Texts Reveal GOP Reps Mixed Pardon Requests with Help Overturning Election
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Donald Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy on 6 January that connected the White House's scheme to stop Joe Biden's certification with the insurrection, say two senior sources familiar with the matter.The committee's new focus on the potential for a conspiracy marks an aggressive escalation in its inquiry as it confronts evidence that suggests the former president potentially engaged in criminal conduct egregious enough to warrant a referral to the justice department.
House investigators are interested in whether Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy after communications turned over by Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others suggested the White House coordinated efforts to stop Biden's certification, the sources said.
The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack show how frantically Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
They also reveal how many members of Congress and other political allies were part of the chaotic push to overturn Trump's loss. And, in at least four cases, the text messages show political allies explicitly mixed requests for presidential pardons with help on the election efforts that were so important to Trump.
At least three of those requests were subsequently granted by Trump. They raise fresh, thorny, legal and ethical questions about the manner in which Trump wielded pardon power to help allies during his final days in office.
Republican Representatives Rick Allen, Ted Budd, Paul Gosar, and Vernon Jones each requested pardons for family friends, other Republicans, the private border wall crooks, and law enforcement officials accused of various crimes—and were granted them.
Originally posted by Adam_PoElock him up.
The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack show how frantically Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results of the 2020 election.They also reveal how many members of Congress and other political allies were part of the chaotic push to overturn Trump's loss. And, in at least four cases, the text messages show political allies explicitly mixed requests for presidential pardons with help on the election efforts that were so important to Trump.
At least three of those requests were subsequently granted by Trump. They raise fresh, thorny, legal and ethical questions about the manner in which Trump wielded pardon power to help allies during his final days in office.
Republican Representatives Rick Allen, Ted Budd, Paul Gosar, and Vernon Jones each requested pardons for family friends, other Republicans, the private border wall crooks, and law enforcement officials accused of various crimes—and were granted them.
Feds Access Emails of Multiple MAGATard Conspirators
Federal investigators have obtained access to several email accounts, a draft autobiography, and other writings in which Republican Representative Scott Perry, Donald Trump elections attorney John Eastman, and former Justice Department officials Jeffrey Clark and Ken Klukowski discussed the 2020 election, according to a newly released order in the D.C. District Court.
The order unsealed Thursday indicates how broad a net federal prosecutors have cast for information from top Trump backers as part of the sprawling criminal investigation into January 6, 2021 and efforts to impede the transfer of presidential power.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the D.C. District Court allowed federal investigators to access email messages sent to and from Perry, who pushed false election fraud claims after the 2020 election and worked with Eastman, Clark, and Klukowski as they tried to overturn Trump's election loss.
Biden to honor police, election officials in Jan. 6 ceremony
U.S. President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 12 people on Friday during a ceremony at the White House to mark two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a White House official said.
The award, one of the country's highest civilian honors, will be given to law enforcement officers, election workers and state and local officials, the official said.
Biden will also deliver remarks on Friday on the second anniversary of the U.S. Capitol attacks, in which supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the building in a failed bid to block Congress from certifying the 2020 election outcome. -snip
24 Months Since the January 6 Attack on the Capitol
Friday, January 6, 2023, will mark 24 months since the attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election results. The government continues to investigate losses that resulted from the breach of the Capitol, including damage to the Capitol building and grounds, both inside and outside the building. The approximate losses suffered as a result of the siege at the Capitol totaled $2,734,783. That amount reflects, among other things, damage to the Capitol building and grounds and certain costs borne by the U.S. Capitol Police. -snip
Criminal charges:
-More than 284 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including approximately 99 individuals_who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.
-Approximately_140_police officers were assaulted January 6 at the Capitol, including about_80_from the U.S. Capitol Police and about_60_from the Metropolitan Police Department._
-Approximately_11_individuals have been arrested on a series of charges that relate to assaulting a member of the media, or destroying their equipment, on January 6.
-Approximately 860 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds. Of those, 91 defendants have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
-Approximately 59 defendants have been charged with destruction of
government property, and_approximately 36 defendants have been charged with theft of government property.
-More than 295 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.
-Approximately_50_defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either: (a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding, (b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder, (c) conspiracy to injure an officer, (d) seditious conspiracy, or some combination of the four._-snip
It's a damn shame that the majority of these Trumper Domestic Terrorist got away, or will likely get away with their crimes.