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Yes, it has. Members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were already at the Capitol before the march from the Ellipse even began. I’ll try to find a cite, but I’ve heard that reported numerous times. They also had cased the Capitol building ahead of January 6th to find weak points to exploit to gain entry.
It’s probably going to be another Cassidy Hutchison - a high level staffer who most power players ignored as they stood around in the background, a staffer who doesn’t have the money to see this all the way through to 2025.
I’m hoping for a tell-all book about how hard his nibs made their job or led them to weeping in the corner, like the guys/gals who arranged all of those MickeyD hamberders when the Clemson tram dropped by,
My take away is that this shows I was right to spend so many years at least trying to get people to realize how full of shit Alex Jones and his ilk were/are. Long before all this QAnon/Stop the Steal nonsense began, I knew that wide-spread belief in conspiracy theories would be destructive to democracy. How can people vote sensibly if they believe complete nonsense? How many of the 40+% of people who never vote have dropped out because of a belief that “It’s all rigged!”?
These guys are the poster boys for why we need to rein in all that crap.
Great photo; thank you. Does anybody else see the Lincoln picture over the fireplace? Lincoln is looking right at Trump, and I imagine he’d be saying, “You clown …”
I think Katrina Pierson is a good guess, though I hope it’s not. I can’t stand her and I hate to think she’d skate on her outsized role in the Trump administration by coming forward on this. But she was definitely part of the inner circle and had access. She’s someone Trump would feel comfortable to call and bully.
It does sound like a good guess. According to Wikipedia:
According to records obtained by CNN, Pierson texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on January 2 and 3, 2021, noting that “[t]hings have gotten crazy and I desperately need some direction” before declaring "I’m done. I can’t be a part of embarrassing POTUS any further.
I’d be shocked if Bannon testifies live. Too easy for him to make a spectacle of things. Snippets from a deposition is all he deserves (well, along with a nice visit to Club Fed for a while).
There was another little clue which I may be reading too much into.
I’m half-listening to the after-show on MSNBC. Neal Katyal, former US Acting Solicitor General and frequent commentator, was saying something about the mystery witness. He said, “She – ummm, or he – …” It seemed obvious that he had an idea who it was and caught himself before irrevocably identified the witness as female.
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