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Jan. 6 defendants John Schubert and Amy Schubert were arrested in Illinois this week:

"Personal hygiene such as showers is nearly nonexistent" in wing of DC jail where Jan 6 defendants are being held... per court filing this month from defendant Domenic Pezzola of New York

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 12:37 pmWho grants that privilege? Is it the current adminsitration, or is a current administration bound by declarations of a prior administration?

So.. I interviewed Bigo Barnett by Zoom

I pressed him to talk about his case & the charges of putting his feet on Pelosi office suite desk & mail theft on Jan 6

He wouldn't answer those questions, but made some revelations. (Yup, he got in trouble in jail too)

Clips shortly

Turns Out Mo Brooks Was Wearing Body Armor to Trump’s Very Peaceful Jan. 6 Rally

Brooks, like Republican leaders who tried to counterprogram the hearing with a press conference yesterday, thinks a proper investigation would look at why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office wasn’t “doing a better job with respect to the Capitol Police and their level of preparation.”

Then, to prove his point about preparation, he revealed a new detail to me: That because of a tip he’d received about potential violence, he’d been wearing body armor at the very same Ellipse speech in which he encouraged rally attendees to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”

“I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days,” he said. “And as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor.”

“That’s why I was wearing that nice little windbreaker,” he told me with a grin. “To cover up the body armor.”

He didn’t say who warned him, or what the “risk” was he’d been warned about. There were probably a “half-dozen different motivations that affected people in varying degrees” to engage in insurrection. He named, for example, “financial losses suffered because of the government’s reaction to COVID-19,” “the belief that there was significant voter fraud and election theft activity,” or “a great love and respect for President Trump.”

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:18 pm

Turns Out Mo Brooks Was Wearing Body Armor to Trump’s Very Peaceful Jan. 6 Rally

Brooks, like Republican leaders who tried to counterprogram the hearing with a press conference yesterday, thinks a proper investigation would look at why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office wasn’t “doing a better job with respect to the Capitol Police and their level of preparation.”

Then, to prove his point about preparation, he revealed a new detail to me: That because of a tip he’d received about potential violence, he’d been wearing body armor at the very same Ellipse speech in which he encouraged rally attendees to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”

“I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days,” he said. “And as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor.”

“That’s why I was wearing that nice little windbreaker,” he told me with a grin. “To cover up the body armor.”

He didn’t say who warned him, or what the “risk” was he’d been warned about. There were probably a “half-dozen different motivations that affected people in varying degrees” to engage in insurrection. He named, for example, “financial losses suffered because of the government’s reaction to COVID-19,” “the belief that there was significant voter fraud and election theft activity,” or “a great love and respect for President Trump.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... rally.html

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:58 pm I'm still not clear on how this is Pelosi's fault. Do they think she has control over the Capitol Police and the National Guard? Maybe she does, I don't know, but it seems unlikely she can pick up the phone and tell them what to do without going through other channels.

The Speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. That's the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police and approves requests for National Guard assistance.

The false GOP claim that Pelosi turned down National Guard before Jan. 6 attack

“At 1:49pm I received a frantic call from then Chief of U.S. Capitol Police, Steven Sund, where he informed me that the security perimeter at the Capitol had been breached by hostile rioters. Chief Sund, his voice cracking with emotion, indicated that there was a dire emergency on Capitol Hill and requested the immediate assistance of as many Guardsmen as I could muster," Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the D.C. Guard, said in written testimony released ahead of a Senate hearing Wednesday morning.

“Immediately after the 1:49pm call with Chief Sund, I alerted the Army Senior Leadership of the request. The approval for Chief Sund’s request would eventually come from the Acting Secretary of Defense and be relayed to me by Army Senior Leaders at 5:08pm — 3 hours and 19 minutes later,” Walker added.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:58 pm I'm still not clear on how this is Pelosi's fault. Do they think she has control over the Capitol Police and the National Guard? Maybe she does, I don't know, but it seems unlikely she can pick up the phone and tell them what to do without going through other channels.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:26 pm
If only we had a system where healthcare wasn't tied to your employer

The rest she earned.

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Ret. Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré says of Jan. 6 on MSNBC: "It's my personal opinion that the executive branch was complicit in the planning."

p0rtia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 7:48 pm

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:58 pm I'm still not clear on how this is Pelosi's fault. Do they think she has control over the Capitol Police and the National Guard? Maybe she does, I don't know, but it seems unlikely she can pick up the phone and tell them what to do without going through other channels.

There was some info early on that Pelosi had been consulted at some point about whether or not they needed extra officers, and she agreed to/directed not. That's pretty vague, but I believe it's the kernel of truth that this monstrosity of a deflective lie is based on. The point seems to putting attention away from what motivated and led up to the actual attack by focusing on the weak response. And even that leads right to the former guy. Soooo weak.

What I find particularly hilarious is the way they ignore the fact that such topics (why were the CP overwhelmed) are indeed a part of the commission's mandate, and that had they agreed to the bipartisan select committee, they would have been part of that mandate too.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:26 pm
If only we had a system where healthcare wasn't tied to your employer

The rest she earned.