Politics The Probe

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I agree with Kinsinger , one of the two Republicans on the House Select Committee to Investigate the events of Jan. 6, that the public hearings will be important for the country and the world to learn about the efforts to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results and the extent to which those in Trump's inner circle (and Trump himself?) and others attempted to undermine the democratic process.

Reports now are that televised hearings will likely begin in early May with some in prime time. There will be lots of witnesses under oath to walk through the various plots among the politicos around Trump and lots of never before seen videos of the MAGA mob at the US Capitol that day.

I am pretty well convinced there will be some referrals to DoJ for criminal prosecution that will get very close to Trump, if not target Trump himself. What attorney general Garland does with those referrals is another matter. We could very well see criminal indictments down the road but probably not until after the mid-term elections in November.

 

I wonder how much quicker things would have, and would, move if we had full cooperation from both parties.

Hopefully NPD Trump will be charged before the 2024 presidential election. At this point a trial and a conviction seem extremely optimistic, namely because of Republican obstructionism. Not that the Democrats, or the DOJ, appear to be in a hurry.

 

I would assume that the phone companies have some records and the committee should be able to fill in the gaps.
January 6 committee casts a wide net with over 100 subpoenas for phone company records

But it sure is taking a long time.

 

View: https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1509288469020905473

...Last call is recorded at 11:17 am and it's an identified person, extremely vague. The next call recorded occurred at 6:54 pm. This gap raises big questions about what the president was doing at the time and whether he was using a so-called burner phone. Maybe a couple of them. They are disposable and untraceable.
What is he hiding and what is he trying to cover up?​

More than seven hours, during the height of the MAGA violent assault on the US Capitol, with Trump and his inner circle watching from the White House and Trump on the phone with members of Congress and others, THERE ARE NO PHONE RECORDS.

This dwarfs Nixon's 18 minutes of missing audio as a massive cover up!

 

I wonder how many people, namely those who are largely apathetic to political news, understand just how huge the over seven hours of no phone records really is.

I'm not sure that NPD Trump and members of his inner circle were smart enough to avoid phone records on the fly, many things would have been happening involving many people. If the phone records were avoided rather than being altered, there was a plan in place in advance of the Capitol Building invasion.

If phone records were altered after the fact, that absolutely is a massive cover-up.

Perhaps the phone records will turn out to be one of the smoking guns needed to bring NPD Trump to justice. Putting him in prison would be great, keeping him out of the 2024 presidential election would be a good start.

 

There are quite a few scenarios where this could have become a big mess. Georgia and Arizona were close enough that it would have been a lot different had there only been one state that needed the state legislature send different electors, or even stall and run out the clock on certifying the results and not sending any electors.

The problem is that I haven't heard of anyone or any group trying to fix the problems to prevent this from happening in the future.

 

Raise your hand if the above news shocks you.
How about surprises you?
I didn't think so.

 

If NPD Trump's record is anything to go by, collecting could be an interesting problem. I hope the courts can freeze his accounts to keep the money available while the molasses process continues.

 

It would be nice if this leads to some actual action soon.

Right now it's more cold bureaucratic molasses.