They are afraid they won't look good in the crackdown on the 2nd amendment-- for starters.
Fiona Hill: "The president was trying to stage a coup"
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The Democrats are refusing? Do you have a cite for that? I know they've had some trouble getting footage from Capitol police, who aren't keen on releasing the information because according to counsel for the Capitol police:
DiBiase said that the agency's legally authorized policy is to sharply restrict access to such videos because it could be used by bad actors — including many of the alleged insurrectionists now facing charges — to map out the interior of the Capitol and pose a future threat to lawmakers.
You'll reject any source I provide so what's the point?
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Good answer!
annabenedetti
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Try me.
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'Pure insanity': Emails detail Trump's pressure on Justice Department to overturn election
Trump's White House badgered federal officials behind the scenes while he pushed unsubstantiated claims of election fraud on Twitter.WASHINGTON — Documents released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee detail then-President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to pressure the Department of Justice to pursue his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and help overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
The emails illustrate the behind-the-scenes efforts Trump's White House took to pressure federal officials while he simultaneously pushed the same false claims on Twitter. The messages were sent from mid-December to early January and were made public by House Oversight and Government Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
Among the efforts was pressure on the Department of Justice to intervene in lawsuits being pursued by Trump's campaign and supporters to get the Supreme Court to overturn the results.
At the end of December, Trump’s White House assistant emailed then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and other top Justice Department officials with a draft legal brief that the president wanted them to file with the Supreme Court. Kurt Olsen, a private attorney for Trump, also contacted department officials requesting the federal agency file the brief.
The 54-page brief called on the Supreme Court to declare that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada had administered the 2020 presidential election in violation of the Electors Clause and the 14th Amendment, claiming that the states changed election rules without legislative action. All six were swing states that Trump lost.
“Those unconstitutional changes allowed election irregularities in various forms,” said the complaint, which called on the high court to authorize a special election in those states to appoint new presidential electors.
Trump's vocal public efforts to overturn the election were highly unusual, but had the DOJ intervened on his behalf it would have been viewed as an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency to overturn the will of voters.
The messages are also riddled with conspiracy theories, and the Oversight Committee's staff members cited at least five instances when then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows inquired about rumors that were circulating on the internet at the time but for which there was no supporting evidence.
For example, Meadows emailed Rosen a translated document from a person in Italy who claimed without evidence that he had “direct knowledge” of a plot that involved Italians changing the election results and then loading them into “military satellites.”
The pressure campaign reached its crescendo on Jan. 1, just five days before the Capitol riot and Congress' affirmation of the certified electors. On that day, Meadows emailed Justice Department leaders about the Italy conspiracy and complaints in Georgia and New Mexico, a state Trump lost by more than 10 points.
"Pure insanity," Richard Donoghue, who was the acting deputy attorney general, wrote to Rosen in response to Meadows' latest email promoting the theory.
Why won't the Democrats release the videos? What do you think they are afraid of?
Reminds me of the election audits. The dems want as little transparency as possible. What are they always so afraid of?
As @annabenedetti posted earlier:
"However, the Capitol Police are raising alarms about sharing surveillance footage...the agency's legally authorized policy is to sharply restrict access to such videos because it could be used by bad actors — including many of the alleged insurrectionists now facing charges — to map out the interior of the Capitol and pose a future threat to lawmakers." -- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/capitol-police-jan6-footage-478439
Any excuse will do to prevent what Democrats hate the most: Transparency
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And yet you can't or won't back up your assertions. How transparent is that?
If we learned anything from the January 6th Capitol riot, it's that MAGA terrorism is a legitimate concern. Those people tried to use force to stop Vice President Pence and Congress from performing their constitutional duties.
Hill's sworn duty was to support and carry out Trump's foreign policies. For whatever reason Hill was weak in that regard, which did not reflect well on her character.
If we learned anything from the Jan 6 protest it is that crooks in DC can get millions of Americans to blindly accept any stupid lie they tell them for whatever reason.
Reports show that of the 484 people that have so far been arrested in connection to the insurrection, 47 hail from Florida. That's the most of any state, tied with Texas.
Florida also leads all states in arrests of individuals associated with the far-right groups' Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who were both active in breaching the Capitol.
More than 40% of the Oath Keepers arrested on charges stemming from the insurrection are from the Sunshine State and about a quarter of the Proud Boys.
Florida also leads all states in arrests of individuals associated with the far-right groups' Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who were both active in breaching the Capitol.
More than 40% of the Oath Keepers arrested on charges stemming from the insurrection are from the Sunshine State and about a quarter of the Proud Boys.
Like brutal communist Chinese dictators, the democrat fascists who stole the election in 2020 have commissioned their jack-booted Gestapo troops to search, seize, and destroy every opponent of democrat voter fraud they can find in the country. Americans need to stop these lawless leftist democrap thugs before they destroy the whole country and everyone in it.
Right now in this country, we are being treated daily to the Big Lie that Donald Trump was the true winner of the presidential election of 2020, and the only reason he's not in the White House right now is because the election was stolen from him.
You can think democrats did not commit voter fraud but you cannot prove it.
You can think democrats did commit voter fraud but you cannot prove it.
Tens of millions of Americans have no doubt democrats committed massive voter fraud in 2020 and are currently trying to ram federal protections for fraud through Congress in order to commit voter fraud in every future election. The majority of Americans do not think the police are bad, whites are wicked, or blacks are perpetual victims of white racism. That is why democrats must create massive numbers of fraudulent votes to keep getting elected in the face of such widespread opposition to their stupidity.