Fiona Hill: "The president was trying to stage a coup"

[annabenedetti]

It’s Mid-October and 22 Percent of Republicans STILL Think Trump Will Be Reinstated as President This Year

Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe that former President Donald Trumpwill be “reinstated” to the presidency this year, even as the fantastical August 13 “deadline” for that event has long passed, and the end of the year is just weeks away.

It has been more than four months since the political media world was set abuzz after The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman first reported that Trump was telling confidants that he believed he’d be reinstated to the presidency in August, reporting that was later confirmed by other outlets — and fed by delusions floated by Trump allies like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and attorney Sidney Powell.

And Trump himself appeared to confirm this in June when he told a crowd in North Carolina that “we’re gonna take back the White House, and sooner than you think.”

According to Lindell, the date of Trump’s miraculous ascension was to be August 13 — more than two months ago.

But according to a new poll from YouGov, a not-insignificant chunk of Republicans still think it is “likely” that Trump will be reinstated this year.

 

[ok doser]

It’s Mid-October and 22 Percent of Republicans STILL Think Trump Will Be Reinstated as President This Year

Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe that former President Donald Trumpwill be “reinstated” to the presidency this year, even as the fantastical August 13 “deadline” for that event has long passed, and the end of the year is just weeks away.

It has been more than four months since the political media world was set abuzz after The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman first reported that Trump was telling confidants that he believed he’d be reinstated to the presidency in August, reporting that was later confirmed by other outlets — and fed by delusions floated by Trump allies like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and attorney Sidney Powell.

And Trump himself appeared to confirm this in June when he told a crowd in North Carolina that “we’re gonna take back the White House, and sooner than you think.”

According to Lindell, the date of Trump’s miraculous ascension was to be August 13 — more than two months ago.

But according to a new poll from YouGov, a not-insignificant chunk of Republicans still think it is “likely” that Trump will be reinstated this year.

I suppose it depends on how far Joe the Rapist's approval ratings fall.

 

[User Name]

Former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short denounced a memo from a legal scholar arguing Pence could unilaterally overturn President Joe Biden's Electoral College win as "boneheaded analysis" in an interview for a new book.

Short spoke to Washington Examiner journalist and author David Drucker for his forthcoming book "In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP," a copy of which Insider obtained ahead of its October 19 publication from Twelve Books.

In his interview with Drucker, Short blamed a power vacuum in the White House that created an opening for conspiracy theory-wielding lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, in addition to figures like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, to fill Trump's head with the false belief that the 2020 election was stolen and the incorrect notion that his vice president could unilaterally reverse his election loss.

"Unfortunately, I think the president had some really, really bad advice," Short told Drucker. "The way the White House was structured at that point was that those people giving that really, really bad advice were given carte blanche access to the president, and I think there were no safeguards in the way the White House was being run at that point."

Mike Pence's chief of staff trashed a memo calling for him to overturn the election as 'boneheaded analysis'

 

[annabenedetti]

Heather Cox Richardson issues a thoughtful, nuanced newsletter called Letters from an American. This is from her latest:

October 18, 2021
Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol recommended that the House of Representatives find Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon is refusing to cooperate with a subpoena for documents and testimony about the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection. Now the House will take up the question of contempt.

The committee report is a lot more interesting than that topline suggests (political historian here: although people tend to watch what happens before the TV cameras, committee reports are often where the action is).

The report starts by stating that the attempt of “a violent mob” to “halt the lawful counting of electoral votes and reverse the results of the 2020 election” was, according to “the words of many of those who participated in the violence, ...a direct response to false statements by then-President Donald J. Trump—beginning on election night 2020 and continuing through January 6, 2021—that the 2020 election had been stolen by corrupted voting machines, widespread fraud, and otherwise.”

The committee is laying the events of January 6 on Trump.

Congress established the committee, the report says, “to identify how the events of January 6th were planned, what actions and statements motivated and contributed to the attack on the Capitol, how the violent riot that day was coordinated with a political and public relations strategy to reverse the election outcome, and why Capitol security was insufficient to address what occurred.”

The committee is saying that the riot was coordinated ahead of time, and it appears to suggest that Capitol security was compromised.

Then the report explains why Bannon is an important witness. Its account of his actions in that crisis is an illuminating roundup of what we have seen in pieces in many other places. It concludes that Bannon knew specifically about the events of January 6 ahead of time.

On his January 5 podcasts, for example, he said:

“It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen. OK, it’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in. [. . .] You made this happen and tomorrow it’s game day. So strap in. Let’s get ready.”

“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. [. . .] So many people said, ‘Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.’ Well, this is your time in history.”

Bannon said that the country was facing a ‘‘constitutional crisis’’ and ‘‘that crisis is about to go up about five orders of magnitude tomorrow.’’

And: “It’s all converging, and now we’re on the point of attack tomorrow.”

So, the committee report suggests there was high-level planning for the January 6 insurrection. And it goes on:

The report says that it appears Bannon joined others eager to overturn the election “who gathered at the Willard Hotel, two blocks from the White House, on the days surrounding the January 6th attack…. The group that assembled at the Willard Hotel is reported to have included members of the Trump campaign’s legal team (including Rudolph Giuliani and John Eastman), several prominent proponents of false election fraud claims that had been promoted by Mr. Trump (e.g., Russell Ramsland, Jr. and Boris Epshteyn), as well as Roger Stone, who left the hotel with Oath Keeper bodyguards, and campaign spokesman Jason Miller.”

Then the report blows up the idea that Bannon had an excuse not to testify.

Bannon refused to honor the subpoena because he claimed that Trump was going to invoke executive privilege, but “Trump has had no communication with the Select Committee.” “This third-hand, non-specific assertion of privilege, without any description of the documents or testimony over which privilege is claimed, is insufficient to activate a claim of executive privilege,” it says. In any case, as a private citizen at the time of the events in question, Bannon would not be covered by executive privilege anyway.

This is a powerful document, laying out the direction the committee report is likely to go...


More at the link.

 

[Arthur Brain]

It’s Mid-October and 22 Percent of Republicans STILL Think Trump Will Be Reinstated as President This Year

Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe that former President Donald Trumpwill be “reinstated” to the presidency this year, even as the fantastical August 13 “deadline” for that event has long passed, and the end of the year is just weeks away.

It has been more than four months since the political media world was set abuzz after The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman first reported that Trump was telling confidants that he believed he’d be reinstated to the presidency in August, reporting that was later confirmed by other outlets — and fed by delusions floated by Trump allies like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and attorney Sidney Powell.

And Trump himself appeared to confirm this in June when he told a crowd in North Carolina that “we’re gonna take back the White House, and sooner than you think.”

According to Lindell, the date of Trump’s miraculous ascension was to be August 13 — more than two months ago.

But according to a new poll from YouGov, a not-insignificant chunk of Republicans still think it is “likely” that Trump will be reinstated this year.

No wonder the RP is in such disarray. It's like an ultra slow motion car crash...

 

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No wonder the RP is in such disarray. It's like an ultra slow motion car crash...

I'd call it a slow-rolling coup. The base is outnumbered by disgusted establishment Republicans, Democrat-leaning independents and Democrats, but the base is just as gaga over Trump and just as full of conspiracy and disinformation-fueled rage as they were when he was in office and significantly, they're willing and able to play dirty at all levels, from local school boards to filibustering the senate. What happens in 22 and 24 is going to be historically significant, as to whether a white Christian nationalistic minority can tighten its grip on the American narrative.

 

[ok doser]

... a white Christian nationalistic minority ...

72% of Americans identify as white
65% of Americans identify as Christian

Not sure how you get a "minority" out of that

As for "nationalistic", you'll have to tell me what you think you mean by that

 

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72% of Americans identify as white
65% of Americans identify as Christian

Not sure how you get a "minority" out of that

By not discarding "nationalistic," as you just did.

 

[ok doser]

By not discarding "nationalistic," as you just did.

So define it.

I would say that the very act of voting in a national election was nationalistic. But I suspect you have something more narrowly focused in mind.

 

[Gary K]

Heather Cox Richardson issues a thoughtful, nuanced newsletter called Letters from an American. This is from her latest:

October 18, 2021
Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol recommended that the House of Representatives find Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon is refusing to cooperate with a subpoena for documents and testimony about the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection. Now the House will take up the question of contempt.

The committee report is a lot more interesting than that topline suggests (political historian here: although people tend to watch what happens before the TV cameras, committee reports are often where the action is).

The report starts by stating that the attempt of “a violent mob” to “halt the lawful counting of electoral votes and reverse the results of the 2020 election” was, according to “the words of many of those who participated in the violence, ...a direct response to false statements by then-President Donald J. Trump—beginning on election night 2020 and continuing through January 6, 2021—that the 2020 election had been stolen by corrupted voting machines, widespread fraud, and otherwise.”

The committee is laying the events of January 6 on Trump.

Congress established the committee, the report says, “to identify how the events of January 6th were planned, what actions and statements motivated and contributed to the attack on the Capitol, how the violent riot that day was coordinated with a political and public relations strategy to reverse the election outcome, and why Capitol security was insufficient to address what occurred.”

The committee is saying that the riot was coordinated ahead of time, and it appears to suggest that Capitol security was compromised.

Then the report explains why Bannon is an important witness. Its account of his actions in that crisis is an illuminating roundup of what we have seen in pieces in many other places. It concludes that Bannon knew specifically about the events of January 6 ahead of time.

On his January 5 podcasts, for example, he said:

“It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen. OK, it’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in. [. . .] You made this happen and tomorrow it’s game day. So strap in. Let’s get ready.”

“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. [. . .] So many people said, ‘Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.’ Well, this is your time in history.”

Bannon said that the country was facing a ‘‘constitutional crisis’’ and ‘‘that crisis is about to go up about five orders of magnitude tomorrow.’’

And: “It’s all converging, and now we’re on the point of attack tomorrow.”

So, the committee report suggests there was high-level planning for the January 6 insurrection. And it goes on:

The report says that it appears Bannon joined others eager to overturn the election “who gathered at the Willard Hotel, two blocks from the White House, on the days surrounding the January 6th attack…. The group that assembled at the Willard Hotel is reported to have included members of the Trump campaign’s legal team (including Rudolph Giuliani and John Eastman), several prominent proponents of false election fraud claims that had been promoted by Mr. Trump (e.g., Russell Ramsland, Jr. and Boris Epshteyn), as well as Roger Stone, who left the hotel with Oath Keeper bodyguards, and campaign spokesman Jason Miller.”

Then the report blows up the idea that Bannon had an excuse not to testify.

Bannon refused to honor the subpoena because he claimed that Trump was going to invoke executive privilege, but “Trump has had no communication with the Select Committee.” “This third-hand, non-specific assertion of privilege, without any description of the documents or testimony over which privilege is claimed, is insufficient to activate a claim of executive privilege,” it says. In any case, as a private citizen at the time of the events in question, Bannon would not be covered by executive privilege anyway.

This is a powerful document, laying out the direction the committee report is likely to go...


More at the link.

That's it. Quote a far left Marxist loon and present her as an unbiased source.

And you deny you're a Marxist.

 

[ok doser]

... the violent riot that day was ...

... mostly peaceful





Except for Ted Cruz killing AOC. That was mostly hilarious.

 

[annabenedetti]

That's it. Quote a far left Marxist loon and present her as an unbiased source.

And you deny you're a Marxist.

That's it. Call a historian you probably never even heard of before a "far left Marxist loon" and then pretend you're not unhinged.

 

[ok doser]

That's it. Call a historian you probably never even heard of before a "far left Marxist loon" ...

It's a good bet

Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College

 

[annabenedetti]

US Capitol Police Officer Still Recovering From Insurrection Injuries​

The strain, stress and trauma of the vicious fighting at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 continues to impact the men and women of the police department, a sergeant told the News4 I-Team. At least 75 of members have retired or left the agency since the insurrection.

U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who was part of the front-line battle against the violent mob in the U.S. Capitol west tunnel, remains off the job with foot, hand and shoulder injuries. Gonell is one of the 10 Capitol Police employees who remained on leave with injuries as of late summer, according to a News4 I-Team review.

“This was not just an attack on police officers,” Gonell told the News4 I-Team, “It was an attack on our government, the seat of democracy.”

Gonell, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq in 2004, said the violence and horrors he saw at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 were unlike anything he witnessed at war. He said the mix of chemical spray, rioters wielding stolen police equipment and military gear, and the flashing lights and sirens from the fire alarms were disorienting and unnerving.

“It was claustrophobic. You have the tear gas, the bear spray, the fire alarm system going off and the yelling,” Gonell said.

“This happened at home and by my own fellow citizens,” he said. “They were chanting to overturn and overthrow the government.”

 

[marke]

It’s Mid-October and 22 Percent of Republicans STILL Think Trump Will Be Reinstated as President This Year

Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe that former President Donald Trumpwill be “reinstated” to the presidency this year, even as the fantastical August 13 “deadline” for that event has long passed, and the end of the year is just weeks away.

It has been more than four months since the political media world was set abuzz after The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman first reported that Trump was telling confidants that he believed he’d be reinstated to the presidency in August, reporting that was later confirmed by other outlets — and fed by delusions floated by Trump allies like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and attorney Sidney Powell.

And Trump himself appeared to confirm this in June when he told a crowd in North Carolina that “we’re gonna take back the White House, and sooner than you think.”

According to Lindell, the date of Trump’s miraculous ascension was to be August 13 — more than two months ago.

But according to a new poll from YouGov, a not-insignificant chunk of Republicans still think it is “likely” that Trump will be reinstated this year.

I don't see how the injustice against Trump and the American people can ever be fixed at this point.

 

[marke]

Former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short denounced a memo from a legal scholar arguing Pence could unilaterally overturn President Joe Biden's Electoral College win as "boneheaded analysis" in an interview for a new book.

Short spoke to Washington Examiner journalist and author David Drucker for his forthcoming book "In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP," a copy of which Insider obtained ahead of its October 19 publication from Twelve Books.

In his interview with Drucker, Short blamed a power vacuum in the White House that created an opening for conspiracy theory-wielding lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, in addition to figures like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, to fill Trump's head with the false belief that the 2020 election was stolen and the incorrect notion that his vice president could unilaterally reverse his election loss.

"Unfortunately, I think the president had some really, really bad advice," Short told Drucker. "The way the White House was structured at that point was that those people giving that really, really bad advice were given carte blanche access to the president, and I think there were no safeguards in the way the White House was being run at that point."

Mike Pence's chief of staff trashed a memo calling for him to overturn the election as 'boneheaded analysis'

Never take the advice of a crook who lies to cover his crimes. Democrats have been committing voter fraud for decades and have been getting away with it. Anyone denying that fact has some real problems dealing with the truth.

 

[marke]

Heather Cox Richardson issues a thoughtful, nuanced newsletter called Letters from an American. This is from her latest:

October 18, 2021
Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol recommended that the House of Representatives find Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon is refusing to cooperate with a subpoena for documents and testimony about the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection. Now the House will take up the question of contempt.

The committee report is a lot more interesting than that topline suggests (political historian here: although people tend to watch what happens before the TV cameras, committee reports are often where the action is).

The report starts by stating that the attempt of “a violent mob” to “halt the lawful counting of electoral votes and reverse the results of the 2020 election” was, according to “the words of many of those who participated in the violence, ...a direct response to false statements by then-President Donald J. Trump—beginning on election night 2020 and continuing through January 6, 2021—that the 2020 election had been stolen by corrupted voting machines, widespread fraud, and otherwise.”

The committee is laying the events of January 6 on Trump.

Congress established the committee, the report says, “to identify how the events of January 6th were planned, what actions and statements motivated and contributed to the attack on the Capitol, how the violent riot that day was coordinated with a political and public relations strategy to reverse the election outcome, and why Capitol security was insufficient to address what occurred.”

The committee is saying that the riot was coordinated ahead of time, and it appears to suggest that Capitol security was compromised.

Then the report explains why Bannon is an important witness. Its account of his actions in that crisis is an illuminating roundup of what we have seen in pieces in many other places. It concludes that Bannon knew specifically about the events of January 6 ahead of time.

On his January 5 podcasts, for example, he said:

“It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen. OK, it’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in. [. . .] You made this happen and tomorrow it’s game day. So strap in. Let’s get ready.”

“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. [. . .] So many people said, ‘Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.’ Well, this is your time in history.”

Bannon said that the country was facing a ‘‘constitutional crisis’’ and ‘‘that crisis is about to go up about five orders of magnitude tomorrow.’’

And: “It’s all converging, and now we’re on the point of attack tomorrow.”

So, the committee report suggests there was high-level planning for the January 6 insurrection. And it goes on:

The report says that it appears Bannon joined others eager to overturn the election “who gathered at the Willard Hotel, two blocks from the White House, on the days surrounding the January 6th attack…. The group that assembled at the Willard Hotel is reported to have included members of the Trump campaign’s legal team (including Rudolph Giuliani and John Eastman), several prominent proponents of false election fraud claims that had been promoted by Mr. Trump (e.g., Russell Ramsland, Jr. and Boris Epshteyn), as well as Roger Stone, who left the hotel with Oath Keeper bodyguards, and campaign spokesman Jason Miller.”

Then the report blows up the idea that Bannon had an excuse not to testify.

Bannon refused to honor the subpoena because he claimed that Trump was going to invoke executive privilege, but “Trump has had no communication with the Select Committee.” “This third-hand, non-specific assertion of privilege, without any description of the documents or testimony over which privilege is claimed, is insufficient to activate a claim of executive privilege,” it says. In any case, as a private citizen at the time of the events in question, Bannon would not be covered by executive privilege anyway.

This is a powerful document, laying out the direction the committee report is likely to go...


More at the link.

The 'select' committee of rabid Trump-hating wolves will leave no stone unturned in their efforts to falsely accuse and crush Trump and American conservatives who object to leftist voter fraud, corruption, and wickedness.

 

[marke]

I'd call it a slow-rolling coup. The base is outnumbered by disgusted establishment Republicans, Democrat-leaning independents and Democrats, but the base is just as gaga over Trump and just as full of conspiracy and disinformation-fueled rage as they were when he was in office and significantly, they're willing and able to play dirty at all levels, from local school boards to filibustering the senate. What happens in 22 and 24 is going to be historically significant, as to whether a white Christian nationalistic minority can tighten its grip on the American narrative.

The democrats committed the coup already and it looks as though they may get away with it, especially if they can pass federal laws protecting voter fraud.

 

[marke]

That's it. Call a historian you probably never even heard of before a "far left Marxist loon" and then pretend you're not unhinged.

Richardson is a far-left ideologue. She interprets history as seen through the corrupted lenses of leftist racism, anarchy, and Marxism.

 

[marke]

US Capitol Police Officer Still Recovering From Insurrection Injuries​

The strain, stress and trauma of the vicious fighting at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 continues to impact the men and women of the police department, a sergeant told the News4 I-Team. At least 75 of members have retired or left the agency since the insurrection.

U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who was part of the front-line battle against the violent mob in the U.S. Capitol west tunnel, remains off the job with foot, hand and shoulder injuries. Gonell is one of the 10 Capitol Police employees who remained on leave with injuries as of late summer, according to a News4 I-Team review.

“This was not just an attack on police officers,” Gonell told the News4 I-Team, “It was an attack on our government, the seat of democracy.”

Gonell, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq in 2004, said the violence and horrors he saw at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 were unlike anything he witnessed at war. He said the mix of chemical spray, rioters wielding stolen police equipment and military gear, and the flashing lights and sirens from the fire alarms were disorienting and unnerving.

“It was claustrophobic. You have the tear gas, the bear spray, the fire alarm system going off and the yelling,” Gonell said.

“This happened at home and by my own fellow citizens,” he said. “They were chanting to overturn and overthrow the government.”

More than a thousand cops were assaulted by leftist rioters in 2020 without a peep of concern for the poor innocent victims of the violence from disgruntled leftists with bullhorns. But democrats dishonestly portray the mostly peaceful visitors to the Capitol on Jan 6 as being so violent that the nation has not experienced such terrorism since the Civil War. The fact that so many Americans actually believe that load of crap should cause the rest of us alarm.