Tonight's prime time January 6 committee hearing (8pm EDT) will focus on the Malignant Loser's dereliction of duty during the 187 minutes between his speech inciting the insurrectionists and when he was finally prevailed upon to call off the mob ransacking the U.S. Capitol. Several more aides inside the Malignant Loser's orbit -- Matthew Pottinger, National Security Council deputy, and Sarah Matthews, former deputy press secretary -- will testify to their knowledge of the events, and additional deposed testimony from White House counsel Pat Cipollone is also expected to be shown. The effect will be, as several committee members have put it, to "fill in the blanks" on the 187 minutes of seditious inaction.
There have also been teasers about what else the committee will present at the hearing:
[Rep. Adam Kinzinger], like Trump, a Republican, will be one of two lawmakers leading Thursday evening's hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. He says the panel has filled in the blanks of what Trump did during 187 minutes of inaction, which Kinzinger's colleagues have called a refusal to act and a "dereliction of duty."
"The president didn't do very much but gleefully watch television during this time frame," Kinzinger told CBS's Margaret Brennan on Face The Nation on Sunday.
The House select committee investigating the insurrection has in its possession video outtakes of then-President Donald Trump's message to his supporters on January 7, 2021, the day after the riot at the US Capitol.
The outtakes, first reported by The Washington Post, were part of production of a speech Trump gave the night after the riot.The panel is expected to show clips of the outtakes during its prime-time hearing Thursday, according to sources familiar with the committee's plans. The outtakes show Trump having a difficult time working through the effort to tape the message. Trump refused to say the election results had been settled and attempted to call the rioters patriots. He also went to great lengths to not accuse them of any wrongdoing. [snip][Rep. Adam Schiff] said the outtakes will show "all of those who are urging him to say something to do something to stop the violence. You'll hear the terrible lack of a response from the President, and you'll hear more about how he was ultimately prevailed upon to say something and what he was willing to say and what he wasn't."
GOP lawmakers are going to target Republican lawmakers during Thursday's primetime hearing by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack at the U.S. Capitol.
"The Jan. 6 committee plans to use its Thursday night hearing to call out insurrection-friendly lawmakers who cowered during the Capitol attack but have since downplayed the insurrection’s severity," Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, citing "two sources familiar with the committee’s planning."
One source told the magazine, “they have plans to paint a really striking picture of how some of Trump’s greatest enablers of his coup plot were — no matter what they’re saying today — quaking in their boots and doing everything shy of crying out for their moms."
“If any of [these lawmakers] were capable of shame, they would be humiliated," the source added.
It would be a bonus if these MAGA rats could feel shame, but it's more important that they be condemned in the historical record as the cowards, hypocrites and liars that they are. A few indictments for the fake electors plot would help, too.
More must- see tv tonight!
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According to some co-workers, Trump will be back in the Whitehouse in August. "the minute they try to indict the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, he will order the militia to intervene!!!!" And then he will return to the White house and take control!!!. He's got em right where he wants em!!!!"And these guys drive tractor trailers. Think about that when you're driving down the highway.
On a more serious note, does anyone think he will be indicted? I think Garland walks up to the abyss and looks in and declines to prosecute. Same thing with Steve Bannon. He walks when he gets a hung jury. and the secret service as a whole who just flipped off the Justice department. Everyone will do their imitation of Susan Collins being "seriously concerned" and walk away. We deserve what we're going to get.
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