The controversial hard-right strategist, an ally of Trump, was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol and declining to produce documents requested by the committee. Federal prosecutors previously said that Bannon believed he was above the law by refusing to comply with the subpoena.
Seriously though, I had this post scheduled for last Wednesday September 28, then rescheduled it to this Wednesday thinking perhaps we'd have a hearing one week later. Nope. Nada. Nothing. And then I forgot the automated post scheduled for today. Oops, sorry about that. That's not to say we don't have January 6 related material to discuss. Use this thread to do so.
At Thursday's hearing, Fanone, who was at the Capitol on duty during the January 6 riot, was filmed during a break confronting Ivan Raiklin. At one point, Fanone was held back by multiple people, including fellow former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn. Raiklin is a 2020 election conspiracy theorist and a vocal supporter of the January 6 Capitol rioters. Footage from multiple angles on Thursday found Fanone and Raiklin exchanging words before Fanone walked towards Raiklin and called him a traitor to this country.
Yeah, what's the difference? I mean, it must be exhausting with these people's mental gymnastics. Like, okay, okay. Let's use for the sake of argument, let's use their logic. And then that anybody that interferes or MP with law enforcement will meet the consequences. Let's use that logic. Okay. By that logic, every single person at January 6th should have been shot dead! By their logic! I'm not suggesting that let's be a hundred percent clear.
Like, platforming people and giving them the space to say their point, and just that is problematic. But when you go up there and you let somebody basically say all the dumb sh*t out their mouth, and then you tell them why you're 100% wrong, that's good. I like action. That's what I think I feel like you're modeling good behavior.
JIM ACOSTA: Trump does have, he's had propaganda outlets work on his behalf for some time, but we've seen even among the major networks, CBS for example, which has been taken over by some pretty far right individuals and the Ellisons and Barry Weiss and so on. I mean, they had their anchor on the other night, sort of both-sidesing what took place on January 6th. I wanna play this and just get your take on that.
The White House put up a website. I mean, there's no other really way to put it, besides that it denied reality. And because you did not because you certified the election, as you were legally bound today to do. It said that, Mike Pence Refuses to Act. It called, Betrayal of the President, and said that it was an act of cowardice and sabotage.
Video and audio recordings, including unaired HBO footage from her own daughter, show Nancy Pelosi repeatedly acknowledging responsibility for the catastrophic security failuresadmitting We have totally failed and I take full responsibility for not having the National Guard pre-deployed, despite intelligence warnings and President Trump's offers of troops that were ignored under her leadership as Speaker. Pelosi responded while testifying before the reconvened January 6th House Committee, which Republicans refused to join.
The pardons issued last January sent a clear message to the American people: political allegiance now matters more than criminal conduct. But over the past year, we've also seen a sustained effort to rewrite the facts of January 6, as if the historical record could be negotiated away or erased, said Gregory Rosen, who led the justice department unit that prosecuted January 6 cases. But Americans remember that day for a simple reason we watched it happen.
I find it hard to believe that you're lecturing us about peaceful protest," he said. "Look at what happened, January 6, here at the Capitol. The attack on our democracy, that is an insurrection.
Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power, Smith told the House, adding: Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and
Asked whether he developed evidence that Donald Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6, Smith did not say yes or no. He said Trump caused the circumstances, exploited the violence once it began, and understood what it was doing for him. That answer is now at the center of a political firestorm because the Justice Department released the full 255-page transcript of Smith's closed-door testimony late on New Year's Eve, a timing that guaranteed selective reading and rapid political framing.
But Jeanine Pirro did. She want on social media and repeated the apparent miscitation of Cole's own words I laid out here, treating a comment made in the present tense this month - "I really don't like either party at this point" - as if it were a comment about his mindset on January 5, 2021.
That original committee investigated both the failures of security and the events that led up to the attack, ultimately determining that President Donald Trump's baseless claim that he only lost the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden due to widespread fraud was the "central cause" of the event. That original committee was led by Democrats. The new GOP-led committee, which was established through a House resolution in the fall, ostensibly seeks to examine parts of the attack that the first committee supposedly overlooked, namely the security failures.
President Donald Trump sued the BBC for defamation. On Monday night, Trump's lawyers filed a civil complaint in a federal court in Florida and are seeking at least $5 billion in damages from the British broadcaster.
'We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you,' Trump appeared to say. 'And we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell you're not gonna have a country any more.' In fact the footage was made up of content from three separate sections of the speech, with the mention of fighting coming 54 minutes later during a segment on 'corrupt' elections.
For years, he has used lawsuits to intimidate major newspapers and broadcasters, in the process getting major outlets such as and to repeatedly bend the knee. Under his watch, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reportedly pushed broadcasters to fire personalities, such as Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, whom he disapproves of and has threatened to withhold broadcast licenses and to stymie lucrative mergers should those broadcasters not fall into line.
The host defended Cheney's post-9/11 legacy and said it showed he was determined from that moment on, after 9/11, there would never be another 9/11 again. And he was going to do whatever he could to stop it. But he also is seeing reports day in and day out that would have scared the absolute hell out of any American that had access to all the threats, he continued.
As ABC and Politico have written, two AUSAs who've been prosecuting Taranto, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, submitted a sentencing memo documenting how the Navy veteran with long-standing mental health issues first participated in January 6 and then, years later, drove his van containing guns and ammunition to stalk Kalorama, looking for Obama while ranting, "Gotta get the shot, stop at nothing to get the shot. This is where other people come to get the shot;"
