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Jan. 6 revelations will 'blow the roof off the House,' Rep. Jamie Raskin says

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What happened by the light of day should have triggered the end of the Republican party.

The 1973 House, sure. The 2022 House, already in moral shambles, no roof left anyway.

My key takeaways:

1. Raskin said the committee will present "evidence" that proves there was coordination among then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle and his supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6

2. Members of the committee plan to hold those hearings in June and aim to have a report out about their investigation by the end of the summer or early fall, said Raskin, who sits on the panel

3. The plan was to use then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to get President Joe Biden's electoral vote tally below the 270 majority needed for victory, Raskin said, which under the 12th Amendment would shift the contest to a vote in the House

4. Speaking about the threats to Pence on Jan. 6 and the chants by rioters to hang him, Raskin said the vice president's Secret Service agents — including one who was carrying the nuclear football — ran down to an undisclosed place in the Capitol. Those agents, who Raskin said he suspects were reporting to Trump’s Secret Service agents, were trying to whisk Pence away from the Capitol

5. "It was a coup directed by the president against the vice president and against the Congress."

6. "He knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for was going to do," Raskin said.

7. Pence then "uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I've seen so far: 'I'm not getting in that car,'" Raskin said

8. "I want people to pay attention to what’s going on here, because that’s as close to fascism as I ever want my country to come to again." "This was not a coup directed at the president," Raskin said

Chilling.

What is the significance of Pence not getting in the car?

Then do Hunter/Joe Biden.

Well, they should. Shine a spotlight on the sleaze and dirt and corruption on both sides.

And they might actually do both. They'll do Trump this summer, and the Bidens after the Republicans take over Congress in November (if they do).

The Democrats better be a little bit careful here. While Trump's behavior is absolutely worthy of an investigation, a set of hearings, and widespread exposure, the Democrats seem to have this mythology of inevitability - they think that they're going to be in power forever. They need to run hearings that not only are fair, but that also look fair. If they don't, in a few months what they do will be coming back to be done to them, with compound interest.

I have heard from others that, “the democrats want to be in power forever.” And yet, the democrats didn’t literally try to violently overthrow the US government, like the Republicans did. That said, I have a lot of respect for Pence and other Republicans. In fact, before the party was led astray, it was always a grand compromise, just like the government always has been since inception. Most people, I think, want to keep a two-party system. We don’t want to live in a dictatorship.

Hunter, sure. But there's no real evidence that Sleepy Joe had any involvement whatsoever with whatever foolish stuff (if any) Hunter may have been up to.

Who is The Big Guy and why does he get 10%?

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