But Hugh Brewster, an author who lives in Toronto, stays classy in the delicious, wonderfully readable Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World (Crown Publishing, 352 pp.), Brewster is unabashedly intrigued by the rich and their sometimes wicked ways. The greatest ship-borne collection of celebrities of its time could produce quite the craven and sensational tell-all book. And it seems that several passengers, possibly including a “dandified” famous aide to President Taft, were secretly or not-so-secretly gay. That striking young film star – famous because of a magazine cover artist’s ability to fudge her looks – had a married paramour back home. The friendly card player across the table might be a cheat.
But plenty of passengers were concealing lies of their own. The greatest untruth, of course, was that the ship could not sink. The Titanic – “a small world bent on pleasure,” as one high-class passenger put it – was home to more than its share of lies, secrets, and myths even before it reached that iceberg in the Atlantic. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th,” he said.
6 “Stop the Steal” rally for their roles prior to the riot.After all, in closing arguments at the Proud Boy trial, defense lawyer Nayib Hassan said the attack wasn’t the Proud Boys’ fault. “It was Donald Trump’s words. 6 seditious conspiracy cases.The question is whether special counsel Jack Smith will indict former President Donald Trump and other political organizers of the Jan. It is possible the Justice Department is becoming increasingly confident in its ability to win complex Jan. Followers of two extremist groups have now been convicted of seditious conspiracy: Oath Keepers in March, and yesterday, Proud Boys. But more than 400 have faced prosecution for higher-level crimes, and at least 237 have been sentenced to prison.Second, Thursday’s conviction hints at prosecutions that may come. As of April, law enforcement had arrested 1,020 people for participating in the Capitol assault. Most of those brought to trial have faced only minor charges.
First, it’s a symbol of the grinding Justice Department effort to hold accountable those responsible for Jan. government.The verdict is important for two reasons. The juror told Vice News that it was the Proud Boys’ own texts and messages that convinced the jury the men had engaged in seditious conspiracy – an effort to “overthrow, put down, or destroy by force” the U.S. and the fact they wanted to do so much in secret.”That’s what a juror said following Thursday’s conviction of four members of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group for plotting to attack the U.S.
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