January 6th hearings on Trump's failed insurrection.

Former NYPD Officer Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison In Jan. 6 Case
3,287 views Sep 1, 2022 Thomas Webster, a retired NYPD officer, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for assaulting an officer during the January 6 Capitol riot. NBC's Ryan Reilly reports on the longest sentence yet for a January 6 case.

Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump effots, seeks interview
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is asking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to voluntarily sit with its investigators, claiming he advised the Trump team in the days after the former president’s loss in the 2020 election.

“You have knowledge and information directly related to our investigation. Information obtained by the Select Committee suggests that you provided detailed directives about the television advertisements that perpetuated false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, that you sought ways to expand the reach of this messaging, and that you were likely in direct conversations with President Trump about these efforts,” the committee wrote in its letter to Gingrich.

According to the panel, Gingrich was in touch with Trump advisers and provided line edits to advertisements run by the campaign following Trump’s loss.

“Some of the information that we have obtained includes email messages that you exchanged with senior advisors to President Trump and others, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, in which you provided detailed input into television advertisements that repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election,” the committee wrote.

“These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts attempted to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place. They encouraged members of the public to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the results of the election,” the committee added, noting that the ads ran in the days leading up to the Dec. 14 meeting of state electors.

Mastriano sues Jan. 6 committee
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is suing the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, seeking to block the panel from enforcing its subpoena for his testimony.

The suit makes a familiar argument that has largely been rejected by courts, asserting the committee has no authority to compel testimony given its construction with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) serving as its vice chairwoman rather than a leadership-appointed ranking member.

“Because the Select Committee has absolutely no authority to conduct compelled depositions, plaintiff was willing to sit for a voluntary interview,” Mastriano’s attorney Timothy Parlatore wrote in the filing.

“However, because plaintiff is currently the Republican nominee for governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he asked the committee to agree to certain prophylactic measures that would ensure that his participation would not run the risk of improperly influencing the Pennsylvania state election. Unfortunately, the committee refused to negotiate any terms of a voluntary interview that would prevent them from improperly influencing the election, thus necessitating this litigation.”

Trump-aligned Mastriano is challenging Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) in a quest to lead the Keystone State.

The House committee subpoenaed the Pennsylvania state lawmaker in February, citing his involvement in a plan to send alternate slates of electors on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to swing the 2020 election for former President Trump.

In June, Mastriano said he would sit for an interview with the committee and released documents he had shared with the panel. But it was more limited than what the committee asked for, with Parlatore saying they needed guardrails to avoid information “related to official actions that you took as an elected lawmaker.”

Representatives for the Jan. 6 committee did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The filing offers new details about Mastriano’s Aug. 9 meeting with the committee, one his team previously acknowledged lasted roughly 15 minutes.

Mastriano appeared to ask for “some form of protection against the committee releasing edited and misleading clips of his interview,” but the night before the deposition, the panel indicated the very claims the candidate laid out in the suit filed Thursday would not suffice for seeking to avoid a formal deposition.

According to Mastriano’s filing, things got heated when his attorney “asked whether the Chairman had issued the subpoena or if a staffer had instead issued it using an autopen” in an attempt to challenge the validity of the subpoena.

“The Committee representatives became upset and refused to answer, thus increasing suspicions that Chairman Thompson did not issue the subpoena or the letter,” the filing says.

The suit asks the judge to declare Mastriano faces no obligation to comply with the subpoena and force the committee to cover his legal fees.

Though Parlatore contends his suit examines a more narrow legal question about the committee’s subpoena, others who have filed similar suits have failed to convince the courts they should not have to comply with the committee’s subpoenas.

Like I said, this could be a real enema for the American body politic. One can only hope for an independent special counsel after the new year, like the one Newt set on Clinton...


Breaking: Jan. 6 Committee Seeking Newt Gingrich Testimony On false Election Claims
10,212 views Sep 1, 2022 See the moment news breaks that the January 6 committee is seeking a transcribed interview with former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich reportedly “in contact with senior advisors to President Trump” over false election claims. Former Federal Prosecutor Renato Mariotti adding that he is surprised to hear Gingrich is being sought out, and that “my first question would be ‘what conversations he was in with Eastman, Clark and others regarding those fake electors.'”

DIY-HP-LED said:

It is good to see the stupid get organized, the clever have MENSA and the stupid can have MAGA, they can even have an online test! MAROA (Morons And Racists Of America) might be a better name for them, they can send their $100 dollar membership fee to Trump and he will send them a card.

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Don’t go inflating MENSA…nothing in the world more boring than a club for people whose only shared interest is how smart they all are…my dad told me, “being smart is a fine thing, but it’s not magic - if someone shows off how smart they are, they probably don’t have many friends because NO ONE LIKES being talked down to, and the more intelligent a person is, the more annoying they’ll find it...and really, how smart IS it to push people away like that?”

Bagginski said:

Don’t go inflating MENSA…nothing in the world more boring than a club for people whose only shared interest is how smart they all are…my dad told me, “being smart is a fine thing, but it’s not magic - if someone shows off how smart they are, they probably don’t have many friends because NO ONE LIKES being talked down to, and the more intelligent a person is, the more annoying they’ll find it...and really, how smart IS it to push people away like that?”

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Dunno much about mensa, except for the magazine tests years ago, do they give them a certificate of genius or something? I've found the smart are as plagued by emotional issues as anybody else and it is our emotions that control our thinking and set it's priorities. Thinking is often just rationalized feelings that drive higher social emotions, often people's egos lead them around by the nose. Most Trumpers aren't stupid, they are assholes, being stupid helps, but there are not 73 million morons in America!

It pays to cultivate mindfulness, to dwell in our senses and get out of our minds for a spell, this helps to increase our awareness, including when we are being an ass. Ya gotta have a heart though, for without a heart there is no empathy and no wisdom. The be mindful is to be aware and some folks are completely caught up in their thoughts and emotions, caught up in themselves. People need to connect, not be mere objects for one's ego gratification, we need to care enough to pay attention to people. There are many ways to be smart and some not too bright folks are nonetheless wise.

They say only a fool represents himself, I guess the DOJ didn't need him to rat anybody out, so no deal.

'Hell hath no fury': Rick Wilson warns Newt Gingrich against 'playing games' with Cheney and J6 committee

Trump Vows 'Full Pardons' For Capitol Rioters If He's Elected
69,826 views Sep 2, 2022 In a Thursday radio interview, former President Trump said he would look into 'full pardons' for January 6 rioters if he's elected again in 2024. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

Ginni Thomas Pressed Lawmakers In Second State To Overturn Biden's Win: WaPo
107,093 views Sep 2, 2022 Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Ginni Thomas, pressed lawmakers to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory not only in Arizona, as previously reported, but also in a second battleground state, Wisconsin, according to emails obtained under state public-records law. Washington Post reporter Emma Brown discusses.

NYCBambu said:

No guns no training. Where do you get this garbage?

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‘Everything we trained for’: How the far-right Oath Keepers militia planned for violence on Jan. 6


The moment showed unexpected order in what was otherwise the chaotic invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

A group of about 11 people snaked single-file through the crowd toward the building’s east side. They wore helmets and olive-green combat gear, vests and backpacks. Each stretched one arm forward to clasp the shoulder of the person in front of them.

It was "a tactical formation used by infantrymen in the military," the investigator later wrote in a federal complaint charging the people involved with federal crimes, including conspiracy. "The purpose of maintaining direct physical contact with one another is to efficiently communicate, especially in crowded or noisy areas."

NYCBambu said:

No guns no training. Where do you get this garbage?

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I get my garbage from mainstream media. You should too. Wherever you get your garbage is making you ignorant and violent.

Evidence of firearms in Jan. 6 crowd grows as arrests and trials mount
During a recent Jan. 6 committee hearing, testimony about armed Trump supporters accompanied police radio reports


The full picture of how many among the crowd were armed before the riot occurred is unclear, but court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters have supplied growing evidence that multiple people brought firearms to Washington for Jan. 6, 2021. Six men were arrested that day for having guns in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh who arrived after the riot ended was arrested the following day. Despite some instances in which alerts about people with guns turned out to be false alarms, accounts from police officers and rioters indicate that many firearms were spotted on Jan. 6 but were not seized as law enforcement focused more on defending the Capitol than on arresting gun-law violators.

Summary: Right wing extremists are every bit as violent as Islamic terrorists. Claims of violent leftists are just another right wing lie.

We need a no-fly order for MAGA Republicans.


Across both datasets, we find that radical acts perpetrated by individuals associated with left-wing causes are less likely to be violent. In the United States, we find no difference between the level of violence perpetrated by right-wing and Islamist extremists. However, differences in violence emerge on the global level, with Islamist extremists being more likely than right-wing extremists to engage in more violent acts.

Fogdog said:

‘Everything we trained for’: How the far-right Oath Keepers militia planned for violence on Jan. 6

How the Oath Keepers militia planned for Jan. 6

Editor's Note: PolitiFact has reviewed court filings and other information for hundreds of defendants facing charges rel

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The moment showed unexpected order in what was otherwise the chaotic invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

A group of about 11 people snaked single-file through the crowd toward the building’s east side. They wore helmets and olive-green combat gear, vests and backpacks. Each stretched one arm forward to clasp the shoulder of the person in front of them.

It was "a tactical formation used by infantrymen in the military," the investigator later wrote in a federal complaint charging the people involved with federal crimes, including conspiracy. "The purpose of maintaining direct physical contact with one another is to efficiently communicate, especially in crowded or noisy areas."

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It suggests to me that they decided, or were ordered, to keep their profile(s) low until a trigger event occurred and was recognized. At that time, the “uniformed” core group would have been joined by sleeper assets in and near the crowd and gone to aggressive weapons-free tactics and secured the area of operations, the Capitol and its grounds.

Apparently the trigger event or condition did not happen, or an abort event happened. I imagine that, if this was the case, we will hear details in the next months to years.

Also possible: I have read too many Dale Brown novels.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Trump Vows 'Full Pardons' For Capitol Rioters If He's Elected
69,826 views Sep 2, 2022 In a Thursday radio interview, former President Trump said he would look into 'full pardons' for January 6 rioters if he's elected again in 2024. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

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FPOTUS, Donnie Sticky Fingers, Donnie Empty Folders, Bag Man Donnie, Putin's Bitch

Missing files. Probably no big deal. Probably. Maybe. By a guy still attempting a coup, still bilking donors, a guy that extorted an ally that is up against Putin. Sounds legit, right?

I bet he's trading to get the Trump Tower Moscow project restarted.

Offmymeds said:

FPOTUS, Donnie Sticky Fingers, Donnie Empty Folders, Bag Man Donnie, Putin's Bitch

Missing files. Probably no big deal. Probably. Maybe. By a guy still attempting a coup, still bilking donors, a guy that extorted an ally that is up against Putin. Sounds legit, right?

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trump vows full pardon for his insurrectionist scumbag followers? who the fuck is going to pardon trump? FUCKING NOBODY, THAT'S WHO

Offmymeds said:

I bet he's trading to get the Trump Tower Moscow project restarted.

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they can't even build a new tractor or keep rail cars moving...

Roger A. Shrubber said:

trump vows full pardon for his insurrectionist scumbag followers? who the fuck is going to pardon trump? FUCKING NOBODY, THAT'S WHO

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"I can just pardon myself. It is not like I can run for a third term so who cares what the voters think?"