By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol held its final public meeting on Monday afternoon, Dec. 19, 2022, ending a historic 18-month investigation with the approval of its final report. The committee voted unanimously to recommend criminal charges of inciting an insurrection,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol announced subpoenas Tuesday demanding documents from Rudy Giuliani and the legal team that pursued false claims of voter fraud in a series of lawsuits for former President Donald J. Trump. Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced the…
The American People Want to See Trump on Trial for Insurrection – Letters to Santa: The Number One Wish is to See Trump Behind Bars for Christmas – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Clearly the American people want to see Donald Trump, the former Republican president, prosecuted for his…
Mark Meadows, Daniel Scavino, Kashyap Patel and Stephen Bannon Targeted – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a new round of subpoenas on Thursday seeking documents and testimony from four individuals with close ties to the former president who were working…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Impatient with Senate Republicans for blocking the creation of a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved this week to create a select committee with subpoena power to conduct a Congressional investigation into the insurrection that…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s curious that the MAGA Republicans controlling the House bombarded FBI director Chris Wray with criticisms on Wednesday about his role in investigating former President Donald Trump, considering that Wray is a Republican himself who was appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation by Trump himself. Committee Republicans,…
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell’s 1984 QUOTE of the DAY – “The Republicans have brought the QAnon caucus to the Oversight Committee, and you can expect them to run with the most ludicrous conspiracy theories one can ever imagine.†– Freshman Congressman Dan Goldman, Democrat from New York…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a spectacle of arm-twisting on the House floor that nearly erupted into fisticuffs, California Republican Kevin McCarthy finally won over just enough of the right-wing rebels he needed Friday night to become Speaker of the House. After a five-day, 15-ballot debacle of a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will begin on March 21, the chair of the committee announced Wednesday. Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, revealed the timetable and was joined by Majority Leader Chuck…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House voted 222 to 208 to recommend holding Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress Tuesday night after the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously on Monday to hold the former White House Chief of Staff and member of Congress…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the face of mounting criticism of President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland for not bringing the full weight of the U.S. Department of Justice down hard on Trump loyalists involved in a plot to mount an insurrection Jan. 6 and stop Congress from legally certifying Biden…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol met Tuesday night and voted unanimously to hold Trump brain trust Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for blatantly defying a Congressional subpoena to produce documents and testify about his role in inciting the insurrection and attempted…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is quietly signaling that former President Donald Trump and other Republicans involved in inciting the seditious assault may not escape scrutiny. Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, the Democrat from Mississippi, and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, the Republican from Wyoming,…
By Glynn Wilson – Former Vice President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat who plans to appeal to working-class voters who deserted the Democratic Party to vote for President Donald J. Trump in 2016, tossed his hat into the ring to run for president on Thursday in a YouTube video on his own campaign channel that…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – DEVIL’S DEN, Ark. – When the news came through loud and clear and all over the New York Times front page Wednesday morning that a majority of the American people are willing to roll the dice on another crazy term for a criminal and proven…
By Glynn Wilson – If justice was indeed blind and fair in all cases, Donald Trump would be standing trial today for his crimes against the United States Constitution and American democracy, not running for president again as a major party’s nominee. New evidence disclosed in a court brief made public on Wednesday by Federal…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In one more effort to save American democracy from Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, special prosecutor Jack Smith filed another indictment against the former president in federal court on Tuesday, once again accused him of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.…
Guest Column – By Joe Conason – Among right-wing Republicans, the incarceration of Stephen K. Bannon has provoked a torrent of sputtering rage. “I stand with Steve Bannon!” was the defiant slogan barked by scores of prominent figures on the right, after a federal judge ordered the fascist media personality and adviser to former President…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge ordered Donald Trump brain trust and mouthpiece Steve Bannon to surrender by July 1 to start serving a four-month prison sentence imposed for contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena to provide documents and testimony to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If Donald Trump somehow avoids bankruptcy, a criminal conviction and prison time and wins the support of enough voters in key battleground states to assume the presidency in November and move into the White House again in January, 2025, no doubt commentators may blame…
