“A Southern California man has been arrested after being charged with joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol while trying to impersonate a member of the media,” NBC News reported on Saturday, July 10, 2021 (read story here). “Matthew Thomas Purse, 45, was arrested in Irvine[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
July 9th, 2021 - 6:23 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
They weren’t tourists and it wasn’t a protest
From a CNN story published on Friday, July l9, 2021 (read it here): “Officer AW stepped out of a tunnel where police were congregated and into the crowd to help Rosanne Boyland, 34, a rioter and QAnon supporter who was trampled by the mob. … “Prosecutors say AW’s body-worn [...]
July 3rd, 2021 - 3:32 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Public university lets Michael Flynn keep honorary degree
“The University of Rhode Island decided not to revoke an honorary degree bestowed upon Michael Flynn,” Military.com reported on June 24, 2021 (story here). Flynn, who was born in Rhode Island and grew up there, was a juvenile delinquent and a poor student in college, but graduated from U[...]
A “peaceful” riot
Many Republicans, with the help of enablers like Fox News, have tried to falsely portray the Capitol riot as a peaceful protest, and even compared the rioters to “tourists”. Here’s one of those so-called “peaceful” protesters: “Forty-three-year-old Shane Jason Woo[...]
Giuliani facing NY disbarment
Rudy Giuliani was handed an interim suspension of his New York license to practice law on Thursday, June 24, 2021, pending disciplinary proceedings that could lead to his permanent disbarment, CNN has just reported (see story here). The judges hearing a disciplinary complaint against Giuliani consid[...]
Remorseful Capitol rioter gets probation
A Capitol rioter drew a sentence of probation, community service, restitution, being prohibited from own a gun, and submitting to drug tests after profusely apologizing for participating in a violent attempt to overthrow our government. Anna Morgan-Lloyd (mugshot, left), 49, who traveled from Indian[...]
June 18th, 2021 - 2:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Trump lawyers face sanctions
“Sidney Powell and other attorneys who defended former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election have been summoned for a sanctions hearing in a Michigan federal court,” The Hill reported on Friday, June 18, 2021. “On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lin[...]
June 18th, 2021 - 12:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Deserve had nothing to do with it
Ashli Babbitt, the Capitol rioter who died from a police-inflicted gunshot wound to her shoulder, has become a symbol. To Trump supporters, she’s a martyr, which is nonsense; to some of her critics, she’s a domestic terrorist, which almost certainly is an exaggeration. By all appearances[...]
June 15th, 2021 - 4:24 pm § in Politics
Ex-GOP Rep’s bizarre and pathetic “protest”
It seems Dana Rohrabacher was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Not as a working congressman; he was bounced from the House in the 2018 “blue wave” election. “I marched to protest, and I thought the election was fraudulent and it should be investigated, and I wanted to express tha[...]
June 11th, 2021 - 9:33 pm § in Politics
Oregon GOP legislator expelled for colluding with rioters
Update: The Oregon legislature expelled GOP Rep. Mike Nearman on Thursday, June 10, 2021. Republicans joined with Democrats in kicking him out; the only “no” vote was cast by Nearman himself. His party will appoint a successor to fill his seat. Read the latest here. “Just days befo[...]