This #Jan6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the #Capitol

The official plaque honoring the #police who defended #democracy that day is nowhere to be found.

It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by #law. Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

#NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2

This #Jan6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the #Capitol

The official plaque honoring the #police who defended #democracy that day is nowhere to be found.

It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by #law. Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

#NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2

&, in particular, police officers who were brutalized by Trump’s army of deluded followers—these days can seem infernal. Trump’s term is one-quarter over; a piece of advice often attributed to Churchill has it best: When you’re going through hell, keep going.

#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

We are in a long Lord of the Flies moment, led by a man who, to borrow from Psalm 10, possesses a mouth “full of cursing & deceit & fraud.” For many people—government scientists seeking cures for diseases; FBI agents investigating corruption & terrorism; military leaders trying to preserve respect for the rules of warfare;

#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

In an important essay, Andrew Sullivan noted this past fall that #Trump’s #indecency is comprehensive in style and substance. “It is one thing to be a realist in foreign policy, to accept the morally ambiguous in an immoral world; it is simply indecent to treat a country, #Ukraine, invaded by another, #Russia, as the actual aggressor & force it to accept a settlement on the invader’s terms,” Sullivan wrote.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-question-of-decency-bc2

#Jan6 #Trump #AntiAmerican #law #democracy #Constitution

For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—& our #politics have not been the same. Much has been said, including by me, about Trump’s #narcissism, his #autocratic inclinations, his disconnection from #reality, but not nearly enough has been said about his fundamental #indecency, the characteristic that undergirds everything he says & does.

#Jan6 #Trump #AntiAmerican #law

#JackSmith repeatedly made clear his belief that the evidence gathered against #Trump was strong enough to sustain a #conviction. Part of the strength of the #Jan6 case, Smith said, was the extent to which it relied on the testimony of Trump allies & supporters who cooperated with the investigation.

#law #unfit #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

8 hour deposition video→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-bhPzQYUE

Some of the deposition focused on #Republican anger at revelations that the Smith team had obtained, & analyzed, phone records of #GOP lawmakers who were in contact with #Trump on #Jan6. Smith defended the maneuver as lawful & by-the-book, & suggested that outrage over the tactic should be directed at Trump & not his team of prosecutors. [IOW don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time]

#law #JackSmith #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

The communications between #Trump & #Republican supporters in #Congress were an important component of the case, Smith said. He cited an interview his office did with #MarkMeadows in which Trump’s former chief of staff referenced that Rep. #JimJordan, an Ohio Republican & current chairman of the #House #Judiciary Committee, had been in touch with the White House on the afternoon of the “riot”.

#law #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

The communications between #Trump & #Republican supporters in #Congress were an important component of the case, Smith said. He cited an interview his office did with #MarkMeadows in which Trump’s former chief of staff referenced that Rep. #JimJordan, an Ohio Republican & current chairman of the #House #Judiciary Committee, had been in touch with the White House on the afternoon of the “riot”.

#law #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

“Well, I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records are people, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that,” Smith said. “If Donald Trump had chosen to call a number of Democratic senators, we would have gotten toll records for Democratic senators.”

#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

Some of the deposition focused on #Republican anger at revelations that the Smith team had obtained, & analyzed, phone records of #GOP lawmakers who were in contact with #Trump on #Jan6. Smith defended the maneuver as lawful & by-the-book, & suggested that outrage over the tactic should be directed at Trump & not his team of prosecutors. [IOW don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time]

#law #JackSmith #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

“Now, once they were at the Capitol & once the attack on the Capitol happened, he refused to stop it. He instead issued a tweet that without question in my mind endangered the life of his own vice president,” he added. “And when the violence was going on, he had to be pushed repeatedly by his staff members to do anything to quell it.”

#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

Asked whether there was evidence that #Trump had instructed supporters to riot at the Capitol, #JackSmith said that Trump in the weeks leading to the #insurrection got “people to believe fraud claims that weren’t true.”

“He made false statements to state legislatures, to his supporters in all sorts of contexts & was aware in the days leading up to Jan 6th that his supporters were angry when he invited them & then he directed them to the Capitol,” Smith said.

#law #Jan6 #criminal #conspiracy

Accounts from #Republicans willing to stand up against the falsehood that the election had been stolen “even though it could mean trouble for them” created what #JackSmith described as the “most powerful” evidence against #Trump.

When it came to the Capitol “riot” itself, Smith said, the evidence showed that Trump “caused it & that he exploited it & that it was foreseeable to him.”

#law #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

“We had an elector in Pennsylvania who is a former congressman, who was going to be an elector for President Trump, who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government & illegal,” Smith said. “Our case was built on, frankly, #Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.”

#law #JackSmith #Trump #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

#JackSmith repeatedly made clear his belief that the evidence gathered against #Trump was strong enough to sustain a #conviction. Part of the strength of the #Jan6 case, Smith said, was the extent to which it relied on the testimony of Trump allies & supporters who cooperated with the investigation.

#law #unfit #Congress #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

8 hour deposition video→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-bhPzQYUE

“The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable & most responsible person in this #conspiracy. These #crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit,” #JackSmith said, in reply to a question about whether his investigations were meant to prevent #Trump from reclaiming the presidency in 2024.
#law #Jan6 #insurrection

The Republican-led #House #Judiciary Cmte released on Wednesday a transcript & video of a closed-door interview #JackSmith gave about 2 investigations of #Trump. The document shows how Smith during the course of a daylong deposition repeatedly defended the basis for pursuing indictments against Trump & vigorously rejected Republican suggestions that his investigations were politically motivated.

transcript→ https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-12/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf

#law #unfit #Congress #Jan6 #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy

Capitol “riot” 'does not happen' without #Trump, #JackSmith told #Congress

The #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection at the US Capitol “does not happen” without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the “most culpable & most responsible person” in the #criminal #conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

#law #unfit
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-jan-6-congress-537fcb8673e385202c354a3e83897194