Got my coffee brewed up and settled in my easy chair just in time.
I can’t watch, but I’ll rely on you wonderful peoples to let me know if anything interesting happens.
Preamble by Thompson, pointing out that most of the testimony is coming from Republicans, including those in T****'s inner circle, albeit reluctantly.
I’m on vacation with my family this week, but I told them I’m spending the next couple of hours holed up in my motel room watching the hearings.
Lastly, pointed out it is a committee meeting and can vote whether to pursue further action, not just take testimony.
Cheney saying the action of 1/6 would not have happened without T****'s premeditated plan.
Cheney: “[Trump] was personally and substantially involved in this.” And she’s going on to say that the committee will show it.
Sounds like the gloves are coming off today.
Zoe Lofgren outlining how the “Red Mirage” strategy worked. Tie into Trump’s Big Lie plan next?
PBS closed captioning just called the vice-president “mr. pants”. Somehow appropriate.
Lofgren talking about how, as early as July, Trump planned to declare victory no matter what the result was.
And supplying Bannon’s recording of “crazy shit.”
Footage from the Roger Stone docco. Has this been shown publicly before?
Yes, I’ve seen that footage. Not the whole documentary though. But that footage was on the news as it surfaced.
Shortly after Pence was selected to be the VP candidate in 2016 DesertRoomie and I were going somewhere in a car when it came up in a news report. Being not as political as I, she was unaware at the time and thanks to the road noise said, “What was that? White Pants??”
“Mike Pence!”
Unfortunately the die was cast and I have been unable to unhear White Pants every time the man’s name comes up.
sometimes the kits that the oath keepers wear, just have me rolling my eyes. what a bunch of “want to be” posers.
Can’t watch at work. What did the footage show?
a bit of him on jan 5th and 6th, speaking about how things were going to go down. he had oath keepers around him dressed like they were going into “hostile territory”.
now onto how he knew he lost, people told him he lost, and he was determined to find a way to get around the loss.
Basically describing their plan to bully their way to victory.
I gather she is actually using his name? Is she saying “Trump,” or “Donald Trump,” or “Former President Trump,” or what?
Why would Trump want US troops out of Afghanistan and Somalia by January 15? Other than it would cause chaos for the new incoming administration. What other reason could there be?
Perhaps to be able to say he ended US involvement there like he said he would? Fulfilling a campaign promise in an “America First” way?