Well, it wasn’t me calling him a showman. It was the RWNJs. But I like your latter characterization, and I agree with it.
Unless Hutchinson has audio or video of something, this is a nothing burger. At least not to call members back from their home districts. Where most of them were.
This is going to be something major.
I hope it’s a good witness who supports some bombshell tape from that documentary.
In my fevered dreams:
Tape of the secret meeting between Trump and Putin, in English, plotting the end of America! After Ukraine, of course.
Maybe, just maybe, that would wake up some of these fucking Trumpers.
No, it wouldn’t. They would just invoke their standard mantra, “Fake News!”. Their orange hero has already assured them that everything going on in the Jan6 committee is made-up and false. There is now an entire ideology in American politics based entirely on blatant lies.
Or, in a more realpolitik context, deciding that the most useful thing he can get out of the Great Pumpkinhead now is to throw him under the bus in such a way as to cause maximum damage to the US body politic.
I’m pretty sure that it will be Cassidy Hutchinson, who has already casually dropped a bomb, specifically naming members of Congress seeking pre-emptive pardons. As a member of Meadows’s staff, she’s a pretty effective fly on the wall.
Holder’s film footage is the next best bet. It would be awesome if Meadows is ready to sing but that may be too much to hope for.
CNN sez it’s Hutchinson.
So does this source:
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/former-meadows-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-061427997.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_11
Hutchinson doesn’t sound too exciting (didn’t they already get closed-door testimony from her?), so I really hope she’s got a bombshell. Or maybe she’ll be there to corroborate and set the stage for new video evidence.
CNN is just parroting other news organizations, and it ultimately all seems to come from that one source at Punchbowl News. It may well be correct – or not, depending on how well the committee members can keep a secret. I’m less interested in who it is than in what they have to say and their ability to back it up.
Anybody familiar with Senate Sergeant at Arms, Michael Stenger?
It appears he’s been murdered? Maybe suicide?
Every cite I see is some right wing rag, but it’s on twitter too.
I have to admit that the other side of this coin is how much I hope some evidence that has not been burned, flushed, shredded, or otherwise destroyed appears and gives him the comeuppance he so richly deserves!! Time after time I get my hopes up only for them to be dashed - - - - but still, I hope with all of my being that somehow, sometime, justice will catch up to this slippery piece of excrement.
I’d like to request that those of you who will be watching and commenting live show some mercy toward Dopers who are not in a position to watch by occasionally including some detail in your comments. Not a lot-- but something to give us an idea of what you’re reacting to.
IOW instead of posting the tantalizing but unrevealing comment: “Wow! I can’t believe he said that!” post: “Wow! I can’t believe Joe Blow testified that he witnessed Trump threaten Mike Pence with a loaded gun!”
Thank you.
I think she also recently dumped her Trump-team-approved attorney and hired a lawyer on her own, so that’s a good indication she won’t be covering for anybody.
As long as it happens, any motivation will work for me! (And I really do suspect there is some truth to the idea. Not that Putin would reveal it, but that it was true.)
ISTM that the discussion of who might have flipped, in the context of today’s mystery guest, is conflating the House Committee with the DOJ.
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I was thinking pimple, myself. Let us hope for the sake of the republic it reaches the pimple-in-chief.
The scary thing is, what if Stenger was to be the surprise witness?