#jan 6 committee

[liberalsarecool]

Fuck around. Dec 18, 2020

Find out. Dec 19, 2022. #FAFO

[odinsblog]

THE JAN. 6 committee announced on Monday that it will refer former President Donald Trump for criminal charges for his role in the attack on the Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.

The referral, which was expected, came during the committee’s final meeting before releasing the final report on its investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021 and the larger effort to keep Trump in office despite losing handily to Joe Biden. The committee has said it will release the report on Wednesday.

Congress asking the Justice Department to criminally charge a former president is a historic move that speaks to the magnitude of the evidence the committee has gathered against Trump, who they have placed at the center of the scheme to overturn the election. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) laid out the details of the referrals, noting that the committee is seeking charges be brought against Trump for obstructing an official proceeding; conspiracy to defraud the United States government; knowingly and willingly making a false statement to the federal government; and inciting, assisting, or engaging in insurrection.

👉🏿 Jan. 6 Committee: Trump Should Be Charged With Four Crimes, Including Insurrection

[mysharona1987]

[contemplatingoutlander]

It appears that Fox News viewers aren’t only the “victims” of Fox News’ right-wing propaganda; they’re also the “drivers” of Fox News’ right-wing propaganda. 

Fox News Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they occur in daytime hours and a striking number of the network’s viewers have made clear they’d rather be doing something else.

During two daytime hearings last week, Fox averaged 727,000 viewers, the Nielsen company said. That compares to the 3.09 million who watched the hearings on MSNBC and the 2.21 million tuned in to CNN.

It completely flips the typical viewing pattern for the news networks. During weekdays...Fox News Channel routinely has more viewers than the other two networks combined, Nielsen said.

Last Thursday, Fox had 1.33 million viewers for the 2 p.m. Eastern hour before the hearing started [...]

After the hearing started, Fox’s audience’s sank to 747,000 for the 3 p.m. Eastern hour and even lower, to 718,000, at 4 p.m. Fox cut away from the hearing at 5 p.m. to show its popular panel program, “The Five,” and fans immediately rewarded them: viewership shot up to 2.76 million people, Nielsen said.

The apparent lack of interest explains why the frequently Trump-friendly network stuck with its regular lineup during the committee’s only prime-time hearing, while ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC all showed the Washington proceedings.

[emphasis added]

So we now see that many Fox News viewers choose to keep themselves in the right-wing echo chamber. When Fox deviates from the echo chamber, they tune out. 

Fox News has learned that if it wants to keep its audience, it has to pander to the beliefs of the right-wing alternate reality that their audience wants to live in. 

It’s a vicious (and terrifying) mutually-reinforcing cycle of ignorance, disinformation, hate, and bigotry.

[sjmattson]

Contrary to all of the fearmongering and propaganda, it wasn't Iran, China, Russia, radical Jihadists, violent immigrants, or displaced refugees that came close to overthrowing our Democracy...it was White American Christian Nationalists.

[classicwoodie]

[rickmctumbleface]

I hope people are mature enough to realize that these Jan 6 hearings are serious stuff. The stuff of history. I also hope they notice that EVERYBODY who is testifying against Trump and his allies are all Republicans, many deeply conservative ones, who worked for, or were appointed by Trump. This isn't some partisan witch hunt. This was serious crime. Major treason.

[jonostroveart]

Ginni

[your-krazy-uncle-bob]

[liberalsarecool]

Game on! Get this grifter shitbag under oath.

[stupid-dyke]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-lunged-at-agent-who-said-he-couldnt-go-to-capitol-amid-jan-6-violence-aide-says

[justnoodlefishthings]

Jan. 6 Hearing Day 6 spoilers with no context

[mysharona1987]

[simply-starryeyed]

after not keeping up with the january sixth trials like I probably should’ve been, I’m baffled

there’s overwhelming incriminating evidence for trump, including but not limited to inciting the attack on the capital, advocating for violence against someone who opposed him, and when he was told they weren’t going back to the capital, tried to take the wheel of the car and then tried to choke his head of security who was trying to stop him

it’s absurd and it’s even more absurd knowing that there is a very fair chance that nothing is going to come of this, but by God, there’s nothing I’d love more than to see that fucker in prison & ineligible to ever run for president again

[ms-cellanies]

Gym Jordan got OWNED by the Twitterverse.  Keep up the good work going after this worthless POS.