When someone mentions witness tampering, I think of Mafia hoods bribing or threatening witnesses, or, in Russia, Putin’s goons killing them and dumping their bodies in the river that flowing through Moscow. It looks like Trump’s gang has joined the party. Cassidy Hutchinson, who testifie[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
June 30th, 2022 - 5:50 pm § in Donald Trump
Could Secret Service official who disputed limo testimony pass a lie detector test?
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s chief of staff, testified that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and when his Secret Service escort told him they were taking him to the White House, he tried to grab the driver and wheel. This was immediately disputed by Tony Ornato, [...]
June 29th, 2022 - 9:23 pm § in Politics
Fake electors identified
Bogus electoral slates were signed by 84 people from 7 states. According to Raw Story, these are the names of the fake electors. For details about their backgrounds, go here. Arizona (11) Nancy Cottle, Loraine B. Pellegrino, Tyler Bowyer, Jake Hoffman, Anthony Kern, Jim Lamon, Robert Montgomery,[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 2:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who is Cassidy Hutchison?
Besides the witness who shredded the last remnants of whatever illusions of respectability and legality still clung to the Trump gang of seditionists who tried to violently overthrow our government? She’s not a lawyer. Not a Democrat agent, either. Hutchison (bio here) is 25 years old. SheR[...]
The Trump plot in a nutshell
An article in Salon (here) sums up what we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 hearings: “In the public hearings so far, the House Select Committee on January 6 has marshaled facts in fastidious detail showing that former President Trump’s attempted coup was plotted and organized by the pre[...]
Why should anyone take Fox seriously?
Parsing today’s dramatic Jan. 6 testimony, Fox News commentator Martha MacCallum remarked (story here), “I’m not sure that it really shocks anybody that the president, just knowing what we’ve seen, observing him over the years if he got angry, that he might throw his lunch.” While [...]
June 25th, 2022 - 5:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Are the Jan. 6 hearings having any impact?
The public hearings by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot aren’t over, they’re just taking a break until after July 4. These hearings have already revealed that Trump was at the center of a wide-ranging conspiracy to overthrow our government that culminated in the violent[...]
June 18th, 2022 - 11:45 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Why Trump might have wanted the mob to kill Pence
It’s well known Trump was furious with Pence for not cooperating with a scheme to overturn the election, which involved Pence refusing certify electoral votes of key states. This would have either allowed the House to overturn the election, or GOP-controlled legislatures in states Biden won to[...]
June 16th, 2022 - 2:05 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Prominent anti-vax doctor who rioted at Capitol gets prison
Dr. Simone Gold (photo, left, with megaphone; and below, reading script), a prominent anti-vaxxer (see profile here) and ardent Trump supporter, told the judge at her sentencing she has “suffered significant professional consequences due to her decision to enter the Capitol during the riots,&#[...]
June 15th, 2022 - 11:48 pm § in Politics
The Loudermilk “Capitol tour” controversy
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA; profile here) has been accused of leading a “reconnaissance tour” of the Capitol complex by rioters mapping entry and escape routes a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. He denies that, but has refused to cooperate with the House investigation. It̵[...]