June 16th, 2022
My Dear America:
We were Promised Bombshell Testimony by The January Sixth Committee and the Bombshells have been falling hard over the past week as the Committee has begun the Public Televised Hearings.
To be honest nothing that I have heard so far in the Three Televised Hearings was all that shocking or new. What is new and certainly is bombshell testimony is the fact that almost everyone in Donald Trump's orbit after the 2020 Election results were known was convinced, unlike Donald Trump, that President Trump's awful and unlawful Presidency would be over in January of 2021.
Even the lowest of the low bottom feeders like Jason Miller and many other Trump Loyalists realized that it was all over for the Trump Administration.
Trump had very few Trump cards to play in the coming days after the election results were announced and regardless of how many Advisers and Family Members told him that he had lost he refused to accept the fact that they might have been correct in their assessments. Even most of those Congresspeople who had aligned themselves with Trump and had supported much of his flawed agenda waited patiently as Trump's Legal team played out their doomed fight to prove the unprovable. Namely, that Donald Trump had actually won the 2020 Election and was the Victim of Election Fraud. Most correct thinking individuals were able to look at what was happening in the White House for two months after the election and realize that something was off, Way Off.
While many newspeople continued to ask Republicans what was going on, Many Republicans stated that they fully expected that Trump would come around to reality once He and Rudy Giuliani played out Trump's Legal Hand.
Gradually some Republicans, like Mitch McConnell recognizing the Clear and Present Danger that Donald Trump presented began saying the obvious truth that
In the Presidential Race of 2020 Joseph R. Biden had been the clear winner.
Of Course when Mitch told the truth about the Election, Trump verbally savaged him. So what else was new.
Last Thursday, although Fox News refused to carry the Initial Prime Time Public Session of the January Sixth Committee, every other Network News Division presented the program in its entirety.
The first night began with statements by Committee Chairman, Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Co-Chairperson, Liz Cheney.
Probably the most significant recorded testimony of the night was by Former Attorney General, William Barr. Certainly William Barr's testimony is a bit tainted by the fact that up until the point he resigned, or got fired, depending on who you believe, Barr was a complete Toady to President Trump.
But according to the testimony of Barr that was played at the First Prime Time Committee meeting Barr claimed that he told Trump that after the Department of Justice investigated Trump's Claims of "Voter Fraud" Barr told Trump that his claims of "Voter Fraud" was "Bullshit" and "Nonsense". Understandably, Barr was gone from the Justice Department shortly afterward.
Oddly, Ivanka Trump when questioned about the results of the Election stated that she believed Barr.
Something that all three of the Hearings has shown is that the crowd of Trump supporters that, first of all, demonstrated at the Capitol and following that invaded the Capitol Building was made up of, for the most part, some of the dumbest individuals ever. They proudly filmed themselves breaking into the Capitol, destroying property and threatening not only Vice President Mike Pence but Nancy Pelosi, Jerrod Nadler and AOC, as well as many others.
For God's sake, Broadcasting your crimes. How freaking dumb do you have to be? Well, now that I think about it, they were just following the Dumb Donald Trump Playbook. He, of course, broadcasted and bragged about his crimes often. Why wouldn't his supporters follow his lead.
The two main witnesses who testified at the Thursday Evening Televised hearing in person were Nick Quested and Caroline Edwards.
Quested was a filmmaker who was making a film about the Proud Boys at the time of the January Sixth Insurrection. He testified that in the course of making his film he had inadvertently filmed the Proud Boys meeting with members of other groups, including The Oath Keepers on January 5th in a D.C. Parking Garage. The Committee showed that part of Quested's film. Quested also testified that as he followed the Proud Boys around on January Sixth, 2021 that the group did not even go to Trump's Rally but instead at around 10:30 in the morning went to the Capitol and seemingly cased the building prior to breaking in when all the other Trump Fanatics came along later.
Also appearing at the First Committee Session on Prime Time Thursday was Caroline Edwards, an attractive young Capitol Police Officer who described in detail her brutal treatment at the hands of the Trump Mob on January Sixth.
The Second January Sixth Session took place on Tuesday Morning of this week and in addition to featuring several actual witnesses testifying in person featured a great deal of filmed Committee Testimony by many individuals in the Trump orbit testifying that they told Trump that he lost the election, a message that he seemingly simply refused to accept.
In person witnesses at the Second January Sixth Hearing included some well known Republicans including Chris Stirewalt, who was a digital expert with Fox News on Election night 2020, who stated with authority that Trump lost the election. Republicans Al Schmidt, a Republican election expert from Philadelphia and Well Regarded Republican Lawyer Ben Ginsberg also testified that Trump clearly lost the 2020 Election. Barr's videotaped testimony, as well as the videotaped testimony of many others working with the President indicated that no one other than Rudy Giuliani or Disgraced Constitutional Lawyer, John Eastman believed that Trump had won the election of November 2020. The In Person Republican Testimony was guided on the Second day of Hearings by California Congresswoman, Zoe Lofgren
Today on June 16th of 2022 The Select Committee Hearing Testimonies were conducted by Committee Investigative Counsel, John Wood and also by California Congressman, Pete Aguilar. Once again much of the Hearing consisted of Committee Video Testimony by many of those individuals who were closest to Trump commenting on the brutal bullying and ultimately clearly criminal pressure that Donald Trump was unleashing on his Vice President, Mike Pence prior to January 6th of 2021.
In addition to the video testimonies the Select Committee on January Sixth also heard from two important Republican witnesses. In fact, most of the witnesses on video in today's hearing were also Republicans. The two In Person Witnesses at today's hearing were Greg Jacob and Michael Luttig.
Michael Luttig is well known to Republicans as a Leading Light in the Republican Party and a Conservative's Conservative. In addition to his time as a Judge on the Federal Bench, Luttig was also known to be an important member of both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush Administrations.
Greg Jacob spent time in 2020 and 2021 as a Counsel to Vice President, Mike Pence. Jacob made it clear in his testimony, as did many others in their video testimonies that were also included in today's hearing, that although Trump pressured Pence to decertify the legitimate Electors from certain states whose voters had supported Joe Biden on January Sixth, Mike Pence refused to do it.
Michael Luttig made it clear in his testimony that in his legal opinion Mike Pence had no legal right to do what Donald Trump was demanding of him. Namely, decertifying legitimate electors in an effort to support Trump's warped view that the 2020 Election had been stolen from him.
In essence, what the January Sixth Committee has been doing for the last three Hearings is making the case that Donald Trump knew very well that he had legitimately lost the election but refused to allow himself to be designated as a "Loser", which to Trump was apparently one of the worst things that could happen to a human being in Trump World.
Clearly Donald Trump was focused on keeping himself in office because he knew that once he was out of office he might not be able to count on his being President to keep him from answering to the many legal charges that might be coming his way in his future.
Clearly the January Sixth Committee is doing a good job of building a case against Donald Trump committing many crimes including Sedition, as well as conspiracy to murder his Vice President and many other serious offenses.
Certainly Donald Trump is a Dangerous Sociopath capable of continuing to commit crimes of epic proportions if he was allowed to return to the White House.
Just look at the situation in Ukraine and how things would be so horribly different if it was Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden in the White House. Trump would have the United States, instead of helping Ukraine, entering the war on the side of the Russians and Trump's "Genius" buddy, Vladimir Putin.
Clearly Federal Law makes it a crime to commit sedition and makes it impossible for Federal employees to work for the United States Government when they have committed Treasonous Crimes, which Donald Trump has clearly done.
I know that it may be a burden for the January Sixth Committee to complete their investigation, report and hearings if they hand over all the evidence that they have dug up on Donald Trump.
That being said, although it is very important for the January Sixth Committee to complete their investigation, it is time for the Committee Members to quickly pass on all of the information that they have gathered so that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department can use the information gathered to prepare a Serious Case that will result in keeping Donald Trump from returning to work in the Government of the United States of America ever again.
The clock is ticking and there may be serious statute of limitations issues which make it important for the Committee to wrap up their hearings and turn over everything they have to the United States Justice Department As Soon as possible.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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