January 6 Hearing Irritates Trump And His MAGA Klan

Day 1 of the January 6 hearing was so full of truth and indisputable evidence that Donald Trump and his MAGA sycophants are now throwing an absolute hissy fit over the congressional committee’s findings.

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Donald Trump is responsible for the 2021 insurrection against the US Capitol. That, according to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), committee chairman, as well as the bipartisan January 6th House select panel via the legal master class they presented last week to the American public. Utilizing a never-before-seen 12-minute video of extremist groups leading the Capitol siege as well as startling testimony from Trump’s inner circle, the bipartisan committee presented unparalleled proof that Trump’s repeated lies about election fraud and his public effort to cancel Joe Biden’s victory led to the historic attack that jeopardized American democracy.

“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government,” Rep. Thompson said. “The violence was no accident.”

He was not alone in his conclusions.

“What we now know is that Donald Trump not only set the date for the Capitol attack, but he also refused to call off his angry mob once he deployed them for more than three hours,” said former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who explained that the committee proved Trump’s actions were “treason squared” in a scheme that he both “hatched” and implemented. Kirschner added that Trump also “refused the deployment of any forces to go to the Capitol to fend off the attack, to protect the people in the US Capitol that he set his angry mob on.”

“We want to remind people, we were there, we saw what happened. We know how close we came to the first non-peaceful transition of power in this country.”

– Rep. Dean Phillips, D-MN

As the old adage goes, “The proof is in the pudding” — and the January 6 hearing provided so much proof that Donald Trump is absolutely livid his lies and treasonous acts have been exposed for all the world to see.

Almost immediately after the hearing ended, Trump lashed out at former attorney general William Barr for daring to tell the TRUTH that there was no voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and that Trump simply lost. In fact, the committee played a video clip of Barr calling Trump’s claims of a rigged election “bullsh*t.”

“Bill Barr was a weak and frightened Attorney General who was always being ‘played’ and threatened by the Democrats and was scared stiff of being Impeached,” Trump barked on his Truth Social media account. “How do you not get impeached? Do nothing, or say nothing, especially about the obviously RIGGED & STOLEN Election or, to put it another way, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY! The Democrats hit pay dirt with Barr, he was stupid, ridiculously said there was no problem with the Election, & they left him alone. It worked for him, but not for our Country!”

Trump also took aim at his own daughter, Ivanka Trump, after the committee presented video testimony of the once-favorite Trump child admitting she accepted the election results and the outcome that her father did not win.

“Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results,” Trump said of his daughter. He added that she “had long since checked out” of her White House position and faithfulness to him.

As if it wasn’t enough to witness Donald Trump going on the defensive for the damaging January 6 hearing results, GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas also attempted to paint Trump and members of his party as victims.

Needless to say, it didn’t go well.

“If you’re a Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you,” Gohmert said in a Friday interview on NewsMax. 

Although Gohmert surely meant well and thought he was helping, admitting that Republicans can’t get away with lying about the election results and Trump’s involvement in the January 6th insurrection only proved the point of the congressional committee.

In a weak attempt to discount the hearing and hope that Americans would simply refuse to pay attention, Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee tweeted: “All. Old. News” (as if the hearing was unnecessary simply because too much time had elapsed from the calendar).

Over on Fox News, Tucker Carlson aired continuously and commercial-free during Day 1 of the January 6 hearing — as if to prevent his viewers from tuning to another channel and consuming something other than the propaganda Trump, the GOP, and Fox want them to hear exclusively.

Now, political pundits are acknowledging that these attempts at promoting the Big Lie and Trump’s innocence in the Capitol Hill insurrection are beyond pathetic.

“This is indefensible,” Molly said. “It’s like the gun violence stuff. They can’t win. So they’re just trying to run down the clock. They know it’s a loser for them.

“They [Fox News] know just like they did after the Trump election that they will lose their audience if they tell the truth. And that’s what we saw after the election. They were not going to do the Big Lie and their rating started to go down. And there was a conscious moment where Fox decided they would, in fact, do the Big Lie because that’s what their people wanted… they know that this is the way they keep their audience.”

“It’s cowardice, it’s rank cowardice all the way up the chain at Fox News,” said Andy Levy, a veteran of Fox News. “Whether it’s the people like Tucker Carlson or whether it’s Suzanne Scott in the executive suite or quite frankly whether it’s the Murdochs — it’s just a fear that their listeners might actually hear something that goes against the narrative that they put out there 24/7, 365. And they are so afraid of that.

“President Trump summoned a violent mob. When a president fails to take the steps necessary to preserve our union — or worse, causes a constitutional crisis — we’re in a moment of maximum danger for our republic.”

– Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY)

So, thanks to Democratic congressional committee members and GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the truth has been unleashed and receipts (with proof) have been revealed. Oh, and the hearings will continue today and every day through July.

No wonder Donald Trump is pissed beyond belief.

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Trump is livid over the January 6 hearing.