MEDIA HITS
HARRY APPEARS ON DAN ABRAMS LIVE TO DISCUSS POST-TRUMP IMMIGRATION POLICIES
April 26, 2022
RICK HASEN WRITES ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE ON TALKING BOOKS
April 20, 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
A really sinister counter explanation of Meadows’s being told that violence was likely is making the rounds. It’s that Secret Service was trying to get Pence to leave Capitol, at which point Grassley steps in, throws the election, and the coup succeeds.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 26, 2022
There have been occasional perjury prosecutions for false “I don’t recall” statements.Tough cases, and don’t hold your breath for one here;but bottom line is we now know that MTG almost certainly committed perjury when she said she didn’t recall asking Pres to impose martial law.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 26, 2022
From I Alone Can Fix it by @CarolLeonnig & @PhilipRucker: Pence's security adviser,Keith Kellogg, tells Tony Ornato,who oversees secret service detail: “You can’t [move the VP], Tony...He’s got a job to do. I know you guys too well. You’ll fly him to Alaska if you have a chance."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 27, 2022
McCarthy has now shot himself to the head of the class as the member who most needs to be subpoenaed by the committee. It’s complicated,but if they’re holding back out of concern at his vindictiveness & scandalmongering If he becomes Speaker, it’s fruitless: he’ll be rabid anyway
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 28, 2022
Reading @RepRaskin ‘s “Unthinkable,” which beautifully braids together the personal and the political,and it notes his consternation at the leak of the discussion about calling Trump as a witness for impeachment II. Brings home that the leak of the Meadows emails this week doesnt
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 1, 2022
At heart of issue is what exactly Pence was thinking when the Secret Service, 3 different times, tells Pence to leave Capitol and Pence, with unusual spine, says “I’m not getting in that car.”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 26, 2022
Apart from the evidence of rampant involvement, the Meadows emails display a CoS the exact opposite of what you want -- he's continually placating and sidestepping, going along w/ everyone. It was 100% his job to put all the nonsense down firmly, like squashing a cockroach.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 26, 2022
Madison Cawthorn won't let anyone outpace him for most criminal behavior by a Member of Congress. To his citation yesterday for carrying loaded gun through airport security, he adds new suspicions of an insider trading violation: https://t.co/JLbDdkeyWd
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 27, 2022
Boom there it is! Oath Keepers heavy Brian Ulrich pleads to "obstruction of an official proceeding" and seditious conspiracy--the most serious charges DOJ has brought -- and agrees to cooperate with the Department's investigation.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 29, 2022
Jury takes 2 hours to convict Thomas Webster, former NYPD, of assaulting a DC, police officer with a metal flagpole during the 1/6 riot. Webster had argued self-defense.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 2, 2022
