Yes. You read that right. Johnson is saying that he is intentionally hiding insurrectionists from prosecution in the release of tapes that Republicans claim will vindicate them on January 6th.
That’d be a confession to treason, then.
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Last I checked, Christianity includes several strong injunctions against lying and betraying, so he’s doing kinda shitty at Christianity too.
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You’ll find all Abrahamic religions are all quite big proponents of lying. Even the religious text shows sanctioned lies by God.
Right??? What the hell?
Far-right Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and former President Donald Trump have praised Johnson’s promise to release the footage, saying it will “prove” that the activities of Jan. 6, 2021, were peaceful.
Only morons and guilty people believe this. I saw evidence to the contrary on live broadcast.
Someone was peacefully trampled to death, Ashley Babbitt was peacefully shot breaking into the capitol, and those were gallows of peace.
They literally dragged a security guard out of the door and
beat him to death. Because of all the preconditions that the seditionists set up, there were few guards and they didn’t escalate. It saved their lives at least, but it was corrupt to the coreI think you’re confusing Michael Fanone (dragged out, tased and beaten, had a heart attack but survived) with Brian Sicknick (had a stroke late that night and died the next day). To my knowledge, Sicknick wasn’t involved in any assault that is believed to have caused his death.
(Before anyone jumps down my throat, I think all the Jan 6th rioters are traitors. I just think it’s important to be accurate.)
Honestly I saw the thing live and read some time after that security guards died and just put two and two together
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Wait, I thought they backed tracked that claim of beating to death. Instead it was determined it was something else that was a result of that day. Heart attack or something along the lines.
Natural causes…that resulted from being beaten to half an inch of his life and left to die, yeah?
They record the final cause (heart attack, aneurism,) as being the cause… but no one who reads the autopsy report with even half a brain really thinks he would be alive today if the beating never happened
“Officially” it was “natural causes” and a total “coincidence” that a Trump-supporting cop was beaten to near-death by other Trump supporters and died within hours. Naturally. As one does.
Probably Excited Delirium
Chronic hysteria
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The rest of them are just lucky they weren’t shot too.
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Bullets are expensive. Just rebuild the gallows they assembled.
Public hangings go a long way to deter treason.
I draw that conclusion from the lack of hangings and correlative increase in treason.Just rebuild the gallows they assembled.
They were never going to hang someone from those gallows. They were shoddy work, would have collapsed if they tried. They would have had to execute people some other way if they’d won.
They tried so hard to martyr her…
They really did. One of my neighbors is a cop and always talks about “don’t break the law and you won’t have a problem”, “just comply”, “fuck around and find out”, etc.
Then when she got shot, he was outraged. He was showing me the video expecting me to be equally mad. I was like “damn, I can’t believe that law enforcement gave her that many chances to back down.” My neighbor still thinks she was some kind of hero.
They tried so hard to martyr her…
Breaking outside windows to gain access, etc.
Gallows and a guillotine should be at all protests.
I was gonna say, we watched the events play out live on both news and social media. Peaceful protestors don’t scale the walls of the capitol building, bulldoze baracades, and threaten capitol police, all while chanting stop the steal.
That’s like saying a school shooting was peaceful because over 99.9% of people weren’t being violent.
Also all the people who went to jail for being peaceful.
Wouldn’t the DOJ have already seen this footage. Why would Congress have access to security footage that the cops don’t have already have access to?
This smells like some sort of play for time and or a way for GOP leaders to pretend to have their base’s backs.
Yup, it’s just theatre. Their idiot base will eat it right up too, because they are hateful idiots.
Yes.
A lot of citizens coming through footage have been helpful in identifying the seditionists. We need to demand the raw footage and dox the rest of the criminals.
Probably because https://seditionhunters.org/ will also be looking at the footage for better quality images of people. They provided a lot of the initial investigation cited in charging documents so far.
Half the country takes their bullshit seriously.
Not half of the country. Remember that Trump lost the popular vote.
Twice
Not even half of the voters.
Those are the stupids, who are fucking nuts, whose bullshit is being spoken of.
Just to chime in with the chorus. But half the country even voting is rare. It only happens sometimes during presidential years. And almost never on the in between years. And even then, especially at the national level. Republicans almost never win the popular vote. Republicans have boiled their base down to the most bat shit, irrational, and dedicated people. It isn’t going to shrink anymore. But the good news is that they’re not even close to half the country, and they’re not likely to grow either. If the rest of us realized this, organized and voted responsibility. They’d be stuck running for dog catcher in some Podunk shit hole. And likely losing because of their history of animal torture and abuse.
*because treasons
Why would you have to blur the faces of people doing nothing illegal or wrong?
So they’re not still claiming they were FBI plants or Antifa?
Fuck it, at this point the GOP thinks they were peaceful Antifa Trump-supporting FBI Agents Provacateur.
Or something.
“We have to obstruct justice”
“We have to obstruct justice”
Seriously, how is this not grounds for immediate repercussions?
Because it’s completely, 100% bullshit.
I’m so confused by the GOP play here. I, along with hundreds of millions of people, saw this unfolding live on TV. Do they think that by releasing more footage we’re going to somehow be less mad?
This will appeal to their idiot voters who will say "look! 99% of the time they were peaceful! Nothing happened! You’re making a big deal of nothing.’
I dunno man, if I see 99% of the crowd is there in areas they’re not supposed to be with the intent on stopping the election certification, I don’t care if they’re arm in arm singing kumbaya, I want them in jail.
And, as always, they’d be lying.
Wonder if they’ll include time stamps on the footage or just find the angles that work best for the time stamps to try and show it ‘wasn’t that serious’. Either way I’m sure it’ll reinforce many people’s view that it was not a riot or insurrection. I don’t think this is true (just thinking how they will spin it), I’m Canadian and was quite worried for the US that day, well more than the usual days of Trump anyways. Trying to compare it for when people only look at news that help them feel satisfied with their view rather than properly look at evidence. One thing Republicans can do is spew propaganda in their favour and their base will nod in agreement.
And 99% of the time a bank robber was doing normal stuff too. They’re still a felon.
Haha that’s a good point. I’d love to see a lawyer try that argument that in court. “You’ll notice in this footage here that my client is standing in the bank doing nothing wrong. Yes, they’re wearing a ski mask and holding a gun, but at this point they are just standing in the bank, waiting for the teller to give them money, just like everyone else.”
Lmao
Bonus points if they bring their own stills from the security camera with the face blurred out.
Also… That’s not even my client, it’s some leftist terrorist. But also, nothing wrong going on here. But also, that money really does belong to my client and the bank should be ashamed of themselves.
You fuck one goat!
No, they’re going to keep drilling their talking points. The GOP aren’t doing engagement rhetoric anymore, they’re manufacturing consent for their next coup attempt. DOJ have tipped their hand and aren’t going after open and unrepentant criminals in power.
Speaker Johnson implicates House GOP in conspiracy to obstruct justice and commits high treason along the way
Obstruction of justice
Cross ref blurred faces with unblurred media footage - Voilà! You have your perps.
Edit: Spelling. Lol
we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ, and to have other concerns and problems
I thought bringing charges against people was a basic job requirement at DOJ.
This guy’s like no no no hol’ up lemme get this one because…why?
Ever since Reagan, the Republican party has been trying to destroy and dismantle the United States federal government. Their goal is no government.
The party of law and order sure doesn’t trust the department in charge of law and order and seems to want to protect criminals.
Criminals all from the top down.
I remember when many GOP lawmakers were reliving what happened on 1/6, and talking about how Trump almost got THEM killed, and I thought finally, we were going to see some action, thought they would finally have Trump cooked. So naive, I was.
I fully believe it has to do with Project2025. They want it so bad they are willing to die for it, and in all likelihood even kill for it.
see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials.
Dude, just stop.
I live on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean and I clearly saw many laws being broken via a live internet stream. Everyone in the world with the opportunity who cared and/or fretted enough did.
Jericho Johnson is trying to change what the world has already seen clearly INTO the alternative reality interpretation of a small group of government officials.
So, obstruction of justice.
