The Jan. 6 Investigation

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Captain_Swoop said:
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas six more Trump lawyers involved in effort to stop certification of Biden’s election win: Cleta Mitchell, Christina Bobb, Kurt Olsen, Katherine Freiss, Phillip Kline, Kenneth Chesebro
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I can almost hear the "I plead the 5th's!" from here. And I'm on the West Coast.
 
Stacyhs said:
I can almost hear the "I plead the 5th's!" from here. And I'm on the West Coast.
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It'll probably be 'attorney-client privilege'. I believe that privilege is negated if the lawyers are involved in the crime. And Biden has nixed any executive privilege.

So maybe it will be the 5th after all.
 
I'm shocked to my very core. How did I not see this coming?

Jan. 6 committee says Trump violated multiple laws in effort to overturn election


The Jan. 6 select committee says its evidence has shown that then-President Donald Trump and his campaign tried to illegally obstruct Congress’ counting of electoral votes and “engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
In a major release of its findings, filed in federal court late Wednesday, the committee suggested that its evidence supported findings that Trump himself violated multiple laws by attempting to prevent Congress from certifying his defeat.

“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing submitted in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.
Characterizing excerpts of nearly a dozen depositions from top aides to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, the committee described a president who had been informed repeatedly that he lost the election and that his claims of fraud were unfounded — only to reject them and continue to mislead the American public.

He then pushed top advisers to continue strategizing ways to overturn the election results.
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The committee suggests Trump and some of his allies may have committed three distinct crimes: Obstruction of an official proceeding — in this case, Congress' Jan 6 session to count electoral votes — defrauding the United States by interfering in the election certification and spreading false information about the results, and a violation of the District of Columbia's common fraud law.
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Upchurch said:
Did someone mention "guilty of seditious conspiracy"? Why, it might just have been an attempted coup.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/02/jan6-seditious-conspiracy-guilty-plea/
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Looks like the guy has agreed to co-operate:
Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Alabama, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges on Wednesday as part of deal with prosecutors contingent on his cooperation with the U.S. government in their ongoing prosecution of defendants who were involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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The agreement requires James to cooperate with federal authorities, testify before a grand jury, sit for interviews, and turn over an accounting of his financial assets.
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James acknowledged he was instructed by Oath Keepers leader Stuart Rhodes to be prepared to use lethal force if then-President Donald Trump was removed from the White House. Separately, he acknowledged that he, Rhodes and others planned to use "any means necessary" to stop the lawful transfer of power.
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Nah, not a coup attempt at all. :rolleyes:
 
Lindsey Graham (R-SC):

"I don't see anything coming out of this committee not tainted by politics."

Projecting much there, Linds?
 
Stacyhs said:
Lindsey Graham (R-SC):

"I don't see anything coming out of this committee not tainted by politics."

Projecting much there, Linds?
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Like a child putting his fingers in his ears. It isn't true, it isn't true, it isn't true!
 
Stacyhs said:
Lindsey Graham (R-SC):

"I don't see anything coming out of this committee not tainted by politics."

Projecting much there, Linds?
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I mean, I guess if his politics are white supremacy and fascism this sort of thing would seem like a political witch hunt.

Which is the problem with using "political" as a pejorative.
 
Late Friday Eastman got slapped down - he's supposed to appear before the Jan 6 committee on Tuesday March 8.

A federal judge has rejected an attempt by attorney John Eastman — the architect of Donald Trump’s legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election — to slow down the Jan. 6 select committee’s push to obtain documents they say could show the former president criminally conspired with Eastman to subvert the democratic process.

In a late Friday order, Judge David Carter said Eastman’s demand to postpone a March 8 hearing and force the select committee to provide him “exculpatory” evidence was unwarranted and legally misguided .
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/04/eastman-delay-jan-6-committee-emails-00014320
 
The first Jan. 6 insurrectionist to go to trial has been found guilty on all charges:

The defendant, 49-year-old Guy Wesley Reffitt of Texas, was found guilty of these five criminal charges: transporting a firearm in furtherance of a civil disorder; obstruction of an official proceeding; entering or remaining in a restricted area or grounds with a firearm; obstructing officers during a civil disorder; and obstruction of justice—hindering communication through force or threat of physical force.
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Prosecutors accused Reffitt of traveling to Washington, D.C., with a fellow member of a far-right militia organization called the Texas Three Percenters.

Testimony and evidence showed that Reffitt brought an AR-15 rifle and a pistol with him on the trip. He took that pistol with him to Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, along with zip-tie-style flex cuffs, a helmet and body armor. As demonstrators approached the building, Reffitt started ascending a stairwell in front of the Capitol guarded by a handful of police officers. Those officers testified that Reffitt told them, "You can't stop us all. Let us in. Don't be a traitor." Officers shot at Reffitt with pepper balls and plastic less-lethal rounds and ultimately stopped him with pepper spray. As Reffitt sat on the stairwell, trying to wash the spray from his eyes, video showed him waving rioters forward.
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When Reffitt returned home to Texas, he bragged in text messages and on recorded Zoom meetings about leading the charge on Jan. 6. His then-18-year-old son, Jackson Reffitt, had liberal political views and was troubled by what his father had done, so he began secretly recording his father. Within days, Guy Reffitt became paranoid about being arrested. Jackson Reffitt testified at the trial that his father told him and his younger teenage sister, "If you turn me in, you're a traitor. And traitors get shot." Jackson Reffitt turned over the recordings he made of his father to the FBI. Five days later, agents arrested Guy Reffitt.
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