As the January 6th committee report is about to come to public light, I think those most worried are not the defunct losers Eastman, Powell, Giuliani, Bannon, Meadows et. al. This does not include Trump who has more fingers pointing at him than a nudist walking down Broadway. I think the folks who are very worried, and rightly so, are the cast of elected Republican office holders who actively worked behind the scenes to keep Trump in power after he lost the election.
The modern version of the old adage is, “he who lives by the text will die by the text.” The public is just now beginning to see the perfidy of their elected officials planning and giving their all to the coup that almost worked and potentially destroyed our democracy. This attempt to make Trump President for life, did not start on January 6th. It started long before when a broad group of elected Republican office holders decided to stop Joe Biden from becoming the next President by any means possible.
Republican Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, pointed Mark Meadows to operative Dick Morris who insisted that legislators in GOP-led states had the power to “declare” Trump the winner, despite the election results. Republican Rep. Greg Murphy of North Carolina did the same thing.
The night before the Jan. 6 attack, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan also reached out to the then-White House chief of staff and presented a plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the election results during the certification process and declare Trump the winner. Next month, this same Jim Jordan will be in charge of the House Judiciary Committee. Oh, the irony!
Representative Scott Perry, The Pennsylvania Republican apparently believed and tried to convince the White House that there were secret Italian satellites rigging American voting machines and the Trump-appointed CIA director was in cahoots with the British. Republicans have nevertheless put him on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Freedom Caucus has made him its chairman. Who says you can't fail up?
Representative Margorie Taylor Green told a crowd that if Trump would have let her and Steve Bannon run the January 6th show, they would have come armed and would not have “lost.”
But perhaps most amazing of all was Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who texted Meadows on Jan. 17 — 11 days after the attack on the Capitol, and three days before Biden’s inauguration with a foolproof plan to prevent Biden from being inaugurated: “Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of no return in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!”
As Norman saw it, Trump should’ve suspended constitutional order in the United States and deployed the military to be used against American civilians on American soil in order to keep the losing candidate in power. Norman is now the new senator from South Carolina. They say slime floats. At least in the Republican party it seems to be true.
The host of Republican election denying coup supporters were part of an even bigger effort of right-wing attorneys around the country who employed unethical and frivolous attempts to spread lies, create fear and disrupt the legal execution of voting around the country. To date, there are 111 civil and ethics actions taken against those attorneys in 17 states.
The Truism is: MAGA means Make Attorneys Get Attorneys.
And now is the time that elected right-wing coup plotters will have their words proclaimed to the world providing much needed educationn about how America really works.
Dominion is suing Fox News among others for defamation to the tune of $1.7 Billion. In their lawsuit, Dominion has deposed all the big names on Fox New as well at Rupert Murdoc’s son and soon, Murdoc himself. In filing with the court, Dominion is claiming that many of the emails exchanged within Fox News on this subject have been deleted. If proven – which is actually very easily done – it will mean Fox News and the Murdoc family can kiss off that $1.7 billion if the court does not increase the fine for failing to heed the court order to retain those emails. Once the existing emails are made public, there will be a ton texts showing that Fox News continued to spread and promote election fraud lies even when they knew they were doubtful, unreliable or just plain false. It is hard to think of a more un-American, anti-democratic and destructive behavior than what Fox News stands accused of. No matter how the $40million/yr talking heads at Fox News will try to spin it, every single one of the 30 pieces of silver they earned from their betrayal of the American people will have to be paid for in mountains of Murdoc cash and the infamy they so richly deserve.
The modern version of the old adage is, “he who lives by the text will die by the text.” The public is just now beginning to see the perfidy of their elected officials planning and giving their all to the coup that almost worked and potentially destroyed our democracy. This attempt to make Trump President for life, did not start on January 6th. It started long before when a broad group of elected Republican office holders decided to stop Joe Biden from becoming the next President by any means possible.
Republican Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, pointed Mark Meadows to operative Dick Morris who insisted that legislators in GOP-led states had the power to “declare” Trump the winner, despite the election results. Republican Rep. Greg Murphy of North Carolina did the same thing.
The night before the Jan. 6 attack, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan also reached out to the then-White House chief of staff and presented a plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the election results during the certification process and declare Trump the winner. Next month, this same Jim Jordan will be in charge of the House Judiciary Committee. Oh, the irony!
Representative Scott Perry, The Pennsylvania Republican apparently believed and tried to convince the White House that there were secret Italian satellites rigging American voting machines and the Trump-appointed CIA director was in cahoots with the British. Republicans have nevertheless put him on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Freedom Caucus has made him its chairman. Who says you can't fail up?
Representative Margorie Taylor Green told a crowd that if Trump would have let her and Steve Bannon run the January 6th show, they would have come armed and would not have “lost.”
But perhaps most amazing of all was Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who texted Meadows on Jan. 17 — 11 days after the attack on the Capitol, and three days before Biden’s inauguration with a foolproof plan to prevent Biden from being inaugurated: “Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of no return in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!”
As Norman saw it, Trump should’ve suspended constitutional order in the United States and deployed the military to be used against American civilians on American soil in order to keep the losing candidate in power. Norman is now the new senator from South Carolina. They say slime floats. At least in the Republican party it seems to be true.
The host of Republican election denying coup supporters were part of an even bigger effort of right-wing attorneys around the country who employed unethical and frivolous attempts to spread lies, create fear and disrupt the legal execution of voting around the country. To date, there are 111 civil and ethics actions taken against those attorneys in 17 states.
The Truism is: MAGA means Make Attorneys Get Attorneys.
And now is the time that elected right-wing coup plotters will have their words proclaimed to the world providing much needed educationn about how America really works.
Dominion is suing Fox News among others for defamation to the tune of $1.7 Billion. In their lawsuit, Dominion has deposed all the big names on Fox New as well at Rupert Murdoc’s son and soon, Murdoc himself. In filing with the court, Dominion is claiming that many of the emails exchanged within Fox News on this subject have been deleted. If proven – which is actually very easily done – it will mean Fox News and the Murdoc family can kiss off that $1.7 billion if the court does not increase the fine for failing to heed the court order to retain those emails. Once the existing emails are made public, there will be a ton texts showing that Fox News continued to spread and promote election fraud lies even when they knew they were doubtful, unreliable or just plain false. It is hard to think of a more un-American, anti-democratic and destructive behavior than what Fox News stands accused of. No matter how the $40million/yr talking heads at Fox News will try to spin it, every single one of the 30 pieces of silver they earned from their betrayal of the American people will have to be paid for in mountains of Murdoc cash and the infamy they so richly deserve.
