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Fixing to fix a glass of iced tea, maybe a shot of something stronger in our “I’m Fucked!” shot glass, pack a bowl and continue our coverage of Hearing No. 8 of the #January6thCommiteeHearings

Ooooh they’re filing in!

Waiting with bated breath for this one.

Liz Cheney gaveled us to order, Bennie T on video explaining he’s got Covid and isn’t planning on spreading that shit around so Liz is running the show tonight so y’all better listen to her because she ain’t playing neither.

Bennie T is recapping us on all the stuff we’ve heard so far. Wouldn’t listen to anyone sane, “democracy and rule of law be damned.” Couldn’t be moved for 187 minutes on January 6 during riot, ignored even Ivanka and Qusay, would not walk to briefing room. Yeah he’s lazy AF

“He could not be moved.” This is true in many ways

As we made clear throughout these hearings our investigation goes forward, we will be back in September to curl your hair some more with more dirty details about Trump and his coup.

And so there needs to be accountability at every level all the way up to the Oval Office!!! Damn this is pretty well telling everyone in justice that yeah go ahead and prosecute this orange asshole.

Toss back to Liz Cheney. Wishes Bennie T a quick recovery. Describing Trumps 7 part plan to overturn election. Tonight we will discuss last part of that plan. But we keep getting more info and “the dam has begun to break” !!!! We have a lot more shit to show you too

We have a lot more information now than we had the last time Trump got impeached. Some People didn’t vote for his conviction because his term was over. Here’s Moscow Mitch talking about how Trump was only one who could have called off mob. He wouldn’t do it.

This hearing will help you understand Trumps motivation during violence; you already heard about all the stupid Shit he tried up to that point but because he had no other avenues left he sent the mob to overrun the Capitol and stop the transfer of power. MCCARTHY was scared

Everyone begged him to tell mob to stand down but for hours he refused to do anything at all to stop it. Wouldn’t do what oath required. Refused to do what he was supposed to do: defend the country. Now toss to Luria.

Luria: this is the presidential oath of office. Faithfully execute laws of land. Trump tried to stop peaceful transfer of power. Derelict in his duty to country. He knew mob armed, told them to March to Capitol & he was going w them. This orange asshole talking at 1:10 pm

Luria: Congress was already there doing their jobs and Proud Boys were already working to breach their Capitol and the crowd at ellipse came behind them at Trump’s direction after that remark. Everyone begged him to call the mob off but he refused until 4:17 pm.

“Go home, you’re very special…” clip of Twitler

Luria: meanwhile these thugs were rioting and fucking up our Capitol and hunting for Congress people and Mike Pence to kill them. 187 minutes this Asshole sat in the dining room watching tv while everyone begged him to stop this shit and he refused, Luria talking about service.

Yield to Kinzinger: 1 week later McCoward acknowledged truth: Trump should have acted immediately. Clip of that asshole taking. Now clip of Gen Milley talking about his Wtf reaction to this conduct by Trump

Kinzinger: mob was accomplishing Trumps purpose for them, so of course that asshole didn’t call them off. But he didn’t count on the service & sacrifice of the cops who defended the Capitol. Shines a bright light in contrast to trumps dereliction of duty here

Cheney: introducing witnesses: Pottinger, Matthews, Matthews was a deputy press Secretary until evening of Jan 6. Swearing them in, both rats off the sinking ship from the look of it. Cheney thanking them.

Pottinger deputy national security adviser. Formerly in charge of Asian policy. Later in 2019 promoted to deputy national security advisor. In charge of deputy cabinet secretary committee. Proud of his crappy work with the Trump regime 🙄🙄🙄 shut up douche bag

Sarah Matthews: I’m a lifelong Republican and so I ate this Trump Shit up, met Kayleigh Mackaninny and became BFFs w her, she brought me w her when she took over as chief liar for Trump.

Luria again : Trump summoned this mob on Jan 6 he knew they were armed, sent them anyway. We rec’d testimony from a security official who said they knew there were armed people in the crowd. Anonymous witness testimony: “we knew It was not a rally it was a coup attempt if he went

… to the Capitol with them. POTUS wanted to lead tens of thousands of armed people into the Capitol of course we were alarmed…”

Luria: another witness was freaked out by this and went to see Ornato- Ornato told them that Engle said Trump was irate when they wouldn’t let him March to Capitol w the mob.

Sgt Mark Robinson taped testimony describing heated discussion, potus was upset about wanting to go to Capitol. Robinson had done at least 100 motorcade events, had never seen an argument like this before. Monitoring special events channel. Armed rednecks in the TREES (snipers?)

While in limo, trump was still adamant about going to Capitol, but motorcade was placed on standby until it was confirmed where he was going. 45 min to an hour they waited for Secret Service to decide. Luria: recent disclosures have caused us to subpoena more from USSS.

Luria: here’s a picture of this asshole right after he got back to the Oval Office. As soon as he got there he knew that Capitol was under attack, at 1:25 he went to dining room. This asshole stayed in there until 4:00. Here’s a map of the White House. Here’s the dining room tv

Trump was watching Fox News in there for 2.5 hrs, but interestingly enough there’s a gap from 11:07 to 6:54 pm that day. No photos from the pic in the oval until the rose garden appearance. Wouldn’t let official photographer take pics of it. Total gap in info.

Taped patsy baloney answering Cheney questions. Yeah he sat on his ass watching fox all afternoon

Luria: Cippilone and Herschman conversation- President didn’t want to do anything re: security of capitol. Was calling senators to get them to object to count. Clip of Kayleigh Mackaninny talking about that

We know he called Drunk Rudy at 1:39 for 4 minutes. Airing on Fox News at that time. Asshole correspondent talking about angry mob storming Capitol. Angry mob person told him constitution didn’t matter, Pence should overturn election for Trump anyway.

Clips of rednecks gone wild in the riot at the Capitol

Kinzinger: Trump tweeted clip of his speech at 1:49but didn’t say shit about the violence. Then he tweeted again at 2:24. During interim staff kept begging him to call off the mob. Let’s hear from Cippilone

Cippilone: I told his ass we need a forceful statement telling these yahoos to take their raggedy asses on home but he would not listen to me. I can’t tell you exactly what I said but I will tell you that I told him to send their asses home ASAP. Especially when I heard violence.

Cippilone: lots of others felt like this too, I talked to Meadows about this too. Cippilone, Ivanka and others kept pushing for stronger statement. Cassidy H: Ivanka wanted stronger statement, tried to get her dad on board, couldn’t get dad to budge.

Cippilone: I tried to get Jared in there too because he usually talked sense into the old bastard but Trump just didn’t want to listen to anyone.
Kinzinger talking about Cippilone hearing about Hang Mike Pence chants.

Cassidy H on tape: Meadows handed me phone , Cippilone came back and said we gotta do more, they’re literally calling for Pence to hang. Meadows responded you heard potus he thinks it’s great. Cippilone was like this is f-n crazy talk you lunatic

Cippilone on tape: I can’t tell you what I talked about but MY VIEW was that this shit was bananas and I wasn’t cool with it at all and obviously I said so that it wasn’t ok to hang Mike Pence

Was President doing what it took to protect the VP? Cippilone lawyer wouldn’t let him answer that

Would it have been possible for potus to put out a statement in briefing room at any moment ? Cippilone: yes.
Kinzinger: let’s look at the map again at how small this area really was between where this asshole was and the briefing room, less than 60 seconds walk.

Sarah Matthews explaining how camera was always on in briefing room, could have assembled press corps in minutes flat if he had wanted to make a statement during this period

Kinzinger talking about how nobody thought it was a good idea to do a press conference though because Trump would probably be saying even wilder shit if so

Luria describing being evacuated from Congress because of pipe bombs. Hi Marge.

Sarah Matthews said she was going to recommend statement to Mackaninny. Clip of Judd Deere testimony taking about going to Mackaninny about a statement during this period of time. Told Kayleigh we need to encourage them to stop, respect LEOs, go home

2:03, Trump called Rudy again, talked to Drunk Rudy for 10 minutes. At 2:13 this proud boy Asshole we are now prosecuting smashed a window and these rednecks streamed in to the Capitol like fire ants after that

Radio traffic clips of Capitol cops: “ if we lose any more time we may lose ability to leave”

Smoke in the building. Harrowing chatter on the officers radio. National security staff was listening to this. At 2:13 kicking in windows. 2:16 vp being pulled. 2:24 “secret service agents don’t sound good right now .”

Anonymous security witness: VP USSS detail making calls to say goodbye to family because they thought the mob was about to rip them limb from limb apparently

What the fuck that was scary. They really thought those rioters were going to kill Pence and whole detail

Here’s some dumb twit who was a rioter talking about getting Pence, more clips of rednecks gone wild shouting blood lust for Pence

Clip of Ayres testimony describing the atmosphere of the rioters being ready to kill Pence over not overturning election for Trump

Oh but knowing all this shit at 2:24 that orange mother fucker put a target on Pence in that tweet he sent out

Knew the mob was in the building looking for Pence and sicced them on him anyway

Pottinger describing receiving copy of this 2:24 tweet. He was shocked and decided to resign. 🙄

Sarah Matthews: when I learned about this I thought it was the last thing we needed to happen and it gave a green light to any violence the mob might commit, he should have told them to go home. I went everywhere w him, saw impact his words have on supporters, latch on to it

Cippilone: it was a terrible tweet, disagreed w sentiment.
Judd Deere: it was extremely unhelpful not what we needed at that time. Scenes only getting worse, was making it worse,
Cassidy H.: as staffer I was sad, as an American I was disgusted

Luria: then we had to evacuate Pence a second time. Clip of rednecks gone wild in the Capitol. Luria: what did trump do, he called Tommy Tuberville. From someone else’s phone. Josh Hawley also had to flee. Pic of Hawley nazi salute 🙄

Hawley salute riled up the rioters more

Cheney interviewing Jared: does President have obligation to peaceful transfer of power, protect 3 branches of govt, execute laws of land? Yes

Luria reserves. Cheney gavels to 10 min recess. Sit your asses down so the witnesses can leave safely first. This shit is still dangerous.

Whew! Time to go feel the sweet relief of an empty bladder!

We see officer Fanone hanging out on the floor again. He’s been at most if not all of these hearings. We salute you, Officer Fanone!!!

Pottinger and Matthews are seated again. Press gaggle hushed. I think it’s about to be go time again

Committee is returning to seats now

Liz Cheney gavels back in. Toss to Kinzinger. Let us remind you where we left off with this orange Asshole sending that tweet at 2:24. Anyone else would have sent these idiots home but nope not Trump. 2:38: Tweet: stay peaceful

Don Jr texted Meadows at 2:53- he’s gotta condemn this shit asap
You gotta go to the mattresses on this one Meadows
What does that mean Jr?
Jr: it’s a mafia reference

Meadows got texts from family, press, members of Congress etc in this period, screenshots of Laura Ingraham half of Fox News staff texting Meadows to get Trump to call off his dogs

More Cippilone saying do more to stop. Who else wanted to stop violence: Ivanka, Jared, Kellogg, meadows, Herschman, Kayleigh. Scavino.

Cippilone couldn’t think of anyone who was actually on staff who didn’t want the violence to stop. What about the President: oh she said the staff . Cippilone attorney won’t let him say if Trump wanted violence to stop. But obvious Trump didn’t want violence to stop

Kinzinger: about that 2:38 tweet. Here’s the Shit show going on when he sent it out: riot clips, red necks gone wild, rioters launching tear gas in building, in rotunda. Clips of Fox News, members of Congress instructed to put on gas masks!!!

Sarah Matthews: I told Kayleigh we needed to put out a statement after that 2:38 tweet to call off mob. Kayleigh went into dining room to talk to Trump about making a more forceful statement. Kayleigh told her later Trump didn’t want to suggest anything like peace.

Ivanka suggested stay peaceful he eventually relented in that for 2:38 tweet.
Ali Alexander at 2:38: Potus isn’t ignorant of what his words would do .
Rioters communicating on walkie talkies reacting to 2:38 tweet. “There’s no safe place in the US for any of these mf’rs”

“What he didn’t say, was don’t do anything to the Congress people.”

“He is not leaving office “

More rednecks gone wild about being in the Capitol.

Pottinger: I wanted an unequivocal statement telling these assholes to clear TF out
Matthews : a conversation started in press office after these 2 tweets - a colleague suggested he would be handing a victory of media if he sent them home. She was like wtf it’s violence

“Does it look like we are f-n winning?” Sarah Matthews asked.
Kinzinger talking about McCoward couldn’t get Trump to call off dogs. McCoward called Scavino, transferred to Trump. Testimony of Molly the personal secretary. Voice of McCArthy on Fox News that day

Trump told McCArthy it was antifa not his people. McCoward said no it is your people they just went past my office. Trump was like well maybe they’re more upset about this stolen election than you are. He was totally fine with the violence.

Jared the haunted folk testimony clips again, everyone pleading with Jared to get old man orange to chill his mob out. So McCArthy called Trump children to beg them. Others went on tv telling him to call off the mob including JOE BIDEN yayyyy Joe!!!

Joe was already serving this country and he wasn’t even inaugurated yet. LEADERSHIP YALL.

Luria: eventually at 4:17 this asshole finally made that statement telling them he they were special. it’s only because at 3:58 pm Fox started reporting the FBI was about to fuck that mob up and they were going to lose the coup. Trump refused to use the approved script, ad libs

Rose garden remarks were absolutely nothing like prepared remarks. He just said whatever he wanted to say instead. 4:03 minute 173: Trump on camera.

Trump take 1, take 2. It was a landslide, it was stolen but we have to go home and respect law and order. They took it away from all of us. Fraudulent election. But we can’t play into the hands of these people. So go home youre very special

Was there any discussion of a second video after that? Herschman: no, day over, we were pretty drained. There were still people in Capitol bot law enforcement was regulating shit by then with the mob.

Minute 187: what was happening when he made this statement: riot city. Gas canisters. We need big angry patriots to push through. Rednecks gone wild.

Clip of Moscow Mitch in a secure location talking about finishing the peoples business. Schumer asking when it was going to be safe to resume count, it was estimated to take 4-5 hours. Pence worked with secretary of defense to secure the Capitol and ensure everyone safe.

Pence was issuing direct unambiguous orders. Very animated, direct, firm. Get military down here and put this situation down. Trump didn’t call a single person. General Milley heard from both Meadows and Pence: contrast: clip of Milley: “Meadows said we need to kill narrative…

Kill narrative that Pence was doing all the work, but Milley said he didn’t care about the politics but it was a red flag anyway.

Matthews: 4:17 video was dissatisfying and disturbing although I was glad he told these idiots to go home. But he didn’t differentiate between people who went to ellipse speech and the mob, called them all very special, I couldn’t defend that so I resigned that night

Judd Deere: 4:17 appearance was the absolute bare ass minimum he could have said then. Wanted More forceful dismissal of violence, law enforcement etc, respect for Capitol building itself.

Kayleigh Mackaninny: of course I wanted him to say something sooner

Kayleigh was probably the one Matthews had that upsetting conversation with about letting the mob run wild .

Clips of rioters reacting to Trump telling them to go home.
Kinzinger: what was Trump doing after this? A 6:01 tweet: justified the violence “when a sacred landslide victory is so viciously ripped away from great patriots, remember this day forever” Kinzinger: he had no remorse!

Picture of the back of his bald head behind his duck ass haircut. Kinzinger: Trump said that day “Mike Pence let me down”
Matthews: 6:01 tweet reinforced my decision to resign.

Tim Murtaugh: I wouldn’t call these assholes who attacked the Capitol “patriots” but I would call it criminal

Kinzinger: despite this shit happening we got it together and resumed this electoral count, Drunk Rudy called a bunch of senators (names them all) - tape of Drunk Rudy calling Tuberville asking him to slow down the count by objecting. Drunk Rudy never mentioned the riot

Kinzinger: here’s clips of Republicans admitting this shit was wrong: Moscow Mitch: these people thought they were acting on their President’s orders, reckless hyperbole. McCoward: violence and chaos unacceptable, undemocratic, unamerican. Chip Roy: shit wasn’t cool.

Scavino statement about not agreeing with outcome of election but thought that we would still have peaceful transition of power. Scavino called Miller, they could not get Trump to commit to that language so “orderly” prevailed

Some resigned, but some stayed because they were worried if Trump left unattended he would just bring in the crazy people to replace them

Eugene Scalia who was labor secretary slithered out from his rock to testify about why he didn’t resign and wanted a cabinet meeting. Cippilone said he didn’t know why Scalia wanted that meeting, but obviously this was probably for 25A.

Milley talking about how President was in a bed place psychologically after January 6. Cabinet members felt like the clown car was his shadow cabinet advising Trump instead of them,

Pottinger didn’t walk out immediately when he resigned, he went to talk to his boss Robert O’Brien, who accepted his resignation, who asks him to stay until he can get back to the WH, to preserve national security and not leave a key chair empty. Pottinger stayed at desk all nite

Kinzinger: how did this impact national security:
Pottinger: transition is a delicate time for national security . We were concerned that other countries might probe our weaknesses, due to contested nature of our domestic situation. Iranians attacked our embassy.

This emboldened our enemies. Emboldened our enemies to push narratives that we are in doomed decline, Pottinger says this fed a perception that emboldened our adversaries and freaked out our allies about stability of our country. Not good for our country

Kinzinger: well this is why we are airing this dirty shit out here in these hearings, so we can come back stronger from this

Matthews talking about importance of peaceful transfer. Staff prepared remarks for January 7. Concerns he was going to be 25a’d otherwise. Hannity texts warning Trump to buckle up.

Trump clip of the speech he gave on January 7, outtakes. He’s really not ok with saying this stuff. Refusing to say election is over, Ivanka feeding him lines from behind camera. Like a toddler. “Yesterday is a hard word for me”

“My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote” makes face and slaps podium. Clear he didn’t want to say that at all.

Pottinger describing how other elections have been close and been challenged in court before. But once you went to court, judges ruled, it’s over and if you persist, you aren’t contesting elections anymore you are contesting democracy’s rules itself at that point,

Talking about Nixon vs Kennedy in 1961. Nixon refused and said he would support Kennedy. Talking about Gore strongly disagreeing w Bush v Gore decision but after that he gave concession speech for sake of unity of country. A pretty good model for any candidate to read.

Talking about oaths we take to uphold the constitution and we have obligation to live up to that oath, it sets us apart. Allows for us to have peaceful predictable transfers of power in this country.

Luria: Trump was also in contact w his colleagues. Resolution introduced in house to 25a Trump. Clips of McCoward talking about being sick of Trump, wanting to get him out, saying Trump is responsible for what happened. Trump allegedly told him he was responsible for Jan 6

Luria giving a shout out to the law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol on January 6.
On January 6 night 2 trump advisers texted about Sicknick dying . Murtaugh and one of his deputies Matthew Wolking:
Trump wouldn’t acknowledge death of Sicknick. Disgusted by it

Murtaugh: he won’t acknowledge dead cop because he would be acknowledging he was responsible for the mob who caused the cop’s death

Kinzinger: Trump knew the attack on the Capitol was happening within a few minutes of getting off stage. Refused to take action for 3 hours, he wouldn’t put his country above himself. It was only after the tide turned that he engaged in theater to tell them to go home

Whatever your politics, we all agree on this: Trump violated oath of office, was totally derelict in his duty, is a stain on the service of everyone who ever served. We’re recommending changes to laws after this to prevent this crazy shit from taking over.

Laws mean nothing but words on paper w/o dedicated public servants who uphold their oaths and faithfully follow rule of law. If we don’t adhere to this, we will not endure as a shining beacon on a hill.

Luria: Telling us what they told us tonight. But it’s more than that: Trump summoned this mob to pressure those who might succumb to pressure. When he couldn’t March w. Them he sicced them on Pence. He was willing to do anything to remain in power, he’s been totally unapologetic

“It was his newest version of stand back and stand by”-love that line

“I never imagined that threat would come from within.”

Cheney: something about witnesses answering in writing in 10 days… Toss to remote Bennie T closing remarks: we keep following up on new info and witnesses, we will be back in September to bring you more of this stuff. Thank you for your attention, America, have a good night.

Cheney commending witnesses for their bravery. Especially Cassidy H. Knew these old men hiding behind executive privilege would attack her for Trump

Let me ask you this: do you think Bill Barr is such a delicate flower he would wilt under testimony?
Trump said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and get away with it. Let’s listen to that slimy fuck Bannon talk about Trump declaring victory no matter what.

Lol. Cheney: and of course 4 days later Trump did exactly what Bannon said he would do. Declare victory no matter what. Continued his bs until Jan 6. He was confident his supporters would believe anything he said. Would come be his mob for his coup. Worst part: Knew supporters

Trump knew his supporters were willing to do anything to defend their country they loved. He turned their earnest patriotism into a weapon with his lies, for his own gain. We can’t abandon truth for lies and remain a free nation.

I circulated a memo to my GOP colleagues telling them no fraud, can’t overturn election outcome- Trump got almost identical advice. Had stark unmistakable choice b/w right & wrong, chose to violate his oath. No excuse for that, indefensible

Every American must consider can someone who did this ever be trusted to be elected dog catcher after this? We have a solemn obligation not to squander what people fought & died for.

Our committee understands gravity of this moment, we take it seriously, we are still working on this and we will see you again in September. Gaveled out.

And we are done! Whew that was a long one!!!!