'Toontime: This Week in Trump

Rosemary Woods demonstrates the deletion of the White House tapes--AP

Update: On the first anaversary of the day that 'Merica came very close to loosing democratically elected government, we learn that the right-wing media was also aware of the coup plotting in the White House. Text messages from Sean Hannity, a well-known TV personality at Fox and a Trump apologist, show he had advance knowledge of the "Green Bay Sweep" and shared his concerns with Der Leader about the consequence of the unprecedented effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power that has occurred in this country for over 200 years. The J6 Committee asked the broadcaster to voluntarily appear before it for testimony. In their letter to him, the Committee noted it had dozens of his text messages sent to former chief of staff Mark Meadows that indicated he had "advance knowledge regarding President Trump's and his legal team's planning for January 6th." 

It also appeared to the Committee that Hannity has detailed knowledge of the former guy's state of mind having engaged with him directly before January 6th. The coup leader ignored contemporaneous pleas from his staff and prominent supporters to do something to quell the violence taking place on Capitol Hill According to first hand witnesses, Trump sat in the dinning room off the Oval Office and "gleefully" watched the event unfold on television. Perhaps dear reader you are old enough to remember the infamous 181/2 minute gap in the White House tapes during Watergate. This time, we have 187 minutes of presidential inaction while outnumbered Capitol police fought to hold off Trump's mob.

Attorney General Garland vowed justice will be done to perpetrators of the insurrection regardless of who they are.  The truth is that he used the prestige and influence of his office to manipulate gullible supporters, some of whom may border on mental illness, in an effort to undermine what remains of our democracy. Free speech does not include inciting violence, just as it does not include shouting fire in crowded theater.  For his criminal conduct in office he bears the greater accountability. 

There is no justice until the chief plotter is brought to account before the bar.

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{31.12.21} Now we know that the attempted coup to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States on January 6th had a codename. Peter Navarro, former senior aide to Herr Trumpillini told Daily Beast  that the coordinated effort to install their leader was unimaginatively called, "the Green Bay Sweep"  Clearly, the plotters are football fans, if not democrats. Navarro told reporters he spent time persuading 100 congress members to support the effort to delay counting of the Electoral College ballots so that a constitutional crisis would develop throwing the election into the House of Representatives where cult supporters have a numerical advantage. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) officially signed off on a protest against counting Biden electors, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) provided the required second. Although Navarro admitted the objection had little chance of succeeding, it was intended to delay the proceeding long enough so additional doubt about the election's validity could be raised from swing state governments.  It was also intended to achieve 24 hour television coverage of the concocted dispute.  Navarro's role was to provide grist for the propaganda mill in the form of a three part White House report detailing the alleged election fraud that never existed in reality.

Steve Bannon was to devise a way to utilize the so-called "receipts" from Navarro to delay and subvert the Electoral College count.  It was up to Vice President Pence to run with the ball, to continue their pathetic football analogy.  The only real mystery in all of this is why no one has been indicted for seditious conspiracy or illegally interfering in a federal election.  Navarro also said that Trumpillini was certainly "on board" with the Sweep, as evidenced by his remarks to the mob on the Ellipse.  Navarro insists that no violence was intended, but it did occur thanks to incitement by their putsch leader. Perhaps the fact that one hundred congress members were willing to support Trump's insanity has scared the Department of Justice into complete submission.  The degree of impunity displayed by plotters is obvious.  Meanwhile, Bannon is turning his criminal prosecution for contempt of Congress into a one-man discovery expedition bent on smearing Democrats with charges of politically motivated prosecution.  Who said the best defense is always an offense?

The J6 Committee has requested testimony from two Repugnant representatives, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.  Navarro has yet to be called to a hearing.  James Waldron was subpoenaed by the Committee to appear and provide documents.  Waldron was involved in the efforts to delay the counting of votes by briefing Congress members on election fraud theories, contributing to a power point presentation, and visiting the White House to discuss plot details with chief of staff Mark Meadows, "eight to ten times" according to press reports.

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