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Showing Original Post only (View all)Josh Marshall: The Most Damning Jan 6th Revelation Yet [View all]
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-most-damning-jan-6th-revelation-yetThe Most Damning Jan 6th Revelation Yet
New Emails Show Trump and Eastman Saw the Insurrectionists as the Foot Soldiers of the Coup. They Cheered Them on and Used Them in Real Time.
By Josh Marshall
October 30, 2021 11:58 a.m.
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The Post has emails presumably emerging out of the committee investigation of what happened during the insurrection. As the insurrectionists were storming the Capitol and Pence was holed up in a secure location as they hunted for him and members of Congress, Eastman emailed Pence and his top aide saying that the insurrection was Pences fault for not going through with the coup plot. With the Presidents supporters ransacking the Capitol Eastman demanded Pence shift course and do the right thing.
These exchanges capture something we suspect and know in some way. But here were getting the details, the documentary evidence. Eastman didnt recoil when the Presidents rally escalated to violence. He clearly saw the inside coup plot and the insurrectionists on the street as part of the same effort. This isnt surprising to most of us. The insurrectionists were laying siege to Pence in the Capitol because Pence wasnt going along with the plan. And the answer was to go along with the plan. Eastman recognized the insurrection as the paramilitary wing of the coup plot he was part of and as the Capitol was under siege used it as a cudgel to force Pences hand.
Again, this wont come to a shock to many of us. But here were getting the receipts. At least the first of them. To date the actions of Eastman, the President, his various coconspirators during the hours of the assault on the Capitol have largely been a black box even as weve learned more and more granular detail of the ransacking of the Capitol itself. Weve had brief glimpses in reported accounts. There was the notorious phone call between Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump in which McCarthy demanded Trump call off his insurrectionists. Trump notoriously responded, Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.
In real time, Trumps message was the same as Eastmans. You brought it on yourself and theyre my guys. The way to lift the siege is to do the right thing and support the coup. They both recognized the insurrectionists as their foot soldiers and expressed as much in real time to the members of Congress under siege. And of course they did since they were their foot soldiers.
Its hardly surprising that both Trump and Eastman were cheering on the assault on the Capitol in real time or seeing it in the same terms. They were part of the same war room. They were leading it. Directly or indirectly McCarthy was the source of those quotes from the conversation with the President. It was reportedly anger and expletive filled. Of course he later fell in line. Much of the resistance to the investigation was his effort not to be placed under oath to reveal what happened on that day and the fact that he resisted it.
These are only two glimpses of the real story of January 6th. The Committee seems serious about getting the whole story.
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Trump & Eastman to Pence, "The way to lift the siege is to do the right thing and support the coup."
Botany
Oct 2021
#1
So true. The corporate media seems disappointed the fascist insurrection didn't pan out.
Alexander Of Assyria
Oct 2021
#24
Well said. And Garland is so strong warrants will be issued in a few hours...
Justice matters.
Oct 2021
#31
Think of what a hell hole this country would be right now if these assholes had succeeded
Ohioboy
Oct 2021
#7
"Think of the hell hole it will eventually be if we don't prosecute and convict them."
Botany
Oct 2021
#9
We hung all the people that helped John Wilkes Booth in less then 3 months after Lincoln ....
Botany
Oct 2021
#52
It was Dan Quayle who convinced him he had no power to do what they asked of him.
Grasswire2
Oct 2021
#55
A need to stop the whats taking so long for the DOJ to act whining.
Alexander Of Assyria
Oct 2021
#27
Is Garland delaying things to put the SOB in jail? That is what I am afraid of, Muller was a
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#39
Yep, if they get away with this, they'll get away with whatever is coming in the future.
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#42
They built the lynch mod and sent it to kill congress. They expected far worse violence.
Ford_Prefect
Oct 2021
#45
One thing that is not being talked about enough is the fact that they had prepared transportation
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#37
The same people who rented the busses managed their distribution on the day.
Ford_Prefect
Oct 2021
#48
How many young American lives have been lost in wars to "SAVE OUR COUNTRY OUR WAY OF LIFE"?
usaf-vet
Oct 2021
#44
I'm perplexed - but ultimately relieved, of course - that the insurrectionists...
BobTheSubgenius
Oct 2021
#63