The Truth Will Come Out As Net Widens Regarding January 6th

[BarryLaverty]

(NY TIMES)

At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net

Luke Broadwater and Mark Mazzetti

Wed, November 10, 2021, 6:55 AM

WASHINGTON — “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House.

“The truth is going to come out,” said Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.”

In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Trump — including Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joe Biden from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger Stone , a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him.

What unfolded at the Willard Hotel in the hours before the Capitol riot has become a prime focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as the panel intensifies its scrutiny into whether there was any coordination or tie between those pushing a legal strategy to overturn the election results and those who stormed the Capitol that day as Congress met to count the electoral votes to formalize Biden’s victory.

This week, the committee issued subpoenas to several of Trump’s advisers who gathered there — including Flynn, Eastman and Kerik — and communications with Giuliani and Stone are among the materials investigators have demanded from the former president, who is stonewalling the inquiry.

On Tuesday, the committee announced 10 new subpoenas that seemed to expand the aperture of the inquiry even further, seeking information from top officials in Trump’s White House including Stephen Miller, his senior adviser; Keith Kellogg, the national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence; Johnny McEntee, the former president’s personnel chief; and others.

In the past two days alone, the panel has nearly doubled the number of subpoenas it has issued, bringing the total to 35.

In recent weeks, the committee has hired new investigators, pored over thousands of documents and heard privately from a stream of voluntary witnesses, from rally planners and former Trump officials to the rioters themselves.

More than 150 witnesses have been interviewed, some of whom surprised investigators by proactively contacting the committee to testify, according to two people familiar with the investigation who described the confidential inquiry on the condition of anonymity.

The panel has learned details about how “Stop the Steal” rally organizers used deception to obtain permits from the Capitol Police to hold rallies near the Capitol; how Trump and White House officials coordinated with organizers of the rally whose attendees would later storm the Capitol; and how deeply Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was involved in pushing false claims of widespread election fraud.

Working out of a nondescript office building at the bottom of Capitol Hill, the committee’s investigators have divided themselves into color-coded teams to pursue several avenues of inquiry. They are looking into:

— The money trail. Investigators are scrutinizing the groups that funded the protests that preceded the violence, which involved rioters from at least 44 states, and promoted and spread lies online that helped radicalize the crowd.

— Planning meetings. The panel is pressing for answers about gatherings at the Willard and other Washington hotels where Trump’s allies who were involved in the effort to overturn the election, including Steve Bannon, Giuliani and Eastman, met in the hours before the riot.

— Foreknowledge of violence. The most difficult piece of the investigation involves unearthing evidence that Trump or anyone in his inner circle had foreknowledge that violence was a possibility on Jan. 6, and whether they took any steps to either encourage or discourage the storming of the Capitol. Bannon, whom the House voted to hold in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee, predicted on his podcast a day before the riot that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”

The committee wants to question Bannon about his presence at a meeting at the Willard Hotel on Jan. 5, when plans were discussed to try to block Congress’ formalization of the election the next day.

“Mr. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on Jan. 6,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and the vice chairwoman of the committee, said during a recent hearing.

Stone, who was photographed with Flynn on Jan. 5, has claimed that he had departed his room at the Willard to leave town as rioters stormed the Capitol, after he decided against a plan to “lead a march” from the White House Ellipse to the Capitol, according to video posted to social media.

But the Willard was only one hub of Trump activity before the Jan. 6 riot, when members of the former president’s inner circle also congregated at the nearby Trump International and other hotels to plan their bid to invalidate the election results.

Flynn was also present at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 for a meeting that included about 15 people, where the discussion centered on “how to put pressure on more members of Congress to object to the Electoral College results,” according to one attendee, Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for governor of Nebraska.

Among those in attendance, according to Herbster, were Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr.; Giuliani; Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; Trump advisers Peter Navarro, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie; and Mike Lindell, the MyPillow executive and conspiracy theorist.

Unlike Bannon, many witnesses who have received subpoenas have begun complying with the committee to varying degrees.

“We have a great many people who are cooperating,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., and a member of the committee. “We’re conducting interviews and depositions almost every day.”

But some who have agreed to talk are unlikely to help the committee find the evidence of a conspiracy that it is seeking. Kerik said he was eager to present investigators with examples of election fraud he claimed to have uncovered.

He said he hoped to be “able to present the evidence that we obtained about voting irregularities so that government officials could follow up,” but became angry when the committee described him as being “involved in efforts to promote false claims of election fraud” and working to “promote baseless litigation.”

The committee has not yet sent a subpoena to any member of Congress, even those far-right Republicans who fanned the flames of conspiracy and anger with election falsehoods and incendiary rhetoric in the buildup to the riot.

The FBI said in March that it had no evidence of communications between the rioters and members of Congress during the deadly attack.

“In terms of the evidence of member involvement, we’re still at a very early stage of our investigation,” Schiff said.

Tom Van Flein, chief of staff to Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who was deeply involved in the “Stop the Steal” effort, said he had not yet been asked to come in for an interview, despite being named in a documents request from the committee.

Van Flein denied that either he or his boss was involved in planning for events on Jan. 6 beyond the objections in the House to Biden’s victory.

“Congressman Gosar and other members of Congress have and had every right to attend rallies and speeches,” Van Flein wrote in an email. “None of the members could have anticipated what occurred later.”

At the center of the investigation is Trump himself, who has sued in federal court to block the release of documents related to Jan. 6 and directed his associates to refuse to cooperate with the committee, citing executive privilege.

The latest round of subpoenas reflected the panel’s effort to ascertain the former president’s every move on the day of the riot. It is demanding testimony from Nicholas Luna, one of Trump’s “body men” who was in the Oval Office as the former president pressured Pence to refuse to certify the election.

Also summoned was McEntee, who was reportedly in the Oval Office during a meeting with Trump and Pence when Giuliani suggested seizing Dominion voting machines, and Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary who was reportedly with Trump at times as he watched the attack.

The committee also wants to hear from Ben Williamson, a top aide to Meadows who the committee asserted had tried unsuccessfully to get Trump to issue a statement on Jan. 6 condemning the violence at the Capitol. Christopher Liddell, a former deputy White House chief of staff who investigators said tried to resign on the day of the riot but was persuaded not to do so, was also subpoenaed.

In its order to Miller, the committee said that he had helped to spread false claims of voter fraud in the election, and to encourage state legislatures to appoint alternate slates of electors in an effort to invalidate Biden’s victory.

Those scheduled to receive a subpoena Tuesday either did not respond to a request for comment or could not be reached.

[RETIREDFAN1]

[DannyZuco]

3 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

(NY TIMES)

At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net

Luke Broadwater and Mark Mazzetti

Wed, November 10, 2021, 6:55 AM

WASHINGTON — “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House.

“The truth is going to come out,” said Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.”

In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Trump — including Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joe Biden from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger Stone , a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him.

What unfolded at the Willard Hotel in the hours before the Capitol riot has become a prime focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as the panel intensifies its scrutiny into whether there was any coordination or tie between those pushing a legal strategy to overturn the election results and those who stormed the Capitol that day as Congress met to count the electoral votes to formalize Biden’s victory.

This week, the committee issued subpoenas to several of Trump’s advisers who gathered there — including Flynn, Eastman and Kerik — and communications with Giuliani and Stone are among the materials investigators have demanded from the former president, who is stonewalling the inquiry.

On Tuesday, the committee announced 10 new subpoenas that seemed to expand the aperture of the inquiry even further, seeking information from top officials in Trump’s White House including Stephen Miller, his senior adviser; Keith Kellogg, the national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence; Johnny McEntee, the former president’s personnel chief; and others.

In the past two days alone, the panel has nearly doubled the number of subpoenas it has issued, bringing the total to 35.

In recent weeks, the committee has hired new investigators, pored over thousands of documents and heard privately from a stream of voluntary witnesses, from rally planners and former Trump officials to the rioters themselves.

More than 150 witnesses have been interviewed, some of whom surprised investigators by proactively contacting the committee to testify, according to two people familiar with the investigation who described the confidential inquiry on the condition of anonymity.

The panel has learned details about how “Stop the Steal” rally organizers used deception to obtain permits from the Capitol Police to hold rallies near the Capitol; how Trump and White House officials coordinated with organizers of the rally whose attendees would later storm the Capitol; and how deeply Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was involved in pushing false claims of widespread election fraud.

Working out of a nondescript office building at the bottom of Capitol Hill, the committee’s investigators have divided themselves into color-coded teams to pursue several avenues of inquiry. They are looking into:

— The money trail. Investigators are scrutinizing the groups that funded the protests that preceded the violence, which involved rioters from at least 44 states, and promoted and spread lies online that helped radicalize the crowd.

— Planning meetings. The panel is pressing for answers about gatherings at the Willard and other Washington hotels where Trump’s allies who were involved in the effort to overturn the election, including Steve Bannon, Giuliani and Eastman, met in the hours before the riot.

— Foreknowledge of violence. The most difficult piece of the investigation involves unearthing evidence that Trump or anyone in his inner circle had foreknowledge that violence was a possibility on Jan. 6, and whether they took any steps to either encourage or discourage the storming of the Capitol. Bannon, whom the House voted to hold in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee, predicted on his podcast a day before the riot that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”

The committee wants to question Bannon about his presence at a meeting at the Willard Hotel on Jan. 5, when plans were discussed to try to block Congress’ formalization of the election the next day.

“Mr. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on Jan. 6,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and the vice chairwoman of the committee, said during a recent hearing.

Stone, who was photographed with Flynn on Jan. 5, has claimed that he had departed his room at the Willard to leave town as rioters stormed the Capitol, after he decided against a plan to “lead a march” from the White House Ellipse to the Capitol, according to video posted to social media.

But the Willard was only one hub of Trump activity before the Jan. 6 riot, when members of the former president’s inner circle also congregated at the nearby Trump International and other hotels to plan their bid to invalidate the election results.

Flynn was also present at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 for a meeting that included about 15 people, where the discussion centered on “how to put pressure on more members of Congress to object to the Electoral College results,” according to one attendee, Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for governor of Nebraska.

Among those in attendance, according to Herbster, were Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr.; Giuliani; Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; Trump advisers Peter Navarro, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie; and Mike Lindell, the MyPillow executive and conspiracy theorist.

Unlike Bannon, many witnesses who have received subpoenas have begun complying with the committee to varying degrees.

“We have a great many people who are cooperating,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., and a member of the committee. “We’re conducting interviews and depositions almost every day.”

But some who have agreed to talk are unlikely to help the committee find the evidence of a conspiracy that it is seeking. Kerik said he was eager to present investigators with examples of election fraud he claimed to have uncovered.

He said he hoped to be “able to present the evidence that we obtained about voting irregularities so that government officials could follow up,” but became angry when the committee described him as being “involved in efforts to promote false claims of election fraud” and working to “promote baseless litigation.”

The committee has not yet sent a subpoena to any member of Congress, even those far-right Republicans who fanned the flames of conspiracy and anger with election falsehoods and incendiary rhetoric in the buildup to the riot.

The FBI said in March that it had no evidence of communications between the rioters and members of Congress during the deadly attack.

“In terms of the evidence of member involvement, we’re still at a very early stage of our investigation,” Schiff said.

Tom Van Flein, chief of staff to Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who was deeply involved in the “Stop the Steal” effort, said he had not yet been asked to come in for an interview, despite being named in a documents request from the committee.

Van Flein denied that either he or his boss was involved in planning for events on Jan. 6 beyond the objections in the House to Biden’s victory.

“Congressman Gosar and other members of Congress have and had every right to attend rallies and speeches,” Van Flein wrote in an email. “None of the members could have anticipated what occurred later.”

At the center of the investigation is Trump himself, who has sued in federal court to block the release of documents related to Jan. 6 and directed his associates to refuse to cooperate with the committee, citing executive privilege.

The latest round of subpoenas reflected the panel’s effort to ascertain the former president’s every move on the day of the riot. It is demanding testimony from Nicholas Luna, one of Trump’s “body men” who was in the Oval Office as the former president pressured Pence to refuse to certify the election.

Also summoned was McEntee, who was reportedly in the Oval Office during a meeting with Trump and Pence when Giuliani suggested seizing Dominion voting machines, and Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary who was reportedly with Trump at times as he watched the attack.

The committee also wants to hear from Ben Williamson, a top aide to Meadows who the committee asserted had tried unsuccessfully to get Trump to issue a statement on Jan. 6 condemning the violence at the Capitol. Christopher Liddell, a former deputy White House chief of staff who investigators said tried to resign on the day of the riot but was persuaded not to do so, was also subpoenaed.

In its order to Miller, the committee said that he had helped to spread false claims of voter fraud in the election, and to encourage state legislatures to appoint alternate slates of electors in an effort to invalidate Biden’s victory.

Those scheduled to receive a subpoena Tuesday either did not respond to a request for comment or could not be reached.

Just another OP-ED by the Parrot Boy. 

[blesseddaily]

You are absolutely right...the net will widen and the true criminals will be brought to justice...oh I thought you were talking about the real trial about the fake Russian collusion and fake dossier by Hillary Clinton and her band of thugs..my bad!!! LOLOLOL!!!

[BarryLaverty]

6 minutes ago, blesseddaily said:

You are absolutely right...the net will widen and the true criminals will be brought to justice...oh I thought you were talking about the real trial about the fake Russian collusion and fake dossier by Hillary Clinton and her band of thugs..my bad!!! LOLOLOL!!!

That's really all you have? Hillary obsession? Good job, Chuckles. Keep on backing the sleazoid ManBaby in Florida with your usual fervor by recycling that nonsense. I would expect no less. 

[DannyZuco]

4 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

That's really all you have? Hillary obsession? Good job, Chuckles. Keep on backing the sleazoid ManBaby in Florida with your usual fervor by recycling that nonsense. I would expect no less. 

Since 2012

[blesseddaily]

1 minute ago, BarryLaverty said:

That's really all you have? Hillary obsession? Good job, Chuckles. Keep on backing the sleazoid ManBaby in Florida with your usual fervor by recycling that nonsense. I would expect no less. 

Thank you, thank you very much!!! It is the ultimate compliment coming from someone who voted for and still supports  Pedo Joe, the laughing stock of the world, who is single handedly destroying our nation from within...thank you again...you have made my day!!

[JBizzle]

It was an INSURRECTION!!!!!!  Except there were no weapons, they left without having to be run out by police, and the only person killed was shot by the Capitol Police....oh, and Joe Biden was still installed as POTUS....

Worst Insurrection Ever!!!

[BarryLaverty]

50 minutes ago, JBizzle said:

It was an INSURRECTION!!!!!!  Except there were no weapons, they left without having to be run out by police, and the only person killed was shot by the Capitol Police....oh, and Joe Biden was still installed as POTUS....

Worst Insurrection Ever!!!

That was the weakest understatement you could have possibly produced, and you seemed to have more of a grasp on the truth than that. There were others who died as a result of being a part of this. There were dozens injured. There were weapons used, and there was definitive proof that thankfully the more lethal weapons that were at hand, nearby, weren't used or were confiscated. Threats were made, and more threats have come, with the possibility of more violence and more harm, as this was just a warm up. Those who were involved should go to jail, including those who planned it, at the highest level possible. 

[BarryGoldwater]

20 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

That's really all you have? Hillary obsession? Good job, Chuckles. Keep on backing the sleazoid ManBaby in Florida with your usual fervor by recycling that nonsense. I would expect no less. 

Obsession? Barry you cannot accuse anyone of being obsessed about a political figure when you pitch a tent at the mere mention of Trump. It’s a very very scary place to be. Election has been over with awhile now. Get help with the orange man crush. Just spent 103 bucks at Burger King on whopper juniors. I’m not complaining. Oh. If that was an insurrection, I hope China doesn’t invade. We are up creek if that’s all the hillbillies can muster. Heck I think the Swiss could invade us if that’s the best the hillbillies could do. 

[BarryGoldwater]

Just now, BarryLaverty said:

That was the weakest understatement you could have possibly produced, and you seemed to have more of a grasp on the truth than that. There were others who died as a result of being a part of this. There were dozens injured. There were weapons used, and there was definitive proof that thankfully the more lethal weapons that were at hand, nearby, weren't used or were confiscated. Threats were made, and more threats have come, with the possibility of more violence and more harm, as this was just a warm up. Those who were involved should go to jail, including those who planned it, at the highest level possible. 

You weren’t this passionate about the summer of love. Where were these feelings when cities were burning?

[DAWG91]

To date,  not a single Trump supporter has been charged with sedition, treason, or anything of the sort.  Barry just doing what Barry does, parrot marxist propaganda.  I did see that yesterday one Trump supporter was convicted of assault on a police officer.  That's especially rich,  given the number of assaults on police perpetrated by the leftist marxists over the last couple of years who were released from jail and allowed to skate with impunity.

[BarryLaverty]

5 minutes ago, BarryGoldwater said:

Barry you cannot accuse anyone of being obsessed about a political figure when you pitch a tent at the mere mention of Trump. It’s a very very scary place to be. Election has been over with awhile now. Get help with the orange man crush.

YOUR party is still controlled by him, and if the crazies had their way, he would be placed back in office tomorrow as the rightful king, so spare me your deflection. People jump and scurry when he speaks still at the highest levels of the GOP. They scourge anyone who comes out against him, so yeah. You diminishing a nasty, disgusting, dishonorable and treasonous day as just piffle says more about you than me. 

 

6 minutes ago, BarryGoldwater said:

You weren’t this passionate about the summer of love. Where were these feelings when cities were burning?

I was celebrating protests for social justice and denouncing any violence that took place, which was approximately 7 out of every 100 times there was a gathering. I took part in a peaceful protest and march in the DFW area. 

[ObiOne]

11 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

I was celebrating protests

You could have stopped there.  All that other is 

[BarryGoldwater]

7 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

YOUR party is still controlled by him, and if the crazies had their way, he would be placed back in office tomorrow as the rightful king, so spare me your deflection. People jump and scurry when he speaks still at the highest levels of the GOP. They scourge anyone who comes out against him, so yeah. You diminishing a nasty, disgusting, dishonorable and treasonous day as just piffle says more about you than me. 

 

I was celebrating protests for social justice and denouncing any violence that took place, which was approximately 7 out of every 100 times there was a gathering. I took part in a peaceful protest and march in the DFW area. 

2 things Barry

1) You make too many assumptions. That thing they call the GOP is not my party. You just seen House members cross over and sign an atrocious bill. I expect they’ll do the same as well with the other monstrosity. Yeah that “insurrection” was just so horrible. Terrible acting. I was hoping during those hearings some of those police waiving people in would testify. I’d love to hear their story. 
 

2)If you participated in a peaceful protest, then I applaud you. If you condoned idiotic behavior that took the focus off the topics of the protest, I applaud you. Unfortunately, thugs hijacked many protest. Nothing says change like burning down your own neighborhood. 
 

Why can’t people, in an orderly fashion, ascend on the Capitol? It is the “People’s House”, is it not? You say people on the right worship Trump, I can see that in some, but you are just as guilty. These people are elected officials Barry. They are not royalty. They work for you. I know they’ve forgotten that, but it seems you any many others have forgotten that fact. 

[BarryLaverty]

1 hour ago, BarryGoldwater said:

Why can’t people, in an orderly fashion, ascend on the Capitol?

[BarryGoldwater]

19 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Oh good. You brought pics!  My first thought is those chicks sitting on that balcony 15 feet in the air must have a gigantic set of boys. I mean with all that intense shoving right behind them and all. They seem rather relaxed. Can I show some pics of the violent fascist scum?

[BarryGoldwater]

When I think of danger, this pops into my head. Can you imagine the damage she can cause?!?!

[BarryGoldwater]

The Taliban should trade a Blackhawk chopper for this guy!

[BarryGoldwater]

This is actually what an insurrection is, but that’s just semantics. 

[BarryGoldwater]

Well look. That’s interesting. 

[BarryGoldwater]

So nice of the Capitol police to hold the door open for this raging lunatic. In their defense, she does look hot. 

[BarryGoldwater]

They definitely don’t need to patrol Chicago. Any malls have openings? 

[BarryGoldwater]

I would think, but the media isn’t biased at all, so they probably got burned by the Shaman. 

[BarryLaverty]

Oh, I get it. You make a statement about 'orderly' people strolling around, which is easily contradicted, then you throw a bunch of memes up as defense, including disparaging the police involved, when your initial statement is really just #####? Did I get that right?