And (!): 1/6 planners say GOP members of Congress involved in the PLANNING of the insurrection were:
Greene
Boebert
Brooks
Gohmert
Biggs
Gosar
& Cawthorn
And Gosar told these planners they'd get a Trump "blanket pardon"
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Per Rolling Stone:
"The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss was being certified
2/"“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”
3/"For the sake of clarity, we will refer to one of the sources as a rally organizer and the other as a planner. Rolling Stone has confirmed that both sources were involved in organizing the main event aimed at objecting to the electoral certification,
4/"which took place at the White House Ellipse on Jan. 6. Trump spoke at that rally and encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol. Some members of the audience at the Ellipse began walking the mile and a half to the Capitol as Trump gave his speech.
5/"The barricades were stormed minutes before the former president concluded his remarks. These two sources also helped plan a series of demonstrations that took place in multiple states around the country in the weeks between the election and the storming of the Capitol.
6/"According to these sources, multiple people associated with the March for Trump and Stop the Steal events that took place during this period communicated with members of Congress throughout this process.
7/"Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.),
8/"Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). “We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” says the organizer.
9/"And Gosar, who has been one of the most prominent defenders of the Jan. 6 rioters, allegedly took things a step further. Both sources say he dangled the possibility of a “blanket pardon” in an unrelated ongoing investigation to encourage them to plan the protests.
10/"'Our impression was that it was a done deal,” the organizer says, “that he’d spoken to the president about it in the Oval … in a meeting about pardons and that our names came up.
11/"'They were working on submitting the paperwork and getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to sign on as a show of support.”
12/"The organizer claims the pair received “several assurances” about the “blanket pardon” from Gosar. .."
~excerpts Rolling Stone
**Oh my freaking God**
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ICYMI:
Florida Bar suspended Matt Gaetz's law license for failure to pay fees
They called him “delinquent” & said he's “not eligible to practice law in Fla”
Gaetz money situation is reported to be flailing
(And this isn't a lot of money)
Uh oh Matty.. thedailybeast.com/delinquent-mat…
Per DB: " the Florida Bar has branded Gaetz as “delinquent” twice in the past two years. The organization temporarily cut him off in 2019 and again in 2020, because Gaetz failed to affirm that he is properly handling and protecting any clients’ money in trust accounts. .
2/"Lawyers must abide by strict rules to ensure they are not stealing or misusing money that belongs to the people they represent .. In 2019, he also ran afoul of the professional organization’s “standards of civility” for serving the role of Trump attack dog.
Biden's Supreme Court Commission has released a draft report on their findings
And it doesn't look like they're strongly recommending an expansion
Final report due 11/14
Per Psaki: Biden won't be commenting until the final report is released
Here: cbsnews.com/news/supreme-c…
2/"The commission arranged a separate 16-person committee of Supreme Court lawyers and former solicitors general who collectively have argued more than 400 cases before the high court, to share their views on the proposals for major changes to the court.
3/"This group "unanimously oppose[d] proposals to enlarge the court" because "increasing the number of justices represents an escalation of the problem, not a solution, and a larger bench could make arguments less productive, deliberations more difficult,
Lots of folks aren't understanding what's involved in Congress referring for criminal contempt. So here's a thread from Jan 6th Committee chair Bennie Thompson's statement on referring Steve Bannon to DOJ
Everyone should read these words:
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"Any person who willfully refuses to provide testimony or documents subpoenaed by Congress..is potentially liable for contempt of Congress under 2 U.S.C. §§ 192, 194. Contempt of Congress is a crime that may result in a fine and between one and twelve months imprisonment.
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"Contempt of Congress begins with a “formal action” by the Select Committee, i.e., a business meeting at which a contempt report is adopted. If a witness fails to appear, produce documents, or refuses to answer any question “pertinent to the question under inquiry,”
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Here's the second letter WH Cousel Dana Remus sent to Nat'l Archives
Dated 10/8 & publicly released today
-doubling down on Biden's position that EP not be extended to Trump for *any* of the docs requested by Jan 6th Committee
thread: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
2/"For the same reasons described in my earlier letter, the President maintains his conclusion that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents
3/"..Biden does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege [&] instructs you..to provide the pages identified as privileged by the former President to the Select Committee.
So I just read Kyrsten Sinema's Wiki page
She had a rough early life
You would think that she is one who would *completely* understand the needs that reconciliation's social programs will fill for millions
Something is *very* wrong with this picture
Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrsten_S…
2/"When her stepfather lost his job and the bank foreclosed on their home amid the 1973–1975 recession, the family lived for three years in an abandoned gas station.[19][20] Sinema has said that for two years they had no toilet or electricity while living there.[21]
3/"She later recalled, "My stepdad built a bunk bed for me and my sister. We separated our bunk bed from the kitchen with one of those big chalkboards on rollers. I knew that was weird. A chalkboard shouldn't be a wall. A kitchen should have running water."[21]
NEW!
Jan 6th Committee has issued a slew of new subpoenas for testimony & records to people tied to events leading up to 1/6, incl the rally at the Ellipse & the Capitol
I will list the names below ⤵️
Here's their statement: january6th.house.gov/news/press-rel…
Subpoenaed:
Amy Kremer, founder and Chair of WFAF.
Kylie Kremer, founder and Executive Director of WFAF.
Cynthia Chafian, submitted the first permit application on behalf of WFAF for the January 6th rally, and founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition.
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Caroline Wren, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Advisor.”
Maggie Mulvaney, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Lead.”
Justin Caporale, of Project Manager of Ellipse rally
Event Strategies, Inc.,
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