On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and other lawmakers visited Jan. 6 defendants who are currently incarcerated in the DC jail, proclaiming them to be victims of a “two-tier injustice system.” “These inmates are not victims,” Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.); Thomas Joscelyn, a senior staff member on the House Jan. 6th Committee; and Democracy 21 President […]
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and James Comer (R-KY), Chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, recently announced their intention to arrange a congressional delegation to visit January 6 inmates being held in the Washington, DC jail. Both Greene and former President Donald Trump have portrayed these inmates as “political prisoners.” However, Tom Joscelyn, […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 16 , 2023 Former President Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 presidential election and in the process did enormous damage to our democracy and the integrity of our elections. It increasingly looks like Trump might just finally be held accountable for his attacks on our democracy, his […]
“Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, and utterly failed,” Tom Joscelyn writes in a powerful op-ed published on POLITICO. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave the Fox News host exclusive media access to more than 40,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police security footage. Last week Carlson began airing cherry-picked portions of the video on […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 9 , 2023 Dominion Voting Systems has provided a public service for the American people. As a result of its pending defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Dominion has laid bare the extraordinary con game that Fox carried out in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and that continues today. Fox elevated and […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 2, 2023 Kevin McCarthy got the votes he needed to become House Speaker in January by giving the extremist wing of House Republicans pretty much everything they wanted. In doing so, he empowered the most extreme of these House Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, James Comer, Marjorie […]
Emily Kohrs, the Georgia special grand jury foreperson in the Trump investigation who made the media rounds this week “won’t win any prizes for grand jury foreperson etiquette. Her display has been unseemly, to say the least. It has violated good taste – but not the law,” Ambassador Norm Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President […]
On Thursday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing on whether Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), whose activities are being investigated as part of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 criminal investigation, is protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. Perry played an outsized role in the attempted interference in the 2020 presidential election and the court […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 23, 2023 The Trump-led insurrection that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol did not end with the certification of Joe Biden as President. Welcome to The Insurrection: Part II. The goal is the same – ensure that former President Donald Trump or a Trump-like candidate becomes […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 16, 2023 The legal walls are closing in on former President Donald Trump as a multitude of legal threats have moved to a new, dangerous stage for Trump. Here’s where things stand: Fulton County, Georgia Today, Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney released five pages of a special grand jury’s report on […]
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