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Was Merrick Garland Watching?

June 28, 2022 at 5:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Robert Reich: “It was the most chilling depiction yet of a president in charge of an attempted coup. Trump knew exactly what was happening and what he was doing. He knew he was acting in violation of his oath of office and inciting violence in order to stay in office. He repeatedly refused to listen to reason, or to change course.”

“More than any other hearing to date, the audience for today’s hearing was not just the American public but also the Attorney General. Time and again, Hutchinson gave testimony about serious federal crimes.”

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Cassidy Hutchinson Held Their Manhoods Cheap

June 28, 2022 at 4:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Tim Miller: “Today’s testimony showed not only the complexes that led weak-minded men and women to go along with evil, but that they recognized this evil, full well, from the jump.”

“Cassidy Hutchinson found the strength to break out of this prison of the mind. She realized that she could write a different story for herself. That the enemy was not the people telling the truth about her boss. That she was not stuck on a conveyor belt. That she had responsibilities to her country. That she had agency in the execution of her duties.”

“That she didn’t have to do it any longer.“

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Bonus Quote of the Day

June 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“This is a day that is going to loom very large in American history.”

— Presidential historian Michael Beschloss, on MSNBC.

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Reaction to the Surprise January 6 Hearing — Part II

June 28, 2022 at 2:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The second-half of today’s explosive hearing focused on what was happening at the Trump White House reaction as rioters broke into the Capitol as told by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

Rarely in a congressional hearing have we heard such credible testimony from someone so close to power.

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Exchange of the Day

June 28, 2022 at 2:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Video testimony of Michael Flynn testifying before the January 6 Committee, with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) doing to the questioning:

CHENEY: Gen. Flynn, do you believe the violence on Jan. 6 was justified morally?

FLYNN: Take the Fifth.

CHENEY: Do you believe the violence on Jan. 6 was justified legally?

FLYNN: Fifth.

CHENEY: Gen. Flynn, do you believe in the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America?

FLYNN: The Fifth.

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Reaction to the Surprise January 6 Hearing

June 28, 2022 at 2:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The surprise hearing of the January 6 Committee — called to cover “urgent” material that recently came to the committee — featured 25-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

It was an absolutely devastating hearing to Donald Trump and those in his inner circle.

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The Surprise January 6 Hearing

June 28, 2022 at 12:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is schedule to publicly testify at a special hearing of the January 6 Committee at 1 p.m. ET.

Leave your reactions in the comments.

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Lauren Boebert Blasts Separation of Church and State

June 28, 2022 at 12:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told worshipers at a religious service: “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it.”

She added: “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.” Her comments were first reported by the Denver Post.

Filed Under: House of Representatives, Religion

What Cassidy Hutchinson Might Say

June 28, 2022 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, will testify today before the January 6 Committee.

Playbook: “Hutchinson knows a lot. Before, on, and after Jan. 6, she had close proximity to both Meadows and then-President Donald Trump.”

Said Hutchinson: “Almost all, if not all, meetings Mr. Trump had, I had insight on.”

Punchbowl News: “Hutchinson also testified that she saw Meadows burn papers in his office after meeting with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) in the weeks before Jan. 6. Perry played a key role in the push to appoint Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ environmental lawyer, as acting attorney general in order to use the Justice Department to bolster Trump’s false election fraud claims.”

CNN: “Hutchinson told the January 6 committee that Trump had suggested to Meadows he approved of the ‘hang Mike Pence’ chants from rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.”

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Former Mark Meadows Aide to Testify

June 28, 2022 at 3:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and a witness to many critical events and conversations, is expected to testify publicly on Tuesday before the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack,“ CNN reports.

The committee last week also presented videotaped testimony from Hutchinson discussing how Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) wanted blanket pardons for members of Congress who tried to subvert the election.

It will be interesting to see if Hutchinson can testify that Trump, Meadows, or members of Congress either knew about or planned violence for January 6 to pressure Mike Pence.

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January 6 Committee Calls Special Hearing

June 27, 2022 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Monday abruptly scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon to hear what the panel called “recently obtained evidence” and take witness testimony, the New York Times reports.

The hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m., according to a news release issued by the committee, in which it provided no other details about the surprise session.

Punchbowl News: “The last-minute nature of this hearing signals that the committee has material that it needs to get into the public domain before next month. Sources close to the panel tell us that there were numerous new developments over the weekend, forcing this last-minute schedule shift.”

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Kevin McCarthy’s Coming Headaches

June 27, 2022 at 2:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Far-right candidates are surging in House races across the map: Republican leaders increasingly fear that a red wave will wash in a raft of conspiracy theorists and extremists,” Axios reports.

“The establishment grows ever weaker. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — on the doorstep of the speaker’s office — can expect to be saddled with new members who have zero loyalty or predictability.”

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Produced Like a Television Show

June 24, 2022 at 9:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Brian Lowry: “For those who have talked about the production qualities of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, it was particularly notable how Thursday’s news-breaking hearing built toward the revelation of the names of the members of Congress that had allegedly sought pardons.”

“It was structured very much as if it was building toward a dramatic climax, saving the most newsworthy element — the one seemingly destined to reverberate loudest in the days ahead — to close the presentation.”

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Quote of the Day

June 24, 2022 at 7:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’m not surprised that Donald Trump is having recriminations about his decision and McCarthy’s to oppose the independent commission and to refuse to participate in the select committee. It will go down as a historic and strategic blunder by both of them.”

— Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), quoted by the Los Angeles Times.

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January 6 Hearings May Solve the GOP’s Trump Problem

June 24, 2022 at 6:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Peggy Noonan: “Mr. Trump’s national polling numbers continue underwater, but the real test will be to see those numbers after the Jan. 6 hearings are over. I believe we’ll see Rep. Liz Cheney’s kamikaze mission hit its target, and the SS Trump will list…”

“The 1/6 hearings are doing nothing to help Mr. Biden—some thought they would—but they are sinking Mr. Trump.”

Rich Lowry: “I thought the January 6 committee wouldn’t have any chance of reaching this cohort of Trump backers. Instead, by revisiting the insanity of the post-election period and sucking Trump into responding, the committee has seemingly enhanced the sense of Trump fatigue among these voters, at least at the margins.”

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Reaction to the 5th January 6 Committee Hearing – Part II

June 23, 2022 at 5:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Today’s hearing was masterful in continuing to build a criminal case against Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It was extraordinary.

We heard the smoking gun quote that proves Trump was directing the scheme: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.”

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Landlord Moves to Shut Down Lauren Boebert’s Restaurant

June 23, 2022 at 5:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) could lose her gun-themed restaurant in a dispute with her new landlord, the Daily Beast reports.

“A person familiar with the arrangement said the property manager felt he had a ‘moral’ imperative to close the business, and had planned to lease the space to another restaurant.”

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Reaction to the 5th January 6 Committee Hearing

June 23, 2022 at 4:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The focus of today’s hearing was nicely summarized by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the January 6 Committee:

Donald Trump didn’t just want the Justice Department to investigate. He wanted the Justice Department to help legitimize his lies, to baselessly call the election corrupt.

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