Hernandez, who got drunk on the eve of J6 anniversary and drove the wrong direction, killing one and injuring another in violation of her parole, pleads guilty.
Paul Colbath “pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, a charge that carries a six-month maximum sentence.
He is to be sentenced April 6.”
Kenneth Grayson “who authorities said livestreamed himself from inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., is expected to plead guilty next month.”
“Madison Pettit and Gabriel Burress pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building, according to court records. The maximum penalty is six months in prison, five years probation and a $5,000 fine.”
One year ago today, rightwing attorney Cleta Mitchell resigned from her law firm, Foley & Lardner, after new reports revealed she had been on Trump’s shakedown call to Georgia
So buckle up, buckaroos, it’s time for a long thread on this legal eagle at the GQP nexus.
January 5, 2021, Tea Party lawyer Cleta Mitchell announced she was leaving Foley & Lardner after 20 years. News reports revealed her role in Trump’s call to Brad Raffenberg, Georgia’s Secretary of State.
Now Mitchell is suing to block her J6C subpoenas. thedailybeast.com/cleta-mitchell…
Cleta Mitchell’s lawsuit against the J6C subpoenas appear to be fishing for information on what the J6C knows, to my eyes. And we could discuss that, but what I’m really curious about is this woman herself, who among the GOP is almost a cipher. politico.com/f/?id=0000017d…
The PowerPoint had been hosted on the site of a company that goes by the name of Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc.
Their offices are located in DC in what appears to be a coworking and virtual office space, which makes them look totally legit.
The company’s name is an homage to an American lawyer of the same name who published political novels in the 1800s. Several had a character called Baron Trump. The final novel from 1896 is called “1900, or The Last President”.
This document on authoritarians and how they are swayed makes for a fascinating read. I’d like to pull out a few tidbits, compare them to the approach Cambridge Analytica used, and make some inferences for the future in this thread.
“Authoritarianism is substantially heritable and mostly determined by lack of “openness to experience.””
It is driven by aversion to complexity.
Compare this to the OCEAN characteristics identified by Cambridge Analytica. The four major groupings into which they place their target audiences all share high levels of Neuroticism AND are very low on Openness.