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Then why else did the committee drop that evidence like a hot potato once they found out it complicated their case? We're not seeing their corporate media budd

Then why else did the committee drop that evidence like a hot potato once they found out it complicated their case? We're not seeing their corporate media buddies belabor trivial information or twisting it to manipulate people into thinking it serves as evidence against Trump. In fact, in the video I linked, it shows a clip from CNN of all places supporting my point because they can't even twist it. Willful ignorance is a choice, it's just nice when folks are more honest about it.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Then why else did the committee drop that evidence On what basis do you claim they did? I mean, sure, it might look like they had if they didn't question Meadows about it when he showed up to testify after they got it...but he didn't, which is why he’s facing a contempt referral. Short of that, other than it's absence from any final report, I’m not sure what concrete sign would exist that they had “dropped” it at all. > We're not seeing their corporate media buddies belabor trivial information or twisting it to manipulate people into thinking it serves as evidence against Trump. While I agree with the exact wording here, as what is being belabored is not trivial and the analysis of how it is evidence against Trump and his inner circle is not twisted, the media that's not full-time right-wing propaganda is indeed pointing to them as a “smoking gun”, so, if “major media pundits aren't claiming that they are evidence against Trump” is the basis of your claim that the committee is dropping the texts, the premise is as faulty as the logic (a few examples of thousands): https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/mark-meadows-text-messages/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/mark-meadows-text-me... https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/january-6-committee-mark-meadows/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/january-6-committee-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/mark-meadows-jan-6-committee-contempt-coverup/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/mark-mead... https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38514277/mark-meadows-texts-fox-news-trump-conservatism/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38514277/mar... About the best you can say for the texts is that they are sometimes being treated as less of a smoking gun than the PowerPoint presentation on the strategy for the coup turned over by Meadows.

dragonwriter 5y ago

> Then why else did the committee drop that evidence On what basis do you claim they did? I mean, sure, it might look like they had if they didn't question Meadows about it when he showed up to testify after they got it...but he didn't, which is why he’s facing a contempt referral. Short of that, other than it's absence from any final report, I’m not sure what concrete sign would exist that they had “dropped” it at all. > We're not seeing their corporate media buddies belabor trivial information or twisting it to manipulate people into thinking it serves as evidence against Trump. While I agree with the exact wording here, as what is being belabored is not trivial and the analysis of how it is evidence against Trump and his inner circle is not twisted, the media that's not full-time right-wing propaganda is indeed pointing to them as a “smoking gun”, so, if “major media pundits aren't claiming that they are evidence against Trump” is the basis of your claim that the committee is dropping the texts, the premise is as faulty as the logic (a few examples of thousands): https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/mark-meadows-text-messages/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/mark-meadows-text-me... https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/january-6-committee-mark-meadows/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/january-6-committee-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/mark-meadows-jan-6-committee-contempt-coverup/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/mark-mead... https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38514277/mark-meadows-texts-fox-news-trump-conservatism/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38514277/mar... About the best you can say for the texts is that they are sometimes being treated as less of a smoking gun than the PowerPoint presentation on the strategy for the coup turned over by Meadows.