| | MEDIA WINNER: Maggie Haberman Maggie Haberman shed more light on the raucous Oval Office meeting highlighted during Tuesday’s January 6th hearings, also hitting at the committee for their almost charitable portrayal of former president Donald Trump. While on CNN’s AC360 Tuesday night, Haberman said that in her esteem, the committee was not tough enough on Trump during the proceedings, as the hearing made the former president almost appear to be a nonfactor, which she said is “a real problem.” Haberman can speak on the topic with great authority, and not because of the journalistic rewards she has collected over the past few years for her reporting. She actually covered this bonkers December 18th meeting in great detail the following day. Tuesday’s Select Committee proceedings opened with the retelling of the now-infamous meeting. During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called the meeting “a heated and profane clash between this group and President Trump’s White House advisers who traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president and even challenges to physically fight." While that was happening, Haberman tweeted, “Somehow the committee testimony featured live *underplayed* how crazy that Dec 18 meeting was. People were in tears of frustration afterward because of all the shouting.” Speaking to Anderson Cooper, Haberman asserted"there was something lost in some of the details," during the hearing. "Trump was in and out. He was almost a nonfactor in descriptions of that meeting," she continued. "That is a problem. He was a factor. He was asking lots of questions and making lots of points." She later explained that at least one of the meeting’s participants was in tears, further revealing that she didn’t believe it was Sidney Powell. |
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| MEDIA LOSER: Steve Bannon Steve Bannon, who is currently facing trial for contempt of Congress, is having another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. Carl Nichols, the federal judge assigned to Bannon’s case took a “hard line” against the former Trump adviser’s attempted legal defenses in a hearing Monday. The judge agreed with Department of Justice prosecutors that Bannon’s “last-minute change of heart” regarding his decision to testify before the Jan. 6 committee was “irrelevant” in his criminal contempt of Congress case. Later in the hearing, Nichols ruled that Bannon’s trial would proceed as scheduled for the following Monday. While on CNN, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg pulled no punches mocking him for “panicking” over his recent setbacks in court. "It is interesting how these MAGA warriors who are all hopped up on testosterone and Kool-Aid, they all talk tough until seeing their name emblazoned on an orange jumpsuit," he said. Aronberg went on to characterize Bannon’s actions as “an obvious ruse to say ‘I’m going to testify because the former president has finally waived executive privilege.'” In what was perhaps an attempt to ooze confidence despite reports of his fear, Bannon later taunted the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to let him testify in public after finally agreeing to cooperate. “Pray for our enemies, okay? Pray because we’re going medieval on these people. We’re going to savage our enemies,” Bannon ranted on Tuesday's edition of his War Room podcast. After requesting "a date, a time, a room number, a microphone, and a Holy Bible" so he could testify, Bannon concluded, "We’re taking down — we’re killing the Biden administration in the crib and we’re glad." |
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| 'What about the cops? Are they chickenshit?' Shocking new surveillance footage from the massacre at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School shows police doing absolutely nothing for 77 minutes. The Austin American-Statesman obtained a recording captured from the school’s surveillance, which was edited into a 4-minute clip with some of the more graphic audio scrubbed. The footage begins with the gunman crashing his vehicle in front of the school before entering the building and eventually a classroom where he fired his AR-15 at children. He fired into the building through classroom windows before the entry. Within three minutes, armed officers were outside the classroom where a massacre was taking place. At one point in the footage, the gunman shoots at a number of officers, and they each retreat. One police officer is seen utilizing a school hand sanitizer station as the killings were taking place down the hall. Another was captured by a security camera checking his phone. Images and clips of these moments enraged seemingly every corner of Twitter. As the gunman was shooting and killing children, dozens of cops with guns drawn amassed in the hallway, but none attempted to stop what was occurring feet away. Finally, once officers showed up equipped with ballistic shields and rifles, police can be seen breaching the classroom where the suspect was barricaded. They killed him after opening an unlocked door. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin laterattacked the media as "chicken" over the release of footage during a city council meeting, prompting citizens to quickly hit back. “What about the cops? Are they chickenshit?” an audience member asked, adding, "You’re out here attacking the media. You should be attacking the cop." Watch the infuriating surveillance footage here. FOR LATEST JAN. 6 COMMITTEE HEARING COVERAGE CLICK HERE In Other News... Biden Reacts to 'Unacceptably High' Inflation Report By Laying Out Three Point Plan to Address Rising Prices Peter Doocy: Biden’s Refusal to Shake Hands on Saudi Tour Due to Covid is Really About Avoiding a Photo With MBS LeBron James Clarifies Brittney Griner Comments: I ‘Wasn’t Knocking Our Beautiful Country’ Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Enforce Binding Purchase Agreement RATINGS: Nicolle Wallace Breaks Fox’s Dominance |
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"As somebody who has helped plan coups d’état ... " Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton casually dropped that he has “helped plan coups d’état” while on CNN. During a Tuesday interview with Jake Tapper, Bolton argued that while the storming of the Capitol was directly inspired by Donald Trump, he doesn’t believe the former president was capable of planning a coup. Tapper pushed back, reasoning, "One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup." “I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coups d’état – not here, but other places – it takes a lot of work. And that’s not what he did,” Bolton responded. |
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