Jan. 6 pretend ‘electors’ plot linked to Ron Johnson; the grossest Republican advert but?

Within the information immediately: The Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup try immediately heard proof of Republican makes an attempt to position pretend electoral counts for a number of states within the fingers of Vice President Mike Pence, thus permitting Pence to say the counts for these states had been “in dispute.” The committee additionally heard from Republican officers who refused to go together with Trump’s calls for to change vote totals and from victims who acquired dying threats after they had been singled out by Trump’s group—with zero proof—as members of the supposed election conspiracy in opposition to him. And no, it is nonetheless not clear why none of this has thus far resulted in indictments from the Division of Justice.

In different information, violent thug Eric Greitens, now trying a comeback after resigning as Missouri governor amid a very grotesque (felony) scandal, launched a gun-filled advert saying a “RINO searching allow” concentrating on these in his occasion not prepared to develop into violent traitorous felons. It appears to have been particularly aimed toward fomenting violence. And nonetheless extra revelations concerning the completely baffling regulation enforcement response through the Uvalde, Texas, mass homicide present the response was even worse than we thought—but once more.