MAGA rioter gave House committee evidence of contacts with 'state-level GOP officials'

[kpete]

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A MAGA rioter has reportedly told the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol that they had contacts ahead of the riot with "state-level GOP officials who worked with former President Donald Trump as he attempted to overturn the 2020 election."


According to Politico, the rioter has interviewed with the committee twice within the last week and "described knowledge of contacts between GOP officials in a key state Trump lost and allies of the former president in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack."

The rioter is scheduled to talk with the committee again in the coming days and Politico's sources say they have already been asked questions that "ranged from the defendant's knowledge of those who organized travel to Washington for the Jan. 6 event as well as details about the preparation of legal affidavits in support of Trump's false claims of voter fraud."

The Capitol riot committee so far has interviewed more than 150 people in its efforts to uncover the full picture about what led up to the deadly events on January 6th.


https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-committee-testimony-2655498095/
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/january-6-committee-rioter-interview-519580

[dem4decades]

1. How about a Special Prosecutor be named? Durham is investigating nothing but we can't

investigate treason?

Will someone do something?

[C_U_L8R]

3. I'd be even happy with a non-special prosecutor

Crimes were (and are) being committed. C'mon. Jeez.

[dem4decades]

16. we don't want to ruffle any feathers and put anybody under oath. Toothless Congressional

subpoenas are all we seem to get and I guess DOJ thinks we should be happy with that.

[Champp]

2. Republican traitors deserve justice

Lock them up.

[Bluethroughu]

4. 100%

[NurseJackie]

5. Everyone is getting all bent-outta-shape over the "wrist-slaps" of the rioting hoodlums...

... meanwhile there are much BIGGER fish to fry. I trust Biden's Justice Department (and the committee) to follow every bit of evidence.

[CrackityJones75]

8. The justice dept is the justice dept

It isn’t Biden’s.

[Rebl2]

10. Exactly

We got mad when tfg called it his justice department or his military etc.

[FakeNoose]

13. Yes, he considered Bill Barr as "his" lawyer too

... until he wasn't.

The Dept. of Justice, the Attorney General, the FBI and the other law enforcement agencies are supposed to remain independent from the purview of politicians including the President. This is how our system is supposed to work.

Joe Biden knows this, and so did every previous POTUS, except one.

[Rebl2]

17. And Billy

acted like he was his lawyer until he wasn’t!

[lagomorph777]

29. But this isn't about wanting DOJ to protect Biden.

It's about demanding that DOJ start protecting the United States Of America.

[calimary]

31. Indeed.

[Tacan]

34. EXACTLY!

[uponit7771]

18. Unnnnn ... NJ, ... we can fry big fish and give proportional consequences for people who video'd

... themselves committing felonies during a text book insurrection.

We'll see

[NurseJackie]

21. They are being charged and sentenced appropriately.

Biden's DOJ is not corrupt, they're not incompetent. They are following the law.

[uponit7771]

22. Not all of them are being charged and sentenced appropriately, even judges are questioning the soft

... sentencing on some of the attackers.

[NurseJackie]

23. No laws are being violated in the sentencing. I understand the anger...

... that people have, but I don't fully comprehend why so many people believe it's okay to engage in extrajudicial "revenge" and handing out sentences that are beyond the norm of what they're being charged with. It's just not realistic to expect that every one of the stupid people like Elizabeth from Knoxville are going to get life imprisonment or the death penalty.

[uponit7771]

24. WOW NJ! ".. extrajudicial "revenge" .." for the "rioting hoodlums..." I take it you don't see the ..

... GQP and their violence against America and voting as a threat to democracy either.

I do, they're more of a threat against democracy than AQ ever could have been ... they're IN the house and walk among us.

Historically we should come down hard on those who tried this, make it public and quick ... Spain circa lat 1930s comes to mind if we don't.

It's just not realistic to expect that every one of the stupid people like Elizabeth from Knoxville are going to get life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Or how just sentence them accordingly ?! Yeah, if these people were Muslin I really doubt if the US DoJ under any admin would be having judges questioning soft charges.

[NurseJackie]

25. My position on this specific topic is clear.

I take it you don't see the ..
... GQP and their violence against America and voting as a threat to democracy either.

My position on this specific topic is clear. I think it would be a mistake for anyone to start making wild and ridiculous presumptions and extrapolations.

Spain circa lat 1930s

This is not Spain in the 1930's.

Or how just sentence them accordingly ?!

The law decides that. Not angry citizens who want to chop off their heads.

WOW NJ! ".. extrajudicial "revenge"

Yes. I chose my words carefully and intentionally. People who are advocating for putting them away for life (or who advocate lining them all up in front of a trench and popping a bullet in their skulls one-by-one) are indeed seeking extrajudicial revenge. There are no two ways about it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extrajudicial

1a : not forming a valid part of regular legal proceedings an extrajudicial investigation
b : delivered without legal authority : private sense 2a(1) the judge's extrajudicial statements

2 : done in contravention of due process of law an extrajudicial execution

[uponit7771]

26. "wild and ridiculous presumptions and extrapolations." wild like Trump tried to overturn the 2020

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... election?

Then incited a crowd of dumbasses to attack the nations capital complex when he saw he couldn't?

Then did little to nothing to stop the stupidity ?!

wild like that?

What Trump did on J6 is clearer than what you're trying to communicate no doubt

[NurseJackie]

27. If my points have not been understood by now, it makes very little sense to keep repeating myself.

wild like Trump tried to overturn the 2020

No. I was very clear with regard to the point I was making. Obviously you disagree and you're (maybe) trying to make a "slippery-slope" argument, or maybe you're trying to compare different things and extrapolating how you believe I'd feel about something else. 1) It's irrelevant. 2) It's wrong.

wild like that? What Trump did on J6 is clearer than what you're trying to communicate no doubt

No. We've been over this already. I've also been very calm in explaining my opinion on the matter of extrajudicial punishment. If my points have not been understood by now, it makes very little sense to keep repeating myself.

Thank you for chatting with me.

[lagomorph777]

30. Under-charging the crimes of insurrection and rebellion is endorsement of lawbreaking.

Enforcing the law wouldn't be about revenge, it would be about protecting the nation.

[NurseJackie]

32. Competent prosecutors press charges...

... based on the evidence and based on what they think will hold up in court. It's ridiculous to suggest that they endorse what happened on January 6th. That's just silly. When people say things like that, it just makes it more difficult to take seriously anything else they say.

[SMC22307]

19. "Rioting hoodlums." Adorable. Stop defending the wrist-slaps...

small and big fish need to fry.

[NurseJackie]

20. They are being charged and sentenced appropriately.

There will be no beheadings today.

[SMC22307]

35. They're getting slaps on the wrists and no one is seriously calling for beheadings.

[NurseJackie]

36. Sure.

[SMC22307]

37. Glad you agree. (n/t)

[NurseJackie]

38. I'm generally opposed to the sarcasm emoji.

But sometimes NOT using it can produce humorous results too.

[SMC22307]

39. Don't flatter yourself.

Your reply was predictable and your meaning crystal clear.

[NurseJackie]

40. The omission that keeps on giving.

[SMC22307]

41. Top DC federal judge criticizes "schizophrenic" Justice Department approach to January 6 cases

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/politics/dc-federal-judge-january-6-cases/index.html

Barack Obama appointee... it *ain't* just DUers, girlfriend.

[NurseJackie]

42. Nobody said otherwise.

it *ain't* just DUers, girlfriend.

Nobody said otherwise.

[DallasNE]

6. I Have Long Said

That they need to focus on those who organized transportation to Washington DC and then trace the money to who paid fir this effort. That could lead to some big fish.

[mgardener]

7. All I know is Elise StefanikR NY 21

Can't stop using Twitter. Or whomever she pays write them for her.
They are getting more outlandish and bombastic.
I think R are worried

[RVN VET71]

33. Worried or doubling down?

A little bit of both, I think. Their reaction is to hide their worry and yell louder and lie more absurdly.

Elise Stefanik appears to be newly converted to the fascist side. It’s horrible to see how shallow are the principles of these people and Stefanik stands out to me because she was, not long ago, a less unreasonable Republican than she appears today. it’s as if the move of the GOP to the extremist regions of the right -- by which I mean fascism -- was just too compelling for her to deny. Maybe rather than being disturbing to her, the shift was a dream come true.

(I have long resisted using the term “fascist” to describe the new Republican Party. But events starting with Trump’s lies following his righteous, kick-ass defeat by Biden, and then the insurrection of January 6th -- and, especially, the eagerness of virtually every Republican to back the lie and publicly discount the insurrection as, in the memorable words of Representative Clyde, the vapid, cowardly liar from the State of Georgia, a normal day with normal tourists respectfully promenading around and through the Capitol Building -- I’ve decided there is no more appropriate word for the Party and its devotees.)

[iluvtennis]

9. His testimony needs to be televised - trumpians won't believe a written report, so maybe live & in

living color will be believed.

[Generic Brad]

12. They'd applaud that testimony

He would be celebrated like Oliver North was. These people are sick.

[ffr]

11. I hope the wheels of justice are accelerating against insurrectionists throughout

Time is a-wasting!

[triron]

14. Hope is probably all we get.

[spanone]

15. What happens when we find the entire gop was involved?

[Captain Zero]

28. I'll bet there's damning communications between

Trump and the Republican State Attorney's General Association. The org was busy fighting and filing lawsuits against Secretary's of State in every place that TFG wanted to tamper with the elections. It pissed me off that the Indiana Attorney General was filing onto lawsuits in places like Arizona and Georgia. That's outsiders with no standing tampering with an election result in another state. Across state lines! That pissed me off to no end. It was criminal.