At 2:18 Wednesday afternoon, Capitol Police sent out an ominous warning to congressional staffers and members of Congress: “Internal security threat: move inside office/lock doors, seek cover, and remain silent.”
The warning was a bit late. Protesters were already at the door of the congressional staffer who sent me an image of the text alert. Trump supporters intent on stopping Joe Biden from becoming president had smashed into the United States Capitol and the surrounding offices. The fallout from this assault will be unfolding for a very long time. There will be plenty of time in the days, weeks and months ahead to talk about what this all means. But for today, I wanted to share a bit of what happened. My former HuffPost colleague Matt Fuller, along with a handful of Capitol Hill reporters caught in the melee, was shepherded to a secure location along with about 200 members of Congress as the insurrectionists breached the gates. He spoke to me from that secure location in the Capitol complex for a quick episode of our Deconstructed podcast.
Matt was in the press gallery overlooking the House floor as the mob tried to smash its way in. His beat the last decade has been the far-right wing of the House Republican conference, known as the Freedom Caucus, which is inextricably linked with this violence, and was also, it turns out, sheltered in place with Matt.
I also talked with Jon Farina, who was shooting camera footage of the Trump rally earlier in the day, as well as the assault on the Capitol, for the independent media organization Status Coup. You can listen to what they witnessed here.
An increasing number of Democrats are already calling for Trump’s immediate impeachment and removal -- a step that would prevent him from pardoning those who stormed the Capitol, prevent whatever else he might be planning, would make future presidents think twice before inciting insurrection after the loss of an election, and would disqualify him from ever running again. The 25th Amendment, which would have him removed by his cabinet, is also being kicked around. Yet 121 Republicans in the House, and six in the Senate, still objected later that night to the continued counting of the Electoral College votes, even after stepping over broken glass to cast that vote.
In the middle of all this, Jon Ossoff was declared the winner of his Senate election, joining Raphael Warnock, who’d already been deemed victorious in the other Georgia Senate race. That gives Democrats control of the Senate. If you missed our earlier podcast on the political history of Georgia, it might be a particularly interesting listen today, given everything that’s happened.
Ryan, I would love to listen to the podcast, but I am severely hearing impaired. Would you consider publishing transcripts of your podcasts. As a person who spent seven years on a diocesan commission advocating for people with disabilities. From my experience people with hearing loss, especially people whose hearing loss came late in life, will not advocate for themselves. I became hearing impaired at 36 with a job on Wall St (not hospitable to women in the 1970s) and two young children. I could not afford to retire from life - and so I advocate both for myself and for others who, maddeningly, won't advocate for themselves.
There are a lot of us out there. And this particular issue of the insurrection needs to be examined far and wide - including the hearing impaired and deaf.
Boris Petrovjust now
This is interesting but Ryan Grim, head of Intercept DC office, has NOT disclosed that he also is a promoter of the scam of the century - "Russia gate" and of suppression on reporting on corruption in DNC and Biden family -- the reason the famous Intercept founder, Glenn Greenwald, in disgust has resigned from Intercept because it censored his outstanding analysis. Glenn's censored article is here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored/comments
The outrage and infamy of Intercept's chief editor Betsy Reed, Ryan Grim, James Risen & Co. is that she/they wholly accepted and promote the Russia-gate hoax. Intercept is now just another stenographer outfit for corporate owners and the war industry -- not much different than "Cenk and Ana" duo at TYT.
The very basic fact: The entire anti-Russian narrative is a deliberate fabrication -- promoted by "truth seeker" Ryan Grim. By far the highest interest and need of the incoming government and the DNC cabal is that Russia-gate immense hoax will NOT be exposed -- hence many IOU's to primary propagandists, including Hillary's protégé Kamala Harris, Neera Tanden, Pete Buttigieg, etc. -- so just a fight of two oligarch groups for power. The US is a failed state -- its "left" and "right" population is just a consumable dust...
Clapper, Brennan & Hayden trio were among former 50 intelligence officials stating that Hunter-laptop is classical “Russian disinformation”.
- They were also key promoters of the three-year Russia-gate hoax.
- They were also key intelligence executives in Obama/Biden/Hillary government – the government which hunted Snowden (forcing Bolivian plane with Bolivia’s president to land to search it) and armed Al Qaeda (including “white helmets” hoax) and staged all chemical attacks in Syria to remove its government.
Trump’s utter incompetence in handling Covid-19 created the human and economic catastrophe that will be called - Trump-virus; he brought into government religious extremism and racism.
The Russia-gate hoax and Ukraine-impeachment “entertainment” was concocted by Obama/Hillary/Biden/Pelosi, Schumer, etc. and their intelligence and DNC executives on behalf of their Wall Street and military industry donors, i.e., the imperial War party
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup
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