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WATCH: Viral video calls for GOP senators to be prosecuted for 'aiding and abetting acts of terrorism'
January 18, 2021
The Really American PAC has just released a video calling for GOP Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to be prosecuted for their role in inciting the January 6 insurrection that left five people dead. Thousands marched to the Capitol after pro-Trump forces – including the President – spent weeks spewing election lies that erupted into a planned coup attempt.
"They need to be expelled from the Senate immediately and prosecuted for aiding and abetting acts of terrorism," the video (below) says. Experts including President-elect Joe Biden have characterized the insurrection as "domestic terrorism."
<p>The video has gone viral, with 2.5 million views on Twitter in under 20 hours.</p><p>Really American is calling for the "immediate removal of Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz under terms that are clearly spelled out by the 14th Amendment," and notes the Constitution "is clear in declaring that no American who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion is allowed to hold office."</p><p>As new information about the planned insurrection comes out, Really American says Cruz and Hawley "have continued their attacks," and say the two Republicans "have likely contributed to plans by various militia groups to hold armed protests outside of various state Capitol buildings around the United States. Those protests are scheduled for January 20, the day Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States."</p><p><br/></p>
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America must wage ‘a domestic war on sedition by American terrorists’: Ex-Gitmo prosecutor
January 18, 2021
Retired Air Force Col. Moe Davis served as the Director of the Air Force Judiciary during the prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. As the lead prosecutor, he witnessed the face of terrorism first-hand and when he saw the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol he spoke up.
Responding to Rep. Madison Cawthorn's (R-NC) photos and videos inciting right-wing insurrectionists, Davis said that the incoming House Republican shows more evidence of guilt than the Gitmo prisoners.
<p>He also dispelled a frequent myth that Cawthorn's handicap was due to his service in the military. Cawthorn never served in the military. As Davis explained it, the closest Cawthorn got "<a href="https://www.smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/29895-cawthorn-s-integrity-is-a-problem" target="_blank">was lying about not attending the Naval Academy</a> because of his injuries ... which occurred on a spring break trip to Florida <a href="https://www.bpr.org/post/nc11-attack-madison-cawthorns-schoolmates-goes-viral#stream/0" target="_blank">after the Academy rejected him</a>."</p><p>Cawthorn has <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/cawthorn/" target="_blank">spent the past week trying to distance himself </a>from the Trump supporters and the rally in which he told supporters, "Call your congressman, and feel free — you can lightly threaten them and say, 'You know what? If you don't start supporting election integrity, I'm coming after you."</p><p>See his tweets below: </p>
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MSNBC panel wonders if Mitch McConnell waited on Trump impeachment so more evidence surfaced
January 18, 2021
If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had moved forward with impeachment after the House voted to approve the measure, he likely wouldn't have as much incriminating information as is available now.
Since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an increased amount of information has become available about the communications shared by the extremists. Many were promoting President Donald Trump's language and citing it as the motivation behind their actions.
<p>"Since every day that's followed since the Jan. 6th insurrection of the Capitol, what we have learned has grown more and more terrifying," said <em>Associated Press</em> reporter Jonathan Lemire. "Each day seems to bring with it a new video, new testimony, as to just how dire things were in that day and they were bad from the beginning. </p><p>It has become clear, Lemire explained, that the "rioters were in there looking for blood ... and they are saying, to a person, that they were doing so at the behest of President Donald Trump, that he inspired them, he incited them, he fueled that riotous mob, though insurrection that stormed the Capitol that day."</p><p>The White House has been silent in the past several days and only a handful of staff are left, he explained. But they're aware of what's happening and they're "keeping their eye on the impeachment trial."</p><p>"They recognize that if -- that there could be momentum and it would be started most likely by Majority Leader McConnell, that if he were to vote to remove the president from office, a number of Republicans could follow suit and if he were to be convicted, and kicked out," Lemire explained. </p><p>Substitute host John Heilemann noted that last week's decision by McConnell not to do a trial and subsequent leak he might consider conviction has been followed by inaction, leading many to wonder if he actually wants to ignore the whole thing. </p><p>"He's just slow walking this and for the moment, I saw it, I thought, you know, there's another way to interpret this," said Heilemann. "Potentially, McConnell understands that the more reporting that happens, the more testimony that occurs, the deeper we dig, the worse this is going to get for Donald Trump and that this is the way, if you want to get Trump convicted in the Senate ... The Senate always wants to slow everything down. You know, McConnell, knowing his colleagues would be reticent about convicting Trump, moving as fast as the House did on the impeachment side, that it seems to me that if McConnell wants to get Trump out, he may have understood that waiting a little bit was the best way to set up that case and get that job done."</p><p>See the discussion below: </p><p><br/></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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