The Case of the Other Missing Text Message
by Gloria Christie (Column)
Good morning! Hope all of you got through the night without getting up. I dream about that for myself. Well, here is your news. Enjoy! Gloria
Adam Kinzinger Notifies Ginni Thomas On Possible Subpoena, The Bipartisan Report.
News Analysis: “As Congress Debated Landmark China Bill, Beijing Surged Ahead,” The New York Times.
“Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal: optimism,” NPR.
Do these politicians think that Americans are stupid? Truth be told, they do. My former state senator, one of the good guys, told me that politicians believe that we are not smart enough to understand bills, but even if we were, would-be voters are just too apathetic to be bothered. Boy, are they wrong.
Homeland Security inspects fair rides, a screenshot via YouTube. Who knew?
Take the case of the missing texts. The other missing messages from January 5-7, 2021. January 6 flurried about when Donald Trump riled up an armed mob and shot them at the Capitol Building where Congress was trying to formalize the 2020 presidential election. He came within 10 feet of succeeding, of us living under his dictatorship.
We knew about Secretary Randolph “Tex” Alles, the previous Secret Service Director’s missing Secret Service texts. Now we find out the ex-POTUS’ acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf’s and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli’s texts are gone, gone, gone, too! What a coincidence.
The top Homeland Security Department people’s phone records were accidentally wiped clean. Yeah, and when anything is frozen, it loses its calories.
Both the DOJ and the House January 6 Select Committee want those texts. The DOJ has begun to investigate Donald Trump for crimes during that period and wants them for its criminal investigation. Yes!
And once again, and inspector general just forgot to pass that information along to the January 6 Committee, The Washington Post reported. The Project on Government Oversight originally discovered the missing texts story this time around, the ones belonging to Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, the top Homeland Security honchos.
We would have liked for that remarkable young woman, Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to be verified, but everyone says she is genuine. She was former Chief of Staff Mark Meadow’s right-hand woman.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson released this statement:
‘It is extremely troubling that the issue of deleted text messages related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is not limited to the Secret Service, but also includes Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, who were running DHS at the time.’
Then Thompson, who also leads the January 6 Committee, said that someone erased “history:”
‘It appears the DHS Inspector General has known about these deleted texts for months but failed to notify Congress. If the Inspector General had informed Congress, we may have been able to get better records from Senior administration officials regarding one of the most tragic days in our democracy’s history.’
Erasing history was a big crime. Even bigger was trying to get away from participating in a failed coup. Although no one ever says it aloud, they could be tried for treason. That was Trump’s crime, too, treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Now, someone has said it!
Hopefully, these crooks will not have to face the worst sentence to that charge, one that Trump has been displacing onto others and waves around at his rallies, death. I’d much prefer 29 years in solitary confinement with no TV nor phone. I think that might sting a little more.
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