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"‘We Won’t Take No For An Answer’: Jan. 6 Committee Recommends Holding Steve Bannon In Criminal Contempt"


Joe Walsh, Forbes Staff

Oct 19, 2021

TOPLINE - A House committee investigating the Capitol riot on Tuesday recommended charging Steve Bannon with contempt of Congress, as lawmakers pressure former President Donald Trump’s ally to comply with a subpoena — and threaten to push for criminal charges if he defies them.

KEY FACTS

The select committee’s seven Democrats and two Republicans voted unanimously Tuesday evening to pass a report encouraging the House to hold Bannon in contempt over his refusal to testify or hand over documents tied to the January 6 riot.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) — the committee’s chair — said lawmakers believe Bannon has pertinent information and wants to deter other witnesses from refusing subpoenas: “Left unaddressed, this defiance may encourage others to follow Mr. Bannon down the same path.”

The committee accused Bannon of playing a “multi-faceted role” in the leadup to the riot: He backed Trump’s voter fraud claims, and he purportedly met with other Trump allies at a hotel near the White House ahead of the riot, the committee’s report claims.


Bannon also predicted on the eve of the January 6 riot that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” which lawmakers interpreted in their report to mean Bannon “had some foreknowledge about extreme events that would occur the next day.”

Bannon claims he can’t testify or turn over records because Trump has asserted “executive privilege,” a legal doctrine allowing presidents to keep certain internal communications secret, but lawmakers argued this concept doesn’t apply to Bannon because he was a private citizen at the time of the Capitol riot.

Forbes has reached out to Bannon’s attorney for comment.

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“It's a shame that Mr. Bannon has put us in this position, but we won't take no for an answer,” Thompson said Tuesday evening.

“We believe Mr. Bannon has information relevant to our probe, and we'll use the tools at our disposal to get that information.”

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

The entire House of Representatives will vote on whether to hold Bannon in contempt.

If the measure passes the Democrat-controlled House, it’s up to the Department of Justice to weigh criminal charges, which could result in fines and 12 months in jail.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

It’s unclear whether the DOJ plans to seek criminal charges.

The select committee has argued prosecutors have a “duty” to seek an indictment from a grand jury if Congress refers a contempt charge to them, but the DOJ has asserted in the past that it can choose not to send contempt allegations to a grand jury or pursue criminal charges.

President Joe Biden said last week he believes the DOJ should prosecute witnesses who fail to comply with the January 6 committee’s subpoenas, but the DOJ told several news outlets it “will make its own independent decisions in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law.”


KEY BACKGROUND

Tasked with investigating the Capitol riot and its immediate runup, the January 6 committee has subpoenaed a range of Trump administration officials and outside allies.

It has requested scores of White House documents tied to both the violence at the Capitol and Trump’s months-long gambit to overturn his 2020 reelection loss, and lawmakers asked Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several other staffers to hand over records and sit for testimony.

Bannon’s subpoena directed the political operative and ex-White House strategist to sit for a deposition and produce a range of records, including any communications with Trump about January 6 and discussions with the former president and his legal team about efforts to contest the 2020 election.

Trump has argued many of the records sought by the committee are protected by executive privilege, and Bannon’s attorney told lawmakers earlier this month he can’t comply with their subpoena because he “must accept [Trump’s] direction and honor his invocation of executive privilege,” leading the committee to threaten to pursue contempt.

SURPRISING FACT

Thompson said Bannon currently “stands alone in his complete defiance of our subpoena,” but the committee will pursue contempt of Congress against any other witnesses who refuse to testify or turn over records.

TANGENT

Trump wants the Biden administration to shield certain White House records he claims are subject to executive privilege, but Biden rejected this argument for an initial wave of documents requested by the select committee earlier this month.

This week, Trump filed a lawsuit against the committee and the National Archives and Records Administration, seeking to block what his attorneys described as a “vexatious, illegal fishing expedition openly endorsed by Biden and designed to unconstitutionally investigate President Trump and his administration.”

Joe Walsh

I am a breaking news reporter at Forbes. I previously covered local news for the Boston Guardian, and I graduated from Tufts University in 2019.

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"U.S. House committee rejects Bannon 'privilege' argument in Jan. 6 probe"


By Patricia Zengerle and Jan Wolfe

October 19, 2021

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Monday that it rejected Steve Bannon's arguments for failing to cooperate with the probe, as the panel pursues a contempt of Congress charge against the long-time adviser to former President Donald Trump.

Trump has claimed that materials and testimony sought by the House of Representatives Select Committee are covered by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that protects the confidentially of some White House communications.

Bannon, through his lawyer, has said he will not cooperate with the committee until Trump's executive privilege claim is resolved by a court or through a settlement agreement.

In its report released on Monday making the case for criminal contempt charges against Bannon, the committee said Bannon "relied on no legal authority to support his refusal to comply in any fashion," and said his testimony is critical because he appears to have "had some foreknowledge about extreme events that would occur" on Jan. 6.

According to the report, Bannon in a podcast on Jan. 5 told his listeners, "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow..."

"So many people said, 'Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.'"

"Well, this is your time in history."

The Select Committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to vote on the report recommending that the House cite Bannon for criminal contempt of Congress and refer him to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for prosecution.

The U.S. Justice Department has not said whether it plans to prosecute Bannon for contempt of Congress, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Bannon's attorney, Robert Costello, did not respond to a request for comment on the committee's argument.

The attack on the Capitol by thousands of Trump supporters took place as Congress met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's election victory over Trump, delaying that process for several hours as then-Vice President Mike Pence, members of Congress, staff and journalists fled.

More than 600 people face criminal charges stemming from the event.

The committee also said that Bannon has "had multiple roles" relevant to its investigation, including helping to construct and participate in the "stop the steal" public relations effort that helped motivate the Jan. 6 attack.

"Stop the steal" refers to Trump's false claims that Biden's victory was the result of widespread fraud.

Multiple courts, state election officials and members of Trump's own administration rejected those claims as false.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle in Washington Additional reporting by Jan Wolfe in Washington; Editing by Aurora Ellis, Matthew Lewis and Cynthia Osterman

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"Liz Cheney says Trump appears to have been ‘personally involved in planning’ 6 Jan insurrection - Bannon ‘appears’ to have had ‘substantial advance knowledge of the plans for January 6th’"


Namita Singh

20 OCTOBER 2021

Steve Bannon’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation of the 6 January Capitol riots suggests that former president Donald Trump “was personally involved in the planning and execution” of the insurrection, Liz Cheney said on Tuesday.

The Republican representative’s statement came during a meeting of the House committee investigating the violent insurrection.

The committee voted unanimously to hold the former White House advisor in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena for documents and testimony concerning the attacks.

Ms Cheney, who is the committee’s vice-chair and one of two Republicans serving on it, said their investigation has shown that Mr Bannon “appears” to have had “substantial advance knowledge of the plans for January 6th and likely had an important role in formulating those plans.”

“Mr Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on January 6th."

" He also appears to have detailed knowledge regarding the President’s efforts to sell millions of Americans the fraud that the election was stolen,” said the Republican representative from Wyoming.

In its report, the committee argued that Mr Bannon made statements suggesting he knew ahead of time about “extreme events” on 6 January, when Congress was scheduled to certify Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election.

In his podcast on 5 January, Mr Bannon said: “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”

The next day, thousands of Trump supporters descended on the Capitol and clashed with the police.

It left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer, while hundreds were injured.

“In the words of many who participated in the January 6th attack, the violence that day was in direct response to President Trump’s repeated claims — from election night through January 6th —that he had won the election,” Ms Cheney added.

American people are entitled to Mr Bannon’s first-hand testimony about all these relevant facts, but Mr Bannon is refusing to provide it, said Ms Cheney.

She then added that Mr Bannon’s refusal to comply with the subpoena left the committee “no choice but to seek consequences”.


The conservative podcast host, who served as White House Chief Strategist for seven months in 2017, was served with the subpoena last month, and had been ordered to produce documents and appear for a deposition before the committee on 8 October.

But in a 13 October letter to committee’s chairman, representative Bennie Thompson, Mr Bannon’s attorney, said his client, acting on orders from attorneys for Mr Trump, would “not be producing documents or testimony” until the former president’s executive privilege claim is resolved by a court or through a settlement agreement.

While the legal doctrine of executive privilege protects certain communications between a president and his advisers, the contempt resolution rebuff’s Mr Bannon’s assertion saying he was fired from his White House job in 2017 and was a private citizen when he spoke to Mr Trump ahead of the attack.

Mr Bannon and Mr Trump’s privilege arguments “appear to reveal one thing,” said Ms Cheney.

“They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th."

"And this committee will get to the bottom of that.”

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"U.S. House approves criminal contempt referral for Steve Bannon"


CLAUDIA GRISALES

October 21, 2021

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a criminal contempt report against Steve Bannon, the ally of former President Donald Trump, for defying a subpoena from a House panel probing the Jan. 6 attack.

The 229 to 202 vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber was largely along party lines, with nine GOP members joining Democrats.


It followed a day of contentious debate, with Democrats and Republicans trading barbs.

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., led the effort for the Republicans, criticizing the probe and its efforts to investigate a private citizen.

"Steve Bannon was a private citizen before, after and during January 6," Banks said.

"So why is the select committee interested in Steve Bannon?"

"It's simple."

"He's a Democrat party boogeyman."

But Banks' statement backed up the crux of the committee's argument, with its lawmakers claiming that as a private citizen, executive privilege does not apply to Bannon.

For his part, Banks was one of five Republicans initially appointed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to serve on the panel, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ultimately rejected Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

As a result, McCarthy pulled all five, and decided to largely boycott the effort.

That left Pelosi to appoint Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to the committee.

The two joined the seven Democrats on the committee in defending the effort to pursue a criminal charge against Bannon.

And Cheney took aim at her GOP colleagues downplaying the riot.

"There are people in this chamber right now, who were evacuated with me, and with the rest of us on that day during that attack," Cheney said on the House floor ahead of the final vote.

"People who now seem to have forgotten the danger of the moment, the assault on our Constitution, the assault on our Congress."

"People who you will hear argue that there is simply no legislative purpose for this committee, for this investigation or for this subpoena."


Cheney and other members of the panel said Bannon was a key witness, who said on his podcast released Jan. 5 that "all hell" would break loose the next day.

"We will not allow anyone to derail our work because our work is too important," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the committee.

What happens next?

Now that House has adopted the contempt report against Bannon, Speaker Nancy Pelosi must certify it to the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Columbia.

The matter could involve the highest levels of the Justice Department, including Attorney General Merrick Garland.

The Justice Department could launch their own investigation, and a grand jury could consider the case as well.

If it reaches an ultimate conviction, Bannon could face fines or jail time.

Bannon's attorney, Robert Costello, had previously pointed to former President Trump's claims that his client was also shielded by executive privilege.

However, the panel told Costello that Bannon was not covered by such a legal shield and was in "defiance" of his subpoena.

A Bannon spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

Earlier this week, Trump filed a lawsuit against the panel, challenging its probe.

However, the committee's members have argued that protection rests with President Biden, who waived the privilege regarding an earlier document request.

They also argued that Bannon's case especially does not apply since he was a private citizen as of Jan. 6 and not part of the Trump administration.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 20, 2021 AT 6:22 PM

Paul Plante says:

According to the news out this morning, the WITCH HUNTERS have voted to send Steve Bannon to the gallows, so to speak euphemistically, and now the games begin anew as the referral of Bannon to face very serious criminal charges comes before the full House for debate before the matter can then be further referred to Joe Biden’s “Justice” Department so they can try Bannon as a criminal and get him convicted, so he can do some hard time as a reminder to anyone else out there in America who might think of flouting the power and majesty of Democrat Bennie Thompson and his Pelosi-ite WITCH HUNTERS committee, and that brings us back to John T. WATKINS, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America, Supreme Court, 354 U.S. 178, No. 261, argued March 7, 1957, decided June 17, 1957, Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivering the opinion of the Court, and the language of the fatally flawed Authorizing Resolution of Nancy Pelosi, as follows:

Having exhausted the several possible indicia of the ‘question under inquiry,’ we remain unenlightened as to the subject to which the questions asked petitioner were pertinent.

Certainly, if the point is that obscure after trial and appeal, it was not adequately revealed to petitioner when he had to decide at his peril whether or not to answer.

Fundamental fairness demands that no witness be compelled to make such a determination with so little guidance.

Unless the subject matter has been made to appear with undisputable clarity, it is the duty of the investigative body, upon objection of the witness on grounds of pertinency, to state for the record the subject under inquiry at that time and the manner in which the propounded questions are pertinent thereto.

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Which takes us back to the question of how anything Steve Bannon might say can be pertinent to an inquiry into something the FBI says never happened, which is an insurrection.

This whole thing is so stupid it boggles my mind.

“Mr. Bannon, even though there really was not an insurrection, we are demanding that you tell us everything you know about the insurrection or you will rot in jail!”

Getting back to Watkins:

To be meaningful, the explanation must describe what the topic under inquiry is and the connective reasoning whereby the precise questions asked relate to it.

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And there is something I hope we all get to see with Bennie Thompson in court under oath being asked to do exactly that, which takes us back to Watkins, to wit:

The statement of the Committee Chairman in this case, in response to petitioner’s protest, was woefully inadequate to convey sufficient information as to the pertinency of the questions to the subject under inquiry.

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I wonder how Bennie Thompson will handle that query under oath, and I hope it is televised when Bennie gets called to testify at Bannon’s criminal trial.

Going back to Watkins again, we have:

Petitioner was thus not accorded a fair opportunity to determine whether he was within his rights in refusing to answer, and his conviction is necessarily invalid under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

We are mindful of the complexities of modern government and the ample scope that must be left to the Congress as the sole constitutional depository of legislative power.

Equally mindful are we of the indispensable function, in the exercise of that power, of congressional investigations.

The conclusions we have reached in this case will not prevent the Congress, through its committees, from obtaining any information it needs for the proper fulfillment of its role in our scheme of government.

The legislature is free to determine the kinds of data that should be collected.

It is only those investigations that are conducted by use of compulsory process that give rise to a need to protect the rights of individuals against illegal encroachment.

That protection can be readily achieved through procedures which prevent the separation of power from responsibility and which provide the constitutional requisites of fairness for witnesses.

A measure of added care on the part of the House and the Senate in authorizing the use of compulsory process and by their committees in exercising that power would suffice.

That is a small price to pay if it serves to uphold the principles of limited, constitutional government without constricting the power of the Congress to inform itself.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed, and the case is remanded to the District Court with instructions to dismiss the indictment.

It is so ordered.

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And such is how American history is made!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 22, 2021 AT 10:52 AM

Paul Plante says:

And such it was to be!

The making of history, I mean, and that is in reference to the full house in the House of Representatives voting to send the matter of the alleged contumacious witness Steve Bannon, a private citizen, to the Justice Department for prosecution, a private citizen whom a shrill, shrieking and apparently hysterical Liz Cheney was quoted denouncing in an article in the Independent titled “Liz Cheney says Trump appears to have been ‘personally involved in planning’ 6 Jan insurrection – Bannon ‘appears’ to have had ‘substantial advance knowledge of the plans for January 6th’” by Namita Singh on 20 October 2021 as saying as follows:

Steve Bannon’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation of the 6 January Capitol riots suggests that former president Donald Trump “was personally involved in the planning and execution” of the insurrection, Liz Cheney said on Tuesday.

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And how absolutely boringly stupid and ridiculous this charade becomes, because there was NO INSURRECTION, and accordingly, since there was NO INSURRECTION, neither Trump nor Bannon could have been involved in the planning and execution of something the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an arm of the United States Department of Justice, says did not happen, except in the fevered imagination of the shrill, shrieking, hysterical Liz Cheney, who appears to be shooting for an award for most hysterical actress in a daytime sit-com soap opera, which takes us back to the Independent for more Liz, as follows:

Ms Cheney, who is the committee’s vice-chair and one of two Republicans serving on it, said their investigation has shown that Mr Bannon “appears” to have had “substantial advance knowledge of the plans for January 6th and likely had an important role in formulating those plans.”

“Mr Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on January 6th.”

” He also appears to have detailed knowledge regarding the President’s efforts to sell millions of Americans the fraud that the election was stolen,” said the Republican representative from Wyoming.

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Notice all the qualifiers, such as “also appears to have detailed knowledge.”

That is proof of exactly NOTHING – “appears to have!”

But we are dealing with rabid, fervent Democrats here, people, WITCH HUNTERS, and so, for them, that “appears to have” is good enough.

And there for the moment, I will rest.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 22, 2021 AT 5:16 PM

Paul Plante says:

And while we are on the subject of history being made here in the United States of America, not a Zinn-ist emotionalist version of it, but true contemporary history that can be and is very well documented with regard to what was taking place INSIDE the Capitol on 6 January 2021, which is really what is of importance and historical significance here in the same way the Webster-Haynes debates in the 1800’s were of historical significance in terms of what was to come thereafter, and I am talking about the debates, not some hysterical blathering from people like AOC, where would we go to find out what was really taking place INSIDE the Capitol that day during the Joint Session to certify Joe Biden as the next president, just as Nancy Pelosi guaranteed Democrats on 3 January 2021 was going to happen?

Is there any source we, the American people can really trust to find out that information?

And the answer is OF COURSE, because while the DEMOCRATS might control much of what is printed as “news,” DEMOCRAT propaganda in actuality, they don’t control all of it, and here, I am making direct reference to the Congressional Record – United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 117th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 167, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2021 No. 4, where we had the highly inflammatory “prayer” that Nancy Pelosi had read that day as her way of starting a session she had already predicted, as if possessed of inside information as to what was about to happen outside, which is very reminiscent of the circumstances surrounding the Reichstag Fire in Germany on February 27, 1933, and this is important because we have a shrill and hysterical Liz Cheney and other vocal WITCH HUNTERS going on about Bannon intending to disrupt “CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS,” when the reality revealed by a search of the record demonstrates that Nancy Pelosi never intended to follow CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS in the first place, which is the true cause of the riot on 6 January 2021, not anything Bannon might have said, and that Nancy Pelosi was intending the joint session to be disruptive starts with a review of the incendiary language of the so-called prayer she had read to start the session, which was a blatant power grab by Nancy Pelosi too reminiscent of Adolph Hitler’s power grab in Germany on the heels of the Reichstag Fire, believed set by the Nazis themselves, but blamed on the Communists, nonetheless, because the Nazis need a trigger that would allow them to literally get rid of their political opposition by killing them or incarcerating them in concentration camps, to wit:

PRAYER

The Chaplain, Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following prayer:

O God, our refuge and our strength, a very present help in times of discord and trouble.

Mountains crumble, waters rage, nations roar, and yet we need not be afraid, for even now You abide with us in these times of great discord, uncertainty, and unrest.

We, who have pledged to defend our Constitution against all enemies, we pray Your hedge of protection around this Nation.

Defend us from those adversaries, both foreign and domestic, outside these walls and perhaps within these Chambers, who sow seeds of acrimony to divide colleagues and conspire to undermine trust in Your divine authority over all things.

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And let us stop right there to examine those words just uttered there by Nancy Pelosi’s personal Chaplain as a prayer or invocation to the GOD of the Democrats to apparently smite the heathen Republicans and give them some what-for up alongside the head, to wit:

“Defend us (the Democrats) from those adversaries (Trump and the Republicans) outside these walls and perhaps within these Chambers, who sow seeds of acrimony to divide colleagues and conspire to undermine trust in Your divine authority over all things.”

BIZARRE BEYOND BELIEF, people, that statement right there, which strongly implies if does not come out and state that GOD is on the side of Joe Biden in his epic fight to save the soul of America from Donald Trump and the forces of evil, like this is a re-run of Lord of the Rings, and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats and it should scare the hell out of anybody in America who is not a Democrat and does not want to be a Democrat, nor a Democrat slave, which takes us back to that same sentence further shortened, to wit:

“Defend us (the Democrats) from those adversaries (Trump and the Republicans) who conspire to undermine trust in Your divine authority over all things.”

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Are we becoming a theocracy, people, where a “theocracy” is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god?

As to this personal Chaplain of Nancy Pelosi’s who made that statement, which seems very much intended to be fighting words to me, let’s us go to a Pelosi Press Release from December 31, 2020 entitled “Pelosi Appoints Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben First Woman to Serve as Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives,” where we had as follows from Nancy, to wit:

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi today announced her appointment of Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben as House Chaplain, following the House retirement of Father Pat Conroy.

Kibben will be the first woman to serve as Chaplain in either chamber of Congress.

“It is my honor to announce the appointment of Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben to serve as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives: the first woman to serve in this historic position, which has been enshrined in our Democracy since the First Congress in 1789,” said Speaker Pelosi.

“Kibben brings decades of decorated experience in the military and the ministry, as a retired Rear Admiral who served as the U.S. Navy’s Chief Chaplain and the chaplain of the Marine Corps.”

“Her integrity, experience and patriotism will serve the Congress and the Country well, as she ministers to the needs of Members.”

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And the “Members” whose needs she was ministering to on 6 January 2021 with that inflammatory speech intended to serve as a provocation or incitement to violence were obviously those of Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats, which takes us back to the fighting words of Nancy’s personal Chaplain on 6 January 2021, to wit:

The journey of this experiment in democracy is perilous and demanding, fraught with anger and discontent.

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Oh, yeah?

Who says?

I don’t believe that for a minute, myself and it sounds like some partisan political horsecrap she made up along with Nancy Pelosi to meet the needs of the Democrats on that historical day as she did her best to inflame tempers on that day and so stoke the violence which was to come as a direct response to the provocation, which takes us back to her political speech posing in the guise of a prayer, to wit:

But wise rulers still seek You.

So help us, God, to find You in the midst of us.

So help us, God, to see Your gracious plan even in the events of these days.

So help us, God, to serve You and this Nation with Godliness and dignity.

We lay before You the gifts of our hopes, our dreams, our deliberations, and our debates, that You would be revealed and exalted among the people.

We pray these things in the strength of Your holy name.

Amen.

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We lay before You the gifts of our hopes, our dreams, our deliberations, and our debates, that You would be revealed and exalted among the people?

HUH?

January 6, 2021 was really about God revealing himself or herself to the American people in order to be exalted among the American people.

Stupid me, I guess, because I thought they were there that day to certify Joe Biden as Nancy Pelosi’s choice for the next president of the United States of America.

I wonder how I missed the fact that it was really about GOD being revealed that day which means the insurrection on 6 January 2021 had nothing at all to do with whether or not Joe Biden got elected to anything, and everything to do with Trump and Steve Bannon trying to keep GOD from being revealed that day, because they wanted Trump to be exalted by the American people, instead.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 24, 2021 AT 11:09 AM

Paul Plante says:

An interesting article, all the way around, but not actually factually correct, but hey, these days, who’s bothering anymore to count.

First of all, let us go to the 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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Focus on the word “insurrectionists,” and then ask yourself what proof, what indisputable evidence Elaine Luria is possessed of, that proves beyond a doubt that anyone in Washington, D.C., including Steve Bannon, was an insurrectionist.

The answer is that she has none, but since we are dealing with DEMOCRATS here, actually, she doesn’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.

And before the matter can go to the U.S. attorney, Nancy Pelosi has to certify the vote, but that’s just a detail.

What is important now isn’t anything that Elaine Luria has done herself – what is now important is how the DOJ is going to handle this, because now is when DUE PROCESS of law unavailable in the House of Representatives actually begins.

As to Congresswoman Luria’s statement that “(T)he U.S. Supreme Court has emphasized that the subpoena power is a ‘public duty, which every person within the jurisdiction of the Government is bound to perform when properly summoned,” focus on the key words “properly summoned.”

Was Steve Bannon properly summoned to appear before a KANGAROO COURT to testify about something that never happened, which was “insurrectionists” attempting to “impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election?”

And a corollary question as well, that being were the DEMOCRATS in the House of Representatives really following any kind of Constitutional mandate on 6 January 2021, or were they really, as the evidence in the Congressional Record indicates, burying OUR Constitution for once and for all as it is an impediment to their taking over all three branches of our national government so they can impose the FASCISM of ONE-PARTY RULE on us?

As to the term “properly summoned,” let us go to the United States Supreme Court in matter of BARENBLATT v. UNITED STATES (1959), MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivering the opinion of the Court, to wit:

The congressional power in question concerns the internal process of Congress in moving within its legislative domain; it involves the utilization of its committees to secure “testimony needed to enable it efficiently to exercise a legislative function belonging to it under the Constitution.” McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135, 160 .

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And going back to this phrase about “insurrectionists” attempting to “impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election” from the authorizing resolution for the WITCH HUNTERS committee, called “select” because Nancy Pelosi hand-picked or “selected” the members for their loyalty not to RULE OF LAW, not to the CONSTITUTION, but to Nancy herself, is it a valid legislative function belonging to Congress under OUR Constitution for Nancy Pelosi and her hand-picked WITCH HUNTERS loyal to her to pronounce American citizens guilty of serious crimes?

Going back to Barenblatt, we have further as follows:

Broad as it is, the power is not, however, without limitations.

Since Congress may only investigate into those areas in which it may potentially legislate or appropriate, it cannot inquire into matters which are within the exclusive province of one of the other branches of the Government.

Lacking the judicial power given to the Judiciary, it cannot inquire into matters that are exclusively the concern of the Judiciary.

Neither can it supplant the Executive in what exclusively belongs to the Executive.

And the Congress, in common with all branches of the Government, must exercise its powers subject to the limitations placed by the Constitution on governmental action, more particularly in the context of this case the relevant limitations of the Bill of Rights.

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CONGRESS AND NANCY PELOSI AND ELAINE LURIA AND ALL THE KING’S HORSES, AND ALL THE KING’S MEN CANNOT PASS LEGISLATION CONDEMNING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN FOR CRIMES THEY SAY THE CITIZEN COMMITTED WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME, IN THIS CASE, INSURRECTION!

Which takes us back to Barenblatt once more as follows:

The congressional power of inquiry, its range and scope, and an individual’s duty in relation to it, must be viewed in proper perspective. McGrain v. Daugherty, supra; Landis, Constitutional Limitations on the Congressional Power of Investigation, 40 Harv. L. Rev. 153, 214; Black, Inside a Senate Investigation, 172 Harpers Monthly 275 (February 1936).

The power and the right of resistance to it are to be judged in the concrete, not on the basis of abstractions.

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And that to me sums up just about where we are right now in this matter of the DEMOCRAT MYTH, THE BIGGEST LIE EVER, that on 6 January 2021, “insurrectionists” attempted to “impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election.”

So, thanks to Elaine Luria, the game is now on, the ball is in the air, so there is still time to make a run to the frig for some snacks, and we’ll be right back after a word for station identification, so don’t touch that dial!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 25, 2021 AT 6:20 PM

Paul Plante says:

A HORNSWOGGLE (get the better of the American people by cheating or deception, as in “I mean to say we were hornswoggled!”), people, a GREAT BIG BAMBOOZLE (to deceive by underhanded methods; to confuse, frustrate, or throw off thoroughly or completely), that is what Virginia’s own Elaine Luria voted for in actuality with her vote in what has been a very transparent KANGAROO COURT to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of the KANGAROO COURT by not appearing before it, which is an effort on her part by her vote to try and give a patina of legitimacy to something that has absolutely no legitimacy whatsoever in a free country, that being a KANGAROO COURT that can condemn en mass thousands of American citizens whose names they do not even know as “insurrectionists,” a very serious criminal charge, based on nothing more than Nancy Pelosi declaring them to be insurrectionists in the CHARTER for the WITCH HUNTERS committee of which Virginia’s Elaine Luria is a rabid member.

The BIG BAMBOOZLE, of course, or the GREAT HORNSWOGGLE, are other names for the MASSIVE HUGE LIE being propagated by Democrats like Elaine Luria that on 6 January 2021 “insurrectionists” were attempting to “impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election” when in fact, according to the FACTUAL RECORD in the Congressional Record, what was really being validated was the GUTTING of OUR Constitution by the Democrats in the House of Representatives who delegated to Nancy Pelosi the choice of picking this nation’s next president.

What Virginia’s own Elaine Luria has voted for here is a SHOW TRIAL to keep us distracted from what really went on behind closed doors in the House of Representatives on 6 January 2021 after 1:00 PM when the joint session of Congress commenced when the members of the Senate led by Mike Pence as their president entered the Chamber of the House of Representatives, and the following exchange took place which set the tone for the adversarial process which resulted in the effective muzzling of the Republicans and the gutting of OUR Constitution that was to follow, to wit:

The joint session was called to order by the Vice President.

PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES

Mr. GRIFFITH (Republican U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 9th congressional district since 2011).

Mr. Vice President, parliamentary inquiry.

The VICE PRESIDENT.

The gentleman from Virginia will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. GRIFFITH.

Mr. Vice President, in order to follow the Speaker’s instructions that only a limited number of people be on the floor, may I ask how one would make an objection or make a parliamentary inquiry in the future if you are not on the floor but in the gallery.

The VICE PRESIDENT.

Under section 18 of title 3, United States Code, debate is not permitted in the joint session.

Mr. GRIFFITH.

Further parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. Vice President, I am not attempting to debate.

I am trying to find out how a parliamentary inquiry or a parliamentary point of order would be made in following with the Speaker’s request that most of us not be on the floor.

How do you make one of those points of order when you don’t know what is going to happen later?

The VICE PRESIDENT.

Respectfully, the gentleman’s parliamentary inquiry constitutes debate, which is not permitted in the joint session under section 18 of title 3, United States Code.

Madam Speaker, Members of Congress, pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of the United States, the Senate and House of Representatives are meeting in joint session to verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors of the several States for President and Vice President of the United States.

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And out of that beginning, we now have the MASSIVE HUGE LIE being propagated by the Democrats and their lapdogs in the media that the 2020 presidential election, in the words of Elaine Luria’s fellow Democrat WITCH HUNTER Zoe Lofgren in the joint session on 6 January 2021, was “the most secure election conducted in modern history,” to wit:

Madam Speaker, this day marks a crossroads for American democracy.

Those who object to the counting of the electoral college votes, which reflect the votes of the American people, want to substitute their preferences for the voters’ choice.

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And that is patently false, as a review of the actual record in the Congressional Register makes clear, but again, people, we are dealing with Democrats here and how they can twist the truth and facts is a wonder the behold.

Why the electoral votes were being objected to was made incandescently clear on the record on 6 January 2021 by Congressman Biggs of Arizona, to wit:

Mr. BIGGS.

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the objection.

The SPEAKER.

The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. BIGGS.

Madam Speaker, I join the objection to counting votes of electors from my home State of Arizona, as well as Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada, because election integrity is the heart of our American constitutional republic.

In a representative form of government, we must be able to trust that our elections accurately represent the will of the American voter.

This is the appropriate forum anticipated and provided for by our Founders to debate whether this election complied with the Constitution that we have all sworn to protect.

Every particular of the Constitution is to be protected, including Article II, Section 1.

The debate as to the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election has been suppressed by the left and its propagandists in the media until today.

State legislatures are required to determine the manner in which electors are chosen.

Arizona names its electors on the general election ballot and identifies what candidate those electors are required to vote for should that candidate obtain the majority of votes in the general election.

As part of the manner for determining electors, Arizona also establishes deadlines for voter registration.

The deadline has been in place for 30 years.

This year, that voter registration deadline was October 5.

Early voting commenced 2 days later.

Five days before the deadline, a group filed a lawsuit demanding that Arizona election officials not enforce the deadline.

The Federal District Court decided that since other States have a deadline later than Arizona’s and some even allow for registration when voting, that Arizona’s new deadline would be a time he chose, not the legislature’s timeline.

The appellate court effectively overturned the lower court ruling and noted that the Arizona deadline established by the State legislature was sound and appropriate and complied with the Constitution.

But the appellate court merely shortened the extension, the bypassing of the deadline to 10 days.

The appellate court, without legal justification, also decided that everyone who registered after the legal deadline, but before the deadline created by judicial fiat, could still vote.

Note that the Arizona legislature was no longer in control of determining the manner of appointing Presidential electors because the court had set a new deadline, even though the appellate court found the legislature’s deadline was constitutionally sound.

During that window, more than 32,000 voters registered in Maricopa County alone.

Here are copies of those voter registration records.

In going around the deadline set by the legislature, the court ignored the Arizona legislature’s obligation and right to direct the manner of choosing Presidential electors as set forth in Article II, Section 1.

As a consequence of that judicial usurpation, more than 32,000 people were allowed to unlawfully cast ballots in Arizona’s Presidential election in 2020.

The Arizona legislature seeks an independent audit of the election.

The Governor refuses now to call them into a special session.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has refused to comply with legislative subpoenas.

In Arizona, the people who control the evidence related to the election have done everything possible to prevent an independent audit directed by the legislature.

Arizonans have used the limited amount of records available to investigate the 2020 Presidential election.

Of a limited sample of 1,000 addresses of voters, they found 539 voters did not live at the addresses on the voter rolls.

Here is a stack of 1,000 declaration of affidavits supporting that.

I object to counting the votes of Arizona electors because the Federal
courts went around the legislatively constructed mechanism for choosing Arizona’s Presidential electors, allowing tens of thousands of voters to unlawfully cast votes.

The court usurped a key component of the Arizona legislature’s manner of selecting Presidential electors, thus violating Article II, Section 1.

The legislature is being obstructed in its efforts.

And what little evidence we have and what little information we have has produced this kind of evidence, which indicates a significant problem with the integrity of the Presidential election.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 26, 2021 AT 6:19 PM

Paul Plante says:

A GRAND FLIM-FLAM (swindle someone with a confidence game, as in “the American people were flimflammed out of their Constitution”), people, the SNOOKERING (trick, entice, or trap, as in “the American people were snookered by the Democrats into buying into a MASSIVE HUGE LIE about what really took place in the House of Representatives on 6 January 2021”) of America!

That is exactly what we, the American people are being presented with here.

We are to believe that somebody, in this case a clown named Steve Bannon who took legal advice from Donald Trump as to his supposed immunity from having to appear before the WITCH HUNTERS, which was a real slick way for him to set up a subsequent insanity plea, was a mastermind of an alleged “insurrection” on 6 January 2021, as if somebody who would take their legal advice from Donald Trump was a real master criminal mastermind capable to actually overthrowing the government of the United States of America, as opposed to a pure goose fool for taking legal advice from Donald Trump, and if there was even a hint of real evidence that Steve Bannon was actually responsible for setting up an insurrection on 6 January 2021, the FBI would have been all over him long before now.

And if a clown like Steve Bannon was really capable of overthrowing not only the whole national government of the United States of America, but our whole democracy, as well, just think how absolutely rotten and corrupt that overthrown government and democracy would have to be to be overthrown by Steve Bannon, and since Steve Bannon never did overthrow the United States government, I think the concept itself that Steve Bannon could overthrow the United States government as propounded by Congresswoman Luria is absurd and preposterous, BUT, what a powerful distraction that show has turned out to be for the Democrats who staged a SOFT COUP on 6 January 2021, and dealt our Constitution as death blow, as if it were Caesar under the knife of Brutus and his murderous gang of senators, where in our political lexicon, a SOFT COUP, sometimes referred to as a silent coup, is a coup d’état without the use of violence, but based on a conspiracy or plot that has as its objective the taking of state power by partially or wholly legal means, to facilitate an exchange of political leadership and in some cases also of the current institutional order.

Except in this case, the plot, for plot it definitely was, had as its objective the taking of state power by totally unconstitutional means to facilitate an exchange of political leadership as well as a sea change in the current institutional order, as we become a socialist worker’s paradise, as we can see by going back to an article in THE HILL entitled “Pelosi sets up call on election challenge: ‘No situation matches Trump presidency’” by Joseph Choi on 01/03/21, where we had as follows - the head plotter, Nancy Pelosi, discussing the plot with her fellow plotters in the Democrat party, to wit:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a Sunday letter told her Democratic colleagues they would discuss the process for expected challenges to the Electoral College results from House Republicans during a call on Monday.

“Over the years, we have experienced many challenges in the House, but no situation matches the Trump presidency and the Trump disrespect for the will of the people,” Pelosi wrote in her letter.

Pelosi outlined a plan for the Democratic lawmakers as they prepare to certify the Electoral College votes this week.

More than 100 House Republicans are expected to challenge the results of the election in various battleground states, and a dozen Senate Republicans have vowed to do so.

She said the result would end with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being “officially declared the next President and Vice President of the United States,” but acknowledged this declaration might have to take place in “the middle of the night.”

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And how right she was to be on all counts, which is a sign of both a good coup plotter, and a sound coup plan.

And in the meantime, while we are having our attention focused on what was taking place OUTSIDE the House of Representatives chamber on 6 January 2021, the real COUP was taking place INSIDE those very chambers, which is where our attention as LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZENS should really be focused, and thankfully, we have the Cape Charles Mirror to do that questioning in, because sadly, nowhere else in America is it even being considered, let alone actually happening by making direct reference to the Congressional Record for that day, which is the official record of what actually transpired that day in the House of Representatives, not what the Democrats intent on overthrowing our form of Republican government to replace it with ONE-PARTY RULE and a FASCIST system with the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi in charge and their lapdogs in the media say what happened.

Which takes us to this important existential elementary school civics question, to wit:

ON 6 JANUARY 2021, WERE CHALLENGES TO THE COUNTING OF ELECTORAL VOTES PERMITTED BY LAW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

Where the Congressional Research Service, which serves the Congress throughout the legislative process by providing comprehensive and reliable legislative research and analysis that are timely, objective, authoritative, and confidential, thereby contributing to an informed national legislature in its bulletin titled “Counting Electoral Votes: An Overview of Procedures at the Joint Session, Including Objections by Members of Congress” updated December 8, 2020, in the Summary states that “The Constitution and federal law establish a detailed timetable following the presidential election during which time the members of the electoral college convene in the 50 state capitals and in the District of Columbia, cast their votes for President and Vice President, and submit their votes through state officials to both houses of Congress,” and “The electoral votes are scheduled to be opened before a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” and “Federal law specifies the procedures for this session and for challenges to the validity of an electoral vote,” and “This report describes the steps in the process and precedents set in prior presidential elections governing the actions of the House and Senate in certifying the electoral vote and in responding to challenges of the validity of electoral votes,” and in the section “Objecting to the Counting of One or More Electoral Votes” states that “Section 15 establishes a procedure for making and acting on objections to the counting of one or more of the electoral votes from a state or the District of Columbia,” and “When the certificate or equivalent paper from each state or the District of Columbia is read, ‘the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any,'” and “Any such objection must be presented in writing and must be signed by at least one Senator and one Representative,” and “The objection ‘shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof,’” and “When an objection, properly made in writing and endorsed by at least one Senator and one Representative, is received, each house is to meet and consider it separately,” and “The statute states, ‘No votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of,’” was it lawful and proper on 6 January 2021 for Republican members of congress and the Senate to challenge the electoral votes from the state of Arizona on Constitutional grounds?

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