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J6 Hearing

… I’ve been pretty even keel on this …

this, right here, hearings in prime time, is pure political theater.

True and I agree. That said, we will very quickly hear members on this site claim that it was an inside job, started by Antifa, etc. Somehow those folks need to understand how bad what happened J6 was.

I'm 47 years old, and I could have never imagined we would have something happen like this at the Capital of the US, and much less perpetrated by Americans. Even worse when you consider that they were motivated,lead, and encouraged by the President of the US.
 
Unfortunately I've been work8ng this whole time and I got to catch up on the highlights. So far that I've seen though:
Trump had 0 evidence from his own people to question the election results
Trump started firing and offering people power to get scenarios where he could win no matter what
Trumps pardons were tied to this initiative


I'm not learning anything new
 
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Unfortunately I've been work8ng this whole time and I got to catch up on the highlights. So far that I've seen though:
Trump had 0 evidence from his own people to question the election results
Trump started firing and offering people power to get scenarios where he could win no matter what
Trumps pardons were tied to this initiative


I'm not learning anything new

One fairly new thing I hadn't seen was Ivanka Trump staying she felt that there wasn't any fraud, as well as Trump's own campaign saying that all of their data showed they would lose.
 
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Unfortunately I've been work8ng this whole time and I got to catch up on the highlights. So far that I've seen though:
Trump had 0 evidence from his own people to question the election results
Trump started firing and offering people power to get scenarios where he could win no matter what
Trumps pardons were tied to this initiative


I'm not learning anything new
Here's a video they showed in case you missed it. We're supposed to hear some new things on Monday when they start connecting the dots between the rioters and Trump.

 
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GUILTY AS FVCK

@jakefest must be very proud at the whataboutism coming from republicans tonight.

“what about a hearing about Hunter Biden’s laptop?”
“what about a hearing about Afghanistan?”
“what about a hearing about inflation?”
“what about a hearing in Gas prices?”

by the way… I would love for them to hold hearings on gas prices and inflation. Seeing republicans trying to prove it was all joe biden’s would be comical.
 
@jakefest must be very proud at the whataboutism coming from republicans tonight.

“what about a hearing about Hunter Biden’s laptop?”
“what about a hearing about Afghanistan?”
“what about a hearing about inflation?”
“what about a hearing in Gas prices?”

by the way… I would love for them to hold hearings on gas prices and inflation. Seeing republicans trying to prove it was all joe biden’s would be comical.
Yeah, 63% would laugh right there with you.
 
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@jakefest must be very proud at the whataboutism coming from republicans tonight.

“what about a hearing about Hunter Biden’s laptop?”
“what about a hearing about Afghanistan?”
“what about a hearing about inflation?”
“what about a hearing in Gas prices?”

by the way… I would love for them to hold hearings on gas prices and inflation. Seeing republicans trying to prove it was all joe biden’s would be comical.
 
A. There was a LOT new tonight.

B. Even if there weren’t, who cares? The POTUS orchestrated a violent mob to try to kill the VP and overthrown the government- and killed five cops in the process. Who cares if it’s yesterday’s news?

please tell me you don’t believe everything you just said

that was so scary if there was truth to that

The problem is the Liberals Dems Nancy and Biden along with the deep state Elitist hate mongers
 
Just for all the adoring fans.






 
Tucker, Hannity, and Laura blew that crap up. Sad if the gullible sleepers believe that fake story.
 
Tucker, Hannity, and Laura blew that crap up. Sad if the gullible sleepers believe that fake story.
Hard to take hannity very seriously when he was texting asking about the 25th amendment and removing Trump.

How did it feel to hear the former presidents own daughter admit that she knew he lost and there was no fraud?
 
I will do my regular PSA and recommend that people read the bible of self-justification:
Amazon product ASIN B003K15IOE
Anyone that is a true patriot would recognize this for what it is. It was an attack on our democracy. There is no amount of mental masturbation or circle jerking on Fox News that can take away from the objective truth. As a lifelong Republican, I am absolutely crushed to be somehow associated with the people that are putting party above Country.

How did we go from Americans having the courage to fight in multiple wars and pay the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom to this brand of fake patriots / Americans plotting a coup? And even worse than these guys, is the legion of Republicans justifying their actions. They are a stain on the memory and honor of real Americans.

Where do those of us who truly love this Country go? One one side, there's traitors to our nation, on the other the AOCs of the world. Where is my political home now???
 

5 Questions That Must Answered Before The J6 Committee Begins Its Theatrical Production​

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE
JUNE 09, 2022
7 MIN READ
Adam-Kinzinger-Crying-1200x675.jpg

Don’t expect answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Committee weaponized to operate as a political witch hunt.

Author Tristan Justice profile

TRISTAN JUSTICE
VISIT ON TWITTER@JUSTICETRISTAN

The House Committee on Jan. 6 will launch its dramatic summer hearings tonight in a prime time show trial produced by a former ABC News executive as desperate Democrats aim to shift the narrative ahead of the midterms.
The nine members of the Select Committee appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will introduce the panel’s findings and question a pair of witnesses while presenting graphic footage of the riot to a nationwide audience. Every cable network, except Fox News, will broadcast the proceedings in an arrangement sought by the partisan probe to elevate the evening’s drama shining light on a three-hour riot that happened more than 18 months ago.

Absent from the panel asking questions, however, will be any Republicans appointed by GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after Pelosi took the self-proclaimed “unprecedented” step of barring Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, from the probe. Instead, Pelosi hand-picked the most vocal pair of NeverTrump House members to serve in their place, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who serves as vice chair and was disowned by her own party.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik told reporters on a press call Tuesday the prohibition on minority-appointed members for the first time in congressional history renders the Select Committee illegitimate, as it was established in violation of House rules.
“This Committee is not about seeking the truth,” Stefanik said. Meanwhile, the committee established to probe the Capitol riot declares Pelosi’s own culpability off-limits in pursuit of prosecution against political dissidents. Former Donald Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro was the first to be indicted by the Justice Department last week based on committee conduct.
But before the Select Committee continues with a national soap opera for the cameras, here are five questions that must be answered.

1. Why Did Nancy Pelosi Delay Deploying the National Guard?​

Not only was the National Guard not present to reinforce Capitol barriers with Capitol Police, it took three hours for the Guard that was standing idly by to receive the final green light for deployment as the complex was being ransacked.
Four days after the riot, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned his post in the aftermath, told The Washington Post his request for pre-emptive reinforcement from the National Guard ahead of Jan. 6 was rejected by Pelosi. Sund said House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, overseen by Pelosi, thought the guard’s deployment was bad “optics” two days before the raid. Pelosi and House Democrats had previously condemned the presence of federal troops in the nation’s capital to quell the violent mobs overrunning the city in the name of social justice.
The Daily Caller later cited three sources familiar with Irvin’s conversations with the House Administration Committee after the riot. The sergeant of arms said discussions with the speaker’s staff were factors in his “blender of decision making.” The Caller’s sources remained anonymous, “citing the fear of putting a chill on further witnesses to how the security situation unfolded Jan. 6.”
Questions remain, then, about what conversations Pelosi had about the deployment of the National Guard before and during the riot, and why Sund’s requests were rejected not once, but six times, as the former police chief told the Washington Post.

In what was portrayed as a blockbuster revelation from the committee in December, texts from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows made clear the National Guard would, at minimum, be on standby.

2. Why Did the Sergeant at Arms Refuse to Cooperate With the Senate?​

In the Senate’s 128-page bipartisan report published in June last year, lawmakers in the upper chamber outlined “notable exceptions” among those who cooperated with committees. Among them was Irving’s office, which “did not comply with the Committees’ information requests.”
As Pelosi’s chief security advisor in the House who engaged in discussions about the National Guard with the speaker, what did Irving hide from senators that representatives now have no interest in uncovering? Pelosi’s deputies in the lower chamber have already been ordered by the speaker to conceal any information from members of the minority.

3. Why Were The Capitol Police Half-Staffed?​

Capitol Police were made aware of the potential for mass unrest unfolding at their doorstep on Jan. 6. They had been warned by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI, according to a report from the Capitol Police inspector general.
Beyond internal intelligence assessments, however, the risk of turmoil capping off an election cycle with repeated outbreaks of widespread violence was enough to lead the parking attendants to restrict access.
“Due to the possibility of large-scale public protests, access to the Capitol plaza will be restricted,” read an email from the House Parking Team on the eve of the riot. “For the safety and security of personnel on the House campus, we ask that staff strongly consider parking in the Cannon and Longworth House Underground Garages.”
According to a DOJ memo revealed in a separate lawsuit with Judicial Watch, “normal staffing for a joint session was less than half” of what is “usually assigned” to the lower chamber on Jan. 6. Was Pelosi made aware of the staffing shortage?

4. Why Were the Few Capitol Police Who Were On Duty So Unprepared?​

In their report last summer, complete within six months as opposed to Pelosi’s Committee taking 18 to coincide with the upcoming midterms, the Senate revealed Capitol Police weren’t just understaffed the day of the riot. They were ill-trained and ill-equipped.
“[U.S. Capitol Police’] Civil Disturbance Unit operates on an ‘ad hoc’ basis, without sufficient
training or equipment,” lawmakers found. They continued, emphasis added:
Of USCP’s 1,840 sworn officers, only approximately 160 are trained in advanced civil disturbance tactics and use of ‘hard’ protective equipment. Fewer than ten are trained to use USCP’s full suite of less-than-lethal munitions. On January 6, some of the ‘hard’ protective equipment was defective or not staged in close proximity to the officers.
Rank-and-file officers were also not given periodic training in civil disturbance, even after the year of unrest that plagued the nation’s capital. Short on equipment and training to quell a mass demonstration, the Capitol Police were overpowered at their barriers as the National Guard took three hours for approval of assistance.

5. Were FBI Informants Present On Jan. 6? If So, How Many, and What Did They Do?​

In January, Newsweek revealed the Justice Department deployed “national” forces from the FBI installation at Quantico operating with “shoot-to-kill authority” as a precautionary measure ahead of the riot. At a committee hearing days later, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz demanded an agency executive answer about the FBI’s potential provocative involvement.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Cruz asked the Executive Assistant Director for the FBI’s National Security Branch Jill Sanborn.
Sanborn repeatedly refused to answer, even as evidence mounts of the FBI’s presence at the Capitol, including a confirming report in The New York Times.

Don’t Expect Answers From the J6 Committee​

Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., made clear the panel had no interest in probing Pelosi’s culpability, even as the speaker’s failures remain at the center of the security breach.
“If you look at the charge that we have in the resolution, it says the facts and circumstances around January 6,” Thompson said. “I don’t see the speaker being part and parcel to that.”
Republicans disagree.
“There is culpability here because the speaker is responsible for the security of the Capitol,” Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry said on Tuesday’s call with reporters.


Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
 
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Why the hell is Ray Epps running free and GOP candidate Ryan Kelley and others arrested?

 

5 Questions That Must Answered Before The J6 Committee Begins Its Theatrical Production​

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE
JUNE 09, 2022
7 MIN READ
Adam-Kinzinger-Crying-1200x675.jpg

Don’t expect answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Committee weaponized to operate as a political witch hunt.

Author Tristan Justice profile

TRISTAN JUSTICE
VISIT ON TWITTER@JUSTICETRISTAN

The House Committee on Jan. 6 will launch its dramatic summer hearings tonight in a prime time show trial produced by a former ABC News executive as desperate Democrats aim to shift the narrative ahead of the midterms.
The nine members of the Select Committee appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will introduce the panel’s findings and question a pair of witnesses while presenting graphic footage of the riot to a nationwide audience. Every cable network, except Fox News, will broadcast the proceedings in an arrangement sought by the partisan probe to elevate the evening’s drama shining light on a three-hour riot that happened more than 18 months ago.

Absent from the panel asking questions, however, will be any Republicans appointed by GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after Pelosi took the self-proclaimed “unprecedented” step of barring Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, from the probe. Instead, Pelosi hand-picked the most vocal pair of NeverTrump House members to serve in their place, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who serves as vice chair and was disowned by her own party.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik told reporters on a press call Tuesday the prohibition on minority-appointed members for the first time in congressional history renders the Select Committee illegitimate, as it was established in violation of House rules.
“This Committee is not about seeking the truth,” Stefanik said. Meanwhile, the committee established to probe the Capitol riot declares Pelosi’s own culpability off-limits in pursuit of prosecution against political dissidents. Former Donald Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro was the first to be indicted by the Justice Department last week based on committee conduct.
But before the Select Committee continues with a national soap opera for the cameras, here are five questions that must be answered.

1. Why Did Nancy Pelosi Delay Deploying the National Guard?​

Not only was the National Guard not present to reinforce Capitol barriers with Capitol Police, it took three hours for the Guard that was standing idly by to receive the final green light for deployment as the complex was being ransacked.
Four days after the riot, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned his post in the aftermath, told The Washington Post his request for pre-emptive reinforcement from the National Guard ahead of Jan. 6 was rejected by Pelosi. Sund said House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, overseen by Pelosi, thought the guard’s deployment was bad “optics” two days before the raid. Pelosi and House Democrats had previously condemned the presence of federal troops in the nation’s capital to quell the violent mobs overrunning the city in the name of social justice.
The Daily Caller later cited three sources familiar with Irvin’s conversations with the House Administration Committee after the riot. The sergeant of arms said discussions with the speaker’s staff were factors in his “blender of decision making.” The Caller’s sources remained anonymous, “citing the fear of putting a chill on further witnesses to how the security situation unfolded Jan. 6.”
Questions remain, then, about what conversations Pelosi had about the deployment of the National Guard before and during the riot, and why Sund’s requests were rejected not once, but six times, as the former police chief told the Washington Post.

In what was portrayed as a blockbuster revelation from the committee in December, texts from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows made clear the National Guard would, at minimum, be on standby.

2. Why Did the Sergeant at Arms Refuse to Cooperate With the Senate?​

In the Senate’s 128-page bipartisan report published in June last year, lawmakers in the upper chamber outlined “notable exceptions” among those who cooperated with committees. Among them was Irving’s office, which “did not comply with the Committees’ information requests.”
As Pelosi’s chief security advisor in the House who engaged in discussions about the National Guard with the speaker, what did Irving hide from senators that representatives now have no interest in uncovering? Pelosi’s deputies in the lower chamber have already been ordered by the speaker to conceal any information from members of the minority.

3. Why Were The Capitol Police Half-Staffed?​

Capitol Police were made aware of the potential for mass unrest unfolding at their doorstep on Jan. 6. They had been warned by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI, according to a report from the Capitol Police inspector general.
Beyond internal intelligence assessments, however, the risk of turmoil capping off an election cycle with repeated outbreaks of widespread violence was enough to lead the parking attendants to restrict access.
“Due to the possibility of large-scale public protests, access to the Capitol plaza will be restricted,” read an email from the House Parking Team on the eve of the riot. “For the safety and security of personnel on the House campus, we ask that staff strongly consider parking in the Cannon and Longworth House Underground Garages.”
According to a DOJ memo revealed in a separate lawsuit with Judicial Watch, “normal staffing for a joint session was less than half” of what is “usually assigned” to the lower chamber on Jan. 6. Was Pelosi made aware of the staffing shortage?

4. Why Were the Few Capitol Police Who Were On Duty So Unprepared?​

In their report last summer, complete within six months as opposed to Pelosi’s Committee taking 18 to coincide with the upcoming midterms, the Senate revealed Capitol Police weren’t just understaffed the day of the riot. They were ill-trained and ill-equipped.
“[U.S. Capitol Police’] Civil Disturbance Unit operates on an ‘ad hoc’ basis, without sufficient
training or equipment,” lawmakers found. They continued, emphasis added:

Rank-and-file officers were also not given periodic training in civil disturbance, even after the year of unrest that plagued the nation’s capital. Short on equipment and training to quell a mass demonstration, the Capitol Police were overpowered at their barriers as the National Guard took three hours for approval of assistance.

5. Were FBI Informants Present On Jan. 6? If So, How Many, and What Did They Do?​

In January, Newsweek revealed the Justice Department deployed “national” forces from the FBI installation at Quantico operating with “shoot-to-kill authority” as a precautionary measure ahead of the riot. At a committee hearing days later, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz demanded an agency executive answer about the FBI’s potential provocative involvement.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Cruz asked the Executive Assistant Director for the FBI’s National Security Branch Jill Sanborn.
Sanborn repeatedly refused to answer, even as evidence mounts of the FBI’s presence at the Capitol, including a confirming report in The New York Times.

Don’t Expect Answers From the J6 Committee​

Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., made clear the panel had no interest in probing Pelosi’s culpability, even as the speaker’s failures remain at the center of the security breach.
“If you look at the charge that we have in the resolution, it says the facts and circumstances around January 6,” Thompson said. “I don’t see the speaker being part and parcel to that.”
Republicans disagree.
“There is culpability here because the speaker is responsible for the security of the Capitol,” Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry said on Tuesday’s call with reporters.


Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.

I called it. "Whataboutism" at its finest. How does it feel to know your personal lord and savior Donald is an idiot whose own family knows he lost? Keep deflecting,but I'd love to hear you deny the video of his own daughter saying that he lost and there wasn't fraud. How about Bill Barr saying he told the president that there was no fraud, it was all Bullshit?
 
Why are the only repubs on this kangaroo committee Trump haters? Why is no video being released? Why was the capital police ushering people in the doors on J6? Why were the doors opened? I have many more questions. The whole deal is BS!!
 
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@jakefest must be very proud at the whataboutism coming from republicans tonight.

“what about a hearing about Hunter Biden’s laptop?”
“what about a hearing about Afghanistan?”
“what about a hearing about inflation?”
“what about a hearing in Gas prices?”

by the way… I would love for them to hold hearings on gas prices and inflation. Seeing republicans trying to prove it was all joe biden’s would be comical.
I'm shocked that you sweep some of those things under the rug like they aren't significant. The laptop issue is quite damning as it influenced the outcome of an election.......why doesn't that infuriate you as a tax paying citizen?

13 dead marines don't make you angry? More than a years worth of "inflation is transitory" doesn't piss you off?

If they had enough evidence to convict Trump, he would already be locked up so he couldn't help Repubs on the campaign trail nor start building his own campaign plans. They don't have enough evidence to prove that he influenced a riot anymore than Schumer or Pelosi encouraged an attempted murder on a SCOTUS justice.

Your tax dollars are paying for this sham and you're celebrating it.
 
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Who is Ray Epps and why is he not in the DC Gulag?


 
Why are the only repubs on this kangaroo committee Trump haters? Why is no video being released? Why was the capital police ushering people in the doors on J6? Why were the doors opened? I have many more questions. The whole deal is BS!!
There was lots of video released. There will be more moving forward. How about you respond to my question. How do you feel about Ivanka and Jared saying, on video, that they knew that he lost and that there was no fraud?
 
Why are the only repubs on this kangaroo committee Trump haters? Why is no video being released? Why was the capital police ushering people in the doors on J6? Why were the doors opened? I have many more questions. The whole deal is BS!!
They released a ton of video yesterday and they have tons more to reveal.

You are going with a weak "let's try to poke holes" strategy. But you are not seeking the truth, you are trying to reduce the state of dissonance between what YOU want to believe and the facts presented. You are seeking confirmation of your beliefs. This isn't how justice works. There is nothing that I will say that will convince you of anything.
 
There was lots of video released. There will be more moving forward. How about you respond to my question. How do you feel about Ivanka and Jared saying, on video, that they knew that he lost and that there was no fraud?
You and I are wasting our time. You can't convince someone that doesn't want to seek the truth. We are headed down the path of a civil war against nutjobs like this guy. The way the Republican party is playing the victim card, manipulating the press, and willing to distort facts and the truth is how fascism takes root. This isn't going to end well. Makes me want to vomit that they hide behind the American flag. They have strayed so far from the true ideals of our democracy, they shouldn't be allowed to call themselves American.
 
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