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January 3, 2021 January 6 Updates for today By Carol Brown

 

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January 3, 2021

January 6 Updates for today

By Carol Brown

Here are updates related to January 6 broken down into various categories, presented in the following order: Rally updates, GOP objections to the votes, Peter Navarro statement, Mike Pence statement, the progressive angle, and a Trump request related to Georgia.

Rally updates

Sundance, at The Conservative Treehouse, has been posting daily updates which I’ve excerpted and summarized below. For those already in D.C. or en route, please click the link for pertinent information, warnings, and tips on a variety of topics. Additional information can be found here, here, here, here, and here. 30-second video: here.

The January 6th rally in Washington DC is shaping up to be the largest ever assembly in Washington DC history. From what can be ascertained from social media and grassroots communication to CTH, millions are inbound, and the scale is growing exponentially.


It’s recommended that you arrive before 9 am on the date of the event.

The primary venue will be The Elipse, a 52-acre park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall.

In anticipation of a crowd size that could reach into the millions, plan for the metro rail system to be shut down.

President Trump will be participating at the massive event.

GOP objections to the vote

The number of Republicans who will object to the vote is growing, although the most recent group of Senators have a request they want met before objecting. Fox News reports:

A group of GOP senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.

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Joining Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mike Braun, R-Ind.; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kansas; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.

A copy of the letter signed by the senators can be found here. Cruz will be on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Future’s program at 10 am to discuss all of this.

Here’s my take: I’d rather see more members of the GOP stand up, rather than fewer. So, I’m glad more senators are doing so and hope there will be more.

That said, it’s ridiculous this is happening now at this late hour. Granted these senators couldn’t have taken this specific stand until the votes were certified across all these states, and particularly the states in question. But, and correct me if I’m wrong, I hardly heard a peep out of most of them these past two months since Election Day (whatever Election Day even means anymore). For the most part, they’ve said nary a word as Trump has been fighting with his small band of lawyers.

Given that, I can’t help but view this with a cynical eye and wonder how much is driven by opportunism. Be that as it may, we need all the help we can get.

However (sorry, one more caveat), my eyes rolled a bit when I heard the words “commission” and “audit.” Who, pray tell, among the infinitely long list of corrupt government officials would sit on this commission? And who would be in charge of the audit? And how long would it take to complete? Are we to seriously believe that a commission could be formed quickly and get an honest audit completed in ten days?

And what do we need a commission for when a mountain of evidence has already been unearthed? What if (and here’s a crazy thought) we just followed the law? How is it, for example among so many examples, that we have video of poll workers feeding ballots into machines multiples times and yet not a single soul has been arrested?

Color me skeptical while also feeling that more trying to fight this fight is better than less, if only to stick it to Mitch McConnell.

But the big picture is that we’re not a bunch of naïve children who’ll be appeased by political theater. We want this travesty corrected now (now = 2 months ago).

Peter Navarro’s perspective on the audit request

Navarro was interviewed by Judge Jeanine Pirro yesterday and stated:

I would not be surprised to see a special counsel on this and Vice President Pence, he has the authority to give that 10-day window to do what needs to get done and I cannot imagine when he looks at the facts, um, he won’t, uh, vote the right way on that.

Navarro also said that things could extend beyond the January 20 inauguration date, though a lot of what I’ve read suggests that might not be the case. Like all things 2020 and now 2021, there’s much confusion and conflicting pieces of information floating out there.

Mike Pence statement on elected official’s objecting to the votes

Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff, Marc Short, released the following statement yesterday:

The Vice President welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th.

I hear that as nothing more than patronizing words meant to calm tens of millions of deplorables in the face of the most horrific, unacceptable, transformative, criminal theft in American history.

Progressives peddling lies

Progressives are busy churning out propaganda to paint those who will be attending the rally as “far right” agitators and extremists. Karl Racine, D.C. Attorney General, has expressed concern about the Proud Boys who will “pick fights, create damage, damage property, and then act in a very threatening way.”

The irony can’t be lost on any thinking person when these leftists have been threatening and assaulting Trump supporters for four years and then destroyed cities all across the country with impunity. The media denied the truth while the Wannabe Vice President bailed criminals out of jail only for them to wreak further havoc.

I care not a wit what they think or say, though I do care about the power they wield and how that impacts us, and in the short term, how it may effect things on Wednesday.

Georgia

Trump is imploring all patriots to contact public figures in Georgia:

Contact House Speaker David Ralston & Senate Majority Leader Mike Dugan!

They must:

Hear the evidence

Correct false statements

Demand a vote on decertification

Ralston: (404) 656-5020 david.ralston@house.ga.gov

Dugan: (404) 463-2478 mike.dugan@senate.ga.gov

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January 3, 2021 Why isn’t every Republican rep and senator on board to challenge the electoral vote? By Patricia McCarthy

 

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January 3, 2021

Why isn’t every Republican rep and senator on board to challenge the electoral vote?

By Patricia McCarthy

There can be no doubt at this point about the fact that the Democrats cheated to elect the hapless Joe Biden.  The evidence is overwhelming.  It’s on video.  There are thousands of affidavits signed by poll workers who saw the fraud as it happened in each of the swing states: PA, GA, NV, MI, WI, AZ.  It very likely occurred in other states as well but, as in California, but went unnoticed because the fraud has been institutionalized.  How they cheated has been discovered, analyzed, exposed for all to see and read.  

Had American poll watchers witnessed such corruption in another country, the election would have been deemed illegitimate.  The left planned for years to steal the 2020 election.  Lawyers like Mark Elias have spent the last four years plotting how to ensure a Trump defeat.  They surreptitiously foraged the election laws of swing states and snuck in with lawsuits that no one called attention to in order to secure a stolen election.  Every state that purchased Dominion vote machines knew they were vulnerable to programmable interference. 

With the testimony of over a thousand witnesses to fraud and the video and analyses by numerous experts in cyber technology that leaves no doubt about the level of cheating that took place, it seems that every Republican member of Congress would be equally outraged, champing at the bit to protest the fraudulent Electoral College vote. 

God bless the 140 representatives and 12 senators who actually have a spine and are willing to stand up for the values most of their colleagues only pretend to hold.  How do we explain the cowardice of all the others?  Perhaps they too, like the Bidens and McConnells, have become wealthy as members of Congress by capitulating to lobbyists from all those countries around the world they want to send billions of our taxpayer dollars to, China in particular.  It’s a safe bet.  How else to explain their perfidy re: the election fraud?  


Not one of the Republicans who do not protest the election results should be re-elected.  Each and every of them is a traitor to the people who donated to their campaigns, who voted for them.  They are not conservatives; they are only self-interested politicians who crave the undisturbed ability to enrich themselves they long enjoyed before Trump showed up to disrupt the status quo.  Those faux-Republicans should know they will not be re-elected.  They have revealed themselves to be people who lack core values, who are there for all the wrong reasons.  The Founders would be ashamed of each and every one of them. 

What will happen on January 6th?  It is likely to be one of the most pivotal days in US history.  Everyone knows the Democrats commenced the greatest electoral fraud ever to occur in this country.  Everyone.  Even the Democrats know, and about 30% of them are willing to admit it to pollsters.

Do the Democrats want to learn the truth?  Are they on board with recounts, audits, signature verifications, etc.?  Not at all.  They are terrified that the public at large will become aware of their grand swindle.  

The sad fact is that the Trump-hating left and right are A-okay with cheating if it wins the day.  So self-righteous are they, that whatever cements their power over the rest of us is morally justified.  Together they have become the second generation of Stalinists that Arthur Koestler wrote about in Darkness at Noon.  

They’ve come to believe their ideological opponents should be interned in re-education camps.  Chuck Schumer is dying to “change America” even more than Obama already did. Even old Democrats have been seduced by the tyranny of woke.  Like Koestler’s Rubashov, the old guard of actual liberals has caved to the current-day Jacobins in their pathetic effort to be relevant.  JFK is rolling over in his grave.

What happens on January 6 may well be up to VP Mike Pence.  There are constitutional courses of action available to challenge what is clearly a long-planned, carefully orchestrated second attempt at a coup, the Russia collusion hoax being the first.  Does Pence have the inner fortitude to do the right thing?  That is the question of the day.  The election results in those swing states must be de-certified for all the obvious reasons.  Biden must not be inaugurated as he is a tool of China as are some of his slated cabinet appointees.

If the steal of the election succeeds, there will never again be a free and fair election in the US.  Cheating will forever more be the order of the day as in Venezuela.  This will no longer be America as founded, as the Constitution will have been permanently abrogated.  And all those Republicans in Congress who let it happen will go down is history as the collaborators in the fall of the greatest nation ever to exist.  How will the eighty-eight senators who are not challenging the electoral vote count live with themselves?  (They will be fine financially, for almost all have become mysteriously wealthy while in office.)  History will judge them harshly, of that we can all be sure.

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January 3, 2021 No, President Trump did not pardon Steve Stockman. He should. By Mark J. Fitzgibbons

 

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January 3, 2021

No, President Trump did not pardon Steve Stockman. He should.

By Mark J. Fitzgibbons


President Trump is being criticized in the lopsided Democrat media and even by establishment keyboard Republicans for using his authority under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution to "grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States."

The authority to pardon was exercised at common law in England before our written Constitution became America's paramount law over government.  State constitutions also provide executives authority in one way or another to issue such orders of clemency.  President Trump's legitimate use of that authority merely draws flak from the usual Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The December 22 batch of clemency orders that have drawn the ire of anti-Trumpers included not a pardon, but a commutation of the ten-year prison sentence for conservative former congressman Steve Stockman.

The abuses of justice against Stockman, both in his trial and during his time in prison, have been chronicled well at American Thinker.


To reiterate a few points, Stockman was an outspoken critic of Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and IRS official Lois Lerner.  He was targeted for criminal investigations, but at least three grand juries did not indict him before a fourth finally did after the Justice Department had its "batting practice."

The cultish fake news reported that Stockman had defrauded charitable donors, and that cascaded into charges of wire fraud and money-laundering.

The bogus and fabricated case against Stockman combined elements of soliciting donations from just two wealthy GOP donors for nonprofit causes that were political in nature.  The perfect legality of Stockman's activities are described in an amicus brief I filed in his appeal.

Stockman requested donations to provide seed money for nonprofit projects that were inherently political in nature.  The prosecution against him confused both the trial judge and jury, leading them to believe that nonprofit organizations may not engage in "political" activity at all.

Just in the past political cycle, leftist nonprofits outraised right-leaning nonprofits by five times to influence the election.  At Stockman's trial, however, the confused judge held up one key exhibit mailed by a nonprofit organization on Steve's side critical of his establishment GOP primary opponent and said quite pointedly, "This is political."  The confused jury took its cue from her, as if it were witchcraft in Salem.

Stockman's case, quite literally, was the criminalization of politics.  The charges of wire fraud and money-laundering could not have been brought against him without the corrupt case that my amicus brief, linked above, shows was bogus.

Even though Stockman's sentence has now been commuted, he remains on parole, so we can expect that more bogus charges will be brought against him if he is to re-engage as an effective conservative critic of government corruption.  Also, his travel is severely restricted, and he is now being deprived of his right to vote and his Second Amendment rights.

While there is no need to re-litigate a case for purposes of issuing pardons — even in the face of the cultish media criticisms of his commutation — this is a perfect example of why the presidential pardon power can and should be used to remedy injustices caused by abuse of prosecutorial power.

Mr. President, pardon Steve Stockman.

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January 3, 2021 Remember when the Democrats challenged the electoral vote count in 3 elections over 20 years? By Silvio Canto, Jr.

 

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January 3, 2021

Remember when the Democrats challenged the electoral vote count in 3 elections over 20 years?

By Silvio Canto, Jr.


What do 2001, 2005, and 2017 have in common?  We inaugurated three GOP presidents, and Democrats challenged their electoral vote each time.  Yes, three for two, or three times for the last two GOP presidents sworn in.

The Democrats are back from the other side of the field.  They are appalled that GOP House members or a U.S. Senator is questioning the 2020 results.  Check out Senator Van Hollen:

Sen. Hawley's actions are grossly irresponsible. He's attempting to undermine our democratic process, fuel Trump's lies about voter fraud, and delay the certification of Biden's win.  In the end, this reckless stunt will fail, and Joe Biden will become President on Jan. 20, 2021.

Okay, so why is Senator Van Hollen so concerned?  Let Senator Hawley make his case, along with others in the U.S. House.  The case will either stand on its own merit or collapse immediately.


For two months, the Democrats have been saying this election is over and should not be challenged at all.

First, elections can be challenged, which is why the U.S. Constitution calls on the U.S. Congress to confirm the results.  Democrats should know this because they've challenged three elections in twenty years.

Second, what's wrong with hearing about vote fraud or whatever?  Seventy-five million people would like to hear about it even if it does not change the outcome.

So let the process move forward.  Nothing bad will happen.

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