The conspiracy confirmed
and Mark Meadows turns out to be Carlo Rizzi
In the movie The Godfather, Vito Corleone makes clear his feelings for his future son-in-law at the wedding. On the subject of putting Carlo Rizzi into a position as a capo.
“Never. Give him something to earn his living, a good living. But never let him know the Family's business. Tell the others, Sonny, Fredo, Clemenza."
Between his tutelage under attorney Roy Cohn and his association with mafia figures in the 1970s and 1980s, Donald Trump has had long history with organized crime1. And, furthermore, Donald Trump has long been enamored with organized crime’s management-style. Threats of violence and third party assistance to carry out such threats coupled with a zero tolerance for those who might snitch limits most of one’s legal exposure — a plus to Trump’s way of operating.
Donald Trump would have done well to consider less “The Godfather” and more “Goodfellas” in considering the mafia as a business model. In the end, everyone who could hurt Michael Corleone ends up dead. But “The Godfather” is fiction.
Henry Hill’s testimony put Paulie and Jimmy the Gent behind bars, and “Goodfellas” is non-fiction.
Cassidy Hurchinson testified for slightly less than 4 hours — and she laid out a fairly indictable picture.
It’s worth noting that Cassidy Hutchinson like Brad Raffensperger and Rusty Bowers (the Arizona Speaker of the House) have all received threats regarding testifying against Donald Trump. Worse still is that the emergency nature of today’s hearing was to preclude additional threats that might affect Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony.
The full transcript is attached2. It is well worth your time to read it.
The worst of it?
Maybe it was Donald Trump ordering the Secret Service not scan the crowd for weapons. Or Donald Trump trying to strangle the head of his security detail, when they would not take him to the Capitol. Perhaps, it was how close we were to having a Cabinet meeting convened pursuant to the 25th Amendment — and an open question of why one did not happen.
No, the worst of it was revelations that while the Capitol was falling into dystopian madness and Trump was descending into a meglomaniacal state, Trump’s Chief of State Mark Meadows was staring at his phone…detached and disconnected from everything.
Much like Carlo Rizzi.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910/
From NPR who got it from Congressional Quarterly. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108396692/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript