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| 09-20-22 10:46am - 824 days | #401 | |
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Rep. Liz Cheney says Dangle Trump is not the King of the Untied States of Trumperland. Says that Dangle lost his bid for re-election, and that he can be prosecuted for breaking the law. Dangle Trump fires back: "I am the King. Until death do us part. And I will never allow cunts to criticize me. Grab them by the pussies, that's the way to treat women." ------ ------ Cheney says GOP leaders are treating Trump like a ‘king’ by defending him in Mar-a-Lago probe NBC Universal Scott Wong and Haley Talbot September 19, 2022, 6:27 PM WASHINGTON — Rep. Liz Cheney launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump and his allies Monday, accusing Republican leaders of treating the former president like a “king” by defending him at every turn in a federal investigation into classified documents stored at his Florida estate. “Those who are protecting Donald Trump — elected leaders of my party — are now willing to condemn FBI agents, Department of Justice officials, and pretend that taking top-secret SCI documents and keeping them in a desk drawer in an office in Mar-a-Lago, or in an unsecured location anywhere, was somehow not a problem. They are attempting to excuse this behavior,” Cheney, R-Wyo., said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. (SCI is short for “sensitive compartmented information.”) "Bit by bit, excuse by excuse, we’re putting Donald Trump above the law. We are rendering indefensible conduct normal, legal and appropriate — as though he were a king,” Cheney added, citing what she said was the willingness of some elected GOP officials to defend allegations of actions that touch on obstruction of justice. Cheney, a vocal Trump critic and the vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, has been shunned in some conservative circles. But on this day, she was the keynote speaker at the AEI’s annual Constitution Day lecture, where she got a standing ovation and laughter when she told a story about how a House GOP colleague had mocked Trump as “orange Jesus.” Cheney did not reveal the colleague's name. Both of Cheney’s parents — former Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynn Cheney — attended Monday's speech, as did Bush-era conservatives like Peter Wehner and Paul Wolfowitz, as well as Jeffrey Rosen, the former acting attorney general who refused Trump’s order to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election. Cheney, who lost her primary for another House term and is flirting with a 2024 presidential bid, warned that Trump is encouraging his supporters to turn to violence “to prevent his prosecution.” “It is hard to see this as anything but a direct threat to our Constitution, to our republic — and a credible one at that,” she said. “One can only wonder, is this where the Republican Party will go next? That prosecution is inappropriate, because MAGA will violently oppose it?" Rep. Liz Cheney, vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks during a Constitution Day lecture at American Enterprise Institute on September 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rep. Liz Cheney, vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks during a Constitution Day lecture at American Enterprise Institute on September 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Shortly before her speech, Cheney introduced election reform legislation with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., aimed at preventing another Jan. 6 attack or a future attempt to overturn a presidential election. The Presidential Election Reform Act would overhaul the Electoral Count Act, the archaic 1887 law that governs the counting of electoral votes, which Trump and his allies tried to halt in a bid to stay in power after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. The House could vote on the bill this week. But Cheney made it clear in her speech that the legislation is not meant to take the focus off Trump's action's. “No one should take our effort to reform the electoral count as any indication that Donald Trump did not violate the existing law or did not violate the Constitution,” she said. As she has done repeatedly over the past two years, Cheney knocked Trump for not calling off a mob of his supporters who were attacking police officers and hunting down members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6. She praised Pence for his actions that day; he called Defense Department officials for help and returned to the Capitol to finish certifying the election results. “Mike Pence was essentially the president for most of that day,” Cheney said. “White House staff knew it, and so did every other Republican and Democratic leader in Washington. How could Donald Trump’s refusal to act, his betrayal of our republic, of our Constitution, of our principles, come with no cost?” In a previously untold story, Cheney recounted how, on Jan. 6 before the violence, she was in the Republican cloakroom just off the House floor watching her GOP colleagues sign sheets of paper to object to the 2020 election results for states like Arizona and Pennsylvania. “And as I was sitting there, a member came in and he signed his name on each one of the state’s sheets. And then he said under his breath, ‘The things we do for the orange Jesus,’” Cheney said, sparking some laughter from the audience. “And I thought, you know, you’re taking an act that is unconstitutional.” | |
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| 09-20-22 07:15pm - 824 days | #402 | |
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Dangle Trump screams: Political bias. Give me a special master who will be fair. A fair special master will know, ipso facto, that I am the Son of God, who can do no wrong. Therefore, the federal government can not sue me. Or take my documents away. The documents belong to ME! I am the Son of God. Bow down before me, you sons of Satan. Or I will send you to Hell!!!! The special master said: "My view is you can’t have your cake and eat it." But as the Son of God, Dangle can eat his cake, and have it too. Dangle can perform miracles, just like Jesus. ----- ----- Special master in Mar-a-Lago case appears skeptical of Trump 'declassification' claims NBC Universal Dareh Gregorian and Adam Reiss and Tom Winter September 20, 2022, 3:46 PM The special master appointed to review documents federal agents seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate appeared doubtful Tuesday about Trump's contention that he had declassified the various top secret and other highly sensitive documents found there. The special master, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York, had asked Trump's attorneys for more information about which of the over 100 sensitive documents federal agents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach might have been declassified. Trump's attorneys had told the judge in a letter Monday night that they didn't want to disclose the information yet because it could force them to prematurely "disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment." At a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, Dearie noted that the case is a civil dispute, not a criminal one, but said he was taking the government's concerns about national security seriously. "Let's not belittle the fact that we are dealing with at least potentially legitimately classified information. The government has a very strong obligation, as do all of us, to see to it that that information doesn't get in the wrong hands," said Dearie, a former judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the New York federal court." While Trump's filing claimed neither side had provided a showing that the documents are classified, Dearie said the government had presented "prima facie evidence" that the documents are, because they bear classification markings. "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it," Dearie said, unless Trump's team has some evidence to the contrary. Trump has claimed on social media that he declassified all the records he had, but his lawyers have yet to formally make that argument in any sworn court filings. Trump attorney James Trusty maintained that "we should not be in a position to have to disclose declarations" and witness statements about the classification issue. Dearie suggested their not doing so could be problematic for their case. "My view is you can’t have your cake and eat it," Dearie said. Justice Department lawyer Julie Edelstein noted that some of the documents "are so sensitive that even members of the team that is investigating possible offenses here have not yet been provided the clearances to see these documents." She said that while Trusty has a top-secret clearance, even that "would not be sufficient to see a number of the documents at issue in this case." Trusty called Edelstein's argument "kind of astounding." "It's kind of an amazing juncture to be dismissive of even one attorney having access to the documents that form the justification for their raid," he said. Dearie told Trump's lawyer: "It is a matter of need to know. And if you need to know, you will know.” He also suggested he would try to avoid reviewing some of the most sensitive documents — and that he would keep Trump's lawyers from seeing them, too. "I don't want to see the material — it's presumably sensitive material," he said, adding that if he can make his recommendations to the judge who asked him for them "without exposing myself or to you to that material, I will do it." "On the other hand, if I can't, we have to take another alternative," he said. Dearie said he would issue a scheduling order later Tuesday and noted that "there are 11,000 documents" at issue, saying "we have a short period of time" to review them for privilege issues. Trusty urged Dearie not to move too quickly. He said Trump's team is “starting from scratch" and would benefit from having "the time to look at all the documents." U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-nominated judge in Florida, granted the former president's request to appoint a special master to review the evidence this month and ordered the Justice Department to halt the criminal investigation into the recovered documents while the review is pending. Cannon said a damage assessment into any mishandling of the documents could proceed, but the Justice Department said the criminal investigation is a necessary part of the assessment, and it appealed her order. In a court filing Tuesday, lawyers for Trump argued that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should reject the government's request to stay Cannon's ruling, calling the probe "both unprecedented and misguided" and characterizing it as "a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control." Trump's bid was backed in a filing to the appeals court by a coalition of 11 Republican attorneys general, who suggested the "ransacking" of Trump's home was politically motivated and argued that Cannon's order should be left as is because of the Biden administration's "gamesmanship." Most had backed a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results that was dismissed by the Supreme Court. | |
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| 09-20-22 07:23pm - 824 days | #403 | |
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Governor Ron DeSantis screams: "I have the right to traffic in illegal immigrants. As Gov. of the State of Florida, I can send illegal immigrants anywhere I want. I'm the Gov. That puts me right next to God, Almighty. Right next to Dangle Trump. Sleepy Joe Biden does not want to fight. He has invited Governor Ron DeSantis to visit his home state of Delaware, where they can share a meal at a local McDonald's. ---- ---- Migrants sue Florida governor over Martha's Vineyard flights Associated Press September 20, 2022, 5:58 PM BOSTON (AP) — Venezuelan migrants flown to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his transportation secretary Tuesday for engaging in a “fraudulent and discriminatory scheme” to relocate them. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, alleges that the migrants were told they were going to Boston or Washington, “which was completely false," and were induced with perks such as $10 McDonald's gift certificates. “No human being should be used as a political pawn,” said Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, which is seeking class-action status in the lawsuit filed on behalf of several migrants who were aboard last week's flights and Alianza Americas, a network of advocacy groups. DeSantis' office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit, which also names Secretary of Transportation Jared W. Perdue as a defendant. The lawsuit alleges that migrants were induced to cross state lines under false pretenses, a line that some Democratic officials are using to urge a federal investigation. On Monday, Javier Salazar, the sheriff of Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, opened an investigation into the flights, but the elected Democrat did not say what laws may have been broken. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, whose district includes San Antonio, have asked the Justice Department to begin a probe. Guesswork was rampant among government officials, advocates and journalists Tuesday about DeSantis’ next move, consistent with the element of surprise that he and another Republican governor, Greg Abbott of Texas, have sought to achieve by busing and flying migrants across the country to Democratic strongholds with little or no notice. Asked Tuesday about speculation that DeSantis may send migrants to his home state of Delaware, President Joe Biden said: “He should come visit. We have a beautiful shoreline.” DeSantis declined to confirm speculation, based on flight-tracking software, that more migrants were on the move. He again defended his decision to fly about 50 Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard, saying their decisions were completely voluntary and, without evidence, that they were in awful condition when Florida got involved. | |
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| 09-21-22 03:11am - 823 days | #404 | |
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Vlad Putin is not bluffing. He says he will send nuclear missiles against his enemies in the world. Sleepy Joe Biden is struggling to wake up to this new threat. Can Sleepy Joe Biden avert the crisis? Can he stop Putin from sending nuclear missiles to the Untied States of Trumperland? Or will he continue to sleep, while Putin puts the entire world in danger? Should Biden ask Dangle Trump for help, to stop Putin? Or can Biden make the first move, and send the Untied States of Trumperland missiles first, to destroy the Russian threat? Putin has also vowed to use nuclear weapons against Russians who are resisting the war in Ukraine. "We will liberate Ukraine, in the blood of Russians and its enemies everywhere", Putin screams with anger. "And then Dangle Trump, my bestest buddy, will come to Russia to see our triumph." ----- ----- Putin mobilizes more troops for Ukraine war, threatens West with nuclear retaliation NBC Universal Yuliya Talmazan and Patrick Smith September 21, 2022, 1:21 AM Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of his country’s military Wednesday, calling up reservists in a significant escalation of his war in Ukraine after battlefield setbacks left the Kremlin facing growing pressure to act. In a rare national address, the Russian leader also backed plans for Russia to annex occupied areas of southern and eastern Ukraine, appearing to threaten nuclear retaliation if Kyiv continues its efforts to reclaim that land. The speech came just a day after after four Russian-controlled areas announced they would stage votes this week on breaking away from Ukraine and joining Russia, in a plan Kyiv and its Western allies dismissed as a desperate “sham” aimed at deterring a successful counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops. Vowing that Russia would use all the means at its disposal to protect what it considers its territory, Putin accused the West of nuclear blackmail and warned: “I am not bluffing.” The Russian leader's words came hours after he was widely expected to speak Tuesday night. It wasn't clear why his speech was delayed. Speaking after Putin, defense minister Sergei Shoigu said an initial 300,000 reservists would be called up. Only Russian citizens who are currently in reserve and have previous military experience will be subject to mobilization, Putin said. Those called up will also undergo additional training, he added, with the mobilization starting immediately. Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said in response: "Sham referenda and mobilization are signs of weakness, of Russian failure." "The United States will never recognize Russia’s claim to purportedly annexed Ukrainian territory, and we will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes," she said. Putin has resisted calls from nationalist supporters and pro-military bloggers for a general mobilization since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. On Wednesday, the Russian leader stopped short of that step — which could have significantly boosted his ailing forces, but would likely take time and could also have proven unpopular with a public the Kremlin has sought to insulate from the effects of the war. It remains to be seen how the announcement of partial mobilization will be received by regular Russians. 'Sham’ votes The sudden flurry of activity signaled that the Kremlin intends to not just dig in but to ramp up its efforts in a conflict that has dragged on for nearly seven months and recently tilted away from its forces. Its public backers have delighted in the prospect of an “all-out war” and a new confrontation with the West. Russian-backed separatist officials in the eastern areas of Luhansk and Donetsk, as well as the southern Kherson region and the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia, announced Tuesday that they would hold votes on formally joining Russia over four days starting Friday. It wasn’t clear if the proposed annexation would cover the entire territory of the provinces or only the areas currently occupied by Russian forces. Russia’s parliament also approved a bill to toughen punishments for a host of crimes, including desertion and surrender, if they are committed during periods of mobilization or martial law. The swift developments came just a week after Ukraine successfully reclaimed swaths of territory in its northeast, in what many observers said could be a decisive shift in the conflict. Kyiv's military has been pressing to make further gains in Luhansk and Donetsk, which together form the industrial Donbas region that Moscow has made its primary goal since failing to seize the capital, Kyiv. And it has also been waging a simultaneous second counteroffensive in the south in an effort to wear down gathered Russian forces around the strategically important city of Kherson and the Black Sea coast. The Kremlin has insisted that what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine is going according to plan, but military observers have said Russian forces are depleted and increasingly dispirited. Under growing pressure, Putin has now acted — though it was unclear how the moves will have an immediate impact on the ground. Kyiv has been boosted by Western-supplied weapons, including long-range rocket systems supplied by the U.S., leading voices on Russian state media to argue that the country is fighting not just Ukraine but NATO as well. Washington and its allies vowed to stand by Kyiv on Tuesday and condemned the planned votes as a “sham” they would never recognize. Russia held a vote to annex the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, with most of the international community rejecting the results. But this time, the referendums come amid a full-scale invasion with which Putin seems determined to press ahead. | |
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| 09-21-22 03:26am - 823 days | #405 | |
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Dangle Trump's lawyers invoke the 1000-year-rule. Say that the documents Dangle stole from the Whitest House are sealed by the Presidental Powers for 1000 years. After the 1000 years are ended, the federal government will then have the ability to look at the papers. But until then, the papers belong to Dangle. The fightenest President of the Untied States of Trumperland the world has ever seen. End of case. The federal lawyers are scrambling to think of new ways to harass our fightenest president, but Dangle stands firm. Trump's lawyers also said none of the papers are classified. And if the papers have classified marking on them, maybe the FBI printed fake classification marks on the papers, to make Dangle look guilty. And Dangle is innocent until proven guilty. And Dangle is above the law, since he is the Annointed Son of God. Dangle's lawyers want to move the case to the Supremest Court, where Trump stacked the Court with judges that love Dangle Trump. ----- ----- Special master in Mar-a-Lago case appears skeptical of Trump 'declassification' claims NBC Universal Dareh Gregorian and Adam Reiss and Tom Winter September 20, 2022, 5:46 PM The special master appointed to review documents federal agents seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate appeared doubtful Tuesday about Trump's contention that he had declassified the various top secret and other highly sensitive documents found there. The special master, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York, had asked Trump's attorneys for more information about which of the over 100 sensitive documents federal agents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach might have been declassified. Trump's attorneys had told the judge in a letter Monday night that they didn't want to disclose the information yet because it could force them to prematurely "disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment." At a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, Dearie noted that the case is a civil dispute, not a criminal one, but said he was taking the government's concerns about national security seriously. "Let's not belittle the fact that we are dealing with at least potentially legitimately classified information. The government has a very strong obligation, as do all of us, to see to it that that information doesn't get in the wrong hands," said Dearie, a former judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the New York federal court." While Trump's filing claimed neither side had provided a showing that the documents are classified, Dearie said the government had presented "prima facie evidence" that the documents are, because they bear classification markings. "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it," Dearie said, unless Trump's team has some evidence to the contrary. Trump has claimed on social media that he declassified all the records he had, but his lawyers have yet to formally make that argument in any sworn court filings. Image: Special Master Raymond Dearie Holds Hearing On Classified Documents From Trump Home (Alex Kent / Getty Images) Image: Special Master Raymond Dearie Holds Hearing On Classified Documents From Trump Home (Alex Kent / Getty Images) Trump attorney James Trusty maintained that "we should not be in a position to have to disclose declarations" and witness statements about the classification issue. Dearie suggested their not doing so could be problematic for their case. "My view is you can’t have your cake and eat it," Dearie said. Justice Department lawyer Julie Edelstein noted that some of the documents "are so sensitive that even members of the team that is investigating possible offenses here have not yet been provided the clearances to see these documents." She said that while Trusty has a top-secret clearance, even that "would not be sufficient to see a number of the documents at issue in this case." Trusty called Edelstein's argument "kind of astounding." "It's kind of an amazing juncture to be dismissive of even one attorney having access to the documents that form the justification for their raid," he said. Dearie told Trump's lawyer: "It is a matter of need to know. And if you need to know, you will know.” He also suggested he would try to avoid reviewing some of the most sensitive documents — and that he would keep Trump's lawyers from seeing them, too. "I don't want to see the material — it's presumably sensitive material," he said, adding that if he can make his recommendations to the judge who asked him for them "without exposing myself or to you to that material, I will do it." "On the other hand, if I can't, we have to take another alternative," he said. Dearie said he would issue a scheduling order later Tuesday and noted that "there are 11,000 documents" at issue, saying "we have a short period of time" to review them for privilege issues. Trusty urged Dearie not to move too quickly. He said Trump's team is “starting from scratch" and would benefit from having "the time to look at all the documents." U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-nominated judge in Florida, granted the former president's request to appoint a special master to review the evidence this month and ordered the Justice Department to halt the criminal investigation into the recovered documents while the review is pending. Cannon said a damage assessment into any mishandling of the documents could proceed, but the Justice Department said the criminal investigation is a necessary part of the assessment, and it appealed her order. In a court filing Tuesday, lawyers for Trump argued that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should reject the government's request to stay Cannon's ruling, calling the probe "both unprecedented and misguided" and characterizing it as "a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control." Trump's bid was backed in a filing to the appeals court by a coalition of 11 Republican attorneys general, who suggested the "ransacking" of Trump's home was politically motivated and argued that Cannon's order should be left as is because of the Biden administration's "gamesmanship." Most had backed a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results that was dismissed by the Supreme Court. More From NBC Universal: | |
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| 09-21-22 03:40am - 823 days | #406 | |
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Adam Levine denies physical affair with a model. Says he was faithful to his wife. But says he has agreed to marriage counseling with Dangle Trump, the man of many affairs. "Dangle is my hero. He knows how to treat a women. He's fathered children with different women. I want to follow in Dangle's footsteps," screams Adam Levine. I've seen photographs of Sumner Stroh, so I can understand if Adam Levine stepped out for a little nooky. Sumner has a stunning body. ----- ----- Adam Levine denies physical affair, but admits he 'crossed the line' with Sumner Stroh Yahoo Celebrity Taryn Ryder September 20, 2022, 8:37 AM Adam Levine broke his silence on Tuesday about rumors he cheated on wife Behati Prinsloo with Instagram model Sumner Stroh. The Maroon 5 frontman denied Stroh's claim they had a year-long affair, but admitted he "crossed the line" with flirty messages. Levine's statement comes one week after Prinsloo confirmed the couple is expecting their third child. "A lot is being said about me right now and I want to clear the air. I used poor judgment in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner. I did not have an affair, nevertheless, I crossed the line during a regrettable period of my life," Levine said in a statement on his Instagram story. "In certain instances it became inappropriate. I have addressed that and taken proactive steps to remedy this with my family." Levine, who wed Prinsloo in 2014, went on to apologize to his family. He and the Victoria's Secret model are parents to daughters Gio Grace, 4, and Dusty Rose, 5. "My wife and my family is all I care about in this world. To be this naive and stupid enough to risk the only thing that truly matters to me was the greatest mistake I could ever make," Levine continued. "I will never make it again. I take full responsibility. We will get through it and we will get through it together." Yahoo Entertainment reached out to Stroh after Levine's statement, but did not immediately receive a response. Levine didn't address one of Stroh's more surprising allegations — that the singer asked if he could name his unborn child after her. The Instagram model came forward on Monday and alleged she had an affair with Levine. Stroh said she was going public as a friend was trying to sell the story to a tabloid. "Essentially, I was having an affair with a man who's married to a Victoria's Secret model. At the time, you know, I was young, I was naive, and, I mean quite frankly, I feel exploited," Stroh began in a now-viral TikTok. Stroh, who said she was "easily manipulated," shared alleged Instagram DMs with Levine in which he purportedly wrote, "It is truly unreal how f***ing hot you are... like it blows my mind." It's unclear when the supposed messages were sent. "Adam and I were seeing each other for about a year," she continued. "After I stopped talking to him for a period of months, this is how he came back into my life." Stroh then showed an alleged DM from Levine on June 1 that reads: "Ok serious question. I'm having another baby and if it's [a] boy I really wanna name it Sumner. You ok with that? DEAD serious." People reported two weeks ago that Prinsloo was pregnant with her and Levine's third child. It's unclear how far along the model is and if this timing would add up. Stroh added that she "never wanted to come forward" about the alleged affair. "Being tied to a story like this... I know the stereotypes," she said. Stroh added that she "recklessly" sent screenshots from Levine to a few friends, one of whom supposedly shopped the story. Stroh addressed the affair claims again on her Instagram Story on Monday. "Aware people are going to try to fill in the gaps with many false assumptions. I don't feel like I'm doing any favors considering the manner this had to go about. It's a lot to digest but hopefully, at the very least, the truth being out can do some good," she wrote on Monday. Stroh claimed to Page Six that the alleged "physical" affair took place "last year" when she "graduated college in 2021." Prinsloo has yet to address the scandal. | |
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| 09-21-22 08:06am - 823 days | #407 | |
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Dangle Trump now being sued for rape. Dangle's lawyers fight back, saying to ignore the suit because it might harm Dangle's reputation for treating women with the respect they deserve. Dangle is famous for teaching men that the best way to treat a woman is to grab her by the pussy. But not all women agree with this approach. So it's a case of conservatives versus liberals: and in this case, Dangle goes with a liberal view of conservatives mens rights under the law. ----- ----- Trump rape accuser plans suit under new N.Y. 'survivors' law Associated Press LARRY NEUMEISTER September 21, 2022, 7:10 AM NEW YORK (AP) — A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room intends to file another lawsuit against him under a new New York law letting sexual assault victims sue over attacks that happened decades ago. A lawyer for the columnist, E. Jean Carroll, notified a federal judge of her intent to sue in an August letter entered in the public record Tuesday. The suit would allege sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In the letter, the lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, also said she plans to depose Trump in the defamation case that Carroll already had pending against the former president. The deposition would have to occur by Oct. 19, when discovery in the case must be completed for a planned February trial. Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In an Aug. 11 letter to the court that was also posted in the public file Tuesday, she objected to the new lawsuit. Habba wrote that letting Carroll file the new claim now “would be extraordinarily prejudicial” to Trump, given the looming trial deadlines in the defamation case. “To permit Plaintiff to drastically alter the scope and subject matter of this case at such time would severely prejudice Defendant’s rights. Therefore, Plaintiff’s request must be disregarded in its entirety,” Habba said. Kaplan declined to comment. Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, wrote in a 2019 book that Trump raped her during a chance encounter at a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s. Trump denied it and questioned Carroll’s credibility and motivations. Because the alleged attack happened so long ago, Carroll would ordinarily have missed legal deadlines to sue Trump. So she initially sued him instead for defamation, saying he smeared her reputation while denying the rape allegation. Last spring, however, New York lawmakers passed the Adult Survivor's Act, which provides a one-year “look back” that enables adult survivors of sexual attacks to bring civil claims when they otherwise would be barred. The law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in May, was modeled after the Child Victims Act, which provided a similar window to bring lawsuits for people who had been sexually assaulted when they were children. That law expired a year ago. A deposition would require Trump to answer questions from Carroll's lawyers under oath about her allegations. Carroll's legal team in February had said they were willing to skip a deposition in order to get the lawsuit to trial more quickly. Kaplan, in her letter to the court, said she now needed to question Trump because his lawyers had turned over so few documents relevant to the case. In her letter to the court, Habba made no mention of the plans to depose Trump, but she did complain that Kaplan's letter was “filled with misrepresentations and inflammatory statements.” | |
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| 09-21-22 10:02am - 823 days | #408 | |
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Celebs come out speaking about the alleged Adam Levine cheating scandal. But not to worry: the celebs don't know any real dirt: they're just talking about cheating in general. And whether they believe Adam Levine or not. But once Dangle Trump starts tweeting about the affair, then we'll be able to read the real truth. Edit: Dangle was banned from Twitter. So we'll have to wait until Dangle gets his Twitter account re-instated, or Dangle buys a newspaper and is able to publish his take on the cheaters. ---- ---- This story has taken its toll on pop culture fans. On Sept. 19, Adam Levine denied claims that he cheated on wife Behati Prinsloo with Instagram model Sumner Stroh. "I used poor judgment in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner," the Maroon 5 frontman said. "I did not have an affair, nevertheless." And after Adam spoke out on social media, other stars appeared to weigh in on the situation and share their own two cents. "When apologizing for cheating publicly, I hate the we will get through it together part from a man," Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause, whose marriage to Justin Hartley ended in 2019, wrote on Twitter. "Don't speak for her. You've done enough." Sara Foster took to TikTok and slammed both Adam and Sumner for their part in the drama. "Cheating is so gross," she said. "This woman who chose to make a viral TikTok video…putting it out there for the world to see for a pregnant woman to see when she could have just messaged her privately…We don't feel sorry for you. You knew this man was married and you participated." Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo's Cutest Pics Meanwhile, Emily Ratajkowkski, who filed for divorce from husband Sebastian Bear-McClard earlier this month, believes Sumner is also a victim. "I don't understand why we continue to blame women for men's mistakes, especially when you're talking about 20 something year old women dealing with men in positions of power who are twice their age," she said in response to Sara's TikTok. "Also, if you're the one in a relationship, you're the one obligated to be loyal so the whole other woman to blame, that's bad and it's literally designed to keep women apart." On Sept. 19, Sumner, 23, shared allegations about her affair with Adam, 43. While the influencer said that she never wanted to come forward with her story, she decided to speak out after "recklessly" sending screenshots to friends she thought she could trust. According to Sumner, one of them had attempted to sell her story to a tabloid. | |
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| 09-21-22 11:10am - 823 days | #409 | |
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The US government of Trumperland has asked the court to stop Dangle Trump from viewing the documents the FBI stole from Dangle's home in Florida. This is not right. Dangle took the documents from the Whitest House while he was still President of the Untied States of Trumplerland. Those documents belonged to him. Possession is 9 tenths of the law. And the FBI, by an underhanded trick, came into Dangle's home and stole the documents, while Dangle was away. Give the documents back to Dangle, and stop the federal government from infringing on the rights of its citizens. Also, some documents have a classified marking. But the FBI, which is known for its thievery and trickery, might have stamped the documents itself, as a ploy to harm Dangle. The FBI needs to be investigated for corruption and fraud and general thievery. Drain the swamp in Washington. Dangle is a man of bravery and honor. And Raymond Dearie, who was appointed special master, is more concerned with eating cake than trying to uphold Dangle Trump's honor. -------- -------- U.S. urges appeals court to block Trump from reviewing classified records Sarah N. Lynch Wed, September 21, 2022 at 8:16 AM By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump has failed to provide evidence he declassified any records the FBI seized from his Florida estate and he is not entitled to review them or have them returned, the U.S. Justice Department has argued to a federal appeals court. Prosecutors have asked the Atlanta-based appellate court to lift a stay by U.S. District Judge Alieen Cannon that bars them from using any of the classified materials in their ongoing criminal investigation until after an independent arbiter called a special master completes a review to weed out any documents that could be privileged. Of the more than 11,000 documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, about 100 have classified markings. "Plaintiff again implies that he could have declassified the records before leaving office. As before, however, Plaintiff conspicuously fails to represent, much less show, that he actually took that step," the Justice Department's attorneys wrote in a filing late Tuesday, referring to the former Republican president, who sued the department after the FBI carried out the search at his Florida home and country club. The government's latest filing came just hours after U.S. Judge Raymond Dearie, who was appointed by Cannon as special master, pressed Trump's attorneys at a hearing in Brooklyn to provide him with evidence that Trump had actually declassified some of the seized materials. "If the government gives me prima facie evidence (a legal term meaning a fact is presumed to be true unless disproved) that this is classified, and you decide not to advance a claim of declassification ... as far as I'm concerned that's the end of it," Dearie told them. "You can't have your cake and eat it." Federal prosecutors in their filing to the appeals court highlighted that Trump's attorneys had resisted Dearie's request. Dearie was appointed at Trump's request, and Cannon tasked him with reviewing all of the materials, including classified ones, so that he can separate anything that could be subject to attorney-client privilege or executive privilege - a legal doctrine that shields some White House communications from disclosure. The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation of Trump for retaining government records, some marked as highly classified including top secret, at Mar-a-Lago after leaving office in January 2021. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has said without providing evidence that the investigation is a partisan attack. As one of his defenses, Trump has claimed on social media posts without evidence that he declassified the records. However, his lawyers have not made such claims in any of their legal filings. "Plaintiff’s effort to raise questions about classification status is a red herring," prosecutors told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in their late-night filing Tuesday. "Even if plaintiff could show that he declassified the records at issue, there would still be no justification for restricting the government’s use of evidence at the center of an ongoing criminal investigation." Trump is a former president and the records do not belong to him. However, prosecutors did not directly appeal that portion of Cannon's order. The department's attorneys previously determined that they believed Trump as a former president cannot assert executive privilege over the sitting president, Joe Biden. It is still unclear how the conservative-leaning 11th circuit, which has 6 out of 11 Trump-appointed judges, will rule, and the court has not yet revealed which three of its judges will take up the Justice Department's appeal. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump's lawyers filed their response to the department's appeal, urging the court to keep the stay in place and to allow them under Dearie's supervision to review all of the seized materials, including those marked classified. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Scott Malone and Mark Porter) | |
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| 09-21-22 05:23pm - 823 days | #410 | |
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Republicans want to make sure elections are valid. But they don't want changes that oppose the Jan 06 riots that tried to keep Sleepy Joe Biden out of the Whitest House. The GOP still want the chance to keep Dangle Trump in office, even when the voters vote to put a Democrat in office. "Stay true to your party", screams Dangle Trump, waving the flag of Adolf Hitler. And the GOP cheers loudly. ---- ---- House passes bill to prevent stolen elections, despite strong GOP opposition NBC Universal Sahil Kapur and Kyle Stewart and Haley Talbot and Julie Tsirkin September 21, 2022, 2:30 PM WASHINGTON — The House voted 229-203 on Wednesday to pass a bill aimed at preventing future election subversion, inspired by the investigation into Jan. 6 and a determination to prevent such an attack from occurring again. The Presidential Election Reform Act was written and introduced earlier this week by Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., two members of the Jan. 6 select committee. The bill would amend the 1887 Electoral Count Act to remove any doubt that the vice president's role in counting Electoral College votes is simply ministerial. It would lift the threshold for members of Congress to force a vote on discounting presidential electors from just one member of the House and the Senate each to one-third of both chambers. And it would require governors to send electors to Congress for the candidate who won, based on state law set before Election Day, which cannot be retroactively changed. Democrats unanimously supported the bill and were joined by just nine Republicans; 203 Republicans voted “no.” The nine GOP “yes” votes came from Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, Chris Jacobs of New York, John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Peter Meijer of Michigan, Tom Rice of South Carolina and Fred Upton of Michigan. All nine are retiring from Congress or lost their primaries. Cheney, who has lost favor in her party for her sharp criticism of former President Donald Trump and participation in the Jan. 6 committee, had urged fellow Republicans to support the measure. "If your aim is to prevent future efforts to steal elections, I would respectfully suggest that conservatives should support this bill," Cheney said on the floor. "If instead, your aim is to leave open the door for elections to be stolen in the future, you might decide not to support this or any other bill to address the Electoral Count Act." House Republican leaders pressured their members to vote against the bill. In an email to Republican offices, they called it "the Democrats’ latest attempt at a federal takeover of elections." Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chairs the Jan. 6 committee, called GOP opposition to the bill “sad.” “I’m not surprised at anything they do. It’s unfortunate. Because we are a better country than what we saw on Jan. 6,” he said. The legislation now goes to the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, has spent months working on a similar bill that will be reviewed by the Senate Rules Committee next Tuesday. It currently has 20 co-sponsors — 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats, enough to reach the 60-vote threshold to pass if Democrats unify behind it. The Senate bill includes some differences. For instance, the threshold to vote on an objection is one-fifth, rather than one-third in the House-passed bill. The House bill also allows candidates to sue in federal court to enforce the lawful certification, which numerous Senate Republicans say is a nonstarter. “I think once people get an opportunity to see what our bill encompasses versus the Senate bill, I think you’d see people moving to our side,” Thompson told reporters. Collins said she has “issues” with the House legislation, including on the objection threshold. “There’s some misunderstandings by the House of what certain provisions, such as the definition of a failed election, would actually do,” she said. But she remained optimistic that they can resolve the issues. “I don’t think we’re as far apart as the House is portraying it,” she added. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Rules Committee, told NBC News she's "very proud" of the Senate legislation. She said she has been texting and speaking with Lofgren about the way forward and “we all have a common goal of passing a bill by the end of the year.” "As you know, it's harder to pass things in the Senate. We basically have a 60-vote threshold in place. I would change that, but that's what we have," Klobuchar said in an interview. "And the fact that we came together like this is very important." Klobuchar said she and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the ranking member of the committee, are working on getting "consensus on some additional changes to the bill ... some of which are in the House bill." Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said Wednesday he would support the election bill if it stays narrow and "addresses the issues that I know they were specifically looking at fixing." He said it must not include additional items like federal voting rights measures. "My understanding is they really tried to narrow it to just those things that apply specifically to the Electoral Count Act and those particular areas of it that have been problematic," Thune said. | |
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| 09-21-22 05:33pm - 823 days | #411 | |
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Ohio GOP House candidate accused of misleading representations. In other words, he lies to impress people. Just like Dangle Trump. ---- ---- Ohio GOP House candidate misrepresented military service Associated Press BRIAN SLODYSKO and JAMES LAPORTA September 21, 2022, 1:27 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, Republican J.R. Majewski presents himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, once describing “tough” conditions including a lack of running water that forced him to go more than 40 days without a shower. Military documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request tell a different story. They indicate Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan but instead completed a six-month stint helping to load planes at an air base in Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally that is a safe distance from the fighting. Majewski's account of his time in the military is just one aspect of his biography that is suspect. His post-military career has been defined by exaggerations, conspiracy theories, talk of violent action against the U.S. government and occasional financial duress. Still, thanks to an unflinching allegiance to former President Donald Trump — Majewski once painted a massive Trump mural on his lawn — he also stands a chance of defeating longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in a district recently redrawn to favor Republicans. Majewski is among a cluster of GOP candidates, most running for office for the first time, whose unvarnished life stories and hard-right politics could diminish the chances of a Republican “red wave” on Election Day in November. He is also a vivid representation of a new breed of politicians who reject facts as they try to emulate Trump. “It bothers me when people trade on their military service to get elected to office when what they are doing is misleading the people they want to vote for them,” Don Christensen, a retired colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Air Force, said of Majewski. “Veterans have done so much for this country and when you claim to have done what your brothers and sisters in arms actually did to build up your reputation, it is a disservice.” Majewski's campaign declined to make him available for an interview and, in a lengthy statement issued to the AP, did not directly address questions about his claim of deploying to Afghanistan. A spokeswoman declined to provide additional comment when the AP followed up with additional questions. “I am proud to have served my country,” Majewski said in the statement. “My accomplishments and record are under attack, meanwhile, career politician Marcy Kaptur has a forty-year record of failure for my Toledo community, which is why I’m running for Congress.” With no previous political experience, Majewski is perhaps an unlikely person to be the Republican nominee taking on Kaptur, who has represented the Toledo area since 1983. But two state legislators who were also on the ballot in the August GOP primary split the establishment vote. That cleared a path for Majewski, who previously worked in the nuclear power industry and dabbled in politics as a pro-Trump hip-hop performer and promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory. He was also at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Throughout his campaign Majewski has offered his Air Force service as a valuable credential. The tagline “veteran for Congress” appears on campaign merchandise. He ran a Facebook ad promoting himself as “combat veteran.” And in a campaign video released this year, Majewski marauds through a vacant factory with a rifle while pledging to restore an America that is “independent and strong like the country I fought for.” More recently, the House Republican campaign committee released a biography that describes Majewski as a veteran whose “squadron was one of the first on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11.” A campaign ad posted online Tuesday by Majewski supporters flashed the words “Afghanistan War Veteran” across the screen alongside a picture of a younger Majewski in his dress uniform. A biography posted on his campaign website does not mention Afghanistan, but in an August 2021 tweet criticizing the U.S. withdraw from the country, Majewski said he would “gladly suit up and go back to Afghanistan.” He's been far less forthcoming when asked about the specifics of his service. “I don’t like talking about my military experience,” he said in a 2021 interview on the One American Podcast after volunteering that he served one tour of duty in Afghanistan. “It was a tough time in life. You know, the military wasn’t easy.” A review of his service records, which the AP obtained from the National Archives through a public records request, as well as an accounting provided by the Air Force, offers a possible explanation for his hesitancy. Rather than deploying to Afghanistan, as he has claimed, the records state that Majewski was based at Kadena Air Base in Japan for much of his active-duty service. He later deployed for six months to Qatar in May 2002, where he helped load and unload planes while serving as a "passenger operations specialist,” the records show. While based in Qatar, Majewski would land at other air bases to transfer military passengers, medics, supplies, his campaign said. The campaign did not answer a direct question about whether he was ever in Afghanistan. Experts argue Majewski’s description of himself as a “combat veteran” is also misleading. The term can evoke images of soldiers storming a beachhead or finding refuge during a firefight. But under the laws and regulations of the U.S. government, facing live fire has little to do with someone earning the title. During the Persian Gulf War, then-President George H.W. Bush designated, for the first time, countries used as combat support areas as combat zones despite the low-risk of American service members ever facing hostilities. That helped veterans receive a favorable tax status. Qatar, which is now home to the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, was among the countries that received the designation under Bush's executive order — a status that remains in effect today. Regardless, it rankles some when those seeking office offer their status as a combat veteran as a credential to voters without explaining that it does not mean that they came under hostile fire. “As somebody who was in Qatar, I do not consider myself a combat veteran,” said Christensen, the retired Air Force colonel who now runs Protect Our Defenders, a military watchdog organization. “I think that would be offensive to those who were actually engaged in combat and Iraq and Afghanistan.” Majewski's campaign said that he calls himself a combat veteran because the area he deployed to — Qatar — is considered a combat zone. Majewski also lacks many of the medals that are typically awarded to those who served in Afghanistan. Though he once said that he went more than 40 days without a shower during his time in the landlocked country, he does not have an Afghanistan campaign medal, which was issued to those who served “30 consecutive days or 60 nonconsecutive days" in the country. He also did not receive a Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, which was issued to service members before the creation of the Afghanistan campaign medal if they deployed overseas in “direct service to the War on Terror.” Matthew Borie, an Air Force veteran who worked in intelligence and reviewed Majewski’s records at AP’s request said it's “odd” that Majewski lacks many of the “medals you would expect to see for someone who deployed to Afghanistan." There’s also the matter of Majewski’s final rank and reenlistment code when he left active duty after four years of service. Most leave the service after four years having received several promotions that are generally awarded for time served. Majewski exited at a rank that was one notch above where he started. His enlistment code also indicated that he could not sign up with the Air Force again. Majewski's campaign said he received what's called a nonjudicial punishment in 2001 after getting into a "brawl" in his dormitory, which resulted in a demotion. Nonjudicial punishments are designed to hold service members accountable for bad behavior that does not rise to the level of a court-martial. Majewski's resume exaggeration isn't limited to his military service, reverberating throughout his professional life, as well as a nascent political career that took shape in an online world of conspiracy theories. Since gaining traction in his campaign for Congress, Majewski has denied that he is a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory while playing down his participation in Capitol riot. The baseless and apocalyptic QAnon belief is based on cryptic online postings by the anonymous “Q,” who is purportedly a government insider. It posits that Trump is fighting entrenched enemies in the government and also involves satanism and child sex trafficking. “Let me be clear, I denounce QAnon. I do not support Q, and I do not subscribe to their conspiracy theories," Majewski said in his statement to the AP. But in the past Majewski repeatedly posted QAnon references and memes to social media, wore a QAnon shirt during a TV interview and has described Zak Paine, a QAnon influencer and online personality who goes by the nom de guerre Redpill78, as a “good friend.” | |
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| 09-21-22 05:36pm - 823 days | #412 | |
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Article continues: During a February 2021 appearance on a YouTube stream, Majewsk stated, “I believe in everything that’s been put out from Q,” while characterizing the false posts as “military-level intelligence, in my opinion.” He also posted to the defunct right wing social media platform, Parler, a photo of the “Trump 2020” mural he painted on his lawn that was modified to change the zeros into “Q's,” as first reported by CNN. Then there's Majewski's participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Majewski has said that he raised about $25,000 to help dozens of people attend the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol. He also traveled to the event with his friend Paine, the QAnon influencer, and the two later appeared in social media postings near the Capitol. Majewski acknowledged he was outside the Capitol, but denies entering the building. Still, he lamented the decision on a QAnon livestream a week after the attack, stating that he was “pissed off at myself” for not going in to the building. “It was a struggle, because I really wanted to go in,” Majewski said on the livestream, which was first unearthed by the liberal group Media Matters. Majewski has not been charged in connection with the attack. But he has falsely stated that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and said that the insurrection “felt like a setup” by police who were targeting Trump supporters. In his statement, Majewski said, “I deeply regret being at the Capitol that day" and “did not break the law," while calling for those who did to be “punished to the fullest extent of the law.” The mischaracterizations extend to his professional career, in which he has repeatedly described himself as an “executive in the nuclear power industry,” including in a campaign ad last spring. But a review of his now-deleted resume on the website LinkedIn and a survey of his former employers do not support the claim. He most recently worked for Holtec International, a Florida-based energy conglomerate that specializes in handling spent nuclear fuel. But he is not listed among the executives and members of the corporate leadership teams in current or archived versions of the company's website. A spokesman confirmed Majewski was a former Holtec employee, but declined to offer details on his position or role, which Majewski's LinkedIn page described as “senior director, client relations.” Majewski's campaign declined to address his claim of being an executive, but said he participated in weekly conference calls with executives. Majewski also described himself on LinkedIn as “project manager - senior consultant” for First Energy, an Ohio based power company, a position that he stated he held since shortly after leaving the military. The company, Majewski explained in a biography posted to his website, quickly recognized him for his “intellect and leadership capabilities” Yet records from his 2009 bankruptcy raise questions about his seniority. They show he was an “outage manager” who earned about $51,000 a year. In the bankruptcy, Majewski and his wife gave up their home, two cars and a Jet Ski to settle the case, court records show. Still, in a nationalized political environment, some Republicans suggest none of this will matter to voters. “At the end of the day, this will be a question of whether they want Nancy Pelosi leading the House or Kevin McCarthy,” said Tom Davis, a former congressman who led the House Republican campaign arm during George W. Bush's presidency. “These elections have become less about the person. I wouldn't say candidates don’t matter, but they don’t matter like they used to." ___ LaPorta reported from Wilmington, North Carolina. AP investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report. | |
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| 09-21-22 06:35pm - 823 days | #413 | |
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Court lifts hold on Mar-a-Lago records ----- ----- Trump docs probe: Court lifts hold on Mar-a-Lago records Associated Press Jill Colvin September 21, 2022, 5:06 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stark repudiation of Donald Trump's legal arguments, a federal appeals court on Wednesday permitted the Justice Department to resume its use of classified records seized from the former president's Florida estate as part of its ongoing criminal investigation. The ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit amounts to an overwhelming victory for the Justice Department, clearing the way for investigators to continue scrutinizing the documents as they consider whether to bring criminal charges over the storage of of top-secret records at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. In lifting a hold on a core aspect of the department's probe, the court removed an obstacle that could have delayed the investigation by weeks, if not months. The appeals court also pointedly noted that Trump had presented no evidence that he had declassified the sensitive records, as he has repeatedly maintained, and rejected the possibility that Trump could have an “individual interest in or need for” the roughly 100 documents with classification markings that were seized by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search of the Palm Beach property. The government had argued that its investigation had been impeded, and national security concerns swept aside, by an order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that temporarily barred investigators from continuing to use the documents in its inquiry. Cannon, a Trump appointee, had said the hold would remain in place pending a separate review by an independent arbiter she had appointed at the Trump team’s request to review the records. The appeals panel agreed with the Justice Department's concerns. "It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in ‘exceptionally grave damage to the national security,’” they wrote. “Ascertaining that,” they added, “necessarily involves reviewing the documents, determining who had access to them and when, and deciding which (if any) sources or methods are compromised.” An injunction that delayed or prevented the criminal investigation “from using classified materials risks imposing real and significant harm on the United States and the public,” they wrote. Two of the three judges who issued Wednesday’s ruling — Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher — were nominated to the 11th Circuit by Trump. Judge Robin Rosenbaum was nominated by former President Barack Obama. Lawyers for Trump did not return an email seeking comment on whether they would appeal the ruling. The Justice Department did not have an immediate comment. The FBI last month seized roughly 11,000 documents, including about 100 with classification markings, during a court-authorized search of the Palm Beach club. It has launched a criminal investigation into whether the records were mishandled or compromised, though is not clear whether Trump or anyone else will be charged. Cannon ruled on Sept. 5 that she would name an independent arbiter, or special master, to do an independent review of those records and segregate any that may be covered by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege and to determine whether any of the materials should be returned to Trump. Raymond Dearie, the former chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, has been named to the role and held his first meeting on Tuesday with lawyers for both sides. The Justice Department had argued that a special master review of the classified documents was not necessary. It said Trump had no plausible basis to invoke executive privilege over the documents, nor could the records be covered by attorney-client privilege because they do not involve communications between Trump and his lawyers. It had also contested Cannon's order requiring it to provide Dearie and Trump's lawyers with access to the classified material. The court sided with the Justice Department on Wednesday, saying “courts should order review of such materials in only the most extraordinary circumstances. The record does not allow for the conclusion that this is such a circumstance.” Trump’s lawyers had argued that an independent review of the records was essential given the unprecedented nature of the investigation. The lawyers have also said the department had not yet proven that the seized documents were classified, though they have notably stopped short of asserting — as Trump repeatedly has — that the records were previously declassified. The Trump team this week resisted providing Dearie with any information to support the idea that the records might have been declassified, signaling the issue could be part of their defense in the event of an indictment. But the appeals court appeared to scoff at that argument. “Plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President. But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified,” they wrote. “In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal.” ____ Colvin reported from New York. | |
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| 09-21-22 06:48pm - 823 days | #414 | |
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New York AG sues Trump and 3 of his children for business fraud This is not right. Dangle Trump helped make America great again. He needs our respect. And if he made some mistakes, broke some laws, no one is perfect. This will not stop Dangle Trump for running for president of the US. Dangle uber alles, screams the Dangle chorus. As the strains of Hitler's music fills the air. ---- ---- New York AG sues Trump and 3 of his children for business fraud Yahoo News Dylan Stableford September 21, 2022, 11:46 AM New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday announced she is suing former President Donald Trump and three of his children for fraud stemming from her long-running civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s business dealings. “I am announcing today that we are filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump for violating the law as part of his efforts to generate profits for himself, his family and his company,” James said. “The complaint demonstrates that Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.” New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday announced a $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and three of his children for business fraud. (Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James) James said her office conducted more than 65 witness interviews and reviewed millions of pages of documents as part of its investigation. In addition to Trump, the additional defendants named in the lawsuit include his three eldest children (Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric) as well as former Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney. “Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to pay lower taxes, to satisfy continuing loan agreements and to induce insurance companies to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums,” James said during the remarks, which came after the 222-page civil complaint was filed in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday morning. Alina Habba, one of Trump’s attorneys, said in a statement: “Today’s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law — rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General’s political agenda. “It is abundantly clear that the Attorney General’s Office has exceeded its statutory authority by prying into transactions where absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place. We are confident that our judicial system will not stand for this unchecked abuse of authority, and we look forward to defending our client against each and every one of the Attorney General’s meritless claims.” An October 2018 report in the New York Times found that Trump had participated in a series of tax schemes related to his father’s real estate empire. James said the investigation began in 2019 after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen discussed these business tactics during testimony under questioning from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in front of the House Oversight Committee. James listed a series of allegations against Trump, including that he misstated the value and size of his own triplex apartment in Trump Tower. She alleged that in some filings, his Florida resort and home, Mar-a-Lago, was valued as high as $739 million when it should have been closer to $75 million. James also claimed that Trump inflated the value of other properties and unsold memberships at his golf clubs. The formal complaint includes examples involving 23 assets, but James said her office found more than 200 examples on his filings over the years. The New York attorney general said she is making a criminal referral to the Internal Revenue Service and the Southern District of New York. James said that her office is also asking the court to permanently bar Trump and the three Trump children from serving as an officer or director on any corporation registered or licensed in New York state, as well as ban Trump and his organization from entering into any commercial real estate acquisitions in the state for five years and from applying for loans with New York-based banks for that same period. Trump attended a deposition with James’s office last month in Manhattan, during which he declined to answer questions, using his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. In a statement, Trump said he “declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution” and attacked James for what he called a “despicable attempt” to bring down his company. James told a judge in January that Trump’s son Eric invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 500 times in an October 2020 deposition. Donald Jr. and Ivanka, however, reportedly testified in James’s probe in early August and did not invoke the Fifth Amendment. The former president is still dealing with a federal investigation into his mishandling of classified documents, which led to the FBI raid on his Florida home in August. Trump is also still under scrutiny for his role in the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, which is being investigated by the Justice Department and a House committee. Additionally, a Georgia district attorney is investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state, which voted for Joe Biden. | |
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| 09-21-22 06:53pm - 823 days | #415 | |
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Adam Levine follows in the footsteps of his hero, Dangle Trump. "I am innocent", Adam screams loudly. But more women are coming forward saying he sent raunchy messages to them while he was married. ---- ---- Adam Levine allegedly sent inappropriate messages to 4 women, 'swears' no affair happened Yahoo Celebrity Taryn Ryder September 21, 2022, 10:38 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. More women have come forward accusing Adam Levine of sending raunchy messages while married to Behati Prinsloo. The Maroon 5 frontman apologized to his family on Tuesday after Instagram model Sumner Stroh claimed she had a year-long affair with the singer. Levine is publicly and privately denying anything physical happened, but admits to flirty exchanges with women. Model Alyson Rosef shared her alleged direct messages with Levine in a now-deleted TikTok. "I shouldn't be talking to you you know [that] right," Levine supposedly wrote. Rosef claimed she had many more messages, but didn't want to show them as they are "not appropriate." "A lot of my friends knew, and they were shocked," she said, adding, "I guess if any other girls have experienced this with him … I just think they should post it ’cause I feel really bad for his wife, and nobody deserves this." Another woman, comedian Maryka, shared alleged DMs from Levine on her Instagram story with the hashtag, "#ExposeAdamLevine." He appears to drool over her body in several messages. "I'm now obsessed with you," Levine wrote. "Dude aren't you like married lol," the comedian replied. "Yes but it's a bit complicated," Levine said, adding, "I might get away." Maryka included a video Levine sent of himself saying, "I'm stupid." In one head-scratching exchange from June, Levine tells Maryka he's expecting his third child with Prinsloo. "I'm having another baby. Wifey pregnant! And I'm having a BOY. And I'm naming him Zea. He will be a bad ass," Levine wrote. Levine's former yoga teacher is the fourth woman to publicly claim he sent her an inappropriate message while in a relationship. It was before he was married, though. Alanna Zabel shared her story with the "ExposeAdamLevine" hashtag and alleged that one text ("I want to spend the day with you naked.") destroyed her life, as her "jealous ex" saw them and was "violent" with her. She claimed Levine ghosted her and fired her from his tour. Stroh, who set off this firestorm on Monday, claimed Levine messaged her in June and asked if he could name his unborn baby after her. The model alleged that she and the singer had a year-long affair. After Levine's statement on Tuesday, in which he admitted he "crossed a line" but denied having an affair, Stroh wrote on an Instagram story, "Someone get this man a dictionary." In a new TikTok, she apologized to Prinsloo. "I'm not the one getting hurt in this. It's Behati and her children," Stroh said. "And for that, I’m so, so sorry." A source tells People that Levine is maintaining "nothing physical happened. He swears it." However, he admits to having "inappropriate" conversations with women who are not his wife. "He was messaging [Stroh], being flirtatious with three women. One of them — she specifically said they have a physical relationship but he is completely denying that to friends," the insider adds. As for why Levine was messaging other women, the source claims to People that Levine craves "female attention." "He likes it more than most," the unnamed insider says. As for asking Stroh whether he could name his baby Sumner, the source adds that the request showed "very bad judgment." Levine and Prinsloo, who confirmed her pregnancy just last week, have not publicly commented on the sex of their third child. The couple, who married in 2014, are parents to daughters Dusty Rose, 6, and Gio Grace, 4. Fans unearthed old comments from Levine about monogamy that are certainly interesting given the scandal. When asked by Cosmopolitan in 2009 why men cheat, he replied: "Instinctively, monogamy is not in our genetic makeup. People cheat. I have cheated. And you know what? There is nothing worse than the feeling of doing it." | |
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| 09-21-22 07:15pm - 823 days | #416 | |
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Dangle Trump says if the Department of Justice is flawed, they don't deserve to be respected. And that any cases brought against Dangle should be thrown out of court. And that he should be put back in the Whitest House, so he can clean the swamp in Washington. The US Congress tells the Department of Justice it's not following the law. Also says that penalizing the Department of Justice is under consideration. So, apparently, Congress likes to talk. But making the Department of Justice accountable is entirely different. ----- ----- 'You Have Utterly Failed.' The Department of Justice Undercounted Nearly 1,000 Deaths in U.S. Prisons Jasmine Aguilera Tue, September 20, 2022 at 5:08 PM Twitter Whistleblower Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee Twitter Whistleblower Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit - Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images The Justice Department undercounted nearly 1,000 deaths in prisons, jails, or during arrests during the last fiscal year, according to the results of a nearly year-long bipartisan investigation. The 10-month investigation, outlined in a Sept. 20 report released jointly by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Government Accountability Office, centered on whether the Justice Department (DOJ) has complied with the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) of 2013. DCRA requires the department to collect data from states on deaths in jails and prisons and submit to Congress a report that analyzes that data to propose solutions on how to reduce such deaths. The investigation found that DOJ missed the deaths in custody of 990 people in fiscal year 2021, that data-keeping by the DOJ has been disorderly since 2016, and that the report it is required to produce to Congress will not be complete until 2024—eight years past its due date. Additionally, much of the data DOJ did collect is incomplete, the investigation found. 70% of the data that DOJ does have is missing at least one required set of information—race, ethnicity, age, or gender, for example— and 40% is missing a description of the circumstances of the victim’s death. After a Senate hearing on the matter on Tuesday, subcommittee chair Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, did not say whether DOJ would face consequences for not complying with the law. He told TIME that “step one is pursuit of the facts and of the truth. A hearing like this is part of the process of accountability.” “We believe that gathering data on deaths in custody is a noble and necessary step towards a transparent and legitimate justice system,” Maureen Henneberg, the DOJ official leading the accounting of deaths in custody, told Senators at the hearing. “As I know this committee appreciates, it is a major undertaking to gather this information from 56 states and territories, who in turn rely on reports from thousands of prisons, local jails, and law enforcement agencies. But we firmly believe that it is well worth the effort.” In 2020, the most recent data available by the DOJ, approximately 1.5 million people were incarcerated in state and local facilities in the U.S. “We’re talking about a pretty manageable amount information here,” Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, said to Henneberg. “You have utterly failed. I mean, literally, you’ve utterly failed.” More from TIME Family members of two men who died in jails in Louisiana and Georgia also testified. Ossoff played a clip of a phone call between Belinda Maley and her son Matthew Loflin, who died in the Chatham County Detention Center in Georgia in 2014 of heart failure. In the clip, Loflin can be heard telling his mother, “I’ve been coughing up blood and my feet are swollen. It hurts, Mom… I’m gonna die in here.” Maley, a witnesses at the hearing, was visibly shaken through the duration of the clip. “I lost all my voicemails from him,” Maley said, “so the shock of listening to his voice again, in the worst way possible, is just too much.” Read More: Inside the Fight to Change Baltimore’s Police One Year After Freddie Gray’s Death DOJ argues that the gaps occurred because of changes to the reporting process within the past decade. DCRA was first passed in 2000, and was later reauthorized in 2013 with additional provisions. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BSJ) was previously tasked with compiling this data, and did so successfully in reports that were released to the public. But the newer iteration of DCRA tied certain grant funding for states to their compliance in providing complete data on deaths in custody to the DOJ. At the hearing, Henneberg told the Senators that tying the data collection to the grant funding caused two problems: it disincentivized states to provide complete data so as not to risk losing state funding, and because BJS, a neutral data collecting arm of the DOJ, could not be involved in a program that imposed penalties, DOJ had to switch the data collection to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) in 2016. That transition from one data collecting agency to another, the investigation found, is where the DOJ lapsed in proper data collection on deaths in custody. “The current process deserves to be reevaluated,” Henneberg said. “As a federal statistics agency, BJS is prohibited from using its data for any purpose other than statistics or research. Though DCRA of 2013 was well intentioned, it had unintended negative consequences.” Johnson acknowledged that both Congress and bureaucracy could play a role in creating a flawed data-collecting process, but said those issues could have been settled if the two data-collecting arms had simply coordinated efforts. Ossoff added that there was early evidence that the BJA was not properly collecting its data, but DOJ failed to do anything about it. “[DOJ is] failing to fulfill their lawful obligation,” Ossoff told reporters after the hearing. “Because we conducted this investigation, because we have been shining a light on this failure… they’re now saying, eight years after that law was enacted, that they cannot successfully implement it.” Before the hearing ended, Vanessa Fano, whose brother Jonathan Fano died by suicide at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana in 2017, lamented the trust her family had placed in the system. “Consistently we were told to do things a certain way and that things were going correctly,” Fano said. “Had we been disclosed the information of how horrendous the conditions are in that facility and how few actually receive adequate care, we would have insisted upon a different outcome.” Andrea Armstrong, a professor of law at Loyola University, who researches and maintains a database of deaths in custody in Louisiana, told Senators that stories like Fano’s and Maley’s are why the federal government needs to have accurate data. “Deaths in custody may signal broader challenges in a facility,” she said. “It is impossible to fix what is invisible.” | |
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| 09-21-22 11:27pm - 823 days | #417 | |
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Deep State secrets revealed: Sleepy Joe Biden is negotiating with Dangle Trump for a Presidential Pardon for any and all crimes. If Dangle Trump grants Sleepy Joe an unlimited pass to Dangle Trump's golf courses, an unlimited membership to one of Dangle's bestest golf courses, and an unlimited pass to 5 of Dangle Trump's hotels, then Sleepy Joe will issue Dangle a gold-plated Stay-Out-Of-Jail card for all federal crimes. Sleepy Joe and Dangle have hired Brett Kavanaugh, one of the Supreme Court Justices, to craft the agreement, which is to be kept secret under the 1000-year-rule, as a top secret, never-to-be-viewed document. The rest of the US Supreme Court will examine the agreement, to ensure it meets the standards of legal durability. Stay tuned for further updates on the agreements between Sleepy Joe and Dangle. | |
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| 09-22-22 12:39am - 823 days | #418 | |
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Update: As part of the Deep State negotiations, Dangle Trump has offered to throw 3 of his adult children under the bus. Dangle is offering Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric as the real architects of Dangle's business empire. They are the ones who ran the company, and if there were any errors made by the company, it was their responsibility to fix them. "I was too busy running for President to know what the business was doing", screams Dangle. "I tried to raise my children the best way I could, but you know how kids can mis-behave. They just ran with the wrong crowd, and spent too much, without watching what was happening with the business." "But not not to worry. I take full responsibility for my kids. I will now take over the business, and run it the way it should be run." "So, let me say, all the lawsuits should disappear, and we'll all be happy again. Just as soon as Sleepy Joe gives me the Golden Presidential Pardon he's promised." End of Story | |
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| 09-22-22 07:08am - 822 days | #419 | |
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The US federal government is fighting a losing cause. Dangle Trump de-classified all the documents he took with him to Florida. Just by thinking the documents were de-classified, that act alone de-classified the documents. Dangle Trump is the most genius President-for-Life the Untied States of Trumperland has ever known. The power of his thoughts is all-powerful. If he focused on the corrupt FBI, they would be evaporated. But Dangle is a compassionate man, and would only evaporate the FBI if forced to defend himself and his family. Also, as President-for-Life, Dangle's authority exceeds the authority of Sleepy Joe Biden. So the documents truly are the property of Dangle Trump, and no longer belong to the federal government. And the US Supreme Court, when it realizes the power of Dangle Trump, will agree that Dangle is still the True and Everlasting President-for-Life of the Untied States of Trumperland. And will order the US military forces to hold Sleepy Joe in jail, while Dangle Trump returns to the Whitest House in triumph. End of story. ---- ---- U.S. urges appeals court to block Trump from reviewing classified records Reuters Sarah N. Lynch September 21, 2022, 2:28 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump has failed to provide evidence he declassified any records the FBI seized from his Florida estate and he is not entitled to review them or have them returned, the U.S. Justice Department has argued to a federal appeals court. Prosecutors have asked the Atlanta-based appellate court to lift a stay by U.S. District Judge Alieen Cannon that bars them from using any of the classified materials in their ongoing criminal investigation until after an independent arbiter called a special master completes a review to weed out any documents that could be privileged. Of the more than 11,000 documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, about 100 have classified markings. "Plaintiff again implies that he could have declassified the records before leaving office. As before, however, Plaintiff conspicuously fails to represent, much less show, that he actually took that step," the Justice Department's attorneys wrote in a filing late Tuesday, referring to the former Republican president, who sued the department after the FBI carried out the search at his Florida home and country club. The government's latest filing came just hours after U.S. Judge Raymond Dearie, who was appointed by Cannon as special master, pressed Trump's attorneys at a hearing in Brooklyn to provide him with evidence that Trump had actually declassified some of the seized materials. "If the government gives me prima facie evidence (a legal term meaning a fact is presumed to be true unless disproved) that this is classified, and you decide not to advance a claim of declassification ... as far as I'm concerned that's the end of it," Dearie told them. "You can't have your cake and eat it." Federal prosecutors in their filing to the appeals court highlighted that Trump's attorneys had resisted Dearie's request. Dearie was appointed at Trump's request, and Cannon tasked him with reviewing all of the materials, including classified ones, so that he can separate anything that could be subject to attorney-client privilege or executive privilege - a legal doctrine that shields some White House communications from disclosure. The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation of Trump for retaining government records, some marked as highly classified including top secret, at Mar-a-Lago after leaving office in January 2021. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has said without providing evidence that the investigation is a partisan attack. As one of his defenses, Trump has claimed on social media posts without evidence that he declassified the records. However, his lawyers have not made such claims in any of their legal filings. "Plaintiff’s effort to raise questions about classification status is a red herring," prosecutors told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in their late-night filing Tuesday. "Even if plaintiff could show that he declassified the records at issue, there would still be no justification for restricting the government’s use of evidence at the center of an ongoing criminal investigation." Trump is a former president and the records do not belong to him. However, prosecutors did not directly appeal that portion of Cannon's order. The department's attorneys previously determined that they believed Trump as a former president cannot assert executive privilege over the sitting president, Joe Biden. It is still unclear how the conservative-leaning 11th circuit, which has 6 out of 11 Trump-appointed judges, will rule, and the court has not yet revealed which three of its judges will take up the Justice Department's appeal. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump's lawyers filed their response to the department's appeal, urging the court to keep the stay in place and to allow them under Dearie's supervision to review all of the seized materials, including those marked classified. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Scott Malone and Mark Porter) | |
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| 09-22-22 04:30pm - 822 days | #420 | |
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This is terrible. Legal experts are mocking the powers of Dangle Trump, the fightenest Presdent-For-Life of the Untied States of Trumperland the world has ever seen. Legal experts do not understand how powerful Dangle Trump has become. With his X-ray vision, he can blast through his enemies. With his super-powered lungs, he can scream and be heard half-way around the world. Mock him if you dare, until he unleashes the full rage of his hidden strengths. And then you will bow down before the Son of God on Earth. Satan, the Great Deceiver, is spreading lies through the Halls of Justice, through corrupt FBI agents, working to bring down our Savior on Earth. Let us chant Hallelujah and sing His praises, while donating to the Super PACs for His legal defense. ----- ----- 'Nonsense on stilts': Legal experts dismiss Trump's claim that presidents can declassify documents 'even by thinking about it' Yahoo News Dylan Stableford September 22, 2022, 11:54 AM Donald Trump. A redacted FBI photograph of documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container stored in former U.S. president Donald Trump's Florida estate, and which was included in a U.S. Department of Justice filing and released August 30, 2022. (U.S. Department of Justice/Handout via Reuters) Amid the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into his handling of classified materials, former President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered a new and rather unusual defense: that he had the power to declassify documents with his mind. “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified,’ even by thinking about it.” “There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be. You’re the president. You make that decision. So when you send it, it’s declassified,” Trump added. “I declassified everything.” Donald Trump. Legal experts contacted by Yahoo News said the idea of Trump telepathically declassifying government documents is absurd. Paul Rosenzweig, George Washington University law professor and former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security, told Yahoo News via email it reminded him of Johnny Carson’s “Carnac the Magnificent” sketch “where he knows the answers in his mind to questions that haven’t been asked. “It is not just nonsense; it is nonsense on stilts. It almost seems delusional,” he said. “The entire point of a classification system is to tell people how to treat certain types of documents — that is, what precautions to take with respect to their handling,” Rosenzweig added. “A classification system where only the ex-President knows their true classifications in his heart is the very definition of absurdist anarchy.” "Claiming that a president can declassify documents even by thinking about it is absurd," Barbara McQuade, a University of Michigan Law School professor and former U.S. attorney, wrote in an email. "While a president has many powers, he must actually execute them. His pardon power, for example, cannot be used just by thinking about it. He must issue a document that executes this power." “If a president could declassify with a thought, he could literally declassify every document in the possession of the U.S. government with a constitutional Jedi-like power,” Jonathan Turley, a law scholar who testified before Congress in support of Trump during his first impeachment hearing in 2019, wrote in a blog post. “No one would know that there was declassification other than the fact that he removed the documents or treated them as declassified.” The interview — Trump’s first since the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., last month — was broadcast shortly after a federal appeals court ruled that the DOJ can resume scrutinizing the documents that were seized in the search. The three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously stayed the portion of a much-criticized prior ruling by Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, that had prevented the government from reviewing the material. The warrant and property receipt from the FBI’s search showed that agents seized nearly two dozen boxes from Trump’s Florida home, including 11 sets of classified records and some that were labeled “top secret,” the highest level of classification, reserved for the most closely held U.S. national security information. “[Trump] suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President,” the judges stated. “But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified.” In a filing last week, Trump’s attorneys stated that he had the power to declassify records but stopped short of saying he had actually done so. Redacted documents, marked as evidence, next to a file box of framed magazine covers. The ruling was also a rebuke to the claims made by Trump’s legal team about the former president’s supposed right to hold on to classified documents. “[Trump] has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents,” the judges ruled. "In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal." In other words, Trump’s claim that he can declassify documents with his mind is “irrelevant,” Andrew Weissmann, a legal analyst, said on MSNBC. “It has nothing to do with a legal defense here," Weissmann said. "Donald Trump is engaging in distractions. It is not a legally relevant thing even if you could somehow declassify things by merely thinking about them." "Even if Trump had declassified once classified documents, the fact that they bear classified markings means that they are government records to which he is not entitled," McQuade said. "In addition, potential charges do not require the documents to be classified to make Trump’s retention of them a crime." | |
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| 09-22-22 04:36pm - 822 days | #421 | |
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Alex Jones testifies in trial over his Sandy Hook hoax lies Associated Press DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB September 22, 2022, 12:26 PM WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. More than a dozen family members of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the shooting also showed up to observe his testimony in Waterbury Superior Court, which is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Newtown, where the shooting occurred. Plaintiffs attorney Christopher Mattei showed a video from Jones' Infowars web show in which he called the mass shooting “phony as a three-dollar bill" and called the parents of the victims “crisis actors.” “Mr. Jones, if someone were to falsely claim that a group of families who had lost loved ones were actors and had faked the deaths of their loved ones, that would be a horrible thing to say, correct?” Mattei asked Jones before showing the video. “In the context, it could be, yes,” Jones replied. Jones was found liable last year by default for damages to plaintiffs without a trial, as punishment for what the judge called his repeated failures to turn over documents to their lawyers. The six-member jury is now deciding how much Jones and Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company, should pay the families for defaming them and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. In often emotional testimony, family members have described enduring death threats, in-person harassment and abusive comments on social media. Some moved to avoid the abuse. Jones has been in Connecticut this week in preparation for his appearance. He held a news conference Wednesday outside the courthouse, bashing the proceedings — as he has on his Infowars show — as a “travesty of justice” and calling the judge a “tyrant.” He made similar comments on his way into the courthouse Thursday. “This is not really a trial,” he said. “This is a show trial, a literal kangaroo court.” The plaintiffs attorneys began by asking Jones whether he believed Judge Barbara Bellis was a tyrant and whether he calls a lot of people tyrants. “Only when they act like it,” he said. Jones also was asked about a page on his Infowars site that called the trial a “kangaroo court” and advertisements on that page. He said the page was created by his staff, but called it a “good report.” He also was asked about daily profit reports. Jones said he could not answer that question, but denied he saw the trial as a marketing opportunity. On his show, he has called the trial an attack on free speech and when asked Thursday how important he felt the proceeding was, he answered, “I think this is historic.” Jones also said that credibility with his audience is not the most important thing to him. “It’s crushing the globalists,” he said. Bellis began the day by going over the topics that Jones could not mention in his testimony: free speech rights; the Sandy Hook families' $73 million settlement this year with gun-maker Remington (the company made the Bushmaster rifle used to kill the victims at Sandy Hook); the percentage of Jones' shows that discussed Sandy Hook; and whether he profited from those shows or a similar case in Texas. “This is not the appropriate forum for you to offer that testimony,” Bellis said. Jones indicated that he understood. But the jury had to be sent out of the courtroom several times while attorneys argued about the scope of Jones' answers. “You're going to get your exercise today, for those of you who wear Fitbits,” the judge told jurors. During the lunch break, Jones again complained to reporters about not being able to testify that he is “innocent," but said he does have some regrets about the content of his broadcasts dealing with Sandy Hook. “I’ve said things I probably shouldn’t have said,” he added. “I didn’t realize the power I had. And I’ve seen the families, I’ve met some of the families. I think they’re real people. But it’s the media and the lawyers that keep bringing it up and misrepresenting what I said and what I did.” Jones also has been found liable by default in two similar lawsuits over the hoax lies in his hometown of Austin, Texas, where a jury in one of the trials ordered Jones last month to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of one of the children killed. A third trial in Texas is expected to begin near the end of the year. When Jones faced the Texas jury last month and testified under oath, he toned down his rhetoric. He said he realized the hoax lies were irresponsible and the school shooting was “100% real.” Jones' shows had portrayed the Sandy Hook shooting as staged by crisis actors as part of gun control efforts. Testimony at the current trial also has focused on website analytics data run by Infowars employees showing how its sales of dietary supplements, food, clothing and other items spiked around the time Jones talked about the Sandy Hook shooting. Evidence, including internal Infowars emails and depositions, also shows dissention within the company about pushing the hoax lies. Jones' lawyer Norman Pattis is arguing that any damages should be limited and accused the victims' relatives of exaggerating the harm the lies caused them. ____ Associated Press writer Michael Hill contributed to this report from Waterbury. | |
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| 09-22-22 04:53pm - 822 days | #422 | |
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Pelosi is a woman. Women lack the ability to govern, screams John Gibbs, the GOP candidate from Michigan. Repeal the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. And make the Constitution shorter and easier to read and remember. ------- ------- Pelosi blasts Trump-backed GOP candidate who once argued women don't possess 'the characteristics necessary to govern' Dylan Stableford·Senior Writer Thu, September 22, 2022 at 12:00 PM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday denounced a Republican House candidate from Michigan who once argued that women don’t possess “the characteristics necessary to govern” and supported an attempt to repeal the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. That candidate was actually backed in the GOP primary by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), presumably because he was seen as too far right to win the general election. John Gibbs, who was also supported in the primary by former President Donald Trump, made the comments as a student at Stanford University in the early 2000s, CNN reported this week. John Gibbs faces three reporters who are taking pictures of him with their cellphones. John Gibbs speaks to reporters after voting in Byron Township, Mich., on Aug. 2. (Sarah Rice/Washington Post via Getty Images) At Stanford, Gibbs founded the Society for the Critique of Feminism, a self-described “think tank” that contended that the women’s suffrage movement had made the United States into a “totalitarian state.” Its now-defunct webpage also argued that “the United States has suffered as a result of women’s suffrage.” “What he's saying is outrageous,” Pelosi said when asked by reporters about the comments during her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill. “I don't think many members of here would subscribe to that, but the insult to women's intelligence is one that exists in many forms around here.” The California Democrat compared such ideas to the current push from some Republican lawmakers to ban abortion. “I think I hear something like that every day around here, when people say that women shouldn't be able to make their choices about contraception or their own reproductive health,” Pelosi said. “That's a sign of disrespect for women.” In the GOP primary last month, Gibbs defeated incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., a first-term congressman who was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021. During the primary, the DCCC spent $435,000 on an advertisement to boost Gibbs because it felt he would be easier to beat than Meijer in the November general election. Gibbs is facing Democrat Hillary Scholten in the race to represent Michigan’s Third Congressional District. | |
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| 09-22-22 05:07pm - 822 days | #423 | |
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Dangle Trump, to raise a bit of extra cash (we all need a bit of extra cash now and then), has agreed to act as a consultant on House of the Dragon. Dangle has extensive experience in dealing with troubled women. He invented the "Art of the Deal". So he can fine-tune Princess Rhaenyra's love relationships, and allow a happy ending for our lovely heroine. ----- ----- Ser Criston’s House of the Dragon Story Just Got a Lot Darker Ser Criston’s House of the Dragon Story Just Got a Lot Darker Philip Ellis Wed, September 21, 2022 at 10:57 AM Spoilers follow for House of the Dragon episode five, "We Light the Day." When it comes to the constantly shifting personal and political alliances in King's Landing, it's perfectly understandable for your most loved and hated people to change with each new installment of House of the Dragon. But no other character in the show has catapulted from hero to villain so rapidly and unexpectedly as Ser Criston Cole, played by Fabien Frankel. Initially introduced a prospective love interest for Princess Rhaenyra, viewers were invited to see Ser Criston through the lens of traditional chivalric fantasy tropes, and once he joined the Kingsguard and took on the role of her sworn protector, it looked like we were heading in the direction of a forbidden romance storyline in the vein of Lancelot and Guinevere. Their arc certainly began that way, with them sharing their respective views on love, marriage and duty in "Second of His Name." But because this is all based on the works of George R.R. Martin, we know those genre expectations are going to be subverted. And it didn't take long for Ser Criston to fall spectacularly from grace. After spending the night with Rhaenyra in "King of the Narrow Sea," Ser Criston is looking increasingly moony-eyed over the princess when we next see him in "We Light the Day." While his talk of freedom and marrying for love previously painted him as a romantic, his conversation with Rhaenyra on the ship indicates that he might just be painfully naive: he envisions the two of them running away to backpack through Essos together, and fully expects her to be into the idea of relinquishing not just her future as queen, but also her family and her wealth. Naturally, Rhaenyra is not convinced, and instead tries to get Criston to go along with her and Laenor's more pragmatic solution of an open lavender marriage. It is in this scene that we see just how much of a problem Criston is going to be for Rhaenyra: while she is proving adept at manoeuvering through court, he still sees things very much in black and white. That means taking the moral high ground, blaming Rhaenyra for making him break his vow of celibacy, and demanding that she wife him to make it all better. It's a bad look, and you can almost see in Rhaenyra's eyes that she is already deeply regretting shitting where she eats. And she's right to think that, because shortly after Criston blurts out the truth of his tryst with Rhaenyra to the worst possible person: Queen Alicent. When she doesn't punish him as he deems necessary, it becomes clear to Criston that nobody else in the palace is playing by the same strict rules of honor which he has applied to himself, and he feels doubly betrayed. Things only get worse from there, and Criston does what many toxic men do: he takes all of the frustration and anger he is feeling at himself, and he turns it outwards. By the time the wedding festivities start, he is a twitchy mess, and all it takes is a single remark from Ser Joffrey Lonmouth about how they're both royal sidepieces to set him off, going from zero to 100 and literally beating Laenor's lover to death in a scene so gory that the Knight of Kisses will definitely be needing a closed casket. The violent end of Ser Joffrey has led some viewers to claim the show is guilty of the "Bury Your Gays" trope, a pernicious trend in pop culture where LGBTQ+ characters, already underrepresented in media, are disproportionately killed off, frequently in ways which can be perceived as "punishment" for their queerness. The Game of Thrones universe has been accused of this before, with the deaths of Renly, Loras, and most infamously, Prince Oberyn, whose brutal demise at the hands of the Mountain is echoed in Criston's murder of Joffrey. "But this is Westeros," you might protest. "Everyone runs the risk of dying in horrible ways." And that is certainly true. But at the same time, queer characters very rarely even show up in this franchise (even a lot of the queer subtext seems to be unintentional), and with the exception of the sex worker Olyvar in Game of Thrones and some unnamed background extras, they have all met ugly deaths. It doesn't help that in the case of "We Light the Day," Criston's anger wasn't even really directed at Joffrey, but rather at Rhaenyra; the gay character just happened to be caught in the crossfire. (Given the tediously preachy way that Criston has been acting, though, it wouldn't be shocking if he were indeed a massive homophobe.) The fact that Criston makes it to the end of episode five unpunished is not just an indicator of how messed-up things are becoming in the Red Keep: it's an intentional upending of the noble knight figure who has existed in literature for centuries. So many of those classic stories were about chivalry and courtly love, the idea that princesses exist in purity alone in their towers, waiting for their virtue to be "won" by the right man. Ser Criston Cole could have walked right off the page of one of these tales, but his view of courtly love presents a more honest, uncomfortable reality: male entitlement, and the anger that swiftly comes when a woman steps off her pedestal and tries to exert her own will. This is more than simply another incident of hate-criming in King's Landing: it also signals a pivotal moment for Criston as a character, and for how we relate to him as viewers. Up until now, he has perceived himself to be an upstanding, honorable person, and we, for the most part, agreed. Moving forward, the scales have fallen from our eyes—but it is possible that with his shift in loyalty from Rhaenyra to Alicent, Criston will manage to convince himself that he is on the side of right once more. In Fire & Blood, the book on which the series is based, Ser Criston is said to be Queen Alicent's staunchest defender, rising through the ranks to become Lord Commander of the Kingsguard and eventually even Hand of the King. If House of the Dragon stays true to that source material, it will be pretty hard for many fans to stomach Criston's ascent. I know I, for one, will be yelling "dracarys!" next time I see him on screen. | |
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HuffPost ‘House Of The Dragon’ Star Says She Was Told To Play Her Role Like ‘Woman For Trump’ Elyse Wanshel Thu, September 22, 2022 at 2:01 PM A MAGA hat would’ve clashed with her green gowns anyway. Olivia Cooke will take over the role of Alicent Hightower from Emily Carey in the upcoming sixth episode of “House of the Dragon” Sunday. Cooke will be portraying an older version of the character and told Entertainment Weekly in a piece published Wednesday that the show’s creators, Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal, originally offered her a very specific source of inspiration for her character. Cooke told the outlet that they directed her to play Alicent “like a woman for Trump.” But Cooke said she couldn’t stomach that. “I just didn’t want to give them any more mental real estate than they already had,” Cooke said of a certain political family. “So I tried to find a different route into her, but I could see what they were saying with this complete indoctrination and denial of her own autonomy and rights. I just couldn’t be asked to go down that road.” It’s easy to see why the “House of the Dragon” showrunners felt an older Alicent would fit neatly into a far-right mindset if she were living in modern-day America. Emily Carey’s portrayal of Alicent thus far paints an image of a young woman who is used by older and more powerful men as a pawn for their own political gain. Her father, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), ordered her to secretly endear herself to the newly widowed and vulnerable King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine). After Viserys marries Alicent, he eventually treats his queen like a walking womb. “How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs,” Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) tells Alicent in a very poignant moment in Episode 4. “Alicent has been completely bred to breed, and to breed powerful men. That’s her only function in this life,” Cooke told EW. “She can tell herself that she’s going to sway and nurture and persuade in a very womanly, feminine way, but it’s all fucking bullshit. Unless you’re fighting the men, you’ll never be heard. It’s learning to live within this straightjacket of oppression. How do I move inch by inch every single day to loosen the straps?” Cooke then hinted at what viewers could expect to see in her portrayal of an older Alicent — and it sounds like she took a page out of Carey’s handbook of playing the controversial character with more nuance. Cooke told the entertainment magazine that it was key to find a “humanitarian hook” into Alicent. “She does some fucking despicable stuff,” she admits. “But then you’ve got to think, she’s trying to protect her son. She’s trying to uphold the patriarchy. She’s trying to uphold the legitimacy of the crown. All these things that she feels are so much bigger than she is. I think that’s why when she can’t control that, she turns to faith more as some sort of tangible element of control, because she doesn’t have any in her life whatsoever.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. | |
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| 09-23-22 03:39am - 821 days | #425 | |
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Dangle Trump needs to reclaim the Presidency. As President, Dangle was shielded from lawsuits. As a private citizen, he could lose his assets, and maybe go to jail. Donate to Dangle $5,000, and he will send you a bobble-head to put on your shelf as a reminder of his greed. Judge Dearie, appointed as special master, wants to know if he can have his cake and eat it too. The answer is: Judge Dearie needs to go on a diet. ----- ----- Trump suffers legal setbacks in very bad week Yahoo News David Knowles September 22, 2022, 1:27 PM Donald Trump had a tough week — and it's only Thursday. With the legal protections he enjoyed while president fading from view, Trump was reminded again and again that the risks from criminal and civil proceedings are greater than at any time since he stepped onto the golden escalator at Manhattan's Trump Tower in 2015 and declared himself a presidential candidate. While Trump has spent much of his adult life embroiled in court cases, sometimes avoiding the worst consequences, the last week graphically illustrated that he now finds himself in serious legal jeopardy. He is widely expected to seek the GOP nomination again in 2024. Last Thursday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, indicated that she has heard credible information that crimes were committed. "The allegations are very serious. If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences," Willis told the Washington Post. Asked Thursday by Yahoo News' Daniel Klaidman whether those comments applied to Trump, Willis said that they did. Pressed on how some in the public might react to Trump being tried and possibly jailed over his role in the attempt to overturn the results in Georgia, she seemed surprised. "A lot of people in society think that some people are above the law, right?" she said. "Well, that's a fundamental problem." So far, at least 17 people in Trump's orbit have been notified that they are targets of Willis's criminal investigation. She told the Post that her team has not decided on whether it will seek Trump's testimony. But a key piece of evidence is Trump himself speaking: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office recorded the president pressuring election officials to "find 11,780 votes" — the exact number needed to reverse his loss to Joe Biden in the battleground state. In response to Willis's assessment that her investigation could potentially lead to convictions and jail time for at least some people involved, Trump lashed out on his personal social network site. "She is basing her potential claims on trying to find a tiny word or phrase (that isn't there) during an absolutely PERFECT phone call, concerning widespread Election Fraud in Georgia, with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and many lawyers and other officials who were knowingly on the line, had no problems with the call, and didn't voice any objections or complaints about anything that I said on the call which could be construed as inappropriate," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "A strictly political Witch Hunt!" Trump's legal issues are not confined to Georgia. The most high-profile ongoing investigation stems from the Justice Department's seizure of highly classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in apparent violation of federal law. The former president scored a short-lived legal victory last Thursday when a district judge he appointed, Aileen Cannon, ruled that the Justice Department could not continue scrutinizing the documents until a court-appointed special master had reviewed the more than 11,000 records in question to determine if any were shielded by executive or attorney-client privilege. The legal wrangling risked significantly slowing down the investigation. But on Wednesday, a federal appeals court ruled that Cannon had erred in prohibiting the Justice Department from continuing with its investigation into the documents while the special master conducted his review. The three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, two of whom were appointed by Trump, unanimously stayed the portion of Cannon's much-criticized prior ruling. In its ruling, the appeals court also scoffed at the arguments floated by Trump and his lawyers to explain why he had held on to the documents. “[Trump] has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents,” the panel said in its ruling. “Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents." Key to Trump's legal strategy is his claim that he declassified the documents before storing them at his Florida home and country club. But on Tuesday, Judge Raymond Dearie, whom Cannon had installed as special master, threw cold water on that assertion. At his first 40-minute hearing with lawyers for the former president and the government, Dearie repeatedly pressed Trump's legal team on their refusal to present evidence that Trump had in fact declassified any of the material clearly marked as highly sensitive. “My view of it is: You can’t have your cake and eat it,” Dearie said, adding that he would finish with his review by the end of November. On Monday, the New York Times also reported that a White House lawyer, Eric Herschmann, had informed Trump late last year that he faced possible legal consequences if he did not immediately return the documents he had taken to Mar-a-Lago. Herschmann testified before the House Jan. 6 Select Committee about actions taken by Trump and his allies leading up to and following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. He has also been subpoenaed by the Justice Department in its own probe of the attack on the Capitol in 2021. On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was suing Trump and his three eldest children for business fraud, after a long-running investigation into how the Trump Organization allegedly inflated the value of real estate assets in order to obtain favorable loan rates and pay less in taxes. “I am announcing today that we are filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump for violating the law as part of his efforts to generate profits for himself, his family and his company,” James said at a news conference Wednesday. “The complaint demonstrates that Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.” If James is able to prove her case in court, the results could be damaging for Trump's business empire. The lawsuit seeks $250 million in damages, the removal of Trump and his three children from their positions in the Trump Organization, the appointment of an independent monitor for five years to oversee the company's compliance with the law, a ban on the business's commercial real estate acquisitions for five years, and a permanent ban on Trump — and Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump — from serving as officer or director of any New York corporation. James also announced Wednesday that she would file a criminal referral to federal prosecutors and a tax fraud referral to the IRS. That could lead to yet another federal investigations that could result in criminal charges being filed. If he is convicted, Trump could face the possibility of jail time. In response to the lawsuit, Trump attacked James, who is Black, by labeling her a racist. “Another Witch Hunt by a racist Attorney General, Letitia James,” Trump wrote, adding that James was “a fraud who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform, despite the fact that the city is one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch!” Trump ended Wednesday on Fox News, where he floated another novel explanation for his handling of the classified documents. "You're the president of the United States," the former president told host Sean Hannity, "you can declassify just by saying, 'It's declassified' — even by thinking about it — because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it, and there doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be." A legal expert told Yahoo News that the argument makes no sense. “It is not just nonsense; it is nonsense on stilts. It almost seems delusional,” said Paul Rosenzweig, a George Washington University law professor and former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security. “The entire point of a classification system is to tell people how to treat certain types of documents — that is, what precautions to take with respect to their handling,” Rosenzweig added. “A classification system where only the ex-President knows their true classifications in his heart is the very definition of absurdist anarchy.” | |
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| 09-23-22 07:51am - 821 days | #426 | |
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Dangle Trump, man of honor, tells the special master the FBI, the most corrupt division of the Justice Department under Sleepy Joe Biden, criminal mastermind of the Democratic Party, has planted fake documents at Mar-a-Lago. This was a plot to discredit Dangle Trump, the man who spent a lifetime trying to drain the swamp in Washington. But Hilary Clinton, the ally of Sleepy Joe, and Hunter Biden, the feared son of Sleepy Joe, conspired with the Mafia to plant fake documents at the Mar-a-Lago home of our beloved leader, Dangle Trump. No one alive believes Dangle has committed a crime. They know the truth. And the world is watching and waiting for Dangle to take down Sleepy Joe and his allies from Hell!!!! ----- ----- Judge asks Trump’s team for proof that FBI planted documents at Mar-a-Lago Special master also asked for a certified list of property seized by the FBI from the ‘winter White House’ Former president Donald Trump has said that documents found at Mar-a-Lago were declassified and that the FBI planted documents. Reuters Thu 22 Sep 2022 16.30 EDT Last modified on Thu 22 Sep 2022 16.36 EDT A US judge reviewing records seized from Donald Trump’s Florida home asked the former president’s lawyers on Thursday to provide any evidence casting doubt on the integrity of the documents. Trump has previously made unsubstantiated claims the documents were planted by FBI agents. Senior federal judge Raymond Dearie, appointed by another judge to vet the documents to assess whether some should be withheld from investigators as privileged, also asked the justice department to certify by Monday a detailed property inventory of materials the FBI seized in the court-approved 8 August search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Dearie asked Trump’s lawyers to submit by 30 September a list of specific items in that inventory “that plaintiff asserts were not seized from the premises”. Dearie also asked them to submit any corrections to the government’s list by that date, including items they believe were seized at Mar-a-Lago but not listed in the inventory. “This submission shall be [Trump’s] final opportunity to raise any factual dispute as to the completeness and accuracy of the detailed property inventory,” wrote Dearie, serving as an independent arbiter known as a special master. The search was conducted as part of a federal criminal investigation into whether Trump illegally retained documents from the White House and tried to obstruct a probe when he left office in January 2021 after his failed 2020 re-election bid. Trump has called the investigation politically motivated. He has also claimed, without providing evidence, both that he had declassified any documents found at Mar-a-Lago and that the FBI planted documents. On Trump’s request, US district judge Aileen Cannon appointed Dearie to vet the materials. The justice department has said more than 11,000 documents were seized, including about 100 documents marked as classified. A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the justice department can resume reviewing those classified records in its criminal investigation. The Atlanta-based 11th US circuit court of appeals also precluded Dearie from vetting those documents marked classified. | |
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| 09-23-22 03:45pm - 821 days | #427 | |
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Dangle Trump screams: "Democrats from Hell are trying to stop me from re-taking the Whitest House. No one will stop me. I will be President of the Untied States of Trumperland, and with the full might and force of my powerful position, I will go after my enemies, with a "Shoot to Kill Order from the Office of the President!!!!!" "This will be for Sleepy Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other enemies of the State. All known Democrats from Hell. And some RINOs as well. Like Mike Pence, the coward." "And New York Attorney General Letitia James", the black racist who has tried to harm my children with terrible, terrible lies". ----- ----- Running for president, fighting in court? How fraud lawsuit could complicate Trump's plans USA TODAY David Jackson September 23, 2022, 9:36 AM WASHINGTON – Now that the New York attorney general has sued Donald Trump for fraud, one thing seems nearer certainty: If Trump runs for president again in 2024, he will do so while defending himself in a court of law. Maybe several courts of law. The long-running panoply of investigations into Trump – over his business practices, his handling of classified information, his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020, and his role in the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021 – will burden any 2024 presidential run by the former chief executive, analysts said. New York Attorney General Letitia James' suit – while a civil matter rather than a criminal one – takes things a step further than those other inquiries: It is the most definitive sign yet that Trump could be pulled into court while running for president, an unprecedented position for a major party candidate. Citing James' recital of allegations against Trump, including fraud running into the tens of millions of dollars or more, historian Michael Beschloss said, "I have never seen anything remotely like this in the history of the American presidency." And with a separate tax fraud case also moving against the Trump Organization, Trump's legal problems will be in the headlines for months, or perhaps even years, to come. "It will be in the news over and over again," said Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor who was part of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. More investigations?: New York lawsuit against Trump, family could prompt new federal criminal inquiries The investigations so far: Investigations may help Donald Trump politically — and that may hurt the Republican Party Anger – and discovery Trump and his allies – including some past allies – say the investigations will only help him politically as voters rally around a man they believe is being unfairly targeted. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who has criticized Trump over his actions in a classified documents case, criticized James over the lawsuit. If she fails to make her case, Barr said, it could hurt other investigations with voters who believe the government is "piling on" Trump. "I don't think it's going to hurt him," Barr said. "The more overboard these cases get, the more I think it's going to help him." In an interview broadcast Thursday, Trump agreed with Fox News host Sean Hannity's contention, without evidence, that investigators would back off if he simply announced he was not running in 2024. But Trump said he would not do that, though he did not make a formal announcement one way or the other. "I have to fight," Trump said at one point. "I'm under siege." New York Attorney General Letitia James announces that she's filed a civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his family for overstating asset valuations and deflating his net worth by billions for tax and insurance benefits, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, in New York. New York Attorney General Letitia James announces that she's filed a civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his family for overstating asset valuations and deflating his net worth by billions for tax and insurance benefits, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, in New York. Weissmann said Trump's reaction is understandable – "he thrives on being the victim and running against the elites" – but could be hard to sustain as cases develop against him. Discovery, or the information exchange process in court, and submission of court documents could be "hideous" for Trump and his cause, Weissmann said. A 2024 test in 2022 Trump has not formally declared a 2024 presidential candidacy. He does frequently flirts with the idea, especially after bad legal news, including James' lawsuit announcement. In the lawsuit, the attorney general said Trump and members of his family fraudulently overvalued properties to secure bank loans or devalued them to reduce tax bills. Claiming the valuations amounted to financial fraud, James said: "There aren't two sets of laws for people in this nation:. Former presidents must be held to the same standards as everyday Americans." James also said she has referred the Trump case to federal prosecutors in New York and the Internal Revenue Service. Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Trump, who accused James of seeking to criminalize standard business practices, has been under investigative clouds since leaving the White House on Jan. 20, 2021. His single term ended two weeks after a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to block President Joe Biden's election victory. The insurrection followed weeks of false claims by Trump of a stolen election. Now a grand jury in Atlanta is investigating Trump's pressure on state officials to overturn his election loss in Georgia. The Department of Justice is investigating whether Trump has culpability in the insurrection. The Justice Department alsois investigating Trump's removal of classified information from the White House. That probe inspired the Aug. 8 search of Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., by the FBI, a stunning legal development that amped up speculation about the former president's political future. Strong with Republicans, weak with independents Trump-backed candidates in November's midterm elections are in some cases struggling. Candidates who won nominations largely because of Trump's backing are struggling in general elections, including races in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona that will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. Probes and politics: Prosecution vs. politics: Can AG Garland pursue Trump probes without influencing the midterms? Trump v. DeSantis in 2024? USA TODAY/Suffolk poll shows Florida Republicans prefer their governor "The 2022 midterms are a test case" for the impact of Trump's legal difficulties, said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. In Ohio – a key, red-leaning state in most presidential elections – only 26% of independents have a favorable view of Trump, Paleologos said. "He's always had to fight for independents," Paleologos said. "The investigations don't help him." 'No way' A number of people question how Trump could run a credible presidential candidacy while tied up in court, especially if he is hit with criminal indictments. Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney whose congressional testimony led to the James investigation over property valuations, said he always doubted there will be another Trump presidential campaign and said he believes Trump talks about it only so he can raise money. "I never thought he was going to run in 2024, and that this was a stunt in order to grift off of his supporters for as long as possible," said Cohen, a onetime confidante who has since turned on his former boss. Given the James lawsuit and the other investigations, Cohen said, he doesn't see how Trump can mount a presidential campaign or how voters could take him seriously. "There is no way he could legitimately run a race with all of the legal baggage that is plaguing him." Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, speaks to the media before departing his Manhattan apartment for prison on May 6, 2019, in New York. Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, speaks to the media before departing his Manhattan apartment for prison on May 6, 2019, in New York. Grand juries investigating Trump aren't expected to take any formal action against the former president before this year's Election Day on Nov. 8. In the meantime, however, news leaks, pretrial litigation and legal discovery may continue to rain down on Trump, a preview of legal and political storms to come. The Trump Organization, the former president's company, has been charged with fraud in a separate case as well and faces trial in October. Some of the testimony is expected to touch on Trump and his business dealings. Little of this is expected to help Trump politically. But Matt Wolking, a deputy communications director for Trump's 2020 campaign, said that, if anything, the James lawsuit and the other investigations will only encourage Trump to run. "It certainly gives him an incentive to fight back," he said. Republicans point out the investigations may not loom as the biggest issues facing voters when Republican primaries roll around in early 2024 – especially if the economy continues to struggle. The inflation rate has been hovering near a 40-year high, squeezing Americans on everything from rent to the cost of eggs. There's also the fact that Trump survived any number of scandals on his way to the White House the first time, said Liz Mair, an anti-Trump Republican political consultant. "The problem with Donald Trump," Mair said, "is that he doesn't operate in the same reality as everybody else." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump's potential 2024 plans hit complication in NY fraud lawsuit | |
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| 09-24-22 08:05am - 820 days | #428 | |
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General Dangle Bonespurs backs Republican candidate for Ohio office. Dangle says he supports our fighting men in the field. Says he has actual knowledge of how the US Armed Forces fight, and that Republican J.R. Majewski is one of the bravest men he knows, and has backed Dangle in numerous military exploits. I personally served in the US Army during the Vietnam conflict, serving proudly at Fort Ord, Fort Sam Houston, and Fort Gordon, all dangerous fields of combat. Although I was not awarded a Gold or Silver Star for serving at these dangerous outposts, I was given an honorable discharge from the Army, when I completed my 6 years of military reserve service after my active 2 years duty. So I can say, with certitude, that General Dangle Bonespurs also might not have been given a Gold or Silver Star for serving in Vietnam, since he was given deferrals for military service. Also, I was not aware that President George H.W. Bush designated countries used as combat support areas as combat zones despite the low risk of American service members ever facing hostilities. That helped veterans receive a favorable tax status. Do I qualify for favorable tax status since I served in US forts to support the Vietnam conflict? Enquiring minds want to know. ----- ----- Ohio Republican stays in campaign amid scrutiny of service Associated Press BRIAN SLODYSKO September 23, 2022, 5:23 PM HOLLAND, Ohio (AP) — Republican J.R. Majewski insisted Friday that he would stay in the race for a competitive northwest Ohio congressional seat after The Associated Press reported earlier this week that he misrepresented key elements of his Air Force service. “I flew into combat zones often, specifically in Afghanistan, and I served my country proud,” Majewski said at a news conference. The comments came amid growing fallout for Majewski, who repeatedly said he deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, but instead served a six-month stint loading and unloading planes while based in Qatar, according to records obtained by the AP through a public records request. The House Republican campaign arm on Thursday cancelled nearly $1 million in advertising that it had planned to spend on Majewski’s behalf, a sign that the GOP was effectively giving up hope of unseating longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in a district that was recently redrawn to favor Republicans. Meanwhile, advocates for veterans questioned why Majewski has declined to offer proof, or even describe forays he made into Afghanistan. Throughout his campaign, Majewski has repeatedly said he was a combat veteran who served a tour of duty under “tough” circumstances in Afghanistan, where by his account he once went over 40 days without a shower due to a lack of running water. His latest remarks amounted to a far less robust description of what he says he did in the country. Majewski previously said he was deployed to the country, a term which refers to orders assigning servicemembers to a specific base or location. On Friday he said his service involved flying in and out of Afghanistan from Qatar, but declined to offer additional details or proof because he said it was “classified.” While based in Qatar, Majewski would land at other air bases to transfer military passengers, medics and supplies, his campaign previously said. The campaign did not answer repeated and direct questions from the AP before the story was published Wednesday about whether he was ever in Afghanistan. They also gave no indication that he couldn't discuss his service because it was “classified,” as Majewski said. “I was in multiple bases in Afghanistan and the time frame is clear, in 2002,” Majewski said Friday. “We flew in and out of the area of responsibility multiple times. It’s almost impossible for me to tell you where I was and on what day. That’s why my orders are listed as a classified location.” Experts contacted by the AP say it is possible that Majewski may have entered the country. They also say Majewski is well positioned to prove it, though Majewski's campaign declined to do so Friday. “It was hardly a secret that we were operating in Afghanistan,” said Don Christensen, a retired colonel and former military judge who once served as the Air Force’s chief prosecutor. “It would be pretty easy for him to find a supervisor or coworker that could verify if he was actually there. His (enlisted performance report) would have been signed by his supervisor most likely. That person would know if this was true.” Scott Taylor, a former Navy SEAL sniper and Republican who represented Virginia in Congress, said he doesn't understand why Majewski's campaign refused to explain whether or not he ever went to Afghanistan earlier this week. “Is it possible he went on some night flight to Afghanistan to drop off supplies? Yes it is possible," said Taylor, who was wounded in a combat operation in Ramadi, Iraq, and had to be evacuated. "But again, he should have answered those questions right away.” The experts said the discussion about whether he did or did not enter Afghanistan also obscures the broader picture: Majewski for months has presented himself as a combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan, descriptors that indicate he came under hostile fire while stationed in the country. The term “combat veteran” can evoke images of soldiers storming a beachhead or finding refuge during a firefight. But under the laws and regulations of the U.S. government, facing live fire has little to do with someone earning the title. During the Persian Gulf War, then-President George H.W. Bush designated, for the first time, countries used as combat support areas as combat zones despite the low risk of American service members ever facing hostilities. That helped veterans receive a favorable tax status. Qatar, which is now home to the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, was among the countries that received the designation under Bush’s executive order — a status that remains in effect today. Majewski’s campaign previously said he calls himself a combat veteran because the place he operated out of — Qatar — is recognized as a combat zone. His military records state he has not received a combat medal. “Everybody plays a role. But you have to be proud of what your contribution was and not try to step on someone else's,” said Taylor, the former congressman and Navy SEAL. “Barring him giving some evidence and filing a petition to get a combat ribbon, he’s not a combat veteran.” Majewski's campaign has released several documents on social media that they say either back up his claims or refute parts of the AP's story. None of them address whether or not he was in Afghanistan. One document from February 2003, when he was still enlisted in the Air Force, indicated Majewski was eligible to reenlist. However, the AP reported that when Majewski was discharged several months later, his paperwork indicated he was “considered but not selected for reenlistment.” He also claimed that he provided the AP with a picture that shows him in Afghanistan. The picture, which is also on his campaign website, shows a group in fatigues who are inside what appears to be a shelter, but does not include any indicators of where it was taken. | |
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| 09-24-22 02:55pm - 820 days | #429 | |
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The Oath Keepers were willing to lay down their lives to keep Dangle Trump in office. They knew Sleepy Joe Biden, the head of the crime family running America into the ground, had stolen the election. So, to keep Dangle Trump in the Whitest House, the Oath Keepers pledged to die fighting. However, the lawyers for the Oath Keepers say the Oath Keepers were following the law. They were in Washington DC to protect Trump and his allies, not to cause harm. So the Oath Keepers are patriots, who should be honored by Sleepy Joe for standing firm for Democracy. Shame on Sleepy Joe Biden for using the Justice Department to try to punish these heroes for their actions, which were only to Make America Great Again. And this is the true legacy of MAGA, which is the party of all loyal Americans, and not the illegal immigrants and people of color who have polluted our great nation. Hail Dongle Trump, the Whitest American of the Untied States of Trumperland. And if Sleepy Joe Biden orders his goons to machine gun these loyalists, there will be civil war, led by the genius guerrilla fighter, Machete Dangle Trump. ---- ---- 'Fighting fit': Trial to show Oath Keepers' road to Jan. 6 Associated Press ALANNA DURKIN RICHER September 24, 2022, 12:32 PM The voting was over and almost all ballots were counted. News outlets on Nov. 7, 2020, had called the presidential race for Joe Biden. But the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was just beginning to fight. Convinced the White House had been stolen from Donald Trump, Stewart Rhodes exhorted his followers to action. “We must now ... refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol,” Rhodes declared. Authorities allege Rhodes and his band of extremists would spend the next several weeks after Election Day, Nov. 3, amassing weapons, organizing paramilitary training and readying armed teams with a singular goal: stopping Biden from becoming president. Their plot would come to a head on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors say, when Oath Keepers in battle gear were captured on camera shouldering their way through the crowd of Trump supporters and storming the Capitol in military-style stack formation. Related video: Wisconsin alderman resigns following Oath Keepers membership leak Court documents in the case against Rhodes and four co-defendants — whose trial opens Tuesday with jury selection in Washington's federal court — paint a picture of a group so determined to overturn Biden's victory that some members were prepared to lose their lives to do so. It's the biggest test for the Justice Department’s efforts to hold accountable those responsible for the Capitol attack. Rioters temporarily halted the certification of Biden's victory by sheer force, pummeling police officers in hand-to-hand fighting as they rammed their way into the building, forcing Congress to adjourn as lawmakers and staff hid from the mob. Despite nearly 900 arrests and hundreds of convictions in the riot, Rhodes and four Oath Keeper associates — Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell — are the first to stand trial on the rare and difficult-to-prove charge of seditious conspiracy. The Oath Keepers accuse prosecutors of twisting their words and insist there was never any plan to attack the Capitol. They say they were in Washington to provide security at events for figures such as Trump ally Roger Stone before Trump's big outdoor rally near the White House on Jan. 6. Their preparations, training, gear and weapons were to protect themselves against potential violence from left-wing antifa activists or to be ready if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to call up a militia. Rhodes' lawyers have signaled their defense will focus on his belief that Trump would take that action. But Trump never did, so Rhodes went home, his lawyers have said. ___ On Nov. 9, 2020, less than a week after the election, Rhodes held a conference call and rallied the Oath Keepers to go to Washington and fight. He expressed hope that antifa (anti-fascist) activists would start clashes because that would give Trump the “reason and rationale for dropping the Insurrection Act." ”You've got to go there and you’ve got to make sure that he knows that you are willing to die to fight for this country," Rhodes told his people, according to a transcript filed in court. By December, Rhodes and the Oath Keepers had set their sights on Congress' certification of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, prosecutors say. On Dec. 23, he published an open letter on the Oath Keepers website declaring that “tens of thousands of patriot Americans, both veterans and nonveterans” would be in Washington. He warned they might have to “take to arms in defense of our God given liberty.” As 2021 approached, Rhodes spent $7,000 on two night-vision devices and a weapon sight and sent them to someone outside Washington, authorities say. Over several days in early January, he would spend an additional $15,500 on guns, magazines, mounts, sights and other equipment, according to court documents. ___ Rhodes had instructed Oath Keepers to be ready, if asked, to secure the White House perimeter and “use lethal force if necessary” against anyone, including the National Guard, who might try to remove Trump from the White House, according to court documents. On Jan. 5, Meggs and the Florida Oath Keepers brought gun boxes, rifle cases and suitcases filled with ammunition to the Virginia hotel where the “quick reaction force” teams would be on standby, according to prosecutors. A team from Arizona brought weapons, ammunition, and supplies to last 30 days, according to court papers. A team from North Carolina had rifles in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot, prosecutors have said. At the Capitol, the Oath Keepers formed two teams, military “stacks,” prosecutors say. Some members of the first stack headed toward the House in search of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., but couldn’t find her, according to court documents. Members of the second stack confronted officers inside the Capitol Rotunda, prosecutors allege. Rhodes isn't accused of going inside the Capitol but was seen huddled with members outside after the riot. Rhodes and others then walked to the nearby Phoenix Park Hotel, prosecutors say. In a private suite there, Rhodes called someone on the phone with an urgent message for Trump, according to an Oath Keeper who says he witnessed it. Rhodes repeatedly urged the person on the phone to tell Trump to call upon militia groups to fight to keep the president in power, court papers say. The person denied Rhodes' request to speak directly to Trump. “I just want to fight,” Rhodes said after hanging up, according to court papers. Authorities have not disclosed the name of the person they believe Rhodes was speaking to on the call. That night, Rhodes and other Oath Keepers went to dinner in Virginia. In messages over the course of the evening, they indicated their fight was far from over. “Patriots entering their own Capitol to send a message to the traitors is NOTHING compared to what’s coming,” Rhodes wrote. Rhodes returned to Texas after the Jan. 6 attack and remained free for a year before his arrest in January 2022. In interviews before he was jailed, he sought to distance himself from Oath Keepers who went inside the Capitol, saying that was a mistake. He also continued to push the lie the election was stolen and said the Jan. 6 investigation was politically motivated. | |
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| 09-24-22 04:23pm - 820 days | #430 | |
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Dangle Trump declares victory. On September 24, 2022, Dangle Trump declared victory on Fox News, the only real news station in America. Dangle screamed: "The courts have vindicated me. I am innocent. They have given back my liberty and honor, and all the classified papers I have de-classified. Now, I can sell them to my friends in gaChwinwa, Russia, and North Korea. There is a bidding war that gladdens my heart. All my true friends want to read the papers I took to my Florida home, because they want to know the real truth of my struggles to Make America Great Again. And with the money I am making from these papers, I can afford to run again for the Whitest House, that is my true home in the great state of Washington, DC". | |
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| 09-25-22 06:48am - 819 days | #431 | |
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Dangle Trump, the most stable genius the Nazi world has ever produced, has the power to de-classify documents by the power of his mind. His lawyers are too stupid to acknowledge Dangle's powers. Dangle needs better lawyers, like Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen, who can get Dangle past the civil and criminal suits Dangle is facing. Also, Dangle is separately mulling the idea of forming the New American Nazi Party of Whitest People to Make America Great Again, in tribute of Ronald Reagan and Roy Cohn, Trump's heroes. "Why can't I find people like these to help me make America great again in my image?" Dangle screams loudly. ----- ----- Trump Claims He Declassified Documents. Why Don't His Lawyers Say So in Court? Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage Fri, September 23, 2022 at 5:14 AM WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that when he was in the White House, his powers were so broad he could declassify virtually any document by simply “thinking about it.” That argument — which came as he defended his decision to retain government documents in his Florida home in an interview with Fox host Sean Hannity — underscored a widening gap between the former president and his lawyers. By contrast, they have so far been unwilling to repeat Trump’s declassification claim in court, as they counter a federal investigation into his handling of government documents. Over the past week, a federal appeals court in Atlanta — along with Trump’s choice for a special master to review the documents seized last month — undermined a bulwark of his effort to justify his actions: Both suggested that there was no evidence to support the assertion that Trump had declassified everything — in writing, verbally or wordlessly — despite what the former president may have said on TV. On Thursday, the special master, Judge Raymond Dearie, also appeared to take aim at another one of Trump’s excuses — that federal agents had planted some of the records when they searched his Mar-a-Lago estate. In an order issued after the appellate court had ruled, Dearie instructed Trump’s lawyers to let him know if there were any discrepancies between the documents that were kept at Mar-a-Lago and those that the FBI said it had hauled away. By the time the Hannity interview aired late Wednesday, a three-judge appellate panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which included two jurists appointed by Trump — had blocked part of a lower court order favorable to the former president. The panel brushed aside the suggestion that he had declassified 100 highly sensitive documents found in his residential and storage areas as both unfounded and irrelevant. The court wrote that there was “no evidence that any of these records were declassified” and took note of the fact that, when Trump’s lawyers appeared before Dearie this week, they too “resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents.” The appellate panel went on to declare that the declassification issue, which Trump has repeatedly thrust at the center of the case, was “a red herring” that would not have factored into its ruling even if it had been extensively argued before them. Even if Trump had, in fact declassified the records, the judges wrote, he was still bound by federal law, including the Presidential Records Act, that required him to return all government documents, classified or unclassified, when he left office. Declassifying an official document would not alone “render it personal” or turn it into a possession he could hold onto after leaving office, the court said. The judges in Atlanta were not alone in their opinion. One day earlier, Dearie expressed a similar form of skepticism. He pointedly told Trump’s legal team that since the classified documents were clearly marked classified, he intended to consider them as classified — unless they offered evidence to the contrary. Wednesday’s ruling was a major victory for the Justice Department, which argued that the earlier decision by Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, had hamstrung its investigation and hampered the intelligence community’s ability to conduct a separate intelligence assessment. On Thursday, Cannon modified her order for the special master review to exclude documents marked as classified, in line with the appeals court decision. Nonetheless, the order seemed to raise new questions. Cannon did not issue a written opinion explaining why she had taken that step before Trump indicated whether he would appeal to the Supreme Court. By preemptively removing the portions of the order that the appeals court had blocked, she may have rendered any further litigation over the matter moot. Trump’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment. Shortly after Cannon’s order was issued, Dearie released his own scheduling order for the review that will now be focused only on the roughly 11,000 documents that are not marked as classified. Under his plan, the two sides would identify any disputes over whether the records are government or personal property, or privileged or unprivileged, by Oct. 21. After Cannon rules on the disputed files, Dearie said, he will entertain a motion, should Trump wish to file one, to get back the seized items. Dearie also said he would not seek any compensation since he is still actively hearing cases, but would hire a retired magistrate judge from the Eastern District of New York, James Orenstein, to assist him at a rate of $500 per hour. Trump will still have to foot the bill, as specified in a previous ruling by Cannon. It remains possible that Trump’s lawyers will appeal the matter to the Supreme Court, hoping to get the court’s conservative majority to frame a broad new definition of presidential authority that the government says is at variance with judicial precedent and norms. But the lawyers might also pursue a narrower strategy, seeking to delay the inquiry in hopes of shielding Trump from legal liability, rather than trying to leave a more durable constitutional imprint. During the hearing before Dearie, Trump’s lawyers provided a glimpse of what the declassification gambit may actually be about. It appears to be a strategy that the former president’s legal team is holding in reserve should he ultimately challenge the legality of the Mar-a-Lago search in a suppression motion or file court papers — known as a Rule 41 motion — to get some of the seized materials back from the Justice Department. James Trusty, one of Trump’s lawyers, gave a hint about what he and his partners have been planning, telling Dearie that they might offer evidence at some point that Trump declassified the documents. But to do so, Trusty said, the legal team needed to see the classified material first. While Dearie welcomed the idea that Trump’s lawyers might one day prove their claims, he seemed less pleased to hear them making arguments but not providing evidence. “I guess my view of it is,” he said, “you can’t have your cake and eat it.” The idea of a magic-wand process by which a president can both exercise power and absolve himself of legal liability holds deep appeal to Trump, according to people close to him. And while many legal experts have dismissed such a broad definition of presidential power, several of the former president’s key allies — including former White House aide Kash Patel; journalist John Solomon; and Tom Fitton, who runs Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group — have urged him to adopt that defense. Trump’s legal team has merely hinted at the possibility that he declassified the documents, without taking a firm position in court, where making a false statement can have professional consequences. In a letter to the Justice Department in May, Trump’s legal team first put forward a coy insinuation that Trump might have declassified everything — while stopping short of actually saying he did so. At the time, Trump had just received a grand jury subpoena for any sensitive records that remained at Mar-a-Lago, and the letter argued that Trump could not be charged under a law that criminalizes mishandling classified information. Even then, there were indications that the classification debate, while foremost in the former president’s mind, was of limited use for his lawyers. No credible evidence has emerged to support Trump’s claims, but even if they turned out to be true, legal experts say that would not get him out of legal trouble. When the Justice Department later obtained a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, it listed as the basis of the investigation three other laws for which prosecutors do not need to prove that a document was classified as an element of the offense. They include the Espionage Act and obstruction. Trump has continued to insist in public that he had declassified everything the government seized from his residence. Yet if the former president is serious about using that claim as the cornerstone of his defense, he will ultimately have to take the risk of backing up those assertions in court — under oath. Trump’s lawyers could also submit sworn declarations, though it is unclear if they would be willing to do so; federal investigators are currently examining whether members of his legal team falsely attested that they had returned sensitive materials to the government before the search warrant uncovered dozens of documents.  2022 The New York Times Company | |
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| 09-25-22 08:39am - 819 days | #432 | |
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Sleepy Joe is pondering Dangle Trump's request for a private meeting. Sleepy Joe is cautious, because he knows Dangle can be tricky. And Sleepy Joe is not as fast as he used to be, so Dangle could be a dangerous man to meet in person. Dangle Trump screams: "I will put on a suicide vest, visit Sleepy Joe Biden, and blow that traitor to Hell and Gone. This is the way I will make America great again. And my daughter, Ivanka Trump, that gorgeous piece of ass I wouldn't mind bonking if she wasn't my daughter, will take over for me in making America great again." ----- ----- The Two-Way America Donald Trump: 'I Could ... Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn't Lose Any Voters' January 23, 2016 Colin Dwyer 2018 square Colin Dwyer With less than two weeks to go until the Iowa caucus, Donald Trump remains characteristically confident about his chances. In fact, the Republican front-runner is so confident, he says his supporters would stay loyal even if he happened to commit a capital offense. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible." The businessman, whose Trump Tower stands on the major Manhattan thoroughfare, cracked the joke Saturday to a receptive audience at the Christian college. Reached by CNN immediately after the event, Trump declined to clarify the statement. On Twitter, he remarked on the rally, saying, "Just left Sioux Center, Iowa. My speech was very well received. Truly great people! Packed house — overflow!" NPR's Don Gonyea reports that so far, the reaction to Trump's remarks has followed a familiar pattern. "His audiences love it. His opponents try to use it against him — but so far, to no avail," Gonyea reports. "I talked to some of his supporters and they say, 'Yeah, sometimes he makes me cringe, but I still like him and I still think he's the right thing for America.' " One supporter, who spoke to ABC News, said he found Trump's point clear — but mentioned Trump could have articulated it differently. "He probably could've worded it a little bit better," campaign volunteer Brandon Fokkema said. It was the first of two planned events in Iowa on Saturday for the presidential hopeful. The state's first-in-the-nation caucuses pick their preferred nominees from both parties on Feb. | |
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| 09-26-22 04:13pm - 818 days | #433 | |
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Edward Snowden has been granted Russian citizenship by Vlad Putin. Snowden vows to greet Dangle Trump when he visits Russia, and mediate a meeting between the 2 world leaders. Dangle says he will lead the Russian troops against the Ukraine, to put a stop to Ukraine's futile resistance to Russian rule. "I will make Russia great again", screams Dangle, waving the Russian flag. "And then I will lead Russian forces onto the Untied States of Trumperland, and re-take the Whitest House, my home away from home, that was stolen by that thief Sleepy Joe Biden, the head of the Eastern Mafia. As President, I will take my place as leader of the Northern Mafia, the true Mafia with roots going back to Hitler and Mussilini and Stalin, the 3 great leaders of the West. Hail, Hitler, my one, true father!!!!!" ---- ---- Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden Associated Press September 26, 2022, 10:37 AM MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden, according to a decree signed by the Russian leader on Monday. Snowden is one of 75 foreign nationals listed by the decree as being granted Russian citizenship. The decree was published on an official government website. Snowden, a former contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency, has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the U.S. after leaking classified documents detailing government surveillance programs. He was granted permanent residency in 2020 and said at the time that he planned to apply for Russian citizenship, without renouncing his U.S. citizenship. | |
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| 09-26-22 09:40pm - 818 days | #434 | |
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Gov. Ron DeSantis says God will protect Florida from Hurricane Ian. Says not to worry: "I go to church twice a day, and I spoke with God. He told me, and me alone, since I'm his favorite Son, that the hurricane will miss Florida and hit only states run by Democratic governors." Democrats fire back, saying Ron DeSantis sold his soul to the Devil, and worships Satan, the Unholy Master of Hell. DeSantis says he will call out the National Guard, to shoot down illegal immigrants and make sure there's enough food and water for legal civilians. Go, DeSantis, the true heir of Dangle Trump. DeSantis also said there will be stands set up to hand out 44 Magnums, to legal residents of Florida, who wish to protect themselves from looters. I was hoping for an AK47, the weapon of choice for freedom fighters everywhere, but if a 44 Magnum is all that's given out, I will take 2 44 Magnums, with armor-piercing loads. ----- ----- Hurricane Ian nears Cuba on path to strike Florida as Cat 4 Associated Press CRISTIANA MESQUITA and CURT ANDERSON September 26, 2022, 11:48 AM HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian was growing stronger as it approached the western tip of Cuba on a track to hit the west coast of Florida as a major hurricane as early as Wednesday. Ian was forecast to hit the western tip of Cuba as a major hurricane and then become an even stronger Category 4 with top winds of 140 mph (225 km/h) over warm Gulf of Mexico waters before striking Florida. As of Monday, Tampa and St. Petersburg appeared to be the among the most likely targets for their first direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921. “Please treat this storm seriously. It’s the real deal. This is not a drill,” Hillsborough County Emergency Management Director Timothy Dudley said at a news conference on storm preparations in Tampa. Authorities in Cuba suspended classes in Pinar del Rio province, sent in medical and emergency personnel, planned to evacuate 20 communities “in the shortest time possible,” and took steps to protect food and other crops in warehouses, according to state media. “Cuba is expecting extreme hurricane-force winds, also life threatening storm surge and heavy rainfall,” U.S. National Hurricane Center senior specialist Daniel Brown told The Associated Press early Monday. The hurricane center predicted areas of Cuba’s western coast could see as much as 14 feet (4.3 meters) of storm surge Monday night or early Tuesday. On Monday morning, Ian was moving northwest at 13 mph (20 km/h), about 240 miles (385 kilometers) southeast of the western tip of Cuba, with top sustained winds increasing to 80 mph (130 km/h). The center of the hurricane was passing to the west of the Cayman Islands, where Premier Wayne Panton said the government and its opposition were working together to keep the people as safe as possible. "We must prepare for the worst and absolutely pray and hope for the best,” Panton said in a video posted Sunday. Ian won't linger over Cuba, but will slow down over the Gulf of Mexico, growing wider and stronger, "which will have the potential to produce significant wind and storm surge impacts along the west coast of Florida,” the hurricane center said. A surge of up to 10 feet (3 meters) of ocean water and 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain was predicted across the Tampa Bay area, with as much as 15 inches (38 centimeters) inches in isolated areas. That's enough water to inundate coastal communities. As many as 300,000 people may be evacuated from low-lying areas in Hillsborough County alone, county administrator Bonnie Wise said. Some of those evacuations were beginning Monday afternoon in the most vulnerable areas, with schools and other locations opening as shelters. “We must do everything we can to protect our residents. Time is of the essence,” Wise said. Floridians lined up for hours in Tampa to collect bags of sand and cleared store shelves of bottled water. Across the peninsula in Titusville, generators, gas cans, chainsaws and weather radios were in demand, Ace hardware store owner Bill Pastermack said. Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a statewide emergency and warned that Ian could lash large areas of the state, knocking out power and interrupting fuel supplies as it swirls northward off the state’s Gulf coast. “You have a significant storm that may end up being a Category 4 hurricane," DeSantis said. "That’s going to cause a huge amount of storm surge. You’re going to have flood events. You’re going to have a lot of different impacts,” he said at a news conference in Tallahassee. DeSantis said the state has suspended tolls around the Tampa Bay area and mobilized 5,000 Florida state national guard troops, with another 2,000 on standby in neighboring states. President Joe Biden also declared an emergency, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief and provide assistance to protect lives and property. The president postponed a scheduled Tuesday trip to Florida because of the storm. Playing it safe, NASA planned to begin slowly rolling its moon rocket from the launch pad to its Kennedy Space Center hangar, adding weeks of delay to the test flight. Flash and urban flooding was predicted for much of the Florida peninsula, and then heavy rainfall was possible for the southeast United States later this week. With tropical storm force winds extending 115 miles (185 kilometers) from Ian's center, watches covered the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee. Bob Gualtieri, sheriff of Pinellas County, Florida, which includes St. Petersburg, said in a briefing that while no one will be forced to leave, “mandatory” evacuation orders are expected to begin Tuesday. “What it means is, we’re not going to come help you. If you don’t do it, you’re on your own,” Gualtieri said. Zones to be evacuated include all along Tampa Bay and the rivers that feed it. St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch urged residents not to ignore any evacuation orders. “This is a very real threat that this storm poses to our community,” Welch said. The hurricane center has advised Floridians to have survival plans in place and monitor updates of the storm’s evolving path. “The biggest problem is that people tend to wait until the last minute,” Pastermack said between customers. “I’m always the last person to get prepared, which is kind of ironic.” ___ Associated Press contributors include Curt Anderson in St. Petersburg, Florida; Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Florida; and Julie Walker in New York. | |
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| 09-27-22 08:57am - 817 days | #435 | |
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Roger Stone, Dangle Trump supporter, lies like a champ. Just like his buddy, Dangle Trump. Roger Stone wanted civil war if Dangle lost the election. Turned out, Dangle did lose. And Roger Stone tried to rally the troops. But Roger Stone says: "Any evidence or videos that show me doing any criminal activity is FAKE. I'm a God-fearing citizen who swears on the Bible that I am a True-Blue Honest Man. I would never break the law. So Help Me God." ------ ------ Roger Stone lays out plan to invalidate 2020 election in exclusive CNN footage: 'Gonna be really nasty' Yahoo TV Stephen Proctor September 27, 2022, 12:52 AM On Monday’s Don Lemon Tonight, CNN aired exclusive footage of Roger Stone, longtime Republican operative and confidant to former President Donald Trump, laying out the strategy to invalidate the 2020 election if Trump were to lose. The video was reportedly taken by Stone’s assistant on July 9, 2020, one day before Trump commuted Stone’s prison sentence for lying to Congress. The clip was provided by Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen, who followed Stone off and on for three years while making the documentary A Storm Foretold. “What they’re assuming is that the election will be normal,” Stone said. “The election will not be normal. ‘Oh, these are the California results? Sorry, we’re not accepting them. We’re challenging them in court. If the electors show up at the electoral college, armed guards will throw them out. I’m the president. F*** you.’” Though Republicans would go on to put forth a slate of fraudulent electors from several states in a failed attempt to steal the 2020 election, in the video, Stone accused Democrats of scheming to commit election fraud. “If they want to run a bunch of fake ballots, we’ll have an investigation,” Stone said. “We’ll say, ‘These ballots are fake. Your results are invalidated. Goodbye.’ That’s the way it’s gonna have to work. It’s gonna be really nasty. But you cannot count on — we’re not gonna get an honest election.” GOP legislatures around the country in states President Biden won actually did investigate the election as Stone said they would, but the investigations did not find any widespread fraud. Stone, who, according to another video released by Guldbrandsen, would’ve preferred the country skip voting altogether and for it to be enveloped by violence, said at the time that the presidency would be won in the courts. The Trump campaign would go on to attempt exactly that, only to lose dozens of cases, and never proving election fraud. “Even if he wins an honest election, we’re not gonna have an honest election. They’re gonna steal — they’re stealing us blind in Florida right now,” Stone said. “So, you know, it’s not the first time it’s happened in this country, and it happens around the world. So he’s gonna have to fight for the presidency in the courts. Our next election will be decided in the courts.” Stone released a statement challenging the accuracy and authenticity of the videos. Don Lemon Tonight airs weeknights at 10 p.m. on CNN. | |
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| 09-27-22 03:22pm - 817 days | #436 | |
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Finally. Britain's new king, Charles, will be the face on new coins, banknotes, and stamps. Old coins, banknotes and stamps will still be accepted, but at a discount of 50% from face value, to align with the rise of Charles. The queen is dead, long live the king. ---- ---- New coins, banknotes, stamps and cipher for Britain's King Charles Reuters September 27, 2022, 6:20 AM LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will gradually see coins, banknotes and stamps bearing the image of King Charles, while the new monarch's cipher will also appear on government buildings and red mail pillar boxes, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday. As the country begins adapting to its first new head of state for 70 years, the makers of its currency and stamps said they would begin the slow process of switching from using an image of the late Queen Elizabeth to the new king. "The first coins bearing the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III will enter circulation in line with demand from banks and post offices," said Anne Jessopp, the Chief Executive Officer at the Royal Mint. "This means the coinage of King Charles III and Queen Elizabeth II will co-circulate in the UK for many years to come." The replacement process will take some time with the Royal Mint estimating there are some 27 billion coins bearing an effigy of the late queen who died this month. Likewise, the Bank of England said banknotes with a portrait of Charles were expected to enter circulation by the middle of 2024, and it would reveal images of the updated notes by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the Royal Mail said the current picture of the late queen used on "everyday" stamps would be updated to feature an image of Charles. Those new stamps will enter circulation once the current stock are exhausted. All existing currency and stamps bearing the queen's image will remain valid. Buckingham Palace has also unveiled the new cipher for Charles - the sovereign's monogram which is used on state documents, by government departments and by the Royal Household for franking mail as well as appearing on pillar boxes - but only new ones that have not yet entered production. The cipher, selected by the new monarch from a series of designs prepared by the College of Arms, consists of the initials 'C' and 'R' - representing Charles's name and "Rex", the Latin for king - alongside a depiction of the crown. "The decision to replace ciphers will be at the discretion of individual organisations, and the process will be gradual," the palace said. | |
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| 09-28-22 12:43am - 817 days | #437 | |
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Dangle Trump and Ron DeSantis bury the hatchet. They are joining forces to call up the National Guard to storm Washington DC and put Sleepy Joe Biden, the head of the Eastern Mafia, in prison. If Sleepy Joe resists, the orders to the National Guard are shoot to kill. The GOP is re-taking the Untied States of Trumperland. Dangle Trump will be President for Life, and Ron DeSantis will be Co-President for Life. Separately, a court said that Presidents are shielded from lawsuits that accuse the President of rape or sexual misconduct. This mainly applies to Dangle Trump, who is famous for his alleged sex crimes. But if Ron DeSantis wants to start raping random women, that would apply to Ron DeSantis as well. But Republicans cheer that Bill Clinton can now walk free of any sexual misconduct charges. Even though they impeached Bill Clinton for sexual charges in the past. One hand washes the other, Republicans agree. ----- ----- Donald Trump wins ruling in rape accuser Carroll's defamation lawsuit Reuters Jonathan Stempel September 27, 2022, 10:09 AM By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal appeals court set aside a judge's ruling that Donald Trump could be sued for defamation by E. Jean Carroll after denying he raped her, though it stopped short of declaring the former U.S. president immune from the author's lawsuit. In a 2-1 decision on Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan asked an appeals court in Washington to weigh in on whether the laws of that district shielded Trump from liability. But the Manhattan court also accepted Trump's argument that he qualified as a U.S. government "employee" when he allegedly defamed Carroll, a condition underlying his immunity claim. A dissenting judge, Denny Chin, would have let Carroll pursue "at least some" claims, saying "Carroll's allegations plausibly paint a picture of a man pursuing a personal vendetta against an accuser." Carroll sued Trump in November 2019, and had been hoping to go to trial as soon as next February. She had accused Trump in a June 2019 book excerpt of having raped her in late 1995 or early 1996 in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in midtown Manhattan. Trump, then in his third year in the White House, responded to her accusations by telling a reporter he did not know Carroll, that "she's not my type," and that she concocted the rape claim to sell her book. Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, said in a statement she was "extremely pleased" with Tuesday's decision, saying it would "protect the ability of all future presidents to effectively govern without hindrance." Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said in a statement she was "confident" the District of Columbia court would let the case proceed. On Sept. 20, Kaplan said Carroll planned to sue Trump for battery and inflicting emotional distress even if the defamation claims were thrown out. She cited a new state law, the Adult Survivors Act, which gives adult accusers a one-year window starting on Nov. 24 to bring civil claims over alleged sexual misconduct occurring long ago. 'WE DO NOT PASS JUDGMENT' Trump claimed he was shielded from Carroll's lawsuit by a federal law immunizing government employees from defamation claims. He also said letting the case proceed could unleash a flood of frivolous lawsuits whenever presidents spoke. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had found that Trump was not a government employee, and that even if he were, he exceeded the scope of his employment when talking about Carroll. Asking the D.C. Court of Appeals to address the second issue, Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi said the district's law was "genuinely uncertain" and the matter was "of extreme public importance." "We do not pass judgment or express any view as to whether Trump's public statements were indeed defamatory or whether the sexual assault allegations had, in fact, occurred," he wrote. Chin, in his dissent, said Trump was not serving "any purpose of the federal government" when he discussed Carroll. "In the context of an accusation of rape, the comment 'she's not my type' surely is not something one would expect the President of the United States to say in the course of his duties," Chin wrote. The case became more complex in 2020 when the Department of Justice, acting at the behest of then-Attorney General William Barr, sought to substitute the government as the sole defendant. That would have ended Carroll's case, because the United States had not waived its immunity from defamation claims. In a somewhat surprising move, the Biden administration essentially adopted its predecessor's argument, while criticizing Trump for making "crude and offensive comments" in response to Carroll's "very serious" accusations. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump's reality television show "The Apprentice" who accused him of sexual assault, ended her own defamation lawsuit against Trump last November. Trump had called her claims a "hoax." The case is Carroll v Trump et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nos. 20-3977, 20-3978. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis) Tags | |
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| 09-28-22 12:57am - 817 days | #438 | |
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Dangle Trump screams: "Give back the equipment to PG&E. They serve the people of California. I love people, even the crazies of that ding-bat state. The people need electricity, and PG&E gives them electricity. I stand for the people, and also stand for PG&E. And if there are fires in California, that's God's will, punishing them for not voting for me. But I forgive the people of California, because I love all people everywhere." PG&E says it's negotiating with Dangle Trump for more funds to pay off victims of fires caused by PG&E. But Dangle Trump says a better solution is to deny the victims any payment, to stall on any payments, and to reward shareholders of PG&E for loyalty. ----- ----- Forest service seizes PG&E equipment as part of fire probe Associated Press OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ September 26, 2022, 1:42 PM SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal investigators have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment in a criminal probe into what started a Northern California fire that has become the largest in the state this year, the utility said in a regulatory filing Monday. U.S. Forest Service officials indicated to PG&E that an initial assessment showed the Mosquito Fire started near one of its power lines on National Forest lands, the Oakland-based utility said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Federal investigators removed the pole and equipment on Saturday, the utility said. The Mosquito Fire has scorched 120 square miles (310 square kilometers) and was 85% contained as of Monday. The blaze in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about 110 miles (180 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, broke out Sept. 6 and has destroyed at least 78 homes and other structures and charred forestland across Placer and El Dorado counties. Earlier this month, the fire surpassed the size of the previous largest conflagration in 2022 — the McKinney Fire — although this season has seen a fraction of last year’s wildfire activity so far. Fire officials said total containment of the Mosquito Fire is expected around Oct. 15. PG&E is cooperating with the U.S. Forest Service investigation, which has yet to determine what caused the blaze, the utility said in a statement Monday. The utility said it is conducting its own investigation into what sparked the blaze and that it doesn't have access to the physical evidence that was collected by the Forest Service investigation over the weekend. “As the threat of extreme weather continues to impact our state and the West, we remain focused on preventing major wildfires and safely delivering energy to our customers and hometowns," it said. PG&E equipment has been blamed for several of California’s deadliest wildfires in recent years, even as drought and heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires fiercer and harder to fight. The utility pleaded guilty in 2019 to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for a 2018 blaze ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid that nearly destroyed the town of Paradise and became the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century. PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019, after that blaze and others were blamed on its aging equipment. The utility emerged from bankruptcy in 2020 and negotiated a $13.5 billion settlement with some wildfire victims. But it still faces civil and criminal actions related to other fires. On Friday, a lawsuit claiming the Mosquito Fire was ignited by PG&E’s poorly maintained utility infrastructure was filed in San Francisco Superior Court. “The damage done to several counties by PG&E was entirely avoidable with their knowledge and expertise as electrical service providers,” attorney Gerald Singleton said in a statement. “PG&E continues to act negligently and has been responsible for more than 1,500 fires across the states leading to deaths, property destruction, financial burdens, and ruined lives because of their poorly maintained utility equipment,” Singleton said. The financial impact has not yet been reported but will likely be significant due to the number of acres that have been charred and recklessly ruined, forever changing the communities and lives of those affected, Singleton said. | |
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| 09-28-22 07:54am - 816 days | #439 | |
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Dangle Trump rallies the troops to capture Sleepy Joe Biden, the criminal head of the Eastern Mafia. "Give me liberty or give me death", screams Dangle. "The blood of patriots will fill the streets as we fight to take back the Whitest House from scummy Dems from Hell!!!!!!" ---- ---- In Trump embrace of QAnon, election experts see potential for midterm 'chaos' and more election denying USA TODAY Mabinty Quarshie September 28, 2022, 2:02 AM At a rally in Youngstown, Ohio this month for GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance, dozens of supporters of Donald Trump held up an index finger in salute as the former president spoke. Music played in the background, a song called "Wwg1wga” — an abbreviation for "Where we go one, we go all," the slogan for the QAnon conspiracy theory, which demonizes Democrats. Former President Donald Trump's embrace of QAnon, including resharing QAnon conspiracy accounts to his millions of social media followers, risks eroding trust in American democracy and, potentially, fostering violence, experts say. On Aug. 30, for example, Trump shared a post on his Truth Social platform from the QAnon account Patriotic American Alpha Sauce, falsely declaring Trump won the 2020 election. The former president added, also falsely, "FBI has advanced this fact even further!" That is untrue. Joe Biden legally won the presidency. Trump's promotion of QAnon is reinvigorating a conspiracy movement that has metamorphosed into election denialism over the past two years, experts told USA TODAY. His boosting of that kind of misinformation could help lead to problems from election denying candidates winning office up to violence in the November midterms. Fact check: Joe Biden legally won presidential election, despite persistent contrary claims Donald Trump refuses to condemn QAnon: Here's what to know about the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon demonstrators protest in Los Angeles in 2020. QAnon demonstrators protest in Los Angeles in 2020. An August report from NewsGuard, an organization that rates the credibility of websites, found Trump has shared 30 QAnon-promoting accounts at least 65 times to his 3.8 million followers since April 2022. Toeing the line: Donald Trump embraces QAnon again at North Carolina rally as ties to violence raise concern Defund the FBI?: Why Republican rallying cry could boost Democrats in midterm elections "QAnon today is a carcass of what it used to be," said Jared Holt, senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think-tank. Holt said the movement lost excitement and interest after its leader, Q, went silent in December 2020 after the presidential election (although Q reappeared in June). However, "the election denialism space has been a huge boon for some of these influencers, plugging them into new audiences." What is QAnon? QAnon supporters falseley believe there is a "Deep State" apparatus of satanic blood-drinking Democratic elites, business leaders and Hollywood celebrities who run a child sex trafficking ring. Followers believe that Trump's presidential election in 2016 helped to root out the fabricated cabal of pedophiles and cannibals. The group's anonymous leader, Q, began sharing cryptic tips, known as Q drops, online in 2017 for followers to decode. But the outlandish theories quickly spread to mainstream audiences and in 2020 helped to spread misinformation about COVID-19. A February report from PRRI found 16% of Americans are QAnon believers. Now believers of the movement are hoping Trump will again become president and destroy the "Deep State." And Trump's coy embrace of QAnon is lending them more credence and hope, experts said. Moderation concerns: Trump's Truth Social not approved for Google Play store A protester holding a Q sign waits in line with others to enter a campaign rally with President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa on Aug. 2, 2018. A protester holding a Q sign waits in line with others to enter a campaign rally with President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa on Aug. 2, 2018. Believers, once relegated to far-right message boards including 4Chan and 8kun, spread to more mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube. The movement has been linked to violent attacks, with the FBI declaring QAnon a domestic terrorism threat in May 2019, first reported by Yahoo News. The U.S. has seen the QAnon movementand other extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers spread from the online world to the real world, most notably in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. One QAnon rioter was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the riot. Another QAnon believer was sentenced to more than two years and four months in prison for threatening to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the day after the riot. This May, Ohio resident Adam Miller was hit with multiple charges around the Capitol attack. A relative told the FBI that Miller was a follower of QAnon, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. 2020 presidential election fallout: President Trump permanently banned from Twitter over risk he could incite violence Trump embraces QAnon before and after FBI search In the past, Trump has sidestepped questions about QAnon and refused to condemn the movement, telling NBC's Savannah Guthrie in 2020 he knew "nothing" about QAnon. Trump retweeted QAnon promoting accounts at least 315 times before he was permanently suspended from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021, according to Media Matters for America. But now, Truth Social has at least 47 verified QAnon-promoting accounts with more than 10,000 followers, according to NewsGuard's report. There were a total of 88 unverified and verified accounts with more than 10,000 followers. Twitter previously banned 32 of those accounts from its platform, according to NewsGuard. In one example, Trump reshared the QAnon-promoting account @GodandCountryy quoting former President John F. Kennedy, saying "I know there is a God-I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it- if he has a place then I am ready-we see the hand." In the QAnon vernacular, “the storm” refers to the day when the Deep State network of child sex traffickers will be arrested by Trump and executed. The latest political news: Sign up for USA TODAY's OnPolitics newsletter Tens of thousands of QAnon Twitter and Facebook accounts, along with Trump, were banned in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. “We found with our report that a lot of these prominent QAnon supporters who were spreading these ideas on Twitter and other platforms back in 2020 are now doing the same on Truth Social with less blowback because there are less researchers and journalists on Truth Social,” said Jack Brewster, a lead author for the report. Truth Social, which markets itself toward conservatives, has a much smaller reach than Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Reddit. Truth Social is currently ranked #45 on the top iPhone free app download charts, far below Facebook at #4, according to Sensor Tower. And the social media platform was recently banned from the Google Play store over content moderation problems. Text with USA TODAY politics: Elections news right on your phone, from our top reporters Trump Media & Technology Group, creator of Truth Social, did not answer USA TODAY's questions about Trump promoting QAnon accounts. Instead, Shannon Devine, a managing partner at MZ Group, called USA TODAY's request for comment "actual malice." QAnon threats to the electoral system Experts worry QAnon conspiracy theorists could harm groups and volunteers who work on elections. Law enforcement safety: Threats toward FBI, law enforcement were already on the rise. Then came Mar-a-Lago "Adherents of QAnon have committed violence in the past, so it's always a concern," said Kathryn Olmsted, a professor of history at the University of California, Davis who studies conspiracy theories. Olmstead said Trump previously toyed with Qanon. "He sort of winked at them, mentioned the 'storm' and refused to denounce them," she said. But now he's openly using their visual images on Truth Social and using their slogan, Olmstead said. "It's playing with fire." In one example of Trump explicitly embracing QAnon content, he shared an image of himself on Sept. 12 wearing a Q lapel pin. The image also included the phrase “the storm is coming” and "Wwg1wga” the QAnon abbreviation for "Where we go one, we go all." Biden speech: Does Biden risk a backlash after going on offense against MAGA Republicans in Pa. speech? Local election officials are facing an unprecedented wave of threats and intimidation in the lead up to the 2022 midterms. A 2021 report from the Brennan Center for Justice found 1 in 6 election officials were threatened because of their job. Already pushed to their limits, some elections officials told USA TODAY they "dread" the 2024 presidential election. Similarly, Mike Rothschild, a QAnon conspiracy theorist expert and author of the book "The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything," said Trump's promotion of QAnon contributes to an "atmosphere of tension, that anything could happen, that there's going to be violence and there's so much chaos going on." QAnon candidates running for Congress and local election roles QAnon believers aren't just online. Many are running for office. In 2020 two candidates out of 106 who expressed support for QAnon were elected to Congress: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. This election cycle, 65 current or former congressional candidates are linked to QAnon, according to Media Matters for America, a left-leaning media watchdog group. With some of these candidates already winning their primaries, it's almost certain that more QAnon supporting candidates will be elected to Congress after the midterms. | |
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| 09-28-22 07:55am - 816 days | #440 | |
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Article continues: And it's not just on the congressional level. Many are running for governor, secretary of state, school boards and city councils. What is QAnon?: What to know about the baseless, far-right conspiracy theory "And some of these people have already said they will not certify any Democrat who wins. They wouldn't have certified Joe Biden," Rothschild said. QAnon-promoting podcasterTerpsehore “Tore” Maras, for example, is running for Ohio secretary of state. Media Matters President Angelo Carusone said a particularly worrisome part of the QAnon movement is the recruitment to the election judge pipeline. Biden condemns extremism President Joe Biden has become more vocal in condemning extremist violence. During a prime-time speech on Sept. 2 Biden explicitly called out the former president. "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," said Biden. Midterms: 'MAGA forces' determined to 'take country backwards,' Biden says in speech But most experts said calls to tamp down extremism and QAnon believers are more effective coming from Trump—who has not indicated he will speak out against some of his most vocal supporters. Craig, of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said that when social media companies actually enforce their own policies against QAnon conspiracists and other violent content, it is effective. "We did see in 2020, that when they applied their policies and when they decided to make decisions behind the scenes, it did greatly reduce the spread of election disinformation," Craig said. "It did greatly reduce the spread of vitriol." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump embrace of QAnon spurs fears of violence in midterms | |
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| 09-28-22 08:14pm - 816 days | #441 | |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says God told him Hurricane Ian would miss Florida. The hurrican swamped parts of Florida on Wednesday, knocking out power to 1.8 million people. DeSantis says "Not to worry." Republicans will be available to help out legally registered Republicans who need help. But illegal immigrants, and Democrats, will have to depend on Sleepy Joe Biden, the head of the Eastern Mafia, for any aid. "We have money, but only enough for true, blue Republicans, who will make America great again. Sleepy Democrats and illegal immigrants should leave the state, while we are helping the true citizens of our great state of Florida." Also, the Florida governor is mulling a curfew “for life-saving purposes,” saying violators may face second-degree misdemeanor charges. "Shoot to kill", screams DeSantis, "this is the best time to get rid of scummy Democrats and illegal immigrants during the storm, when no one will notice they are missing." Sleepy Joe Biden vows to send ambulances and food to Florida. But DeSantis screams "We don't need your blood money. We stand on our on two feet, like Proud Americans!!!!" ----- ----- Ian swamps southwest Florida, trapping people in homes Associated Press CURT ANDERSON September 28, 2022, 5:00 PM ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamped southwest Florida on Wednesday, turning streets into rivers, knocking out power to 1.8 million people and threatening catastrophic damage further inland. A coastal sheriff's office reported that it was getting many calls from people trapped in flooded homes. Desperate people posted to Facebook and other social sites, pleading for rescue for themselves or loved ones. Some video showed debris-covered water sloshing toward homes’ eaves. The hurricane's center made landfall near Cayo Costa, a barrier island just west of heavily populated Fort Myers. As it approached, water drained from Tampa Bay. Mark Pritchett stepped outside his home in Venice around the time the hurricane churned ashore from the Gulf of Mexico, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) to the south. He called it “terrifying.” “I literally couldn’t stand against the wind,” Pritchett wrote in a text message. “Rain shooting like needles. My street is a river. Limbs and trees down. And the worst is yet to come.” The Category 4 storm slammed the coast with 150 mph (241 kph) winds and pushed a wall of storm surge accumulated during its slow march over the Gulf. More than 1.8 million Florida homes and businesses were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us. Nearly every home and business in three counties was without power. The storm previously tore into Cuba, killing two people and bringing down the country's electrical grid. About 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate southwest Florida before Ian hit, but by law no one could be forced to flee. News anchors at Fort Myers television station WINK had to abandon their usual desk and continue storm coverage from another location in their newsroom because water was pushing into their building near the Caloosahatchee River. Though expected to weaken to a tropical storm as it marches inland at about 9 mph (14 kph), Ian's hurricane force winds were likely to be felt well into central Florida. Hours after landfall, top sustained winds had dropped to 105 mph (170 kph), making it a Category 2 hurricane. Still, storm surges as high as 6 feet (2 meters) were expected on the opposite side of the state, in northeast Florida. Sheriff Bull Prummell of Charlotte County, just north of Fort Myers, announced a curfew between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. “for life-saving purposes,” saying violators may face second-degree misdemeanor charges. “I am enacting this curfew as a means of protecting the people and property of Charlotte County Prummell said. Jackson Boone left his home near the Gulf coast and hunkered down at his law office in Venice with employees and their pets. Boone at one point opened a door to howling wind and rain flying sideways. “We’re seeing tree damage, horizontal rain, very high wind,” Boone said by phone. “We have a 50-plus-year-old oak tree that has toppled over.” In Naples, the first floor of a fire station was inundated with about 3 feet (1 meter) of water and firefighters worked to salvage gear from a firetruck stuck outside the garage in even deeper water, a video posted by the Naples Fire Department showed. Naples is in Collier County, where the sheriff’s department reported on Facebook that it was getting “a significant number of calls of people trapped by water in their homes" and that it would prioritize reaching people “reporting life threatening medical emergencies in deep water.” Ian's strength at landfall tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane when measured by wind speed to strike the U.S. Among the other storms was Hurricane Charley, which hit nearly the same spot on Florida's coast in August 2004, killing 10 people and inflicting $14 billion in damage. Ian made landfall more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Tampa and St. Petersburg, sparing the densely populated Tampa Bay area from its first direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921. Flash floods were possible all across Florida. Hazards include the polluted leftovers of Florida’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry, more than 1 billion tons of slightly radioactive waste contained in enormous ponds that could overflow in heavy rains. The federal government sent 300 ambulances with medical teams and was ready to truck in 3.7 million meals and 3.5 million liters of water once the storm passes. “We’ll be there to help you clean up and rebuild, to help Florida get moving again,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday. “And we’ll be there every step of the way. That’s my absolute commitment to the people of the state of Florida.” The governors of Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina all preemptively declared states of emergency. Forecasters predicted Ian will turn toward those states as a tropical storm, likely dumping more flooding rains into the weekend, after crossing Florida. ___ Associated Press contributors include Christina Mesquita in Havana, Cuba; Cody Jackson and Adriana Gomez Licon in Tampa, Florida; Freida Frisaro in Miami; Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Florida; Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida; Seth Borenstein and Aamer Madhani in Washington; Bobby Caina Calvan in New York; Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio; and Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama. | |
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| 09-29-22 03:14am - 815 days | #442 | |
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband files for divorce. The husband calls Marjorie his best friend, and they will continue to focus on their 3 kids. I didn't know Marjorie could be so sweet and kind, after reading what she says about Sleepy Joe Biden, the head of the Eastern Mafia that took down Dangle Trump. I've read that Marjories wants to carry a concealed handgun while attending Congress, in case some law-breaker threatens her safety. ---- ---- Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband files for divorce The Hill Julia Mueller September 28, 2022, 6:41 PM Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) husband filed for divorce Wednesday on the grounds that the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” according to court documents. Perry Greene is also asking the Floyd County Superior Court to seal the divorce proceedings, “because the parties’ significant privacy interest in sealing the records outweighs the public’s miniscule interest in access to said records.” The filing contends that “sensitive personal and financial information” will likely be revealed throughout the case, “which would negatively impact the parties’ privacy interests.” Perry Greene’s divorce petition requests an equitable division of the pair’s assets and debt. The filing notes that he and his wife have already separated. “Marriage is a wonderful thing and I’m a firm believer in it. Our society is formed by a husband and wife creating a family to nurture and protect,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said in a statement shared with The Hill. “Together, Perry and I formed our family and raised three great kids. He gave me the best job title you can ever earn: Mom. I’ll always be grateful for how great of a dad he is to our children,” she said, adding that the matter is “private and personal.” The congresswoman didn’t directly mention the divorce filing in her statement, but signed a document included in the Floyd County court docket confirming receipt of her husband’s divorce filings. In a statement obtained by the Hill, Perry Greene called Marjorie Taylor Greene his “best friend” and said the pair are heading in different directions. “Our family is our most important thing we have done. As we go on different paths we will continue to focus on our 3 incredible kids and their future endeavors and our friendship,” Perry Greene said. | |
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| 09-29-22 03:24am - 815 days | #443 | |
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Dangle Trump offers to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine. Dangle Trump, the most powerful leader in the world after Vlad Putin, has put his power to use to stop the war in Ukraine. "I will stop the Untied States of Trumperland from invading Russian territory", screams Dangle. "And save the lives of innocent Ukraine women and children. And if there are any good-looking babes that need rescue, I can grab them by the pussy, and offer hope and sex while I work on peace". Earlier, in March, Trump said he would send nuclear submarines to go "up and down" Russia's coast to pressure Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Trump also suggested that the US put Chinese flags on its fighter jets and use them to "bomb the shit" out of Russia. Dangle Trump is the greatest war hero the Untied States of Trumperland has ever seen. ----- ----- Trump is offering to 'head up' a group to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine Business Insider Cheryl Teh September 28, 2022, 10:11 PM Trump suggested heading up a team to arrange a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia. Referencing the leak in the Nord Stream pipeline, Trump said it's time to "get a negotiated deal." "The entire World is at stake," the former president wrote on Truth Social. Former President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that he could lead a team to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia. In several posts on Truth Social, Trump referenced the unprecedented leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines while offering ideas on what he could contribute to the situation. In his first post, Trump claimed the pipeline had been sabotaged, which "could lead to major escalation, or War!" "U.S. 'Leadership' should remain 'cool, calm, and dry' on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet," the former president wrote. Trump also repeated his claim that the Ukraine war would never have happened if he had been president and offered solutions to the situation. "Do not make matters worse with the pipeline blowup. Be strategic, be smart (brilliant!), get a negotiated deal done NOW," Trump wrote. "Both sides need and want it. The entire World is at stake. I will head up group???" A representative at Trump's post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Trump's suggestion that he head up a team to de-escalate tensions with Russia stands in stark contrast to some statements he made in the early days of the Ukraine war. In March, Trump said he would send nuclear submarines to go "up and down" Russia's coast to pressure Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Trump also suggested that the US put Chinese flags on its fighter jets and use them to "bomb the shit" out of Russia. Trump's saber-rattling came after he commended Russian President Vladimir Putin for the latter's actions in relation to Ukraine. In February, Trump lauded Putin's justification for invading Ukraine as "savvy" and "genius." Later that month, Trump called Putin "smart" for supposedly "playing" President Joe Biden "like a drum." Trump's comments on Wednesday were not the first time he has called for Russia and Ukraine to "figure out" a solution. In April, he said the two countries should negotiate peace "now — not later — when everyone will be DEAD!" That same month, a 2019 clip surfaced of Trump suggesting to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he "get together" with Putin to solve their "problem," which prompted a look of shock and disgust from the Ukrainian leader. It is unclear how effective Trump would be as a negotiator, but he is known to have had significant ties with Russia. The former president spent decades trying to break ground in Moscow with his business. Last June, Putin praised Trump for being an "extraordinary" and "talented" individual last June. Special counsel Robert Mueller probed Trump's ties with Russia following accusations that the Russian government, under Putin's direction, had helped Trump win the presidency in 2016 by waging an "influence campaign" against his rival, Hillary Clinton. For his part, Trump has denied any wrongdoing, calling the probe a hoax. Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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| 09-29-22 08:33am - 815 days | #444 | |
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Florida Gov Ron DeSantis screams: "We here in Florida are strong and brave. We don't need any help from the Federal government. We stand on our own two feet. We will stomp you if you lily-livered cowards come down to Florida!!!!!" The Florida governor says: "Not one penny in tribute to Sleepy Joe Biden. We'll saving our money to bus illegal immigrants to Mass and other Far Right States!!!!!" ----- ----- Those who didn't evacuate Hurricane Ian describe what it's like to ride out storm ABC News TEDDY GRANT September 28, 2022, 5:10 PM Scroll back up to restore default view. Some Floridians have decided to ignore the state's evacuation orders and ride out Hurricane Ian at home, which made landfall on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 4 storm that has already caused catastrophic damage. Debbie Levenson, a Fort Myers resident, takes hurricanes seriously, but she and her family are trying to remain calm and do what they need to do to ride out the storm. "You get your supplies, make sure you have flashlights [and] do your laundry ahead of time in case you lose power," Levenson told ABC News. "We bought bottled water and wine. We put gas in the car." Hurricane Ian live updates: Category 4 storm makes landfall Levenson is one of the more than 1 million Florida customers who have already lost power as Ian slams the state, bringing powerful winds and a dangerous storm surge. PHOTO: Wilbur Sandlin III looks at his roof that has not been fixed since July when a tree struck his rental home in Jacksonville, FLa., Sept. 28, 2022 (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union via USA Today Network) PHOTO: Wilbur Sandlin III looks at his roof that has not been fixed since July when a tree struck his rental home in Jacksonville, FLa., Sept. 28, 2022 (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union via USA Today Network) "There is a lot of wind and not a lot of rain," she said. Another Fort Myers resident, Joe Orlandini, decided to stay put as Ian approached Florida, telling ABC News' Gio Benitez "there's nothing left" as the situation worsened. "It's unbelievable. There's a house sitting in our front yard, where we're at. It's stuck by a power pole," Orlandini said. He said his car floated away. Video: Hurricane Ian slams Florida as a Category 4 storm Orlandini said he decided to ride out the storm because he thought it would move farther north. He said generally feels safe, but he's worried about the windows in his house, because the wind is about the max he thinks the windows can take. "It's getting scary," he said. Denise Hudson, who lives in Coral Gables, told ABC News that she's ready for the worst, but hoping for the best, as she buckles down as Hurricane Ian hits the area. We have one part of the house that's hurricane safe and the rest of the house we have boarded up," Hudson said. Heavy winds caused debris to fly near Hudson's home and even knocked down a palm tree in her backyard. Vanessa and Tim Lahaie are riding out the storm, alongside their 9-year-old daughter, in Seminole, Florida, they told ABC News. "Right now, it's pretty calm, but we've seen the winds kind of ramp up as the evening's gone on, so, we know we're in store for a longer night," Tim Lahaie said. Hurricane Ian made a second landfall just south of Punta Gorda Wednesday afternoon with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph. Ian made initial landfall on a barrier island near Cayo Costa just after 3 p.m. on Wednesday. ABC News' Morgan Korn, Mark Osborne and Gio Benitez contributed to this report. Those who didn't evacuate Hurricane Ian describe what it's like to ride out storm originally appeared on abcnews.go.com ++ | |
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| 09-29-22 08:45am - 815 days | #445 | |
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Report: Brett Favre's charity foundation gave more than $130,000 to Southern Miss athletics Yahoo Sports Ryan Young September 28, 2022, 4:55 PM Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre used his charity foundation to donate more than $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi’s athletic foundation from 2018-2020, according to The Athletic’s Katie Strang and Kalyn Kahler. His foundation, Favre 4 Hope, has helped support “underserved and disabled children and breast cancer patients” for years. That foundation gave Southern Mississippi’s athletic foundation $60,000 in 2018 — $50,000 more than it gave any other charity in the same year. It gave more than $46,800 in 2019, and then more than $26,100 in 2020. Throughout that entire time, Favre 4 Hope gave no other charitable organization more than $11,000, per the report. Favre 4 Hope also donated $60,000 to Oak Grove High School’s booster club in 2015. Favre’s daughter was a volleyball player at the high school at the time, and the donation was then given to the school with the stated purpose to “assist to build athletic facility.” The school opened a nearly 15,000 square foot volleyball facility later that year. While it’s not explicitly clear what Favre’s donations to Southern Mississippi were for or if there were any conditions placed on them, they don't appear to have any relation to the charity’s purpose — which, again, is to help disadvantaged children and breast cancer patients. “You can’t say you’re raising money for one purpose and then spend it on something totally different,” CharityWatch executive director Laurie Styron told The Athletic. “Charities have an ethical obligation, and in some cases a legal obligation, to fulfill the intentions of its donors in the way funds are spent.” Both Favre’s attorney and his agent, who is also on the board of directors at Favre 4 Hope, declined to comment to The Athletic. Text messages have shown Favre pushed Mississippi state officials to help fund a new volleyball arena and indoor football facility at Southern Mississippi — even after then-Gov. Phil Bryant told him that misusing state funds could be illegal. Some of the funds that Favre wanted to use came from a federal program meant to help needy families. In total, more than $5 million was moved from state funds to help build the volleyball facility at the university, where Favre’s daughter recently played. Multiple people in the alleged scheme have pleaded guilty for their roles. Favre is also a defendant in a civil case brought by the state after he reportedly received $1.1 million in welfare funds, but has yet to pay back $228,000 in interest. Favre has not been charged with a crime. Favre 4 Hope was founded in 1995 by Favre and his wife, Deanna, during his early days with the Packers. Deanna was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, which prompted Favre’s foundation to focus on helping provide financial aid for other breast cancer patients. Brett Favre Brett Favre’s charity foundation, Favre 4 Hope, was founded to help disadvantaged children and breast cancer patients. (Michael Cohen/Getty Images) | |
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| 09-29-22 09:01am - 815 days | #446 | |
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Dangle Trump screams: "I'm being persecuted by Sleepy Joe Biden. That son of a bitch has weaponized the Justice Department and forced a fake witch hunt into me and my family, my precious children. The Federal Government must be punished. Grab your AK47s, your 44 Magnums, and join us as we storm Washington DC and hang these traitors from the Whitest House!!!!!" ------ ------ The New York Times 'Giant Backfire': Trump's Demand for Special Master Is Looking Like a Mistake Charlie Savage Thu, September 29, 2022 at 5:07 AM WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s request that a judge intervene in the criminal investigation into his hoarding of government documents by appointing a special master increasingly looks like a significant blunder, legal experts say. “Maybe from Trump’s point of view, creating delay and chaos is always a plus, but this has the feel of a giant backfire,” said Peter M. Shane, a legal scholar in residence at New York University and a specialist in separation-of-powers law. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Initially, Trump’s demand that an outside arbiter sift through the materials the FBI seized from his Florida estate seemed to turn in his favor. His lawsuit was assigned to a judge he had appointed, Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, who surprised legal experts by granting his request. In naming a special master suggested by Trump’s lawyers, she effectively froze the Justice Department’s investigation and gave the arbiter a broad mandate. The judge, Raymond Dearie of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, would filter the materials not just for attorney-client privilege, which is not unusual, but also for executive privilege, which is unprecedented. But Trump’s apparent triumph would prove short-lived. An appeals court ruling last week and a letter the Justice Department filed late Tuesday about subsequent complaints his legal team had filed under seal to Dearie suggest that the upsides to obtaining a special master are eroding and the disadvantages swelling. James M. Trusty, a lawyer for Trump, did not respond to a request for comment. But late Wednesday, the Trump team refiled its complaints to Dearie — a letter dated Sunday, Sept. 25 — in unsealed form, bringing the tensions more clearly into view. The appeals court last week freed the Justice Department to resume using about 100 documents marked as classified in its investigation, while telegraphing that the court thought Cannon likely had erred by appointing a special master. In blocking part of Cannon’s order, the appeals court panel, including two Trump appointees, allowed investigators to again scrutinize the material that poses by far the gravest legal threat to Trump. Potential crimes include unlawful retention of national security secrets, obstruction and defying a subpoena demanding all sensitive records that remained in his possession. But the Justice Department acquiesced for now to the remainder of the special master process, meaning that an outside arbiter would still assess some 11,000 unclassified records and other items seized from Trump’s Florida compound, Mar-a-Lago. A second letter from Trusty on Wednesday said that amounts to nearly 200,000 pages of material. Since that review is no longer delaying or diverting the criminal inquiry, it is not clear what benefits remain for Trump. For one, a special master will cost a lot of money. Cannon rejected Trump’s proposal that taxpayers should foot half the bill of the review, instead saying he would be solely responsible. That includes the full cost of a vendor who will scan all the materials, as well as support staff for Dearie, like an assistant who bills $500 an hour. Trump will also have to pay his own lawyers’ fees as they filter thousands of pages of records and then litigate disputes about which ones can be withheld as privileged. And far from indulging Trump, as his lawyers likely hoped in suggesting his appointment, Dearie appears to be organizing the document review in ways that threaten to swiftly puncture the former president’s defenses. For example, the judge has ordered Trump to submit by Friday a declaration or affidavit verifying the inventory or listing any items on it “that plaintiff asserts were not seized” in the search. But if Trump acknowledges that the FBI took any documents marked as classified from his personal office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, as the inventory says, that would become evidence that could be used against him if he were later charged with defying a subpoena. Requiring Trump’s lawyers to verify or object to the inventory also effectively means making them either affirm in court or disavow a claim Trump has made in public: his accusation that the FBI planted fake evidence. While it is not a crime to lie to Fox News viewers or on social media, there are consequences to lying to a court. Essentially, Dearie is telling Trump’s legal team “to put up or shut up,” said Julie O’Sullivan, a Georgetown University professor of white-collar law. “They thought it was a win to win the first battle, but they didn’t think through what winning that battle would mean with any reputable judge who is appointed as special master,” Sullivan said. “They can’t anticipate that every judge will give them a complete pass despite the law. It was a political or a public relations strategy, not a legal one.” In its letter Sunday to Dearie, Trump’s legal team argued that Cannon had not authorized the special master to seek a declaration verifying the inventory from Trump or his representatives. The lawyers also said they would need to see the documents marked as classified to provide any such certification. Another tension centers on Trump’s public insistence that he declassified everything he took to Mar-a-Lago, a claim for which no credible evidence has emerged. His lawyers have not repeated that claim in court. They have instead merely insinuated that he might have done so by emphasizing that a president has broad declassification powers without asserting that he actually used them on the files. At a hearing this month, Dearie said that Trump’s legal team would need to submit evidence of any declassification — like a sworn declaration or affidavit — or he would conclude that they remained classified. “I guess my view of it is,” he said, “you can’t have your cake and eat it.” In exempting the documents marked as classified from the special master’s review, the appeals court also focused on the disconnect. There was “no evidence that any of these records were declassified,” the three-judge panel wrote, noting that Trump’s lawyers had “resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents.” Trump, through his lawyers, is chafing at other orders from the special master, their Sunday letter shows. For example, Dearie has said they must categorize each document Trump claims is subject to privilege. They are to say whether they mean attorney-client or executive privilege. And if they claim executive privilege, then they must also distinguish between records that are merely shielded from disclosure to people outside the executive branch and those the executive branch itself supposedly cannot review. They must also explain why each document qualifies for such status. Dearie is effectively trying to force Trump’s lawyers to confront a weakness in their theory that executive privilege is relevant to the case. Many legal experts doubt a former president can invoke the privilege against the wishes of the current president, preventing the Justice Department from reviewing executive branch materials in a criminal investigation. But in their letter, Trump’s lawyers said Dearie was going beyond what Cannon had authorized him to demand of them, and said they “see no basis for segmenting” their executive privilege claims into the two different types he had identified. For its part, the Justice Department appeared to relish Trump’s growing discomfort. “Plaintiff brought this civil, equitable proceeding,” it wrote in its letter. “He bears the burden of proof. If he wants the special master to make recommendations as to whether he is entitled to the relief he seeks, plaintiff will need to participate in the process” that Dearie laid out. 2022 The New York Times Company | |
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| 09-30-22 07:07pm - 814 days | #447 | |
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Dangle Trump and Ron DeSantis scream: "Sleepy Joe Biden, using Commie High Tech Weapons, has unleashed Tornadoes and Hurricans on the South. As loyal members of the KKK, we will fight Sleepy Joe with all the strength and pride of our Confederate forebearers. We will never surrender to the Yankee greed that is trying to bring down the South, with its proud heritage of Whites enslaving Black people and rejecting illegal immigrants. There will be blood in the streets as soon as the Commies come down to our communities under the guise of trying to help: We know they are really trying to drag us down to their level." | |
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| 09-30-22 07:17pm - 814 days | #448 | |
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Sleepy Joe Biden is trying to pack the US Supreme Court. He's put a Black woman on the court. Shame on Sleepy Joe: Jackson is a liberal Commie who will favor Blacks and Criminals and the LGBT, dangerous elements of our society. The US Supreme Court has been roiled by leaks, that undermine the sanctity of the Court. What the court decides is private, and should never be exposed to the public, until the Court decides what to tell the public. ---- ---- Liberal Justice Jackson joins a rightward-moving U.S. Supreme Court Reuters Nate Raymond September 30, 2022, 4:26 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's liberal appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson, set to hear arguments for the first time on Monday as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, joins the nation's top judicial body at a consequential time when its conservative majority has shown an increasing willingness to exert its power on a range of issues. Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, and her eight new colleagues will consider over the next nine months a slate of important cases. These involve race-conscious admissions policies used by colleges and universities to foster student diversity, voting rights, environmental regulation, LGBT and religious rights, the power of federal agencies - and even a dispute over Andy Warhol paintings. "Given how the docket is shaping up, there's no indication this is going to be a quiet term for Justice Jackson to join," said law professor Allison Orr Larsen of the College of William & Mary in Virginia. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, with Jackson joining a liberal bloc that has been relegated to issuing strongly worded dissents in the most important decisions. For example, the court's conservative majority powered rulings on back-to-back days in June overturning its 1973 precedent that had legalized abortion nationwide and expanding gun rights by declaring that the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense. A Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted after those rulings showed a majority of Americans holding unfavorable views of the court. Jackson's two fellow liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, during public appearances this summer raised concerns that the court was gambling with its hard-earned legitimacy among the public by appearing political. "I do not think those sorts of concerns will be enough to persuade five of the right-wing justices in many of these cases to not simply leverage their raw power to obtain the ends that they are looking for," Boston University School of Law professor Jonathan Feingold said. Chief Justice John Roberts broke from the other conservative justices - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett - by opposing formally overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision even though he voted to uphold the restrictive Mississippi abortion law at issue. When the court begins its new term on Monday, Jackson will take her seat on the bench for the first time since being appointed by Biden, a Democrat, to succeed now-retired liberal Justice Stephen Breyer. The Senate in April confirmed Jackson, who was serving as a federal appellate judge, despite broad opposition among Republicans. Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican, called Jackson the choice of the "radical left." "I decide cases from a neutral posture. I evaluate the facts, and I interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me, without fear or favor, consistent with my judicial oath," Jackson told the Senate Judiciary Committee during her March confirmation hearing. Jackson is set to appear for a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony on Friday with Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris due to attend, though the justice was formally sworn in on June 30. The new term's first month includes arguments in cases that present the conservative justices opportunities to limit the scope of a major environmental law, cripple a major civil rights law's protections against racial discrimination in voting and end affirmative action admissions policies used by colleges and universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students. The affirmative action litigation involves challenges to policies used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Jackson, who earned undergraduate and law school degrees from Harvard and has served on its Board of Overseers, recused herself from the Harvard case but is set to participate in the North Carolina one. While the liberal justices may play merely the role of dissenters in some major cases, Jackson could help shape some decisions, particularly when her expertise comes to the fore. Her perspective on criminal justice issues is informed by past service both as a trial judge and as a public defender - a job none of the other sitting justices ever performed. Jackson also served on a commission that addressed sentencing guidelines for the federal judiciary. "Those are all issues I suspect Justice Jackson would care about," Larsen said. Jackson joins the court amidst an investigation ordered by Roberts into the May leak of a draft version of the abortion ruling, a disclosure he called a betrayal. "That's not a wound that's going to heal quickly. The reality is that she's stepping into a court that has endured a particularly difficult circumstance in the leak," said Megan Wold, a former Alito law clerk now at the law firm Cooper & Kirk. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Will Dunham) | |
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| 09-30-22 08:31pm - 814 days | #449 | |
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Dangle Trump and Ron DeSantis scream: "Sleepy Joe Biden, using Commie High Tech Weapons, has unleashed Tornadoes and Hurricanes on the South. As loyal members of the KKK, we will fight Sleepy Joe with all the strength and pride of our Confederate forebearers. We will never surrender to the Yankee greed that is trying to bring down the South, with its proud heritage of Whites enslaving Black people and rejecting illegal immigrants. There will be blood in the streets as soon as the Commies come down to our communities under the guise of trying to help: We know they are really trying to drag us down to their level." | |
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| 09-30-22 09:12pm - 814 days | #450 | |
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cries: "Sleepy Joe Biden sent a hurricane down to Florida, killing my citizens. I will not rest until I have Sleepy Joe imprisoned for his crimes. I am calling out the National Guard, with orders to shoot to kill, if Sleepy Joe resists my authority. May God have mercy on his soul, that heartless criminal." But not to worry. Ron DeSantis estimates that Republicans will be able to make billions in false claims against the Federal Government. So there's a silver lining in every situation. ----- ----- Ian lashes South Carolina as Florida's death toll climbs Associated Press MEG KINNARD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON September 30, 2022, 9:23 PM CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian pounded coastal South Carolina on Friday, ripping apart piers and flooding streets after the ferocious storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida, trapping thousands in their homes and leaving at least 27 people dead. The powerful storm, estimated to be one of the costliest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S., has terrorized people for much of the week — pummeling western Cuba and raking across Florida before gathering strength in the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean to curve back and strike South Carolina. While Ian’s center came ashore near Georgetown, South Carolina, on Friday with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier in the week, the storm left many areas of Charleston's downtown peninsula under water. It also washed away parts of four piers along the coast, including two at Myrtle Beach. Online cameras showed seawater filling neighborhoods in Garden City to calf level. As Ian moved across South Carolina on its way to North Carolina Friday evening, it dropped from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone. Ian left a broad swath of destruction in Florida, flooding areas on both of its coasts, tearing homes from their slabs, demolishing beachfront businesses and leaving more than 2 million people without power. Even though the storm system has long passed over Florida, new issues were still presenting themselves Friday night. A 14-mile (22-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 75 was closed in both directions in the Port Charlotte area because of the amount of water in the Myakka River. Many of the deaths were drownings, including that of a 68-year-old woman swept away into the ocean by a wave. A 67-year-old man who was waiting to be rescued died after falling into rising water inside his home, authorities said. Other storm-related fatalities included a 22-year-old woman who died after an ATV rollover from a road washout and a 71-year-old man who fell off a roof while putting up rain shutters. An 80-year-old woman and a 94-year-old man who relied on oxygen machines also died after the equipment stopped working during power outages. Another three people died in Cuba earlier in the week as the storm churned northward. The death toll was expected to increase substantially once emergency officials have an opportunity to search many of the hardest-hit areas. Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through riverine streets in Florida after the storm to save thousands of people trapped amid flooded homes and shattered buildings . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that crews had gone door-to-door to over 3,000 homes in the hardest-hit areas. “There's really been a Herculean effort,” he said during a news conference in Tallahassee. Hurricane Ian has likely caused “well over $100 billion’’ in damage, including $63 billion in privately insured losses, according to the disaster modeling firm Karen Clark & Company, which regularly issues flash catastrophe estimates. If those numbers are borne out, that would make Ian at least the fourth costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said first responders have focused so far on “hasty” searches, aimed at emergency rescues and initial assessments, which will be followed by two additional waves of searches. Initial responders who come across possible remains are leaving them without confirming, he said Friday, describing as an example the case of a submerged home. “The water was up over the rooftop, right, but we had a Coast Guard rescue swimmer swim down into it and he could identify that it appeared to be human remains. We do not know exactly how many,” Guthrie said. Desperate to locate and rescue their loved ones, social media users shared phone numbers, addresses and photos of their family members and friends online for anyone who can check on them. Orlando residents returned to flooded homes Friday, rolling up their pants to wade through muddy, knee-high water in their streets. Friends of Ramon Rodriguez dropped off ice, bottled water and hot coffee at the entrance to his subdivision, where 10 of the 50 homes were flooded and the road looked like a lake. He had no power or food at his house, and his car was trapped by the water. “There’s water everywhere,” Rodriguez said. “The situation here is pretty bad.” The devastating storm surge destroyed many older homes on the barrier island of Sanibel, Florida, and gouged crevices into its sand dunes. Taller condominium buildings were intact but with the bottom floor blown out. Trees and utility poles were strewn everywhere. Municipal rescuers, private teams and the Coast Guard used boats and helicopters Friday to evacuate residents who stayed for the storm and then were cut off from the mainland when a causeway collapsed. Volunteers who went to the island on personal watercraft helped escort an elderly couple to an area where Coast Guard rescuers took them aboard a helicopter. Hours after weakening to a tropical storm while crossing the Florida peninsula, Ian regained strength Thursday evening over the Atlantic. Ian made landfall in South Carolina with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph). When it hit Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, it was a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph (240 kph). After the heaviest of the rainfall blew through Charleston, Will Shalosky examined a large elm tree in front of his house that had fallen across his downtown street. He noted the damage could have been much worse. “If this tree has fallen a different way, it would be in our house,” Shalosky said. “It’s pretty scary, pretty jarring.” Ian's heavy rains and winds crossed into North Carolina on Friday evening. Gov. Roy Cooper warned residents to be vigilant, given that up to 8 inches (20.3 centimeters) of rain could fall in some areas. “Hurricane Ian is at our door. Expect drenching rain and sustained heavy winds over most of our state,” Cooper said. “Our message today is simple: Be smart and be safe.” In Washington, President Joe Biden said he was directing “every possible action be taken to save lives and get help to survivors.” "It’s going to take months, years to rebuild,” Biden said. “I just want the people of Florida to know, we see what you’re going through and we’re with you.” ___ Gomez Licon reported from Punta Gorda, Florida; Associated Press contributors include Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Florida, Terry Spencer and Tim Reynolds in Fort Myers, Florida; Cody Jackson in Tampa, Florida; Freida Frisaro in Miami; Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida; Seth Borenstein in Washington; Bobby Caina Calvan in New York, and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina. | |
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