Here’s President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier this evening. Video below, English transcript after the jump: (emphasis mine)
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Another Jan6 Committee Open Thread: Takin’ Notes On A Criminal F*cking Conspiracy
… Which was, after all, Cassidy Hutchinson’s job…
Again, this is enough for even the feds to very seriously consider charging him on an incitement theory.
Your average DA would already be tipping off the press about when and where to film the perp walk.https://t.co/4ou7Y0lw24
— BrandenburgTestHat (@Popehat) June 28, 2022
Keep in mind, her testimony is devastating mostly bc she heard & saw a lot bc she worked for an ignoramus who didn’t conceal his involvement in the coup. But she wasn’t a planner or participant. Imagine what could happen if—likely when—one of those guys flips & goes public https://t.co/cKPrY3N6Sg
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 28, 2022
Seems like a pretty good insta-summary:
… Hutchinson, who served as executive assistant to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided five stunning revelations about former president Donald Trump’s coup attempt.
1- Meadows and Trump knew there could be violence on Jan. 6 and enabled the mob...
This is the closest we have come to confirming that Trump wanted the armed crowd to march on the Capitol. His attempt to facilitate an armed mob storming the Capitol will be a critical fact in the decision whether to charge him.When Hutchinson warned Meadows that the mob was getting close to the Capitol, he ignored her — even apparently slamming a car door twice as she tried to speak to him. When she finally did convey the information, she said Meadows had a “lack of reaction.” All Meadows wanted to know was how much longer Trump had left in his speech…
2- Trump’s advisers knew that Trump could be exposed to criminal charges.
Hutchinson testified that Cipollone tried to edit Trump’s “Stop the Steal” speech both for legal reasons and for how it would be perceived. The inflammatory elements remained.Cipollone also weighed in on Jan. 3 against Trump’s request to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Hutchinson said Cipollone told her, “We need to make sure this doesn’t happen. We have serious legal concerns.” He again pleaded to make sure Trump didn’t go up to the Capitol on the morning of Jan. 6 because, as Hutchinson recalled him saying, “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.”
3- Trump went ballistic when he was told he couldn’t go to the Capitol.…
4- Trump’s ring leaders asked for pardons.
Hutchinson testified that Giuliani and Meadows both requested pardons from Trump after the insurrection. This follows revelations from the committee last week that a number of Republican members of Congress also sought pardons. Any prosecutor would use this as evidence of guilt.5- Other Trump aides are cowards and dissemblers.
Hutchinson’s appearance before the committee placed a spotlight on the list of Trump aides who have refused to come forward with their eyewitness testimony, including Meadows, Ornato, Cipollone and others. In fact, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the committee, read statements from unnamed witnesses that they had been warned by others to be “loyal” to Trump, suggesting the possibility of witness tampering…
Jesus Take the Wheel
I’m guessing a fresh thread on this afternoon’s hearings is welcome. Cheryl Rofer retweeted this a minute ago and god damn there’s nothing like the private, not-for-attribution, off-the-record moral courage of a House Republican. Fuck those assholes.
For those of you waiting for Trump’s perp walk, here’s a thread by a former federal prosecutor who says that Hutchinson’s testimony bolstered the case against him. (Perhaps 57 more reasons?)
Open Thread.
Sweden, Finland and Türkiye have a NATO agreement
And on things that normally would be front page news:
Sweden, Finland and Türkiye(the country formerly known as Turkey) have come to an agreement where Türkiye will support the Baltic states ascension to NATO membership in the immediate future.
Sweden-Finland-Türiokü joint declaration, via @RagipSoylu. pic.twitter.com/vv6QQ5cpYj
— Aron Lund (@aronlund) June 28, 2022
I’ll defer to Adam’s knowledge and expertise for any further comments.
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Jan 6 Hearing – Day 6, Part 2
All things considered, we might have reached a TBogg unit on the previous post, but I am thinking of the mobile users.
Jan 6 Hearing – Day 6 on Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern
Who will the witness be today, and who will be the committee member that appears to have primary responsibility for this hearing? In addition to the chairs, of course.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
New Jan 6 Committee Hearing has been announced.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will hold a hearing Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern.
The committee, in a statement, said it will “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony” during this hearing. The previously unannounced meeting will be the panel’s sixth in a series.
Late last week, the panel spoke with British filmmaker Alex Holder in a closed-door meeting. Holder, who was granted exclusive access to former president Donald Trump and his family for a documentary, provided more than 10 hours of footage to the panel from interviews with Trump, his adult children, former vice president Mike Pence and footage of the Capitol attack itself. Holder, after meeting with the panel, said he was surprised he had not been called sooner but received a subpoena last week from the committee.
Previously, committee Chair Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) had told reporters that he expected the next hearings to occur in July, once the panel had more time to go through new evidence.
Jan 6 Select Committee Feed
Washington Post
Watch on C-SPAN
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AOC’s Instagram – By Request
In one of yesterday’s threads, Baud asked for a review of AOC’s Instagram presence. This is a little harder than it sounds because Instagram is a “walled garden” — Meta wants you to have an account to see content. Also, Instagram has (at least) three kinds of posts. There are regular posts, which are pictures with comments that live forever on your feed. Then there are “stories”, which are 30 second videos that last for a day and then disappear. Stories can be gathered into “features” that live forever, but the person posting needs to choose to do that. Then there are “reels”, which are longer videos. Basically, Instagram is trying to be Instagram, Snapchat and Youtube all in one. So to review AOC’s IG, I took some screenshots, and I’ll relay some other facts from memory, but its difficult to capture the entire flavor of what’s going on there.
AOC has an official Instagram feed and her personal feed. The official feed is curated/created by a staff member in her office. Her personal feed is created solely by her. She posted about this in a story a while ago, so I can’t link to it, but the gist of what she said is that she is still learning the best way to do social media, and she’s settled on IG because she found the platform easier to use to express herself than Twitter. Her Twitter posting has tapered down since she started using Instagram more heavily. Note that she has 8.5 million followers on IG, which is a lot for a politician but not much compared to, say, Beyonce, who has 265 million followers.