Part II: What Really Happened on January 6th

by Leonard Daneman, blogging at paraleaglenm, ©2024

(Feb. 2, 2024) — [See Part I here.]

. . . or, why did Caligula appoint a HORSE to the Roman Senate? Because it was a guaranteed ‘Neigh.’

How many of you have read the entire Congressional Record for January 6th? The purpose of this blog is to extract essential speeches made that day. It is clear from this record that the planned attack on the Capitol had a detrimental effect on the debates and votes in support of Title 3 §15 Objections, lawfully filed by Trump supporters.

In effect, the attack on the Capitol was a success . . . and it was planned by Democrats.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-167/issue-4/senate-section/article/S14-5

There were very few HEROES in the Senate except Sen. Josh Hawley, Marshall, Lankford, and Ted Cruz. That was it.

Everyone else lambasted President Trump or kicked the can down the road, ignoring the 1877 statute.

There is not much to report here. The senate conformed to the rhetoric that all recounts were perfect and the many lawsuits resulted in wise judges rejecting claims of ‘irregularities.’ However, experts point out that the recounts were merely a rehash of the invalid machine results and not an examination of mail ballot and harvesting issues. In counterpoint, it was also made clear that every lawsuit was ‘withdrawn or dismissed’ without consideration of the evidence. As a group, 100 senators, the 1877 statute giving congress the power to examine ‘irregularities’ in the way electors were certified was swept aside, arguing that the counting of electors was ceremonial only.

The Republic fell to a Democracy.

Update February 2, 2024: The Georgia Election Fraud case overseen by Judge Totenberg is proceeding. Even this Obama-appointed judge concedes that concerns over ballot fraud are substantive, and the Democrats and entrenched election agencies are worried about revelations proving ‘The Steal,’ and potential violence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbY5JxYNP4o

Here is, best to my understanding, why speeches in the Senate were so limited:

The VICE PRESIDENT. Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 1 and section 17, title 

III, U.S. Code, when the two Houses withdraw from the joint session to 

count the electoral vote for separate consideration of an objection, a 

Senator may speak to the objection for 5 minutes and not more than 

once. Debate shall not exceed 2 hours, after which the Chair will put 

the question: Shall the objection be sustained?

  The clerk will report the objection made in the joint session.

  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Objection from Senator Hawley from Missouri and 

     Representative Perry from Pennsylvania, ``We, a U.S. Senator 

     and Member of the House of Representatives, object to the 

     counting of the electoral votes of the State of Pennsylvania 

     on the ground that they were not, under all of the known 

     circumstances, regularly given.''

Hero – President Trump

  REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following letter 

from the Secretary of the Senate, which was ordered to lie on the 

table:

       Dear Mr. President: On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, the 

     President of the United States sent by messenger the attached 

     sealed envelope addressed to the President of the Senate 

     dated January 5, 2021, said to contain a message regarding 

     additional steps addressing the threat posed by applications 

     and other software developed or controlled by Chinese 

     companies. The Senate not being in session on the day which 

     the President delivered this message, I accepted the message 

     at 5:00 p.m., and I now present to you the President's 

     message, with the accompanying papers, for disposition by the 

     Senate.

           Respectfully,

                                                   Julie A. Adams,

                                          Secretary of the Senate.

Read the rest here.