A Democrat sits in the White House. Republicans seem well-positioned to take back the House in a midterm election that historically disempowers the President’s party.
So, like clockwork, Republicans have begun fleshing out their plans for a tried and true tactic: threaten global economic catastrophe in order to extort political concessions from the President.Â
Continue reading “Get Ready: Republicans Are Flirting With Detonating The Global Economy…Again”Our document for the day is this email released under the Freedom of Information Act. It is an email dated January 13th, 2021 in which the writer informs the then associate deputy director of the FBI, Paul Abbate, how a substantial portion of FBI personnel were in sympathy with the January 6th insurrectionists.
Continue reading “What We’ve Known and Feared”Just before the Jan. 6 committee unanimously voted to subpoena Donald Trump for testimony, we also learned that the Supreme Court had refused to hear the Trump team’s appeal in the Mar-a-Lago records case. The court unanimously sided with the Justice Department, which asked the High Court to not interfere in a lower court’s decision to keep certain documents out of the special master’s review.
Not a great day for Trump.
My colleagues Josh Kovensky and David Kurtz hosted a live Twitter discussion just after the hearing ended this afternoon, breaking down both big bits of news. We recorded it, in case you were busy. Listen here:
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Let’s Break It Down”After President Trump ran out of options to overturn the 2020 election via the courts, he was furious.
Continue reading “Trump Worried That If He Didn’t Steal The Election, Then ‘People Would Know’ He Lost It”Our Josh Kovensky and David Kurtz are discussing today’s hearing news live as we speak. Join now if you’re free. We’ll have a recording up later in case you missed it.
Link here:
TPM Reader TK responds to the debate we’re carrying on below …
Continue reading “A Reader Response”The House Jan. 6 Committee is holding its tenth hearing today at 1:00 p.m. ET. The panel has signaled that it is winding down, potentially wrapping up the investigation and preparing a report on its findings as the November midterms approach.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Hearing To Unveil New Evidence As Committee Pushes Toward Conclusion”A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss key Senate races and a recent Supreme Court order that’ll add some chaos to the mix.
You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.
There are many striking parts to this short video. The one that sticks with me is the part where Pelosi says what amounts to, or I interpret as, “let’s pretend this was the White House or the Pentagon or some other building you gave a crap about.”
Here’s more extended video which is very worth watching in full.
You knew the Jan. 6 committee had to have another card up its sleeve for its last hearing before the midterm elections (and perhaps its last one ever). The previews the committee provided of what the hearing would focus on were generally underwhelming. But we got a hint at the top of the hearing from chair Bernie Thompson: This is not technically a hearing but a business meeting of the committee, meaning the committee can conduct votes, Thompson said. Now NBC is reporting the committee plans to vote to subpoena former President Trump himself.
