Willard Hotel Was Insurrection 'Command Center'

[kpete]

Last edited Sat Oct 23, 2021, 12:25 PM - Edit history (1)

Washington Post: “They called it the ‘command center,’ a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with one goal in mind: overturning the results of the 2020 election.”

“The Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse and the ensuing attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob would draw the world’s attention to the quest to physically block Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s victory. But the activities at the Willard that week add to an emerging picture of a less visible effort, mapped out in memos by a conservative pro-Trump legal scholar and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers seeking to pull off what they claim was a legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term.”

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/23/willard-hotel-was-insurrection-command-center/


Updated to add:

“Kerik said his firm billed the Trump campaign more than $55,000 for rooms for the legal team. ...
The three people familiar with the operation described intense work in the days and hours leading up to and even extending beyond 1 p.m. on Jan 6, ...”

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[Lovie777]

1. Pieces coming together . ..

although majority know what happened, but alas, proof and evidence needs to be secured.

[Hortensis]

17. Yes, but it's telling that the WaPo has enough to state

right out what they know regarding who, what, where, and why -- one goal: overturning the election.

[dem4decades]

2. some one goes to jail or it didn't happen.......yet.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

9. Yes

and they will try again.

[kentuck]

3. It was an elaborate conspiracy...

Planned and paid for by Donald Trump and his associates.

Trump could never concede. He could never say he lost. So he made up a big lie to "prove" that he won and the cult bought into it.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. Well...

I'd lean more toward paid for by Vlad Putin and his associates, but other than that...

[cilla4progress]

4. All they need now

Is proof of a link up with Proud Boys etc outside.

[Tomconroy]

5. The Proud Boys were acting as bodyguards for

Roger Stone who was at the Willard. DOJ knows this.

[EleanorR]

6. And according to Joyce Vance, this was campaign activity not covered by executive privilege

Link to tweet

[gab13by13]

8. Calling it the command center is weak,

I like Cheney's definition a lot better, "War Room."

[niyad]

10. When I see the name, "willard", my mind goes to the movie (which I did not see).

[jmbar2]

11. Post of the morning!

A room full of rats. I hope that they eat each other.

[niyad]

12. Exactly.

[calimary]

20. No kidding. A room full of rats.

I hope that same thing: that they wind up eating each other.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. My first impression as well.

[Hortensis]

13. We're seeing various shifts into defense mode as the feds close in,

but unless they're trying for a group insanity defense they really need to ditch the "legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term” explanation.

[KS Toronado]

14. Since when does a "legal strategy" include violence against our Capitol Police?

[Cracklin Charlie]

16. I often think...

About what it would have taken for this little caper to succeed. They had to have had some plan to achieve success, right? Otherwise, why bother?

I believe multiple elected officials would have to have been killed for this plan to succeed. I believe the planners wanted some of their opponents gone, for good. They wanted the crowd all heated up, and looking for blood. The rioters get blamed, and the coup planners waltz in, and “heal” the divided nation.

The planners must be prosecuted and imprisoned.

[KS Toronado]

23. Qrump needed Pence, Nancy, etc. killed

in order to declare Martial law and reform our government in his image. No doubt in my mind that they
wanted to see blood Jan 6th to accomplish their goals. Yes the planners need to be in jail for a long time.

[spanone]

15. and tfg was the ringleader

[RestoreAmerica2020]

21. Absolutely...not just "personally involved" as Liz Cheney suggested, but

..he not only lead the effort--gave orders as to what ensued up to and incl. Jan 6 and now ffg is obstructing investigation that really only comes to one conclusion--as you said..he [odioustraitor#45] WAS the ring leader. He lead the coup d'etat, insurrection that killed 5 people that day, where hundreds were injured. Cheney's comments raised eyebrows --suggested where the investigation is leading bc all evidence points to mffg, his sycophants incl., some members of GOP. It will not surprise me that next supeona will have his name stamped on it.

Note: see excerpt/video provided below of Cheney's comments during recent Jan 6 committee hearing. Also, at said meeting Cheney goes on to remind GOP of their constitutional duty [ later we found that 8 members incl Cheney voted with Dems to supeona Bannon, the remainder of Republican House cowered to fg.]

While the committee has yet to provide evidence directly linking the former President to those efforts, Cheney's comments reflect a suspicion among members of the panel that Trump is attempting to conceal certain communications that may be incriminating.

"Mr. Bannon's and Mr. Trump's privilege arguments do appear to reveal one thing, however: they suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th," Cheney

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/20/politics/liz-cheney-trump-bannon-january-6/index.html&ved=2ahUKEwj3qrre6uDzAhW4IjQIHTgaDVQQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0fZz4_ikZjzFHn7gxPwA4i&cf=1

[ancianita]

18. To get names of the funders would name who the ringleaders were -- either the funders themselves, or

they'd declare that they got pitched by the planners, or that they had been fooled and had nothing to do with the crime itself.

Who paid the conservative pro-Trump legal scholar; who paid for the team of presidential advisers and lawyers -- private orgs or taxpayers?

Link to tweet

[NullTuples]

19. Wait - if there was a command center, how could the attack on the Capitol have been spontaneous?

:: eye roll :: at the media for not making all this really clear to the public.

[Orrex]

22. Thank goodness the insurrectionists are being held accountable

Some are being held in jail for up to 18 minutes and fined seven dollars.

We can be sure that they’ll think twice before insurrectioning again.

[brooklynite]

24. This makes no sense...

why wouldn't they book rooms at Trump's hotel?

[Grasswire2]

27. DUH

They hoped not to be noticed while criming.

And Trump hotel was constantly under surveillance by media and -- perhaps -- by LEO.

[Grasswire2]

28. also maybe bedbugs in the rooms at Trump hotel. nt

[Grasswire2]

25. And we know this because of the curatorial journalism of Seth Abramson.

Who, incidentally, gets beat up on DU regularly.

[Ferryboat]

29. Seth's publishing of the nexus of the Willard Hotel meetings

has not gotten the recognition his writing deserves. He has the photos placing key individuals in the hotel. From the proud boys to various administration officials with a smattering of 2 bit players.

Everyone is playing catch up with this story. He is way ahead on reporting this.

[Grasswire2]

30. yep

Some are asking why MSM dropped the ball on this.

Why did media not have stake-out at the Willard once they saw some of these players coming and going??

Why were they not beating the bushes for sources?

[cilla4progress]

31. And this.

Link to tweet

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[DET]

32. Spill, Fella

I want to know who the ‘several Senators’ are. We can speculate, but we don’t know. These people need to be forcibly removed. On a separate note, I find it deeply disturbing that a degenerate low life like Trump was allowed to desecrate one of the most beautiful, iconic buildings in DC.