Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro sparred with MSNBC host Ari Melber on Tuesday night as he refused to acknowledge that his half-baked plan concocted with Steve Bannon to overturn the election results was, in fact, a coup.
Continue reading “Navarro Planned A Coup With Bannon On Jan 6. But He Doesn’t Want You To Call It That.”Ron John Wonders Why We’re All Trying To Play God By Getting Vaccinated
Oh ye of little faith. Sen. Ron “just-asking-questions” Johnson (R-WI) is outraged that these high-and-mighty scientists think they can just go around making something that prevents deadly sickness instead of just leaving it to the Almighty.
Continue reading “Ron John Wonders Why We’re All Trying To Play God By Getting Vaccinated”Jan 6 Panel Subpoenaed Phone Records Of Sebastian Gorka
The Jan. 6 Committee issued a subpoena for the phone records of Sebastian Gorka, the bombastic Trump supporter revealed in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Continue reading “Jan 6 Panel Subpoenaed Phone Records Of Sebastian Gorka”Morning Omicroning
Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci has a good column this morning running through a number of key Omicron related pandemic issues, especially the continuing poor messaging and guidance on rapid tests and masks. This is more detail and commentary on issues we’ve discussed – how do you know which mask is best to use, shouldn’t we be using rapid antigen tests to tailor shorter isolation periods, how is it that we’re still facing widespread test shortages two years into this?
Continue reading “Morning Omicroning”Cruz Becomes Latest Republican To Dream Of Punishing Biden ‘Whether It’s Justified Or Not’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that a Republican House would likely impeach President Joe Biden “whether it’s justified or not” on his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz” late last month.
Continue reading “Cruz Becomes Latest Republican To Dream Of Punishing Biden ‘Whether It’s Justified Or Not’”Trump Cancels Planned Jan. 6 Press Conference
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he was cancelling a press conference he’d scheduled for the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Continue reading “Trump Cancels Planned Jan. 6 Press Conference”Where Things Stand: Hate When One Coup Gets In The Way Of My Other Coup
Thanks to Peter Navarro’s new memoir, we now have a first-person account of just how President Trump and his closest friends planned to do a coup on Jan. 6.
But it’s not, Navarro claims, the one we saw violently come into fruition.
TPM detailed some of the latest reports on Navarro’s new book as well as recent interviews with the former White House trade adviser here. But a reasonable conclusion to draw about the purpose of Navarro’s latest press tour is a relatively simple one: He’s attempting to signal that Trump and his team couldn’t possibly be blamed for the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection because that attack actually scuttled their plans for a different, friendlier coup.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Hate When One Coup Gets In The Way Of My Other Coup”Jan. 6 Committee Requests Hannity’s Cooperation And Reveals New Texts To Meadows
The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday requested Fox News anchor Sean Hannity’s cooperation with its investigation and provided more details on his texts to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Requests Hannity’s Cooperation And Reveals New Texts To Meadows”Nothing To See Here: McConnell Claims State Legislatures Would Never Overturn Elections
The wave of partisan attacks against election officials is just … imaginary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday.
Continue reading “Nothing To See Here: McConnell Claims State Legislatures Would Never Overturn Elections”Dem Rips Garland Over DOJ’s ‘Extremely Weak’ Handling Of Jan. 6 Cases
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on Tuesday took aim at Attorney General Merrick Garland, critiquing the Justice Department’s handling of cases related to Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Continue reading “Dem Rips Garland Over DOJ’s ‘Extremely Weak’ Handling Of Jan. 6 Cases”