At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net

[Kid Berwyn]

Homing in on the pigeons…

At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net

Luke Broadwater and Mark Mazzetti
Wed, November 10, 2021

WASHINGTON — “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House.

“The truth is going to come out,” said Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.”

In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Trump — including Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joe Biden from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger Stone , a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him.

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The panel has learned details about how “Stop the Steal” rally organizers used deception to obtain permits from the Capitol Police to hold rallies near the Capitol; how Trump and White House officials coordinated with organizers of the rally whose attendees would later storm the Capitol; and how deeply Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was involved in pushing false claims of widespread election fraud.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/willard-white-house-jan-6-125537192.html

I look forward to learning what the Committee learns in regards to “foreknowledge of violence,” especially as it relates to the delayed National Guard response Flynn’s little three star brother was all forgetful about when he was in another war room.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Unlike the 1st 2 impeachments, this is going to be a lot different.

That solid Republican wall is going to crumble when the legal facts dominate.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Court exposes lies, liars, law breakers and worse...

…is all what Putindent Drumpf is about.

[Champp]

9. The Republican #PutindentDrumf betrayed America

And by remaining on their knees and in his intimate embrace, Republican betray America (and the teachings of Christ).

Tragic.

[malaise]

2. These dumb fucks thought they could foment a successful

coup

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Think what could happen if a smart NAZI were in charge?

Hee haw!

[malaise]

7. That he is not

[Turbineguy]

3. I thought there was a point

where Flynn would renovate his honor, but it passed.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Imagine were he to have served 4 years as National Security Advisor?

He thinks he still can (and will). The guy was working to advance Trumputin’s interests. Mueller caught him red handed. Why Congress has let Trump off the hook for treason, I don’t know. Why Barr let him go, IMO, is that he runs Putin.

[Champp]

8. Willard: a First-Cla$$ skankden for Republican TRAITORS

Well-fed and scummy-funded G.O.P. darksiders
cluster together to try and force
THE BIG stinking evil REPUBLICAN LIE
down the throats of the American people.

Bugger off, you treasonsous Republicans, you.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Thank you! Great quote from Ms. Gellhorn.

The Willard was HQ for the workers as the plotters also had operations at Trump International. A fact-filled Who’s Who from the World Socialist Web Site (for some reason, Corporate McPravda has missed this):

Who was who in Trump’s Willard Hotel “war room”?

Jacob Crosse
WSWS.Org, 25 October 2021

On Saturday, two days after the House of Representatives cited Trump’s coup co-conspirator Stephen Bannon for criminal contempt, the Washington Post published a lengthy article summarizing the efforts of Republican operatives operating out of the Willard Hotel to organize the overthrow of the presidential election.

Trump set up a “command center” at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, located less than a block from the White House, where Bannon, along with fellow fascists such as Rudy Giuliani, plotted with Republican federal and state lawmakers, ex-Trump officials and far-right militia leaders in a conspiracy that culminated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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The Willard Hotel cabal underlines the fact that the attack on January 6 was not, as Trump and most Republican officials claim, a “political protest” that got out of hand but rather the result of months of subversion headed up by Trump.

It must also be noted that the Willard “command center” was just one extension of the White House coup plot. A second “war room” was also established at the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. Several people have been identified as having participated in both.

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Philip Luelsdorff

Luelsdorff is the director of Business Development for 1st Amendment Praetorian (1AP), a fascist paramilitary security group that has provided “security” for far-right politicians and fascist rallies, including a QAnon convention this past May in Dallas. The online group @Capitolhunters, which has curated and organized crowd-sourced information regarding the January 6 coup, reported that Luelsdorff’s mother, Baroness von Luelsdorff, claims to be an exiled Russian aristocrat.

The co-founder of the paramilitary group is former US Army Green Beret Robert Patrick Lewis. Lewis has previously served as bodyguard for Trump-aligned figures and has been named by the Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. Lewis was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and in an October 11, 2020 Facebook post he described the 1AP as a “group of military, law enforcement and intelligence community veterans,” who “provide pro bono intelligence and security services to patriotic and religious events.”

1AP provided “security” at several of the rallies leading up to the January 6 attack. On the event permit listed for the November 14 Million MAGA March at Freedom Plaza, which was obtained by Cindy Chafian on behalf of Women for America First, the permit notes that 1AP members would be wearing black T-shirts and serve as “demonstration marshals.” At 2:18 p.m. on January 6, 2021 Lewis’s official Twitter account tweeted: “Today is the day the true battles begin.”

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/26/will-o26.html

Not a commie or a socialist, personally, but I think their philosophies have merit and the WSWS Drumpf coverage and analysis are spot-on. We are dealing with a fascist conspiracy.

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R