....5 take-aways from this hearing...

[Chillicothe]

Washington Post has this journalistic tactic of listing 'take-aways' from whatever hearing had just completed.
WaPo ain't alone in doing that...right-leaning 'The Hill' does it. So does left-lean 'Politico' do it. As does the New York Times.

I like it.

It is a journalistic 'shorthand' device to convey information. They know people are busy, have many sources of information. So they offer a 'formatting' to mentally organize it to make it more accessible to a greater number of people. It is a way to 'deliver-the-news'.

Anyway, this is how tonight's Washington Post parsed today's hearing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/12/january-6-hearing-extremism-trump/

"5 takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing on extremism and Trump"

1. ‘Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by arguing he is willfully blind’
2. A throw-down fight between Trump advisers over election fraud — leading to a crucial step forward for Jan. 6.
3. What happened after Trump’s ‘Be there, will be wild’ tweet.
4. How did so many people become radicalized off a lie?
5. Another big hearing next week
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Notably, WaPo did not mention Cheney's warning that witness tampering is bad juju. And will land bad juju on whoever does it.

 

[Hossfly]

Washington Post has this journalistic tactic of listing 'take-aways' from whatever hearing had just completed.
WaPo ain't alone in doing that...right-leaning 'The Hill' does it. So does left-lean 'Politico' do it. As does the New York Times.

I like it.

It is a journalistic 'shorthand' device to convey information. They know people are busy, have many sources of information. So they offer a 'formatting' to mentally organize it to make it more accessible to a greater number of people. It is a way to 'deliver-the-news'.

Anyway, this is how tonight's Washington Post parsed today's hearing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/12/january-6-hearing-extremism-trump/

"5 takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing on extremism and Trump"

1. ‘Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by arguing he is willfully blind’
2. A throw-down fight between Trump advisers over election fraud — leading to a crucial step forward for Jan. 6.
3. What happened after Trump’s ‘Be there, will be wild’ tweet.
4. How did so many people become radicalized off a lie?
5. Another big hearing next week
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Notably, WaPo did not mention Cheney's warning that witness tampering is bad juju. And will land bad juju on whoever does it.

Hearings are a goddamn farce.

 

[Chillicothe]

Hearings are a goddamn farce.

Have you watched all of them?
Have you read about all of them?
What do you know about them? And how do you know it?

 

[Chillicothe]

'5 Take Aways'........from 'The Hill'

Five takeaways from a Jan. 6 hearing focused on Trump post-election chaos

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol painted a portrait of a White House in post-election chaos at its latest hearing on Tuesday before closing with a bombshell: Rep. Liz …

thehill.com

1. Trump may have sought to influence a witness
2. Trump tweet galvanized extremists (Note: this issue, the 'will be wild' statement has been discussed on USMB regularly)
3. Clash in Oval Office highlighted Trump's desperation
4. Those outside the White House knew Trump plans to march to rally. (Note: this too has been discussed here. Why no alert to the DC or Capitol police? Why no request for a 'march' permit? Clearly, clearly...NOT a spontaneous event.)
5. Trump's campaign manager, Brad Pascal, credited him with inciting the riot. (Another high echelon insider Republican condemning Don Trump.)

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Regarding #1 above: With the information offered so far I can't see this going very far. The call could have been intended to be innocent. Maybe just to discuss baseball scores or women's body parts. But.......but the value in Cheney so publicly mentioning it is that it will 'ice' any further attempts by either Don Trump or his enablers to influence witnesses.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[scruffy]

but.......but the value in Cheney so publicly mentioning it is that it will 'ice' any further attempts by either Don Trump or his enablers to influence witnesses.

Wrong.

It will encourage Don Trump and his enablers to ram it up Nan Pelosi's backside, now that they've found yet another weakness in her act.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

'5 Take Aways'........from 'The Hill'

1. Trump may have sought to influence a witness
2. Trump tweet galvanized extremists (Note: this issue, the 'will be wild' statement has been discussed on USMB regularly)
3. Clash in Oval Office highlighted Trump's desperation
4. Those outside the White House knew Trump plans to march to rally. (Note: this too has been discussed here. Why no alert to the DC or Capitol police? Why no request for a 'march' permit? Clearly, clearly...NOT a spontaneous event.)
5. Trump's campaign manager, Brad Pascal, credited him with inciting the riot. (Another high echelon insider Republican condemning Don Trump.)

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Regarding #1 above: With the information offered so far I can't see this going very far. The call could have been intended to be innocent. Maybe just to discuss baseball scores or women's body parts. But.......but the value in Cheney so publicly mentioning it is that it will 'ice' any further attempts by either Don Trump or his enablers to influence witnesses.

I'm so disappointed that Trump didn't find Pence and run him over with the Presidential Limo after he subdued the Secret Service agents to commandeer the vehicle. He could have then appointed Rudy as VP who would have declared Trump "President for Life!" Viva La Revolution!!

 

[Chillicothe]

From this morning's New York Times:

"Four takeaways from the latest hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee."

1. Trump Tweet mobilized crowd for January 6th.
2. New evidence showed plans to go to the Capitol
3. An epic Oval clash.
4. More warnings against witness tampering.

Four takeaways from the latest hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee. (Published 2022)

The hearing relied on testimony from Trump aides, right-wing media commentators and militia members to illustrate key events leading up to the Capitol riot.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Chillicothe]

This morning's 'Politico' did not go with the now familiar format of 'takeaways' in an enumerated listing. Rather, they did stand-alone articles on what they called 'Highlights'. I'm not gonna copy & paste all that. It's a big enchilada.

But the primary 'Highlight' they featured was Don Trump's agency in the machinations for the Election Denier scheming and in the riot itself. In short, Don Trump was not being tricked by Mike Flynn, Rudy G., Krakenpot Powell, Roger Stone, PillowBoy, or the 'Overstock' guy. They persuasively presented Don Trump as the CEO of the events.....before, during and after January 6th.


From Politico:

"The Jan. 6 select committee’s Tuesday hearing, ostensibly focused on extremism, drove clearly toward a subtle goal: Stripping away doubt that Donald Trump was anything but a full participant in a plot to subvert the 2020 election.

The former president wasn’t duped into disbelieving his own loss by fringe lawyers and advisers, select committee members argued. Rather, he assembled that squad of enablers, overrode his more sober-minded staff and forged the path that led to the chaos engulfing the Capitol...."

‘His own choices’: Select panel says Trump — not his advisers — set Jan. 6 in motion

The Capitol riot committee mounted its best effort during Tuesday's hearing to underscore Trump’s direct hand in key moments on Jan. 6 and in the weeks before.

www.politico.com

 

[Hossfly]

Have you watched all of them?
Have you read about all of them?
What do you know about them? And how do you know it?

Won't watch them, won't read about them. What I know about them is that it's a one sided white washing with no witnesses for the defense allowed. End of story.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

From this morning's New York Times:

"Four takeaways from the latest hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee."

1. Trump Tweet mobilized crowd for January 6th.
2. New evidence showed plans to go to the Capitol
3. An epic Oval clash.
4. More warnings against witness tampering.

Four takeaways from the latest hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee. (Published 2022)

The hearing relied on testimony from Trump aides, right-wing media commentators and militia members to illustrate key events leading up to the Capitol riot.

www.nytimes.com

1. Bombshell

2. Bombshell!!

3. BOMBSHELL

4. BOMBSHELL!!!

 

[Chillicothe]

Re: the Select Committee hearings:

"Won't watch them, won't read about them."

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'Won' watch.' 'Won't read.
And yet, the good poster Hossfly comes on to this adult political discussion venue and offers us his opinion about the hearings.

Think about that poster Hossfly.
Your offered opinion is based on no knowledge.
Think about how that makes you look.
It makes your avatar look frivolous, unserious, foolish.

Your avatar looks like just an empty suit. An 'All hat, no cows' cowboy.

I think you know, poster Hoss, it ain't a good look.

I mean no disrespect.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

................and then nobody cared.

 

[Chillicothe]

It bears repeating: (from post #9) ----
"But the primary 'Highlight' they featured was Don Trump's agency in the machinations for the Election Denier scheming and in the riot itself.
In short, Don Trump was not being tricked by Mike Flynn, Rudy G., Krakenpot Powell, Roger Stone, PillowBoy, or the 'Overstock' guy. They (the Committee) persuasively presented Don Trump as the CEO of the events.....before, during and after January 6th.

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I repeat the above because January 6th was a tragic day for America. Most surely so for the 5 (?) people who died in that event, or the several who died subsequent to it. And tragic for their families, it goes without saying.

The events and the portent of January 6th is now, and will continue to be a rolling tragedy for all those duped & snookered who have been charged with crimes of one degree or another. It has cost them jobs, money, time, respect, reputation..... as we heard yesterday from the cabinet-shop super from Ohio....it cost him his job and his family their house.

The testimony is clear...and repetitive.....Don Trump was emphatically informed on multiple occasions that his 'Election Denial' scheme was fraudulent. He was told often enough by people who were in a position to know. They informed him repeatedly. Yet, he put in motion this event that turned into an American tragedy that will stain his legacy and besmirched America's reputation. "Come to DC. It will be wild."

Don Trump was the willing director of all those ugly events.....before J6, during, and after.
He knew the militia thugs would be present. He was told multiple times they were armed. He did not alert the Capitol police or the DC police that we was going to direct that angered armed mob at our legislators. He didn't even tell the vast vast majority of legislators themselves.

These 7 or 8 hearings so far have been a great service to America. We need to know who did what and to what effect. And hold them accountable for trashing America's reputation.

IMHO

 

[buckeye45_73]

Have you watched all of them?
Have you read about all of them?
What do you know about them? And how do you know it?

Yeah, we don't care.......you lefties keep telling us it's not a trial, so there is no cross examination, there are no republicans on the comittee, sorry it's a shit show......

 

[Winco]

Hearings are a goddamn farce.

Talking about something you haven’t watch or even read about.

As earlier poster said, “all hat, no cattle”

Yeah, we don't care.......you lefties keep telling us it's not a trial, so there is no cross examination, there are no republicans on the comittee, sorry it's a shit show......

There are in Fact 2 (R) on the committee
Don’t lie.

 

[Chillicothe]

there are no republicans on the comittee,

Well, that is a foolish and silly statement. Or, it is simple ignorance. No disrespect intended.

As poster Winco stated in post #16 there are two Republicans on the Committee. Both with voting records that support GOP Administration proposals more times than what Jim Jordan or Matt Gaetz have.

But, they are both...Cheney and Kissinger....skeptical of Don Trump's character, motives and actions.
And that, as we have seen, is the single defining measure of their suitability to be a Conservative.
Yes, it is foolish. But it is what it is.

Notably, poster 'buckeye'......there have been far more....far more.....long time loyal Republicans, and Trump supporters, who have testified in front of this Committee than there have been Democrats. The witness table is way way overweighted with the views of Republicans. With hardly any views from Democrats, Green Party, or any other political persuasion. It has been Republicans that we have seen raising their right hand and swearing to tell the truth.

 

[Dragonlady]

Wrong.

It will encourage Don Trump and his enablers to ram it up Nan Pelosi's backside, now that they've found yet another weakness in her act.

Scruffy, you can't possibly be this stupid, can you????? You continue to under estimate the Speaker of the House, and what she is doing.

Nothing has ever been "shoved up NP's backside". In fact, Pelosi has brilliantly outmaneuvered not only Trump, but the entire Republican Party with the January 6th Hearings. They're breaking Trump's hold on both the Party, and the American people. I would be very surprised if Trump isn't indicted at the end of all of this.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Talking about something you haven’t watch or even read about.

As earlier poster said, “all hat, no cattle”


There are in Fact 2 (R) on the committee
Don’t lie.

Who? Adam and Liz? BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

 

[Hossfly]

Re: the Select Committee hearings:


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'Won' watch.' 'Won't read.
And yet, the good poster Hossfly comes on to this adult political discussion venue and offers us his opinion about the hearings.

Think about that poster Hossfly.
Your offered opinion is based on no knowledge.
Think about how that makes you look.
It makes your avatar look frivolous, unserious, foolish.

Your avatar looks like just an empty suit. An 'All hat, no cows' cowboy.

I think you know, poster Hoss, it ain't a good look.

I mean no disrespect.

Thanks, kid. Yo mammy must be proud of her widdle boy.