Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 14, 2022 As we head into the 2022 congressional elections, the implications of Trump’s Big Lie, the January 6 violent insurrection at the Capitol, and the voter suppression and election sabotage laws that followed, are coming into major play. In early June, the House Jan. 6 Committee is expected […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Inside America with Ghida Fakhry, TRT World. April 13, 2022.
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 7, 2022 The Jan. 6 Committee in the House is investigating the events surrounding the violent insurrection attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and the events leading up to it. The Committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses, including recently the President’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Background Briefing With Ian Masters on March 31, 2022. (25 minutes)
“Judge David Carter’s decision on Monday finding Trump ‘more likely than not’ committed crimes, sets out a road map for finally imposing consequences for the big lie,” former Ambassador Norman Eisen and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in an op-ed published on CNN. The Judge’s decision, they write, “does so by tackling the thorniest […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer The revelations yesterday that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent a number of text messages to President Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 election, emphasize the extraordinary importance of the work of the House […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 24, 2022 “The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did.” Those deeply powerful words came last month in a letter of resignation from Mark Pomerantz, a lead prosecutor in the Manhattan D.A.’s criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s business practices, obtained […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 10, 2022 The 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” according to a statement issued by officials in the Trump Administration after the election. And, there’s never been a shred of evidence to back up Trump’s blatantly false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | March 3, 2022 The walls may be starting to close in on Donald Trump, even as polls indicate he maintains a tight grip on Republican voters, and GOP officeholders and candidates continue to bend the knee to Trump. Yesterday in a court filing, the House Jan. 6. Committee asserted for the […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | February 24, 2022 An autocracy is defined as a system of government by one person with absolute power. Evil President Vladimir Putin of Russia is an autocrat. Donald Trump aspired to be one during his presidency – and still aspires to be one. Trump sees Putin as his role model. […]
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