This is your Daily Kos one-stop shop for all of the transcripts released by the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
As transcripts are released they will be added to the list.
Transcripts released on Dec.
I am not leaving Twitter. Not yet.
I understand the reason many are interested in boycotting the social media platform now that Elon Musk has taken control. He appears to be turning it into a Shangri-la for right-wing trolls and hate-drenched propaganda and disinformation and he boots journalists from the platform who critique him or report on him generally.
The Jan. 6 Committee has published its final report. You can find it here.
The report is a sweeping 845 pages and features rich narratives neatly divided into different phases of former President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the results of the 2020 election before finally inciting an insurrection at the U.S Capitol.
Each section will be updated.
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UPDATE: Thursday, Dec 22, 2022 · 2:14:03 AM +00:00
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Brandi Buchman
I’ll have more reporting soon about the other transcripts released Wednesday night by the select committee. The number of transcripts is certainly only going to grow, too, so stay tuned.
The Jan. 6 committee is sharing more of its records and transcripts freely with the Justice Department after it received a letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith requesting the committee’s documents, Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday.
According to the Washington, D.C.-based news outlet, Special Counsel Smith issued the request on Dec. 5. A committee spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.
For its final hearing, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department for former President Donald Trump, formally accusing him of four crimes, including aiding an insurrection.
In addition to the insurrection referral, the committee said it amassed sufficient evidence indicating Trump criminally obstructed the joint session of Congress on Jan.
For their failure to cooperate with the investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Jan. 6 committee on Monday officially requested that the House Ethics Committee assess whether four Republican lawmakers violated congressional ethics rules.
Those referred to the House Ethics Committee are House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
When the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol meets on Monday, the panel will reportedly ask the Justice Department to pursue no less than three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump. Chief among those charges? Insurrection.
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 · 2:37:50 AM +00:00
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Brandi Buchman
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn was in the courtroom when the verdicts were announced. It was an emotional and long-awaited moment.
Justice, he told Daily Kos, should be expected not celebrated but nonetheless, he regarded today as a win for the American people.
There’s something I’ve been thinking about while I have been listening to testimony at the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes.
Every time a witness who was or is part of the organization testifies, as they introduce themselves to the jury and they explain, in effect, how they got to where they now find themselves, there’s a sort of fawning that happens when these mostly old, mostly white men talk about the group.
For more than a month, prosecutors have worked to convince jurors that when Oath Keepers, led by their founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes, descended on Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, they arrived heavily armed and with a plan to forcibly stop a tradition in the U.S. that has been unbroken for more than 200 years: the nation’s peaceful transfer of presidential power.
The charge of sedition is not frequently prosecuted and when it is, it is rarely prosecuted successfully.
No further evidence or witness testimony will be presented in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial after Justice Department prosecutors and attorneys representing five defendants in the historic case rested on Thursday.
The next step will be closing arguments on Friday.
In a move that surprised both the judge and Justice Department prosecutors on Wednesday, Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins opted to testify in the seditious conspiracy trial unfolding in Washington, D.C.
In a risky move on Tuesday, Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial defendant Thomas Caldwell chose to take the witness stand for the first time where he flatly denied allegations that he was part of a violent plot to stop the nation’s transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021.
Caldwell, a 68-year-old U.S.
The founder of the Oath Keepers, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, told jurors on Monday that when he learned on Jan. 6 that members of the extremist organization went inside of the Capitol, he told them it was “stupid.”
This. broadly speaking, was a common theme on Monday for Rhodes as he came under cross-examination by U.S. prosecutors at the federal courthouse in Washington.
Relaxed and so easy with a response that he would often apologize for speaking over his attorney, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the extremist Oath Keepers organization now on trial for seditious conspiracy, finally took the witness stand on Friday.
He and his fellow militia members Jessica Watkins, Kelly Meggs, Thomas Caldwell, and Kenneth Harrelson have been on trial at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.
Day 15 of the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial featured defense attorneys making repeated implications that it was U.S. Capitol Police who invited rioters inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
This is a conspiracy theory long-debunked and easily disproven with the viewing of less than 20 minutes of closed-circuit security footage from the eastern rotunda door, for one. That footage is embedded below, courtesy of NBC News.
On Thursday, prosecutors meticulously guided jurors through the terrifying minutes and hours when Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes allegedly oversaw and coordinated a highly organized storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Aiding the prosecution at trial was Whitney Drew, an FBI agent who started investigating mere weeks after the Capitol attack. Assistant U.S.
James Dolan, a former member of the extremist Oath Keepers network, told jurors that when he came to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 to storm the Capitol under the leadership of the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes, he understood the outcome may have been the start of a violent, armed war of pro-Trump factions against the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, the 46-year-old former U.S.
For the Oath Keepers now on trial for charges of seditious conspiracy, some of the largest hurdles defendants Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson, and Jessica Watkins must clear are those the Justice Department has erected through a staggering number of evidentiary text messages, emails, social media posts, group chats, handwritten notes, speeches, or podcast appearances that flowed throughout the extremist network for weeks ahead of, on, and after Jan.
On Thursday, the Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump more than a year after he incited an insurrection that left multiple people dead and more than 100 police officers severely injured.
The vote came after the committee held what was billed as its final expected hearing before it issues a report later this year.
Day Five of the Oath Keepers trial was dedicated to a methodical plodding through a heap of damning text messages that the Justice Department argues are proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Elmer Stewart Rhodes and four of his Oath Keeper associates conspired to stop the peaceful transfer of power by force on Jan. 6, 2021.
Standing trial alongside Rhodes at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.
The Justice Department will now have the cooperation of Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino in its case against the extremist group’s leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, and four other members currently facing charges of seditious conspiracy.
Bertino, a resident of North Carolina, entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. In addition to admitting that he conspired to forcibly stop the transfer of power on Jan.
Time was running out. It was exactly 14 days until Congress would meet to certify the results of the 2020 election, and Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, was unable to contain his frustration.
“This will be DC rally #3. Getting kinda old. They don’t give a shit how many show up and wave a sign, pray or yell. They won’t fear us until we come with rifles in our hand,” Rhodes wrote on Dec.
From the witness stand on Thursday, former Oath Keeper John Zimmerman of North Carolina recounted to jurors how in September 2020, he watched the extremist group’s founder, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, take a phone call from someone Rhodes claimed was an active-duty Secret Service agent.
Zimmerman admitted he didn’t hear the person on the other end of that call, but he assumed what Rhodes told him was true.
Ahead of the Jan. 6 committee’s last expected public hearing this week, Denver Riggleman, a former Republican congressman and onetime adviser to the insurrection panel, stirred up a bit of controversy.
In an interview for 60 Minutes on Sunday, Riggleman said during his months working with the Jan.
Doug Mastriano’s extreme views and apparent proclivity for Christian nationalism are growing harder for him to deny by the minute.
On Friday Rolling Stone published an exclusive report and shared for the first time a video of Mastriano—now the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania—from December 2020 where he kicked off a prayer meeting organized by the extreme right-wing, pro-Trump New Apostolic Restoration movement.
A federal judge denied an eleventh-hour request on Wednesday by Oath Keeper leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes to delay his Sept. 27 seditious conspiracy trial and switch out attorneys who have represented him since his initial indictment.
The hearing was tense as Rhodes’ defense attorney James Bright at one point suggested Rhodes was “outright lying” when making complaints about his counsel’s performance.
No one ever tells you when you’re a kid, hey, your parents are going to get old in front of you one day (if you’re lucky) and it’s going to be really hard to watch. No one primes you or prepares you well in advance for dealing with a parent who has cancer or dementia.
It’s a hard-knock school that you are admitted to without ever applying.
This past week I spent some time traveling and ended up in Florida where my father lives.
The Department of Justice search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property indicates that the 45th president is under investigation for obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report details of the warrant, and Daily Kos obtained it after it became part of the public record—when information contained therein could be independently confirmed.