Yesterday, Tamar Hallerman and Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, investigating the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election in that state, heard yet another recording of former president Trump pushing a key lawmaker—in this case, Georgia House speaker David Ralston—to convene a special session of the legislature to overturn Biden’s victory.
Wild how Putin just assumed Trump would win one way or another and Ukraine would have been an easy acquisition. NATO and our State Department would have been dismantled.
Scary to think this evil is still so prevalent in our government with the help of Mark Meadows and Steve Bannon lurking around the back doors.
I personally feel it's a splendid idea that Rep. Loudermilk interview former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. I've always wanted to see a working definition of the term,
" walking into the lions den." Go for it Barry and bring Liz Cheney along as well.
Thank you, Heather for yet again weaving so many threads into a cohesive, comprehensible story. TFG's level of corruption has clearly leached into all levels of the Republican leadership. It is at once horrible and exhausting. I will be so relieved when he and his sycophantic acolytes, as well as his imitators are all far in our rear view mirror.
Thank you Heather Cox Richardson. I feel like these GOP losers are sucking up all the available oxygen in the room but your newsletter always lets more good air in. I just wish the Justice Department, Letitia James, and the Attorney General in Georgia would hurry up and get the indictments going. The clock is ticking!
Heather, another incredible, chock-full-of-facts, Letter. Loudermilk is out of a Dicken’s novel (even his name!), not sure which one, but he is Evil Personified. Just imagine, someone suggesting he was up to no good on January 5, 2021 and suddenly the guy in his video of the “tour” shows up at the January 6 Insurrection. Hmmmm....I am just tickled that Fani Willis, a Black Woman, will bring Dump to his pathetic knees.....She and Letitia James have shown such fortitude and unbreakable courage in the face of the Biggest Goon to come down the pike. It will be breathtaking when those indictments are issued and we learn The Truth. A thousand thanks, for encircling us with your deep knowledge, insight and vision. Have a great weekend.
Hopefully Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) can give us a virtual tour of the Capitol, just for information's sake. These two reps give new meaning to the idea of the deep, depressing state of affairs we're witnessing.
"A [lot more is] gonna come out sooner or later…. And it’s gonna be massive. It’s gonna be massive."
At first I thought this WaPo article wasn't worth forwarding. But after reading today's Letter, it may fit in nicely with what Heather has reported. Just mere steps from the Capitol (on Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.) Trump allies buy up properties to build MAGA campus. It appears these town homes are where the R's are holding their "training" sessions.
It seems likely that Fulton will again be featured in American history books. In 1946 Winston Churchill, at President Truman’s invitation, came to Fulton, Missouri, where he gave his famous Iron Curtain speech highlighting the nature of Stalin’s brutal grip on Eastern Europe.
Now in Fulton County, GA, it seems likely that ex-President Trump and his sycophants will face criminal indictments with ‘smoking gun’ evidence.
Trump has been skating around serious indictments for years with his lies, ‘witch hunt’ claims, and interminable legal delays. I’m looking forward to the harpooning of the Whale of Mar a Lago.
"Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who sits on the Homeland Security committee, said she intended to divulge classified information, saying: “I’m not gonna be confidential because I think people deserve to know.” She claimed that drug cartels had left an explosive device on the border; U.S. Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz later posted a picture of the “device” and said it was “a duct-taped ball filled with sand that wasn’t deemed a threat to agents/public.”
AH, a homing device target for guiding Soros/S.P.E.C.T.R.E laser beams laser beams from deep space. May the tin foil protect us!
I ask, aren't these Republican MAGots committing a crime when they reveal information that they are privy to that they are supposed to be keeping private?
It sounds like there could easily be more lawsuits against Trump. There should be the criminal one that Pence brought up, that Tom Nichols referred to in The Atlantic recently, in which he points out that Trump tried to have him killed, only he put it in a milder way. The outrage is not only that Trump would go that far if he did not get his way(so Putin like--with no friends, just people who either do his bidding or they can have fatal accidents), but that the press and everyone else have ignored this truth. Well, some of us have not. It is pretty understandable that the experience scared Pence into being afraid to testify, but that is also a reason why he should not run for President if he is too scared to speak the truth.
The MAGots (DeSantis, Ralston, Trump, MTG, Boebert) are trying to cover up the truth with investigations and lies. It has worked for them because they have a willing audience of the brainwashed evangelical masses, and sociopaths (DeSantis, Ralston, Trump, Boebert, White Supremacist militias) who will go along with their nefarious plans for personal gain no matter who is destroyed.
The blatant hypocrisy of not all but certainly most the congressional Republicas has become so commonplace that it seems totally normal, and that should be the most shocking aspect where we are as a nation.
"Trump is trying to move the case into the election season, at which point he will insist it must be delayed again."
Obviously Trumped-up charges against a candidate can taint an election, but if the candidate really IS a crook, wouldn't you want to know before they are sworn into office?
It's rich, isn't it, that Mark Meadows is still in business, still fundraising, and still being a voice of influence over baby GOPers who must somehow believe he wasn't at the center of an insurrection? I fervently hope his name is in the top ranks of those Jack Smith is investigating.
Wild how Putin just assumed Trump would win one way or another and Ukraine would have been an easy acquisition. NATO and our State Department would have been dismantled.
Scary to think this evil is still so prevalent in our government with the help of Mark Meadows and Steve Bannon lurking around the back doors.
Thank you Heather.
I personally feel it's a splendid idea that Rep. Loudermilk interview former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. I've always wanted to see a working definition of the term,
" walking into the lions den." Go for it Barry and bring Liz Cheney along as well.
Be safe. Be well. ☘️
Thank you, Heather for yet again weaving so many threads into a cohesive, comprehensible story. TFG's level of corruption has clearly leached into all levels of the Republican leadership. It is at once horrible and exhausting. I will be so relieved when he and his sycophantic acolytes, as well as his imitators are all far in our rear view mirror.
Thank you Heather Cox Richardson. I feel like these GOP losers are sucking up all the available oxygen in the room but your newsletter always lets more good air in. I just wish the Justice Department, Letitia James, and the Attorney General in Georgia would hurry up and get the indictments going. The clock is ticking!
It baffles me how true enemies of America like Jordan and Loudermilk continue to be elected.
Heather, another incredible, chock-full-of-facts, Letter. Loudermilk is out of a Dicken’s novel (even his name!), not sure which one, but he is Evil Personified. Just imagine, someone suggesting he was up to no good on January 5, 2021 and suddenly the guy in his video of the “tour” shows up at the January 6 Insurrection. Hmmmm....I am just tickled that Fani Willis, a Black Woman, will bring Dump to his pathetic knees.....She and Letitia James have shown such fortitude and unbreakable courage in the face of the Biggest Goon to come down the pike. It will be breathtaking when those indictments are issued and we learn The Truth. A thousand thanks, for encircling us with your deep knowledge, insight and vision. Have a great weekend.
Hopefully Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) can give us a virtual tour of the Capitol, just for information's sake. These two reps give new meaning to the idea of the deep, depressing state of affairs we're witnessing.
"A [lot more is] gonna come out sooner or later…. And it’s gonna be massive. It’s gonna be massive."
At first I thought this WaPo article wasn't worth forwarding. But after reading today's Letter, it may fit in nicely with what Heather has reported. Just mere steps from the Capitol (on Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.) Trump allies buy up properties to build MAGA campus. It appears these town homes are where the R's are holding their "training" sessions.
Gifted: https://wapo.st/40gGzW8
It seems likely that Fulton will again be featured in American history books. In 1946 Winston Churchill, at President Truman’s invitation, came to Fulton, Missouri, where he gave his famous Iron Curtain speech highlighting the nature of Stalin’s brutal grip on Eastern Europe.
Now in Fulton County, GA, it seems likely that ex-President Trump and his sycophants will face criminal indictments with ‘smoking gun’ evidence.
Trump has been skating around serious indictments for years with his lies, ‘witch hunt’ claims, and interminable legal delays. I’m looking forward to the harpooning of the Whale of Mar a Lago.
"Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who sits on the Homeland Security committee, said she intended to divulge classified information, saying: “I’m not gonna be confidential because I think people deserve to know.” She claimed that drug cartels had left an explosive device on the border; U.S. Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz later posted a picture of the “device” and said it was “a duct-taped ball filled with sand that wasn’t deemed a threat to agents/public.”
AH, a homing device target for guiding Soros/S.P.E.C.T.R.E laser beams laser beams from deep space. May the tin foil protect us!
I ask, aren't these Republican MAGots committing a crime when they reveal information that they are privy to that they are supposed to be keeping private?
https://www.justice.gov/opcl/overview-privacy-act-1974-2020-edition/disclosures-third-parties
It sounds like there could easily be more lawsuits against Trump. There should be the criminal one that Pence brought up, that Tom Nichols referred to in The Atlantic recently, in which he points out that Trump tried to have him killed, only he put it in a milder way. The outrage is not only that Trump would go that far if he did not get his way(so Putin like--with no friends, just people who either do his bidding or they can have fatal accidents), but that the press and everyone else have ignored this truth. Well, some of us have not. It is pretty understandable that the experience scared Pence into being afraid to testify, but that is also a reason why he should not run for President if he is too scared to speak the truth.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/mike-pence-trump-january-6/673402/
The MAGots (DeSantis, Ralston, Trump, MTG, Boebert) are trying to cover up the truth with investigations and lies. It has worked for them because they have a willing audience of the brainwashed evangelical masses, and sociopaths (DeSantis, Ralston, Trump, Boebert, White Supremacist militias) who will go along with their nefarious plans for personal gain no matter who is destroyed.
The blatant hypocrisy of not all but certainly most the congressional Republicas has become so commonplace that it seems totally normal, and that should be the most shocking aspect where we are as a nation.
"Trump is trying to move the case into the election season, at which point he will insist it must be delayed again."
Obviously Trumped-up charges against a candidate can taint an election, but if the candidate really IS a crook, wouldn't you want to know before they are sworn into office?
Brilliant. One sentence paragraph. "Meanwhile the Biden admistration continues to admiminister."
It's rich, isn't it, that Mark Meadows is still in business, still fundraising, and still being a voice of influence over baby GOPers who must somehow believe he wasn't at the center of an insurrection? I fervently hope his name is in the top ranks of those Jack Smith is investigating.
"A duct-taped ball filled with sand..."
Was the man referring to the head of this Honorable Representative?
If so, did the Border Patrol check the sand for whatever the GOP drug cartels may have mixed in with it?
"Aggressively". [i.e. the only way there is to do (or undo) anything]
There's something strange in that there sand...