The NY Times looks at the investigation of the event that started as a protest and ended as a free for all attack on the home of the United States Congress in a effort to stop it from ratifying President Biden’s election win…
It was a year ago that the even occurred and the House review will have to end in a few months as the Midterm election campaigns swing into action…
The members are well aware that the first thing a 2023 Republican House majority would do is stop their efforts cold…..
The committee scrutinizing the pro-Trump mob attack has conducted much of its inquiry in private, drawing public attention mostly for the legal fights it is waging over access to evidence from Mr. Trump and some of his top lieutenants. But from a warren of offices in the O’Neill House Office Building in Southwest Washington, a few dozen investigators and members of Congress have ramped up a sprawling and elaborate investigation into the worst American attack on democracy in centuries.
In recent weeks, with the anniversary of the riot looming on Thursday, the panel has redoubled its efforts in the face of mounting resistance from the former president. It is rushing to make as much progress as possible before January 2023. Republicans are favored to regain control of the House this fall, and if they do, that is when they would take power and almost certainly dissolve the inquiry.
“We worked on Christmas and on New Year’s Day,” said Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee. “The window for getting the job done requires weekends and holidays too. There’s a really firm commitment on the part of the staff to get it done.”
Working in color-coded teams, investigators have interviewed more than 300 witnesses, from White House officials close to Mr. Trump to the rioters themselves, and are sorting through more than 35,000 documents. During its first three months, from July through September, the committee had fewer than 30 staff members and spent about $418,000, according to the latest documents filed with the House. Since then, the panel has increased its staff to about 40 and is looking to hire more investigators….
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The committee is led by Mr. Thompson and Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, who serves as vice chairwoman. Its top two investigators — both former U.S. attorneys — also come from different parties…
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The committee is led by Mr. Thompson and Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, who serves as vice chairwoman. Its top two investigators — both former U.S. attorneys — also come from different parties…
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The committee appeared to be interested in a few key areas: any connections between the violence that took place on Jan. 6 and the group of political activists who planned the pro-Trump rallies that preceded it; any connections between the rally organizers and people in Mr. Trump’s orbit, including members of Congress; and any role that White House aides, Trump campaign officials and members of Mr. Trump’s family may have played in the putting the rallies together….
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The panel’s investigators have not been slowed by the partisan infighting that sometimes takes place among committee staff on other congressional panels. Because Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader, decided Republicans would not participate in the panel, there are no staff members in the interviews running interference for Mr. Trump….
Proper….
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.”
— Kevin McCarthy, January 13, 2021
That was then.
This is now.
The Worm ,as did Mich McConnell and NikkiHaley, thought that for sure their fellow Republicans would follow their lead and abandon Trump.
They simply didnt realize what had happened to the Republican Party that was now dominated by those who saw nothing particularly wrong with the hoodlums and other assorted pieces of trash that attacked the Capitol and their Orwellian use of the word “freedom.”
They are back in line now though
A more disgusting trio of cowards would indeed hard to find.
Gonna be interesting to see the dancing when the committee report finally drops in the media…..
Republicans will denounce that report as Democratic propaganda.
They are planning on issuing their own “report.”
Anyway increasing numbers of Republicans don’t consider that insurrection a big deal while a substantial and growing number believe political violence is ok.
The media WILL generate HUGE headlines
We’ll see how it plays out….
At SOME point?
The dam IS gonna break against Donald Trump
We just don’t know when?
No Republican Leader Will Be at Capitol On January 6
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will lead a delegation to Georgia on Jan. 6 for former Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) funeral, meaning “no senior GOP leader will be in the Capitol on this first anniversary,” Punchbowl News reports….
Political Wite
McConnell ain’t stupid…..
From Politicalwire
“Six weeks after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Donald Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, conducted a survey of Republicans that looked at how well liked the former president was among several distinct groups of voters within the party,” the New York Times reports.
“A veteran GOP pollster who has worked on presidential campaigns going back to Patrick Buchanan’s first White House bid in 1992, Fabrizio saw how thoroughly Trump had remade the GOP in his image — and how enduring his popularity remained, even after the attack on the seat of American democracy.”
“The people who described themselves as the most committed Republicans were also the most likely to say they were committed to Trump, Fabrizio found in his post-Jan. 6 survey. Feelings about the former president, he explained in his analysis, were so intertwined with the understanding many voters had about what it meant to be a strong Republican that ‘Trumpism and party fidelity’ were becoming one and the same.”
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I added the links to your Pwire comment Scott….
Attorney General Merrick Garland will give a speech Wednesday about the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, remarks that come as the country’s top law enforcement officer is facing calls to do more….
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That completely contradicts what you have been saying for over a year now.
Yes it does.
As I’ve mentioned many times before,he still doesn’t understand what has happened to the Republican Party.
He seems to really believe that if Trump would just go away,the Republican Party would return to what it was when the Bushes and Mitt Romney were the leaders.Those days are long gone.
The Republican Party today has been taken over by those who were but followers in the past.They are setting the agenda and Trump is their leader.
And the rest of the Republican politicos?
They’re following Trump and speaking his language and aping his attitudes ..
If the GOP were to nominate Romney in 2024 (I know it can’t happen), it would lose by an even larger margin than what they lost last time they nominated Romney.
Imagine a Trumpist with a Romney sign in her yard!
I actually suspect he’d do better among Hispanics and some sub groups of young voters. The lack of enthusiasm amongst the Banana Republican base would do him in, particularly in the Upper Midwestern states that were so pivotal in handing the White House to Obama, Trump, and Biden.
Romney has always be the odd man out….
One hopes things are UNeventful today a year out from Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 election and dumb assed supporters…….
Gentlemen?
Mobs that follow the leader tend to fall apart when that person is gone….
Check ur history…..
Meaningless drivel
McCarthyism survived McCarthy and the spirit of the 1960’s George C. Wallace outlived his personal change of mind and heart. The personality cult of Kim Il-Sung survived the first Kim.
We can see before us the dozen wannabes competing to assume the Trumpian mantle should it fall from DJT’s shoulders.
What can only be speculated about is whether any of these Trumplings will succeed in becoming the Base’s Great Leader, Great Teacher, Great Supreme Commander and Red Sun in its Heart.
Wait?
Wallace changed his tune in his later years
McCarthyism was here is not unique to him and comes and goes cares less about an actual leader
China has operated the same for centuries
Again
In ‘most’ cases the head being cut off results in a end like in Germany, Japan, Italy and other Empire’s
That’s your comeback?
What does World War Two have to do with a discussion about the Republican Party in 2022?
Inane.
A year ago James told us that this was all in the rear view mirror. In other words, it will go away. If anything, it’s stronger and the fact that no Republican will attend today’s events proves it.
Republicans want power anyway they can get it. Does anyone doubt that anymore?
When the rubber hits the road?
Judges CANNOT over populate the jails….
Jack and I said that….
…Federal judges in D.C. have gone below the government recommendation in 49 out of 74 sentencings held for Capitol riot defendants one year after the attack, about two-thirds of the cases. In eight cases where prosecutors asked for jail time, the judges instead opted for probation. Of the 74 people sentenced so far, 35 have been given jail or prison time, 14 home detention and 25 probation alone…
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