Cipollone denounced 'terrible idea' to seize voting machines

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Pat Cipollone denounced an idea from Sidney Powell, one of Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers, to seize voting machines in battleground states after the 2020 election.

Cipollone, Trump’s former White House counsel, said he believed the suggestion was a “terrible idea” that could sow distrust in American elections.

“To have the federal government seize voting machines, it’s a terrible idea,” Cipollone told the January 6 committee. “That is not how we do things in the United States. There’s no legal authority.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ist-groups-house-committee-us-politics-latest
 
WOW!! A DISAGREEMENT!!!

PLEASE SITE WHAT "CRIME" THAT WAS... :laugh:


HOW MUCH IS THIS GLARINGLY PARTISAN, POLTICAL WITCH HUNT DOG and PONY SHOW COSTING THE TAXPAYERS STUCK IN THE PRES.MORON RECESSION, AS THE STALINIST SPENDOCRATS PISS OUR MONEY AWAY ?
 
The January 6 hearing included detailed descriptions of an alarming, tense meeting at the White House on 18 December, as Donald Trump continued to peddle lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

During the meeting, Trump campaign lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and former national security adviser Michael Flynn urged the then-president to seize voting machines in battleground states.

That idea was sharply criticized by senior administration officials, including Trump adviser Eric Herschmann, who said he considered the suggestions to be “nuts”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ouse-committee-us-politics-latest#maincontent
 
The two witnesses for today’s hearing, Stephen Ayres and Jason Van Tatenhove, have now taken their seats in the hearing room.

Ayres participated in the Capitol insurrection and recently pleaded guilty to one federal charge of disorderly conduct inside a restricted building.

Court documents show that Ayres admitted to traveling to Washington on January 5 to protest against the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Two days before leaving, Ayres posted on Facebook saying, “Mainstream media, social media, Democrat party, FISA courts, Chief Justice John Roberts, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, etc....all have committed TREASON against a sitting U.S. president!!! All are now put on notice by ‘We The People!’”

Van Tatenhove previously served as a spokesperson for the Oath Keepers, one of the far-right groups that helped carry out the violence on January 6, although he left that role before the insurrection took place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ist-groups-house-committee-us-politics-latest
 
BidenPresident said:
The two witnesses for today’s hearing, Stephen Ayres and Jason Van Tatenhove, have now taken their seats in the hearing room.

Ayres participated in the Capitol insurrection and recently pleaded guilty to one federal charge of disorderly conduct inside a restricted building.

Court documents show that Ayres admitted to traveling to Washington on January 5 to protest against the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Two days before leaving, Ayres posted on Facebook saying, “Mainstream media, social media, Democrat party, FISA courts, Chief Justice John Roberts, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, etc....all have committed TREASON against a sitting U.S. president!!! All are now put on notice by ‘We The People!’”

Van Tatenhove previously served as a spokesperson for the Oath Keepers, one of the far-right groups that helped carry out the violence on January 6, although he left that role before the insurrection took place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ist-groups-house-committee-us-politics-latest
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The roster of participants in a group chat known as F.O.S. — or Friends of Stone — highlights how Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime political operative and adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, was involved with a strikingly large number of people who sought to overturn the 2020 election.

There were “Stop the Steal” organizers, right-wing influencers, and more than one failed candidate loyal to Mr. Trump. One participant ran a website that promoted disinformation about the Capitol attack. Another was an officer in the Army Reserve allied with Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/12/us/jan-6-hearing-today-trump
 
Raskin is drawing a connection between Roger Stone, Trump’s longest-serving political adviser, and some of the extremists, mentioning a group chat called Friends of Stone that our colleague Alan Feuer wrote about previously.
 
It wasn’t just members of Trump’s inner circle who were worried about what would transpire on Jan. 6. I recall talking with a Republican congressman in the days before the certification who told me that he knew busloads of his constituents were coming to Washington for the rally, and that he was worried what would happen when they found out that Pence could not legally overturn the election results.

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The committee is featuring clips of far-right activists and personalities using bellicose language to amp up expectations for Jan. 6. Several Republican members of Congress echoed that rhetoric, calling the day the party’s “1776 moment” and suggesting that Trump was the victim of an attempted “coup.”
 
Jan. 6 panel probes ‘unhinged’ meeting, Trump rally call

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday divulged details of an “unhinged” late night meeting at the White House with defeated President Donald Trump’s outside lawyers suggesting the military seize state voting machines in a last-ditch effort to pursue his false claims of voter fraud before he summoned a mob to the U.S. Capitol.

The committee investigating last year’s attack at the Capitol is working to show how far-right extremists answered Trump’s call to come for a big rally in Washington. As dozens of lawsuits and his claims of voter fraud fizzled, Trump met late into the night of Dec. 18 with attorneys at the White House before tweeting the rally invitation — “Be there, will be wild!” Members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups are now facing rare sedition charges over the siege.

“This tweet served as a call to action -- and in some cases a call to arms.” said one panel member, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla.
 
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