The January 6 Committee subpoenaed the Coup Plot leader, Donald Trump, in October. He was to produce documents subpoenaed by the Committee by November 4. Trump’s lawyers requested more time, and the January 6 Committee extended the deadline one week, to November 11. “We have informed the former President’s counsel that he must begin producing … Read more
James McHenry (1753-1816) was a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He kept a journal of the Constitutional convention. On the page where McHenry records the events of the last day of the convention, September 18, 1787, he wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin, ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ … Read more
Jon Stewart once labeled Arizona the “Meth lab of Democracy,” but since the Trump era, Arizona has become the “Meth lab of anti-democracy” and election denialism, with a heavy dose of White Christian nationalism, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and the MAGA personality cult of Donald Trump. The Republican Party in Arizona has long since ceased to … Read more
The Department of Justice wants to pierce former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin’s claims to attorney-client privilege (and-or executive privilege) regarding their discussions with Trump for which they “had no valid claims of privilege that would permit [them] to refuse to answer questions relating to matters the committee … Read more
In the end, this insurrectionist coup plotter will plead his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination because his text messages alone prove that he is guilty as hell of of a conspiracy to solicit election fraud in Georgia, let alone his personal visits to election officials in Georgia to press Trump’s subversion of election results. NBC … Read more