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中国上海的公司(Arc Capital)帮助Trump的媒体公司借壳上市,目前美国证监会正在调查。。。


这是要从通俄走向通共啊!
刚看了一遍相关报道,原来这个中国公司劣迹斑斑,基本上就是帮助没有实体的企业在美国上市,并且以前三个相关企业被下市。可能就是华尔街之狼在美国混不下去了,跑中国整的一空壳做美国上市。这个世界真虚幻
 
刚看了一遍相关报道,原来这个中国公司劣迹斑斑,基本上就是帮助没有实体的企业在美国上市,并且以前三个相关企业被下市。可能就是华尔街之狼在美国混不下去了,跑中国整的一空壳做美国上市。这个世界真虚幻

现在这个时候,哪个正经公司敢揽Trump的活儿啊……?
 

美国国会骚乱一周年 厘清真相的五大关键问题​

  • 安东尼·祖切尔(Anthony Zurcher )
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美国时任总统特朗普鼓励支持者 2021年1月6日向国会大厦聚集发起 停止偷取选举结果大游行('Stop the Steal')。


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美国时任总统特朗普鼓励支持者 2021年1月6日向国会大厦聚集发起 "停止偷取选举结果"大游行('Stop the Steal')。

一年前,美国总统特朗普的支持者冲进首都华盛顿的国会大厦,试图阻止国会认证拜登在选举中的胜利。

那天之前和那天之内究竟发生了什么?美国众议院设立了一个特别委员会,重点就是全面、详细地了解事发经过。

2021年7月1日,在针对国会骚乱独立调查的努力失败后,美国众议院j经过有争议的投票方式,设立了由七名民主党人和两名共和党人组成的特别委员会。截止2021年年底,委员会在调查过程中进行了250多次访谈,并发出了至少45张传票。

据委员会成员称,大多数被联系的人都同意合作。然而,少数与特朗普关系极为密切的人则加以抵制。他们的依据是行政特权,即美国为保护总统及幕僚之间坦诚交流的法律原则。
迄今为止,特朗普心腹顾问史蒂夫·班农(Steve Bannon)和前白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)已经被众议院以藐视国会罪传唤。

班农2022年将面临刑事审判。其他人,如前特朗普顾问罗杰·斯通和特朗普盟友亚历克斯·琼斯已经援引第五修正案,避免就有关他们在这一事件中所起作用的回答质询。

随着调查以及司法程序的继续,委员会正在寻求填补某些空白,回答一些重要问题。其中五个问题最为关键:

1. 白宫在多大程度上与2021年1月6日集会的组织安排有牵涉?​

国会调查委员会主席本尼·汤普森(Bennie Thompson)最近表示他领导的委员会试图了解作为袭击国会大厦前奏的华盛顿特区集会的情况。

他说:“我们需要知道谁组织、计划、支付和接受了与这些活动有关的资金,以及组织者与白宫和国会官员有什么沟通联系。”

特朗普支持者围攻国会大厦


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特朗普支持者围攻国会大厦。

其中的组织者之一,极右翼保守派活动人士阿里·亚历山大(Ali Alexander)已经在委员会作证,并说他之前曾与白宫和国会的共和党议员有过接触。

但这些接触的确切性质还没有公开。

亚历山大在委员会取证时的开场白中将当天的责任部分归咎于“美国第一妇女”组织的领导人。该组织当时在白宫附近组织了活动,而特朗普在活动中告诉他的支持者向国会大厦方向行进。亚历山大说,他们没有采取什么措施来平息暴力,当国会大厦遭到袭击时,他们可能正在离白宫一个街区外的酒店里“喝香槟”。

国会委员会特别关注在这家名为威拉德洲际酒店(the Willard Intercontinental)举行的活动。班农、前纽约市长鲁迪·朱利安尼(Rudy Giuliani)、前纽约警察局长伯纳德·克里克(Bernard Kerik)、前特朗普国家安全顾问迈克尔·弗林(Michael Flynn)、阴谋论者亚历克斯·琼斯(Alex Jones)和特朗普亲信罗杰·斯通(Roger Stone)是与酒店聚会有关的几个知名人物。

该委员会在其有关藐视国会的决议中表示,它认为班农与特朗普就1月6日的集会至少在一个场合有直接接触。而琼斯说,白宫要求他领导前往国会大厦的游行活动。

2. 政府或特朗普圈子里有没有人基于某种原因相信这一天会出现暴力事件?​

在2021年1月6日之前,特朗普经过几周的电话、推特和不成功的法律斗争后,把焦点投向了1月6日,这是决定他是否能推翻选举结果的关键一天。

他在12月19日发推文说:“1月6日在华盛顿特区举行大型抗议活动”。“我会去的,会很爽!”

11天后,他又发了一条推文。“1月6日,华盛顿特区见!”

根据《华盛顿邮报》的报道,有充分的证据表明,右翼激进组织有准备在1月6日前往国会大厦,他们从总统的公开表态中获得指导。

右翼电台主持人琼斯在骚乱前向人群喊话。


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右翼电台主持人琼斯在骚乱前向人群喊话。

然而,联邦执法部门和美国军方不愿意采取大规模的准备行动,因为担心引起总统的注意和愤怒。参谋长联席会议主席马克·米利(Mark Milley)提出封锁首都的建议被认为是过于挑衅。据《华盛顿邮报》报道,米利还担心派往华盛顿的军队会收到总统的反向命令。

1月5日,班农在威拉德酒店录制的播客节目中说,一场“革命”即将到来,“明天会翻天覆地”。

同一天晚上,特朗普在据报听到白宫外聚集的支持者人群越来越多之后在推特上说:“那些不想看到选举胜利被有恃无恐的激进左翼民主党人偷走的人们正在把华盛顿淹没。我们的国家已经受够了,他们不会再忍受了!”

根据调查新闻网站ProPublica的报告,一些集会的组织者们担心1月6日可能会出现暴力事件,特别是从白宫到国会大厦的游行。

被委员会传唤的白宫集会组织者之一达斯汀·斯托克顿(Dustin Stockton)告诉ProPublica:“最后一刻的游行,没有许可证,没有通常在那里划定游行范围的警察,感觉不安全。”

斯托克顿希望将这些担忧传递给白宫,他说他得到的保证是他的信息一定会转达到位。然而,在白宫的演讲中,特朗普特别鼓励集会者前往国会大厦。他说,他们应该 “用和平和爱国心 ”去,但在其他时候又告诉人们要 “拚死战斗”。

3. 国会大厦遭袭时特朗普是如何应对的?​

自尼克松总统以来,涉及总统的丑闻一直可以由两个问题来界定:总统知道什么?总统什么时候知道的?这两个问题在国会大厦袭击案的调查中仍有意义,但还有第三个问题:总统知道后做了什么?

委员会调查的很大一部分是试图像拼图一样搞清楚总统在1月6日,也就是在袭击发生之前、期间和之后的行动。这也是委员会展开一场旷日持久法律角逐的原因,以便从国家档案馆获得与那一天有关的文件、电话和会议记录、笔记和演讲稿。

特朗普的支持者从白宫向国会大厦游行。


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特朗普的支持者从白宫向国会大厦游行。

目前已经找到了国会大厦遭到袭击时,总统受到压力需要做出更有力回应的更多细节。

共和党女议员杰梅·埃雷拉贝·特勒(Jaime Herrera Beutler )回忆了共和党众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡(Kevin McCarthy)如何打电话给总统,促请总统叫停袭击者。当总统不同意时,双方之间的对话变得不堪入耳,声嘶力竭。

阿拉巴马州共和党参议员汤米·图伯维尔(Tommy Tuberville)也与总统通了电话,并告诉他事情进展得“非常好”,还说他和副总统迈克·彭斯(Mike Pence)正在从国会大厦疏散。

特朗普回答说:“我知道我们有问题。”

白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)向调查委员会提供了保守派电视大腕和总统家庭成员发给他的短信和电子邮件,敦促他让总统发表公开讲话并采取更多行动制止暴力。

小唐纳德·特朗普写道:“他现在必须出面起领导作用”。“这太过分了,完全失控了。”

一名抗议人士在试图冲进众议院时被警察开枪打中


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一名抗议人士在试图冲进众议院时被警察开枪打中

梅多斯回答说:“我正在用力使劲呢。”

然而,总统究竟做了什么是调查中的一个大黑洞。如果梅多斯真的使劲催促了总统,总统是如何回应的呢?有报道称,总统特朗普那天下午大部分时间都在白宫的私人餐厅里看电视。委员会已经传唤了当天可能在总统身边的白宫官员,目前正在进行一场关于政府记录的法律斗争,这可能有助于填补黑洞中仍然不为人知的部分。

4. 为什么军方/警方对袭击的反应被延迟?​

1月6日上午,美国警察已经在华盛顿纪念碑和林肯纪念堂与支持特朗普的抗议者发生冲突。警察收到指令后退,“只负责监视”。

在 “停止偷取选举结果”集会和特朗普敦促人群游行到国会大厦的讲话之后,暴力事件升级了。支持特朗普的骚乱者袭击了国会大厦周围的警察,并强行进入大厦,最终占领了参议院会议厅,并洗劫了国会领导人的办公室。

在骚乱者进入国会大厦前不久,华盛顿特区国民警卫队指挥官威廉·沃克少将(William Walker)向代理国防部长克里斯托弗·米勒提出请求,要求允许他部署部队处理危机。但沃克在两个多小时之后才收到回复批示,而又过了一个小时后才有大量的国民警卫队抵达国会大厦。

警察与抗议者在美国国会大厦外


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国会大厦的骚乱持续了数小时

委员会正在寻找国会大厦和国防部之间沟通的进一步证据,以及国防部和白宫高层官员,包括总统之间可能有过的联系。

国会大厦遇袭代表了美国政府权力机构保安出现的一个惊人的失误,目前仍不清楚谁应承担这一失误的最大责任。

5. 特朗普和白宫在多大程度上认真考虑过用非常规措施使选举无效?​

特朗普前幕僚长梅多斯在停止与委员会合作前曾移交了约9000份文件,其中最为引人关注的披露之一是多份电子邮件涉及在白宫和国会共和党人中流传的一份36页的PowerPoint演示文稿。

这份文件的确切作者尚未确定,但它包含了许多人们熟悉、早就被否认的选举舞弊指称。然而,这份文件的特殊之处在于其提出的建议部分。它建议总统宣布全国进入紧急状态,将所有电子选票作废,并让联邦国民警卫队负责监督在关键州的纸质选票的重新清点。

1月6日,美国海军陆战队员守卫白宫


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1月6日,美国海军陆战队员守卫白宫

这种措施在美国历史上没有先例。委员会还在调查有关总统向司法部施压,要求宣布选举腐败的报道。根据一名与会者的笔记,特朗普告诉高级官员说,应该“直接说选举是腐败的(而)把剩下的事情留给我和(共和党)议员”。

据报道,1月3日,总统考虑过迫使代理司法部长杰弗里·罗森(Jeffrey Rosen)辞职,取而代之任命杰弗里·克拉克,而克拉克已经起草了一封给选举官员的信,称乔治亚州暗示拜登胜选是因为舞弊,并呼吁他们宣布特朗普是合法的大选赢家。

在罗森和其他司法部官员威胁要集体辞职后,总统特朗普才让步。到目前为止,克拉克拒绝配合调查1月6日,并可能成为下一个被定为蔑视国会的人。

副总统彭斯是特朗普施压的最后一个目标。彭斯的主要工作人员目前正在与国会调查合作。国会委员会正在了解特朗普与彭斯在1月4日与查普曼大学(Chapman University)法学教授约翰·伊斯特曼(John Eastman)举行白宫会议的更多情况。伊斯特曼认为彭斯可以推翻各州的选举结果,宣布特朗普为总统,或者至少可以推迟对选举结果的认证,等到共和党控制的国会能够采取行动支持特朗普。

据报道,废弃选举结果的压力一直持续到1月6日晚,伊斯特曼曾通知彭斯的法律顾问,彭斯仍有时间拒绝认证拜登的胜利,尽管当时国会大厦里暴力事件后充满了催泪弹的味道、散落着一地碎玻璃。


特朗普支持者闯国会:摄影师前线纪录

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美国国会骚乱一周年 厘清真相的五大关键问题 - BBC News 中文

2021年1月6日,美国总统特朗普的支持者围攻国会大厦,试图阻挠对选举结果的认证过程。要梳理事件的来龙去脉,有五个迫切需要答案的关键问题。

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1 hr 28 min ago

Biden calls out 3 "big lies" that Trump and his allies have pushed as "twisted"​

President Joe Biden departs after finishing his speech at the Capitol's Statuary Hall.
President Joe Biden departs after finishing his speech at the Capitol's Statuary Hall. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

President Biden outlined what he called three "big lies" that former President Trump and supporters have pushed before and after Jan. 6, 2021.

Biden said they are trying to rewrite history by claiming the first "big lie," that the insurrection actually took place on Election Day.

Biden said it is a "twisted" way to look at America.

"The election of 2020 was the greatest demonstration of democracy in the history of this country. More of you voted in that election than have ever voted in all of American history. Over 150 million Americans went to the polls and voted that day — in a pandemic, some at great risk to their lives. They should be applauded, not attacked," Biden said.

"The former president and supporters have decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections. It is wrong. It's undemocratic. And frankly it's un-American," Biden said.

Biden said that the second "big lie" being told by the former president and his allies is that the results of the 2020 election can't be trusted.

Biden slammed "phony partisan audits" that repeatedly showed there was no voter fraud in the election.

"Let's speak plainly about what happened in 2020. Even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. He built his lie over months, wasn't based in any facts. He was just looking for an excuse, a pretext, to cover for the truth," Biden said.

"He's not just a former president. He's a defeated former president, defeated by a margin of over 7 million of your votes. A full and free and fair election. There is simply zero proof the election results were inaccurate," he continued.

Biden said the third "big lie" from Trump and others was that the Capitol rioters were patriots.

"Is that what you thought? When you looked at the mob ransacking the Capitol, destroying property, literally defecating in the hallways ... hunting down members of Congress, patriots? Not in my view. To me, the true patriots were the more than 150 Americans who peacefully expressed their vote at the ballot box," he said.
 
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Biden made 16 references to "the former president." Here's what he said.​

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

President Joe Biden delivers his speech from the Capitol's Statuary Hall on Thursday,
President Joe Biden delivers his speech from the Capitol's Statuary Hall on Thursday, (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

President Biden marked the first anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by forcefully calling out former President Trump for attempting to undo American democracy, saying such an insurrection must never happen again.

In a speech that lasted just under 30 minutes, Biden made a passionate case for defending the nation's founding ideals from the threats posed by Trump and the violent mob that stormed the Capitol one year ago. Biden made reference to "the former president" 16 times in his speech, including lines accusing him of "losing," "failing," "losing," and "lying."

Here are the references:
  1. "What did we not see? We didn't see a former president who had just rallied the mob to attack, sitting in the private dining room off the Oval Office in the White House, watching it all on television."
  2. "A former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election."
  3. "The big lie being told by the former president, and many Republicans who fear his wrath, is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day."
  4. "Former president's supporters are trying to rewrite history."
  5. "The former president lost instead of looking at the election results from 2020."
  6. "The former president and supporters have decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote."
  7. "Second big lie being told by the former president's supporters is that the results of the election of 2020 can't be trusted."
  8. "Every legal challenge questioning the results, and every court in this country, that could have been made was made and was rejected, often rejected by Republican appointed judges, including judges appointed by the former president himself."
  9. "Even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results."
  10. "He's not just a former president...."
  11. "He's a defeated former president."
  12. "The former president failed to make his case."
  13. "The former president and his supporters have never been able to explain how they accept as accurate the other election results that took place on November 3rd."
  14. "The former president didn't lose those races, he just lost the one that was his own."
  15. "The third big lie being told by a former president and his supporters, that the mob who sought to impose their will through violence are the nation's two patriots."
  16. "The former president who lies about this election and the mob that attacked this Capitol could not be further away from the core American values."
Read more about what Biden said here.
 
 

川普对彭斯说:如果你不推翻大选结果,我们再不是朋友,因为他是个5岁的孩子。​

彭斯尝试了各种努力,咨询了布什的前副总统,被告知:你无权做任何事情,0 可能性。彭斯还解释:你不了解我的处境。

1月6日早晨,川普还打电话给彭斯:“麦克,你不明白,你可以做,如果你不做,我不再是你的朋友,说明我4年前选错了人,你太懦弱。“


TRUMP TOLD PENCE THEY WOULDN’T BE FRIENDS ANYMORE IF THE V.P. DIDN’T OVERTURN THE ELECTION, BECAUSE HE’S A 5-YEAR-OLD​

He also called Pence a “wimp,” because that’s the level of maturity we’re dealing with here.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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In the days following the January 6 attack on the Capitol, a narrative emerged in which Donald Trump’s longtime footstool, Mike Pence, was hailed as something of a hero for refusing to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Despite relentless pressure from the then president to block Joe Biden’s electoral win, which entailed “alternately cajoling and browbeating” the V.P. and telling him, “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy,” Pence officially certified the results following a short interlude in which Trump’s supporters threatened to kill him.

But as it turns out, Pence came much closer to overthrowing democracy on his boss’s behalf. According to Peril, a new book out next week by veteran reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Pence, in his own telling, did “everything” he could to try and stop the certification of a free and fair election. Per CNN:

Even though Pence stood up to Trump in the end, Peril reveals that after four years of abject loyalty, he struggled with the decision. Woodward and Costa write that Pence reached out to Dan Quayle, who had been the vice president to George H.W. Bush, seeking his advice.
Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do. “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,” Quayle told him. Pence pressed again. “You don’t know the position I’m in,” he said, according to the authors. “I do know the position you’re in,” Quayle responded. “I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That’s all you do. You have no power.”

When it apparently became clear to Pence that he couldn’t, in fact, overturn the election results, he still reportedly went to great lengths to explain to Trump that he very much wanted to be a good little solider, saying, “I’ve done everything I could and then some to find a way around this.” That obsequiousness, sans action, was obviously not good enough for Trump, who had also tried to convince Pence by appealing to what he believed was everyone’s secret desire to be an authoritarian dictator. “If these people say you had the power, wouldn’t you want to?” Trump asked, apparently referring to the MAGA crowd assembled on Pennsylvania Avenue. “I wouldn’t want any one person to have that authority,” Pence responded. “But wouldn’t it be almost cool to have that power?” Trump asked, again betraying his admiration for autocrats.

It was after Pence remained firm, according to Woodward and Costa, that Trump resorted to schoolyard threats. “You don’t understand, Mike,” Trump said. “You can do this. I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this.” The following day, on the morning of January 6, he reportedly called Pence and taunted, “If you don’t do it, I picked the wrong man four years ago,” adding, “You’re going to wimp out.” It was apparently some time after that that Trump tried the “pussy” line on Pence, which obviously didn’t have the effect he’d hoped.

The Washington Post reports that Peril also contains the news that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was legitimately terrified that the president was crazy enough to start a war with China just for shits.

In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike…The first call was prompted by Milley’s review of intelligence suggesting the Chinese believed the United States was preparing to attack. That belief, the authors write, was based on tensions over military exercises in the South China Sea, and deepened by Trump’s belligerent rhetoric toward China.
“General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” Milley told him. “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.” In the book’s account, Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
In the second call, placed to address Chinese fears about the events of Jan. 6, Li wasn’t as easily assuaged, even after Milley promised him, “We are 100 percent steady. Everything’s fine. But democracy can be sloppy sometimes.” Li remained rattled, and Milley, who did not relay the conversation to Trump, according to the book, understood why. The chairman, 62 at the time and chosen by Trump in 2018, believed the president had suffered a mental decline after the election, the authors write, a view he communicated to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a phone call on Jan. 8. He agreed with her evaluation that Trump was unstable, according to a call transcript obtained by the authors.

According to Woodward and Costa, in addition to the pair of phone calls, Milley gathered senior officers to go over the “procedures for launching nuclear weapons,” saying that while Trump alone could give the order, he had to be involved, and made the officers swear to him that they understood nothing should happen before confirming with him first.

His “immediate motivation” for doing so, according to the book, was apparently the call with Pelosi, in which the House Speaker demanded to know “What precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike?” According to the transcript of the call, Pelosi, speaking for the majority of the country, reportedly told Milley, “He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy…He’s crazy and what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness.” Milley reportedly replied, “I agree with you on everything.”

 
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