With the recent targeting of Steve Bannon, a man once on the right side of Donald J Trump in the beginning of his Presidency, by the January 6th Committee, recommending contempt charges against him for not answering what some consider to be a dubiously legally binding subpoena, the real target, the real purpose of the January 6th Committee seems more to do with the prevention of Donald J Trump possibly winning back the Presidency in 2024.
The January 6th Event, sometimes called a protest gone wrong, sometimes called a riot gone wrong, sometimes called an insurrection, is taken as fact by the press that covers this event as a near-apocolyptic catastrophe as a few hundred mostly middle class Americans came close to taking down the whole government by sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair. The headlines here, the tone of all of the news blurbs we share in this report reflect that assumption not only in the titles, but in the articles themselves.
We start with the ABC News item that suggests the committee is really about weening the Republicans off Donald J Trump, and Liz Cheney is the poster child of that Trump weening wish for the DNC. It appears, rightly or wrongly, the DNC still greatly fears the type of coalition Donald J Trump might be able to build in 2024,
Jan. 6 committee plays to GOP concerns over Trump: The Note
From abcnews.go.com
2021-10-20 10:04:41
Excerpt:
As for Tuesday night’s message, the committee’s Republican vice chairman, Rep. Liz Cheney, was front and center to directly address for her fellow members of the GOP.
“Almost every one of my colleagues knows, in your hearts, that what happened on Jan. 6 was profoundly wrong,” said Cheney, R-Wyo.
She added that Trump repeats false claims about the last election “almost daily”: “This is a prescription for national self-destruction.”
Cheney’s view remains that of a distinct minority, both among her House colleagues and with the broader public, at least in terms of what they will say publicly. A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday showed that 78% of Republicans want Trump to run again, up 12 points since May…….
Hours before the Bannon-related vote, Trump mocked the committee — particularly its two Republican members — and said in a statement that the “highly partisan Unselect Committee continues to rock and roll.”
Whatever that means, committee members — especially those Republicans — are playing tunes that might be uncomfortable for the former president to hear.
Here we see two DNC organs of agit prop covering the news that the committee was recommending contenpt charges against Steve Bannon. The first link is a video link in which the legal questionability of the subpoena itself is not consdered at all. Bannon is simply characterized as defying the committee’s subpoena.
From www.msnbc.com
2021-10-20 00:16:59
Excerpt:
The Jan. 6 House select committee voted unanimously on Tuesday night to refer Steve Bannon to the Justice Department for criminal contempt charges for defying the subpoenas of the select committee regarding the Capitol insurrection.
The ultra-progressive DNC organ called Democracy Now chose to run a brief blurb on the news, omitting the legality question of the Committee to be able to issue subpoenas in the first place.
House Jan. 6 Committee Recommends Contempt Charges Against Steve Bannon
From www.democracynow.org
2021-10-20 14:14:32
Excerpt:
The House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection has recommended a criminal contempt charge against Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon for defying a congressional subpoena. This is the committee’s chair, Mississippi Congressmember Bennie Thompson.
Rep. Bennie Thompson: “The rule of law remains under attack right now. If there are no accountability for these abuses, if there are different sets of rules for different types of people, then our democracy is in serious trouble.”
If you want to see it for yourself, here is the poster child of the GOP Trump weening herself, Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney addresses GOP colleagues about January 6
From www.msn.com
2021-10-20 00:32:11
Excerpt:
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, speaks before voting to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
Here is a video link from a former US Attorney General, who had some words of warning for Joe Biden regarding his January 6th Committee, Perhaps Joe is recommending action that should, could, or might in the near future, get some of his compatriots locked up as well. Spoiler alert a little late, Joe is recommending Bannon be jailed.
Bharara says Biden will regret statement about Jan. 6 committee subpoenas – CNN
From www.cnn.com
2021-10-19 21:16:30
Excerpt:
Former US Attorney Preet Bharara discusses President Biden’s comments about what the Department of Justice should do to those who defy subpoenas from the January 6th committee.
The former Chief of Staff of Donald J Trump who served during the January 6th Event, Mark Meadows, has retained a high profile lawyer, George Terwilliger, to represent him, as the committtee has made it clear he is a target of their ‘investigation.’
Meadows retains top GOP lawyer for Jan. 6 investigation
From www.politico.com
2021-10-20 14:36:12
Excerpt:
Terwilliger is influential and well known in the D.C. legal arena. He spent 15 years at the Justice Department, serving as deputy attorney general when former Trump DOJ chief Bill Barr had his first stint as attorney general and later assumed the top DOJ role in an acting capacity.
Over the years Terwilliger has worked on a host of politically charged legal fights, including on George W. Bush’s legal team during the 2000 Florida recount and representing Bush-era attorney general Alberto Gonzales in the wake of the U.S. attorneys scandal. More recently, Terwilliger represented former Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) when the Justice Department probed Schock for corruption. DOJ dropped the charges against Schock and reached a settlement with him.
Meadows, meanwhile, is a central focus for the Jan. 6 select committee.
The committee subpoenaed him on Sept. 23 and has since said that he’s engaging with its investigators. Steve Bannon, another Trump World denizen subpoenaed the same…
As the shortages increase and gas prices rise, including oil, just in time for colder weather, the significance of this committee will retrieve further and further into the backdrop, becoming a petty political kabuki theater and nothing more. The end result of this committee most likely will be shouted headlines that no one is reading declaring once again the republicans are evil and not even Americans, while supporting a party that wishes to end free speech, gun rights, and even the very concepts of man and woman themselves, a party that equates the Bill of Rights, our nation’s most impactful shared identity across all lines, with white supremacism.
That’s the party calling anyone else in America un-american, the party that topples Washington statues and cheers when Marvel changes the Superman slogan from “The American Way,” to “Until There’s a Better Tomorrow,” that party.
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