Thanks to Lawrence O'Donnell... well really thanks to Donald Trump... I am wide awake at midnight writing this. By Hal M. Brown

Last night, after watching a couple of episodes of Vienna Blood ( where a young neurologist and psychoanalyst helps a detective solve murders in 1900s Vienna) we decided to check and see what Lawrence O'Donnell was talking about. Watch the video of the segment that we found partiuclarly disturbing below :

With lie about cop-assaulting Jan. 6 rioters, Trump is saying what you saw didn't happen

About five minutes into this segment O’Donnell showed what Trump insanely said. Lawrence said we should think about the depth of pathology that allows someone to say this and then showed the clip of the Capitol police officer sceaming as he was being crushed in a door. He went on to say that the only word for this is madness, not just audacity, to say you didn’t see what you saw live on January 6th.

This is the article about this on HUFFPOST:

Trump Claims The Jan. 6 Cop-Assaulters He Pardoned Were The Ones Assaulted

Excerpt:

“I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves. They were assaulted by our government,” he said in a half-hour news conference with the reporters traveling with him on his flight to the Super Bowl on Sunday.

“That’s who were assaulted and they were treated unfairly. There’s never been a group of people in this country outside of maybe one instance I can think of, but I won’t get into it, that were treated more horribly than the people of J6,” he continued. “So no, I didn’t assault. They didn’t assault. They were assaulted, and what I did was a great thing for humanity.”

I woke up at 11:30 and couldn't get this out of my mind. I was wide awake at midnight so I thought I'd get up and write my Substack. Being able to do this is a benefit of being an old man who is retired and doesn't have to go to work in the morning. I can catch up on sleep taking a nap later in the day.

I have MSNBC on as I write this. Jen Psaki, in a repeat of her earlier show. is talking about how Trump administration’s job candidates are being asked whether January 6th was an inside job and whether the 2020 election was stolen. This was reported in The Washington Post.

Of course, no matter what these candidates believe, they know what answers are required in order to be hired.

They weren't asked whether they thought Trump should have complete control of the entire government as a dictator, be able to ignore court orders, and be able to have those he considered to be his enemies prosecuted and thrown in prison, or worse. Six months or a year from now the interviewers may be asking these questions too.

Jen Psaki went on to talk about how the just pardoned Rob Blagojevich would be appointed to be the ambassador to Serbia, how my old US representative who lost the election, former mayor of a city down the road from where we live, Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been nominated to be Secretary of Labor, and how many other Republican election losers have been appointed to Executive Branch jobs.

These people had proved themselves to be Trumpers. There was no need for them to be interogated to ascertain their loyalty.

Assuming Kash Patel becomes FBI director, I expect there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of vacancies at the FBI. He doesn’t have to worry about taking time to conduct the usual extensive background checks required for applicants. He has some 1,600 J6 MAGA warriors he can hire. All he has to do is swear them in with a wink and a nod to actually following the oath, and then send them to the FBI academy for firearms training. Currently FBI Academy training takes 16 weeks. Learning to shoot a firearm without hitting too many people you aren’t aiming at would take about a week, maybe less. (When I became a reserve police office it took me an hour to be able to hit the target the first time I fired a handgun.)

Patel could dispatch his new J6 FBI agents across the country to arrest people in a short time. Many of them would be easy to find since lots of them live in and around Washington, DC. The FBI has about two dozen planes, so sending agents further away would be easy.

It bears knowing the history of the Gestapo. It was founded three months after the Nazis came into power. When the Gestapo was first established in 1933, it had a small staff of about 300 agents. It was originally created to combat political opposition to the Nazi regime and before long was commiting atrocities.It grew to over 30,000 by the end of the war.

The FBI will provide well paid job opportunities for members of the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Boogaloo Boys.

I rather doubt you feel safer reading this. I certainly don’t. Now it’s 2:00 AM. I’m not sure that getting this out of my system will enable me to fall asleep.