Gunny
01-31-2022, 09:28 AM
Might not be the most popular idea, but I'm all for speeding up the witch hunt. Get it over with NOW. Whether the committee wins or loses at pinning something on him, this dog and pony show is a huge roadblock and distraction to the GOP moving on, with or without Trump. He's not going to go quietly, either way.
The Jan. 6 select committee is on a winning streak. Now comes the hard part.
In the past few weeks, the panel has prevailed against Donald Trump (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/trump-supreme-court-records-527421) at the Supreme Court, obtained pivotal documents (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572) related to the former president’s effort to subvert the 2020 election, secured testimony from the highest levels (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/20/jan-6-panel-ivanka-trump-questioning-527474) of his White House and unearthed explosive texts (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/13/hes-got-to-condemn-this-shit-panel-releases-urgent-jan-6-texts-from-trump-jr-lawmakers-524188) from Trump’s son and top aides. That’s on top of a string (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/25/eastman-jan-6-panel-ruling-00002184) of legal victories against (https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-20-2022/) Trump’s current and former advisers.
The committee’s run of luck was punctuated last week when on three successive days, a federal judge in California delivered rulings in defense of the committee’s efforts and implemented a lightning-fast process (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/26/judge-eastman-speed-documents-00002653) to force attorney John Eastman — a key Trump associate — to begin forking over thousands of pages of emails.
That recent success has heightened the importance of turning lofty expectations for the select panel’s probe into results that are tangible to the public. The committee’s aim, according to its members, is ambitious and twofold: Convince Americans how dramatically the country teetered toward an authoritarian takeover by the former president; then propose policies to prevent a future threat.
“We want the public to understand just how close we came to a very different result and that democracy was in danger,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), one of the committee’s seven Democrats, in a phone interview.
The select panel started work shrouded in worry that Trump and his allies would succeed in stonewalling them. That’s drastically changed amid the firehose of evidence it’s collecting. In fact, House lawyers say they’re discussing deemphasizing some of their court battles against Trump allies because they’ve been obtaining the necessary information from other sources.
“We're talking to so many people. So many witnesses are providing material and providing information,” House General Counsel Doug Letter said in federal court on Friday. “So many times we find, ‘Oh, we just got the information we needed from somebody else.’”
Instead, the biggest challenge for the Capitol riot committee has morphed into crafting a final product that will actually resonate with a polarized and occasionally desensitized electorate, considering the relentless campaign by Trump and his allies to diminish the significance of the insurrection.
continued @ https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/january-6-committee-hot-streak-trump-world-00003368
The Jan. 6 select committee is on a winning streak. Now comes the hard part.
In the past few weeks, the panel has prevailed against Donald Trump (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/trump-supreme-court-records-527421) at the Supreme Court, obtained pivotal documents (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572) related to the former president’s effort to subvert the 2020 election, secured testimony from the highest levels (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/20/jan-6-panel-ivanka-trump-questioning-527474) of his White House and unearthed explosive texts (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/13/hes-got-to-condemn-this-shit-panel-releases-urgent-jan-6-texts-from-trump-jr-lawmakers-524188) from Trump’s son and top aides. That’s on top of a string (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/25/eastman-jan-6-panel-ruling-00002184) of legal victories against (https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-20-2022/) Trump’s current and former advisers.
The committee’s run of luck was punctuated last week when on three successive days, a federal judge in California delivered rulings in defense of the committee’s efforts and implemented a lightning-fast process (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/26/judge-eastman-speed-documents-00002653) to force attorney John Eastman — a key Trump associate — to begin forking over thousands of pages of emails.
That recent success has heightened the importance of turning lofty expectations for the select panel’s probe into results that are tangible to the public. The committee’s aim, according to its members, is ambitious and twofold: Convince Americans how dramatically the country teetered toward an authoritarian takeover by the former president; then propose policies to prevent a future threat.
“We want the public to understand just how close we came to a very different result and that democracy was in danger,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), one of the committee’s seven Democrats, in a phone interview.
The select panel started work shrouded in worry that Trump and his allies would succeed in stonewalling them. That’s drastically changed amid the firehose of evidence it’s collecting. In fact, House lawyers say they’re discussing deemphasizing some of their court battles against Trump allies because they’ve been obtaining the necessary information from other sources.
“We're talking to so many people. So many witnesses are providing material and providing information,” House General Counsel Doug Letter said in federal court on Friday. “So many times we find, ‘Oh, we just got the information we needed from somebody else.’”
Instead, the biggest challenge for the Capitol riot committee has morphed into crafting a final product that will actually resonate with a polarized and occasionally desensitized electorate, considering the relentless campaign by Trump and his allies to diminish the significance of the insurrection.
continued @ https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/january-6-committee-hot-streak-trump-world-00003368