A reader sent a terse, eight-word note along with the link to a disturbing story about the anarchist attack on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday.
“Let’s guess whose fingerprints were all over this,” he wrote.
Indeed.
It seems that John Kennedy, Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson and Clay Higgins aren’t the only Louisiana officials who must share responsibility for stoking last Wednesday’s unprecedented invasion by white supremacists and outright terrorists of the world’s monument to democratic governance and free elections on behalf of a mentally deranged Donald Trump.
Trump, we now learn, had other co-conspirators in high places who must now answer for the deaths of five people, including a member of the Capitol Police who died of injuries suffered while trying to defend that same democratic government.
NBC News has obtained a copying of a RECORDING that went out as a robocall from the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), the fundraising arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) that said, in part, “At 1 p.m., we will march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal.”
Additionally, there initially was a website created to promote the rally that listed the RLDF as one of the participating organizations. Following Wednesday’s extracurricular activities that including ransacking congressional offices, stealing congressional furniture and documents, smearing defecation on the walls and planting pipe bombs, the RLDF website was taken down.
Go figure.
Already, sympathizers are claiming the insurgents were infiltrated by Antifa and Black Lives Matter protagonists. They have no way of proving or disproving that. Many in the mob were wearing backpacks. How could police possibly check the contents? And consider this an alternative conspiracy theory: How do we know there weren’t Russian sympathizers who “infiltrated” the anarchists in order to plant listening devices in the offices of congressional leaders? That theory is every bit as sound as the Antifa/Black Lives Matter B.S.
But I digress.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who runs RLDF, claims the calls were sent out without his knowledge or approval. That sounds like a gaping absence of accountability at the top levels of the organization.
“I was unaware of unauthorized decisions made by RLDF staff with regard to this week’s rally,” Marshall was quoted by NBC as saying. He only assumed his current role on Nov. 10. “Despite currently transitioning into my role as the newly elected chairman of RLDF, it is unacceptable that I was neither consulted about nor informed of those decisions,” he added. “I have directed an internal review of this matter.”
Neither RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper nor RLDF Executive Director Peter Bisbee responded to requests from NBC for comment about the robocalls.
Two prominent members of the RAGA who have been at the forefront of efforts to hand Trump an illegitimate claim to the presidency despite his losing by more than 7 million votes, are Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and our very own Jeff Landry.
Paxton filed an ill-fated LAWSUIT in an effort to challenge election results in four key states lost by Trump but the court ruled correctly that he had no standing to bring the suit and it was tossed, as were 49 other suits brought by Trump’s attorneys.
Landry has kept a somewhat lower profile in the days following the rioting but nevertheless has been front and center in his support of Trump and his “fake news” claims to have won the election in a “landslide.”
But wait. Landry, it seems, was the RAGA CHAIRMAN for 2020, and on Nov. 10, he announced that the organization was filing an amicus brief ENDORSING the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s CHALLENGE of a state supreme court RULING that allowed the counting of absentee ballots up to three days after election day – on the condition that they were postmarked by the Nov. 3 election day.
The Louisiana Attorney General was also listed as a CO-DIRECTOR of RLDF, according to 2018 tax documents filed by the organization.
And while his name has not surfaced in connection with the robocall that went out, you can bet, as our reader said, his fingerprints are “all over this.”
And for a man so fond of the political spotlight, his silence since Wednesday is deafening.
Louisiana Voice 
Cowards always run away from the fray.
P.S. The Republican Attorneys General Association raised over $18 million in 2020.
Dylan would have said of Landry: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” His abject bias guides his every step, unfettered by intellect, compassion, or common sense – in other words, he could go by the nickname, DJT Landry, which would be more appropriate if the real DJT was guided by political ambition or anything else not springing directly from his unimaginative brain pan.
As usual, there has been no demand that proof of any Antifa or BLM groups being involved in the Trump Troops assault on our Capitol Building. Show proof of this or be quiet. It is time that we disallow any more of this “look over there” distractions and projecting. Only truth and facts must be accepted and liars must be called out….how to do this on social media is the problem. However, each of us can research and demand truth when we hear lies. Tall order but one that must be pursued!
THIS, first – and always, from now on – without fail.
Also, let’s flush out and dispose of all office holders at every level who supported in their official actions the rebellion against the peaceful transfer of power in our highest office in the land, absent clear and convincing evidence. And let’s do that from now on, as well.
Not surprising. He’s another fascist. He’s not a shoe-in for governor because even if his behavior isn’t contemptible to some people at least his persona is thoroughly unlikable. We still need a strong candidate to run against him.
Fingerprints??? The question is exactly what you have written, follow the money. Golden Rule, etc, The spineless Republicans and this includes the “irreligious right”, have no moral depth except to whine to themselves and feather their nests. And since Jindal lied about the need to create an “ethics reform” so the Repug’s could channel all money to themselves and then use Taxpayer money to fund their operations. Please remember he rode off to Leesville to meet with the Baptists,and would call you out if you opposed. Halluleahu, it worked.and Mulvaney cannot believe the idiot base believed the Trump’s call to worship at the riot. Blood money now. thanks ron thompson
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