Witness tells House Ethics Committee that Matt Gaetz paid her for sex: Sources -
“One woman, who ABC News is not identifying, told the committee that a payment from #Gaetz was for sex, while others have said they were paid to attend parties that Gaetz also attended and that featured drugs and sex, multiple sources told ABC News”
#Garland waited TOO DAMN LONG to defang #Jan6#insurrectionists within the GOP and they have come back stronger to bite him.
By waiting until he was “jolted” into action by #Jan6Committee, he has emboldened the #treasonous bunch.
How did #Comey announce an investigation of #HillaryClinton days before elections, but Garland couldn’t do it in a timely manner on assuming his responsibility?
…Surveillance footage showed #IsabellaDeLuca entering the Capitol through a broken window, where she & other rioters removed a coffee table worth >$600 & passed it to others outside through another broken window, the FBI said. She continued taking photos as other [#insurgents] cont’d stealing furniture, incl’g a lamp & a chair, & passing them to the [#insurrectionists] outside.
“The table legs were broken off at some point…” per the complaint, 1…was used …to attack a #law enforcement officer.
#Republican Donald #Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the #history of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol attack [#insurrection], but positioning the #violent siege & its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the #WhiteHouse.
Having previously vowed to #pardon the rioters [#insurrectionists], he promised to help them “the first day we get into office.”
Initially relegated to a #fringe theory on the edges of the #Republican Party, the #RevisionistHistory of #Jan6, which Trump amplified during the early days of the #GOP primary campaign to rouse his most devoted voters, remains a rally centerpiece even as he must appeal more broadly to a general election audience.
Trump has said one of his 1st acts if given a 2nd presidency would be to pardon the #insurrectionists who carried out the #Jan6 attack on the #UnitedStates Capitol, referring to them as “hostages” in a post on Monday night.
Remember that the Supreme Court’s decision did not do what Donald Trump had asked: clear him of insurrection. The Colorado court found that he so was, and Trump had an entire section of his SCOTUS brief arguing he was peaceful on #Jan6th. The Court didn’t do what he asked; it did not clear him. And the act’s decision leaves space for his criminal trial about #Jan6 to proceed, should the Court dispose of the other Trump immunity case quickly in the Spring (as it can and must). The Court took 25 days to render this decision. Anything longer in the immunity case would be deeply inconsistent with what it did here.
The Colorado court opinion has extensive findings on this, weighing the testimony of Trump defenders like Kash Patel & concluding Trump was an insurrectionist.
None of those findings was disturbed by SCOTUS today, despite Trump’s request that the #scotus do so.
"Brass knuckle glove-wearing ex-sheriff’s deputy who punched an officer, assaulted 2nd, on Jan. 6 is sentenced.
Ronald Colton McAbee, 30, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison, less than the 12 years and seven months in prison prosecutors recommended."
“He's getting his followers used to the idea of Russia further invading Eastern Europe. The GOP is falling right in line. And much of corporate media, as usual, is downplaying it.”
It seems like a few red state governors are actually getting ready to declare war, and engage in an organized #insurrection against the #UnitedStates. Are they unaware that we incarcerate #insurrectionists in this country? Or do they seriously believe that the "South will rise again", and defeat the nation? Are they planning on seceding?