Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

This fight is for everything.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Battle won, war still ongoing.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

People are complicated. Love is not.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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Great Find: CNET Has a Great Recap of All 6 Hearings So Far

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As I was searching for links for Jan 6 Haring #7 today, I stumbled on this great CNET Recap of all 6 hearings so far.  You have to scroll down the page a bit to get to the heart of it all.

CNET has a great recap of all 6 hearings!

What did the committee reveal in the first hearing?

The first hearing, on June 9, gave an overview of what to expect while also showing never-before-seen deposition testimony and footage from the Capitol riot.

Committee chairman Rep. Thompson, and Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee vice chairwoman and a Republican from Wyoming, spoke throughout the two-hour hearing. They revealed how officials from Trump’s administration didn’t believe his claims of voter fraud, how multiple Republican members of Congress sought presidential pardons for their roles in trying to overturn the election, and how, when the mob chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” the vice president, Trump said: “He deserves it.”

The second half of the hearing included testimony from two witnesses: documentary filmmaker Nick Quested and Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards.

(much more at the link)

What did the second hearing tell us?

The June 13 hearing looked at the false claims made by Trump and his administration that the 2020 presidential election was supposedly stolen, which has been dubbed the “Big Lie.”

Video testimony from former White House attorney Eric Herschmann, former White House staff secretary Derek Lyons, former Attorney General Bill Barr and others, played during the hearing, showed those officials confirming there was no basis for the claims of election fraud.

(much more at the link)

What was the third hearing about?

Almost the entire hearing on June 16 was about Pence. The committee detailed how the former vice president didn’t have the authority to stop the counting of electoral votes. John Eastman, an attorney who was advising Trump, promoted a legal theory of Pence having this power, although it isn’t established in the Constitution.

(much more at the link)

What happened in the fourth hearing?

The committee first heard the testimony of Rusty Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, in the fourth hearing on June 21. He testified on how Trump and his lawyer at the time, Rudy Giuliani, urged Bowers to agree to put forth pro-Trump electors instead of the legitimate electors the state was already going to send to DC. Bowers also said two Republican members of Congress asked him to support Trump’s plan to decertify Biden’s victory, which he didn’t agree to.

After a recess, the committee heard testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, his deputy Gabe Sterling along with Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman.

(much more at the link)

What was revealed in the fifth hearing?

The June 23 hearing featured witness testimony from Jeffrey A. Rosen, the former acting attorney general; Richard Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general; and Steven Engel, the former assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. All three testified about the pressure they received from the White House to indulge Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen from him.

(much more at the link)

What happened in the sixth hearing?

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide for White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified on June 28 about the events on and leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. In the days before the riot, Hutchinson says, there were concerns about how “things might get real, real bad on January 6.” On the day of, she says she heard Trump was warned that some rioters attending his speech at the Ellipse had weapons. Also, the former president had demanded the Secret Service remove the metal detectors, referred to as “mags,” in order to allow more people to be in the crowd. She said Trump said of those with weapons, “they’re not here to hurt me.”

(much more at the link)

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It’s so good that I would love to copy the whole thing here, but I am being good.  Go read the whole thing – their great work deserves the clicks.

Open thread.

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56Comments

  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    Okay, I had this scheduled for earlier but then Anne Laurie put up a post shortly before this was scheduled, so I moved it back.  Then David’s post went up shortly before the re-scheduled time, so I moved it again.

    So I’m just leaving this one up now because the recap should definitely come before today’s hearing.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “they’re not here to hurt me.”

    Just to indicate how much of an idiot TFG is, it would be easy for someone who DID intend to hurt him to slip in with the armed insurrectionists and put the kibosh on Mango Mussolini.

  6. 6.

    Alison Rose

    I am SHOOK by the JWST images, holy Lord.

    The Carina Nebula. JFC. I know I’m probably in the minority here as being someone who believes wholeheartedly in both science and God, but to me, images like this are proof of both. These are the most amazing things I’ve ever seen, and how lucky are we to live in the timeline that gets to experience them?

    Too bad we had to share the timeline with Trump.

  10. 10.

    Ken

    @WaterGirl: Did we learn who the 2 Republican members of congress are?

    I don’t think so. Which could be part of a strategy — I suspect more than two tried to do this, so the committee might as well make them all sweat.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @H.E.Wolf: I can’t believe that we heard from Caroline Edwards at the FIRST hearing, and I also can’t believe that Cassidy Hutchinson was in the SIXTH hearing.

    Am I the only person who thinks that the Rs didn’t think the Jan 6 committee testimony would have the teeth that it does?  That they thought that the hearings would be more blah-blah-blah?

    And then when it turned out that the hearings DID have teeth, and they realized stuff WAS going to get out… that that’s when people started scrambling to contact the committee in hopes of preserving their reputations (ha!) and staying out of jail?

  13. 13.

    schrodingers_cat

    @MagdaInBlack: And the leftie blue checks that have descended on Biden and Harris like buzzards (He is too old, she is unlikable, inarticulate blah blah..),they too want to undo the results of an election. The primaries where their faves were defeated by Joe Biden and they couldn’t install one of their own as the VP.

    We see you and what you are doing

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @Ken:  I like the way you think. And maybe there were more than 2!  :-)

    I thought maybe we did learn their names but they had fallen out of my head because of the powerful testimony of Lady Ruby and daughter.

  16. 16.

    MisterForkbeard

    @MagdaInBlack: Funny you should say that. There’s a NEW front in the “HunterBidensLaptop” drama.

    Jack Posobiec is publicizing that 4chan “hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud account” and is putting out 450GB of data. This happened a few days ago. From what I understand, it’s completely unverifiable, they’re claiming that Joe Biden is listed as “Pedo Peter” in Hunter’s contact list, and there’s compromising photos/videos from 2019 of Hunter doing the same things we were already aware of.

    So basically… the whole thing makes no sense, can’t be used as any sort of evidence, and likely has fake stuff inserted into it, and still isn’t real news. But will likely still get a lot of Right attention.

  19. 19.

    stacib

    @WaterGirl: They were remembering the Benghazi hearings and thought the Democrats would be just as theatrical?  I don’t think any of us were prepared for all that these hearings have delivered.  Thinking back to the first day and how many were concerned with how slowly the chairman spoke and worried they would lose viewers / interest.  :-)

  20. 20.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @MisterForkbeard: Trump world is demented. Mr DAW passed by the cafe in my building this morning and saw the TV was tuned to Fox with nobody there watching. He tried to use the channel changer and found someone had yanked the batteries. If someone wants to watch Fox, that’s their sad business. But then deciding that everyone else will watch Fox and only Fox seems lunatic to me.

    Btw, Mr DAW raided the container holding people’s discarded batteries and found one that worked.

  22. 22.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @stacib: Even Democrats I know who haven’t watched the hearings still expect them to be boring, like the usual hearings. Someone a couple of days ago said she didn’t like watching people yell at one another, which of course, doesn’t happen in these hearings

  23. 23.

    jonas

    She said Trump said of those with weapons, “they’re not here to hurt me.”

    Oof. So much for the ol’ “it was a bunch of leftist Antifa infiltrators” or something bs you hear on Fox or AM radio these days. Would Trump have been so sanguine about wading into a crowd of heavily armed leftist goons?

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    What to look for today: That there was communication/​foreknowledge among the SAME people who were in on the “Eastman plot” regarding violence at Capitol on Jan. 6. IOW, if the *purpose* of the mob and militias was to be the “muscle” behind the Eastman scheme (i.e., one big plan).
    https://t.co/Pu5AkDEygk

    — Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 12, 2022

  25. 25.

    Josie

    I just read that Bowers (Speaker of Arizona House) has walked back his support of Trump and says he won’t support him in the Republican primary.

  26. 26.

    catclub

    @Villago Delenda Est: it would be easy for someone who DID intend to hurt him to slip in with the armed insurrectionists and put the kibosh on Mango Mussolini.

     

    IF the Secret Service actually let armed people through, which they did not do.

  28. 28.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @catclub: Which is what TFG wanted them to do at his little rally at the Ellipse.  So his supporters, some of which he KNEW were armed, could get in.

  29. 29.

    zhena gogolia

    @catclub: Right. The point is that Trump is an idiot for asking them to remove the mags because he thought they were all worshipers of him. How could he possibly know that?

  30. 30.

    catclub

    @Alison Rose : ​
     

    I am SHOOK by the JWST images, holy Lord.

    Holy Lord indeed. If there is ever another civilization discovered, did Jesus come to them? if not why not? It will make problems for religions that have a habit of being exclusive.

  32. 32.

    catclub

    @Josie: ​

    Bowers (Speaker of Arizona House)

    I think Bowers was the goofball who said his motivation was that the constitution was a divinely inspired document and Trump tried to step on that. I have strong suspicions that Bowers does not include anything past the tenth amendment in the divinely inspired halo.

    How about the 27th amendment -also part of the constitution?

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @MisterForkbeard: there was a lot of pushback to the OMG! HUNTER BIDEN! crap on twitter yesterday, a lot of them pointing out that Hunter Biden is a private citizen with no role in his father’s administration unlike the trumps, my favorite being the tweeter who referred to Jared as “the Slenderman eunuch Ivanka is married to”

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    @Alison Rose : the pics have really blown me away, too.

    to think that us humans can slap something together, get it into orbit(!), and then, oh, take a peek back 10 billion years in time

    just amazing!

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Manu Raju @mkraju  8m

    More details on the role of House GOP members are expected to be revealed today at select committee. The committee plans to mention a Dec. 21 White House meeting with several House members: Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Louis Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Andy Harris and others, I’m told

    New evidence expected at hearing. Committee has encrypted messages between Trump allies and members of extremist groups, I’m told. And committee expected to show Pat Cipollone discussing December 2020 meeting where Trump allies discussed ways to overturn election, per sources

    I don’t watch CNN, but from what I see of Raju on the twitter his reporting is very well-sourced

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: No, I wasn’t worried about Bennie Thompson.

    It was like Christmas morning and we were waiting to open gifts and I wanted to get to it!

    I thought they should have opened with some meat and that most of their opening arguments would have been better as closing arguments for that day.

    I wasn’t worried that he was speaking too slowly.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    @catclub: I’m pretty worried should we discover intelligent life elsewhere in the universe because all of the religious fundamentalists are going to absolutely lose their shit. Such evidence will be denied violently because it so completely undermines their worldview.

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Tidbit I just heard from Frank Figluzzi (sp?) on MSNBC that I hadn’t heard before: some 1/6 rioters had food stashes with them to last up to a month.

  47. 47.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Alison Rose : ​
     It sorta depends on how one defines “God”. As seen on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, not so much. As seen by the Webb, well, there you are.

  50. 50.

    Ken

    @Josie: I just read that Bowers (Speaker of Arizona House) has walked back his support of Trump and says he won’t support him in the Republican primary.

    Does Arizona still have Republican presidential primaries? Several states didn’t bother in 2020.

  54. 54.

    Ben Cisco

    @Alison Rose :

    I know I’m probably in the minority here as being someone who believes wholeheartedly in both science and God, but to me, images like this are proof of both.

    You are not alone.

  55. 55.

    Suzanne

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Trump world is demented. 

    Spawn the Elder was telling me that when he is at his dad’s house, there is a neighbor in their condo complex who — thwarted by the HOA rules against political signage — made a Trump WREATH for the front door with materials from the craft store.

    Because that is a thing that normal people who are not in a personality cult do.

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