A lot has happened since the January 6 committee started broadcasting their meetings nationally instead of just on CSPAN or whatever. Let’s recap some of the highlights.
Just before the first hearing was aired, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans would release their own report on what happened on Jan. 6 because the select committee was unreliable and politically-driven. Oh, and what about all the other issues going on, like Ukraine and gas prices? Democrats should focus on them instead of a minor issue that happened so long ago that it’s not important any more.
Okay, but will the report be released before or after Republicans finally get around to releasing all of the evidence about the voter fraud they keep insisting is there?
The Donald whines about how unfair the J6 committee is being to him and why isn’t anyone on it to defend him?
- Republican leaders thought that if they didn’t participate, it would fall flat on its face.
- Some candidates were rejected because the committee wanted to avoid having to possibly call on them to testify in the hearings. Awkward…
- McCarthy takes his ball and goes home, resulting in no FOTDs being on the committee where they could have stalled and impeded the investigation.
- 1 + 2 + 3 = the J6 committee becomes more effective in their efforts. The effectiveness increases when the hearings include testimony from a boatload of Republicans, including members of Trump’s family.
- When Ivanka Trump testified that she supported what former Attorney General Bill Bar said about the election because she respected him, the conspiracy theories flew about how he had corrupted her because her testimony didn’t support what The Donald has been saying.
Amongst what the J6 committee showed is that even though over $250 million has been donated to Trump’s “Official Election Defense Fund”, no such organization exists. More people are starting to be clued into how big the scope of his grift is.
Because Trump is So Fond of Using capital Letters for Emphasis, “Election Defense Fund” becomes the formal name of an organization. If he had said, “donate to our election defense fund”, that would have been a general description instead of a name.
Troth Senchal, as The Donald called it when he fumbled over saying the name of his own social media site (“Troth… Truth Senchal”), has been floundering from the day it launched. Barely worked on the iOS app, no Android app, no web browser access, and a broken registration process that created a list of over a million people stuck waiting for access for weeks.
He immediately gave up on it and didn’t post anything after his initial “get ready for the launch”-type message. They finally got web browser access, but still no Android app five months later. Pro tip: When you’re trying to launch a multimedia empire that you boast will be more popular than Facebook and Twitter, you’ll do better if you don’t make a programmer’s political affiliation a requirement of hiring them. (Yeah. They wanted Republican and/or conservative programmers only.)
What finally got him to start using his own site was being reminded that it’s in the deal for his company to be purchased that he has to use Troth Senchal exclusively. Elon Musk going after Twitter and now trying to back out of the deal has hurt and helped TS in varying ways.
There’s a whole lot more surrounding how Trump created his company and how the other company was created to buy it, but that will take a deep dive to explain. The shortest summary I can give is it’s one shell company buying another shell company, and it appears there was collusion between the two ahead of the official announcement, which is illegal.
Trump and several members of his family resign from the parent company of TS or were removed from the board, depending on which source you use. This comes weeks after several of the top people already left the company, and just happens to be shortly before subpoenas were served to the board. Psst. The Donald: resigning now doesn’t get you out of a subpoena that concerns what you did previously.
Rudy Giuliani first denies he asked The Donald for a pardon, then admits by mistake that he did before trying to delete his admission. He also says that Trump was considering pardoning himself. Not because of any crime he might have committed, but because it would have headed off the inevitable attempts by Democrats to frame him. Because they’re framers. They frame people.
There’s just one teeny tiny little problem. Asking for a pardon is legally viewed as “recognition of guilt”. By doing so, you are publicly admitting you know you committed a crime. Once you get the pardon, you’re only covered for federal crimes. It doesn’t cover civil law suits and you can’t invoke your Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate yourself.
So if Trump had pardoned himself, he still would have had to testify in any civil trials involving Giuliani. Guess who would have been feeling tires running over him?
Boris Johnson resigned from Parliament after there was enough backlash from the recent scandals that he decided he should leave. Despite The Donald calling him “Britain Trump” (not “the British Trump”) back in 2019, there were enough differences that Johnson didn’t become a Trump clone. For instance, he resigned instead of fighting to stay, allowing for a peaceful transfer of power. For another, he didn’t blame CINOs or LINOs (Conservatives or Labourists In Name Only) for his problems.
But a similarity comes in a New York Times article titled “Johnson’s Lies Worked for Years, Until They Didn’t”. His behavior was excused and condoned for years, just like Trump. And because it was, Johnson stuck with his same behaviors year after year after year because he was rewarded for it, just like Trump.
And finally, you need to get ready, folks, because Trump’s going to be president again, real soon now, Mike Lindell swears. That right. Once again, he is going to hold a symposium where he’ll reveal the proof of all the voter fraud.
Whatever Mike’s found is enough to swing the pendulum from it wouldn’t overturn the 2020 election back to it definitely will. It will be on July 16 and 17. And he’s so confident in what he got that he’s going even more all in than he has ever before.
He’s inviting “thousands of influencers: podcasters, TV hosts, radio hosts”. He’s inviting “people from overseas, big organizations that have a big influence on the world.” He’s “hand-picking them”. They’ll be at his symposium, and “they’ll put out their voice” because they are “the voice of the nation”.
Hmm. Really. Okay, go for it. The more the merrier.
You’ve batted zero every time you’ve stepped up to the plate. You’ve embarrassed yourself in every court you’ve stepped in and at every one of your “here’s the proof of voter fraud” events. You’re bleeding even more money after Walmart officially dumped your pillows. The dog that you tried to get to lie on one of your My Dog Pillow Beds (or whatever they’re called) wouldn’t do it. And you’ve decided to create yet another product line, MyCoffee, because that’s a natural fit with products that help you get to sleep.
The more influencers that witness you strike out this weekend, the more “they’ll put out their voice” about how you failed once again. Be careful what you wish for.
Naturally, when Mike Lindell made this announcement, he had a promo code at the bottom of the screen for a discount on his pillows. Every one of these events has had multiple promo codes. The event this weekend will have promo codes.
What is he being sued for by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems? Profiting from the false claims about the election. He’s on record as saying he studied which promo codes resulted in the most sales and made adjustments to the codes to increase the success rate.
So go right ahead, Mr. Lindell. Hold your symposium. Turn up empty handed or show gibberish that has as much in common with voter fraud as a dodo has with a neutron star. Make the inevitable excuses about why it fell apart yet again. You’ve already used “antifa things” and “p*rno things”, so come up with something new, but remember to tack on a “things” after it. Give Smartmatic and Dominion even more evidence they can present to the judges when their law suits against you go to trial.
And most of all, remind yourself that you’re saving the country and people will come up to you and thank you for showing them how wrong they were about the election. Maybe it will keep you warm when it’s the only thing you have left.
