Per Politico:
Matt Gaetz's 'pocket sized' Wyoming anti-Cheney super spreader rally yesterday:
@ 800 red capped Trumper's 'chaning feverishly'
DJT on speakerphone
Bottom line: if she had to run in '21 'she'd be in serious trouble'
More:
2-"At Harbor Freight Tools, when I uttered the name “Liz Cheney,” an employee behind the cash register hurled a threatening epithet. Then a beefy tattooed supervisor came over mad as hell. His mask hung below his nose when he told me, “I don’t think she spoke for Wyoming.”
3-"At the steakhouse, our comely waitress said “a lot of people are fired up” about Cheney. As a lifelong native of Wyoming, she said Cheney made a grave mistake by not representing the people of her state.
4-"Lisa Totten, a 47-year-old clerk at City National Pawn, was probably the easiest on Cheney. She sort of remembered her from a parade, but thought Cheney was the mayor. Totten called Trump “embarrassing,” but voted for him anyway because she’s a gun-toting Republican.
5-"She said Cheney had “done a good job.” But unfortunately for the congresswoman, Totten has never voted in a primary and said she’s not motivated to vote in the next one
6-"If there was any doubt this is still Trump’s Republican Party, my time in Cheyenne dispelled it" ~Politico Playbook @tarapalmeri
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Highly unusual:
A group of Dem House staffers circulating a letter they'll send to upper chamber urging Senators to vote to convict Trump and bar him from ever holding office again
Here: politico.com/f/?id=00000177…
2-“As employees of the U.S. House of Representatives, we don’t have a vote on whether to convict Donald J. Trump for his role in inciting the violent attack at the Capitol, but our Senators do,” they write.
3-"“And for our sake, and the sake of the country, we ask that they vote to convict the former president and bar him from ever holding office again.”
Acting Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee told House Appropriations in a closed-door session today that a second police ofcr, DC officer Jeffery Smith has died by his own hand since 1/6 insurrection politico.com/news/2021/01/2…
2-"Lawmakers heard from law enforcement officials for the first time about the Capitol security breaches during the briefing with the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, when Yogananda D. Pittman, the acting head of the U.S. Capitol Police,
3-"said the department was outmanned and unprepared for the attack. .. Appropriators left the briefing with a number of questions — chiefly, that intelligence agencies had “ample evidence an angry mob would descend on Washington” and they failed to
Per WaPo:
Trump is working behind the scenes to create a MAGA Party
-endorsing Kelli Ward in AZ
-to primary those who voted against him
-& bc he feels the threat will give him leverage over GOP who may vote to convict him washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
2-"In a recorded phone call, Trump offered his “complete and total endorsement” for another term for Arizona state party chairwoman Kelli Ward, a lightning rod who has sparred with the state’s Republican governor, been condemned by the business community and overseen a recent
3-"flight in party registrations. She narrowly won reelection, by a margin of 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent, marking Trump’s first victory in a promised battle to maintain political relevance and influence after losing the 2020 election.
Word today that the reason Biden's Cabinet noms are moving so slowly is bc McConnell is gumming up the works over this filibuster deal he wants Schumer to cut
Mitch won't agree to an organizing res w/o it
Chuck won't do it (he shouldn't)
W/o it GOP still tech run the Committees
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McConnell's doing it again..
It's not clear what will break this stalemate
But the pressure on both parties is growing
Pelosi told donors last night that she wants to pass relief in 2 wks using budget reconciliation
But she (America) has to wait bc Mitch won't budge
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And we all know that the second GOP take power back if Mitch wants to, he'll pop that filibuster sky high
Schumer knows it too
But Manchin (him again), Tester & Sinema want to keep it
Harris & 26 other Dems signed a ltr in '17 saying keep it
While AOC & even Obama say dump it
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Breaking:
(here we go..)
Per WaPo:
Army 'falsely denied for days' that Michael Flynn's brother Lt. Gen. Charles A. Flynn was in the room for a tense 1/6 phone call during which USCP & D.C. officials pleaded with DOD to dispatch the Nat'l Guard urgently washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
2-"The general’s presence during the call — which has not previously been reported — came weeks after his brother publicly suggested that President Donald Trump declare martial law and have the U.S. military oversee a redo of the election.
3-"There is no indication that Charles Flynn shares his brother’s extreme views or discharged his duties at the Pentagon on Jan. 6 in any manner that was influenced by his brother.
Breaking:
Per NYT: Trump was required to file a new financial disclosure upon leaving office
Trump Org reported a nearly 38% revenue decline since 2019 nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/…
2-"The report detailed a revenue drop of more than 40 percent at Mr. Trump’s Doral golf club outside Miami, and a 63 percent decline at his signature hotel in Washington, just blocks from the White House.
3-"All told, the Trump Organization declared revenue of at least $278 million in 2020 and the early days of this year, a nearly 38 percent decline from the company’s reported 2019 results.