Biden Authorizes Release of Records
The WSJ reports President Biden authorizes release of some Trump records related to the Jan. 6 capitol riot.
Former President Donald Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon said he wouldn’t cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, while President Biden rejected Mr. Trump’s attempt to assert executive privilege over records related to the attack.
Mr. Trump has said he would assert executive privilege to block Mr. Bannon and other former aides from testifying before investigators. In a statement Friday, Mr. Trump decried the investigation and said “this dangerous assault on our Constitution and important legal precedent will not work.”
“We will comply with the directions of the courts, when and if they rule on these claims of both executive and attorney-client privileges,” said the lawyer, Robert J. Costello, in a letter. “Since these privileges belong to President Trump and not to Mr. Bannon, until these issues are resolved, Mr. Bannon is legally unable to comply with your subpoena requests for documents and testimony.”
The committee, led by Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D., Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) issued subpoenas to four Trump administration officials last month, seeking to compel them to turn over records and sit for depositions in connection with the events surrounding the attack.
In addition to Mr. Bannon, the subpoenas also were sent to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows ; Dan Scavino, former White House deputy chief of staff; and Kashyap Patel, who was chief of staff to the acting Defense secretary at the end of the Trump administration. Mr. Thompson told reporters late last month that Mr. Scavino hadn’t accepted service. The deadline for the four men to produce documents to the committee was Thursday.
Executive privilege—or the longstanding legal doctrine that the president is entitled to shield some material from public or congressional scrutiny for the purposes of receiving candid advice—dates back to the George Washington administration. But the idea of outside advisers such as Mr. Bannon being potentially covered never came up until the Trump years and no court has definitively weighed in on the question.
Headed to Supreme Court
This case is surely headed to the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, note that LIz Cheney, the Republican daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, continues her feud with Trump.
Liz Cheney’s Re-Election Bid
Trump wants challengers to run against Cheney and also against Senator Mitch McConnell.
Actually, Trump wants a slate of candidates to run against anyone who disagrees with him on anything.
Please consider Liz Cheney’s Re-Election Bid Pits Trump Against Bush.
The race for Wyoming’s single U.S. House district has pitted two of the biggest names in Republican politics against one another: both of the party’s living former presidents.
Former President George W. Bush’s first campaign event of the 2022 midterms will be a fundraiser to support Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who is among former President Donald Trump’s top targets to unseat. The fundraiser will be held next month in Dallas, according to a copy of an invitation viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman, one of Ms. Cheney’s Republican challengers, earlier this month. Mr. Trump has called Ms. Cheney a “warmongering fool” and a “horrible human being.”
Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard has also opened a primary bid and had raised about $550,000 as of June 30.
Ms. Cheney, meanwhile, has responded to Mr. Trump’s attacks with the two best fundraising quarters of her political career. She raised $1.5 million in the first three months of the year and $1.9 million in the following three. John Boehner and Paul Ryan, both former GOP House speakers, have helped raise money for her, and Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mitt Romney of Utah have all contributed to her campaign from their respective political committees.
Liz Cheney Says in Floor Speech GOP Can’t Ignore Trump’s Election Lie
Recall that on May 11, Liz Cheney Says in Floor Speech GOP Can’t Ignore Trump’s Election Lie
Mr. Trump has claimed that the election was stolen from him, and he has continued to make unfounded allegations after Mr. Biden took office. In a statement Tuesday, he said the election was “rigged and stolen from us.”
Contrary to Mr. Trump’s claims, no widespread fraud has been detected in the 2020 election. The Justice Department under Mr. Trump said there was no evidence of any fraud significant enough to question the outcome.
Ms. Cheney, who was one of 10 House Republicans to join Democrats in voting to impeach Mr. Trump, said the former president continued to pose a danger.
“Today we face a threat America has never seen before—a former president who provoked a violent attack on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive effort to convince Americans that the election was stolen from him,” Ms. Cheney said Tuesday evening. “He risks inciting further violence. The election is over. That is the rule of law. That is our constitutional process. Those who refuse to accept the rulings of our courts are at war with the Constitution.”
Trump is correct that Cheney is a warmonger. But Cheney is correct that Trump did not win.
In a statement sure to get it from many sides, I dislike both of them. And I don’t like Biden and his merry band of Progressive spendthrifts either.
But on single issue principles, I respect Republicans willing to stand up to Trump. That’s not easy to do.
Meanwhile, I am happy to have voted for neither Trump nor Biden.
It’s difficult, almost impossible, to find a candidate who is fiscally responsible, even on defense, while being socially tolerant yet standing firm against extreme Woke madness, reparations, college admission bias, etc.
Genuine moderate candidates would likely win by landslides. But they cannot win nominations.
Try to Be Less White
For discussion, please consider Coca Cola Confirms Training Employees ‘Try To Be Less White’
Also consider Colleges Dump the SAT, the New Admission Standard is Intellectual Curiosity
Finally, please consider Parents Organize in Secret, Terrified of Their Children’s School Curriculum
If you want to understand what’s behind Trump’s popularity, read any of those articles, but especially the first and third.
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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/14/2020-18015/fighting-the-spread-of-covid-19-by-providing-assistance-to-renters-and-homeowners
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/09/07/conservatives-furious-after-trump-cuts-debt-ceiling-deal-with-nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2016/12/08/trump-and-his-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-a-look-at-25-years-of-connections/?sh=204b9db6f820
I like freedom small government candidates who don’t look to Soros and the Rothchilds as creditors. The Bible does say the borrower is slave to the lender.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/09/07/conservatives-furious-after-trump-cuts-debt-ceiling-deal-with-nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer/
I don’t think it was Romney who was blasting through the Republican primary calling every candidate who stood in the way of Trump a “liar” as in “Lying Ted” or “Little Marco.” I believe it was the sophmoric Donald Trump who lowered the elements of American politics into playground hate and name calling.
Liz Chaney like Bush is the old style Republican and they
are no longer trusted by Republican rank and file because they allowed the
Democrats to set in their most harmful policies without even a bit of
opposition. They were easy to game. They are on the other hand loved by Democrats because they love
tame Republicans. They traded away the important issues for gains in the
secondary ones. To be brief they sold us out on trade and on foreign policy and
didn’t even see what the Left’s destructive social policies would bring. No wonder they are admired by them because
they present absolutely no risk to the Left’s agenda.
From what I understand she is well behind among voters in
her home state so maybe she will be out of a job soon. Raising a bunch of money
from a preferred small cadre of big donors does not give the same bang as it
did a decade or more ago. First of all the ad space has dispersed from TV and
radio and into a hundred different channels making it harder to tailor ads for
impact. It’s a problem that political advertisers know and worry about. Secondly
money from big donors can be and is overwhelmed by small donations. Technology
has empowered the small vs the big when it comes to donations. That has come as
a shock to the traditional way of campaign financing and its corresponding pay
to play for favors.
These Republicans are being squeezed out of the party
because they do not represent the rank and file anymore mainly because of the slavish
adherence to economic policies that resulted in the demise of large swaths of
the country so it is a normal healthy reaction to get rid of them. The
Republican Party is aiming to become the representative of the middle and lower
classes and so far it is working. The Democrats have the moneyed classes down
pat now but to do that they had to abandon the mass of their voters. It looks
to me like they may have bought in at the top as the trend is probably
changing. The series of failed investigations also has had a boomerang effect
that is not apparent to the Democrat core but has not been lost on the
Independents. The accusers having failed to prove their accusations come lout
looking like the clowns they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgybgEKHHI
https://www.gunowners.org/gun-owners-of-america-sues-trump-admin-over-unconstitutional-banning-of-bump-stocks/
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/14/2020-18015/fighting-the-spread-of-covid-19-by-providing-assistance-to-renters-and-homeowners
I’d love to see the Dems get slaughtered in the 2022 midterms — the country could use something positive like that — but not if the driving factor is Trump’s narcissism and the fake news of 2020 having been a fraudulent election.