All coming to grips
Now we get to read the texts and phone logs and such from Trump’s Big Day.
The Jan. 6 select committee has unloaded a vast database of its underlying evidence — emails between Trump attorneys, text messages among horrified White House aides and outside advisers, internal communications among security and intelligence officials — all coming to grips with Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election and its disastrous consequences.
The panel posted thousands of pages of evidence late Sunday in a public database that provide the clearest glimpse yet at the well-coordinated effort by some Trump allies to help Trump seize a second term he didn’t win.
This will keep us busy for weeks.
Hope Hicks, to the surprise of no one, was agitated about her personal future.
Trump aide Hope Hicks texted with Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff Julie Radford on the afternoon of Jan. 6 decrying Trump’s actions and lamenting that their careers were likely doomed.
“All of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I’m so mad and upset,” Hicks wrote. “We all look like domestic terrorists now.”
Ya that’s the important thing: Hope Hicks’s career.
There is a certain amount of humor though.
The select committee also posted a journal entry produced by Kayleigh McEnany, the Trump White House press Secretary, from Jan. 6, describing some of the chaos and interactions she observed that day.
“POTUS wanted to walk to capital [sic]. Physically walk,” she wrote. “He said fine ride beast. Meadows said not safe enough.”
You can imagine what came between that “Physically walk” and “fine ride beast.” It’s not a short walk – it’s very doable, but it’s not five or ten minutes. Trump doesn’t like to walk.
Didn’t Trump once say that the reason he didn’t exercise is that when you’re born, you are allotted a certain amount of physical activity that you can do over the course of your life, and once you use it up, you can’t move any more — so he made a point of not doing physical exercise, so that he wouldn’t use it up?
I don’t think he said it once, I think it’s a long-held belief of his, which means he’s said it several million times. He loves the sound of his own voice and he’s never bothered by his own repetitions.
Anyway, that’s not in conflict with my unsubtle hint that he’s a lazy-ass couch potato.
@GW #1
That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Sounds like the logic of a 3-year-old, who has barely grasped object permanence, but who still thinks the water in the tall, narrow glass is more than the same amount of water in the short, wide glass.
@2: But mercifully I heard it reported only once.
@3: Indeed it is not in conflict with it; it supports it.
@4: Yes, it’s extraordinarily dumb, but I fail to see the commonality between the argument about the water (other than that both are dumb).
If he thinks this, then why does he use BOTH hands to lift the water glass to his lips? Seems like extra exertion to me.
I’ve known people who do that because they cannot control the glass easily with one hand, for some reason. Usually due to hand tremors. Another thing that they usually do is move their head down to meet the glass partway, rather than lifting it all the way to their mouths, and Trump does that, too. It wouldn’t be too surprising if, at his age, Trump has developed some kind of disability that he has refused to reveal.