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brooklynite's JournalJan. 6 Panel Questions Cipollone on Pardons and Trump's Election Claims
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Pat A. Cipollone, who served as White House counsel for President Donald J. Trump, was asked detailed questions on Friday about pardons, false election fraud claims and the former president’s pressure campaign against Vice President Mike Pence, according to three people familiar with his testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The panel did not press him to either corroborate or contradict some specific details of explosive testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who captivated the country late last month with her account of an out-of-control president willing to embrace violence and stop at nothing to stay in power, the people said.
During a roughly eight-hour interview conducted behind closed doors in the O’Neill House Office Building, the panel covered some of the same ground it did during an informal interview with Mr. Cipollone in April. In the session on Friday, which took place only after Mr. Cipollone was served with a subpoena, investigators focused mainly on Mr. Cipollone’s views on the events of Jan. 6 and generally did not ask about his views of other witnesses’ accounts.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/us/politics/pat-cipollone-jan-6-trump.html
Ex-Trump White House counsel Cipollone is being 'cooperative' with Jan. 6 committee
Source: NBC News
Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared before the House Jan. 6 committee for an interview Friday and has been willing to answer the panel's questions, a source familiar with the first part of his testimony said.
“He’s been a cooperative witness within the parameters of his desire to protect executive privilege for the office of general counsel,” the source said.
Cipollone, who panel vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has repeatedly described as a critical witness, arrived for the videotaped and transcribed closed-door interview shortly before 8:30 a.m. ET, and was still meeting with the panel in the early afternoon.
The panel subpoenaed Cipollone late last month after bombshell testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, detailed the lawyer's efforts to rein in Trump on Jan. 6 and the days preceding it.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/former-trump-white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone-cooperative-jan-6-commi-rcna37320
Don't waste all your anger on Boris Johnson -- save some for his enablers
The GuardianThough on one big thing Johnson was quite correct: a man in late middle age cannot change his nature, and he never offered to do so. All that has changed is his value to the politicians, funders and journalists who put him there. His electoral currency was once pure gold. Now it is the most debased metal in Westminster.
That is why his departure will be most greatly celebrated by his own side. But the prime minister who handed out plum jobs to a man accused of sexual harassment (as deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher’s total salary would have been some £115,000), who attended lockdown parties then lied and lied about it, and who tried to defend a chum who broke the lobbying rules, is by no means the cause of the rot in Westminster. Johnson is instead the most obvious and serious symptom of a deep crisis in our democracy.
Consider who might replace him. Sunak and Sajid Javid have together spent 32 years working in high finance. Liz Truss is Nigel Farage without the pint glass. Matt Hancock is Matt Hancock. That is today’s Tory party: a vacant-eyed coalition of bankers, bounders and Brexiteers. They have no ideas, save the most parodic form of Thatcherism. Hand huge home loans to people on housing benefit who can barely afford to eat. Allow mortgages to be passed down fromparent to child, like some 21st-century remake of debt serfdom. When all else fails, attack the BBC for not showing more flags.
And the Euro is now worth.....$1.01
Its lost 20% if its exchange value in the last year.
The Most Pathetic Men in America
The AtlanticMcCarthy knew that alienating Trump would blow up any chance he had of becoming speaker, which had become the singular objective of his “public service,” such as it was. He cultivated Trump from the start. The president came to refer to McCarthy as “my Kevin,” a term of ownership as much as affection. But “managing the relationship” was often a daily struggle, McCarthy conceded, when I interviewed him for The New York Times in his Bakersfield, California, district in April 2021. “He goes up and down with his anger,” McCarthy said of Trump. “He’s mad at everybody one day. He’s mad at me one day … This is the tightest tightrope anyone has to walk.”
Once, early in 2019, I asked Graham a version of the question that so many of his judgy old Washington friends had been asking him. How could he swing from being one of Trump’s most merciless critics in 2016 to such a sycophant thereafter? I didn’t use those exact words, but Graham got the idea. “Well, okay, from my point of view, if you know anything about me, it’d be odd not to do this,” he told me. “‘This,’” Graham specified, “is to try to be relevant.” Relevance: It casts one hell of a spell.
“I could get Trump on the phone faster than any staff person who worked for him could get him on the phone,” McCarthy bragged to me. There was always a breathless, racing quality to both men’s voices when they talked about the thrill ride of being one of Trump’s “guys.”
'It's been plenty of time.' Kentucky governor urges Biden to rescind anti-abortion GOP judge pick
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal
"It's been plenty of time," Beshear said at his press conference. "And by now, they should be telling us that it's going to be rescinded."
As first reported by The Courier Journal last week, a White House official informed Beshear's office through a June 23 email that it planned to nominate Chad Meredith to a U.S. District Court judgeship in Kentucky's Eastern District the next day.
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Beshear and U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, were among the Democrats astonished and outraged by the pick, with Yarmuth and other officials telling The Courier Journal that Biden must have worked a deal with U.S. Sen Mitch McConnell so he wouldn't hold up future White House nominations.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/07/biden-chad-meredith-antiabortion-judge-beshear/10009651002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories
You know you're finished when you've lost Larry the Cat...
https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/1544815519697719297What will the mood of tomorrow's Pat Cipollone interview be?
This is, as far as I know, the first private interview since it became apparent that recorded statements would be used in the public Hearings.
Before people get worked up about next week's J6 Hearings (plural)...
...keep in mind the Thursday prime time hearing is not confirmed at this point.
IRS chief refers Comey, McCabe audit decision to inspector general for review
Source: CNN
"The IRS has referred the matter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for review. IRS Commissioner (Charles) Rettig personally reached out to TIGTA after receiving a press inquiry," the IRS said in a statement.
The agency is under scrutiny following a report from The New York Times on Wednesday that the IRS conducted intensive tax audits of McCabe and Comey, both fierce critics of former President Donald Trump, during his administration.
McCabe told CNN on Thursday that he thinks "referring it to the IG is the right step, but let's see if the IG moves on it and then makes their findings public."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/politics/internal-revenue-service-inspector-general-probe-comey-mccabe/index.html?utm_term=165721540143738686cb81e2c&utm_source=cnn_Breaking+News&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=9OiznNUWgcZadCg3QvlOWrkLPON8%2BonqYOBKXPVs8F5a3EJ%2BgIBhg8iQp3IjdqxD&bt_ts=1657215401439
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