The House should immediately subpoena the President’s phone records. He was calling people during the Capitol insurrection to try to continue to delay election certification. Who else did he try to call other than Sen. Tuberville? Rudy’s calls too.
It’s almost like
@MarkMeadows
didn’t realize voting records are public records? Just like he didn’t seem to realize his personal phone and text records could be subpoenaed?
It gets even worse for Jordan. Sources told us that Republican members of the Armed Services and Appropriations committees are forming an alliance of nearly 20 to block Jordan from becoming speaker. If that holds, there’s no chance Jordan can get the gavel.
Here's video of Marjorie Taylor Greene at the White House in late Dec 2020 saying she had a "great planning session for our January 6th objection. We aren't going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats. President Trump won by a landslide." Expel Greene now.
WALLACE: No, Mr. President, I’m asking you a question. Will you tell us how much you paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017?
TRUMP: Millions of dollars.
WALLACE: So not 750?
TRUMP: Millions of dollars. And you’ll get to see it. And you’ll get to see it.
The judge in the Pennsylvania case, Matthew Brann, is a Republican who,before his nomination, was involved in Republican politics,the NRA and the Federalist Society. He said the Trump case was "without merit and speculative accusations" "unhinged" and a "Frankenstein's monster".
Trump said in Richmond, that he will take all federal funds away from public schools that require vaccines. Like most states, Virginia requires MMR vaccine, chickenpox vaccine, polio, etc. So Trump would take millions in federal funds away from all Virginia public schools.
How long can Biden and his DOJ go without explaining how this unprecedented raid was allowed to happen and why?
They need to not only hold a presser but take questions.
Their silence is unacceptable!
Cassidy Hutchinson interned for Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise before she interned at White House. She worked in the WH Office of Leg Affairs in March 2019, became Meadows’s exec assistant in March 2020, then special asst to the Prez, office of the chief of staff in May 2020-Jan 21
From two of the most popular Republican Govs: Govs ASA HUTCHINSON and LARRY HOGAN , said Trump should not be the future of the GOP. “With America on the wrong path, the stakes are too high to double down on failure,” Hogan said.
While I would like to see Trump resign; I know he won't. I would also support the use of the 25th Amendment. However, it may turn out to be best for history that Trump leaves office as the only President to be impeached twice and it is done on a bipartisan basis.
The sound you don’t here this morning? No massive protests about the 4th Trump indictment. While many Rs still fear him,the reality is, he’s a 4x indicted, 2x impeached sore loser who the majority of Americans never want to see in the WH again. He’s running to pay legal bills.
Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker says he "should have seen" a connection between Ukraine investigating Burisma and asking for an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden and "had I done so, I would have raised my own objections.”
Vivek Ramasawamy spews wild conspiracy theories: "Why am I the only one on this stage, at least, who can say that January 6th now does look like it was an inside job? That the government lied to us for 20 years about Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9/11."
Dana: Let’s just say the WH said we don’t want have any discussions with the DOJ whatsoever..I think that’s very irresponsible and a dereliction of duty..
Joined 22 former Republican Members of Congress in supporting impeachment: “There is no excuse for nor defense of a President of the United States to actively orchestrate an insurrection on a separate but coequal branch of government”
#ImpeachmentNow
Talk about people testifying before Congress! --
@MarkMeadows
should be on the top of the list about what happened on Jan 6 and the meetings about planning for Jan 6. What did he know and when did he know it and by all means turn over all those texts you received on that day.
Dr. Fauci should immediately come before Congress and testify what he knew, when he knew it about COVID-19 origins and gain of function research in the Wuhan Lab
A failure to indict Mr. Trump in these circumstances would imply that a president….is literally above the law, in defiance of the very notion of constitutional government. It would encourage lawlessness by future presidents…
Trump campaign surrogate Matt Schlapp claimed a "whistleblower" told him a 'Biden/Harris' van showed up at a polling location and swapped out ballots. Schlapp gave zero evidence backing his claim, and didn't respond to Mediaite's request for comment.
This is so pathetic that
@EliseStefanik
is willing to call violent offenders from Jan.6 “hostages” in order to please Trump. Elise sounds like the hostage.
Kristen Welker: "Do you think it was a tragic day? Do you think that the people who stormed the Capitol should be held responsible to the full extent of the law?"
Elise Stefanik: "I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages."
.
@realDonaldTrump
: "There are a lot of people who think masks are not good."
@GStephanopoulos
: "Who are those people?"
Trump: "I'll tell you who those people are...Waiters."
Once again
@jim_jordan
is going into full election denial mode. He lost. He doesn’t have the votes. His bullying didn’t work. It’s clear he puts himself before the country, the Congress, or the party. Sore Loser.
CNN just reported that Jordan’s camp is actively lobbying people to vote against empowering McHenry on a temporary basis.
If he can’t be Speaker, he wants the government to stay shut down.
Stop voting for these people.
Only 110k voters last night in the Iowa caucuses vs. 187k in 2016. 40% decrease. Snow doesn’t explain all that loss of interest. MAGA takeover is not growing party. Rs ignore general election losses of MAGA years and pretend Trump won 2020. (60% of Iowa R voters election deniers)
On January 6, while Trump did nothing to stop the rioters, Gov Chris Christie tried to reach him to call off his mob and pointed out "the president caused this protect to occur. He is the only one who can make it stop." Exactly
.
@GovChristie
says on
@ABC
he is unsuccessfully trying to reach President Trump to get him to call off his supporters storming the Capitol.
"The president caused this protest to occur. He is the only one who can make it stop."
5 people lost their lives at the Capitol riot this week
@SarahHuckabee
and the President won't fly the flag at half staff -- maybe you should redirect your concerns.
I’ve lost 50k+ followers this week. The radical left and their big tech allies cannot marginalize, censor, or silence the American people. This is not China, this is United States of America, and we are a free country.
With 56% of Americans wanting Trump convicted and barred from running, that means that regardless of support from Republicans, there’s no path for Trump to win a general election. 2x losing popular vote, 2x impeached
#SoreLoser
BREAKING: A narrow majority of Americans (56%) say former President Donald Trump should be convicted and barred from holding office again, according to a new
@ABC
News/Ipsos poll.
With Trump, its always worse than you thought - over to those Rs defending him - is this how you keep classified records in your office
@EliseStefanik
? And this is after his lawyers told DOJ he didn’t have anymore classified docs…
Hey
@HouseGOP
if you want to get upset with someone - Pat Cipollone essentially just testified that everyone but Trump wanted the violent mob to leave the Capitol. But then - he’s not a young woman so there’s that.
There is nothing that I could learn about Hunter Biden that would make me vote for Donald Trump. Dumb dumb dumb folks….not what mainstream, normies care about!
Greg Gutfeld repeats an absurd claim pushed in right-wing circles - if the public knew more about Hunter Biden then Trump would have won in 2020.
Hunter wasn't running for public office. Other than hiring sex workers and doing drugs no actual crime has been tied to the laptop
Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland and his wife, Yumi Hogan, have been “quietly working” on a confidential project which helped secure a deal with suppliers in South Korea to obtain 500,000 test kits
Will
@BarbaraComstock
register as a lobbyist, or bob & weave around the rules? My
#EndCorruptionNow
bill would make it illegal for her to take a lobbying job as a former Congresswoman – & would fix the Swiss cheese definition of lobbying.
👍”Honestly, I think Ronald Reagan would turn over in his grave if he saw we were not going to help Ukraine,” McConnell said in an interview with The Associated Press this week.
This is sick.
@julie_kelly2
how dare you. Officer Fanone has served as an officer for 20 years including undercover busting drug dealers. He’s a father of 4. He’s a Republican.
Update: Three tweets from Trump in which he repeated claims of voter fraud have been hidden from view until the president deletes them.
His account will be locked until 12 hours after the offending tweets are deleted.
When you think of Nixon's impeachment, the Republicans you remember and esteem are Howard Baker, Fred Thompson (Baker's counsel), Larry Hogan, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, Hugh Scott, etc. Who were those guys who stuck with Nixon?
Anyone surprised that Meadows also registered to vote in Virginia in 2021 - and voted for Gov? Is he paying car tax? Does he have a Va license? Does he have Virginia plates on car? What state has he been claiming residence for tax purposes in 2020 and 21?
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that the President of the United States was completely MIA while the next three individuals in the line of succession (VP, Speaker of House, Senate Pres Pro Tempore) were under assault in the Capitol. Unconscionable.
As the trial of Steve Bannon continues today and the Jan. 6 hearings continue, keep the faith: “The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice”
Trumpism is the politics of subtraction: 56k fewer Republican caucus voters tonight in Iowa vs 2016. Trump wins by depressing and shrinking the electorate. Attacks fellow republicans and wonders why he loses in general elections.
Sad to see so many Rs look away. “For Bannon? ....it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Bannon!” Thanks for being a Man for All Seasons
@AdamKinzinger
and
@RepLizCheney
- a Woman for All Seasons.
Several of the pro-Trump rioters who rampaged the US Capitol were heard screaming "where's Mike Pence," a source said, frightening the vice president and his family. Yet the President and his top aides barely lifted a finger to check in on the Pences.
Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels.
Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints.
“Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan
Tonight you saw why Trump has been shrinking the party since 2016.Lost the House; lost the Senate; lost the White House; his candidates lost in swing states in 2022 - including in NH where his Senate and 2 House endorsed candidates lost in 22. He lost NH in 2016 & 2020 general.
Florida Republicans can’t handle the truth when
@AsaHutchinson
courageously tells them Trump will be convicted next year. Asa is a good prosecutor. Rs don’t listen to him at their peril.
Asa Hutchinson with a truth bomb at the
@FloridaGOP
event in Orlando today. And because MAGA has no room for the truth in their narrative, Hutchinson gets an earful.
Wow - great trolling by Biden campaign. When I ran RNC oppo many moons ago - this is how we did it. All the ads against Trump will be filled with Republican critics - just like his many trials.
THIS MORNING at the rally Giuliani called for "trial by combat."
Don Jr. told Congressmen who weren't going to vote to overturn the election: "We're coming for you."
Make no mistake, Trump was running this illegal scheme to overturn the election at every turn and his campaign of vengeance and violence against those who wouldn’t bend to his will continues. The only way it will stop is for more Republicans to call BS on him.
I have served in the Capitol as a Member of Congress, Chief Counsel, staffer and intern -- never saw a "tourist" do this or scream "Kill Mike Pence." Those dismissing what happened on January 6 owe Officer Fanone and Capitol Police an apology.
NEW: Feds acknowledge plea discussions have begun in case of JEFFREY MCKELLOP of Virginia who is accused of stabbing a police officer in the face on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors say he also grabbed riot-control spray out of the hands of one officer
Back in court in 30 days
Consider this - if we had a Cheney as VP now (
@RepLizCheney
) we would have someone with the fortitude to use the 25th amendment and (as she has done) call for impeachment.
#WomenRule
#ImpeachmentNOW
It's pretty clear that QAnon played a central role in inspiring the siege of the Capitol.
The leader of the mob that breached the Senate was wearing a Q t-shirt.
The woman shot climbing through smashed out window in Speaker's Lobby was a Q believer.
We need to talk about the number of state GOPs — Arizona Hawaii Oregon Texas — pushing deranged conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists. This garbage got people killed and police beaten at the Capitol not even 3 weeks ago.
Every primary night
@NikkiHaley
has looked more like the winner and her speech has been more optimistic, more about the future, and more about the American people than the 4x indicted 2020 sore loser. Keep going Nikki!
So Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
warned Republicans not to verbally attack colleagues who vote for impeachment (a vote of conscience) because it could endanger their lives but
@Jim_Jordan
goes on the attack against
@RepLizCheney
, the only women in leadership, anyway. Just vile.
Rep. Jim Jordan calls for Rep. Liz Cheney to be removed as Chair of House Republican Conference after Reps. Andy Biggs, Matt Rosendale, and Marjorie Taylor Greene urge her to step down from her post.
This girl is such an idiot. By virtue of being a Member of Congress you have a security clearance - so unfortunately even she gets to have one even though she knows nothing about her job.
Boebert tonight: “When we fire Pelosi this next Congress, we will also be removing Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee and stripping him of his security clearance.”
Conservative elected judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with an extraordinary rebuke of efforts to get the courts to overturn the results of the presidential election. "This is a dangerous path we are being asked to tread," warns Justice Brian Hagedorn.
Interesting that the insurrectionists that stormed the Capitol without masks, pre-vaccine are now concerned about COVID.....Federal judge didn't buy it....
BOOM: Federal judge is throwing cold water on arguments from US Capitol Insurrection defendants citing COVID risk & seeking release from jail
In new order, judge says cases are down, jail is isolating risk and vaccines are working
This is a smackdown from the judge ==>
Rep. Kinzinger gets it right: "Even now, many Republicans refuse to admit what happened. They continue to feed anger and resentment...On Jan. 6, that fury led to the murder of a Capitol Police officer and the deaths of four other Americans." Conviction of Trump is necessary
As Gov. Chris Christie (a Trump supporter) has said: "If this isn't impeachable, what is?" Repubs - Trump just gave you more reason to support 25th amendment and impeachment votes. Nothing approaching "appropriate" in Trump's actions last Wed.- and we are still learning more.
Asked what is his own role in the Capitol insurrection, Trump responded, “So if you read my speech, and many people have done it, and I’ve seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, it’s been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate.”
Top Sup Ct/Fed Soc atty, Ted Olson, backs case for Trump conviction: "This was a constant and fraudulent effort to undermine the integrity of American institutions and processes. It culminated, of course, in the violence and lawlessness on Jan. 6.”
#ConvictAndDisqualifyTrump
“This is not just Jan 6. . . . ,” Olson told the NLJ. “This was a constant and fraudulent effort to undermine the integrity of American institutions and processes. It culminated, of course, in the violence and lawlessness on Jan. 6.”
As atrocities happen around the world, and women and children- civilians are under attack in Israel and Ukraine, this is what this 4x indicted narcissist talks about. God save us
While DeSantis has no hesitancy about insulting teachers, threatening public servants, and defaming the entire population of the nation’s capital, he remains curiously meek about taking on his actual primary adversary.
I've removed the paywall from
@davidrlurie
's excellent premortem of the DeSantis campaign, which makes for a timely read heading into the first GOP presidential debate. Check it out if you haven't already!