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riversedge

(79,433 posts)
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 03:59 AM Dec 2021

NYT: SIX MEMBERS OF CONGRESS played key roles in helping TRUMP attempt a COUP on January 6th

Ah--Jim Jordan's name is included.


BREAKING NEWS

According to the NY TIMES

SIX MEMBERS OF CONGRESS played key roles in helping TRUMP attempt a COUP on January 6th.

They are:

Jim Jordan
Paul Gosar
Louie Gohmert
Andy Biggs
Mo Brooks
Scott Perry.

10:39 PM · Dec 15, 2021·Twitter Web App



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Scott Perry was the “General” in charge?

Wow.

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BREAKING NEWS

According to the NY TIMES

SIX MEMBERS OF CONGRESS played key roles in helping TRUMP attempt a COUP on January 6th.

They are:

Jim Jordan
Paul Gosar
Louie Gohmert
Andy Biggs
Mo Brooks
Scott Perry.
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“Mr. Gosar embraced the fraud claims so closely that his chief of staff, Tom Van Flein, rushed to an airplane hangar parking lot in Phoenix after a conspiracy theory began circulating that a suspicious jet carrying ballots from South Korea was about to land…”



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NYT: SIX MEMBERS OF CONGRESS played key roles in helping TRUMP attempt a COUP on January 6th (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2021 OP
Can you imagine the "We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcasting PCIntern Dec 2021 #1
Post removed Post removed Dec 2021 #8
Gun-Totin' Lauren and Margie the Kook must have been Buns_of_Fire Dec 2021 #2
I suppose, by contrast, they had "MINOR" roles in the Capitol Insurrection. no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 #10
They hadn't been sworn in yet when the coup plot was initially hatched in November. Nt Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #17
There must be consequences malaise Dec 2021 #3
What a lineup! Would you trust those guys - to orchestrate anything??? Rhiannon12866 Dec 2021 #4
Never forget Liz Cheney has always known the truth, 'You fucking did this.' (to Jim Jordan 1/6/21) Botany Dec 2021 #5
Re Jim Jordan Jan 4th and Jan 11th Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #12
Don Lemon, Does this guy seem nervous? Botany Dec 2021 #14
Scott Perry a bit of a dark horse. Tommy Carcetti Dec 2021 #6
Wait... they have parking lots for airplane hangars? K&R, nt. druidity33 Dec 2021 #7
I am of the opinion that every single Republican in office in the House and Senate is guilty. cstanleytech Dec 2021 #9
All of them most likely knew what was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. Irish_Dem Dec 2021 #16
Including Cheney, Kitzinger and Romney? Have you fallen into the fallacy Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #22
I look at everything they did and said before and during Trumps time in office and in the end cstanleytech Dec 2021 #23
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2021 #24
Donald tRump January 4, 2021 announced to give Jim Jordan Medal of Freedom Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #11
I'm kinda' guessing......... MyOwnPeace Dec 2021 #15
!! librechik Dec 2021 #20
They won't ever face any penalties for loyalty to Trump over country. Quite the opposite. Doodley Dec 2021 #13
OMG, rushed to an airplane hangar because a jet with ballots from S Korea was about to land. tanyev Dec 2021 #18
No Gurlzz. Naturally. librechik Dec 2021 #19
If they were to take a vote to remove them from Congress..? kentuck Dec 2021 #21

PCIntern

(27,976 posts)
1. Can you imagine the "We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcasting
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 04:16 AM
Dec 2021

to bring you a special report from XYZ News” if six Democratic elected officials were found to be attempting to bring down, say, the Reagan or W Administrations?

I have been waiting for this headline, now let’s see what happens…

Response to PCIntern (Reply #1)

Buns_of_Fire

(19,008 posts)
2. Gun-Totin' Lauren and Margie the Kook must have been
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 04:19 AM
Dec 2021

teaching a Sunday-school class that day.

Rhiannon12866

(250,299 posts)
4. What a lineup! Would you trust those guys - to orchestrate anything???
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 05:59 AM
Dec 2021

Now they can be cellmates.

Botany

(76,402 posts)
5. Never forget Liz Cheney has always known the truth, 'You fucking did this.' (to Jim Jordan 1/6/21)
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:08 AM
Dec 2021



Liz Cheney smacked GOP Rep. Jim Jordan's hand away when he tried to escort her during the
Capitol riot, telling him,'You fucking did this.'

If proven to be true why should any of these people be allowed to sit in Congress. They supported a violent coup whose
purpose it was might have been the killing the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, cause massive violence and
bloodshed, in order to allow Trump to declare martial law in and stop the Constitutionally mandated peaceful change of power.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
12. Re Jim Jordan Jan 4th and Jan 11th
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:29 AM
Dec 2021

tRump announced on January 4th, 2021, that Jim Jordan would receive the Medal of Freedom. It was bestowed Jan 11th in a private event.

Tommy Carcetti

(44,409 posts)
6. Scott Perry a bit of a dark horse.
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:10 AM
Dec 2021

The others I had long assumed were involved.

I have to admit that Perry’s name didn’t jump off the page for me. I didn’t even know the state he represented.

Looks like he’s been doing some projection as of late though:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-scott-perry-unleashes-islamophobic-attack-on-ilhan-omar-in-response-to-bill-to-fight-islamophobia

GOP Rep Unleashes Islamophobic Attack on Ilhan Omar in Response to Bill to Fight Islamophobia

A Republican lawmaker launched an Islamophobic attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Tuesday in response to a bill she co-sponsored seeking to fight Islamophobia. Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) was blocked from speaking on the House floor after he accused Omar, one of only a handful of Muslim members of Congress, of terrorist sympathies, The New York Times reports. “American taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay terrorist organizations, organizations that the maker of this bill is affiliated with…,” Perry said, apparently in reference to the Muslim civil-rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations’ previous honoring of Omar. The bill, which would set up a new special envoy position in the State Department to tackle Islamophobia, passed 219 to 212 late Tuesday despite Perry’s attack. His comments followed fellow Republican Lauren Boebert’s portrayals of Omar as a suicide bomber in comments to supporters and dubbed her a member of the “jihad squad.”


cstanleytech

(28,225 posts)
9. I am of the opinion that every single Republican in office in the House and Senate is guilty.
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:16 AM
Dec 2021

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
22. Including Cheney, Kitzinger and Romney? Have you fallen into the fallacy
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 09:43 AM
Dec 2021

... the fallacy of binary thinking mistakenly? Or we shouldn't take you seriously because you don't think it is a mistake?

cstanleytech

(28,225 posts)
23. I look at everything they did and said before and during Trumps time in office and in the end
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 10:14 AM
Dec 2021

I think they are responsible for aiding and abetting Trump.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
11. Donald tRump January 4, 2021 announced to give Jim Jordan Medal of Freedom
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:26 AM
Dec 2021

Now we know why.

On January 11, 2021, tRump presented Jordan and Nunes with the Medal in a private event with no press.

And now Nunes is tRump's last get-rich-quick scheme.

MyOwnPeace

(17,444 posts)
15. I'm kinda' guessing.........
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:47 AM
Dec 2021

that you mean "tRump's latest get-rich-quick scheme........"

But I would take great comfort knowing that it would be his last!

librechik

(30,955 posts)
20. !!
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 09:35 AM
Dec 2021

I did not know that. In retrospect, fairly damning, and select witnesses only, What satin wrapped snowflakes they all are.

Doodley

(11,636 posts)
13. They won't ever face any penalties for loyalty to Trump over country. Quite the opposite.
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 06:35 AM
Dec 2021

tanyev

(48,665 posts)
18. OMG, rushed to an airplane hangar because a jet with ballots from S Korea was about to land.
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 09:11 AM
Dec 2021

They do believe their own bullshit.

kentuck

(115,103 posts)
21. If they were to take a vote to remove them from Congress..?
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 09:38 AM
Dec 2021

Would it take two-thirds or just a simple majority?

They need to be held accountable.

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