Anti-Trump Republican stymied investigation of activist married to supreme court justice, says reporter David Brock

Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, did “all she could” to protect the rightwing supreme court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the political activist Ginni Thomas, by blocking an in-depth investigation of Ginni’s involvement in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a new book says.

In Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America, the reporter and Democratic operative David Brock writes that “two Capitol Hill sources with personal knowledge” revealed a “dramatic truth, which might shock even some jaded Washington veterans not easily surprised by callow examples of power protecting power.

“Liz Cheney herself, the star of the hearings, doing her turn as independent-minded maverick Republican, did all she could behind the scenes to protect Ginni and Clarence Thomas and thwart the move to investigate further the implications of the Ginni Thomas texts to [Mark] Meadows”, Trump’s final White House chief of staff.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    1641·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been convinced for some time the whole R-D schtick is good/bad billionaire club routine, but it’s screaming into the void. The rightward sprint continues.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        730·
        2 months ago

        I don’t know how to state it any plainer than I have for months, now. I intend to enjoy my day and not bicker with those I consider equal and friend. You know what the good/bad cop routine looks like. You can consider that in this context or not, at your leisure. Enjoy your Sunday and give Ghost a belly rub for me, if you please.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.social
          91·
          2 months ago

          If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

          • Malcolm X

          I would say that everything X said 60 years ago still rings true today. Having the daughter of the evilest American politician of the 90’s and 00’s ask for a pat on the back for sometimes criticizing Trump is insulting. Liberals will continue to drag us into fascism all in the name of “compromising” with conservatives, as if the entire party isn’t ready to goose-step their way up Capitol Hill in January.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            22·
            2 months ago

            I’m trying to imagine what re-education would look like, in our current environment. A violent revolution may turn against us. It seems the Cuban revolutionaries were financed, at least in part, by wealthy individuals, but in* the United States today, the fascists could very well take absolute control, and use it as a means to make our situation much more dire than it currently is. The only thing I can come up with is winning a few more open-minded wealthy individuals to heavily donate for school not within government control, but exceeds standards of government education,and clinics that are completely free, that do the same. I’m having trouble even imagining how that would work, without being shut down, trying to operate under a legal framework.

    • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      414·
      2 months ago

      It’s bad and worse. People are so worried about keeping the worse party out of office that they refuse to criticize the bad party.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        The democrats are literally fine, they’re not my ideal party but I’d place them on the good side of the line

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        217·
        2 months ago

        I get it. People are scared and the major parties are juicing that up to their advantage and our disadvantage. The prefrontal executive functioning center is wired to take a back seat to the fight/flight/freeze/fawn instinct of the amygdala for important reasons. But feedback loops happen. I’m scared, too. And watching things go from bad to worse played into that loop, activating anger that fed right back into the loop. Now I’m calm. That doesn’t mean I don’t experience momentary feelings of fear and/or anger. It means I remind myself that the best decisions aren’t made from that plane 6, and I need to think long term. It’s going to be painful, either way. There’s going to be suffering, either way. There’s going to be an event horizon, either way. The point is, can I muster the courage and face it head on, because delaying the inevitable means pain and suffering will be worse the longer the delay. Am I willing to take the brunt now so the generations behind me have hope of shaping a future for themselves that sees benefits of Gen X and Boomers, on the political landscape? Because if I’m not willing to take that chance, the politicians will make sure the coming challenges weigh most heavily on the many, for the least suffering of the few.

        • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 months ago

          In the most non-judgemental way possible, I have literally no idea what you or the person you are responding to are talking about, and it smells totally delusional.

          Glad you are living your best life, but there’s some weird non-confrontational false equivalence that is extremely goofy here.