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January 22, 2022
One Hundred Amazing Things Biden and the Democrats Did in One Year! GNR
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Saturday January 22, 2022 · 7:00 AM EST
It is easy to focus on the things that did not get done (yet) and it is important to keep fighting for those things.
But Biden and the Democrats have gotten an enormous amount of great things done this year!
Check out 100 of them! Share it with your friends! Post it in your social media! Sing it from the tree tops!
1. Democrats are running a real and important investigation into January 6th
This investigation is being done so well. There are so many articles I could put here. I’ll just grab a couple. This is huge, important work.
The Jan. 6 select panel has started receiving documents from former President Donald Trump’s White House.
2. Biden got the US is back in the UN Human Rights Council
Remember when we were such an embarrassment that we weren’t even allowed to weigh in on other country’s human rights? Who changed that? Democrats.
3. Biden expanded wind farms
Biden has been working behind the scenes to make huge changes in energy production. This is one outcome.
Biden administration announces plans for massive expansion of wind farms off US coasts
4. Biden reduced Covid with vaccine mandates
Biden took a potential hit and a lot of anger for his vaccine mandates. Guess what? They work and are getting us closer to ending this nightmare.
Faced with losing their jobs, even the most hesitant are getting vaccinated
5. Biden’s smart actions saved us from a shipping disaster
lots more...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/22/2075978/-One-Hundred-Amazing-Things-Biden-and-the-Democrats-Did-in-One-Year-GNR
One Hundred Amazing Things Biden and the Democrats Did in One Year! GNR
One Hundred Amazing Things Biden and the Democrats Did in One Year! GNR
GoodNewsRoundup
Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Saturday January 22, 2022 · 7:00 AM EST
It is easy to focus on the things that did not get done (yet) and it is important to keep fighting for those things.
But Biden and the Democrats have gotten an enormous amount of great things done this year!
Check out 100 of them! Share it with your friends! Post it in your social media! Sing it from the tree tops!
1. Democrats are running a real and important investigation into January 6th
This investigation is being done so well. There are so many articles I could put here. I’ll just grab a couple. This is huge, important work.
The Jan. 6 select panel has started receiving documents from former President Donald Trump’s White House.
The Jan. 6 select committee has started receiving documents from former President Donald Trump’s White House. So far, that includes at least four notable items, according to a person familiar with the document production: two drafts of tweets Trump ultimately sent on Jan. 5, a legal memo and a note that was handwritten on White House stationery.
The documents suggest that the committee will get a wide variety of materials – some of which may be quotidian.
The documents suggest that the committee will get a wide variety of materials – some of which may be quotidian.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again:
We’re not messing around here.
People with relevant information to our investigation into January 6 must comply with lawful subpoenas.
If they don’t, we will use all the tools at our disposal — including criminal contempt.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 14, 2021
We’re not messing around here.
People with relevant information to our investigation into January 6 must comply with lawful subpoenas.
If they don’t, we will use all the tools at our disposal — including criminal contempt.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 14, 2021
2. Biden got the US is back in the UN Human Rights Council
Remember when we were such an embarrassment that we weren’t even allowed to weigh in on other country’s human rights? Who changed that? Democrats.
The United States has been elected back onto the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after the Trump admin's withdrawal.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 15, 2021
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 15, 2021
3. Biden expanded wind farms
Biden has been working behind the scenes to make huge changes in energy production. This is one outcome.
Biden administration announces plans for massive expansion of wind farms off US coasts
The Biden administration is planning to aggressively expand offshore wind energy capacity in the United States, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore lease sales by 2025.
The move was announced Wednesday by US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and first reported by The New York Times.
Haaland said the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is exploring leasing sales along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, the central Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the Carolinas, California and Oregon.
The administration in March announced a coordinated effort to bolster offshore wind energy projects in the United States in order to jump-start a "clean energy revolution."
As part of that initiative, which spans multiple government agencies, the Departments of the Interior, Energy and Commerce committed to a shared goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind in the US by 2030. The Interior Department estimates that reaching that goal would create nearly 80,000 jobs.
The move was announced Wednesday by US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and first reported by The New York Times.
Haaland said the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is exploring leasing sales along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, the central Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the Carolinas, California and Oregon.
The administration in March announced a coordinated effort to bolster offshore wind energy projects in the United States in order to jump-start a "clean energy revolution."
As part of that initiative, which spans multiple government agencies, the Departments of the Interior, Energy and Commerce committed to a shared goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind in the US by 2030. The Interior Department estimates that reaching that goal would create nearly 80,000 jobs.
4. Biden reduced Covid with vaccine mandates
Biden took a potential hit and a lot of anger for his vaccine mandates. Guess what? They work and are getting us closer to ending this nightmare.
Faced with losing their jobs, even the most hesitant are getting vaccinated
In the quest to get more Americans vaccinated, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: Vaccine mandates work.
Nowhere is that more apparent than at United Airlines. On Aug. 6, United became the first U.S. airline to tell its workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they wanted to keep their jobs.
The company says 99.5% of United employees have been vaccinated, not counting the roughly 2,000 who have applied for religious or medical exemptions. Elsewhere, other employers also report success with mandates. Tyson Foods, New York City schools, major hospital systems in Maine and the NBA are among those with vaccination rates topping 90%.
Nowhere is that more apparent than at United Airlines. On Aug. 6, United became the first U.S. airline to tell its workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they wanted to keep their jobs.
The company says 99.5% of United employees have been vaccinated, not counting the roughly 2,000 who have applied for religious or medical exemptions. Elsewhere, other employers also report success with mandates. Tyson Foods, New York City schools, major hospital systems in Maine and the NBA are among those with vaccination rates topping 90%.
5. Biden’s smart actions saved us from a shipping disaster
lots more...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/22/2075978/-One-Hundred-Amazing-Things-Biden-and-the-Democrats-Did-in-One-Year-GNR
January 21, 2022
‘Bizarre and Upsetting’: Two Men Carry Corpse Into Post Office in Bid for Dead Man’s Pension
WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S
The pair dropped the body and fled once they realized their jig was up.
Corbin Bolies
Breaking News Intern
Published Jan. 21, 2022 6:12PM ET
Two men went into a local post office in Ireland on Friday to try and make a quick buck off a dead man’s pension—and, naturally, they brought the body with them.
In an incident almost eerily reminiscent of Weekend at Bernie’s, one man initially tried to enter Hosey’s shop and post office in the Irish town of Carlow to claim the pension on behalf of another man. He was told no, and he later returned with two other men—one breathing, one not—to claim the payment, according to the Irish Times.
The post office staff was then alerted by a suspicious customer that the man may not be conscious, prompting the staff to refuse the request and call the Gardaí, the Irish police force. Once the men realized their jig was up, they dropped the body and fled. The elderly man, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene.
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-irish-men-tried-to-steal-dead-mens-pensionwith-his-body-in-tow?ref=home
'Bizarre and Upsetting': Two Men Carry Corpse Into Post Office in Bid for Dead Man's Pension
‘Bizarre and Upsetting’: Two Men Carry Corpse Into Post Office in Bid for Dead Man’s Pension
WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S
The pair dropped the body and fled once they realized their jig was up.
Corbin Bolies
Breaking News Intern
Published Jan. 21, 2022 6:12PM ET
Two men went into a local post office in Ireland on Friday to try and make a quick buck off a dead man’s pension—and, naturally, they brought the body with them.
In an incident almost eerily reminiscent of Weekend at Bernie’s, one man initially tried to enter Hosey’s shop and post office in the Irish town of Carlow to claim the pension on behalf of another man. He was told no, and he later returned with two other men—one breathing, one not—to claim the payment, according to the Irish Times.
The post office staff was then alerted by a suspicious customer that the man may not be conscious, prompting the staff to refuse the request and call the Gardaí, the Irish police force. Once the men realized their jig was up, they dropped the body and fled. The elderly man, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene.
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-irish-men-tried-to-steal-dead-mens-pensionwith-his-body-in-tow?ref=home
January 21, 2022
Jan. 6 Panel Obtains Bombshell Draft Executive Order for Trump to Seize Vote Machines
MINDLESS MADNESS
Corbin Bolies
Breaking News Intern
Updated Jan. 21, 2022 4:46PM ET /
Jan. 6 Panel Obtains Bombshell Draft Executive Order for Trump to Seize Vote Machines
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-panel-gets-its-hands-on-bombshell-draft-executive-order-for-trump-to-seize-vote-machines?ref=homeJan. 6 Panel Obtains Bombshell Draft Executive Order for Trump to Seize Vote Machines
MINDLESS MADNESS
Corbin Bolies
Breaking News Intern
Updated Jan. 21, 2022 4:46PM ET /
The House Jan. 6 committee has obtained a bombshell December 2020 draft executive order that, if Donald Trump had signed it, would have allowed him to order the federal government to seize voting machines and appoint a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election. It’s unclear who wrote the document and whether it was presented to Trump. However, the draft order, obtained and published by Politico, was among the documents Trump’s lawyers had tried to withhold from the committee. It also mimics the language that Trump advisers Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, and Patrick Byrne presented to Trump in a previously reported Oval Office meeting in December 2020 in which they discussed overturning the election result by any means necessary. Another document detailed a speech Trump never gave on the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which he would have forcefully condemned the rioters and ordered the Justice Department to prosecute them. Instead, Trump expressed his sympathy for them.
January 21, 2022
Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.
By Jane Mayer
January 21, 2022
snip//
The claim that the Justices’ opinions are politically neutral is becoming increasingly hard to accept, especially from Thomas, whose wife, Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, is a vocal right-wing activist. She has declared that America is in existential danger because of the “deep state” and the “fascist left,” which includes “transsexual fascists.” Thomas, a lawyer who runs a small political-lobbying firm, Liberty Consulting, has become a prominent member of various hard-line groups. Ginni Thomas’s political activism has caused controversy for years. For the most part, it has been dismissed as the harmless action of an independent spouse. But now the Court appears likely to secure victories for her allies in a number of highly polarizing cases—on abortion, affirmative action, and gun rights.
Many Americans first became aware of Ginni Thomas’s activism on January 6, 2021. That morning, before the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., turned into an assault on the Capitol resulting in the deaths of at least five people, she cheered on the supporters of President Donald Trump who had gathered to overturn Biden’s election. In a Facebook post that went viral, she linked to a news item about the protest, writing, “LOVE MAGA people!!!!” Shortly afterward, she posted about Ronald Reagan’s famous “A Time for Choosing” speech. Her next status update said, “GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING.” Two days after the insurrection, she added a disclaimer to her feed, noting that she’d written the posts “before violence in US Capitol.” (The posts are no longer public.)
snip//
For lawyers involved in cases before the Supreme Court, it can be deeply disturbing to know that Ginni Thomas is an additional opponent. In 2019, David Dinielli, the visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, was a deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had submitted an amicus brief in a gay-rights case before the Court. He told me he was acutely aware that Ginni Thomas and other members of the Council for National Policy loathed the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks right-wing hate groups. In 2017, C.N.P. Action directed its members to “commit to issuing one new post on Facebook and Twitter each week about the Southern Poverty Law Center to discredit them.” In Thomas’s leaked 2018 speech to the Council for National Policy, she denounced the S.P.L.C. for calling the Family Research Council—which is militantly opposed to L.G.B.T.Q. rights—a hate group.
For Dinielli, the idea that a Justice’s spouse belonged to a group that had urged its members to repeatedly attack his organization was “counter to everything you’d expect if you want to get a fair shake” before the Court. He explained, “These activities aren’t just political. They’re aimed at raising up or denigrating actors specifically in front of the Supreme Court. She’s one step away from holding up a sign in front of her husband saying ‘This person is a pedophile.’ ”
Dinielli went on, “The Justices sit literally above where the lawyers are. For these people to do the job they were tasked with, they have to maintain that level. But this degrades it, mocks it, and threatens it.” He warned, “Since the Court doesn’t have an army, it relies on how it behaves to command respect. Once the veneer cracks, it’s very hard to get it back.” ?
Jane Mayer: Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-courtIs Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.
By Jane Mayer
January 21, 2022
snip//
The claim that the Justices’ opinions are politically neutral is becoming increasingly hard to accept, especially from Thomas, whose wife, Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, is a vocal right-wing activist. She has declared that America is in existential danger because of the “deep state” and the “fascist left,” which includes “transsexual fascists.” Thomas, a lawyer who runs a small political-lobbying firm, Liberty Consulting, has become a prominent member of various hard-line groups. Ginni Thomas’s political activism has caused controversy for years. For the most part, it has been dismissed as the harmless action of an independent spouse. But now the Court appears likely to secure victories for her allies in a number of highly polarizing cases—on abortion, affirmative action, and gun rights.
Many Americans first became aware of Ginni Thomas’s activism on January 6, 2021. That morning, before the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., turned into an assault on the Capitol resulting in the deaths of at least five people, she cheered on the supporters of President Donald Trump who had gathered to overturn Biden’s election. In a Facebook post that went viral, she linked to a news item about the protest, writing, “LOVE MAGA people!!!!” Shortly afterward, she posted about Ronald Reagan’s famous “A Time for Choosing” speech. Her next status update said, “GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING.” Two days after the insurrection, she added a disclaimer to her feed, noting that she’d written the posts “before violence in US Capitol.” (The posts are no longer public.)
snip//
For lawyers involved in cases before the Supreme Court, it can be deeply disturbing to know that Ginni Thomas is an additional opponent. In 2019, David Dinielli, the visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, was a deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had submitted an amicus brief in a gay-rights case before the Court. He told me he was acutely aware that Ginni Thomas and other members of the Council for National Policy loathed the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks right-wing hate groups. In 2017, C.N.P. Action directed its members to “commit to issuing one new post on Facebook and Twitter each week about the Southern Poverty Law Center to discredit them.” In Thomas’s leaked 2018 speech to the Council for National Policy, she denounced the S.P.L.C. for calling the Family Research Council—which is militantly opposed to L.G.B.T.Q. rights—a hate group.
For Dinielli, the idea that a Justice’s spouse belonged to a group that had urged its members to repeatedly attack his organization was “counter to everything you’d expect if you want to get a fair shake” before the Court. He explained, “These activities aren’t just political. They’re aimed at raising up or denigrating actors specifically in front of the Supreme Court. She’s one step away from holding up a sign in front of her husband saying ‘This person is a pedophile.’ ”
Dinielli went on, “The Justices sit literally above where the lawyers are. For these people to do the job they were tasked with, they have to maintain that level. But this degrades it, mocks it, and threatens it.” He warned, “Since the Court doesn’t have an army, it relies on how it behaves to command respect. Once the veneer cracks, it’s very hard to get it back.” ?
January 21, 2022
Eric Boehlert: Biden's getting doomsday press -- just like Obama did
Biden's getting doomsday press — just like Obama did
Here we go again
Eric Boehlert
2 hr ago
It wouldn’t be surprising if President Joe Biden felt a strong sense of déjà vu as he marked his first year in office and the D.C. press eagerly writes him off as a failure buried by a mountain of crises, while at the same time erasing his accomplishments. (Record job gains, ending the Forever War.) Reading from GOP talking points, journalists remain in hyperventilation mode, obsessively detailing Biden’s soft polling numbers while loudly — and falsely —claiming he can’t get his key legislative initiatives passed into law.
Biden’s lurking sense of been-here-before would be driven by the fact that as Barack Obama’s vice president, he watched the same media story play out under a different Democratic administration. Hounded by a D.C. press corps that was often obsessed with tagging Obama as a failure, depicting him as overwhelmed and outsmarted by Republicans, and occasionally just losing its mind over relatively minor unfolding stories (remember Ebola and the glitchy Obamacare website?), the press misjudged one of the most successful and popular presidents of the last half century.
Today, the Beltway media remains in groupthink mode (CNN headline: “Is Biden's Presidency Doomed?”), with everyone eagerly hitting the same points regardless of the facts. "For now, virtually none of the groups that fueled Biden’s 2020 victory are happy,” the Associated Press recently reported, despite the fact that polling shows 80-plus percent of Democratic voters approve of Biden’s performance in office.
The Washington Post published a long obituary on Biden’s presidency this week, casting his first year in office as a failure. (“Disarray,” “tensions,” “worry,” “stumbled.”) Left unmentioned in the article’s 43 paragraphs was the fact that a record 6.4 million new jobs have been created since Biden took office, and that the U.S. now enjoys full employment with workers earning all-time high wages.
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https://pressrun.media/p/bidens-getting-doomsday-press-just
January 21, 2022
Sean Hannity Sent Kayleigh McEnany A Post-Riot ‘Playbook,’ Newly Released Texts Show
The Fox News personality messaged the then-White House press secretary with a “five point approach for conversations” with Trump after the violence.
Lee Moran
01/21/2022 05:43am EST | Updated 20 minutes ago
Fox News’ Sean Hannity sent then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany a plan to handle then-President Donald Trump the day after the deadly U.S. Capitol riot, according to newly released text messages.
Hannity messaged McEnany on Jan. 7, 2021, with a “five point approach for conversations” with Trump, according to a letter that the House committee investigating the Trump-incited violence released on Thursday. The letter, directed at daughter Ivanka Trump, asked her to submit to questioning by the panel.
The first two items on Hannity’s plan of action read:
1- No more stolen election talk
2- Yes, impeachment and 25th amendment are real, and many people will quit…
The letter did not reveal the third through fifth points.
McEnany responded: “Love that. Thank you. That is the playbook. I will help reinforce,” per the committee.
Advertisement
Hannity told McEnany it was “key” that “no more crazy people” were allowed access to the then-president.
“Yes 100%,” McEnany, who is now a host on the conservative network, replied.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sean-hannity-jan-6-texts-kayleigh-mcenany_n_61ea74f7e4b0c24d4dd43f70
Sean Hannity Sent Kayleigh McEnany A Post-Riot 'Playbook,' Newly Released Texts Show
Sean Hannity Sent Kayleigh McEnany A Post-Riot ‘Playbook,’ Newly Released Texts Show
The Fox News personality messaged the then-White House press secretary with a “five point approach for conversations” with Trump after the violence.
Lee Moran
01/21/2022 05:43am EST | Updated 20 minutes ago
Fox News’ Sean Hannity sent then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany a plan to handle then-President Donald Trump the day after the deadly U.S. Capitol riot, according to newly released text messages.
Hannity messaged McEnany on Jan. 7, 2021, with a “five point approach for conversations” with Trump, according to a letter that the House committee investigating the Trump-incited violence released on Thursday. The letter, directed at daughter Ivanka Trump, asked her to submit to questioning by the panel.
The first two items on Hannity’s plan of action read:
1- No more stolen election talk
2- Yes, impeachment and 25th amendment are real, and many people will quit…
The letter did not reveal the third through fifth points.
McEnany responded: “Love that. Thank you. That is the playbook. I will help reinforce,” per the committee.
Advertisement
Hannity told McEnany it was “key” that “no more crazy people” were allowed access to the then-president.
“Yes 100%,” McEnany, who is now a host on the conservative network, replied.
more...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sean-hannity-jan-6-texts-kayleigh-mcenany_n_61ea74f7e4b0c24d4dd43f70
January 21, 2022
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/21/fbi-raid-on-democrats-home-part-of-azerbaijan-probe/
FBI Raid on Democrat’s Home Part of Azerbaijan Probe
January 21, 2022 at 6:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard
FBI Raid on Democrat's Home Part of Azerbaijan Probe
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/21/fbi-raid-on-democrats-home-part-of-azerbaijan-probe/
FBI Raid on Democrat’s Home Part of Azerbaijan Probe
January 21, 2022 at 6:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard
“The FBI on Wednesday raided Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar’s home and campaign office in Texas as part of a wide-ranging federal probe relating to the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan and several U.S. businessmen,” ABC News reports.
“A federal grand jury in Washington is investigating the matter, but it’s unclear if Cuellar is a target of the grand jury’s probe.”
“A federal grand jury in Washington is investigating the matter, but it’s unclear if Cuellar is a target of the grand jury’s probe.”
January 21, 2022
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans Hearing
Annie Get Your Gun
The North Carolina Republican lived up to his claim to fame on Wednesday of being the youngest current member of Congress.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jan. 20, 2022 6:08PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2022 3:00PM ET
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee took Wednesday as an opportunity to hold a virtual hearing on how toxic chemicals are killing U.S. soldiers. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took the hearing as an opportunity to clean his gun.
Cawthorn, the youngest current member of Congress, fiddled with his black pistol while one witness explained how university medical researchers could help the government examine how burn pits are harming military service members.
“It was immature. He’s a child. He lacks common sense. I think the congressman was overcompensating for something that he lacks and feeling inadequate among the heroes on that call,” said John Feal, a 9/11 first responder who was at the virtual meeting.
Feal was one of at least two people at the Veterans’ Affairs meeting who noticed what Cawthorn was doing. Both were infuriated. But the general public couldn’t see it, because the two-hour virtual hearing was held over Zoom—which meant that those tuning in could only see the person speaking.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/madison-cawthorn-cleans-gun-during-veterans-affairs-hearing?ref=home
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans Hearing
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans Hearing
Annie Get Your Gun
The North Carolina Republican lived up to his claim to fame on Wednesday of being the youngest current member of Congress.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jan. 20, 2022 6:08PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2022 3:00PM ET
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee took Wednesday as an opportunity to hold a virtual hearing on how toxic chemicals are killing U.S. soldiers. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took the hearing as an opportunity to clean his gun.
Cawthorn, the youngest current member of Congress, fiddled with his black pistol while one witness explained how university medical researchers could help the government examine how burn pits are harming military service members.
“It was immature. He’s a child. He lacks common sense. I think the congressman was overcompensating for something that he lacks and feeling inadequate among the heroes on that call,” said John Feal, a 9/11 first responder who was at the virtual meeting.
Feal was one of at least two people at the Veterans’ Affairs meeting who noticed what Cawthorn was doing. Both were infuriated. But the general public couldn’t see it, because the two-hour virtual hearing was held over Zoom—which meant that those tuning in could only see the person speaking.
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/madison-cawthorn-cleans-gun-during-veterans-affairs-hearing?ref=home
January 20, 2022
Posted on Thu, Jan 20th, 2022 by Jason Easley
1/6 Committee Is Already Getting Documents That Trump Tried To Hide
Thanks to the Supreme Court rejecting his executive privilege claim, the 1/6 Committee is already getting documents that Trump tried to hide.
After the SCOTUS ruling, the Committee tweeted:
https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1483976803849015297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1483976803849015297%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicususa.com%2F%3Fp%3D382767
Trump is trying to run Liz Cheney out of the Republican Party, and she is going to have access to over 700 pages of possibly incriminating documents that Trump tried to hide.
Donald Trump lost at the Supreme Court for the same reason that he lost the case in the lower courts. He could not provide any reason why the documents should be hidden from public view. It turns out that wanting to hide information from investigators because it is bad for you is not a valid legal argument.
The Committee probably had a lot of the information in those documents from witness testimony, but the docs represent physical proof of what Trump was doing and what was happening at the White House before, during, and after the Capitol attack.
The 1/6 investigation has taken a huge leap forward, and Trump’s idea of executive privilege for life was crushed by the Supreme Court.
1/6 Committee Is Already Getting Documents That Trump Tried To Hide
https://www.politicususa.com/2022/01/20/1-6-committee-is-already-getting-documents-that-trump-tried-to-hide.htmlPosted on Thu, Jan 20th, 2022 by Jason Easley
1/6 Committee Is Already Getting Documents That Trump Tried To Hide
Thanks to the Supreme Court rejecting his executive privilege claim, the 1/6 Committee is already getting documents that Trump tried to hide.
After the SCOTUS ruling, the Committee tweeted:
https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1483976803849015297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1483976803849015297%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicususa.com%2F%3Fp%3D382767
Trump is trying to run Liz Cheney out of the Republican Party, and she is going to have access to over 700 pages of possibly incriminating documents that Trump tried to hide.
Donald Trump lost at the Supreme Court for the same reason that he lost the case in the lower courts. He could not provide any reason why the documents should be hidden from public view. It turns out that wanting to hide information from investigators because it is bad for you is not a valid legal argument.
The Committee probably had a lot of the information in those documents from witness testimony, but the docs represent physical proof of what Trump was doing and what was happening at the White House before, during, and after the Capitol attack.
The 1/6 investigation has taken a huge leap forward, and Trump’s idea of executive privilege for life was crushed by the Supreme Court.
January 20, 2022
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
January 19, 2022 at 5:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 82 Comments
"...What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they're for."
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/19/extra-bonus-quote-of-the-day-685/Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
January 19, 2022 at 5:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 82 Comments
“I did not anticipate that there’d be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn’t get anything done. Think about this: What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they’re for.”
— President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post.
— President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post.
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