Fiona Hill: "The president was trying to stage a coup"

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Jan 6. hearing underway, I'm not going to be able to watch it all live and will have to catch the rest after the fact.

They just ran clips from foaming crazy Rudy Giuliani and bat crazy Sidney Powell, followed by former White House attorney Eric Herschmann saying "What they were proposing I thought was nuts...completely nuts... a combination of the Italians... the Germans... Hugo Chavez... the Philippines... just all over the radar."
 

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One of Donald Trump’s top lawyers was drunk on the night that the so-called “Big Lie” sprang into being—and not just on power, the 45th president’s senior aide told the Jan. 6 Committee in a deposition aired on Monday.

 

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Self-soothing memes will continue to comfort MAGA-land, but the information in this hearing - coming as it is from the lawyers and advisors around Trump - is so damning to Trump.


Acting DOJ Attorney Deputy General Richard Donoghue told Trump that the information he was getting was false. Trump said, 'what about Michigan' and Donoghue told him that the Michigan error rate was NOT 68%, it was .0063%. So Trump said, 'what about the truck driver' (this is for you, @chrysostom), and Donoghue said "PA truck driver who believed he had driven a tractor trailer truck of ballots from NY to PA we’ve looked at both ends, people who load, people who unload the truck, that allegation was not supported by the evidence..." and then Trump said, 'what about the suitcase...' 'what about the Indians...' 'what about the dead people...'

Over and over his campaign lawyers told Trump there was no there there. Trump just blew them all off.

Bill Barr: "... before the election it was possible to talk sense to the president... but after the election he didn't seem to be listening to me... or any of his other cabinet secretaries..."
 
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annabenedetti

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On election night Bill Stepien told Trump about how early votes always favor the Republican candidates, and the later counting of the mail-in votes favor Democrats (the so called "red mirage").

So Trump took drunk Rudy's advice instead, and went out to the cameras, claimed victory - and fraud - and that the vote-counting should stop.

 
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None of that blather answers the question but rather dodges it completely, so I'll ask again:

US oil production is at 2018 levels, so why isn't it at 2018 prices?
I have read reports that the cost of refining gasoline in the US has risen sharply due to increasing government regulations and I find those reports persuasive. I have also read persuasive reports that tie rising gasoline costs to rising costs of transporting oil and gasoline to refineries and markets. I suspect rising inflation due to rising US debt is also a major factor in the rising costs of gasoline.
 

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I have read reports that the cost of refining gasoline in the US has risen sharply due to increasing government regulations and I find those reports persuasive.
Really? Since the price of oil is determined by the global market, how is it possible that US government regulations on refining oil into gasoline have caused the price of oil to rise around the world?
 

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On election night Bill Stepien told Trump about how early votes always favor the Republican candidates, and the later counting of the mail-in votes favor Democrats (the so called "red mirage").

So Trump took drunk Rudy's advice instead, and went out to the cameras, claimed victory - and fraud - and that the vote-counting should stop.

Democrats refused to allow Congress to look into voter fraud by arranging a riot on Jan 6, the day they were supposed to do that. Congress then abandoned any future effort to examine the facts and evidence giving democrats the fact-less victory they wanted in support of obstructing investigations and propagating unproved narratives purportedly clearing themselves of any wrongdoing.
 

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Really? Since the price of oil is determined by the global market, how is it possible that US government regulations on refining oil into gasoline have caused the price of oil to rise around the world?
Are you ignorant of the fact that stricter burdensome government regulations drive up costs that disproportionately hurt the poor more than the rich? Most democrats in leadership positions show an alarmingly low concern for the poor people adversely affected by their burdensome regulations. One can only assume the reason these regulators do not feel serious pain from rising costs is that they are all well compensated and therefore not poor due to the generous government salaries and benefits they receive as upper-class elitist democrat socialist propagandists.


When the federal government introduces new regulations for an industry, there are numerous potential consequences for both producers and consumers. Often, complying with regulations is costly for firms, and these higher costs may in turn drive up prices for consumers.

This study examines the relationship between regulatory expansion and higher prices and finds that price increases caused by regulation have a disproportionately negative effect on low-income households. The poorest households tend to spend a larger proportion of their income on goods that are heavily regulated and subject to both high and volatile prices.
 

marke

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Jan 6. hearing underway, I'm not going to be able to watch it all live and will have to catch the rest after the fact.

They just ran clips from foaming crazy Rudy Giuliani and bat crazy Sidney Powell, followed by former White House attorney Eric Herschmann saying "What they were proposing I thought was nuts...completely nuts... a combination of the Italians... the Germans... Hugo Chavez... the Philippines... just all over the radar."
We may be surprised at how many different opinions different players held with regards to the unproven claims of democrat purity from fraud during the 2020 election.
 

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One of Donald Trump’s top lawyers was drunk on the night that the so-called “Big Lie” sprang into being—and not just on power, the 45th president’s senior aide told the Jan. 6 Committee in a deposition aired on Monday.

The big lie is the democrat claim they did not commit massive voter fraud in 2020.
 
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