Today’s Hearing
Hey, if you are not listening to Today’s Hearing this, you should be. It is more along the lines of “what did you know and when did you know it.” One of Mark Meadow’s assistants is reviewing in Today’s Hearing what she (Cassidy Hutchinson) knew leading up to January 6 with the committee.
I would still raise the point, none of those who knew something was going to warned the authorities or the Capitol Police. Even 1 hour before the march to the Capitol nothing was said.
The up shot I got from watching: Trump et al did not care if the coup was based on manipulation of the legal machinery of an election or was based on violence. It is clear that violence was the back up plan and became the supported mechanism when they realized that day that the legal manipulation failed.
Also, that the General took the fifth on what were 2 gimme questions.
Lastly, she made clear for those who did not accept the truth of Trump’s character and are possibly open to it now just how unfit Trump was for the position. Throwing his food, breaking dishes, grabbing the steering wheel and obvious reaching for the throat (though she said clavicle area) of his driver when he did not get his way. Any honest person has to acknowledge the psychological pathology of him as his niece has been trying to make people aware of.
It will be interesting to see who will now step forward out of fear of criminal involvement because of her testimony. The Mark Meadows et al will still try to cover up and insist the ship is not sinking around them.
One other thing. What I find so sad is that young lady actually believed in him. Again we heard: the good things he did. 49% of the nation showed they have no ability to factually evaluate the character of a person in having elected him. That was my biggest fear for the nation the night he won.
Daniel
Why would they? He was a conman selling an elixir of lies most could plainly see. And many voted for him or the others or made-up candidates. The election was lost due to the others. A fat ugly lump of a man.
This was an intelligent woman who worked for Mark Meadows who was intelligent too,
@Daniel,
Like you, I knew this the night he was elected (actually, years before when he lied for years about Obama’s citizenship). The people who supported him deserve our contempt for putting this country on the path to perdition. And the people who temporize, obfuscate, misdirect and excuse them also deserve our contempt. It has been going on so long and openly that no patriotic American can support Trump or anyone who supports him.
Feh.
Joel:
Don’t use up all of your contempt. Save some for the new Justices who lied also.
As France’s King Louis XIV said back in the day “L’Etat c’est a moi” (I am the state.)
Obviously, Trump felt the same way, so his self-interest and the interests of the presidency must be one and the same. As Dick Nixon said, ‘If the president does it, it’s legal.’
Many would disagree.
Pretty stunning stuff, though none really surprising.
Do well to recall she interned for Ted Cruz. If I were sitting in her shoes I’d be looking for a way to cover my ass too. I don’t doubt her testimony, she simply has no credibility. She choose to be a part of that, nobody kidnapped her, tied her up and held her for ransom …
She was a 22 year old glorified secretary when she worked for Cruz. I think her age and position should be considered.
Haven’t heard that in a while, not since the blow-job in the blue dress.
1/6 she was a 25 year old glorified secretary working for Trump.
What’s the difference?
Lewinsky was a naive little girl that made mistakes. Hutchison was a naive little girl that made mistakes.
At what age are they not naive little girls?
@EM,
They were both adult women. Only a naive man would call them naive little girls, denying these women agency. Shame.
Trump should be prosecuted, and many of those around him also.
Is that going to happen? Probably not, as maybe a quarter of the country would be very angry about this, for reasons only understood by them.
If convicted, he would presumably be barred from future public office.
Perhaps it can wait until after his next term.
Legal Risks for Trump
NY Times – June 29
Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage
NY Times – June 28
(The Cheeseburger Incident has not yet been denied however.)
Trump threw his lunch into a West Wing dining room wall in anger over news report
(AP) — The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a White House wall came because of an interview that former Attorney General William Barr had arranged with The Associated Press. …
former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled “hearing noise coming from down the hallway” around the time the AP interview was published.
She noticed a door propped open in a West Wing dining room room where Trump had eaten, and a valet who was changing a dining room tablecloth.
“He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantle and the TV when I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson said.
The valet told her that Trump was angry about Barr’s interview with AP and had thrown his lunch against the wall, she said. …
Intimidation of the help by his actions. How could one not be afraid of the faux President?
A President Untethered
NY Times – June 29
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/politics/trump-jan-6-behavior.html?smid=tw-share”>A President untethered</a>
NY Times – June 29
In the final, frenzied days of his administration, Donald J. Trump’s behavior turned increasingly volatile as he smashed dishware and lunged at his own Secret Service agent, according to testimony.
… A president who liked to describe himself as a “very stable genius” was anything but that as Ms. Hutchinson observed in those final, frenzied days of his time in office. Hers was not a description that surprised many of those who worked for Mr. Trump and had seen him up close in the preceding four years, or for that matter, many who had known him in the decades that preceded his life in politics. But hearing her recount it all under oath, on live television, brought home how much Mr. Trump and his White House spiraled in its perilous last chapter. …
Joel,
Sorry, but I call 22 year old boys naive little kids. Why? Cause they are, just like I was.
EM
we are all naive little kids. just as we get older we replace naïveté with moral certainty.
the trouble with “contempt” is that it gets in the way of thinking, and prevents finding ny possible ground all sides can live with.
fwiw i think blue-dress lady was old enough to make her own decisions and that the court had no business inquiring into the president’s sex life so they could charge him with the crime of lying about something that no honorable man would not lie about.
as for the present naive young woman… i think stupid would be a better word than naive, if she ever thought trump [or Cruz] was anything other than what he is. i didn’t need her testimony to know what trump is. he told me himself. what her testimony goes to is “what did trump know/intend, in a legally provable sense.” we all know what he knew and intended. but i think her testimoney was all hearsay, and even though i don’t doubt it, i am not sure it passes the legally provable sense…if the judges did not ignore the “legally provable” stricture themselves when they want to.
note to the person who thinks i am a contemptible liar troll who is stalking him: this country has been going to hell long before Trump. Trump reminds me of the fox who acts crazy, attracting the attention of the ducks while his mate sneaks up behind them.