January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[emailking]

Giuliani meets with January 6 committee for more than 9 hours

Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, two sources told CNN.

Giuliani’s original deposition with the committee had been postponed after the former New York City mayor asked to record the interview, with both audio and video. At the time, Giuliani’s attorney Robert Costello said the committee rejected that request.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/rudy-giuliani-january-6-committee/index.html

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1528428591331033088

Amazingly, this isn't even in the top 3 craziest things said by speakers at the rally for Kandiss Taylor, the bat**** insane candidate for Georgia governor.  Check out Ron's twitter feed for some more doozies.

[emailking]

^ he's got the date wrong too. Trump was banned on Twitter on the 8th not the 7th.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/JaneMayerNYer/status/1527693240098598912

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

January 6 committee investigating Capitol tour given by GOP lawmaker on the eve of the insurrection

The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has formally requested information from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Georgia, about a US Capitol tour he gave to visitors the day before rioters stormed the building.

In a letter to Loudermilk, the committee said they are looking for more information about the purpose of the tour and its participants.

“Based on our review of evidence in the Select Committee’s possession, we believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021,” Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, wrote in the letter.

“The foregoing information raises questions to which the Select Committee must seek answers. Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021,” they added.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/barry-loudermilk-capitol-tour-january-6/index.html

Lol.  Google - layout of the U.S. capitol building.  You won't need a tour.

UNLESS say you want info on " from what ive seen, patrols usually pass here at such and such interval, but not after such and such o'clock"

Nope, sorry.  Those tours aren't an opportunity for hours long surveillance.

[Sir Mohamed]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1528428591331033088

Amazingly, this isn't even in the top 3 craziest things said by speakers at the rally for Kandiss Taylor, the bat**** insane candidate for Georgia governor.  Check out Ron's twitter feed for some more doozies.

If that was actually true, wouldn't Trump have been a total failure in not preventing it? He was still prez on January 6 and before when the "left" supposedly plotted this.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1528712143431995392

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1528712143431995392

Should be interesting.
Looking forward to it.

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1529511280079519744
https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1529515442565529603
https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1529515855612190722

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1530687744808062976

I'm just the January 6th committee would be glad to talk to Mr. Trump about his crowd size on January 6th, on camera, and at great length.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1530687744808062976

I'm just the January 6th committee would be glad to talk to Mr. Trump about his crowd size on January 6th, on camera, and at great length.

What the hell is with trump, and his constant obsession with the "size of his crowd/audience"?

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1530687744808062976

I'm just the January 6th committee would be glad to talk to Mr. Trump about his crowd size on January 6th, on camera, and at great length.

What the hell is with trump, and his constant obsession with the "size of his crowd/audience"?

The same answer to anything involving Trump: his ego

[emailking]

Grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress

A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee’s investigation.

According to the Justice Department, Navarro will make an appearance in court Friday at 2:30 p.m. ET in Washington.

He faces two contempt counts: one for his failure to produce documents demanded by the committee and the second for failing to show up for subpoenaed testimony before House investigators.

The House had voted in April to refer Navarro to the Justice Department for not complying with the select committee’s February subpoena.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/peter-navarro-indicted/index.html

[emailking]

The other day Navarro said he would cooperate with the Justice Department subpoena since he's near the end of his life and doesn't want to spend a year of it in jail, but that he would not respond to Jan 6 committee subpoena.

[emailking]

Navarro has been taken into custody, awaiting court appearance.

[emailking]

Navarro said they violated the Constitution by arresting him today.

He also said everybody needs to buy his book on Amazon because it will be his legal defense fund.

He said a lot of other gibberish too lol

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1532776813692342272

[emailking]

And at the end he says the jury acquitted Sussmann because Democrats can't help but lie, or something.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I think a rerun of Friends might get better ratings than the J6 committee gets in primetime.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/1533890308668280833

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1534706400915402752

There's something pathetically funny about watching Rubio trying to defend the coup attempt that could easily have ended with his death at the hands of an enraged mob.

The reality is that Republicans are hopelessly broken as a political party. The Jan 6th committee is the last feeble effort of our Republic. If it doesn't finish them off - and I really doubt it will - sane, decent Americans need to start viewing their options using Germany in 1933 as a lens. And none of those options are particularly good; flight to functioning democracies seems to have been the best of many poor choices for non-Nazi Germans. I don't know if Americans have any better ones. Hunker down in blue states and prepare for the painful disintegration of the United States, perhaps.

[emailking]

Very excited about tomorrow.

[Inmate Trump]

There's something pathetically funny about watching Rubio trying to defend the coup attempt that could easily have ended with his death at the hands of an enraged mob.

The reality is that Republicans are hopelessly broken as a political party. The Jan 6th committee is the last feeble effort of our Republic. If it doesn't finish them off - and I really doubt it will - sane, decent Americans need to start viewing their options using Germany in 1933 as a lens. And none of those options are particularly good; flight to functioning democracies seems to have been the best of many poor choices for non-Nazi Germans. I don't know if Americans have any better ones. Hunker down in blue states and prepare for the painful disintegration of the United States, perhaps.

People call me a doomer or whatever, but we really do live in extraordinary times in that we will likely see the destruction of American democracy in our lifetimes.

At the hands of the Republican Party.

[Inmate Trump]

People call me a doomer or whatever, but we really do live in extraordinary times in that we will likely see the destruction of American democracy in our lifetimes.

At the hands of the Republican Party.

It's a little funny that my Jewish family's plan is fleeing back to Germany after all these years. We're lucky to have a marriage that might allow us to escape. Or maybe it's not funny at all, just sort of sick. I feel uncomfortable even posting here most of the time because some blue avatars are just waiting to be able to openly say what they'll do or tolerate happening to their neighbors.

A few of them, yes. Most of the others would denounce such posters but then gladly support dangerous people for public office, like Trump. And that's even worse, in a way.

[emailking]

FBI arrests Michigan gubernatorial candidate on charges related to involvement in January 6 riot

A GOP Michigan gubernatorial candidate, Ryan Kelley, was arrested Thursday on misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, according to the Justice Department.

"Ryan Kelley, 40, of Allendale, Michigan, was arrested this morning on misdemeanor charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach. He was arrested in Allendale. Mr. Kelley is to make his initial appearance this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan," said Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Columbia.

The Detroit FBI field office confirmed Kelley's arrest and said his home was searched on Thursday morning.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/fbi-arrest-michigan-gubernatorial-candidate-ryan-kelley/index.html