; that Trump launched a pressure campaign on Pence to reject the votes and either declare Trump the winner or send the votes back to the states to be counted again; detailed Trump's unsuccessful efforts to stop state legislatures and governors from certifying the results of the election and his wide-ranging efforts to coerce the Justice Department into overturning the 2020 election, … and then SURPRISE, along comes Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows,
Remember folks, except for the moving testimony from former poll workers, daughter Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, former poll workers, all the testimony about Trump's lies where by Republicans.
The Jan 6 House committee has ' …created a giant fact-checking project designed not only to write an accurate account of what happened in the run-up to the Capitol attack, but to convince people to believe it. The point is not to establish whether some detail that one witness reveals is true or false, but rather to tell a larger story, using a wide range of perspectives, delivered in a manner optimally designed to create trust. (Atlantic)
As a supplement to TC's fine depiction of the work by the January 6 House Committee you may be interested in Anne Applebaum's 'The Reason Liz Cheney Is Narrating the January 6 Story',
'The committee is laying out the facts in a way optimally designed to cultivate trust.' See link below.. I was unable to gift it but as I am a subscriber, I hope the link below works for you. I apologize if it does not
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/jan-6-hearings-fact-check-trump-supporters-2020-election/661428/
Which federal agency is it that removes the Secret Service detail tasked with protecting Thugee Orange when he is being detained on charges of sedition?
Lest we forget, Ms. Hutchinson also worked for Senator Jostedeph McCruzarthy. I guess she was a Democratic plant all along.
Tom, if you haven't already, read Heather Cox Richardson's letter for today (7/1) - she lays out a future case the Supremes have decided to take on, again without any real need to do so, thus proving they have mischief on their little minds. The case is from North Carolina, and if the Court allows the Republican plaintiffs to win, state legislatures will have the right to disregard the voters' choices and select the winners of state elections and national elections by choosing the electors they want..... It really IS for ALL the fucking marbles.....
Although certainly not the most important pieces of information about what occurred behind the scenes before and during J6, the description of plates being broken and catsup dripping down the wall, the temper tantrum in the "Beast," the insistence on taking down the "mags" and the complete abdication of interest by the Chief of Staff in the attack on the Capitol, reminded me so much of a work environment I once experienced. I have long wondered how supposedly "intelligent" people, people who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the law could continue to work for a man who was so clearly a Mob Boss, consumed with his own importance, a pathological narcissist, and half crazy (if not fully nuts) with power.
But I worked for someone like that once. He was, in addition to being all of the above-mentioned adjectives a rageaholic. His fearsome tantrums and threats of violence were terrifying to behold. He was a large man, and he used his size to intimidate others. For some odd reason, I was literally the only person who could bring him down from his towering rages. It was probably because we had at one time been "colleagues" before he was promoted to be my "boss." It was such a trying and emotional effort for me and so additionally terrifying that I would be unsuccessful and then become his next target, that I eventually jumped ship and left his school district. When I did, he threatened me again and insisted I write the press release about my departure in such a way that it lauded him. So, I "get" why a young woman like Cassidy stayed there. It might not have been the glamour of the job, the contact with powerful people, being on a first name basis with her boss, the Chief of Staff, and her feeling that her work was meaningful, but it could have possibly been a deep-seated fear of all those surrounding her - especially the Mob Boss at the top of the heap. These are just thoughts but having heard that description of the chaotic and toxic work environment that was the WH for four years, it did make me think that more revelations are yet to come and more glimpses into that sick and twisted world they like to call Trumpworld.
Cassidy will go down in my book as one of the bravest young persons we have met thus far. She might not have had the courage to "speak truth to power" while being employed, but she certainly spoke truth before a global audience and did so UNDER OATH.
well done again, Tom. I'm not convinced (as I've suggested before) that Engel and Ornato wouldn't lie under oath. obviously, when it happened, they were freaked out and blabbed to someone they assumed was another True Believer, who wouldn't take their stories beyond that moment. they were wrong and, as you say, outrage softens, fear is sometimes hard to recapture, treason becomes trivial etc. etc. but if those guys stay in T***pworld, they figure they'll be amply rewarded, which means that they're unobservant, dumb and, generally, never knew or have forgotten how actual, reasonably normal human beings behave. as for Ginni Thomas: she's both crazy and very crafty (I just read that, twenty years after her hubby's confirmation, she called Anita Hill and asked her to APOLOGIZE), and my assumption is that she NEVER, EVER had any intention of testifying (if it was a public appearance, I have no doubt she'd have tried hard to create chaos to discredit the proceedings), but made the announcement of her "eagerness" performatively, having planned the whole thing with her lawyer. again, just my own hunches. but they feel pretty correct to me.
Seems to me such documented evidence exists that if Giuliani and Meadows aren't both subpeonad next week by the DOJ to appear before a Grand Jury then Biden should dismiss and replace Garland. After all there is the elephantine matter of those many Members of Congress who not only supported but also participated in this conspiracy. They are yet to be fully dragged into the light and need to be exposed before the midterms if the legal proceedings somehow can't be initiated to remove them before then.
As a parent and a former teacher, I know how important it is for discipline to be timely. The consequences need to happen closely in time to the bad behavior. Trump has NEVER been held accountable for his behavior as a child or adult. For the good of the country, he must be held accountable and face real time consequences.
Apparently Hutchinson's "swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help her God" is not enough for my trumper brothers who say ALL her evidence is "hearsay", and hearsay is LYING. Is this Faux News new diversion tactic?
Thanks TC for another great post, laying it on the line. You’re so right: the gop noise machine is set on high and the messaging about trump in the Beast is focused. WHEN are the dim Dems going to realize this really is war. The mob was out to kill. Garland has to move up the chain and reach the top. Now. Not. Later. Dems should have massive attack ads out there. This is no time to think there is any possibility that the basic gop is anything other than evil. Their militias are preparing/prepared and the Gilead Court (love that TC)) has said to them: Arm Up. Sorry to end on that. Peace and Courage.
News Bulletin: 'Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former White House counsel Pat Cipollone' TC's, THE SCAMS DON'T WORK NOW may be more and more true with each passing day. Wouldn't that be nice?
'The decision followed extensive negotiations between Cipollone and the committee, as well as sharply escalating pressure on him in recent days to come forward and testify. Committee members have come to believe that the former counsel’s testimony could be critical to their investigation, given his proximity to Donald Trump and presence during key moments before, during and after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The subpoena is likely to trigger a lengthy legal battle.' (WAPO) See gifted link below.
https://wapo.st/3R0ef6A
The fact that the Secret service would dispute her take just smacks of “locker room talk”. Of course they’re team Trump, duh. If the Presidents security was the issue, how could they allow armed “protesters” to proceed to the Capitol? Why weren’t they more concerned about what might occur with armed vigilantes running around DC? Because they knew they were after their enemies. They just didn’t want their prize caught in the crossfire… assuming there would be crossfire. Why wouldn’t the DOJ have started an investigation immediately? Are they team Trump too? We know the SCOTUS is… unabashedly… and boldly stripping freedoms on a near daily basis. Seems we’re careening downhill at a breathtaking pace and not a Dem in sight to save us. I want to be angry but my disgust reigns.
https://youtu.be/US-kUWd7tAg
I agree, TC, "[t]ime is of the absolute essence."
Thanks! Will (gently) tell them this! Good news about Fox reporters though, because THAT's who they will listen to.