After the New York Times reported in January 2021 about Clark’s actions, he said he engaged in a “candid discussion of options and pros and cons with the president,” denied that he had a plan to oust Rosen, and criticized others in the meeting for talking publicly and “distorting” the discussion.
Now, however, key witnesses have provided Congress with a fuller account of Clark’s actions, including new details about the confrontation that took place in the Jan. 3 Oval Office meeting, which lasted nearly three hours.
A reconstruction of the events by The Washington Post, based on the court filings, depositions, Senate and House reports, previously undisclosed emails, and interviews with knowledgeable government officials, shows how close the country came to crisis three days before the insurrection.
But larger mysteries could still be solved at an upcoming Jan. 6 committee hearing slated to examine Clark’s actions, including the crucial question of whether Clark and his allies were acting on their own initiative — or whether they were one piece of a larger, well-planned effort to keep Trump in power. That question gets to the heart of the committee’s professed mission: proving there was a “coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
Jan. 6 committee hearings uncover evidence for civil suits that could financially devastate Trump
Back in February, The Guardian wrote that there are 19 pending legal actions against Trump. Fifteen of them are civil lawsuits. The most significant and advanced pending criminal case against Trump is the one in Fulton County, Georgia, where District Attorney Fani Willis has convened a special grand jury to hear evidence into Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results:
Most of the cases fall under three themes: financial wrongdoings that made him more money; his role in the January 6 2021 insurrection; and his alleged interference in the 2020 election. Trump has denied wrongdoing in most of these cases. He has filed motions to dismiss several of them and has filed countersuits in some cases.
There are six civil lawsuits seeking damages from Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Eleven House members are suing Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and two extremist groups, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, for conspiring to incite the violence at the Capitol. The lawsuit was originally filed in February 2021 by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi who later was named chairman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, and the NAACP civil rights group.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California also filed a lawsuit to hold Trump accountable for the violent insurrection at the Capitol. The San Francisco Chronicle said the lawsuit “could mean court-ordered inspection of Trump’s communications and actions leading up to, during, and after the riot, and potentially a deposition of Trump under oath.”
Additionally, at least four separate lawsuits have been brought by members of the Capitol Police and D.C. Metro Police against Trump for physical and emotional injuries suffered during the Jan. 6 insurrection. One of the lawsuits filed on behalf of seven Capitol Police officers by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law also named Trump’s ally Roger Stone as well as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. It also cited the Ku Klux Klan Act.
The NAACP filed a lawsuit against Trump and the Republican National Committee for trying to overturn the election results in Michigan. The lawsuit argued that Trump and his campaign had threatened to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of predominantly Black voters in Detroit by pressuring local officials to refuse to certify Joe Biden as the election winner in Wayne County.
Mea culpa for length, Foggy.
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
House Jan 6 Select Cmte member Rep Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) tells
@FaceTheNation
the committee will be releasing more information soon about the “big ripoff”… money raised via election lies
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
A Facebook group that appears to be run by Ginni Thomas could become a new point of interest in Jan. 6 Committee's investigation.
The group's pages were removed from public view after CNBC reached out to Thomas about the organization.
Do read.
The group’s pages were removed from public view after CNBC reached out to Thomas about the organization. It now shows a notice from Facebook saying that it’s either been deleted or the privacy settings have been changed.
CNBC also tried to get answers through Facebook messenger to Stephanie Coleman, who is also listed administrator of the group and the wife of the late Gregory Coleman who was Texas’ solicitor general. Greg Coleman was once a clerk for Justice Thomas.
Coleman and Thomas are repeatedly pictured together on Coleman’s personal Facebook page, including a photo of the two together in December 2016 with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Trump praises Jim Jordan while trashing McCarthy’s decision to pull out of the J6 Committee: “Unfortunately, a bad decision was made. This Committee - it was a bad decision not to have representation on this Committee. That was a very, very foolish decision.”
No matter how much you suck up to the DFO, it will never be enough.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
Trump was *not* being childish when he told Pence he would not be his “friend” anymore.
@MichaelCohen212
tells us Trump was putting a hit on Pence using the coded language of the Mob. The Jan 6 committee and DOJ need to watch this!
sad-cafe wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:35 am
I can't read the Post on Kinsinger ...can someone post it or paraphrase it please?
thanks
He got an email threatening him, his wife, and five-month-old son.
(Tweets are not working for me right now, but I can click on it to read it.)
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
sad-cafe wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:35 am
I can't read the Post on Kinsinger ...can someone post it or paraphrase it please?
thanks
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
6 in 10 Americans say Trump should be charged for Jan. 6 riot: POLL A majority of Americans also think the Jan. 6 committee has been fair.
With the first full week of hearings for the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now complete, nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the incident, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.
Six in 10 Americans also believe the committee is conducting a fair and impartial investigation, according to the poll.
In the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel, 58% of Americans think Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the riot. That's up slightly from late April, before the hearings began, when an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 52% of Americans thought the former president should be charged.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll that asked a similar question days after the attack in January 2021 found that 54% of Americans thought Trump should be charged with the crime of inciting a riot.
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