Seriously. This whole “only pay attention to subpoenas we feel like” has gotten out of hand, and a few people need to spend time behind bars. As an example. Heads on pikes work better, but might be a tad extreme.
Aw, but I just spend half an hour practicing the little finger wave!
Just seeing this, thanks. It is the feel-good image of the week. (Though I’d prefer oubliettes with webcams.)
I don’t know about that. But it would be messier.
Sure, it sounds good, but it’s all a conspiracy by Big Pike.
Better them than Big Head.
Some favors come with too high a price.
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Don’t want this news about one of the NARA documents just released to pass by unnoticed. As summarized by Heather Cox Richardson:
Holy. Fuck.
Notice the female pronoun there? That was not a case of being politically correct, something I would not ever expect from a Republican Admin. Instead, I understand that they’d already selected Sidney Powell as Special Counsel if the order had been issued.
This was the scheme pushed by Flynn and Powell in the heated December Oval Office meeting, so yes, the “Special Counsel” in mind was likely Powell.
So why didn’t Trump sign the executive order? (Is there any evidence he even saw it?) I wonder who in his camp decided it was bridge too far.
Maybe it was on his desk, some Anonymous staffer sneaked it off, and he didn’t notice. 
Someone forgot to put his picture on it. Or left it off on purpose.
They were waiting for the paper with the “Trump Won!” watermark and time just ran out.
Patrick Byrne’s insider account of that meeting is really pretentious and wordy….but hysterical and, in light of the latest news, informative.
The weren’t invited to the White House on December 18th 2020. They, in their own words, crashed. They were allowed in by subversive White House employees who used a multi-step process to get them into the Oval Office. In the article, Byrne compares —at long length- the effort to climbing Everest……really.
According to Byrne, Trump actually appointed Sidney Powell as Special Counsel during the meeting. They could never get any follow-up, though. They also refer to bringing something for Trump to sign. I’m thinking it was the EO.
And after the meeting, they all went back to the White House Residence where Trump served them mini-meatballs made from an old family recipe. It was apparently the high point of Byrne’s meteoric rise from successful internet CEO to slavish lackey to a crazy lawyer and even crazier disgraced military general.
But Trump didn’t sign the EO. He didn’t sign anything appointing Sidney Powell as Special Counsel, even though he made the appointment verbally. And when Powell and Byrne tried to crash Mar-a-Largo at Christmas ( another unreported tidbit) they were escorted off the property. Byrne made it very clear that the security guard that escorted him off the property thanked him for all his work and allowed him to call an Uber, which he saw as a sign of respect.
Even though Trump denigrated Mike Pence for “not having the courage to do what needed to be done”, Trump was ultimately too chickenshit to sign the EO. Because courage is for other people, I guess.
If Byrne weren’t such a wordy pretentious fuckbucket, people might actually be reading his stuff and this investigation might be moving a little faster. Because he has described a couple of events - like a trip to Georgia to meet someone that promised unauthorized access to voting machines - that I haven’t seen reported yet.
And for some reason I skimmed the chapter containing Byrne’s “evidence” that voting machines connected to the Internet and transmitted data overseas and really all it proves is that Dominion Voting has a website. He has all sorts of technobabble “evidence” with lists of IP address and errors, etc……but they all relate to Dominions commercial website.
Thanks for the background (and saving me from having to read Byrne). Since Trump seems to believe consequences are things that happen to other people, however, I still wonder what he might have been afraid of – or who might have persuaded him that signing the EO would not have been in his best interests.
Also wondering … of what value regarding eventual prosecution is an unsigned EO that originated from other parties? Could it actually help him to claim he refused to sign it?
by not signing it, he can state under oath that “i don’t recall/remember”.
Perhaps even Donald Trump recognized that issuing an order to the military is just going too far? I’m trying to imagine what the consequences of that would be, aside from the end of the American experiment.
I don’t think scruples was the problem, but rather the old mob-boss rule of “don’t put anything in writing”.