The 1/6 commission (or select committee) should investigate and make recommendations, but it should also be a forum for senior officials to explain why they held Trump responsible for the insurrection. thebulwark.com/make-them-test…
Betsy DeVos: “we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business. . . . There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”
Bill Barr: “Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable... The President’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters.”
"The Republican Party of the future cannot — not tacitly, not quietly, not in the slightest — encourage grievance or stoke anger... [nor can it] continue to endorse the view that any election lost to Democrats constitutes the literal end of the country."
"What we saw on Jan. 6, 2021, is not a surprising result when people are falsely told their votes are meaningless because the elections are 'rigged' and democracy in America is a sham."
GOP Senate Judiciary Committee staffer (who happens to be married to the co-author of Michael Flynn's book) uses an NSC contact to obtain H.R. McMaster's official schedule, then sends a woman with a hidden camera to stalk him at a DC restaurant
An ex-Survivor contestant moved into a Project Veritas-funded shared house with other women (code-named "Brazil" and "Tiger"), where they created fake dating profiles to lure FBI employees into apparent honey traps.
American Greatness: "the good man must...become the monster he may need to become in order to slay the monsters"
"Hispanic gangbangers... distinguished themselves on account of their zeal... terroriz[ing] law-abiding blacks who happened to reside within or pass through the Barrio."
It's hard to read this as anything but admiration for white supremacist gangs.
Where did people like Tucker Carlson (and Trump for that matter) get the idea that undocumented immigrants are eager to get mixed up in illegal voting schemes? 1/
This is a population that by and large does everything it can to *avoid* interactions with municipal authorities. Even if they're victims of a crime, or abuse and exploitation at work, many will keep quiet because they're afraid of being deported. 2/
And yet we're asked to believe that they'll risk it all for some "walking around money."
"Here's fifty bucks, now go into this building with a police car parked outside and pretend to be someone else. It'll be fine!" 3/