YOU'RE A FOOL IF YOU THINK TRUMPER DID ANYTHING BUT DAMAGE THIS NATION AND FILLED HIS POCKETS DOING IT!
Testimony exposes Trump’s plan to declare himself dictator
Explosive testimony given Tuesday to the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021 presented an account of Trump’s efforts to personally direct the storming of the Capitol, murder his opponents, and establish himself as dictator.
The testimony came from Cassidy Hutchinson, the former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. In the course of her in-person testimony, supplemented by video clips of previous depositions, Hutchinson made clear that plans for a violent assault on the Capitol on January 6 headed up by Trump himself were in place well before the event.
Hutchinson said that after a White House meeting with Meadows on January 2, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked if she was excited by what was on tap for January 6. He told her, “We’re going to the Capitol. The president is going to be there. He’s going to look powerful.” She also spoke of extensive intelligence from the Secret Service, the Capitol Police and the FBI of armed paramilitary organizations such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers planning to occupy federal buildings and target Congress on January 6.
The most significant component of her testimony, however, related to the events of January 6 itself. Hutchinson reported that in advance of his speech at the Ellipse, Trump was enraged that the Secret Service had set up magnetometers and was seizing weapons from Trump supporters who wanted to join the rally.
Trump and his co-conspirators, including Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and a substantial section of Republican lawmakers, knew that far-right paramilitaries in the crowd were heavily armed and prepared to seize and kill then-Vice President Mike Pence and leading Democrats in order to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
She testified that Trump said: “I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away.”
Hutchinson said she overheard Meadows say in regard to chants by insurrectionists to “hang Mike Pence” and nooses set up outside the Capitol, “He [Trump] thinks Mike deserves it. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.”
Hutchinson further revealed that after his speech at the Ellipse, Trump got into the presidential limousine, expecting to be driven to the Capitol. When the head of his Secret Service detail refused and insisted that he return to the White House, Trump tried to grab the wheel and then seized the Secret Service agent by the throat.
When taken back to the White House, Trump was in a rage, throwing things, while communicating with his co-conspirators on the phone, desperately trying to keep the coup going.
While his foot soldiers rampaged through the Capitol, Trump planned to march uninvited into the House legislative chamber, itself a breach of the constitutional separation of powers, and deliver a speech. He planned to prorogue Congress, seize the Capitol, and declare a state of emergency, setting the stage for overturning the election and installing himself as dictator.
Hutchinson finally testified that on January 7, Trump and Meadows discussed pardoning the rioters. In previously released taped testimony, she listed six Republican congressmen—Mo Brooks, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert and Matt Gaetz—who requested or inquired about presidential pardons in the aftermath of the failed coup. On Tuesday, she revealed that Giuliani and Meadows likewise asked for pardons.
The coup plan outlined by Hutchinson was modeled on the Beer Hall Putsch organized by Adolf Hitler on November 9, 1923, in which he planned to march on the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. The difference, however, was that Trump’s plot was on a far larger scale and under the direction not of an upstart and little-known fascist politician, but the president of the United States.
The hearing itself was held under extraordinary conditions. The committee, headed by Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson and Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney, suddenly announced it on Monday after previously saying it would not call a further hearing until mid-July. It kept the subject matter of the hearing secret and concealed the identity of the witness, Hutchinson, until Tuesday morning.
The committee took extreme precautions and convened the hearing quickly because it feared for the life of its star witness. Witnesses at previous hearings of the committee have testified to receiving multiple death threats from Trump supporters, egged on by the would-be Führer, who repeatedly denounces the committee as a kangaroo court.
There is no precedent for such a coup in US history, nor in any other major industrialized country. All those who have sought to downplay the significance of January 6 stand thoroughly exposed.
The explosive testimony raises a whole host of further questions. Given the amount of preparation by the coup plotters, why was the Capitol left unprotected? Why was there a virtual stand-down of the Capitol police and military, and who ordered it?
Then there is the further question: Had Trump succeeded on January 6, what would America have looked like on January 7? There is every reason to believe he would have launched mass arrests and killings of his political opponents.
Finally, there is the question: What was the Democratic Party doing throughout all of this? Biden was virtually silent before, during and after the January 6 coup. He said nothing for hours while Trump’s fascists ransacked the Capitol and the Democrats cowered in their offices and emergency bunkers. When he did finally speak, it was to request that Trump, the organizer of the coup, call off his goons.
The Democrats had access to the same intelligence as the White House as to the intentions of Trump and his allies. But they did nothing to warn the population about what was happening, let alone take measures to stop it. Even now, Biden refuses to speak about the latest revelations, and the Democrats refuse to call for Trump’s indictment and prosecution.
The Democratic Party has sought to rehabilitate the Republican Party, pleading for “unity” with their “colleagues” and “friends.” Its overriding concern is to fashion some kind of unity with Republicans and maintain the two-party system in order to prosecute the imperialist war against Russian and the preparations for war against China.
As a result, Trump and his co-conspirators have been left free to continue their plotting to destroy democratic rights and establish a fascist dictatorship.
The Socialist Equality Party demands that Trump be indicted and tried for an attempted fascistic coup. Such a trial must expose the whole conspiracy, not just the role of Trump. Who else was involved in the Republican Party, the Supreme Court, the military, the police, the intelligence agencies and the state governments?
Such a trial would not only jail the gangster Trump and his fellow thugs but expose the complicity of the Democrats and the failure of the capitalist system itself, which is hurtling toward world war and dictatorship.
Washington Examiner Declares Donald Trump Unfit for Office
The Washington Examiner on Wednesday declared former President Donald Trump unfit for office based on Cassidy Hutchinson’s January 6 Committee testimony on Tuesday.
“Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again,” the establishment magazine’s editorial board alleged. “Trump is a disgrace. Republicans have far better options to lead the party in 2024. No one should think otherwise, much less support him, ever again.”
“In short, Hutchinson was a conservative Trumpist true believer and a tremendously credible one at that,” the opinion piece said before claiming Hutchinson’s testimony was credible because it was “very precise.”
“She did not overstate things, did not seem to be seeking attention, and was very precise about how and why she knew what she related and about which testimony was firsthand and which was secondhand but able to be corroborated,” the article alleged.
The Examiner is not the first media outlet to praise Hutchinson and condemn Trump. CNN also peddled Hutchinson’s revelations as “a bombshell.”
“Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was ‘a bombshell’ with potentially huge repercussions for Trump,” CNN reported.
CNN’s story was condemned by those in the Trump orbit on Wednesday. Director of communications for Trump, Taylor Budowich, tweeted that the CNN article is a joke. “There is literally no one left speechless—the testimony was not believable and its credibility has been destroyed several times over—but Fake News CNN won’t let the facts get in their way of peddling a narrative,” Budowich said.
Poll: 78% Believe Nation on Wrong Track, Up 27 Points Under Biden
Seventy-eight percent of voters believe President Joe Biden’s America is on the wrong track, increasing over 25 points since Biden took office, according to Wednesday’s Politico/Morning Consult poll.
While the number of voters who define themselves as Democrats rose by three percentage points (24-21 percent), the poll showed that only 22 percent of respondents believe the nation is headed in the right direction.
The belief that the nation is headed in the right direction has been declining during Biden’s presidency. In March, the poll found 69 percent said it was headed down the wrong track. In February, 66 percent said the nation was headed down the wrong track. Thirty-four percent said it was headed in the right direction.
In contrast, in late February of 2021, the month after Biden assumed office, 49 percent said the nation was headed in the right direction, while 51 percent said it was headed in the wrong direction, a 27-point difference from June’s polling.
The United States has been reeling under Biden’s leadership. Since his term began, the nation has suffered a greater number of coronavirus deaths, the deadly Afghan withdrawal, an invasion on the southern border, a fentanyl crisis, 40-year-high inflation, and record-high gas prices.
Only 16 percent strongly approve of Biden’s job performance, while 41 percent strongly disapprove, a 25-point differential.
According to the Republican State Leadership Committee’s poll released on Wednesday, the most important issues to Americans are inflation, the economy, and crime. The following are the top six issues:
- High cost of living/inflation: 37 percent
- Economy in general: 16 percent
- Crime/violence: Nine percent
- Abortion: Eight percent
- Environment/climate change: Seven percent
- Guns: Seven percent
Additional polling shows a majority of voters believe Biden is unfit to be president and doubt his mental ability with 58 percent saying he should publicly disclose his mental health condition. A majority of voters expect Vice President Kamala Harris to assume the presidency before Biden’s first term is over.
The Politico poll sampled 2004 voters from June 24-26 with a two-point margin of error.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter and Gettr @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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Consumer Confidence Falls as Bidenflation Kills Economic Hope
Worries about inflation and a potential recession dragged down consumer confidence to the lowest level in 16 months, the Conference Board’s widely followed survey showed Tuesday.
The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell to 98.7 in June, below the 101.0 reading expected by economists. The prior month’s reading was revised down to 103.2 from the initial estimate of 106.4, indicating that consumers were already feeling less optimistic about the economy than thought.
The barometer of consumer expectations—based on consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions—plunged in June, falling to 66.4 from 73.7. It is now at its lowest level since 2013.
The gauge of the present situation—based on consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions—slipped to 147.1 from 147.4 last month.
“Consumer confidence fell for a second consecutive month in June,” said Lynn Franco, Senior Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board. “While the Present Situation Index was relatively unchanged, the Expectations Index continued its recent downward trajectory—falling to its lowest point in nearly a decade. Consumers’ grimmer outlook was driven by increasing concerns about inflation, in particular rising gas and food prices. Expectations have now fallen well below a reading of 80, suggesting weaker growth in the second half of 2022 as well as growing risk of recession by yearend.”
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“Purchasing intentions for cars, homes, and major appliances held relatively steady—but intentions have cooled since the start of the year and this trend is likely to continue as the Fed aggressively raises interest rates to tame inflation. Meanwhile, vacation plans softened further as rising prices took their toll. Looking ahead over the next six months, consumer spending and economic growth are likely to continue facing strong headwinds from further inflation and rate hikes,” Franco said.
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