Tuesday, July 12, 2022

More Jan. 6 Hearings!

Oath Keepers heard the former president's call to arms.

A former member of the Oath Keepers will testify today at the Jan. 6 Committee hearing. The hearing is dealing with the former president and his ties to far right extremists. The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was inspired by Washed Up 45. He whipped up a mob to overturn democracy.

Upset over his loss, the former president went to social media and cable news to promote the big lie.

The former president urged supporters to "fight like hell" and not show weakness.

Conservatives are hoping to distract from the hearing to focus on President Joe Biden. As I am posting, the noise is complaining about Dr. Jill Biden, the First Lady of the United States mentioning "breakfast tacos" for Pete's sake. 

The president signed a gun reform bill, gas prices are dropping, inflation seems to be cooling off, a good jobs report and debt is down. Yet, we're talking about polls, tacos, and who will run in 2024 as the Democratic nominee if Biden decides not to run.

All noise.

Distractions from real issues like the Supreme Court trying to rollback rights. 

Ignore the noise.

Vote.

The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege convenes Tuesday for a public hearing probing what it calls the final phase of Washed Up 45’s multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden’s victory. As dozens of lawsuits and false claims of voter fraud fizzled, the former president tweeted the rally invitation, a pivotal moment, the committee said. The far-right Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others now facing criminal charges readily answered.

“We will lay out the body of evidence that we have that talks about how the president’s tweet on the wee hours of December 19th of ‘Be there, be wild,’ was a siren call to these folks,” said one panel member, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., over the weekend on “Meet the Press.” In fact, the former president tweeted, “Be there, will be wild!”

Among those expected to testify is Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty last month to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building. He admitted that on Jan. 2, 2021, he posted an image stating that former president was “calling on us to come back to Washington on January 6th for a big protest.” Another witness is Jason Van Tatenhove, an ally of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. The witnesses were confirmed by someone familiar with the testimony who spoke on condition of anonymity because the witnesses had not yet been announced.

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