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Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’

Pam Key 5 Jan 2022

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump and his “flunkies” were the “inner ring of the coup.”

Raskin said, “There was a mass demonstration, a wild demonstration called by Donald Trump that turned into a riot. Okay” That was the outer ring of activity. The middle ring are of activity was the insurrection itself, and that was the Proud Boys, The Oath Keepers, The Three Percenters, the militia groups, the 1st Amendment Praetorian, a bunch of organized violent extremist groups that were training for battle that broke our windows and began the assaults on the police officers that the rioters filled in on.”

He continued, “But the scariest part of the day was really the inner ring of the coup. And there, the whole point was to try to force Vice President Mike Pence to declare completely lawless powers to unilaterally reject and repudiate electoral college votes from Arizona, from Georgia, from Pennsylvania, and a handful of other states. The point there was to lower Joe Biden’s total in the electoral college of 306 to below 270. At that point, under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, the whole contest is kicked into the House of Representatives for a so-called contingent election.”

Raskin added, “Now, you ask, why would Donald Trump and his flunkies want to get the election decided in the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic majority? Well, under the 12th Amendment, we don’t vote in such a contingent election on the basis of one member, one vote, the way we usually vote. We vote on the basis of one state delegation, one vote. Each state gets one vote. So the Republicans had captured 27 states after the congressional elections. We have 22 states, and one state was split down the middle, Pennsylvania. So even had Liz Cheney defected from the Republican caucus on this, and I think she would have, they still would have had 26 votes to declare Donald Trump the president and to call the contest over.”

He concluded, “At that point, I think Trump would have been ready to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare something like martial law, call in the Natural Guard and pronounce himself a hero for putting down the violence and the insurrection that he had organized against us. That was the plan.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/05/raskin-trump-and-his-flunkies-were-the-inner-ring-of-the-coup/
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Pure speculation, all of it.


And Trump never would have done any such thing, of course.

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It is troubling that such ramblings are being stated by a member of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack to MSNBC.

Trump has already been convicted.
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It is troubling that such ramblings are being stated by a member of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack to MSNBC.

Trump has already been convicted.

Trump was convicted Nov 8, 2016. 

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We'd be smart to "gird our loins" for tomorrow's sh*t show.

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"flunkies"?  They test that word or something.  Sounds odd to me.

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We'd be smart to "gird our loins" for tomorrow's sh*t show.

Yup.  And every time we are inclined to get angry at the lies and calumny, we should laugh, instead.  And ask why (a) there have been no charges made for anybody and (b) why is the kangaroo court, I mean committee, hiding so much evidence?   

Laughter and ridicule will offer us a much better weapon than anger or righteousness. 

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Yup.  And every time we are inclined to get angry at the lies and calumny, we should laugh, instead.  And ask why (a) there have been no charges made for anybody and (b) why is the kangaroo court, I mean committee, hiding so much evidence?   

Laughter and ridicule will offer us a much better weapon than anger or righteousness.

We really should focus on ridicule (they'll give us plenty of material) because they want us to explode in anger ----- literally and figuratively.

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We really should focus on ridicule (they'll give us plenty of material) because they want us to explode in anger ----- literally and figuratively.
I'll leave that to those who are good at it, like Posobiec, Carlson, et al. I may take the day off from the internet worldwide superhighway tomorrow.

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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2022, 05:37:20 am »
We go over and over the same stuff.  no insurrection. 


http://rumble.com/viq2y7-the-violent-insurrection-that-wasnt.html
« Last Edit: January 06, 2022, 05:43:48 am by LegalAmerican »

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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2022, 12:56:42 pm »
Every time I see some idiot on twitter or Facebook refer to this as an insurrection, I simply comment that no one ever overthrew a government armed only with flags and red ballcaps.

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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2022, 01:11:28 pm »
Just think. These guys almost became the leaders of our country
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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2022, 01:42:40 pm »
We'd be smart to "gird our loins" for tomorrow's sh*t show.

I took time out this morning to switch from my usual FOX wake-up show over to CNN and MSNBC just to see "what in the world they might be talking about today"... :pondering:

No surprise there, of course.

CNN was a bit more reserved than MSNBC, which featured a huge Chyron at the bottom of the screen declaring: "One Year Since Trump-led Mob Storms the Capitol!" or some such.

Sipping my first cup of coffee of the day, it occurred to me in a blink:

January 6th has become the Left's 9/11.

For those of us who lived through the actual 9/11, we all remember the same things - the shock, horror and disbelief in watching our nation under attack from an evil outside power.

20 years later, the Left's "country" is no longer America, it is instead the State - the Federal Government, and last year on this day, they watched it with the same set of 9/11 emotions, believing that their way of life was under attack from an evil, external power.   
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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2022, 01:46:15 pm »
Until there is a conviction at a jury trial that withstands appeals, these are the words are the ravings of a lunatic.
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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2022, 01:50:38 pm »
Just think. These guys almost became the leaders of our country
The sad part is, that we'd likely have been better off. 888mouth
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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2022, 01:52:10 pm »
I'd wager the inner ring is inhabited, at least in part, by FBI types who couldn't find anything to pin on Trump, so they were intent on making something happen...
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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2022, 02:19:21 pm »
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Re: Raskin: ‘Trump and His Flunkies’ Were the ‘Inner Ring of the Coup’
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2022, 02:29:41 pm »
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