March 1, 2021
“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams famously said as the lawyer defending the British soldiers involved in the 1770 Boston Massacre, “and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
More than 250 years later, The Federalist provided an eyewitness account of events outside the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. From the Washington Post to Whoopi Goldberg, members of the chattering class tried to alter the state of facts and evidence they didn’t like.
As the Post headlined the day before the Feb. 23 hearing, “at stake” was “the story of the Capitol riot, and who is responsible.” The hearing, the Post reported, could devolve into “a battleground for competing narratives over what prompted the riot and who was responsible for it.”
No, Sen. Ron Johnson Didn’t Promote A ‘Conspiracy Theory’ About The Capitol Riot: I identified four groups that appeared to have planned for violence in advance.
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Sen. Ron Johnson was one of the first senators to suspect the riot had been planned. In a Federalist article, I identified four groups that appeared to have planned for violence in advance.
“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams famously said as the lawyer defending the British soldiers involved in the 1770 Boston Massacre, “and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
Manhattan DA Cy Vance has recruited former Gambino crime family prosecutor Mark Pomerantz for his inquiry into the ex-president's tax practices just one of the investigations currently underway.
Donald Trump is barely out the door of the White House, but at least one of his kids is apparently planning for a political return to Washington. That child, it should surprise exactly no one to learn, is favorite daughter Ivanka Trump. It was an unconventional move, of course, when both Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, secured jobs working in her father’s administration. While many questioned her qualifications for nabbing such a prominent role, the Trump family has continually praised Ivanka and the work they claim she has accomplished. To that end, per a recent Vanity Fair article, we’re learning that apparently Ivanka played a large role in helping secure presidential pardons during Trump’s final days in office and her involvement was yet another calculated step for her political comeback in the future.
American Made Media Consultants, for extra risibility. Bess Levin is always a good read:
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.