The Donald Trump Stain On American History - The January Sixth Committee Wraps Up The First Phase Of Hearings

 Friday, July 29th 2022

My Dear America:

Well, the Eighth and what had been originally scheduled to be the Final Wrap Up Session of the United States House of Representatives January Sixth Committee Hearing is over.  What has happened, however, is that a great deal of new evidence has been shared with the Committee and as of now it looks as though new Committee Hearings will be scheduled, possibly as soon as September.

This does not mean that the Committee has failed in presenting their evidence so far.  Quite the opposite is true.  The January Sixth Committee has shown itself to be quite adept in their presentation of evidence, which to my mind proves, among other things, that Donald Trump is Guilty as Hell of High Crimes and should never again be permitted to darken any doorway in the White House.

The January Sixth Committee Hearings have been Interesting, Sensational and Successful, to my mind.  They have been presented almost like Regular Broadcast Television Episodes which were complete stories, in themselves but when you put them all together they present a stunning narrative of truly spectacular Political Intrigue emanating directly from the White House Oval Office.

Unfortunately, however, the people who need to watch these tales of political treachery the most will likely never watch any, never mind All of the January Sixth Hearings.  

Every phase of the hearings was powerful to me.  The fact that almost all of the witnesses were Republicans was stunning and made it difficult, if not impossible for critics to claim that the hearings were simply a Democratic Hatchet Job.  

The January Sixth Committee Witnesses were not, for the most part, enemies of the Former President, looking to extract revenge for some political reason.  They were almost all Republicans who had pledged their support to Donald Trump and many had testified under oath that they had voted for Donald Trump in the Election of November 2020.

One reason that I think the Hearings were presented so powerfully was that the Committee had wisely hired a Veteran ABC Television Executive to guide the Television Production of the Hearings.  Granted that there might have been some hitches along the way but for the most part the January Sixth Hearings were pretty smooth and power packed Television Productions.

The January Sixth Committee Members seemed to give a demonstration of how individuals from two political parties can and should be able to get along with one another and work together for the benefit of the American People.  

Clearly Nancy Pelosi put a good deal of thought into who would be effective and would work well together when she set up the January Sixth Committee.  Jamie Raskin is a Constitutional Scholar and Adam Schiff is a former Prosecutor.  Clearly Kevin McCarthy was played for a fool by Pelosi when after his attempt to put election deniers on the panel and Pelosi refused he decided to refuse to cooperate further with the January Sixth Committee.  Even Donald Trump thought that McCarthy was stupid in that situation.

Unfortunately for Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger they have probably laid down their Political Lives for their insistence on Truth being told in the Republican Party about Donald Trump.  Liz appears to be on her way to being driven out of Politics by her Wyoming Republican Party because she continues to reject "The Big Lie" that Donald Trump is a victim of Voter Fraud.  She realizes that losing her House seat is probably in her future but she is unwilling to lie in order to keep it.

Adam Kinzinger has chosen to leave his House seat on his own rather than be tossed out by his party chiefs.  

Unfortunately for Cheney and Kinzinger their integrity is out of step with their Republican Party which these days seems to be made up of only individuals who are willing to sacrifice their integrity to keep their Congressional Seats and are even willing to give up Democracy so that their party remains politically successful.  It is truly a shameful state of affairs and one that should give every Republican pause before they ever cast another vote for another Republican for any office.

The issue of Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney gives me pause because for the most part I disagree with both of them regarding most issues.  They truly are Conservatives on most issues and have voted with Donald Trump during his Presidential Tenure most of the time.  Unfortunately for them, but fortunately for us, they, unlike most of their party, were unwilling to lie on the issue of whether or not Donald Trump was a "Loser" in the 2020 Election.  Cheney and Kinzinger were not OK with having people killed and injured at the Capitol just to soothe Donald Trump's Oversized Ego.

What is clear to me now and I think should be clear to any correct thinking American at this point is that Donald Trump was front and center in this plot to destroy the rule of law in the 2020 Election.  I believe that the January Sixth Committee has shown that.  Indeed, a tape exists in which Steve Bannon in a presentation prior to the 2020 Election announced that regardless of the outcome of the Election Donald Trump was going to claim that he won, whether or not he did or didn't legitimately win the Presidency.  Certainly Bannon's prediction came true and even now Trump is still refusing to admit that he lost the 2020 Election.

Trump was no innocent Doofus who didn't know what he was doing when it came to attempting to steal the election from Joe Biden.  Although clearly Trump was stupid in what he did and how he did it, correct thinking Americans should recognize that he was desperate to stay in office not because he wanted to work hard for the people of the United States but simply because he wanted to save his sorry ass from prosecution for God Knows how many numerous crimes that he committed during the four years he was in the Oval Office.  He was certainly not known to be a workaholic while he was in the White House and was not destined to be one if he managed to pull off his desperate scheme and remained in power.  He knows full well that while he is loose on the streets of Mara Lago, rather than Washington he is vulnerable to all measures of Legal Consequences including prosecution and will probably (Like his former Right Hand Man and present day Podcaster, Michael Cohen) eventually do some hard time for his crimes.

Although The January Sixth Committee is not a Court of Law they certainly have made their case, as far as I am concerned.  In a brilliant and measured manner the Committee has shown remarkable responsibility and restraint in their various presentations over the course of their Eight Hearings.

What appears to be occurring presently is that the United States Justice Department seems to have paid close attention to the January Sixth Committee Hearings and some of the same individuals who have given bombshell testimony to that group are now presently giving bombshell testimony to Grand Juries in Washington D.C. and Atlanta.  Although the New York City DA seems to have given up on prosecuting Donald Trump, the New York State Attorney General continues to investigate Donald Trump's Dirty Deeds.

The January Sixth Committee Hearings have laid out a case that should be easy for the Justice Department to follow through with.  It is ugly and distasteful to witness an Ex President of the United States being pursued legally for what he has done in office but Donald Trump has so desecrated the Office of the United States Presidency that Attorney General Merrick Garland truly has no choice other than to put Justice back into the Justice Department.

Donald Trump needs to pay for all he has done to all of us.  He has committed  countless crimes right out in the open for all to see almost daring us to hold him to account for his actions.  Representative Kinzinger has spoken eloquently about Donald Trump's "Stain on American History."  Indeed, some of that Stain is blood spilled on January 6th for no good reason.  Americans are dead and permanently injured as a result of the fact that Donald Trump couldn't handle the truth and admit that the was a Loser.

Our country has many more problems in addition to Donald Trump.  Our Congress was Somewhat Dysfuntional prior to Trump's Election to the Presidency.  

Now it is simply Disastrously Dysfuntional to the point where it is anybody's guess as to whether or not we will once again get to the point where we can function properly as a Democratic Nation ever again.

I hope that by making Donald Trump pay for his crimes we might actually "Make America Great Again"   

And by some miracle I hope that by flushing Donald Trump out of our system like flushing a turd down a toilet that we can somehow make Republicans see how out of step with Democracy they truly are before we actually lose our Democratic system for good.

I urge my Republican Friends, Neighbors and Relatives to Wake Up  and Save Democracy Now, Today, Before its too late to do it. 

In the upcoming elections vote for people who genuinely care about Freedom in the United States of America before we lose what we have learned to love about our country over the past few centuries.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

   

The January Sixth Committee Hearings Continue In High Gear For The Latest Three Hearings

Monday, July 11th, 2022

 My Dear America:

To say that the last couple of weeks of Testimony at the January Sixth Committee Hearings have been Astonishing is putting it mildly.  

The Fourth Committee Hearing, like the first three, consisted of a good deal of  video taped testimony by a number of individuals who had already testified to the Committee and to their staff.  The Fourth Committee Hearing also featured Testimony under oath by four Individuals who were testifying live and in person in the committee Hearing Room.

Those Fourth Committee Hearing In Person Witnesses were Rusty Bowers, who is the current Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, Brad Raffensperger, Who is currently the Secretary of State in Georgia and his Deputy, Gabriel Sterling, the Chief Operating Officer in the Georgia Secretary Of State's Office.  The last but certainly not least in terms of Testimony Impact during the Fourth Committee Hearing was Shaye Moss, a former Election Worker who was employed by the Fulton County Elections Department before she was unfairly targeted by Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump and their dangerous disciples in the state of Georgia.

The first person heard from at the Fourth Committee Hearing was Rusty Bowers.  Prior to this Hearing this was a name that I had never heard of and I don't think many other people had heard of.  Rusty was an older gentleman and it was evident through his testimony that he clearly took his role as an Arizona public servant seriously.  He had been contacted by Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, among others in an effort to possibly change legal Electors for Biden, who had won the state in the 2020 election.  Trump claimed that many dead people and illegal immigrants had voted in November of 2020 for Biden.  Rusty Bowers asked Trump and Giuliani if they had names of these illegal voters.  Rudy said they did.  Bowers asked to be given the names.  Trump told Rudy to do it and Rudy promised to get them to Bowers ASAP.  Bowers testified that he never received the names or any information that he could use to verify Trump and Giuliani's claims so that he could not legitimately cooperate with Trump in changing the Electors from Biden to Trump. Naturally, Bowers refused to cooperate with the Trump Electors scheme.  Trump followers harassed not only Rusty Bowers at his home where his daughter was living with him in her last days.  She was dying and did die in January of 2021.  While she was alive she and the family were constantly subjected to threats and harassment by Trump supporters.

Brad Raffensperger, whose disturbing phone call with Trump demanding that Raffensperger find over 11 thousand votes to tip the election in Trump's favor also refused to relent to Trump's harassment.  Raffensperger and his family were also subject to harassing phone calls at home and individuals trying to gain entry into his daughter in laws home.  She was a widow.  Raffensperger's son had passed away.

Gabriel Sterling told a similar tale of harassment by Trump's supporters and supported Secretary Raffensperger's explanation of what had been done by the Georgia officials to carefully count the ballots in their state as accurately as possible.  According to these two representatives from Georgia there was no way that Trump's claims of massive voter fraud was true.  

Indeed, the three officials that testified at the Fourth January Sixth Committee Hearing, two from Georgia and one from Arizona were dyed in the wool Republicans who had voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 Election.  

In Fact, Rusty Bowers, following his explosive testimony inexplicably claimed that if, in fact Donald Trump was the 2024 Presidential Candidate that he would vote for Trump again, as he had voted for Trump in 2020.

Shaye Moss ended the fourth Hearing of the January Sixth Committee with her heartbreaking tale of being a long time Georgia Election worker who was a sympathetic victim of Donald Trump's selfish obsession with denying that he was a Loser in the 2020 Election, which, of course he was.

This young lady's life and that of her Mother and Grandmother were shaken to the core by Trump's and Giuliani's lies due to Giuliani and Trump identifying them as being guilty of not only messing with the ballots (Which investigations proved was not the case) to passing drugs between each other ( Which turned out to be candies).  

These people had to go into hiding as a result of these desperate and despicable election lies which led to dangerous threats by Trump supporters.

Following Shaye Moss's testimony to the committee the Committee members lined up to shake Shaye's hand and hug her as well as Shaye's mother, "Lady Ruby"

The Fifth Session of the January Sixth Committee was primarily led by Republican Committee Member, Adam Kinzinger and concentrated on testimony with regard to Donald Trump's effort to bully leaders of the United States Department of Justice to participate in his desperate attempt to remain in the White House despite the fact that he lost the election in 2020.

Although a good deal of videotaped testimony was also included during this fifth hearing, most of this hearing's testimony featured three individuals who were, in fact, the leaders of the Department of Justice during the last days of the Trump Administration following the resignation of Attorney General, William Barr, following his advice to President Trump that the investigation by the Justice Department had not uncovered any indication of fraud that would have affected the fact that Joe Biden had won the November 2020 election.

The individuals from the Justice Department who testified at the fifth January Sixth Committee Hearing were the following:

Jeff Rosen:  Acting Attorney General

Richard Donaghue: Acting Assistant Attorney General

Steven Engel:  U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel

All three Justice Department Officials testified to the fact that in the final days of the Trump Administration Donald Trump, despite all evidence to the contrary,  continued to claim that he, and not Joe Biden had won the November 2020 Election.  

The Three men testifying at the Fifth January Sixth Hearing described a meeting they had with President Trump in which he expressed an interest in firing Mr. Rosen and replacing him with a Justice Department Environmental Lawyer named Jeff Clark, who agreed to send a letter to many states announcing that Election Fraud had been found, which was not true.  In the end Clark was not appointed Attorney General because all of the Justice Department Officials in the meeting stated that they would resign if Clark was appointed Acting Attorney General. 

Following the testimony of the Justice Department Officials announcements were made that indicated that Public Televised January Sixth Committee Hearings would be on hold for awhile and would resume some time later in July.    

And Then Suddenly at the end of June came the announcement that an Urgent Emergency Hearing of the January Sixth Committee was scheduled for June 28th, 2022.  

Who was going to be testifying America wanted to know.  But no one except members of the Committee and their staff knew who the mystery witness was going to be until shortly before  the hearing began.

The Mystery Witness who was going to be testifying on June 28th was Cassidy Hutchinson.

Who was Cassidy Hutchinson and what was she going to say that was deserving of such Secrecy regarding her "Urgent" Testimony?

On June 28th, 2022 Cassidy Hutchinson was sworn in as the next witness to testify in front of the January Sixth Committee.

Cassidy Hutchinson was young and attractive.  She looked good in front of the Cameras.  

Cassidy Hutchinson was a former White House Aide.  She was introduced as an Assistant to Former Trump Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows.

We had already seen some of Cassidy Hutchinson previously when her videotaped testimony had been played showing her indicate that she was aware of the fact that several people had requested pardons in the final days of the Trump Administration including Rudy Giulani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, as well as Congresspeople including Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert, Scott Perry and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

During much of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony questions were asked by Committee Co Chair, Liz Cheney.

Although Ms. Hutchinson generally avoided saying the full curse word in her testimony when I quote her I will use the curse word that Ms. Hutchinson reported that President Trump used in his angry rants.

Cassidy Hutchinson was asked by Congresswoman Cheney about what she had observed backstage at the Ellipse before President Trump gave his speech.  

Ms. Hutchinson stated that President Trump was angry because a magnatometer had been set up by the Secret Service to prevent a number of people coming into the area who were observed to have guns.  According to Ms. Hutchinson President Trump became upset that the gun toting individuals were not allowed to join the Ellipse crowd and stated that he wanted the magnatometers to be removed and the gun toters to be allowed to join the crowd and also march to the Capitol with the crowd. Trump was angry that the Secret service would not allow the gunmen to join the crowd on the Ellipse.

After the speeches at the Ellipse according to what Ms. Hutchinson had been told by Secret Service Agents, Donald Trump demanded that the Secret Service agent driving the President's vehicle take him to the Capitol.  When the agent refused Trump tried to grab the steering wheel and stated "I'm the Fucking President.  Take me to the Capitol Now".  The agent told him "Sir, take your hand off the steering wheel.  We're going back to the West Wing."

Hutchinson stated that on the day that Trump found out that Attorney General, William Barr gave an interview to the Associated Press stating that the Justice Department had determined that there was no Election Fraud that Trump reacted to that by Throwing food at the Wall in the Oval Office Dining room.  

As the Rioters were storming the Capitol Pat Cippolone, the President's Counsel and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows went to talk to the President and came back to the office where Ms. Hutchinson was working and she heard them talking.

Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the fact that she heard the following Conversation between Cippolone and Meadows discussing the Rioter's chants that they were going to "Hang Mike Pence."

Pat Cippolone - Mark, we need to do something.  They're literally calling for the Vice President to be fucking hung.

Mark Meadows - You heard him, Pat.  He thinks Mike deserves it. He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong.

Pat Cippolone - This is fucking crazy.  We need to be doing something more.

Shortly after this discussion between Cippolone and Meadows while the Trump Supporters at the Capitol were continuing to threaten to "Hang MIke Pence" and had set up a scaffold outside the Capitol with which to do it, President Trump sent out the following Tweet.

"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.  USA demands the truth."

When Cassidy Hutchinson was asked about how she felt about what she heard and saw on January 6th, 2021 she stated:

"As an American I was disgusted, Frustrated, disappointed."

She stated that the Capitol Building was being defaced for a lie.

To say that Cassidy Hutchinson gave bombshell testimony is putting it mildly.

She is a brave young lady who, unlike many other possible January Sixth Witnesses, has come forward and laid out some facts that she can attest to and which make what was already a deeply disturbing picture of what happened on January Sixth even more disturbing.  

To be honest, I thought that January Sixth was bad enough when I watched what happened on television and thought that Trump was simply too frightened to go to the Capitol on January Sixth.

I can only imagine the bloodbath that could have and certainly would have taken place if he had joined the mob at the Capitol on that day.  

Thank God for the fact that the Secret Service did him the favor of keeping him from the Capitol on that dark day in January of 2021.

Clearly, as of this time the January Sixth Committee has shown that without a doubt Donald Trump should not be allowed to run for office ever again and is certainly guilty of "High Crimes" which certainly should disqualify him from ever seeking the Presidency again. 

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher