"First of all, on Dec. 30, Bannon talks to Trump and says, 'You've got to make a dramatic return to Washington,'" Woodward said, paraphrasing some of the quotes in Peril. #AppointSpecialCounsel
Seven Conspiratorial Actions /2 #AppointSpecialCounsel
Bannon says to Trump,’You've got to call VP Pence off the ski slopes,'where Pence's staff &advisers have..stashed him away because..in a week he's going to have to certify or decide what..to do about who’s the next president
Seven Conspiratorial Actions /3 #AppointSpecialCounsel
Bannon says to Trump,’Jan. 6 is the moment of reckoning here,'&if we can challenge the legitimacy of Biden,it casts a shadow over the Biden presidency,&then, he says, 'We are going to kill the Biden presidency in the crib.'
Seven Conspiratorial Actions /4 #AppointSpecialCounsel
"Jan. 5..Bannon meets w/others,including Giuliani..to block..certif of Biden..Trump put out a phony statement,..that Pence agreed..he has the power to walk away &..get Trump certified as president.But that's totally untrue,”
Seven Conspiratorial Actions /5 #AppointSpecialCounsel
“..Pence did not try to send the results back to certain states Trump lost in November. In fact, he sent a letter to Congress saying he did not have the power to reject Electoral College votes..”
If the Justice Department prosecutes Bannon and he is convicted, he could face fines up to $100,000 and up to a year in prison. Woodward predicted the Justice Department will go further and #AppointSpecialCounsel
Seven Conspiratorial Actions /7 #AppointSpecialCounsel
"We have a very clear-cut case.I.. suspect..that AG Garland will #AppointSpecialCounsel to look at this,because the evidence is so clear for a massive Watergate-style attempt to destroy the process of electing a president”
Trump Coup /2 #AppointSpecialCounsel
“If these allegations are proven to be true, Congress has to take action against Greene, Gosar, Boebert and co. Being involved in a plot to overthrow the government should get them removed from Congress, according to the 14th Amendment”
Also, if these allegations are proven to be true, Congress has to take action against Greene, Gosar, Boebert and co. Being involved in a plot to overthrow the government should get them removed from Congress, according to the 14th Amendment.
“Garland’s standard sets up a false equivalency between the Democratic Party &a political party whose national leader,..Trump, incited &celebrated a violent assault on our nation’s Capitol to overthrow the results of a free and fair election..”
“..in the middle of the AG’s.testimony, Trump issued a statement highlighting Garland’s feebleness at failing to even investigate…organizers &leaders of Jan. 6 events,declaring”the insurrection took place on Nov 3, Election Day. Jan 6 was the Protest!”
The Coup Continues /2
In 1934,a colossal claim reached the American news media: There’d been a plot to overthrow Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt, in favor of a fascist government. In the works since 1933, the claims of the conspiracy came from a very conspicuous and reliable source:
The Coup Continues /3
Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated war heroes of his time. Even more unbelievable were his claims of who was involved in the plot – respected names like Robert Sterling Clark, Grayson M.P. Murphy, and Prescott Bush.
Fascism Rose In America /2
Fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
Fascism Rose In America /3
“Once the American corporate barons own the institutions that are meant to regulate them, it’s game-over for both rational capitalism (including competition) and for democracy.”
Progressives are aware that passage of The $3.5T Human Infrastructure Bill is essential to success of Biden’s Presidency, to keeping control of The House in ‘22, to survival of the planet by fighting the Climate Crisis.
“Moderates” are also aware.
On Saving Democracy 2/6
Progressives are fighting to achieve Biden’s goals.
They call upon “moderates”to keep their word &pass the $3,5T bill together w/the Infrastructure bill.
Moderates are determined to destroy Biden’s plan. They’re a bunch of liars who don’t keep their word.
On Saving Democracy 3/6
Manchin and Sinema both voted FOR the $3.5T budget. Now they renege on reconciliation of the same budget.
Gov Bevin—
“it is a very dangerous precedent to pretend that your history is not your history..It doesn’t mean you agree w/it or even like it. But to pretend it does not exist..&the ability to learn from (it) is a very dangerous proposition.”
Understanding McConnell /3
..Confederate statues..are certainly symbols: they are symbols of an insurrection to overthrow our gov’t, led by men who were traitors &they are symbols of 200-plus years of hate, racism,murder,segregation,disenfranchisement &discriminatory laws..