Trump reacted to “hang Mike Pence” chants during the Capitol riot “by saying maybe the mob was right,” the Guardian reported on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (read story here), based on a New York Times report. (The latter is paywalled; the Guardian is not.) The Times reported that[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
Clarence Thomas’s supreme hypocrisy
From Huffington Post, May 14, 2022 (see story here): “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas clutched his pearls on Friday as he regarded Americans so distraught over the prospect of losing human rights in their country that some showed up at justices’ Washington-area homes to address the peo[...]
All subpoenas are not equal
The House committee investigating the Capitol riot issued subpoenas this week to several GOP House members, including GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy. They debated it for months, “wrestling with whether they had the constitutional right to do so, and … if they wanted to set such a preced[...]
The guns of January
Brian Ulrich (photo, left), “one of the 11 members of the Oath Keepers facing sedition-related charges” from the Capitol riot, pleaded guilty on Friday, April 29, 2022, CNN reported here. Briefly, he’s going to prison for taking guns to Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. CNN descr[...]
April 21st, 2022 - 8:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Followers, not leaders
They talked tough after the Capitol riot. McCarthy “privately said he would tell Trump to resign,” and McConnell “said he believed Trump’s behavior warranted impeachment.” (Read story here.) But nothing came of it. That was the last thing GOP voters wanted. So when t[...]
April 15th, 2022 - 12:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Why Sen. Lee and Rep. Roy realized Trump’s coup attempt was illegal
Trying to understand Republicans is like an oceanographer peering at the water’s surface and trying to figure out what’s beneath it. I’ll give it a try. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is a hard-right conservative who represents a deep-red state. He’s also a lawyer, and former assistant[...]
April 13th, 2022 - 5:35 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
One riot ruined his life
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the incendiary Georgia Republican denied seats on House committees for saying Democrats should be killed, has called investigations of the violent Jan. 6 insurrection an “over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time” (see story here). That o[...]
Armed Capitol rioter gets 4 years
Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 72, of Falkville, Alabama (pop. 1,200), believed Trump’s “stolen election” lies. So he drove to Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 to do something, he wasn’t sure what, about it. He took with him “a handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, hundreds of rounds of a[...]
March 25th, 2022 - 10:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Shouldn’t Thomas recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases?
Why bother to ask? He won’t, and there’s no way to make him. That’s the end of it. It’s not a closely-held secret that his wife, Ginni Thomas, is a hyper-partisan dickhead wrapped in rightwing conspiracy theories. She’s been that for a long time (see her profile here). [...]
March 25th, 2022 - 8:21 pm § in Law and Courts
WANTED — $15,000 REWARD
BE A HERO! TURN THIS FUGITIVE IN! He’s accused of “punching two officers in the face, kneeing a police officer, dragging an officer down stairs, charging at law enforcement with a flag pole, grabbing an officer’s neck and pinning them to the ground and ramming a police shield into [...]