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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2021 16:15:26 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2021 16:18:44 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2021 16:23:33 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2021 16:28:27 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2021 17:09:06 GMT -7
Charles Joseph Scarborough is an American television host, attorney, and former politician who is the co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski.The U.S. Capitol descended into chaos and violence Wednesday as hundreds of pro-Trump rioters swarmed the building. Joe Scarborough says there has to be an investigation into the massive security failure.
Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough: Join Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist, for in-depth and informed discussions that help drive the day's political conversation. Top newsmakers, Washington insiders, journalists, and cultural influencers, come together on Morning Joe for unparalleled insight and analysis around the day's biggest stories.
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2021 17:26:05 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Jan 7, 2021 22:39:48 GMT -7
Karl, I agree that Trump was a little man who stands for himself only. He incited teh violence, he called to march to the capital and he never did. He wanted people to go and do damage and be in the security of the White House. GOP is a broken party. Pieter posted already great videos. Here are another one I would like to share with you. It is showing that GOP is completely deserting him www.mediaite.com/tv/trey-gowdy-explodes-after-foxs-sandra-smith-asks-who-sent-mob-to-the-capitol-did-you-hear-the-presidents-speech/Former Republican Representative Trey Gowdy did not hold back during a Thursday appearance on America’s Newsroom, blasting President Donald Trump’s inciteful language during Wednesday’s “Save America Rally” that preceded the Capital Hill insurrection by Trump’s supporters. No reasonable conservative will label Gowdy a “cuck” or an ideological sell-out, as he single-handedly dragged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through an arduous investigation into the tragic deaths of four State Dept. staffers in Benghazi. But Gowdy was no partisan shill during a spirited conversation with Fox News anchor Sandra Smith. ++++++ www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-cuts-away-from-don-jr-speech-after-he-starts-screaming-profanities/?utm_source=mostpopular
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Post by karl on Jan 8, 2021 14:58:34 GMT -7
Jaga
Yes, I do see that Mr. Trey, Gowdy does not back off when he knows he is right. For today it seems trump has backed off from earlier rhetoric that the election was stolen from him. But then, to lie in front of the camera that he called for the National Guard when in fact, Mr. Pence made the call.
It will be very interesting as to how this all plays out as the days go by and trumps time as president becomes shorter.{my self am trying to be civil with this as this is an internal matter that is American}
Karl
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 9, 2021 5:52:25 GMT -7
Man pictured in Pelosi's office is arrested NBC Universal Pete Williams and Erik Ortiz and Alex Moe January 8, 2021, 1:35 PM
WASHINGTON — A man photographed casually sitting with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office at the U.S. Capitol while a pro-Trump mob rampaged the halls of Congress was arrested Friday, law enforcement officials said.
Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, was taken into custody in his home state on federal charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry and theft of public property, according to a Department of Justice official. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Arkansas tells NBC News Barnett was arrested this morning and he’s being held in the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, awaiting his initial appearance.
Images, apparently of Barnett, were splashed across social media as the deadly mayhem unfolded in the nation's capital on Wednesday, just as Democratic and Republican lawmakers convened to count the Electoral College votes. Members of Congress condemned the violence and rioting, which was preceded by a rally led by President Donald Trump who told his supporters to swarm the Capitol in defiance of the election results.
Also charged Friday in connection with the rioting at the Capitol was a state lawmaker from West Virginia, Republican Del. Derrick Evans, who had recorded and then deleted a video of himself joining the throng. A petition has been started for him to step down.
As the chaos continued Wednesday afternoon, a New York Times reporter tweeted that he spoke with Barnett after his stunt in Pelosi's office. In a video, he boasts that he took a personalized envelope, but insisted he didn't steal it.
"I left a quarter on her desk," he said.
Barnett also claimed that he knocked politely on the door to the California Democrat's office, but was then swept inside by other rioters who had breached the Capitol. He said he left a "nasty note" as well, using an expletive to refer to Pelosi.
"I'll probably be telling them this is what happened all the way to the D.C. jail," he added.
It was not immediately clear Friday if Barnett had an attorney.
The mayor of Gravette said the photos have brought threats and other unwelcome attention to his small, rural community near the Missouri border.
"It's a shame something like this is what puts you in the public eye," Mayor Kurt Maddox said, according to NBC affiliate KNWA. "This is not the city of Gravette. This one person is not who Gravette is and not who the people are."
Aides to Pelosi have said her office was vandalized on Wednesday, and confirmed that a laptop from a conference room had been stolen. The equipment, however, was used only for presentations, an aide said.
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Post by karl on Jan 9, 2021 10:13:19 GMT -7
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Post by kaima on Jan 10, 2021 8:21:38 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Jan 10, 2021 12:04:19 GMT -7
Pieter and all
For as not to pour petrol upon an already hot topic, but to instead add that of what Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger has spoken. We of Europe look and watch the situation that has evolved in American politics not to gloat, but to observe and learn. For we are not exempt to such a situation that has occured and how we should deal with a simular situation if it was to occur upon us.
Arnold Schwarzenegger blasts 'spinelessness' of fellow Republicans after Capitol riot
Doha Madani 2 hrs ago
NBC News- Arnold Schwarzenegger blasts 'spinelessness' of fellow Republicans after Capitol riot
Arnold Schwarzenegger shared words of hope on Sunday in the aftermath of the deadly mob at the U.S. Capitol, while also denouncing President Donald Trump and the "spinelessness" of his fellow Republicans.
a close up of Arnold Schwarzenegger© Provided by NBC News Schwarzenegger, an actor and former GOP governor of California, drew parallels to his upbringing in post-World War II Austria while discussing Wednesday's pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.
In a video statement released on Sunday, he compared the riot in Washington, D.C., to Kristallnacht — the 1938 assault by Nazis in Germany who began destroying Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues as thousands were rounded up for concentration camps — calling it the “day of Broken Glass here in America.”
“The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol,” Schwarzenegger said. “But the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol, they shattered the ideas we took for granted. They didn’t just break down the doors of the building that housed American democracy, they trampled the very principles on which our country was founded.”
Schwarzenegger said that as a child he saw broken men who drank away their guilt over participating in the most “evil regime” in history, revealing that his father would often get drunk and hit him and his mother.
“President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election, and of a fair election,” Schwarzenegger said. “He sought a coup by misleading people with lies. My father and neighbors were misled also with lies.”
Trump is a failed leader who will soon become irrelevant, Schwarzenegger said. He then turned on elected officials who enabled Trump and referred to President John F. Kennedy’s book, “Profiles in Courage.”
“A number of members of my own party, because of their own spinelessness, would never see their names in such a book, I guarantee you,” Schwarzenegger said. “They're complacent with those who carried the flag of self righteous insurrection into the Capitol.”
Public officials must put country over party and work for the people, he said. He also offered his support to President-elect Joe Biden shortly — before pulling out a sword from his 1982 film “Conan the Barbarian.”
Schwarzenegger used the sword as a metaphor to offer hope to Americans following the Capitol riots, which has been tied to five deaths. He explained that swords get stronger after being repeatedly tempered, as steel is held in fire and then dunked in cold water over and over again.
American democracy has been tempered, he said.
“I believe as shaken as we are events of recent days, we will come out stronger because we now understand what can be lost,” Schwarzenegger said. “We need reforms of course, so that this never ever happens again. We need to hold accountable the people that brought us to this unforgivable point. And we need to look past ourselves, our partisan disagreements and put our democracy first.”
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Jan 10, 2021 22:40:52 GMT -7
John, thanks for commenting. I am glad that the names of the most aggressive people were recorded with their addresses and they would have consequences.
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Post by Jaga on Jan 10, 2021 22:41:28 GMT -7
Kai, I just wanted to post Schwartzenneger message. You did it before me, thanks. It is a very important message.
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Post by Jaga on Jan 10, 2021 22:41:37 GMT -7
Kai, I just wanted to post Schwartzenneger message. You did it before me, thanks. It is a very important message.
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