Steve Schmidt on June 10:
That was the most compelling Congressional hearing I have ever seen.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 10, 2022
That is how America will see it.
Congress may be mistrusted but the Select Committee will not be.
The Members will become iconic.
Americans love a trial drama and this was brilliantly done.
And this is the entire thread:
That was the most compelling Congressional hearing I have ever seen. That is how America will see it. Congress may be mistrusted but the Select Committee will not be. The Members will become iconic. Americans love a trial drama and this was brilliantly done.
2/ All of the vandals, liars and MAGA extremists will be flushed out in a coherent story that people can understand. Those people are Americans and they like America. The facts and the presentation are going to hit MAGA like a Neptune missile piercing a Russian hull.
3/ There must be such amazing insanity swirling about Trump right now. He is surrounded by a pack of yes men and women, losers and nuts. Even they know he is going to bleed out. Every MAGA Congress member who begged for a pardon should be expelled.
4/ Tonight was different. Tonight, the truth prevailed in America for the first time in a long time. Tonight there was a coherent message and story. Tonight, no amount of Trump, Tucker or Fox bullshit could smother the truth. It will be told and it will be heard. goodnight Trump.
And this was triggered by these paragraphs:
In our hearings, you will hear first-hand how the senior leadership of the Department of Justice threatened to resign, how the White House Counsel threatened to resign, and how they confronted Donald Trump and Jeff Clark in the Oval Office.
The men involved, including Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, were appointed by President Trump. These men honored their oaths of office. They did their duty, and you will hear from them in our hearings.
By contrast, Jeff Clark has invoked his 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refused to testify. Representative Scott Perry, who was involved in trying to get Clark appointed as Attorney General, has refused to testify here.
As you will see, Representative Perry contacted the White House in the weeks after January 6th to seek a Presidential Pardon. Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought Presidential Pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. [Emphasis added.]
So every [Trump supporting] Congress member who asked The White House for a pardon should be expelled from Congress
How about a state senator from a swing state who was just as involved in the Trump coup as Scott Perry? Should he expelled from the PA Senate?
It all hinges on whether PA State Senator (and now GOP candidate for PA governor) Doug Mastriano asked the White House for a pardon, just as Rep. Cheney said Rep. Scott Perry did.
Shouldn't someone ask him?
