Kevin McCarthy, with the help of Donald Trump, is Speaker of the House. Here is what some of the members of the House Select Committee on January 6th are saying: Liz Cheney: Adam Kinzinger: Adam Schiff: Jamie Raskin:
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The Wall Street Journal on Trump’s dereliction of duty on January 6th
Straight from the editorial page of the conservative-leaning newspaper which also happens to be the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States: No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out […]
Hawley on the run
Watch: Here is Phillip Bump in today’s Washington Post: Given everything that’s happened since, it’s easy to forget the role that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) played in validating Donald Trump’s effort to undermine the 2020 election results. In the weeks […]
What did we learn last night about Trump and January 6, 2021?
Last night the January 6th Committee provided more evidence to prove that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt, depraved, and immoral president in the United States history. Here is what we learned last night: Donald Trump ignored all […]
The Washington Post calls for a criminal investigation into Trump’s role on January 6th
Here is the July 2 editorial: After another week of riveting testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee, it is natural to wonder: How many laws were broken, by whom, and will there be prosecutions? Some argue that former president Donald Trump […]
Scott Perry, “Italygate,” and a pardon request
Sadly, this guy is my congressman. Here is The Washington Post: Of all the fantastical false claims of fraud and vote manipulation in the 2020 presidential election, “Italygate” was one of the most extreme. And Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) was […]
It’s time to drain the swamp
I knew Trump’s catchphrase, “drain the swamp” would one day be good for something. Those watching the January 6th hearings are witnessing the machinations of the most corrupt president in American history and the people who stood with him and […]
“God is watching us”
Yesterday, retired federal judge Michael Luttig testified before the House Select Committee on January 6th. Luttig is a veteran of the Reagan administration, clerked for Antonin Scalia and Warren Burger, and held various positions in the George W. Bush White […]
It’s time to step up, Mike. Do it for God and country!
Today the House January 6th Select Committee portrayed former vice-president Mike Pence as the savior of the republic. We learned that Pence refused to succumb to Donald Trump’s attempts to get him to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He and […]
Dinesh D’Souza, a Christian apologist, calls Bill Barr an overweight, immobile, “Fatso.”
Dinesh D’Souza is the former president of a Christian College and the author of What is So Great About Christianity. He is also a financial huckster who needed a Trump pardon. His version of “Christian” politics was on full display […]
The Trump grift
At yesterday’s January 6th Select Committee hearing we learned that Donald Trump raised $250,000, 000 on the false belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden. In other words, Trump not only lied to his followers, but […]
Evangelical roundup: January 6th hearing edition
How are evangelicals responding to Thursday night’s January 6th Select Committee hearing? I think the real story here is how many public evangelicals said nothing so far, I am sure there are all kinds of reasons why these folks did […]
Early thoughts on the first January 6th Committee hearing
I am building these comments around the live-tweeting I did last night. I am sure we will all have more to say in the coming weeks. Bill Barr began by calling the idea that Biden stole the election “bullshit”: Later, […]
My congressman, Scott Perry, asked for a presidential pardon after January 6th
Here is Myah Ward at Politico: Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, as well as multiple other Republican lawmakers, contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021, to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn […]
Fox News will not air the January 6 committee hearings
Here is Philip Bump at The Washington Post: The Republican Party made a decision early last year that it would rather use the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a cudgel against Democrats than engage in […]
Maybe the prophets of doom are correct. Perhaps we ARE in the “last days.”
In case you missed it, Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was texting with Donald Trump’s Chief of State Mark Meadows in the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 […]
January 6 Committee: Trump was told multiple times by multiple sources that there was no voter fraud in 2020
But he kept saying it anyway. Here is The Washington Post: A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign […]
January 6 Committee makes a case for criminal charges against Trump
Here we go: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit […]
The National Archives confirms that Trump ripped-up presidential documents
After receiving over 700 pages of documents from the National Archives, the House January 6th Committee noticed that some of the papers seemed to have been ripped-up and reconstructed using tape. The National Archives has confirmed that this is indeed […]
Trump was planning to use the military to seize voting machines following the 2020 election
Politico got access to some of the materials from the National Archives that were recently turned over to the January 6, 2021 House of Representative select committee. Among the papers was a Trump executive order directing the Department of Defense […]