In the back yard, yaknowwhatimsayin?
Good news, everyone!
Excellent. Let the depositions and document dumps begin!
More spades need to be called out like this:
Shit like this really needs to be amplified. Really start homing in on the bigger players.
Bring it!
I wonder if Ingraham, Kilmeade, Hannity, etc. are going to try to claim executive privilege, or just refuse to turn up if subpoenaed? Will they deny sending Meadows texts begging him to get Trump to stop the insurrection?
What I wouldn’t give to see a video of Logan and Briscoe cuffing them on the air and dragging them off of the set…
Also, this quote from Gallego needs to be highlighted:
Gallego described an insidious process whereby instead of people storming the Capitol to overthrow an election, supporters of former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” were trying to win state House and Senate seats and election administration roles so they could “actually overturn the future election.”
“The coup is ongoing,” he said.
Good for him to call this out–it’s undeniable (even if not particularly schadenfreude-y).
In other Gallego news, every Trump-fan’s favorite nation has produced a threat of violence against Gallego for daring to say Russia shouldn’t invade Ukraine (again):
Gallego does not respond by cowering:
I imagine that our beloved GOP will fall in line behind Aleksei Zhuravlyov, and support the kidnapping of American citizens.
Hell, didn’t Mike Flynn actually participate in a plot to do just that? (Though the man he wanted to kidnap may have been a legal resident rather than a citizen, come to think of it.)
But: yes. Of course it’s fine to commit violence against anyone standing in the way of your power-grab—it’s practically in the GOP platform!
Yeah, that’s the story.
(The fact that Mike Flynn is still getting his military pension and all benefits fills me with the opposite of schadenfreude.)
Former Federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner agrees with Gallego:
And there is zero chance he will suffer any consequences for that text, or for anything else.
Unfortunately that is the lesson being learned; You can foment an insurrection, leave plenty of evidence and you’ll suffer no consequences whatsoever.
This will embolden them to try again.
What was happening in the White House on the day and evening of Devember 18 last year. A revolving cast of characters, plans to overthrow the election, and Individual 1 just sitting there watching, apparently.
This oughta put a smile on some faces:
Trump’s gotten boos before when he encouraged everyone to get vaxxed. Fast tracking vaccination development was one of the few good things the Trump Admin did, so he’s in favor of everyone getting vaxxed. But so are Dems, which means his base is against it just by reflex. It’s probably the only thing he and the MAGAts disagree on.
Well, Trump, you reap what you sow