What Mark Meadows’s sudden cooperation with the Jan. 6 committee could mean

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Published: Nov 30, 2021
Author: Aaron Blake
Post Date: 2021-12-05 16:19:21 by BTP Holdings
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What Mark Meadows’s sudden cooperation with the Jan. 6 committee could mean

Aaron Blake - Tuesday November 30, 2021

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Nov. 12 brought potentially fortuitous developments for the House Jan. 6 committee and its arduous campaign to get testimony from key allies of former president Donald Trump.

In the morning, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows signaled that he would defy the committee’s subpoena and failed to show up for a deposition. A few hours later, the Justice Department announced a grand jury had indicted former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon, whom the House held in contempt for doing much the same thing.

As we noted at the time, it set Meadows up for a crucial decision about how firmly to hold his line — and risk being held in contempt himself, which the committee quickly threatened. That decision also could send a signal to other potential witnesses, as we wrote:

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#1: Darkwing    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Meadows is covering his ass and will side with the winners. Then he can stay in DC and kiss a lot of ass both sides.

Darkwing posted on 2021-12-05 18:36:58   Reply   Private Reply

#2: NeoconsNailed    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

The Dumbocrats' January 6th lynching party is all about killing the first amendment. Going after Trump associates is clearly an attempt to destroy top-level Republican politics, e.g. give people second thoughts about running for president on the GOP side, or working for one.

You could call it communist overthrow by judicial theatrics.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-12-06 04:42:15   Reply   Private Reply

#3: BTP Holdings    To: NeoconsNailed (#2)

communist overthrow by judicial theatrics.

The Communists and the Nazis had kangaroo courts. Both were dictatorships.

But the Marxists and Bolsheviks were the enemies of the Nazis. Indeed, when the Nazis burned books the specifically burned those by Karl Marx. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2021-12-06 19:05:06   Reply   Private Reply

#4: BTP Holdings    To: Darkwing (#1)

Then he can stay in DC and kiss a lot of ass both sides.

Some certainly are two-faced. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2021-12-06 19:06:19   Reply   Private Reply

#5: NeoconsNailed    To: BTP Holdings (#3)

Kangaroo kourts for kommie kikes -- now that would be living!

Burning Bolshevik books -- blessedly beautiful!

NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-12-06 19:14:27   Reply   Private Reply