The Jan. 6 Hearings Have Thrown Team Trump into Chaos
For the past two weeks, a number of the twice-impeached former president’s staunchest apparatchiks and most faithful lieutenants were closely following the televised Jan. 6 committee hearings — not with Trumpian ire, but under the weight of their own sustained anxiety.
They weren’t worried about the moral implications of the hearings’ damning portrait of a president the officials worked for, nor were they worried about our frayed democracy or any potential criminal exposure for Donald Trump. Quite simply, they were worried about themselves.
Three witnesses who have been interviewed by the committee or have handed over tranches of their emails and communications tell Rolling Stone that they are each aware that the investigators are in possession of a variety of their private messages — relating to Trump’s final weeks in office and the Capitol riot — that have not been publicly revealed yet. Some of the messages include these witnesses (each still in good standing in former President Trump’s political and social orbits) exclaiming rough or embarrassing things about the then-president, his daughter Ivanka Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, his then- White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and other MAGA figures. One of the witnesses, all of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about their fears, recalled writing that the riot was “disgraceful” and that they “hated” Trump for starting it.
Despite their grievances during and after Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, these sources — following the lead of every Republican politician and conservative honcho who mattered — each quickly found their ways back to embracing Trump and his ilk in his post-presidency, body counts and anti-democratic plotting be damned. None of them know for sure if the Jan. 6 committee is going to publicly broadcast any of their embarrassing communications, but each has been watching the big screen hanging above the congressional panel, waiting to see if their dirty laundry gets aired, thus potentially jamming up their personal and professional connections.
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and kept their mouths shut about shit he pulled and was going to do, well F**K them
they made their bed, they can lie in it. They deserve every punishment that comes their way.
In one word: republiQans.
... all throughout this hideous chapter of our history others started out saying that they can't support him or what he did or said and then they backtracked and sucked his dick.
And it isn't just once. It's all throughout these last six years. The latest example is after the insurrection, people like McCarthy and McConnell denounced him and then now they are kissing his ass.
How can it be blackmail with so many people? Have they all accepted money from Russia and he threatened to turn them all in if they turn on him? I don't understand. How does he get them all to back down every single fucking time?
