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Washington Post: They called it the command center, a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trumps most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with one goal in mind: overturning the results of the 2020 election.
The Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse and the ensuing attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob would draw the worlds attention to the quest to physically block Congress from affirming Joe Bidens victory. But the activities at the Willard that week add to an emerging picture of a less visible effort, mapped out in memos by a conservative pro-Trump legal scholar and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers seeking to pull off what they claim was a legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term.
https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/23/willard-hotel-was-insurrection-command-center/
Updated to add:
Kerik said his firm billed the Trump campaign more than $55,000 for rooms for the legal team. ...
The three people familiar with the operation described intense work in the days and hours leading up to and even extending beyond 1 p.m. on Jan 6, ...
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Lovie777
(12,755 posts)although majority know what happened, but alas, proof and evidence needs to be secured.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)right out what they know regarding who, what, where, and why -- one goal: overturning the election.
dem4decades
(11,372 posts)BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)and they will try again.
kentuck
(111,242 posts)Planned and paid for by Donald Trump and his associates.
Trump could never concede. He could never say he lost. So he made up a big lie to "prove" that he won and the cult bought into it.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,864 posts)I'd lean more toward paid for by Vlad Putin and his associates, but other than that...
cilla4progress
(24,946 posts)Is proof of a link up with Proud Boys etc outside.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)Roger Stone who was at the Willard. DOJ knows this.
EleanorR
(2,419 posts)gab13by13
(22,022 posts)I like Cheney's definition a lot better, "War Room."
niyad
(114,907 posts)jmbar2
(5,028 posts)A room full of rats. I hope that they eat each other.
calimary
(81,981 posts)I hope that same thing: that they wind up eating each other.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(109,360 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but unless they're trying for a group insanity defense they really need to ditch the "legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term explanation.
KS Toronado
(17,844 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)About what it would have taken for this little caper to succeed. They had to have had some plan to achieve success, right? Otherwise, why bother?
I believe multiple elected officials would have to have been killed for this plan to succeed. I believe the planners wanted some of their opponents gone, for good. They wanted the crowd all heated up, and looking for blood. The rioters get blamed, and the coup planners waltz in, and heal the divided nation.
The planners must be prosecuted and imprisoned.
KS Toronado
(17,844 posts)in order to declare Martial law and reform our government in his image. No doubt in my mind that they
wanted to see blood Jan 6th to accomplish their goals. Yes the planners need to be in jail for a long time.
spanone
(136,216 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,442 posts)..he not only lead the effort--gave orders as to what ensued up to and incl. Jan 6 and now ffg is obstructing investigation that really only comes to one conclusion--as you said..he [odioustraitor#45] WAS the ring leader. He lead the coup d'etat, insurrection that killed 5 people that day, where hundreds were injured. Cheney's comments raised eyebrows --suggested where the investigation is leading bc all evidence points to mffg, his sycophants incl., some members of GOP. It will not surprise me that next supeona will have his name stamped on it.
Note: see excerpt/video provided below of Cheney's comments during recent Jan 6 committee hearing. Also, at said meeting Cheney goes on to remind GOP of their constitutional duty [ later we found that 8 members incl Cheney voted with Dems to supeona Bannon, the remainder of Republican House cowered to fg.]
"Mr. Bannon's and Mr. Trump's privilege arguments do appear to reveal one thing, however: they suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th," Cheney
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/20/politics/liz-cheney-trump-bannon-january-6/index.html&ved=2ahUKEwj3qrre6uDzAhW4IjQIHTgaDVQQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0fZz4_ikZjzFHn7gxPwA4i&cf=1
ancianita
(36,511 posts)they'd declare that they got pitched by the planners, or that they had been fooled and had nothing to do with the crime itself.
Who paid the conservative pro-Trump legal scholar; who paid for the team of presidential advisers and lawyers -- private orgs or taxpayers?
Link to tweet
NullTuples
(6,017 posts):: eye roll :: at the media for not making all this really clear to the public.
Orrex
(63,428 posts)Some are being held in jail for up to 18 minutes and fined seven dollars.
We can be sure that theyll think twice before insurrectioning again.
brooklynite
(95,558 posts)why wouldn't they book rooms at Trump's hotel?
Grasswire2
(13,589 posts)They hoped not to be noticed while criming.
And Trump hotel was constantly under surveillance by media and -- perhaps -- by LEO.
Grasswire2
(13,589 posts)Grasswire2
(13,589 posts)Who, incidentally, gets beat up on DU regularly.
Ferryboat
(934 posts)has not gotten the recognition his writing deserves. He has the photos placing key individuals in the hotel. From the proud boys to various administration officials with a smattering of 2 bit players.
Everyone is playing catch up with this story. He is way ahead on reporting this.
Grasswire2
(13,589 posts)Some are asking why MSM dropped the ball on this.
Why did media not have stake-out at the Willard once they saw some of these players coming and going??
Why were they not beating the bushes for sources?
cilla4progress
(24,946 posts)Link to tweet
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DET
(1,389 posts)I want to know who the several Senators are. We can speculate, but we dont know. These people need to be forcibly removed. On a separate note, I find it deeply disturbing that a degenerate low life like Trump was allowed to desecrate one of the most beautiful, iconic buildings in DC.