Look, Dorito Mussolini is wearing his Purple Bone
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Look, Dorito Mussolini is wearing his Purple Bone Spur Award!
WAPO: 4 Takeaways from the Jan 6th 2nd hearing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/...takeaways/
Analysis by Aaron Blake
Staff writer
Updated June 13, 2022 at 2:35 p.m. EDT|Published June 13, 2022 at 1:32 p.m. EDT
1. Trump was told (there was no election fraud) but didn't care
2. More evidence that almost everyone knew Trump had lost
3. Giuliani’s time in the barrel
4. A new crime floated
As its investigation has unfolded, the committee has floated a number of laws Trump might have broken, including obstruction of an official proceeding and witness tampering.
Jan. 6 committee broaches witness tampering and Trump
But on Monday, the committee gestured at a new one: fundraising fraud. The clear implication was that this was, at the very least, a highly deceptive fundraising ploy — deceptive because it relied on lies about voter fraud, but also because the money wasn’t going to what people believed it did.
Asked after the hearing whether this broke the law, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) told CNN: “We’re a legislative committee. And it’s clear that he intentionally misled his donors, asked them to donate to a fund that didn’t exist and used the money raised for something other than what it said.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216796609
WAPO: 4 Takeaways from the Jan 6th 2nd hearing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/...takeaways/
Analysis by Aaron Blake
Staff writer
Updated June 13, 2022 at 2:35 p.m. EDT|Published June 13, 2022 at 1:32 p.m. EDT
1. Trump was told (there was no election fraud) but didn't care
2. More evidence that almost everyone knew Trump had lost
3. Giuliani’s time in the barrel
4. A new crime floated
As its investigation has unfolded, the committee has floated a number of laws Trump might have broken, including obstruction of an official proceeding and witness tampering.
Jan. 6 committee broaches witness tampering and Trump
But on Monday, the committee gestured at a new one: fundraising fraud. The clear implication was that this was, at the very least, a highly deceptive fundraising ploy — deceptive because it relied on lies about voter fraud, but also because the money wasn’t going to what people believed it did.
Asked after the hearing whether this broke the law, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) told CNN: “We’re a legislative committee. And it’s clear that he intentionally misled his donors, asked them to donate to a fund that didn’t exist and used the money raised for something other than what it said.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216796609
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