THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR NOVEMBER 6, 2021 AT 9:18 PM
Paul Plante says:
And while we have been occupied elsewhere, our attention distracted by the drama of the WITCH HUNTERS holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress, an interesting thought given the contempt that some 80% of Americans have for the Democrat-controlled HOUSE OF NANCY, or NANCY’s House, the WITCH HUNTERS themselves have been busy, which takes us to an Associated Press story entitled “Former Justice Dept. lawyer cuts Jan. 6 deposition short” by Mary Clare Jalonick on 6 November 2021 where we have a LOYAL AMERICAN standing up to the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS, to wit:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former assistant attorney general who aligned himself with former President Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election has declined to be fully interviewed by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, ending a deposition after around 90 minutes Friday.
Jeffrey Clark, who championed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, presented the committee with a letter saying he would not answer questions based on Trump’s assertions of executive privilege, including in an ongoing court case, according to a person familiar with the closed-door meeting who was granted anonymity to discuss it.
Clark left the interview with his lawyer, who told reporters that they were heading “home.”
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As a LOYAL AMERICAN sick of all the CRAP we have been getting from these out-of-control Democrats since Hillary Clinton lost to Trump, which set the Democrats off on a snarling, snapping foam-at-the-mouth rampage to destroy Trump any possible way that they could, including the TWO famous FAILED IMPEACHMENTS, first by the pencil-necked smarmy WITCH HUNTER from Disneyland Adam Schiff, and then by ACE HOTSHOT CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR Jamie Raskin, when I read that about him getting up and walking out on these WITCH HUNTERS, I truly had to say, good for him.
And that takes us to Mr. Justice Black, with whom The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Douglas concur, dissenting in Barenblatt v. United States (1959), as follows:
The Court today affirms, and thereby sanctions the use of the contempt power to enforce questioning by congressional committees in the realm of speech and association.
I cannot agree with this disposition of the case for I believe that the resolution establishing the House Un-American Activities Committee and the questions that Committee asked Barenblatt violate the Constitution in several respects.
(1) Rule XI creating the Committee authorizes such a sweeping, unlimited, all-inclusive and undiscriminating compulsory examination of witnesses in the field of speech, press, petition and assembly that it violates the procedural requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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Yes, people the PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS of the DUE PROCESS CLAUSE of the Fifth Amendment to OUR Constitution, the same Constitution the Democrats shredded on 6 January 2021.
Just as the resolution establishing the House Un-American Activities Committee in Barenblatt violated the Constitution in several respects, as Rule XI creating the Committee authorized such a sweeping, unlimited, all-inclusive and undiscriminating compulsory examination of witnesses in the field of speech, press, petition and assembly that it violated the procedural requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, so too does the flawed Authorizing Resolution for the WITCH HUNTERS committee that Virginia’s tough-talking Elaine Luria is a member of, to wit:
H.Res.503 – Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
117th Congress (2021-2022)
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-12] (Introduced 06/28/2021)
In the House of Representatives, U. S., June 30, 2021.
Whereas January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election.
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Now, focus on the word “insurrectionists.”
In the United States of America, “insurrectionists” are criminals, violators of federal law, so that Authorizing Resolution is in fact an ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT, i.e., the document that is used to charge a person with a crime, except the Authorizing Resolution is a BLANKET ACCUSATORY, being used by the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS to criminalize THOUSANDS of Americans who happened to be anywhere near the Capitol that day, which is a power Congress simply does not have, which brings us back to Barenblatt, to wit:
(3) The Committee proceedings were part of a legislative program to stigmatize and punish by public identification and exposure all witnesses considered by the Committee to be guilty of Communist affiliations, as well as all witnesses who refused to answer Committee questions on constitutional grounds; the Committee was thus improperly seeking to try, convict, and punish suspects, a task which the Constitution expressly denies to Congress and grants exclusively to the courts, to be exercised by them only after indictment and in full compliance with all the safeguards provided by the Bill of Rights.
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As was the case in Barenblatt, the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS Committee proceedings are part of a Democrat legislative program to stigmatize and punish by public identification and exposure all witnesses considered by the Committee to be guilty of Republican party affiliations, as well as all witnesses who refuse to answer Committee questions on constitutional grounds so that the Pelosi-0ite WITCH HUNTERS are also improperly seeking to try, convict, and punish suspects, a task which the Constitution expressly denies to Congress and grants exclusively to the courts, to be exercised by them only after indictment and in full compliance with all the safeguards provided by the Bill of Rights.
So where are there any indictments of people for insurrection on 6 January 2021, outside of the Pelosi Authoring Resolution, that is?
What proof, what indisputable evidence are any of these WITCH HUNTERS including Virginia’s Elaine Luria possessed of that proves beyond a doubt that anyone in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021 was an insurrectionist?
And the only answer to that question to date is they have none, but since we are dealing with DEMOCRATS here, actually, they don’t need proof, or evidence, anymore that Joe Stalin did back when.
Like Joe Stalin, these DEMOCRATS know who is naughty, they know who is nice, they know who is guilty of something, and who isn’t, and so, proof and evidence really are superfluous, which is really the way things should be in a DEMOCRAT DEMOCRACY, because it is the right thing to do.
Getting back to that Associated Press story, it continues as follows:
Clark, who was subpoenaed by the committee to appear, would not answer any questions from reporters as he departed.
In a statement Friday evening, Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, confirmed that Clark refused to answer questions and said it was unacceptable.
He said he had rejected the claims of privilege and said Clark “has a very short time” to reconsider and cooperate.
“It’s astounding that someone who so recently held a position of public trust to uphold the Constitution would now hide behind vague claims of privilege by a former President, refuse to answer questions about an attack on our democracy, and continue an assault on the rule of law,” Thompson said.
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What a WINDBAG that WITCH HUNTER and CHIEF INQUISITOR Bennie Thompson is!
A real honest-to-gosh joke with his empty blather about RULE OF LAW when it is the WITCH HUNTERS themselves who are making the mockery out of the concept of RULE OF LAW.
If there is an assault on the rule of law, look no further than the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS for the guilty parties on that count.
Getting back to the story and the MASSIVE FISHING EXPEDITION the WITCH HUNTERS are conducting as they try to create a narrative that will turn people against the Republicans en masse come the 2022 congressional elections, we have more as follows:
Amid the legal wrangling, the House panel has struggled to gain cooperation from some of Trump’s other top allies — including his longtime associate Steve Bannon and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — as it conducts a sweeping investigation outside of public view.
The committee has so far interviewed more than 150 witnesses so far, according to two people familiar with the interviews who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.
The interviews have included a broad swath of former and current executive branch officials, Trump campaign aides, law enforcement officials and others.
The panel has also talked to several people who helped organize a rally the morning of Jan. 6 where Trump told his supporters to “fight like hell.”
The committee has also interviewed Justice Department officials who were in office after the election.
Thompson said Clark’s “refusal to answer questions about the former President’s attempt to use the Department of Justice to overturn the election is in direct contrast to his supervisors at the Department, who have come in and answered the committee’s questions on these important topics.”
Clark is one of almost 20 people the committee has subpoenaed so far.
Thompson wrote in Clark’s subpoena that the committee’s probe “has revealed credible evidence that you attempted to involve the Department of Justice in efforts to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power” and his efforts “risked involving the Department of Justice in actions that lacked evidentiary foundation and threatened to subvert the rule of law.”
It is unclear whether the panel will move to hold Clark in contempt of Congress, as they did with Bannon.
Thompson said the committee needs the information Clark is withholding and is willing “to take strong measures” to hold him accountable.
The House voted last month to recommend the charges against Bannon, and it is now up to the Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute.
As they voted to hold Bannon in contempt, lawmakers on the panel — including two Republicans — made clear they would fight any assertions of executive privilege, which was developed over the years to protect a president’s private conversations and communications.
Thompson said then that the panel “won’t be deterred” by any such claims.
A federal judge hearing the case also appeared to question Trump’s assertions this week, expressing skepticism when Trump’s lawyers argued the House panel did not have a legislative purpose for obtaining the documents.
“The Jan. 6 riot happened in the Capitol,” said U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
“That is literally Congress’ house.”
The House committee could pursue similar contempt charges against Meadows and former Trump administration aides Dan Scavino and Kashyap Patel, who have all been in extended discussions with the committee about testifying after they were subpoenaed.
Despite Trump’s false claims about a stolen election — the primary motivation for the violent mob that broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Biden’s victory — the results were confirmed by state officials and upheld by the courts.
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And there we are with more of this BULL**** DEMOCRAT MIND-READING ABILITY that allows Democrats to know what thousands of people in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, including one confirmed Democrat wearing a MAGA hat, were thinking on 6 January 2021.
“I KNOW YOU ARE GUILTY BECAUSE I CAN READ YOUR MIND AND SEE IT IN YOUR EYES, AND BY GOD, THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!”
“TAKE HIM OUT AND HANG HIM !”
Makes for a pretty efficient system of getting rid of people you don’t want on the planet when you come right down to it, which is why Joe Stalin used that method, choosing the path of repression and physical annihilation, not only against actual enemies, but also against individuals who had not committed any crimes against the Party and the Soviet Government.
THE JANUARY 6th SELECT COMMITTEE
Re: THE JANUARY 6th SELECT COMMITTEE
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR NOVEMBER 10, 2021 AT 10:10 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go to a Reuters article entitled “Trump allies Flynn, Miller, Eastman, others subpoenaed by Jan 6 committee” by Patricia Zengerle on November 8, 2021, where we were informed that the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS continued their FISHING EXPEDITION by issuing subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from his re-election campaign, and a CNBC article entitled “Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller and other White House officials subpoenaed in Jan. 6 House probe” by Dan Mangan on 9 November 2021, where we were informed that the WITCH HUNTERS also subpoenaed former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to testify in the investigation, which shows not only the people of this nation but of the world as well just how intent these WITCH HUNTERS are on getting to the bottom of things here, let us go back once more to the the flawed Authorizing Resolution for the WITCH HUNTERS committee that Virginia’s tough-talking Elaine Luria is a member of, to wit:
H.Res.503 – Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
117th Congress (2021-2022)
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-12] (Introduced 06/28/2021)
In the House of Representatives, U. S., June 30, 2021.
Whereas January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election.
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Now, besides noticing that that authorizing resolution is in fact an accusatory instrument that puts NANCY’S HOUSE on the same footing as a court of law, despite the fact that the House of Representatives is not a court of law, what other serious flaw do we see contained therein?
How about these words, to wit: attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election.
Is that true?
Or is that yet more Pelosi-ite BULLCRAP heaped on top of a mountain of Pelosi-ite HORSE**** that she has been spewing since 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton?
Was there a Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election on 6 January 2021?
Not according to the Twelfth Amendment of OUR Constitution, the same Constitution rejected on 6 January 2021 by Nancy Pelosi and the Pro-Biden/Anti Rule of Law Democrats, where we have as follows with regard to a contested election like the flawed and illegitimate presidential election of 2020, to wit:
And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
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And here in the contested 2020 presidential election, where at least Arizona and Pennsylvania set aside OUR Constitution to make Joe Biden president, the right of choice clearly did devolve upon the House of Representatives who had NO Constitutional mandate to validate Joe Biden’s election, and that Constitutional language makes it patently clear that on 6 January 2021, there was no Constitutional necessity to choose Joe Biden, and the Constitution in that case clearly made provision for a peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Mike Pence, until such time as the Constitutional issues with Arizona and Pennsylvania were rectified, but since the Pro-Biden Democrats rejected that Constitutional language as being un-constitutional, Joe Biden was awarded the presidency instead by Nancy Pelosi, which takes us to the Reuters article and some very irresponsible reporting and editing, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from his re-election campaign.
They are William Stepien, manager of Republican Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign; Jason Miller, senior adviser to the campaign; Angela McCallum, national executive assistant to the campaign; John Eastman, an attorney for Trump; Michael Flynn, who was briefly Trump’s national security advisor, and Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives Select Committee wants those subpoenaed to sit for depositions scheduled for between Nov. 30 and Dec. 13.
The panel has now issued 25 subpoenas and received testimony from more than 150 witnesses.
More subpoenas are expected as soon as this week.
The subpoenas announced on Monday largely focus on Trump associates believed to have strategized about ways to overturn the results of the November 2020 election, including those who spent time at a “command center” at Washington’s historic Willard Hotel set up to steer efforts to deny Democrat Joe Biden his victory.
Eastman in particular has been under intense scrutiny.
He spoke at the Jan. 6 rally where Trump gave a fiery speech alleging election fraud and urging supports to march on the Capitol.
Eastman also wrote a memo outlining how, in his view, then-Vice President Mike Pence could thwart formal congressional certification of Trump’s re-election loss.
Pence ultimately declined to follow Eastman’s advice.
“In the days before the January 6th attack, the former President’s closest allies and advisors drove a campaign of misinformation about the election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes,” Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Select Committee, said in a statement.
“The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all,” Thompson said.
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Congressional overreach, anyone?
Or worse?
Getting back to that story we have more as follows:
More than 670 people have been charged with taking part in the riot at the Capitol as Congress and Pence were to certify Biden’s defeat of Trump.
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And talk about an intentionally misleading statement there by the media, that’s a good example, because while those people have indeed been arrested, many of them were not charged in any way with “rioting,” nor has anyone been charged with being an insurrectionist.
Let us go to the Pro-Democrat/Anti-Trump Brit publication The Guardian and the article “Revealed: majority of people charged in Capitol attack aren’t in jail” by Lois Beckett in Los Angeles on 28 May 2021, where we have the following statistics on who has been arrested and why, to wit:
At least 70% of people charged in the Capitol riot have been released as they wait for trial, according to a Guardian analysis.
Many Capitol defendants are being released ahead of trial because they are facing relatively low-level charges, experts said, though other factors, including racial bias, may also play a role.
By mid-May, at least 440 people had been arrested on charges related to the 6 January Capitol breach, according to the justice department, including at least 125 charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
Many of the Capitol defendants are facing only relatively low-level federal charges, such as entering a restricted building or disorderly conduct within a restricted building.
A Washington Post analysis of court documents in mid-May concluded that 44% of the Capitol defendants faced only misdemeanor charges.
Some more serious potential charges, like conspiracy or seditious conspiracy, would require evidence of prior agreement to commit a crime that appears to be lacking for many participants in the chaotic Capitol mob, said Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor and former federal prosecutor.
“When you look at each individual, what they did might amount to destruction of property or illegal entry, and that’s in all likelihood what they’ll be charged with, but the larger dimension of their participation in a massive attack falls by the wayside,” Richman said.
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So that tells quite a bit different story than what Reuters is trying to peddle above here, which takes us to this ridiculous statement in that story, to wit:
It was the worst attack on the seat of the U.S. government since the War of 1812 and the only time power in the United States has not been transferred peacefully.
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HUH?
The only time power in the United States has not been transferred peacefully?
That’s stupid, because there is NO TRANSFER of power in the United States of America on 6 January 2021.
Counting electoral college votes does not a transfer of power make.
It is the Twentieth Amendment of OUR Constitution, the same Constitution the Democrats renounced on 6 January 2021, that provides for the transfer of power in the United States of America, OUR nation, as follows:
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
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OUR Constitution provides for a transfer of Power on 20 January, not 6 January, and on 20 January 2021, there was in fact a very peaceful transfer or power, with Joe Biden being provided unimpeded and peaceful access to the white house.
In addition to providing for the transfer of power on 20 January, the Twentieth Amendment further provides as follows:
If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
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So, once again, it is clear from that constitutional language that Congress was under no obligation whatsoever on 6 January 2021 to certify Joe Biden as president.
So why doesn’t Reuters know that, given it is very basic information every American schoolchild should know cold by the time they are in the fifth grade?
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go to a Reuters article entitled “Trump allies Flynn, Miller, Eastman, others subpoenaed by Jan 6 committee” by Patricia Zengerle on November 8, 2021, where we were informed that the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS continued their FISHING EXPEDITION by issuing subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from his re-election campaign, and a CNBC article entitled “Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller and other White House officials subpoenaed in Jan. 6 House probe” by Dan Mangan on 9 November 2021, where we were informed that the WITCH HUNTERS also subpoenaed former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to testify in the investigation, which shows not only the people of this nation but of the world as well just how intent these WITCH HUNTERS are on getting to the bottom of things here, let us go back once more to the the flawed Authorizing Resolution for the WITCH HUNTERS committee that Virginia’s tough-talking Elaine Luria is a member of, to wit:
H.Res.503 – Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
117th Congress (2021-2022)
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-12] (Introduced 06/28/2021)
In the House of Representatives, U. S., June 30, 2021.
Whereas January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election.
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Now, besides noticing that that authorizing resolution is in fact an accusatory instrument that puts NANCY’S HOUSE on the same footing as a court of law, despite the fact that the House of Representatives is not a court of law, what other serious flaw do we see contained therein?
How about these words, to wit: attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election.
Is that true?
Or is that yet more Pelosi-ite BULLCRAP heaped on top of a mountain of Pelosi-ite HORSE**** that she has been spewing since 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton?
Was there a Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election on 6 January 2021?
Not according to the Twelfth Amendment of OUR Constitution, the same Constitution rejected on 6 January 2021 by Nancy Pelosi and the Pro-Biden/Anti Rule of Law Democrats, where we have as follows with regard to a contested election like the flawed and illegitimate presidential election of 2020, to wit:
And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
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And here in the contested 2020 presidential election, where at least Arizona and Pennsylvania set aside OUR Constitution to make Joe Biden president, the right of choice clearly did devolve upon the House of Representatives who had NO Constitutional mandate to validate Joe Biden’s election, and that Constitutional language makes it patently clear that on 6 January 2021, there was no Constitutional necessity to choose Joe Biden, and the Constitution in that case clearly made provision for a peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Mike Pence, until such time as the Constitutional issues with Arizona and Pennsylvania were rectified, but since the Pro-Biden Democrats rejected that Constitutional language as being un-constitutional, Joe Biden was awarded the presidency instead by Nancy Pelosi, which takes us to the Reuters article and some very irresponsible reporting and editing, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from his re-election campaign.
They are William Stepien, manager of Republican Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign; Jason Miller, senior adviser to the campaign; Angela McCallum, national executive assistant to the campaign; John Eastman, an attorney for Trump; Michael Flynn, who was briefly Trump’s national security advisor, and Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives Select Committee wants those subpoenaed to sit for depositions scheduled for between Nov. 30 and Dec. 13.
The panel has now issued 25 subpoenas and received testimony from more than 150 witnesses.
More subpoenas are expected as soon as this week.
The subpoenas announced on Monday largely focus on Trump associates believed to have strategized about ways to overturn the results of the November 2020 election, including those who spent time at a “command center” at Washington’s historic Willard Hotel set up to steer efforts to deny Democrat Joe Biden his victory.
Eastman in particular has been under intense scrutiny.
He spoke at the Jan. 6 rally where Trump gave a fiery speech alleging election fraud and urging supports to march on the Capitol.
Eastman also wrote a memo outlining how, in his view, then-Vice President Mike Pence could thwart formal congressional certification of Trump’s re-election loss.
Pence ultimately declined to follow Eastman’s advice.
“In the days before the January 6th attack, the former President’s closest allies and advisors drove a campaign of misinformation about the election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes,” Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Select Committee, said in a statement.
“The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all,” Thompson said.
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Congressional overreach, anyone?
Or worse?
Getting back to that story we have more as follows:
More than 670 people have been charged with taking part in the riot at the Capitol as Congress and Pence were to certify Biden’s defeat of Trump.
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And talk about an intentionally misleading statement there by the media, that’s a good example, because while those people have indeed been arrested, many of them were not charged in any way with “rioting,” nor has anyone been charged with being an insurrectionist.
Let us go to the Pro-Democrat/Anti-Trump Brit publication The Guardian and the article “Revealed: majority of people charged in Capitol attack aren’t in jail” by Lois Beckett in Los Angeles on 28 May 2021, where we have the following statistics on who has been arrested and why, to wit:
At least 70% of people charged in the Capitol riot have been released as they wait for trial, according to a Guardian analysis.
Many Capitol defendants are being released ahead of trial because they are facing relatively low-level charges, experts said, though other factors, including racial bias, may also play a role.
By mid-May, at least 440 people had been arrested on charges related to the 6 January Capitol breach, according to the justice department, including at least 125 charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
Many of the Capitol defendants are facing only relatively low-level federal charges, such as entering a restricted building or disorderly conduct within a restricted building.
A Washington Post analysis of court documents in mid-May concluded that 44% of the Capitol defendants faced only misdemeanor charges.
Some more serious potential charges, like conspiracy or seditious conspiracy, would require evidence of prior agreement to commit a crime that appears to be lacking for many participants in the chaotic Capitol mob, said Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor and former federal prosecutor.
“When you look at each individual, what they did might amount to destruction of property or illegal entry, and that’s in all likelihood what they’ll be charged with, but the larger dimension of their participation in a massive attack falls by the wayside,” Richman said.
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So that tells quite a bit different story than what Reuters is trying to peddle above here, which takes us to this ridiculous statement in that story, to wit:
It was the worst attack on the seat of the U.S. government since the War of 1812 and the only time power in the United States has not been transferred peacefully.
end quotes
HUH?
The only time power in the United States has not been transferred peacefully?
That’s stupid, because there is NO TRANSFER of power in the United States of America on 6 January 2021.
Counting electoral college votes does not a transfer of power make.
It is the Twentieth Amendment of OUR Constitution, the same Constitution the Democrats renounced on 6 January 2021, that provides for the transfer of power in the United States of America, OUR nation, as follows:
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
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OUR Constitution provides for a transfer of Power on 20 January, not 6 January, and on 20 January 2021, there was in fact a very peaceful transfer or power, with Joe Biden being provided unimpeded and peaceful access to the white house.
In addition to providing for the transfer of power on 20 January, the Twentieth Amendment further provides as follows:
If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
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So, once again, it is clear from that constitutional language that Congress was under no obligation whatsoever on 6 January 2021 to certify Joe Biden as president.
So why doesn’t Reuters know that, given it is very basic information every American schoolchild should know cold by the time they are in the fifth grade?
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Re: THE JANUARY 6th SELECT COMMITTEE
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR NOVEMBER 12, 2021 AT 10:12 PM
Paul Plante says:
And that takes us to the CNBC story “Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller and other White House officials subpoenaed in Jan. 6 House probe” by Dan Mangan on November 9, 2021, where we learn as follows about the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS issuing a subpoena for former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to testify in their investigation into the events of January 6, 2021, deemed by Nancy Pelosi one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election,
Even though there really were no “insurrectionists” in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, outside of the vivid and fevered and possibly insane imagination of Nancy Pelosi, and even though there was no Constitutional mandate for Congress to validate the presidential election, again, outside of the fevered mind of Nancy Pelosi, still in all, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is being called before the WITCH HUNTERS to not only have to pretend that there really were insurrectionists in Washington,D.C. on 6 January 2021 attempting to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election, but further, they expect her to testify that she was really part of the cause, which takes us back to that article as follows:
The House committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tuesday subpoenaed former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, senior advisor Stephen Miller and other ex-White House officials to testify in the investigation and provide relevant documents.
In addition to McEnany, ex-officials issued subpoenas include former White House personnel director John McEntee, former deputy chief of staff Christopher Liddell, and ex-Vice President Mike Pence’s national security advisor Keith Kellogg.
The other subpoena recipients are Nicholas Luna, who served as personal assistant to then-President Donald Trump, Cassidy Hutchinson, who was his special assistant for legislative affairs, Kenneth Klukowski, former senior counsel to Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, Benjamin Williamson, who served as senior advisor to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Molly Michael, who served as Oval Office operations coordinator.
The latest round of subpoenas came a day after the same panel issued subpoenas to six top allies of Trump’s.
In a statement announcing the subpoenas, the committee noted that McEnany “made multiple public statements from the White House and elsewhere about purported fraud in the November 2020 election.”
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Which means, by God, that she is guilty, period!
How much more evidence is needed by the WITCH HUNTERS that that?
If they heard her say something, anything, actually, that they could construe as her causing the insurrection that wasn’t on 6 January 2021, then that is sufficient to establish her guilt, and if she refuses like Bannon, to put herself into that trap, and trap it most certainly is, where the WITCH HUNTERS have predetermined that serious crimes took place on 6 January 2021, even though that is a judicial branch function, not a legislative branch function in OUR Constitutional form of government the Pro-Biden/Anti-Rule of Law Democrats rejected on 6 January 2021, then the WITCH HUNTERS will come after her like the Hounds of Hell and charge her with contempt, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
The panel said that at the first White House press conference after the 2020 presidential election, “McEnany claimed that there were ‘very real claims’ of fraud that the former President’s reelection campaign was pursuing, and said that mail-in voting was something that ‘we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud.’”
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Now, people, take a very good look at those two claims by these out-of-control WITCH HUNTERS, to wit:
* McEnany claimed that there were ‘very real claims’ of fraud that the former President’s reelection campaign was pursuing; and
* Mail-in voting was something that ‘we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud.’
end quotes
And ask yourselves this important question, people – what is there that is incriminating in either instance?
Is mail-in voting prone to fraud?
Or is that a false statement?
How about an Albany, New York Times Union story entitled “Ballot fraud allegations swirl in Rensselaer County” by Brendan J. Lyons and Rebekah F. Ward on Nov. 8, 2021, where we have as follows:
RENSSELAER – The State Police recently launched an investigation into allegations of widespread absentee-ballot fraud that have been swirling in Rensselaer County in the wake of Tuesday’s elections, including in several tight races in the city of Rensselaer that remain undecided.
The accusations, leveled by opposing Republican and Democratic camps, are being made in a year in which a high number of absentee ballots were issued to political operatives and campaign volunteers on behalf of voters who authorized the individuals to handle their ballot.
The State Police investigation is examining absentee ballots in the city of Rensselaer, where Republican incumbent Mayor Michael E. Stammel and a Democratic challenger, former Mayor Richard J. Mooney, were separated by a handful of votes heading into Monday, when the absentee ballots began to be counted.
A criminal complaint that sparked the probe was filed by Todd Rutecki, a campaign volunteer for Mooney.
The complaint included an affidavit signed by Shawn Redden, a local mason, who claimed he never authorized anyone to apply for an absentee ballot on his behalf.
Public records indicate an absentee ballot application allegedly signed by Redden was time-stamped at the county Board of Elections on Oct. 21.
The ballot application gave Teresa Merriman authorization to pick up a blank ballot on his behalf.
She is a clerk on the county legislative staff where Stammel also serves as chairman of the Legislature.
Ed McDonough, the Democratic elections commissioner in Rensselaer County, said an executive order that remained in place this year due to the pandemic allowed “no-excuse” absentee voting, resulting in an extraordinarily high number of “release to” ballots — a term that describes the practice of someone authorizing another person to pick-up and submit their sealed absentee ballot to the board of elections.
A ballot proposal that would have allowed the Legislature to change Election Law to make “no-excuse” absentee voting permanent was defeated by voters last week.
But without rules limiting who can vote by absentee ballot, politicians have been raising allegations of fraud.
In one instance, McDonough said, roughly 66 absentee ballots were handled on behalf of about 90 residents of an elderly care residence in north Troy.
He said his office had learned some of those residents allegedly felt pressured to sign the absentee ballot applications, which were handled by their building’s manager.
“We started getting phone calls from people, more so friends of residents, who were reaching out on their behalf because the residents were feeling intimidated by (the candidate) to actually get the ballot and give it to (the person),” he said.
“I reached out to the state Board of Elections and I said I had spoken to three different people; however, of the three people, none of them were willing to file a complaint.”
McDonough said the residents conveyed that they were afraid of being evicted from their residence if they didn’t vote or filed a complaint.
end quotes
And that takes us to this exchange that took place on 6 January 2021 in the NANCY’S HOUSE, to wit:
The VICE PRESIDENT.
Hearing none, this certificate from Wisconsin, the Parliamentarian has advised, is the only certificate from that State that purports to be a return from the State and that has annexed to it a certificate of an authority from the State purporting to appoint or ascertain electors.
Ms. LOFGREN.
Mr. President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Wisconsin seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that Joseph R. Biden, Jr., of the State of Delaware received 10 votes for President and KAMALA D. HARRIS of the State of California received 10 votes for Vice President.
The VICE PRESIDENT.
For what purpose does the gentleman from Texas rise?
Mr. GOHMERT.
Mr. President, I object to the electoral votes of the State of Wisconsin because 71 House Members, all of who condemn violence as we witnessed today, are firmly committed to the resolution of disagreements in civil, lawful, peaceful institutions with full and fair debate, free of violence.
And though not a single court has allowed an evidentiary hearing to listen to the significant body of evidence of fraud, and though some seize on the court’s failure to misrepresent that no court would listen to the evidence as saying evidence did not exist; while Democrat leaders in Milwaukee illegally and unconstitutionally created more than 200 illegal polling places; tens of thousands of votes were changed by workers, despite election workers’ objections, plus so many other illegalities to fraudulently create a 20,000-vote lead, we object, along with a Senator who now has withdrawn his objection.
end quotes
My goodness, he mentioned fraud as well, so should he be called before the WITCH HUNTERS, as well?
And what about Jaime Lynn Herrera Beutler, born November 3, 1978, an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Washington’s 3rd congressional district, whom stated thusly on 6 January 2021, to wit:
Look, I believe this was not a fraud-free election.
I believe that there were problems in Pennsylvania and in Georgia.
end quotes
How is that any different from what former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is accused by the WITCH HUNTERS of saying?
Going back to that article, we have:
In its statement, the panel also noted that “McEnany was reportedly present at times with the former President as he watched the January 6th attack.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who is chairman of the probe panel, in a statement said, “The Select Committee wants to learn every detail of what went on in the White House on January 6th and in the days beforehand.”
“We need to know precisely what role the former President and his aides played in efforts to stop the counting of the electoral votes and if they were in touch with anyone outside the White House attempting to overturn the outcome of the election,” Thompson said.
“We believe the witnesses subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to comply fully with the Select Committee’s investigation as we work to get answers for the American people, make recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, and help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again.”
end quotes
And let us stop right there with that statement from CHIEF INQUISITOR and HEAD WITCH HUNTER Bennie Thompson about making recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, and help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again, an impossibility outside of a rigidly controlled POLICE STATE, where he is trying to legitimize the WITCH HUNTERS, despite having a fatally flawed authorizing resolution, by pretending there is a legitimate legislative purpose to what are in fact extra-judicial proceedings in the House of Representatives.
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Paul Plante says:
And that takes us to the CNBC story “Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller and other White House officials subpoenaed in Jan. 6 House probe” by Dan Mangan on November 9, 2021, where we learn as follows about the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS issuing a subpoena for former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to testify in their investigation into the events of January 6, 2021, deemed by Nancy Pelosi one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election,
Even though there really were no “insurrectionists” in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, outside of the vivid and fevered and possibly insane imagination of Nancy Pelosi, and even though there was no Constitutional mandate for Congress to validate the presidential election, again, outside of the fevered mind of Nancy Pelosi, still in all, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is being called before the WITCH HUNTERS to not only have to pretend that there really were insurrectionists in Washington,D.C. on 6 January 2021 attempting to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election, but further, they expect her to testify that she was really part of the cause, which takes us back to that article as follows:
The House committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tuesday subpoenaed former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, senior advisor Stephen Miller and other ex-White House officials to testify in the investigation and provide relevant documents.
In addition to McEnany, ex-officials issued subpoenas include former White House personnel director John McEntee, former deputy chief of staff Christopher Liddell, and ex-Vice President Mike Pence’s national security advisor Keith Kellogg.
The other subpoena recipients are Nicholas Luna, who served as personal assistant to then-President Donald Trump, Cassidy Hutchinson, who was his special assistant for legislative affairs, Kenneth Klukowski, former senior counsel to Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, Benjamin Williamson, who served as senior advisor to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Molly Michael, who served as Oval Office operations coordinator.
The latest round of subpoenas came a day after the same panel issued subpoenas to six top allies of Trump’s.
In a statement announcing the subpoenas, the committee noted that McEnany “made multiple public statements from the White House and elsewhere about purported fraud in the November 2020 election.”
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Which means, by God, that she is guilty, period!
How much more evidence is needed by the WITCH HUNTERS that that?
If they heard her say something, anything, actually, that they could construe as her causing the insurrection that wasn’t on 6 January 2021, then that is sufficient to establish her guilt, and if she refuses like Bannon, to put herself into that trap, and trap it most certainly is, where the WITCH HUNTERS have predetermined that serious crimes took place on 6 January 2021, even though that is a judicial branch function, not a legislative branch function in OUR Constitutional form of government the Pro-Biden/Anti-Rule of Law Democrats rejected on 6 January 2021, then the WITCH HUNTERS will come after her like the Hounds of Hell and charge her with contempt, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
The panel said that at the first White House press conference after the 2020 presidential election, “McEnany claimed that there were ‘very real claims’ of fraud that the former President’s reelection campaign was pursuing, and said that mail-in voting was something that ‘we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud.’”
end quotes
Now, people, take a very good look at those two claims by these out-of-control WITCH HUNTERS, to wit:
* McEnany claimed that there were ‘very real claims’ of fraud that the former President’s reelection campaign was pursuing; and
* Mail-in voting was something that ‘we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud.’
end quotes
And ask yourselves this important question, people – what is there that is incriminating in either instance?
Is mail-in voting prone to fraud?
Or is that a false statement?
How about an Albany, New York Times Union story entitled “Ballot fraud allegations swirl in Rensselaer County” by Brendan J. Lyons and Rebekah F. Ward on Nov. 8, 2021, where we have as follows:
RENSSELAER – The State Police recently launched an investigation into allegations of widespread absentee-ballot fraud that have been swirling in Rensselaer County in the wake of Tuesday’s elections, including in several tight races in the city of Rensselaer that remain undecided.
The accusations, leveled by opposing Republican and Democratic camps, are being made in a year in which a high number of absentee ballots were issued to political operatives and campaign volunteers on behalf of voters who authorized the individuals to handle their ballot.
The State Police investigation is examining absentee ballots in the city of Rensselaer, where Republican incumbent Mayor Michael E. Stammel and a Democratic challenger, former Mayor Richard J. Mooney, were separated by a handful of votes heading into Monday, when the absentee ballots began to be counted.
A criminal complaint that sparked the probe was filed by Todd Rutecki, a campaign volunteer for Mooney.
The complaint included an affidavit signed by Shawn Redden, a local mason, who claimed he never authorized anyone to apply for an absentee ballot on his behalf.
Public records indicate an absentee ballot application allegedly signed by Redden was time-stamped at the county Board of Elections on Oct. 21.
The ballot application gave Teresa Merriman authorization to pick up a blank ballot on his behalf.
She is a clerk on the county legislative staff where Stammel also serves as chairman of the Legislature.
Ed McDonough, the Democratic elections commissioner in Rensselaer County, said an executive order that remained in place this year due to the pandemic allowed “no-excuse” absentee voting, resulting in an extraordinarily high number of “release to” ballots — a term that describes the practice of someone authorizing another person to pick-up and submit their sealed absentee ballot to the board of elections.
A ballot proposal that would have allowed the Legislature to change Election Law to make “no-excuse” absentee voting permanent was defeated by voters last week.
But without rules limiting who can vote by absentee ballot, politicians have been raising allegations of fraud.
In one instance, McDonough said, roughly 66 absentee ballots were handled on behalf of about 90 residents of an elderly care residence in north Troy.
He said his office had learned some of those residents allegedly felt pressured to sign the absentee ballot applications, which were handled by their building’s manager.
“We started getting phone calls from people, more so friends of residents, who were reaching out on their behalf because the residents were feeling intimidated by (the candidate) to actually get the ballot and give it to (the person),” he said.
“I reached out to the state Board of Elections and I said I had spoken to three different people; however, of the three people, none of them were willing to file a complaint.”
McDonough said the residents conveyed that they were afraid of being evicted from their residence if they didn’t vote or filed a complaint.
end quotes
And that takes us to this exchange that took place on 6 January 2021 in the NANCY’S HOUSE, to wit:
The VICE PRESIDENT.
Hearing none, this certificate from Wisconsin, the Parliamentarian has advised, is the only certificate from that State that purports to be a return from the State and that has annexed to it a certificate of an authority from the State purporting to appoint or ascertain electors.
Ms. LOFGREN.
Mr. President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Wisconsin seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that Joseph R. Biden, Jr., of the State of Delaware received 10 votes for President and KAMALA D. HARRIS of the State of California received 10 votes for Vice President.
The VICE PRESIDENT.
For what purpose does the gentleman from Texas rise?
Mr. GOHMERT.
Mr. President, I object to the electoral votes of the State of Wisconsin because 71 House Members, all of who condemn violence as we witnessed today, are firmly committed to the resolution of disagreements in civil, lawful, peaceful institutions with full and fair debate, free of violence.
And though not a single court has allowed an evidentiary hearing to listen to the significant body of evidence of fraud, and though some seize on the court’s failure to misrepresent that no court would listen to the evidence as saying evidence did not exist; while Democrat leaders in Milwaukee illegally and unconstitutionally created more than 200 illegal polling places; tens of thousands of votes were changed by workers, despite election workers’ objections, plus so many other illegalities to fraudulently create a 20,000-vote lead, we object, along with a Senator who now has withdrawn his objection.
end quotes
My goodness, he mentioned fraud as well, so should he be called before the WITCH HUNTERS, as well?
And what about Jaime Lynn Herrera Beutler, born November 3, 1978, an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Washington’s 3rd congressional district, whom stated thusly on 6 January 2021, to wit:
Look, I believe this was not a fraud-free election.
I believe that there were problems in Pennsylvania and in Georgia.
end quotes
How is that any different from what former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is accused by the WITCH HUNTERS of saying?
Going back to that article, we have:
In its statement, the panel also noted that “McEnany was reportedly present at times with the former President as he watched the January 6th attack.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who is chairman of the probe panel, in a statement said, “The Select Committee wants to learn every detail of what went on in the White House on January 6th and in the days beforehand.”
“We need to know precisely what role the former President and his aides played in efforts to stop the counting of the electoral votes and if they were in touch with anyone outside the White House attempting to overturn the outcome of the election,” Thompson said.
“We believe the witnesses subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to comply fully with the Select Committee’s investigation as we work to get answers for the American people, make recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, and help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again.”
end quotes
And let us stop right there with that statement from CHIEF INQUISITOR and HEAD WITCH HUNTER Bennie Thompson about making recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, and help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again, an impossibility outside of a rigidly controlled POLICE STATE, where he is trying to legitimize the WITCH HUNTERS, despite having a fatally flawed authorizing resolution, by pretending there is a legitimate legislative purpose to what are in fact extra-judicial proceedings in the House of Representatives.
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Re: THE JANUARY 6th SELECT COMMITTEE
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR NOVEMBER 14, 2021 AT 7:26 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as this train with flat wheels and no brakes dubbed the WITCH HUNTER’S SPECIAL careens downhill towards a coming train wreck, and with CHIEF INQUISITOR and HEAD WITCH HUNTER Bennie Thompson now on record talking about making recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, without really saying what law or laws he is thinking of changing to protect the democracy of the Democrats that they used to put Joe Biden into the white house as an illegitimate president, and to help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again, an impossibility outside of a rigidly controlled POLICE STATE, where he is trying to legitimize the WITCH HUNTERS, despite having a fatally flawed authorizing resolution, by pretending there is a legitimate legislative purpose to what are in fact extra-judicial proceedings in the House of Representatives, let us go to a CNN article hot off the press with screaming headlines proclaiming “Federal grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress” so chock full of facts it took not one, not two, not three, but four fully grown CNN correspondents to write them all, they being Hannah Rabinowitz, Jessica Schneider, Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Zachary Cohen, on November 12, 2021, where we learned about what has to be called a SLAM-DUNK, as follows:
(CNN) – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, the Justice Department announced Friday.
end quotes
That is hardly a surprise that Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury, which indictment now means that Bannon is on his way to the United States Supreme Court to challenge the WITCH HUNTERS jurisdiction over his person as a private person in America pursuant to John T. WATKINS, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America, No. 261, argued March 7, 1957, decided June 17, 1957, Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivering the opinion of the Court, as follows:
We granted certiorari because of the very important questions of constitutional law presented. 352 U.S. 822, 77 S.Ct. 62, 1 L.Ed.2d 46.
We start with several basic premises on which there is general agreement.
The power of the Congress to conduct investigations is inherent in the legislative process.
That power is broad.
It encompasses inquiries concerning the administration of existing laws as well as proposed or possibly needed statutes.
It includes surveys of defects in our social, economic or political system for the purpose of enabling the Congress to remedy them.
It comprehends probes into departments of the Federal Government to expose corruption, inefficiency or waste.
But, broad as is this power of inquiry, it is not unlimited.
There is no general authority to expose the private affairs of individuals without justification in terms of the functions of the Congress.
This was freely conceded by the Solicitor General in his argument of this case.
Nor is the Congress a law enforcement or trial agency.
These are functions of the executive and judicial departments of government.
No inquiry is an end in itself; it must be related to, and in furtherance of, a legitimate task of the Congress.
Investigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to ‘punish’ those investigated are indefensible.
end quotes
Yes, indeed, it is going to be a very interesting appeal, assuming which is not a certainty at all, that Bannon were to actually be convicted after a fair trial, which takes us back to CNN for some partisan political BULL**** from Biden-ista Merrick Garland, to wit:
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been under tremendous political pressure to indict Bannon since the House referred the Trump ally to the Justice Department for contempt on October 21.
end quotes
And my goodness, let us not kid ourselves here – of course he was has been under tremendous political pressure to indict Bannon since the House referred the Trump ally to the Justice Department for contempt on October 21, because this WITCH HUNT and KANGAROO COURT being conducted by Bennie and the WITCH HUNTERS is very much political, which takes us back to CNN and Merrick Garland, to wit:
“Since my first day in office, I have promised Justice Department employees that together we would show the American people by word and deed that the Department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law, and pursues equal justice under the law,” Garland said in a statement Friday.
“Today’s charges reflect the Department’s steadfast commitment to these principles.”
end quotes
Oh, really?
And how many of those people you just smeared there, Merrick, were DOJ employees when Trump was president?
Are you saying, Merrick, as you blatantly play at partisan politics here, that when you took over the DOJ, that there were Justice Department employees who were not by word and deed adhering to the rule of law, nor following the facts and the law, nor pursuing equal justice under the law?
Did you fire them all?
Getting back to CNN and the fate of Steve Bannon, who is now Supreme Court bound, we have, to wit:
Bannon, 67, was charged with one count related to his refusal to appear for a deposition and another related to his refusal to produce documents.
Each count carries a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of one year in jail, the Justice Department said.
Without an indictment, critics have said, there’s doubt over how much power the House January 6 select committee has to compel cooperation from former White House and Trump administration officials.
Friday, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows failed to appear for a deposition, sources familiar with the investigation told CNN, setting up a potential showdown that could lead to the panel beginning a criminal referral process against him as well.
And last week, former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who had been subpoenaed, appeared before the committee for more than an hour but declined to answer questions.
“The grand jury was presented with overwhelming and irrefutable evidence of Steve Bannon’s violation of a congressional subpoena,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who’s a select committee member, told CNN.
“The justice system of the United States is not going to tolerate these contemptuous violations of the rule of law,” he added.
end quotes
Which raises the very serious question of how this WITCH HUNTER and ACE CRACKERJACK DEMOCRAT CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR Jaime Raskin, the author of the famous SECOND FAILED TRUMP IMPEACHMENT, knew what was presented to the grand jury, given that here in America, OUR country, grand jury proceedings are secret, because secrecy prevents those under scrutiny from fleeing or importuning the grand jurors, encourages full disclosure by witnesses, and protects the innocent from unwarranted prosecution, among other things.
So how did Jaime Raskin then know about what took place in the grand jury that indicted Bannon for contempt?
Is Merrick Garland unlawfully and illegally leaking grand jury proceedings to Jaime Raskin, which would be a serious breach of law, indeed.
Getting back to CNN:
The case has been referred to District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump.
The House January 6 committee subpoenaed documents and testimony from Bannon in early October.
Bannon’s lawyer, Robert Costello, told the committee the former Trump adviser would not be cooperating with the investigation because he had been directed not to by Trump.
Pointing to claims from the former President that the documents and testimony being sought were potentially protected by executive privilege, Bannon’s lawyer told the committee that “the executive privileges belong to President Trump” and “we must accept his direction and honor his invocation of executive privilege.”
President Joe Biden’s White House has declined to assert executive privilege regarding witnesses and documents related to January 6, citing the extraordinary nature of the attack on the Capitol.
The White House counsel’s office has written to Bannon’s attorney to tell him it won’t support his refusals to testify.
The White House declined to comment on Friday’s indictment.
In seeking his cooperation, the committee has pointed to reports that Bannon spoke to Trump in the lead-up to the Capitol riot, that he was present in the so-called “war room” of Trump allies at the Willard hotel in Washington as the attack was unfolding and that he made comments on his podcast the previous day predicting that “all hell” was “going to break loose” the next day.
“In short, Mr. Bannon appears to have played a multi-faceted role in the events of January 6th, and the American people are entitled to hear his first-hand testimony regarding his actions,” the House committee said in its report putting forward a contempt resolution against Bannon.
Legal experts also have expressed skepticism about Bannon’s decision not to comply with the subpoena, given that the question of whether Trump as a former President can assert privilege is unsettled and that Bannon was not working for the government in the period being examined by the committee.
The criminal case against Bannon could take years to unfold in court, and a successful prosecution isn’t a certainty.
Historically, criminal contempt of Congress cases have been derailed by juries sympathetic to the defendants and by appeals rulings.
Bannon’s case is likely to raise novel legal questions about executive privilege and about the House’s ability to enforce its investigative subpoenas when it seeks information about the executive branch.
The House has pinned its hopes on the prosecution of Bannon as well, with the committee trying to make him an example of the possible consequences for uncooperative witnesses.
Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California told CNN that Meadows should be watching closely after skipping Friday’s deposition appearance.
“Mark Meadows should take note,” Aguilar said.
“We expect answers to lawful subpoenas.”
Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, said in a statement on Friday that Meadows’ actions force the panel to consider criminal contempt against Trump’s former chief of staff.
“If his defiance persists and that process moves ahead, the record will reveal the wide range of matters the Select Committee wished to discuss with Mr. Meadows until his decision to hide behind the former President’s spurious claims of privilege,” the lawmakers said.
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And as they say in the media bidness, people, that is the news!
But it is not all the news, just the breaking news, so please, stay tuned, because the WITCH HUNTERS SPECIAL is just now starting to jump the tracks, so it promises to be an exciting show yet to come, courtesy of the grand palladium of American liberty, the Cape Charles Mirror, without which we would all be in the dark as to what goes on in what is supposed to be our nation’s capital, but in fact right now is a Democrat-occupied city that is a clear and present danger to the future of OUR Republic.
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Paul Plante says:
And as this train with flat wheels and no brakes dubbed the WITCH HUNTER’S SPECIAL careens downhill towards a coming train wreck, and with CHIEF INQUISITOR and HEAD WITCH HUNTER Bennie Thompson now on record talking about making recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, without really saying what law or laws he is thinking of changing to protect the democracy of the Democrats that they used to put Joe Biden into the white house as an illegitimate president, and to help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again, an impossibility outside of a rigidly controlled POLICE STATE, where he is trying to legitimize the WITCH HUNTERS, despite having a fatally flawed authorizing resolution, by pretending there is a legitimate legislative purpose to what are in fact extra-judicial proceedings in the House of Representatives, let us go to a CNN article hot off the press with screaming headlines proclaiming “Federal grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress” so chock full of facts it took not one, not two, not three, but four fully grown CNN correspondents to write them all, they being Hannah Rabinowitz, Jessica Schneider, Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Zachary Cohen, on November 12, 2021, where we learned about what has to be called a SLAM-DUNK, as follows:
(CNN) – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, the Justice Department announced Friday.
end quotes
That is hardly a surprise that Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury, which indictment now means that Bannon is on his way to the United States Supreme Court to challenge the WITCH HUNTERS jurisdiction over his person as a private person in America pursuant to John T. WATKINS, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America, No. 261, argued March 7, 1957, decided June 17, 1957, Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivering the opinion of the Court, as follows:
We granted certiorari because of the very important questions of constitutional law presented. 352 U.S. 822, 77 S.Ct. 62, 1 L.Ed.2d 46.
We start with several basic premises on which there is general agreement.
The power of the Congress to conduct investigations is inherent in the legislative process.
That power is broad.
It encompasses inquiries concerning the administration of existing laws as well as proposed or possibly needed statutes.
It includes surveys of defects in our social, economic or political system for the purpose of enabling the Congress to remedy them.
It comprehends probes into departments of the Federal Government to expose corruption, inefficiency or waste.
But, broad as is this power of inquiry, it is not unlimited.
There is no general authority to expose the private affairs of individuals without justification in terms of the functions of the Congress.
This was freely conceded by the Solicitor General in his argument of this case.
Nor is the Congress a law enforcement or trial agency.
These are functions of the executive and judicial departments of government.
No inquiry is an end in itself; it must be related to, and in furtherance of, a legitimate task of the Congress.
Investigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to ‘punish’ those investigated are indefensible.
end quotes
Yes, indeed, it is going to be a very interesting appeal, assuming which is not a certainty at all, that Bannon were to actually be convicted after a fair trial, which takes us back to CNN for some partisan political BULL**** from Biden-ista Merrick Garland, to wit:
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been under tremendous political pressure to indict Bannon since the House referred the Trump ally to the Justice Department for contempt on October 21.
end quotes
And my goodness, let us not kid ourselves here – of course he was has been under tremendous political pressure to indict Bannon since the House referred the Trump ally to the Justice Department for contempt on October 21, because this WITCH HUNT and KANGAROO COURT being conducted by Bennie and the WITCH HUNTERS is very much political, which takes us back to CNN and Merrick Garland, to wit:
“Since my first day in office, I have promised Justice Department employees that together we would show the American people by word and deed that the Department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law, and pursues equal justice under the law,” Garland said in a statement Friday.
“Today’s charges reflect the Department’s steadfast commitment to these principles.”
end quotes
Oh, really?
And how many of those people you just smeared there, Merrick, were DOJ employees when Trump was president?
Are you saying, Merrick, as you blatantly play at partisan politics here, that when you took over the DOJ, that there were Justice Department employees who were not by word and deed adhering to the rule of law, nor following the facts and the law, nor pursuing equal justice under the law?
Did you fire them all?
Getting back to CNN and the fate of Steve Bannon, who is now Supreme Court bound, we have, to wit:
Bannon, 67, was charged with one count related to his refusal to appear for a deposition and another related to his refusal to produce documents.
Each count carries a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of one year in jail, the Justice Department said.
Without an indictment, critics have said, there’s doubt over how much power the House January 6 select committee has to compel cooperation from former White House and Trump administration officials.
Friday, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows failed to appear for a deposition, sources familiar with the investigation told CNN, setting up a potential showdown that could lead to the panel beginning a criminal referral process against him as well.
And last week, former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who had been subpoenaed, appeared before the committee for more than an hour but declined to answer questions.
“The grand jury was presented with overwhelming and irrefutable evidence of Steve Bannon’s violation of a congressional subpoena,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who’s a select committee member, told CNN.
“The justice system of the United States is not going to tolerate these contemptuous violations of the rule of law,” he added.
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Which raises the very serious question of how this WITCH HUNTER and ACE CRACKERJACK DEMOCRAT CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR Jaime Raskin, the author of the famous SECOND FAILED TRUMP IMPEACHMENT, knew what was presented to the grand jury, given that here in America, OUR country, grand jury proceedings are secret, because secrecy prevents those under scrutiny from fleeing or importuning the grand jurors, encourages full disclosure by witnesses, and protects the innocent from unwarranted prosecution, among other things.
So how did Jaime Raskin then know about what took place in the grand jury that indicted Bannon for contempt?
Is Merrick Garland unlawfully and illegally leaking grand jury proceedings to Jaime Raskin, which would be a serious breach of law, indeed.
Getting back to CNN:
The case has been referred to District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump.
The House January 6 committee subpoenaed documents and testimony from Bannon in early October.
Bannon’s lawyer, Robert Costello, told the committee the former Trump adviser would not be cooperating with the investigation because he had been directed not to by Trump.
Pointing to claims from the former President that the documents and testimony being sought were potentially protected by executive privilege, Bannon’s lawyer told the committee that “the executive privileges belong to President Trump” and “we must accept his direction and honor his invocation of executive privilege.”
President Joe Biden’s White House has declined to assert executive privilege regarding witnesses and documents related to January 6, citing the extraordinary nature of the attack on the Capitol.
The White House counsel’s office has written to Bannon’s attorney to tell him it won’t support his refusals to testify.
The White House declined to comment on Friday’s indictment.
In seeking his cooperation, the committee has pointed to reports that Bannon spoke to Trump in the lead-up to the Capitol riot, that he was present in the so-called “war room” of Trump allies at the Willard hotel in Washington as the attack was unfolding and that he made comments on his podcast the previous day predicting that “all hell” was “going to break loose” the next day.
“In short, Mr. Bannon appears to have played a multi-faceted role in the events of January 6th, and the American people are entitled to hear his first-hand testimony regarding his actions,” the House committee said in its report putting forward a contempt resolution against Bannon.
Legal experts also have expressed skepticism about Bannon’s decision not to comply with the subpoena, given that the question of whether Trump as a former President can assert privilege is unsettled and that Bannon was not working for the government in the period being examined by the committee.
The criminal case against Bannon could take years to unfold in court, and a successful prosecution isn’t a certainty.
Historically, criminal contempt of Congress cases have been derailed by juries sympathetic to the defendants and by appeals rulings.
Bannon’s case is likely to raise novel legal questions about executive privilege and about the House’s ability to enforce its investigative subpoenas when it seeks information about the executive branch.
The House has pinned its hopes on the prosecution of Bannon as well, with the committee trying to make him an example of the possible consequences for uncooperative witnesses.
Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California told CNN that Meadows should be watching closely after skipping Friday’s deposition appearance.
“Mark Meadows should take note,” Aguilar said.
“We expect answers to lawful subpoenas.”
Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, said in a statement on Friday that Meadows’ actions force the panel to consider criminal contempt against Trump’s former chief of staff.
“If his defiance persists and that process moves ahead, the record will reveal the wide range of matters the Select Committee wished to discuss with Mr. Meadows until his decision to hide behind the former President’s spurious claims of privilege,” the lawmakers said.
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And as they say in the media bidness, people, that is the news!
But it is not all the news, just the breaking news, so please, stay tuned, because the WITCH HUNTERS SPECIAL is just now starting to jump the tracks, so it promises to be an exciting show yet to come, courtesy of the grand palladium of American liberty, the Cape Charles Mirror, without which we would all be in the dark as to what goes on in what is supposed to be our nation’s capital, but in fact right now is a Democrat-occupied city that is a clear and present danger to the future of OUR Republic.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-468206
Re: THE JANUARY 6th SELECT COMMITTEE
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR DECEMBER 14, 2021 AT 6:59 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS ramp up their subpoena mill to warp speed, let us take a moment to review a video from Wed, December 8, 2021, 11:37 PM entitled “Fmr. Impeachment Mgr.: Meadows’ lawsuit against Jan. 6 Cmte. undermines rule of law,” which is the most absurd HORSE**** to pour forth from these Democrats, to wit:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/fmr-impeachme ... 09039.html
In that video, we have as follows:
Rep. Eric Swalwell and Rep. Ted Lieu join Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss what the frivolous lawsuit from Mark Meadows and the Trump team stonewalling the January 6 Committee means for its investigation and the trickle-down effect on the rule of law, as Rep. Swalwell says, “If people start to believe that law and order doesn’t matter anymore, then as a democracy and as a country, we’re lost.”
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And talk about some real red meat, people, there it is right before our eyes, because filing lawsuits against these WITCH HUNTERS, who are the ones truly undermining RULE OF LAW, just as they did on 6 January 2021, is an exercise in upholding RULE OF LAW, and don’t let these Democrats tell you otherwise.
And people start to believe that law and order doesn’t matter anymore when they are taught by their “leaders,” Nancy Pelosi, Charley “Chuck” Schumer, the pencil-necked Adam Schiff who blew the first Trump impeachment, Jamie Raskin, the crack Democrat constitutional scholar who blew the second Trump impeachment, and Virginia’s Elaine Luria, that law and order do not apply to them, so why then should it apply to anyone?
That is when as a democracy and as a country, we’re lost, and we are most certainly on the road there right now, which brings us to this novel concept the WITCH HUNTERS are hurling around as they bluster and posture and hurl charges, which is “CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS,” which I in turn call the American people holding this farce of a congress in the contempt it deserves to be held in, which takes us to a Gallup Poll question, “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job,” where in the period Nov 1-16, 2021, only 20% approved, while 77% disapproved, and 3% had no opinion.
So talk about the American people holding congress in contempt, because the Democrat congress is so contemptible, there we have it because numbers don’t lie.
Only the Democrats and their media lackeys do that, which is what makes them so contemptible.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-491782
Paul Plante says:
And as the Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS ramp up their subpoena mill to warp speed, let us take a moment to review a video from Wed, December 8, 2021, 11:37 PM entitled “Fmr. Impeachment Mgr.: Meadows’ lawsuit against Jan. 6 Cmte. undermines rule of law,” which is the most absurd HORSE**** to pour forth from these Democrats, to wit:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/fmr-impeachme ... 09039.html
In that video, we have as follows:
Rep. Eric Swalwell and Rep. Ted Lieu join Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss what the frivolous lawsuit from Mark Meadows and the Trump team stonewalling the January 6 Committee means for its investigation and the trickle-down effect on the rule of law, as Rep. Swalwell says, “If people start to believe that law and order doesn’t matter anymore, then as a democracy and as a country, we’re lost.”
end quotes
And talk about some real red meat, people, there it is right before our eyes, because filing lawsuits against these WITCH HUNTERS, who are the ones truly undermining RULE OF LAW, just as they did on 6 January 2021, is an exercise in upholding RULE OF LAW, and don’t let these Democrats tell you otherwise.
And people start to believe that law and order doesn’t matter anymore when they are taught by their “leaders,” Nancy Pelosi, Charley “Chuck” Schumer, the pencil-necked Adam Schiff who blew the first Trump impeachment, Jamie Raskin, the crack Democrat constitutional scholar who blew the second Trump impeachment, and Virginia’s Elaine Luria, that law and order do not apply to them, so why then should it apply to anyone?
That is when as a democracy and as a country, we’re lost, and we are most certainly on the road there right now, which brings us to this novel concept the WITCH HUNTERS are hurling around as they bluster and posture and hurl charges, which is “CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS,” which I in turn call the American people holding this farce of a congress in the contempt it deserves to be held in, which takes us to a Gallup Poll question, “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job,” where in the period Nov 1-16, 2021, only 20% approved, while 77% disapproved, and 3% had no opinion.
So talk about the American people holding congress in contempt, because the Democrat congress is so contemptible, there we have it because numbers don’t lie.
Only the Democrats and their media lackeys do that, which is what makes them so contemptible.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-491782