V26, N24 Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 Schmuhl enters INDem chair race “Jan. 6 really affected Forming a ticket me,” said Schmuhl, who has run campaigns for with Myra Eldridge, Joe Donnelly and Shelli Yoder. “The presidency Schmuhl has backing of Joe Biden is exciting. of Joe Donnelly The leadership of the DNC under Jaime Har- By BRIAN A. HOWEY rison, the former state INDIANAPOLIS – Less than a party chair from South year after running Pete Buttigieg’s mete- Carolina and a person oric $100 million presidential campaign I know, is also exciting. and three months after he appeared to Some of those bigger pass on a run pieces came together. for Indiana I also heard from a lot Democratic of Democrats from all Party chair, over the state who were Mike Schmuhl urging me to reconsider. officially kicked And I did.” off that cam- Schmuhl will face paign, running in tandem with off with long-time party Marion County Clerk Myra Eldridge. operative Trish Whitcomb, who told HPI Wednesday morn- Schmuhl told Howey Politics Indiana that the ing, “I continue to get people reaching out to me. I’m glad Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and outreach from that we have such talented people who want to be Demo- scores of Hoosier Democrats convinced him to reconsider. Continued on page 3 The mob & Mike Pence By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – For those of us in Indiana who know Mike Pence, Wednesday’s video timeline was ab- solutely chilling. It is by chance that he survived the Jan. 6 insurrection, that this didn’t become a mass casualty “No more cult of personality. No event. The mob was just sec- more big lies. No more looney onds and steps away from the conspiracy theories. We should vice president, wife Karen and daughter, security video released cull those things out and move during Donald Trump’s second forward. There will be tensions impeachment trial revealed. A bloodthirsty crowd was seeking ... as we pivot back toward the revenge after being goaded by President Trump into attempting party of ideas and purpose.” to subvert the congressional cer- - RNC Committeeman John tification of the Electoral College vote. Hammond III Page 2 U.S. Rep. Stacey Plaskett, one Trump, who was glued to his White of the House impeachment managers, House TV, tweeted, “Mike Pence stated, “Several insurrectionists de- didn’t have the courage to do what scribed what they had planned to do should have been done to protect our if they encountered the vice president Country and our Constitution, giving Howey Politics Indiana or other lawmakers. One of them, States a chance to certify a corrected Dominic Pezzola, or ‘Spaz,’ is a mem- set of facts, not the fraudulent or in- WWWHowey Media, LLC ber of the Proud Boys. Pezzola came accurate ones which they were asked c/o Business Office to the Capitol on Jan. 6 with deadly to previously certify. USA demands PO Box 6553 intentions. He commandeered a Capi- the truth!” Kokomo, IN, 46904 tol Police shield, smashed a glass win- “Hang Mike Pence! Hang www.howeypolitics.com dow, entered the Capitol and paved Mike Pence!” the crowd could be the way for dozens of insurrectionists. heard chanting. Outside the Capitol, “According to an FBI af- where a gallows had been set up, Brian A. Howey, Publisher fadavit submitted to the court, the others called out, “Bring out Pence!” Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington group that was with him Mary Lou Howey, Editor at the sack of the Capitol Susan E. Howey, Editor confirmed they were out to murder anyone they got their hands on,” Subscriptions Plaskett said. “Here’s HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 what the FBI said: ‘Other HPI Weekly, $350 members of the group Lisa Hounchell, Account Manager had talked about what (765) 452-3936 telephone they had done that day. (765) 452-3973 fax Anyone they got their [email protected] hands on, they would have killed, including Nancy Pelosi, and they Contact HPI would have killed Mike [email protected] Pence if they had gotten Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 the chance.’ They were Washington: 202.256.5822 talking about assassinat- Business Office: 765.452.3936 ing the vice president of the United States. During the course of the attack, © 2021, Howey Politics the vice president never Indiana. All rights reserved. left the Capitol. He never Photocopying, Internet forward- left the side of his family.” The video showed one of ing, faxing or reproducing in any “They were within 100 feet of the insurrectionists saying, “Pence where the vice president was shelter- lied to us, that total treasonous pig. form, whole or part, is a violation ing with his family, and they were His name will be mud forever.” They of federal law without permission just feet away from the doors of this were also hunting Speaker Nancy from the publisher. chamber where many of you remained Pelosi, with some calling, “Where are at that time,” Plaskett said. you, Nancy? We’re looking for you!” The evacuation took place “Again, that was a mob sent Jack E. Howey at 2:26 p.m., 14 minutes after riot- by the president of the United States editor emeritus ers broke into the Capitol. “As Pence to stop the certification of an elec- 1926-2019 was being evacuated, rioters began to tion,” Plaskett told the Senate in her spread throughout the Capitol. … And conclusion. “President Trump put a the mob was looking for Vice Presi- target on their backs and his mob dent Pence because of his patriotism, broke into the Capitol to hunt them because the vice president refused to down.” do what the president demanded and Fox News host Chris Wallace overturn the election results,” Plaskett says there is now “residual bitter- said. ness” between Pence and Trump. Two minutes before, President “That weekend, some members of Page 3 the Pence team called me up ... to make it clear — this peachment manager, Rep. Eric Swalwell said. “He was is how angry the Pence team was — that Donald Trump wedged in the doorway, blood dripping from his mouth. He never called Mike Pence when he was in the bunker inside was struggling to breathe. All while the insurrectionists hit the Capitol, to ask him if he was safe, to inquire about his him.” safety, nor did he ever urge the people who were storming Five people were killed in the melee, including the Capitol to stand down and not to go after Mike Pence.“ Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick, who was bludgeoned to Pence’s team said Trump’s failure to call off death with a fire extinguisher. Two other Capitol officers the mob and ensure the safety of his loyal second-in- have committed suicide since Jan. 6. More than 140 officers command represented the “ultimate betrayal,” Wallace were injured during the confrontation, suffering broken explained. They felt they did “’everything we could for four ribs, gouged eyes. years to serve you, to stand by you,’” Wallace said. “’You On Tuesday, Raskin made the case that impeach- asked us to do something that was a constitutional impos- ing an ex-president was constitutional. He said that there sibility, and then you didn’t protect us when the mob came should be no “January exemption” for a president attempt- to — literally to try to find him [Pence]’ and to, in the ing to steal an election, which he said is what Trump was minds of some of them, to execute him.” attempting to do. Earlier Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin said Trump was responsible for the historic Raskin of Virginia said, “Donald Trump surrendered his role destruction of the Capitol. “You ask what a high crime and as commander-in-chief and became the inciter-in-chief of misdemeanor is under our Constitution? That’s a high crime a dangerous insurrection. He told them to fight like hell and misdemeanor. If that’s not an impeachable offense, and they brought us hell that day.” then there is no such thing.” “Fight like hell or you won’t have a country any- Indiana Sens. Todd Young and Mike Braun, who more,” Trump said at the Ellipse just minutes before. The were mostly silent during the months the “big lie” that laid video shows many in the mob echoing Trump’s challenge the groundwork for Jan. 6, both voted in the minority on to “overturn” the election results. the question of the constitutionality of the trial. Raskin said that Trump “watched it like a reality Braun said in a statement on Tuesday, “As I have show.” He never called out the National Guard. At 6 p.m., stated earlier, the framers of the Constitution never in- President Trump tweeted, “Remember this day forever.” tended for the Senate to hold a trial to remove a former Another impeachment manager, U.S. Rep. President from an office he no longer holds, which is why Joe Neguse of Colorado, traced this mob v. lawmaker I voted against the constitutionality of former president showdown to last spring when Trump knew he would be Trump’s impeachment trial.” challenged by Democrat Joe Biden. “Let’s start with the Asked for his reaction to Wednesday’s presentation, Big Lie,” Neguse said. “The president realized really by last Braun told CNN, “Same way I was before. If I think the spring that he could lose, he might lose the election. So process is flawed, how do I convict?” what did he do? He started planting the seeds to get some Which leads to the question I and many others of his supporters ready by saying that he could only lose have: How could you be a colleague, ally or friend of Mike the election if it was stolen.” Pence and his family and not be horrified that they came Other extremely disturbing video showed insur- within minutes of literally being torn apart by a mob? Even rectionists using bear spray against Capitol Police, as well more distressing, by a mob unleashed by the president, as American flags on poles.