New Justice Department emails released by the House Tuesday give a look into the behind-the-scenes machinations around the shady departure of a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney in early January.
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Capitol police inspector general Michael Bolton plans to say Tuesday that on Jan. 6, rioters stole 12 ballistic vests and 12 ballistic helmets that had been strategically placed around the Capitol in case of an emergency.
From TPM Reader JL …
I wanted to pass along some thoughts on vaccinating the world. I don’t claim any particular expertise or even objectivity on the subject, but I do have a perspective that seems a bit contrarian and perhaps worth sharing for that reason alone.
The gist is that I’m fairly optimistic that the world will get vaccinated in not much more than a year. Let me start with a huge caveat, which is that by the world getting vaccinated I mean that the world as a whole will get close to the point where the US will be in a few months or so—approaching 60% of the population fully vaccinated. If that happens the global situation will be vastly improved but it certainly doesn’t mean the pandemic will be over. How not over it will be will depend on variants, ability/willingness to test & trace, and a myriad of other factors.
Former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) acknowledged Monday that he was part of the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol during the attack on Jan. 6, after a Twitter account devoted to tracking down participants in the attack placed him at the scene.
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The ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee slammed the acting Capitol police chief’s last-minute decision not to attend a Tuesday hearing on January 6, calling her excuse “pathetic.”
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Here’s what caught our attention.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a trove of emails this morning that laid out how Trump persistently tried to pressure then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to take up the legal challenge to the 2020 election results on the basis of MAGAland’s ridiculous conspiracy theories.
What’s next? Democrats are demanding that ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and top DOJ officials involved in the pressure campaign to appear for a transcribed interview.
There’s “momentum” building for the watered-down infrastructure proposal being crafted by a bipartisan group of 10 senators, according to CNN … but how much is there, really?
Arizona Secretary of State and Democratic 2022 gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post urging Senate Democrats to pass the For The People Act.
Leading voting rights advocate Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is hinting that he and his fellow activists could soon be holding “non-violent sit-ins” at Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) office after the West Virginia Democrat came out against the bill.
The House will be holding two hearings on the Capitol insurrection where Capitol Police IG Michael Bolton and FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the Oversight Committee and the Administration Committee, respectively.
Josh Mandel, one of Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) GOP challengers, made a trip to the sketchy Maricopa County vote audit and posted this bizarre video about it:
I guess Mandel's comms team didn't make the trip out west https://t.co/8oAXQBD3oJ
— Tyler Buchanan (@Tylerjoelb) June 14, 2021
“These 25 rainbow flag-waving corporations donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years” – Popular Information
A Shake Shack manager is suing several NYPD police officers and unions over the cops’ bogus claims that they had been served milkshakes that had been spiked with bleach.
Check out how each of the officers get described in the court doc:
(SDNY) – Manhattan Shake Shack manager sues NYPD unions for defamation over last summer's false allegations of poisoning officers with bleach contaminated milk shakes last summer. pic.twitter.com/UW9y8oinvy
— JOSH RUSSELL (@jruss_jruss) June 15, 2021
After visiting the Holocaust Museum yesterday, far-right conspiracy theorist and open racist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-SC) announced yesterday that the Holocaust was bad and that “it happened.”
Trump’s having a tough time finding someone who’ll publish his book.
This didn’t use to be controversial. #flagday pic.twitter.com/azsUwItMGp
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 14, 2021
Joe Biden is going to seize your refrigerator. pic.twitter.com/Dtb408kW67
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) June 15, 2021
please help me pic.twitter.com/Z7pJmaDQ7m
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) June 15, 2021
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) told the U.S. Justice Department Monday that that DOJ was “supporting the hysterical outcries of leftist pundits on cable television” when it sent a letter last month inquiring about the state’s partisan recount of the 2020 election.
As the Jan. 6 insurrection at Congress worsened, Capitol police and D.C. officials began to scramble for help.
New emails show how former President Donald Trump raced to begin a pressure campaign on the eventual replacement to then-Attorney General Bill Barr, pushing the new top official to boost his false claims of election fraud even before announcing that Barr would step down.
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One of my subsidiary frustrations in the infrastructure debate and legislative process is how difficult it is even to make sense of what’s going on. I’ve mentioned in a few posts that this is not only a research or reporting problem. It’s hard to have good messaging for what you’re trying to do, build public support or keep supporters engaged, if even those whose job it is to make sense of things, who understand a lot of the jargon and technicalities, struggle to make sense of it. I’ve read a fair amount and discussed it with various people at the highest levels of the process. And I can barely make sense of it.
With that introduction, a few thoughts.
