I wouldn’t let Trump or his followers off nearly so easy. Don’t forget Trump’s deliberate seeding of the lies about mail ballots before the election and his speech claiming victory at 2a after election night, when we all knew the ballots weren’t fully counted.
And the people he deluded were the recipients of one of the broadest, loudest, and most determined efforts to convey the truth in memory. Their fellow citizens marshaled evidence and banged pots and pans for five years to let them know they were being lied to. They didn’t care.
The reason they didn’t care is what, imo, makes arguments like Bari Weiss’s sophistry. The Capitol insurrectionists were there for Trump, their attachment to him was direct and personal. They were there because he wanted them to be. It had nothing to do with truth or democracy.
The insurrectionists couldnt be dissuaded by democratic values, evidence, or the judgment of federal courts bc their own rationale didn’t depend on those things. And they repeated Trump’s lies not bc they were convincing but bc they were *his* and they wanted to be on his team.
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The nerve of President Biden injecting crass politics into the sacred memory of the mob violence fomented by the former President to overturn his election defeat.
Next thing you know President Biden might politicize U.S. Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger. washingtonpost.com/politics/linds…
One wonders what happened to that investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney.
Some potentially revealing exchanges in recently unsealed 1/6 conspiracy charges against two defendants. Notable discussions in late December of funding, allusions to secret plans, and coordination with the Proud Boys. documentcloud.org/documents/2115… h/t @alanfeuer
The allegations indicate that the leader of this little crew, Denney, was principally involved in the assault on Officer Michael Fanone. He allegedly both crushed him with a riot shield within the tunnel (note the name tag in the first pic) and dragged him out into the crowd.
If, like me, you're curious about the timing, some info: The docs say FBI had tips identifying these two defendants within 24 hours of the 1/6 attack, got a search warrant on 1/18 and a second one 3 months later, but the arrests didn't happen until 12/7.
The claim from Meadows book is that Trump took a rapid test on 9/26/20 and received a positive result shortly after the WH super spreader event with Barrett, then took a Binax test that came back negative, then went to the debate without apparently being tested again. …
Like the president gets these two conflicting rapid test results and then they never do a PCR… idk I don’t really buy that as the whole story.
I’ve been watching this car restoration reality show out of Canada, and I’ve realized I have utterly no understanding of what goes on up there.
In the last episode I saw, the proprietor of a competing shop literally yells at the main guy of the featured shop for hiring one of his people w/o calling him beforehand. To make up for this transgression, the guys go over and help that competitor finish a job he outbid them for
It’s like antitrust laws, business sense, and maybe the laws of gravity don’t exist