BREAKING: Jan. 6 Committee Cancels Thursday Hearing After Steve Bannon Says He Will Only Testify Live and In Person

[lantern2814]

The DoJ will be handing out indictments any time now . They can mount a defense at that time. In the meantime it is fun watching Republicans eat their own in the congressional hearings.

Any day now. Any day now. Any day now. Any day now........

Keep wishing and failing.

 

[Who_Me?]

Steve Bannon totally ignores his personal hygiene habits.

 

[struth]

Putin has Trump by the stones. Trump was trying to disband NATO for him.

according to nATO trump made it stronger

 

[scruffy]

Oh look, one of the Trump's cult member's thinks it's Stalinism because one of his buddies ignored a lawfull supeona & may now be locked up for breaking the law.

I'm not a Trumpist, you retarded DNC troll.

'Even I" can see what you fucktards are doing, and "even I" am capable of totally kicking your ass for doing it.

 

[Seymour Flops]

his testimony at the committee won’t delay his trial.

It’s being reported he was, but they won’t do it live and public so now they are canceling it

That is what CNN is reporting.

I'm not sure I get the left's defense on this one.

One leftie said "this thread didn't age well," and the amen chorus agreed. The rest has been "Bannon's a liar, so who cares if he testifies!"

Should his agreeing to testify and his offer to testify being rejected affect his trial for contempt of Congress. Well, yes. Duh! How's he gonna be convicted of contempt for refusing to testify based on executive privilege right after agreeing to testify as soon as the executive privilege was waived.

Libs?

 

[Who_Me?]

according to nATO trump made it stronger

Trump threatened to withdraw from NATO.
Donald Trump was considering pulling out of NATO and cutting the US’s alliance with South Korea if he won the 2020 election, according to an account of his private meetings with top aides.

 

[struth]

Trump threatened to withdraw from NATO.
Donald Trump was considering pulling out of NATO and cutting the US’s alliance with South Korea if he won the 2020 election, according to an account of his private meetings with top aides.

you’re links to go to any stories about either point you claim

with that said according to NATO, he made it stronger

 

[Who_Me?]

you’re links to go to any stories about either point you claim

with that said according to NATO, he made it stronger

Because they are factual. Prove your point and don't quote FOX.

 

[struth]

Because they are factual. Prove your point and don't quote FOX.

no i was quoting NAtO General Secretary

 

[Batcat]

Trump threatened to withdraw from NATO.
Donald Trump was considering pulling out of NATO and cutting the US’s alliance with South Korea if he won the 2020 election, according to an account of his private meetings with top aides.

Trump may have considered dropping out of NATO but he ended up doing a lot of good for the organization. Considering what is happening today in Europe, Trump had excellent timing too.

'Trump is having an impact': NATO head credits president's tough talk for $100B boost

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, said Trump is helping the alliance adapt to "a more unpredictable world."

www.usatoday.com

Trump's RIGHT Again! NATO Chief PRAISES Trump Policies!

NATO members commit to spending a minimum of 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Products on defense, but they've been getting away with much less.

www.independentsentinel.com

 

[Innocynioc]

The committee is such an illegitimate partisan kangaroo court that it stinks of deceit.

 

[Rambunctious]

I'm waiting for my congressman to give me the latest tally on the cost of this BS 3rd world monkey trial.....
This could never happen with a fighting GOP... but we have just the opposite....

 

[Who_Me?]

The committee is such an illegitimate partisan kangaroo court that it stinks of deceit.

Yes, all that they have interviewed thus far have been Republicans, so yes, I guess it is partisan.

 

[berg80]

I think that the committee is getting dangerously close to proving that Trump had a major hand in the insurrection so Captain Bone Spurs is orchestrating his fall guy to create a circus like atmosphere at the hearings in an attempt to reduce their credibility and rile up his base because they don't understand what is going on anyway.

Trump definitely thought there was something in writing that silly letter for him. The letter giving Bannon permission to testify that Trump has no authority to bestow. Putting up some kind of smokescreen is a good guess. But Bannon is facing one year for each count of obstruction (2) which explains his motivation to cave, further confusing any nefarious benefit for Don. This looks like Steve looking out for Steve.
HERE'S THE THING TO REMEMBER.
Bannon's testimony is a sideshow having no material impact on what we already know. Here is something that is worthy of attention.

Evidence of firearms in Jan. 6 crowd grows as arrests and trials mount​

Some of the startling revelations of the recent blockbuster Jan. 6 House committee hearing came in snippets of police radio traffic captured during President Donald Trump’s rally on the Ellipse and from Trump’s purported response to being told there were armed protesters just outside a secured area.

The chatter included reports of a man with an AR-15 in a tree on Constitution Avenue who was accompanied by two men with pistols on their hips. Another officer radioed, “I’ve got three men walking down the street in fatigues carrying AR-15s, copy, at 14th and Independence.”
The recordings aired during the June 28 hearing in which former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump reportedly “was angry that we weren’t letting people through the [metal detectors] with weapons.”

The full picture of how many among the crowd were armed before the riot occurred is unclear, but court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters have supplied growing evidence that multiple people brought firearms to Washington for Jan. 6, 2021. Six men were arrested that day for having guns in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh who arrived after the riot ended was arrested the following day. Despite some instances in which alerts about people with guns turned out to be false alarms, accounts from police officers and rioters indicate that many firearms were spotted on Jan. 6 but were not seized as law enforcement focused more on defending the Capitol than on arresting gun-law violators.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/08/jan6-defendants-guns/

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Stevie is still headed to court.

And the J6 committee isn't going to let bannon lie his why thru anything.

So are they going to torture him or something?

 

[berg80]

Challenging an election is not illegal.

Gosh, you're still in denial.

Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump’s 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy​

The hearings should inspire the Justice Department to rethink its approach: A myopic focus on the Jan. 6 riot is not the way to proceed if you are trying to follow the facts where they lead and to hold people “at any level” criminally accountable, as Attorney General Merrick Garland promised.

The evidence gathered in the hearings describes a multiprong conspiracy — what prosecutors term a hub and spoke conspiracy — in which the Ellipse speech by President Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were just one “spoke” of a grander scheme.
This broader approach would avoid the thorny debate that has emerged as to whether Mr. Trump could be criminally culpable for inciting the riot during his Ellipse speech or if, on the contrary, his speech is protected under the First Amendment and the evidence too ambiguous to justify the extraordinary step of indicting a former president. Building a criminal case that looks solely at the riot itself is far more complex legally and factually for those who weren’t at or in the Capitol. These challenges of the current bottom-up approach have led to criticism of the slow pace of the narrow Justice Department approach.

Opinion | Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump’s 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy

The Justice Department needs to rethink its approach.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Nothing Bannon could say will change the facts underling the attempted coup, or his role in it.

so, why call him as a witness?

 

[berg80]

Trump definitely thought there was something in writing that silly letter for him. The letter giving Bannon permission to testify that Trump has no authority to bestow. Putting up some kind of smokescreen is a good guess. But Bannon is facing one year for each count of obstruction (2) which explains his motivation to cave, further confusing any nefarious benefit for Don. This looks like Steve looking out for Steve.
HERE'S THE THING TO REMEMBER.
Bannon's testimony is a sideshow having no material impact on what we already know. Here is something that is worthy of attention.

Evidence of firearms in Jan. 6 crowd grows as arrests and trials mount​

Some of the startling revelations of the recent blockbuster Jan. 6 House committee hearing came in snippets of police radio traffic captured during President Donald Trump’s rally on the Ellipse and from Trump’s purported response to being told there were armed protesters just outside a secured area.

The chatter included reports of a man with an AR-15 in a tree on Constitution Avenue who was accompanied by two men with pistols on their hips. Another officer radioed, “I’ve got three men walking down the street in fatigues carrying AR-15s, copy, at 14th and Independence.”
The recordings aired during the June 28 hearing in which former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump reportedly “was angry that we weren’t letting people through the [metal detectors] with weapons.”

The full picture of how many among the crowd were armed before the riot occurred is unclear, but court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters have supplied growing evidence that multiple people brought firearms to Washington for Jan. 6, 2021. Six men were arrested that day for having guns in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh who arrived after the riot ended was arrested the following day. Despite some instances in which alerts about people with guns turned out to be false alarms, accounts from police officers and rioters indicate that many firearms were spotted on Jan. 6 but were not seized as law enforcement focused more on defending the Capitol than on arresting gun-law violators.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/08/jan6-defendants-guns/

Three men who identified themselves as Trump supporters but did not enter the Capitol on Jan. 6 also were arrested and convicted of gun charges. Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 70, of Falkville, Ala., marched around the Capitol that morning and then wandered away before the riot. But his unoccupied truck attracted police attention because it was on First Street SE, in the area where pipe bombs had been found outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties. While U.S. Capitol Police officers were sweeping the area, they spotted a handgun on the passenger seat of Coffman’s red GMC Sierra 1500.
The police said they searched Coffman’s truck and found 11 Mason jars filled with gasoline and Styrofoam, allegedly to create a napalm-type effect for a Molotov cocktail. In addition to the gasoline-filled Mason jars, which had holes in the lids, with rags and lighters nearby, investigators reported finding a 9mm handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes and camouflage smoke devices. Coffman also was carrying two handguns when he was arrested, authorities said. All the guns were loaded.

 

[berg80]

according to nATO trump made it stronger

I call bullshit.

Europe Needs to Push Back Against Trump

Disastrous and erratic policies demand a stronger response.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[struth]

I call bullshit.

Europe Needs to Push Back Against Trump

Disastrous and erratic policies demand a stronger response.

foreignpolicy.com

WORLD

Donald Trump Era Left NATO Stronger, Baltic Allies Say​

Donald Trump Era Left NATO Stronger, Baltic Allies Say

Top diplomats from NATO's Baltic states said the former president's public belligerence belied the alliance's response to Russian aggression.

www.newsweek.com

NATO Secretary General thanks President Trump for his strong leadership​

NATO Secretary General thanks President Trump for his strong leadership

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited the White House on Tuesday (2 April 2019) for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. The Secretary General thanked President Trump for his strong leadership and commitment to NATO.

www.nato.int

'Trump is having an impact': NATO head credits president's tough talk for $100B boost​

'Trump is having an impact': NATO head credits president's tough talk for $100B boost

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, said Trump is helping the alliance adapt to "a more unpredictable world."

www.usatoday.com