Don Winslow: Dear media, Trump wanting the magnetometers removed is the lead. Not the ketchup.

[highplainsdem]

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[dalton99a]

1. Yep, go down there and kill the Democrats

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[ChazInAz]

20. Straight out of the Reich's playbook.

He pictured himself as Hitler riding into a conquered Paris, or Lenin striding into the Duma.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

62. He loves his cult, in part, for the way they share his delusional, inflated view of himself.

They have all those memes of him, for instance, shirtless with a muscle-bound, buff body or with his face replacing the face of Jesus in one of those stereotypical White Jesus paintings.

[yardwork]

40. Also, I think the fact that he tried to strangle his security guy is worse than lunging at the whee

[inthewind21]

72. Who said

anything about trying to strangle his security guy?

[NH Ethylene]

71. Outstanding headlines!

"He deserves it" should also be a prominent take-home from the testimony.

[Kingofalldems]

2. That's a crime right there.

[intrepidity]

3. And I thought it was that Pence deserved to be hanged nt

[mnhtnbb]

4. He wanted the people with the weapons up close to hear him incite them.

Why isn't this orange sack of $hit in jail awaiting trial?

[inthewind21]

73. Seriously?

You didn't know ALL presidents have been speaking from behind bullet proof shields since the 80's?

[dchill]

5. Followed closely by assaulting his Secret Service detail.

Fuck the ketchup. It's not against the law. It's just against the wall.

[Fritz Walter]

17. While THEY were risking THEIR lives

…to protect his own bloated Gluteous Maximus from AR.15-armed terrorists.

You don’t want to know what I’d do in those circumstances!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Help. I missed the ketchup reference?

[dchill]

29. That day, he was served lunch. He threw a tantrum...

...and threw his dish at the wall, getting ketchup on the wall.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. Oh ya... Like a baby in a high chair. Off topic but have to say just saw Jamie Raskin

being interviewed on CNN. I have to call bullshit on this and I love the guy. They asked him if committee got corroboration for the incident in the limo that Cassidy described today. He said he didn't know. Right. I wonder what would have been wrong with telling the truth. That the secret service is probably sworn to secrecy but they wouldn't deny? But I think it's an insult to our intelligence to make us believe he doesn't know

[dchill]

35. I think it's likely that charges are being considered...

...and that testimony from those involved must be heard. But Raskin can't talk about it. Yet.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

44. That's totally valid! Yet don't think they should

Have been on TV then? The lack of transparency shown through loud and clear. To me anyway Especially Schiff. Don't get me wrong - they are great Dems that I admire to the moon and back. Just wish we'd hire a team of media savvy experts to advise. Broken record - said that since minute one of this trump travesty.

[dchill]

46. They're just giving everyone one more chance...

...to come in from the cold and testify.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

48. Has anyone posted about any oaths of silence?

[dchill]

49. Oaths to whom?

Not that I've seen.

[librechik]

74. calls were made to potential witnesses stressing the need for "loyalty"

and staying on the team. That is the intimidation media are talking about. We don't know who made the calls or exactly who received them yet, AFAIK

[Laura PourMeADrink]

45. Think I'd advise.. " can't talk about that right now"

And it creates mystery to boot

[Sancho]

36. Time to send the forensic unit to the White House and check the walls!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. Evidently you don't think that should have been brought up?

In retrospect... Irrelevant I guess. His temper? Wingnuts probably LOVE that. However, first time I feel safe to say - he's done in running ? Or is it ruining? the country.

[misanthrope]

6. Correct but ketchup is a better visual

It's that simple.

[MissMillie]

14. Didn't do a thing for me

No strain at all to imagine TFG got angry. Angry isn't illegal.

[Delmette2.0]

30. Trump had a temper tantrum, one of many temper tantrums.

Immature, childish temper tantrums.

[MissMillie]

32. exactly

not what I'd call front page news

[TigressDem]

54. Assaulting your own Secret Service for keeping you out of limo is.

He wanted to be down there leading the mob so he could incite them in person.

That is why the fact that they focused on him throwing a tantrum rather than throttling his own security detail is a bit of a misdirect.

[MissMillie]

63. I guess I still think wanting to shut down the "mags" is bigger news.

"They're not here to hurt me."

For one thing, it shows that all the false-flag B.S. was exactly that--B.S.


Overall, though, here's the big stuff for me:

Meadows was in contact with the Willard Hotel "war room" the night before (dialing into them on 1/5 after being advised to NOT go there)... and he had told his aide that "a lot of stuff" had been PLANNED--stuff that wasn't going to be good.

And that Rudolph, after just meeting with Meadows, had also relayed that things were going to happen (implying that things had been PLANNED).

That's conspiracy.

And that both of these guys had requested pardons.

I posted yesterday that this particular information points to conspiracy and that there's only one more rung on the ladder to go. (My post got no traction, but that might be because I was doing a "Captain Obvious" impersonation.)

[barbtries]

64. it also proves

that they knew those were their people all along and when they tried to blame it on the left it was complete bullshit.

[MissMillie]

65. yeah, I posted that somewhere on DU this morning (n/t)

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[Botany]

7. Trump wanted more violence and bloodshed so he could declare martial law and then suspend ...

... the transfer of power.

[grumpyduck]

10. Sure sounding more and more like it.

[Botany]

11. Hey if the republicans want to run showing their support of Trump this fall let 'em.

He is a traitor to America. End of story.

[triron]

26. Yep. I call it TREASON. Send Trump to guantanomo.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Yes. Witness needed to state just that.

[catbyte]

19. I'm SO GLAD that, for lack of a better term, "our side" decided to sit that one out.

If there had been counterprotesters it would've given that thing a perfect excuse to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution.

The more these hearings go on, the more I realize just how close we came. And I thought the movies "Seven Days in May" and "The Manchurian candidate" were far-fetched. Thank God the military held firm even though it's still sketchy why it took so long for the National Guard to show up.

[Boomerproud]

22. The counter protesters would have had their heads beaten

in, dragged away or worse. Instead I saw with my own eyes a LE Officer gently lead a Trumper down the Capitol steps. Where was the yellow police tape certifying a crime scene (even after more than an hour after the breach). If I'm wrong about the last point I will stand corrected.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Well glad you said that. I was having trouble trying to understand why he's so desperately wanted

To go down there. First thing that came to my mind was that it actually helped him, because why would you want to go down there if he knew there was danger? Then I thought well maybe his plan was to go down there and stop the crowd in which he would have looked like an angel.

I definitely points back to his deep need to be idolized. And what you are suggesting makes sense too.

By the way, how did he know that the crowd wouldn't hurt him.

[TigressDem]

55. Yup

[Wounded Bear]

8. Excellent point...nt

[Cha]

9. Rt💕TY & Don Winslow!

Save Our Democracy in 2022 & 2024!

[CloudWatcher]

13. They're not here to hurt me.

He knew they were armed. He knew they were there to hurt someone. And he knew it wasn't him. He knew.

[erronis]

16. He knew: They won't hurt me. How did he know that? Why were they armed?

[rubbersole]

34. They can't pee unless they're armed.

It's at the core of their personalities. Kinda sad.

[yardwork]

41. Because he's been telling them what to do for months.

He told the Proud Boys to "stand down and stand by" months earlier. Then he told them to show up on January 6. And he had go-betweens like Roger Stone providing details.

[jaxexpat]

15. Would anyone want to venture a theory of how the day would have gone if.....

Obama had called for the removal of the mags so his crowd could be armed. Had assaulted his SS attachment as they drove him to the White House. Thrown his plate into the wall of the oval office.

[TigressDem]

56. Biden would have hit him with Article 25 and been President until Obama came back to reality. nt

[ffr]

18. Premeditated, the conscience of a criminal mind. Russian loving Trump

and his Russian loving cronies.

[NellieStarbuck]

21. "They're not going to hurt ME."

[Rebl2]

23. He said

take away the mags because he knew they would storm the place and kill members of Congress and Pence. He did not care.

[Evolve Dammit]

28. And he hoped for more violence and death. Lock him up. We can't have a repeat.

[TigressDem]

57. Lock him up. In stocks so we can throw tomatoes and PIES at him.... his phobia!!!

Then to the guillotine?

Let's be FRENCH for a day, nez pas?

[Evolve Dammit]

79. While I like that idea a lot I'm thinking his more primal fear: shark tank.

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. There is SO much more important than the damned ketchup.

[cloudboy07]

33. LIKE TREASON & THAT'S LEAVENWORTH!

[Ferrets are Cool]

38. Yup

[TigressDem]

58. Or a firing squad.

Hey, tRump, we're giving you a 21 gun salute.

Oh how nice.

Wait, why are you blind folding me?

So you can hear better.

[inthewind21]

75. Treason?

Yeah, don't count your chickens on that one since it doesn't apply.

[TigressDem]

80. If the Russia connection could be proved....

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim

§2381. Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.


CREATING THE WHOLE MAGA GROUP and aiming them at Mike Pence....


§2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms "organizes" and "organize", with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.

[liberal N proud]

37. Smoking gun?

[kskiska]

39. Maybe it would have been better if he HAD gone to the Capitol.

That would have absolutely sealed his fate.

[maxsolomon]

43. Probably would have led to serious bloodshed.

As it was the mob didn't use their guns, which we now know they had.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Twitter replies:

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[SunSeeker]

50. K & R & Retweeted!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

51. Agree

[johnp3907]

52. Lede.

[pecosbob]

60. Tastes great

[highplainsdem]

61. Both spellings are correct. Link:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead

[Ford_Prefect]

53. Trump wanted to march in with his armed goons and take the Capitol with force of arms.

It would have been his big Al Capone moment.

He knew in advance they would be armed. It had been planned that way for weeks by whoever was steering it inside the White House and the War room. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers made their plans at least a month or more prior to the 6th. I have no doubt whatever that whoever the conduit was between Trump and armed militia knew in advance and told Trump about it.

[catchnrelease]

59. If he was so sure that he wasn't going to be a target

Then he knew that the crowds were NOT in fact antifa or BLM etc. Those were all HIS people.

[inthewind21]

76. Sure we did

Just like we noticed Biden's, Obamas, W's, Clinton's and Regan's. SOP for President's.

[IronLionZion]

68. Denying it only encourages more of it

The next authoritarian would be dictator of America may not be as incompetent

[hay rick]

69. Misdirection to hide the most damning evidence in plain sight.

The media always is ready to keep the door open to serving future authoritarians.

[BradBo]

70. OMG, so thats what he meant!!

Hes dangerous.