Capitol Hill and the next 2 weeks (Trump #118)

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4128051-Coup-on-Capitol-Hill-Trump-117

Fast moving threads....

President elect Biden is speaking for me. He's nailing it in my opinion.

Breaking:

Biden giving a speech. "Black rioters would have been treated very very differently"

The voice of sanity.

He is pulling no punches. The politicisation of the DOJ and saying ' you will not be working for ME'.

I think Biden has been reading these threads

Congress is in recess until the 19th. Unless there is an emergency sitting how can there be an impeachment hearing?

If he is... Biden, please don’t crap on women... and drop kick trump out of the Whitehorse...

Joining very late. Will go through the thread reading links.

I've been so focussed on schools and covid and my own sagas I had actually missed what was going on in USA till today. I don't watch tv so only see the news I'm looking for generally.

Pelosi calls for 25th to be invoked.

Hehe!

Calling Merrick Garland the people's lawyer. Biden to his justice team 'your loyalty is not to me but to the people'

Isn't it wonderful to hear this sort of talk. We have had 4 years of mayhem, ramblings, lies and malice. This is so refreshing.

Breaking news tab on CNN Pelosi calling for invoking 25th amendment

Amazing developments

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/07/politics/trump-pence-riot/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

President Donald Trump and top White House officials did little to check in on Vice President Mike Pence while he and members of his family were inside the US Capitol when Trump-backed rioters stormed the halls of Congress on Wednesday, a source close to the vice president tells CNN.

Pence was joined by his wife Karen Pence, daughter Charlotte and brother, Rep. Greg Pence, R-Indiana, for the ceremonial counting of the electoral votes in Congress Wednesday. Several of the violent Trump supporters who were rampaging the US Capitol were heard screaming "where's Mike Pence," the source said, frightening the vice president and his family.

Yet, the President and his top aides barely lifted a finger to check in on Pence to make sure he and his family were unharmed, the source added.

And

People close to the vice president now believe he is being set up as a "scapegoat" to shoulder the blame inside Trump-world after Pence refused to buckle to the President's demands to engineer a procedural coup that would keep Trump in power.

On Tuesday, Pence came under intense pressure from Trump to toss out the election results during a meeting that lasted hours in the Oval Office. The vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, was banned by Trump from entering the West Wing, the source said, as the President repeatedly warned with "thinly veiled threats" to Pence that he would suffer major political consequences if he refused to cooperate.

And

On Thursday, Charlotte Pence Bond, the vice president's daughter who had been at the US Capitol with him, tweeted her congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

keyt.com/politics/2021/01/07/a-day-after-inciting-a-mob-trump-attempts-his-version-of-normalcy/

Don't worry things are all in hand at the White House. Absolutely bizarre.

This is making me a bit emotional. I think that's lockdown getting to me

As a keen golfer, Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player have both just gone down in my estimation for accepting that Medal of Freedom.

@SunniCameHomeWithAVengeance

I think Trump is hoping to be declared insane, don't forget theres a queue of criminal cases waiting for him.

My ds said the same

Lewis Goodall

Speaker Pelosi says that if Pence and the Cabinet doesn’t move on the 25th amendment she’s willing to move to impeach.

“my friends we are in a very difficult place as a country as long as Donald Trump remains in The White House.”

Pelosi: "A threshold was crossed of such magnitude that there's no way this president should be allowed to make any decision. What's next? What happens today? Who knows? But what we do know is that he must be contained."

Pelosi: "The President is a very dangerous man...we'll see what our options are. It's up to him if he wants to be doubly impeached."

Pelosi: "Impeached. Defeated. Impeached. Gone."

igotjelly me too, it made me emotional listening to him. Just fantastic normality sorely missed these last years

Lewis Goodall

Remember: if Trump is impeached and convicted (never happened before) he would be barred from running for public office for the rest of his life.

It is a fact about which the Republican senate leadership will not be unaware.

Anyone know if he is able to run again if he isn't impeached but he subsequently convicted of something?

Timothy Snyder on channel 4 news is saying it all based on a Lie, it has everything to with race.

Twitter thread on The Lie

twitter.com/timothydsnyder/status/1347212082035519489?s=21

Pelosi has called for the resignation of the Capitol Police chief

Call me cynical, but i feel like Republicans are only taking Trump's words, threats, supporters seriously now that their OWN lives have been threatened.