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| 09-03-22 08:30pm - 747 days | #360 | |
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Man who made threat to crash plane into Walmart faces charges A man who stole a plane and flew it over northern Mississippi after threatening to crash it into a Walmart faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats. 'Will get the help he needs' But why is this different from a GOP candidate who calls for 'pitchforks and torches' to terrorize opponents? GOP candidate calls for 'pitchforks and torches' Tim Michels, Wisconsin's Republican nominee for governor, reacted strongly to a newspaper article citing his donations to anti-abortion and anti-gay groups. 'I apologize for none of it' The GOP candidate's workers say Tim Michels is only using a "figure of speech", that Michels is not advocating violence. And Michels can hide behind the theory of political speech, just like Dangle Trump often does. But it seems like some people are held accountable for what they say, while others are not. | |
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| 09-03-22 02:04am - 748 days | #359 | |
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Online death threats against Biden after speech. But Sleepy Joe defends the right of people to have different ideas. "That's what makes America great", he says. Counterterrorism experts say Biden's speech is dividing the country, instead of uniting it. Should Sleepy Joe Biden be replaced with a more effective leader? ----- ----- Online death threats against Biden after speech Yahoo News Jana Winter September 2, 2022, 5:31 PM President Biden’s fiery speech in Philadelphia denouncing former President Donald Trump and what he described as “extreme MAGA ideology” has sparked online calls for violence, including death threats against the president, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News. Biden’s remarks also prompted immediate concerns from senior counterterrorism officials who said they fear that calling Trump supporters extremists would be viewed as a call to arms and would only inflame an already volatile threat environment. “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” Biden said Thursday night at Independence Hall, flanked by two U.S. Marines. “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Joe Biden President Biden delivers remarks on what he called the "continued battle for the soul of the nation" at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) By Friday afternoon, posts on forums popular among white supremacists and far-right extremists called for the assassination of Biden, and named Jewish administration officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as potential targets. Declarations of civil war were also appearing, according to documents detailing some of the threats. “On Gab, one user posted a series of violent threats accusing Biden of stealing the election,” according to a threat alert from Site Intelligence Group sent to law enforcement agencies and others on Friday. Trump and many of his supporters have long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 presidential election won by Biden was stolen from Trump due to widespread voter fraud. Site Intelligence Group, which tracks online extremism activity, issued several threat alerts detailing calls for violence in response to Biden’s speech. The potential threats were posted in online forums tied to the Proud Boys, neo-Nazis and other extremist groups. “Users on several far-right and ultranationalist venues made violent threats against President Joe Biden following his speech addressing political extremism on September 1, 2022,” said one of the alerts. “Users advocated for Biden to be murdered and predicted violence if he continues speaking about the topic.” Amid criticism, the White House has defended Biden's language, saying that the president is standing up for democracy and denouncing political violence. On Wednesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre singled out specific Republicans who’ve espoused extremist rhetoric. A far-right rally featuring Nick Fuentes A far-right rally featuring Nick Fuentes, a leader of the America First movement and a white nationalist, Nov. 14, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) During Biden's speech, four current U.S. domestic counterterrorism officials told Yahoo News they were concerned the president’s words would further divide the nation and lead to increased threats against government and law enforcement officials. “I fear he is lighting a fuse that is not going to go well,” one senior Biden counterterrorism official said. “Sadly this is not a united speech but a very divisive one.” On Friday, this official said their fears appear to have been confirmed by what they described as an uptick in threats of potential violence. A different counterterrorism official said they were concerned that fringe right-wing and extremist groups will use Biden’s speech to recruit and fundraise, potentially increasing the longer-term threat from these groups. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. Some said they also didn’t want to be seen as criticizing the president. The Department of Homeland Security referred Yahoo News’ request for comment to the White House National Security Council. Donald Trump Then-President Donald Trump tosses out MAGA caps at a rally in Waterford Township, Mich., in October 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Former senior DHS counterterrorism official John Cohen told Yahoo News he was also concerned about the potential ramifications of Biden’s speech. “The president provided a powerful portrayal of the complex dynamic and dangerous threat environment currently facing the U.S., a threat environment fueled by the conspiracy theories and other extremist content that is pervasive across the online and media ecosystem,” said Cohen, former acting undersecretary for intelligence at DHS and currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. “I am concerned, however, that his words will be used by America’s adversaries to incite attacks by those who believe that violence is an acceptable way to express one’s political or ideological beliefs,” he said. Cohen added that online calls for violence were extensive prior to the speech, but appear to be on the rise. In a statement to Yahoo News on Friday, the White House said that the calls for violence following Biden’s speech illustrate the threat the president described. "The President’s message couldn’t have been more clear: there is no place in our democracy for political violence,” the statement said. “None. And that some of the more extreme elements in our society are now calling for more violence only proves the very point of his speech ... that we are in a dangerous moment right now, a moment where simply stating the truth about the fragility of our democracy brings out the worst instincts of those who want to tear it apart. The President was right to call them out. The bigger risk to the body politic would have been to remain silent in the face of such a threat." Joe Biden Biden speaking in Philadelphia on Thursday night. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Some Republicans and former Trump administration officials have been critical of Biden’s strong rhetoric, accusing the president of being divisive. “I don’t understand how Joe Biden is so angry when his party controls the House, the Senate and the White House,” Richard Grenell, acting director of National Intelligence during the Trump administration, told Yahoo News on Friday. “He should be telling America how great the country is under his leadership and instead he’s attacking Republicans.” On Friday, Biden defended his remarks, noting that he does not believe all Trump supporters are a threat to the country. “I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it is used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, insists upon changing the way that ... you count votes, that is a threat to democracy, to democracy and everything we stand for,” he said on Friday. The FBI declined to comment on Biden’s speech but told Yahoo News: “The FBI takes all threats seriously. We work closely with our local law enforcement partners to assess and respond to threats to keep our community safe. As always, we would like to remind members of the public that if they observe anything suspicious to report it to law enforcement immediately.” | |
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| 09-03-22 01:55am - 748 days | #358 | |
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The GOP is the party of truth. A Wisconsin GOP candidate calls for pitchforks and torches to light up Democratic foes. This is the kind of thinking that makes me realize Sleepy Joe Biden is full of bullshit. Sleepy Joe says MAGA Republicans are not the problem, the problem is the way they think. A distinction that matters to a politician, but not to an average person. ----- ----- Wisconsin GOP candidate calls for 'pitchforks and torches' SCOTT BAUER Fri, September 2, 2022 at 12:24 PM MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up “pitchforks and torches” in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups, churches and others — rhetoric that Democrats say amounts to threatening violence. Tim Michels, who co-owns the state's largest construction company, faces Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in the battleground state. If Michels wins, he will be in position to enact a host of GOP priorities passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature leading into the 2024 presidential election. Evers has vetoed more bills than any governor in modern state history and is campaigning on his ability to serve as a check on Republicans. Michels, a multimillionaire, this week reacted strongly to a story published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing charitable giving by he and his wife's foundation, some of which went to anti-abortion groups and churches that have taken anti-gay positions. Since the story's publication, Michels has gone after not just Evers and Democrats, but also the Journal Sentinel and, more broadly, all reporters. “I believe people should just, just be ready to get out on the streets with pitchforks and torches with how low the liberal media has become,” Michels said Thursday on a conservative talk radio show. “People need to decide ‘Am I going to put up with this? Am I going to tolerate this, taking somebody that gives money to churches or cancer research and use that as a hit piece in the media?’ I’m appalled. It’s disgusting.” That's further than he went in a campaign website posting on Thursday when he encouraged people to “Get involved. Push back. Speak up. Volunteer. Donate. Vote.” Evers' spokesman, Sam Roecker, tweeted Friday that Michels had gone too far. “Instead of explaining why he’s funding groups working to ban access to abortion and contraception, Tim Michels is encouraging violence,” Roecker wrote. “He’s too radical for Wisconsin.” Hannah Menchhff, a Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesperson, accused Michels of threatening violence in an “extreme attempt to pander to Donald Trump and the MAGA base.” Michels' campaign spokesperson, Anna Kelly, on Friday downplayed his comments. “Only political hacks and media accomplices would freak out about Tim using a figure of speech to emphasize the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s ridiculous characterization of his donations to churches, nuns, and charitable causes as ‘radical,’” she said. Michels, who has used the Journal Sentinel article in fundraising pleas, posted a lengthy response to the piece on his campaign website Thursday. He accused Evers and the “corrupt media” of turning his charitable giving and faith “into something malicious.” “I will never, ever apologize for giving to charitable causes, or for being a Christian,” Michels wrote. “However, the Journal Sentinel should be ashamed of their anti-religious bigotry.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executive editor George Stanley defended the article, noting that the paper ran a piece on the same day about security costs for the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate that his Republican opponent was urging people to read. “Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters are independent of all political parties and special interest groups," Stanley said. “We are committed to accuracy so citizens can make up their own minds and stay in charge of their government.” The Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation donated $1.66 million in 2020 alone, the Journal Sentinel reported. The bulk of it, $1 million, went to Cornell University in New York. where a faculty member pioneered a rare surgery that saved the life of Michels’ daughter, who had a brain tumor at age 11. The Journal Sentinel published a story in March about that donation and the surgery that Michels' daughter had. That was one month before Michels announced his run for governor. Michels also gave $175,000 to Wisconsin Right to Life, Pro Life Wisconsin Education Task Force and Avail NYC, a New York City crisis pregnancy center. Pro Life Wisconsin wants to outlaw abortion and ban most common forms of contraception and birth control. It also wants to prohibit in vitro fertilization. The Michels’ foundation also donated $10,000 to Christ Fellowship in Miami. The Journal Sentinel’s story noted that the church’s pastor, Omar Giritli, in June called arguments for exception to abortions in cases of rape or incest “deceptive reasoning.” The couple also donated $50,000 to Spring Creek Church in Pewaukee. Its pastor, Chip Bernhard, has suggested that people who have an abortion need forgiveness, and allowing transgender children to use the bathroom of their choice is “awful.” Kelly, Michels’ campaign spokesperson, did not immediately respond to questions about whether Michels supported those positions. Michels defended his giving to pregnancy resource centers, Wisconsin Right to Life and Pro Life Wisconsin, saying "we believe women who may feel overwhelmed by an unplanned pregnancy need and deserve compassion, love, support and options other than abortion. “I apologize for none of it,” Michels wrote. ___ This story was updated to correct that George Stanley is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s executive editor, not its managing editor. | |
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| 09-03-22 01:45am - 748 days | #357 | |
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Dangle Trump's lawyers reveal the truth: The Federal Government is making a mountain out of a molehill. Yes, Dangle Trump had some papers he took from the Whitest House. But he was only keeping them as souvenirs. So why is the Federal Government making such a big deal out of nothing? Are they trying to distract attention from the Evil Doings of Sleepy Joe Biden's son? Dangle Trump is an honorable man. Yes, he took a few souvenirs from his time in the Whitest House. But he plans on returning to his home in Washington very soon. And then he will have the power to put Sleepy Joe Biden, and his allies, in jail, where they belong. But there is a special note of importance here: the Federal Government is stating that Dangle Trimp is no longer the President. But Dangle disagrees. Dangle says he is still the One, True President of the Untied States of Trumperland, and that Sleepy Joe Biden is a ringer who stole the election in a corrupt and unfair way. Hail, Dangle Trump, the biggest and baddest Swinging Dick in politics. ----- ----- Federal judge puts off ruling on Trump's request for a special master as Trump lawyer calls refusal to turn over documents 'an overdue-library-book scenario' Sonam Sheth,Kimberly Leonard Thu, September 1, 2022 at 1:56 PM A federal judge put off ruling on Trump's request for a special master and said she needs more time to consider. But she elected to unseal some additional records related to the Mar-a-Lago search. Judge Aileen Cannon said she would unseal a status report about the DOJ's investigation. WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — US District Judge Aileen Cannon heard arguments Thursday related to former President Donald Trump's request that a special master be appointed to sift through and filter out any materials seized in the Mar-a-Lago search that could be privileged. After the nearly two-hour hearing, in which an attorney for Trump downplayed the former president's communications with the National Archives, Cannon said she would not yet rule on Trump's request and wanted to take more time to consider national security and privilege issues raised by the Justice Department and the former president's defense lawyers. But she did rule to unseal a status report from the team investigating Trump's handling of national security information. Cannon kept under seal a status report from the filter team responsible for sifting through materials seized from Mar-a-Lago after lawyers for both Trump and the government agreed that the document should remain out of the public view. James Trusty, a defense attorney on Trump's team who previously served as a federal prosecutor, said the process with the National Archives was "ongoing" even though legal filings show Trump's lawyers told investigators they'd handed over all requested documents months ahead of the FBI uncovering more. "We've characterized it at times as an overdue-library-book scenario where there's a dispute — not even a dispute — but ongoing negotiations with [the National Archives] that has suddenly been transformed into a criminal investigation," he said. Chris Kise, who recently joined Trump's defense team, had argued that the judge was in a "challenging" and "unique position" to "help restore public confidence" in the DOJ. He added that the "temperature is very high on both sides," and there's also a "significant lack of trust between both parties." Kise also downplayed the legal and national security risks of Trump moving records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after leaving office, saying the documents were stored "at a location that was used frequently during his time in office." Trusty said it was "extraordinary" for the government to push back on the appointment of a special master. He also referenced the DOJ's argument that the appointment of a special master would "significantly harm" the US's national security interests given the sensitivity of the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago. "What is the harm that they are worried about?" he said. "What possibly could justify this kind of vehement objection and rejection of Fourth Amendment law," which relates to the search and seizure of individuals' property. "I would suggest to the court that all we are talking about today is a very modest step," Trusty said, before Cannon interjected. "To do what, exactly?" the judge asked. Trusty reiterated the request for a special master and pointed to attorney-client and executive privilege concerns. Cannon did not press Trump's lawyers to explain Trump's claim that he'd declassified the documents uncovered during the search. When the government was up, Jay Bratt, the DOJ's top counterintelligence official, reiterated the DOJ's position that Trump is not entitled to a special master because he does not have a "possessory interest" in the materials that were seized as they are the government's records. "He is no longer the president and because he is no longer the president he did not have the right to take those documents," Bratt said. Julie Edelstein, a deputy chief in the DOJ's counterintelligence division, doubled down on Bratt's argument, saying the records seized from Mar-a-Lago "were not [Trump's] at the time the search warrant was authorized and the search occurred and he does not have a property interest in those records." She also said it would be "unprecedented" for Trump, as the former president, "to be allowed to assert privilege against the executive branch." Edelstein pointed as well to the national security concerns associated with the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago. Some materials FBI agents found were "some of the most highly classified" documents and "there was no place that was authorized for the storage of those records" after Trump left office, Edelstein said. She also noted that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is currently spearheading a review of the intelligence and national security risks that could come from the disclosure of information contained in the Mar-a-Lago records. But Cannon pushed back on the government's arguments, pointing to the unprecedented nature of the FBI searching a former president's home, and raising the possibility of a special master working in conjunction with the DNI's office. She floated the possibility that the DNI could continue its review but pause the DOJ's criminal investigation as the special master reviewed the documents. Cannon also later pressed the former president's counsel on why they wouldn't wait to challenge the results of the search in a future proceeding given that no charges have been filed, to which Trusty responded that they had the right to challenge the "preliminary" search. Cannon pushed back, asking why Trump's team then waited two weeks to file their lawsuit. "Part of that I don't think I can disclose," Trusty said, adding that they were "effectively exploring whether we were going to have a level of cooperation that would allow us not to have to run to the court for assistance." The Justice Department also revealed on Thursday that a government filter team had determined after an initial review that roughly 500 pages out of the records seized from Mar-a-Lago could be covered under attorney-client privilege but that a secondary review would likely result in a smaller set of documents being protected. Prosecutors emphasized that the filter team took attorney-client privilege concerns "very seriously" and "applied a very broad and expansive criteria" to make sure the government did not get access to material that could be protected. Any document that appeared legal or had an attorney's name on it was set aside, DOJ lawyer Benjamin Hawk said, adding that the filter team was "over-inclusive and erred on the side of caution." The initial review found that 520 pages, some of which were copies, could be potentially privileged, and he said those documents came only from the storage room at Mar-a-Lago as well as the presidential office Trump had there. A second team of attorneys then began reviewing those pages in order to determine if they were "actually privileged in nature" because such a broad set of criteria had been applied in the initial review, Hawk said. But the department put a pause on the process to give the court time to consider the issue, he added. The courtroom back-and-forth also delved into news overage of the investigation. Trusty bashed investigators for "selective leaking" and said the department was going for a "press release" when it made a "perfectly staged" photo public in a filing that showed documents strewn on the floor. Trump has bashed the photograph on TRUTH Social, saying that investigators made it seem as though they found the files that way and not that agents pulled them from where they were stored and laid them out. Cannon asked Bratt why so many details had surfaced in news reports that were not made public in filings, but Bratt said he didn't condone it and didn't think they were coming "on the part of anyone I work with." Trump's lawyers dodged questions from reporters as they exited the courthouse. | |
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| 09-03-22 01:07am - 748 days | #356 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Dangle Trump confesses: "I'm only soory we didn't finish off Sleepy Joe Biden before the bleeping Congress falsely gave him the Whitest House. That is my main regret. But as soon as I return in triumph, I will give my supporters a full pardon, and an apology, for not supporting them through their time of need." In the meantime, Sleepy Joe Biden reveals his stupidity: He says that Dangle Trump supporters are not a threat. What is a threat is the way they think: they think Sleepy Joe stole the election, that violence is OK, that Sleepy Joe Biden is a pussy that should be stomped on. But not to worry: the people are not a threat, only their ideas. Which is the bullshit that fills our President's mind. ----- ----- Trump floats 'full pardons' for Jan. 6 rioters while Biden emphasizes 'rule of law' Yahoo News David Knowles September 2, 2022, 11:12 AM Scroll back up to restore default view. Hours before President Biden delivered a combative speech decrying former President Donald Trump and his "MAGA" followers, who he said "do not believe in the rule of law," Trump declared in an interview that he would look to pardon his supporters convicted for crimes committed during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. “I will tell you, I will look very, very favorably about full pardons. If I decide to run and if I win, I will be looking very, very strongly about pardons. Full pardons,” Trump said in a Thursday interview with conservative Pittsburgh broadcaster Wendy Bell, adding, “We'll be looking very, very seriously at full pardons because we can't let that happen. ... And I mean full pardons with an apology to many.” At least 903 people have been charged with crimes stemming from the deadly riot at the Capitol building that sought to block Congress from certifying Biden's win over Trump in the 2020 presidential election, while nearly 250 have been sentenced. During the interview Trump said he had been offering financial support to some of those charged for their role in the riot and that he had met with some of those charged, including former police officers and ex-members of the U.S. military. “I met with and I’m financially supporting people that are incredible,” he said. “They were in my office two days ago. It’s very much on my mind.” On Thursday, Thomas Webster, a former New York City police officer and Marine veteran was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking a Capitol Police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot with a flagpole and ripping a gas mask from the officer’s face. That marked the longest sentence to date among those who have been convicted. During the interview, Trump, who experts believe could himself face indictment over his handling of classified materials at his Florida home, also falsely claimed that voter fraud had cost him victory in 2020. “The election was a disgrace,” Trump said. “We won the election by a lot. You understand it. Everybody understands it, except people who don’t want to say it, especially Democrats. They cheated, and it was a horrible thing. We ran the election like a third world country.” In his speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday night, Biden cited the persistent and unsubstantiated view that the election had been decided by fraud as a further example of the threat Trump and his supporters pose to democracy. “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election,” Biden said. “And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state, to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.” On Friday, Biden was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy if he considered “all Trump supporters to be a threat to the country.” “I don’t consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country,” Biden said. “I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it is used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, insists upon changing the way that ... you count votes, that is a threat to democracy, to democracy and everything we stand for.” | |
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| 09-02-22 05:09pm - 748 days | #355 | |
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Cops enforce the law. But the laws don't apply to cops. They can hit and punch people, and then charge the people with resisting arrest. And they can shoot people, and claim self-defense. Never trust a cop. Cops are dangerous. Enough said. | |
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| 09-02-22 04:16pm - 748 days | #354 | |
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NYC police officer caught on video hitting 19-year-old woman in the face. Cop says he was doing what he'd been trained for: putting down suspects and arresting them. The cop union says it's considering filing a civil suit against the woman on behalf of the officer. The woman sustained injuries to her face from the cop's blow, and she fell to the ground, where she was handcuffed and arrested for assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, police said. I'm not sure how she was resisting arrest, since the cop punched her in the face and she fell to the ground, and then was lifted by two cops and handcuffed and arrested. Maybe she should have offered her face in a better pose to be punched in the face: that might be why she was charged with resisting arrest. Do cops give lessons to be on the best way to present themselves for arrest, so they won't be charged with resisting arrest? Dangle Trump was not at the scene, but he offered his wise opinion: The cop was a solid citizen, and if you're not gonna grab a babe by the pussy, punching her face is the next best thing. ----- ---- NYC police officer caught on video hitting woman, 19, in the face NBC Universal Marlene Lenthang September 1, 2022, 10:49 AM A New York City police officer was caught on video hitting a woman in the face, sending her reeling onto the ground, as police officers were trying to arrest a man allegedly in connection with an attempted murder. The incident unfolded Tuesday as police were arresting Elvin James, 22, at West 136th Street just before 5 p.m. During the arrest, “multiple individuals” at the scene “interfered by physically assaulting numerous officers,” the New York Police Department said. One officer sustained a minor injury to the head, police said. Bystander video circulated online. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell released a brief snippet of the scuffle captured in body camera video Thursday. The video shows multiple officers and bystanders at the scene in front of a home. A young woman runs up to an officer and appears to shove his shoulder. The officer immediately responds and appears to hit her in the face with an audible blow, causing her to fall on her back, smacking against the sidewalk. People in the background are heard clamoring after the hit. One person yells: “Why would you do that? That’s a little girl.” She is then lifted by two officers and placed in handcuffs, the video shows. The woman, identified by NBC New York as Tamani Crum, 19, of the Bronx, was charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, police said. In a statement, Sewell said the incident and the officer who used force are under “ongoing review” by the Internal Affairs Bureau’s Force Group. Sewell said Crum was an acquaintance of James’. She said that after the woman "struck" one of the officers, “the officer fended off that interference and struck the woman with an open hand." Crum remained conscious and was transported to a hospital at her request, Sewell said. NBC News has asked a lawyer for Crum's family for comment. The attorney, Jamie Santana Jr., told NBC New York, “This has to stop, and we are seeking full accountability in this action." Her next court date is Oct. 11 in Manhattan Criminal Court. The detective was identified as Kendo Kinsey, who has had six complaints against him over the past 10 years, NBC New York reported, citing the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates citizen police misconduct allegations. None of the claims was substantiated. Crum’s mother said her daughter was covered in bruises. “I get blown away to see this happen to my daughter. It’s so painful for a mother to see that,” the woman, who did not share her name, told the station. “They are just violating these kids’ rights. It’s not right.” Two other women were charged with interfering with police officer actions, Sewell said. James was arrested in connection with an investigation of an attempted murder that took place on Aug. 12. During the arrest, he was found to have a ghost gun and a large amount of a “controlled substance” police said. He was hit with the same charges as Crum, as well as several counts of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance. Detectives’ Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo said in a statement, “When you assault a New York City Detective in order to interfere with an arrest of a man armed with a gun there are repercussions.” He said the group is exploring a possible civil suit against the woman on behalf of the officer. | |
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| 09-02-22 03:39pm - 748 days | #353 | |
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Dangle Trump warns that Sleepy Joe Biden is putting the Untied States of Trumperland in danger. After talking with best bud Vlad Putin, Dangle screams that Russia has it's finger on the launch pad of long-range nuclear missiles. Those missiles are aimed squarely at the Untied States, and a few others are aimed at the European countries that have worked against Mother Russia. Vote for Dangle Trump, and he will talk to Putin, and calm Putin down, once Dangle is put back in the Whitest House. Deutschland uber alles...err, Untied States of Trumperland over all! But Sleepy Joe Biden is waking up. And he is considering ordering a full-scale nuclear attack on Russia. That would shut up Vlad Putin for a while. ----- ----- Russia warns US off sending long-range weapons to Ukraine Associated Press VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV September 2, 2022, 8:36 AM MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat sternly warned Washington Friday against supplying long-range weapons to Ukraine, noting that the U.S. is balancing on the edge of direct involvement in the conflict. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also pointed to the country's military doctrine that envisages the use of nuclear weapons in case of a threat to the existence of the Russian state. “We have repeatedly warned the U.S. about the consequences that may follow if the U.S. continues to flood Ukraine with weapons," Ryabkov said. “It effectively puts itself in a state close to what can be described as a party to the conflict.” Speaking on state television, Ryabkov warned that ”a very narrow margin that separates the U.S. from becoming a party to the conflict mustn't create an illusion for rabid anti-Russian forces that everything will remain as it is if they cross it.” He emphasized that Russia will push its offensive in Ukraine until it reaches its aims. “Russia is capable of fully defending its interests, and the goals of the special military operation will be fully achieved,” Ryabkov said. He pointed out that Russia’s military doctrine stipulates that it could use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against Russia and its allies involving mass destruction weapons, or an aggression involving conventional weapons that threatens the very existence of the Russian state. Supplies of the U.S. HIMARS multiple rocket launchers strengthened the strike capability of the Ukrainian army, which has used them to hit key infrastructure facilities and other targets. The truck-mounted systems fire GPS-guided missiles capable of reaching targets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. U.S. authorities so far have refrained from providing Ukraine with longer range missiles for HIMARS launchers that can reach targets up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) and could potentially allow the Ukrainian military to hit areas deep inside Russia. “We are warning the U.S. against making provocative steps, such as deliveries of longer-range and more devastating weapons,” Ryabkov said. “It's a road to nowhere fraught with grave consequences, the responsibility for which will lie entirely with Washington.” | |
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| 09-02-22 03:29pm - 748 days | #352 | |
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Dangle Trump confesses: "It's true I had a cash-flow problem, but it was only a short-term problem. So I auctioned off a few papers to my buddies in North Korea, gChingeWa (GCingeWa name are hard to say), and Russia, because they were all de-classified. And my buddies at North Korea, gChingeWa, and Russia were nice enough to give me enough cash to pay off some of my debts. So, sue me for the capitalist that is the true mark of an American genius. And vote for me in 2024, when I will return to the Whitest House, to collect more papers to pay off my long-term debts. Die-hard Republicans are rallying around Dangle Trump, screaming that Dangle was barely paid enough money to stay above the poverty line, and that he is entitled to auction off papers that Dangle has de-classified, since they are now public property, and Dangle is a leading member of the public. ----- ----- Classified documents were mingled with magazines and clothes at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club USA TODAY Bart Jansen, Kevin Johnson and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY September 2, 2022, 10:54 AM A more detailed list of the documents seized from Donald Trump’s Florida estate was released Friday by the federal judge overseeing the former president’s lawsuit seeking a third-party special master to review the records, which FBI agents found stored in a haphazard way that mingled "top secret" records with magazines and articles of clothing. Aside from the classified materials, the list appears to show the chaotic nature in which thousands of documents were kept. Here's what was recovered in the search: Overall, the list described 31 confidential documents, 54 "secret" documents and 11 "top secret." 48 empty folders with classified banners 42 folders marked "return to staff secretary/military aide" More than 11,000 government documents or pictures without classification markings Nearly 1,673 magazines, newspapers, or press clippings 19 articles of clothing or gift items 33 books The comingled contents of the 33 boxes not only highlight a potential security risk posed by the unsecured classified documents but also underscore the chaotic nature of Trump's exit from the White House and his desperate attempts to cling to power, which federal and state prosecutors are reviewing in connection with other criminal investigations. At about the same time the more detailed list of evidence was made public, Patrick Cipollone, a former Trump White House counsel, arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., where he was expected to appear before a grand jury investigating the Capitol attack. Cipollone would be the highest-ranking Trump administration official known to testify so far. Meanwhile, the thousands of unmarked government records recovered in the Mar-a-Lago search were not specifically identified, and it was unclear whether the volume of the material would factor into the judge's decision on whether to appoint a special master to oversee a document review. FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8 for documents from the Trump administration that may have provided evidence of violations of the Espionage Act or obstruction of justice. Trump filed a lawsuit for a special master to review the documents, to possibly block the Justice Department from documents related to communications from his lawyers or from administration aides. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon released the list while deciding whether to appoint a special master and potentially limit Justice Department access to the documents. Who had control of Trump's records?: Meet Trump's cast of record keepers, who have taken on significance amid Mar-a-Lago probe In a status report filed with the document list, prosecutors described the inquiry as an “active criminal investigation." “It is important to note, ‘review' of the seized materials is not a single investigative step but an ongoing process in this active criminal investigation,” prosecutors said. “That said, the government can confirm for the court that the investigative team has already examined every item seized (other than the materials that remain subject to the filter protocols), even as its investigation and further review continues.” In addition to the criminal investigation, the Justice Department said in court records it is working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to assess the potential national security risk posed by the discovery of the unsecured classified documents. Although the newly unsealed search warrant receipt does not contain enough information to determine what happened to the documents within the empty “classified” folders retrieved by the FBI, one former senior White House information security official said the discrepancy raises serious concerns. “It’s tough to know, but empty folders could raise some alarm bells. Important decision memoranda and other papers often need to be returned from the president to the staff secretary for distribution and implementation by senior aides on the whole range of subjects," said Rajesh De, a White House staff secretary in the Obama administration who was in charge of securing classified documents and managing the paper flow to the president and senior staff. "As for the empty classified folders, one also has to wonder what became of the contents and what if they fall into the wrong hands?” said De, a former senior Justice Department and National Security Agency official who now chairs the national security practice at law firm Mayer Brown. Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer, said in a tweet that if empty folders were used to store classified documents, there will be documentation indicating who put the records in that folder and what they were. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray calling for testimony and hearings about the search. The DOJ's obstruction case against Trump, aides: DOJ mapped out strong obstruction evidence against Trump, aides in filing, experts say FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks to journalists at the Omaha FBI office on Aug. 10. Wray addressed threats made to law enforcement after agents raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla. FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks to journalists at the Omaha FBI office on Aug. 10. Wray addressed threats made to law enforcement after agents raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Classified documents were mingled with magazines, clothes, news clippings At least seven boxes of documents, photographs and other materials were taken from the former president's Mar-a-Lago office and included at least 24 classified documents and an array of emptied folders. Two of them were labeled with directions to "return to staff secretary military aide." The list describes 15 “secret” documents, seven “top secret” documents and 43 empty folders with “classified” banners from a box retrieved from Trump’s office at Mar-a-Lago. Another secret document was found separately in the “45 Office.” The haphazard nature of the storage was revealed in Box 10, recovered from the Mar-a-Lago storage room. The contents included 32 classified documents along with articles of clothing, magazine clippings, a book and a mix of 255 unidentified records and photographs. Thousands of pictures were found in boxes in the storage room. The list also featured hundreds of magazines, press articles and other documents without classified markings. Several articles of clothing were retrieved from the storage room. The trove of records was seized after Trump's lawyers certified in June that all records had been turned over to federal authorities in response to a grand jury subpoena seeking any remaining classified material at the property. Prosecutors cited the prior certification in a scathing assessment of how the records were handled, asserting that the Trump team likely concealed and moved the remaining documents to obstruct the government's investigation. "That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the ‘diligent search’ that the former President’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter," Justice officials stated in court documents earlier this week. Trump Mar-a-Lago investigation: Laws cited in Trump search warrant rarely lead to charges. In Trump's case, experts say they might This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump classified documents mixed with magazines, clothes at Mar-a-Lago | |
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| 09-02-22 07:33am - 748 days | #351 | |
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Dangle Trump read the story about a man in Los Angeles jail who wasn't given a bed or a blanket for 2 days. Says he is a fan of the Men In Blue. Says he will open his golf centers to house the inmates when they need extra beds and blankets. Says he will offer reduced rates for these services. God bless Dangle Trump, the man with the Balls of Brass. ----- ----- A man wasn't given a bed in L.A. County jails for 2 nights. A judge just declared a mistrial. LA Times Alene Tchekmedyian September 1, 2022, 5:38 PM A judge declared a mistrial after an inmate was held in cells without beds or blankets for two nights. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) A Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in a case against a man facing life in prison because the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department kept him in jail cells without beds or blankets for two nights. "There is absolutely no way, if there was a conviction, that it would stand," Judge Daniel Lowenthal said during the hearing at the Long Beach courthouse, according to a transcript reviewed by The Times. Lowenthal cited arguments by the man's attorney indicating that his client was losing focus during the trial and unable to help with his own defense. "I've lost confidence in the sheriff's ability to provide the requisite support for this trial," Lowenthal added. "A mistrial is granted." Court records show the man, Vamazae Banks, 24, is charged with three counts of robbery and one count each of assault with a firearm and making criminal threats. Banks was in the third day of his trial when his attorney raised concerns over his treatment in L.A. County jail. "My client, due not to his own fault, has been deprived of sleep during a trial in which he faces life because they won't give him a place to sleep with a bed or a blanket," said Alan Nakasone, a public defender representing Banks. "I believe that is unconstitutional." He added: "This is probably the most important three days of his life." The Sheriff's Department, which runs the county's jails, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon. In making his ruling, Lowenthal listed other failures by the Sheriff's Department to adequately handle the case. He said the agency last week defied his order to move Banks from the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic to Men's Central Jail in downtown L.A. so that he could be closer to Long Beach. That would mean he wouldn't have to be woken up at 3 a.m. to make it to court on time, and not risk getting held up by the Sheriff's Department's "well-known" jail bus shortage, Lowenthal said. 'Kept him in the holding cell with no bed or blanket all night' "Based on those two reasons, I ordered the sheriff to keep him at" Men's Central, he said. "They didn't." After his first day of trial Monday, Banks was taken to Men's Central Jail. Instead of being placed in a regular cell with a bed, sheriff's deputies placed him in a cell meant to hold people for short periods of time. "They ... kept him in the holding cell with no bed or blanket all night — literally all night," Lowenthal said. The next afternoon, Lowenthal said, Banks' attorney asked to cut the day short because his client couldn't stay awake. When the Long Beach Police Department, which has a jail across the street from the courthouse, agreed to hold Banks overnight, sheriff's officials refused the offer. "The Sheriff's Department, inexplicably, refused to release, despite this court's order, the gentleman to Long Beach police custody," Lowenthal said. "I was informed that they were requiring that he be transported back downtown." He said the Sheriff's Department promised him that Banks would get a bed and be brought to court the next morning. "Neither happened," Lowenthal said. Instead, Banks was not put in a cell with a bed until 3:30 a.m. and didn't arrive to court until late in the morning Wednesday, the judge said. The prosecutor argued against a mistrial, requesting that the judge postpone testimony in the case until the man was able to get rest. 'We don't know if the defendant contributed to any of the issues' "It is not fair to punish the people for the Sheriff Department's failures to provide what the court asked and ordered," Deputy Dist. Atty. Tricia Halstead said. She said a mistrial would be unfair to the three victims in the case who have testified. "We don't know if the defendant contributed to any of the issues that caused him not to get a bed," Halstead said. Lowenthal said he was also "horrified" that the victims would be required to relive their experience by having to testify again. At the end of the hearing, he sent the jurors home. Along with the bus shortage the judge mentioned, the county's sprawling network of jails has been beset by a host of problems in recent years stemming from the old, inadequate facilities, insufficient staffing and space for the mentally ill, and allegations of abusive deputies. For a decade, county officials and others have called for shutting down Men's Central Jail, which is antiquated and overcrowded. At one point, elected leaders came out with a serious plan for building a replacement. Those plans were scrapped in 2019 amid growing unease about whether they focused enough attention on mental health treatment. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors then voted in 2020 to develop a plan to close the decrepit facility as it sought to find alternatives to incarceration for the thousands of people who filter in and out of the county’s sprawling jail system. But little has been done to follow through. - This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. | |
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| 09-02-22 07:22am - 748 days | #350 | |
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Ginni Thomas, wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressured two Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election. So if you're a Republican, and you don't like how an election turned out, you can throw out the results and make your own decision on how the election should be reported. Power to the people. Until someone with better knowledge steps in. Dangle Trump, AKA Dongle Trump, the most corrupt President of the Untied States of Trumperland. ----- ----- USA TODAY Ginni Thomas pressured Wisconsin lawmakers to change 2020 election result, emails show Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Fri, September 2, 2022 at 3:18 AM MADISON, Wis. - In the days following former President Donald Trump's loss in 2020, at least two Wisconsin lawmakers received an email from longtime conservative activist and wife to a U.S. Supreme Court justice Ginni Thomas urging the legislators to change the outcome of Wisconsin's presidential election, according to a new report. Thomas, using an email program that allowed her to communicate with lawmakers on a mass scale, sent messages to Senate Elections Committee chairwoman Kathy Bernier and state Rep. Gary Tauchen, R-Bonduel, on Nov. 9, 2020, asking both to "take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen for our state," according to The Washington Post and emails obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel under the state's public records law. FILE - Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a special correspondent for The Daily Caller, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2017. Reports that Ginni Thomas implored Donald Trump† s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results has put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)The Washington Post, which first reported the emails to Wisconsin lawmakers, also obtained messages from Thomas to lawmakers in Arizona, another battleground state, urging similar actions. Bernier told the Journal Sentinel it's possible Thomas sent emails to all Wisconsin lawmakers but she and Tauchen were the only ones to keep them. State law allows legislators to delete any email that has not yet been requested by the public. "It’s not like she sat down and typed out an email to me and Gary Tauchen," Bernier said in an interview. The Journal Sentinel in June requested any email correspondence from Thomas to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos since July 2020. Vos' aides said the office had no records responsive to the request. On the same day Thomas emailed Bernier and Tauchen, Thomas sent similar messages to Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers and 26 other Republican lawmakers, according to the Post. More: Conservative group finds no signs of widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin but urges changes to election processes Who is Ginni Thomas: What to know about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife Bernier, a Republican from Chippewa Falls and a former Chippewa County Clerk, has long criticized her Republican colleagues for embracing Trump's false claims of voter fraud but she said Thomas' email came at a time when Trump's claims were first ramping up and it was more difficult to ascertain whether problems occurred. "You have to look at the timeframe when that email went out," she said. "Would it be logical and possible for the Legislature to say 'hold the phone,' we are going to decertify the election, we are going to have a recount, or a do-over, or whatever — that was probably potentially realistic, so I don’t think it’s outlandish in any way shape or form," Bernier said about the timeframe of the email. "But after, approaching Jan. 6 (2021), now it becomes outlandish." The emails to Wisconsin lawmakers came at a time when Trump and his supporters were filing lawsuits over the outcome of the election and launching recounts in the Democratic counties of Dane and Milwaukee, during which Trump sought to throw out hundreds of thousands of ballots. More: Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, acknowledges she attended Trump rally that preceded Capitol riot More: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged White House chief Mark Meadows to overturn election, reports show Thomas' decision to send messages to lawmakers in battleground states to overturn President Joe Biden's victories has raised questions about whether her husband, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, should recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 presidential election. Bernier said Ginni Thomas' actions should not reflect on her husband. "No matter what your spouse does, your kids, your family members, whatever they're involved in, you still have your First Amendment rights. I'm sure if she felt it would adversely impact Justice Thomas, she may not have decided to do it but the fact of the matter is it was probably her own opinion." "I do feel sorry for the poor lady," Bernier said. More: Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Republican review of Wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work Contact Molly Beck at molly.beck@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @MollyBeck. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Ginni Thomas pressured Wisconsin lawmakers to change 2020 election | |
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| 09-02-22 01:59am - 749 days | #349 | |
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Oath Keepers' lawyer arrested. The Oath Keepers are a private militia group accused of plotting to stop the transfer of power and keep former President Donald Trump in office, purchasing weapons, organizing military-style trainings and setting up battle plans. But if they did this, they were only trying to obey the law and keep Dongle Trump, the Annointed Son of God, in power, to Make America Great Again. So it would have been okay and legal if they shot and killed anyone who stood in Dongle Trump's way. God save Dongle Trump, the most corrupt president of the Untied States of Trumperland. ---- ---- Oath Keepers' lawyer arrested in connection with Jan. 6 Associated Press ALANNA DURKIN RICHER September 1, 2022, 1:06 PM A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Thursday. Kellye SoRelle — general counsel for the antigovernment group — was arrested in Texas on charges including conspiracy to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden's electoral college victory, the Justice Department said. SoRelle, 43, is a close associate of Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers' leader who is heading to trial later this month alongside other extremists on seditious conspiracy charges. After Rhodes' arrest in January, SoRelle told media outlets she was acting as the president of the Oath Keepers while he's behind bars. Prosecutors have accused Rhodes and his militia group of plotting for weeks to stop the transfer of power and keep former President Donald Trump in office, purchasing weapons, organizing military-style trainings and setting up battle plans. SoRelle told The Associated Press last year — when FBI agents seized her phone as part of the Jan 6. investigation — that she had no knowledge of or involvement in the Capitol breach. She called the seizure of her phone “unethical” and the investigation “a witch hunt.” She is expected to make an initial appearance in federal court in Austin, Texas, later Thursday and it wasn't immediately clear if she has an attorney to speak on her behalf. SoRelle was photographed with Rhodes outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 and was present at an underground garage meeting the night before the riot that's been a focus for investigators. The meeting included Rhodes and and Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, who is charged separately with seditious conspiracy alongside other members of the extremist group that describes themselves as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” Publicly released video of the meeting doesn’t reveal much about their discussion and prosecutors have said only that one of the meeting’s participants “referenced the Capitol.” SoRelle was also on a call with Rhodes and other Oath Keepers days after the 2020 election during which Rhodes rallied his followers to prepare for violence, according to a transcript made public in court. SoRelle is also charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice for tampering with documents and a misdemeanor charge for entering Capitol grounds. The indictment says she persuaded others to destroy and conceal records sought by investigators. SoRelle told the AP last September that agents seized her phone and provided her a search warrant that said it was related to an investigation into seditious conspiracy, among other crimes. The indictment against SoRelle made public Thursday does not include a charge of seditious conspiracy. Rhodes and four co-defendants scheduled to go on trial starting Sept. 26 have said there was no plot to attack the Capitol and that their communications in the run up to Jan. 6 were about providing security for right-wing figures such as Roger Stone or preparing for attacks from left-wing antifa activists. Rhodes, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, founded the Oath Keepers in 2009. The group recruits current and former military, police and first responders and pledges to “fulfill the oath all military and police take to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." A slew of its members have been charged in connection with Jan. 6. Three Oath Keepers have already pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, a rare Civil War-era charge that's historically been hard to prove. They are also cooperating with the Justice Department. ___ Associated Press reporter Mike Balsamo in Washington contributed to this report. | |
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| 09-02-22 12:59am - 749 days | #348 | |
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Dongle Trump rages: My life was ruined by Sleepy Joe Biden, the Democrat from Hell who stole the Whitest House from my loving arms. Not only did Sleepy Joe steal my house, but he tried to rape my wife and daughters. "Lock him up for sex crimes against my family", screams Dongle Trump. "But first, I want my time in the ring against Sleepy Joe. I will pound him to a pulp, before I let him out of the ring in total defeat!!!!" Dongle screams. ---- ---- Trump Freaks Out On Truth Social After More Mar-A-Lago Raid Details Are Made Public Sara Boboltz Wed, August 31, 2022 at 9:57 AM Former President Donald Trump continued raging on his social media platform Wednesday, the morning after a Department of Justice court filing offered the most detailed look yet at the timeline leading up to the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago. His latest rants follow a day of “re-truthing” posts largely criticizing President Joe Biden and federal law enforcement ― Trump shared more than 60 such posts on Tuesday, according to a count by Rolling Stone. In the 36 pages of its latest filing, the Department of Justice meticulously dismantled Trump’s legal arguments while providing new details about how the former president kept top-secret government documents at the South Florida golf resort he now calls home. The last page of an attachment included a photograph showing some of the documents’ cover sheets spread out on the carpet alongside a measuring tape. They sat next to a box containing an unflattering Time magazine cover, featuring an illustration of Trump, that was framed. “Terrible the way the FBI, during the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see. Thought they wanted them kept Secret? Lucky I Declassified!” Trump wrote Wednesday morning. The photograph, of course, revealed no government secrets. It merely showed how the documents had been brightly labeled with markings indicating they were highly classified; the information contained within the documents had been blocked out. Trump’s dubious claim to having declassified the documents is also refuted in the latest court filing. Trump then shifted focus: “Whatever happened to NUCLEAR, a word that was leaked early on by the FBI/DOJ to the Fake News Media!” The Washington Post reported shortly after the raid that some of the government documents seized had related to America’s nuclear arsenal ― a claim the Department of Justice has not commented on. Rather, prosecutors have repeatedly argued that revealing what sort of information was contained in the Mar-a-Lago documents would negatively impact its ongoing investigation. After plugging Jared Kushner’s new book, Trump also took time Wednesday to trash the FBI, or specifically a top-level agent who departed the agency amid criticism over his handling of an investigation into Biden’s son Hunter. Trump has claimed without evidence that the agent was somehow behind a nonexistent election-rigging scheme and masterminded the Mar-a-Lago raid. Following Trump’s election loss in 2020, the National Archives and Records Administration spent the bulk of 2021 trying to obtain missing records from Trump’s time in the White House. Under federal law, all presidential records are supposed to be transferred to the National Archives when a president leaves office. The National Archives eventually referred the matter to the Justice Department in early 2022, after Trump’s team handed over more than a dozen boxes of documents, because some contained classified information in potential violation of federal law. The Justice Department found evidence that Trump was holding on to additional classified documents. According to the latest filing, they also found evidence that he had torn some records apart. So, authorities obtained a grand jury subpoena in an attempt to collect the rest of the Mar-a-Lago documents, and in response, Trump’s lawyers handed over another batch of files on June 3. Authorities were also allowed to view the room where the documents had been kept, but were prohibited from looking inside the remaining boxes ― arousing suspicion. After taking a look at the new batch, prosecutors determined that still more documents likely were being kept at Trump’s golf resort, and they had reason to believe “efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” the filing said. That’s what precipitated the Aug. 8 raid, the Justice Department said. Authorities seized 33 boxes or items of evidence that day containing “over a Hundred classified records.” In some cases, the information was so secretive that “FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review certain documents,” per Tuesday’s filing. The FBI’s findings therefore “cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter” on the part of Trump’s team, the filing said, pushing back on Trump’s prior claim to being open to working with federal investigators. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. | |
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| 09-01-22 11:55pm - 749 days | #347 | |
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Sleepy Joe Biden is getting woke up. Sleepy Joe says MAGA Republicans are trying to hide their crimes. Says that MAGA Republicans are violent, and need to be put down, just like rabid dogs. Carry an AK47 and a Magnum 44 and shoot on sight. Shoot to kill. That's the way cops are trained. That's what Democrats need to do when they see a Republican. ----- ----- White House defends attacks on 'MAGA Republicans': 'They're trying to hide' Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan September 1, 2022, 2:09 PM WASHINGTON — The White House defended its increasingly combative depictions of the Republican Party as remaining largely in the grip of former President Donald Trump and dangerously comfortable with extremism and violence. “We understand that we hit a nerve. We get that. We understand they’re trying to hide,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday, just hours before Biden was slated to deliver a speech in Philadelphia on the state of American democracy. The president’s primetime address will directly target “MAGA Republicans,” according to White House officials, yet Jean-Pierre maintained that Biden’s remarks would nevertheless be “optimistic.” It is unclear just how he will reconcile his oft-stated belief in the American system of government with warnings about right-wing extremism. "It’s not a speech about the former president or about a single politician or about a political party. It’s about the American democracy, ” Jean-Pierre said. “This is so much broader, so much bigger, than any one party and any one person.” Conservatives have complained that the president’s bellicose new tone is only deepening existing fractures. “Biden has pitted neighbors against each other, labeled half of Americans as fascist and tarnished any idea of his promise of ‘unity,’” a Republican National Committee official told the New York Times. Republican opposition to the Biden presidency has only hardened since the days when “Let’s go, Brandon” became a battle cry. Candidates who deny the roundly certified 2020 presidential election continue to gain sway in the Republican Party. And last month’s dramatic seizure of sensitive documents from Trump’s resort and residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., further stoked political passions, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., predicting “riots in the streets” should the former president, a close ally of his, face federal prosecution. A senior administration official told Politico that the speech — which has been billed as an official presidential event, not a campaign stop — would serve as “a moment for him to speak to the people of this country about what’s at stake, what the threats are and what the possibilities are for the country to move together as a democratic nation.” Biden has used Republican positions on guns and abortion to depict the GOP as thoroughly out of step with the American public. He has argued that conservatives would use the Supreme Court’s contentious decision in Dobbs, the abortion case that originated in Mississippi, to do away with other so-called unenumerated rights, such as same-sex marriage and access to contraception. Democrats have also assailed Florida Sen. Rick Scott’s economic proposals, which they say would raise taxes and slash popular social programs. Republican leaders have distanced themselves from Scott’s plan, but because he heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the White House has argued that his ideas amount to a party platform. | |
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| 09-01-22 11:44pm - 749 days | #346 | |
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Some people think Dongle Trump might be indicted over classified documents. But Sleepy Joe Biden has looked into Dongle Trump's heart, and Biden said he was awed by the warmth and love in Dongle's heart. So, according to Sleepy Joe, the federal government will not pursue any charges against Dongle, the Man Responsible for Making America Great Again. Hail, Dongle Trump, the annointed Son of God. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., made headlines when he predicted what would happen if Trump were to be indicted. "There will riots in the streets", Graham said. And Graham vowed that he would lead the rioters in storming the Whitest House to take down Sleepy Joe Biden. ----- ----- Will Trump be indicted over classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago? Yahoo News David Knowles September 1, 2022, 1:11 PM The Justice Department's recent response to a request by Donald Trump’s legal team for the appointment of a “special master” to review classified documents discovered during a search of the former president’s Florida resort and residence set off a flurry of speculation about whether an indictment would be forthcoming. Since America's founding, no U.S. president has faced a criminal indictment, but the details revealed in Tuesday's DOJ court filing — including a photo of top-secret documents arrayed on the floor of Trump's office — showed he continued to possess such documents at Mar-a-Lago despite months of negotiations with the National Archives and a signed assurance from his lawyers that all the sensitive documents had been returned. While Trump and his lawyers initially stated that he had declassified all the documents he brought with him from the White House, their court response to the DOJ’s filing gave no mention of that claim. Based on the filing, some conservative observers said an indictment appeared likely. “Even a cursory review of the redacted version of the affidavit submitted in support of the government’s application for a search warrant at the home of former President reveals that he will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury for three crimes: Removing and concealing national defense information (NDI), giving NDI to those not legally entitled to possess it, and obstruction of justice by failing to return NDI to those who are legally entitled to retrieve it,” Andrew Napolitano, Fox News legal analyst and former Superior Court judge, wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Times. Writing at National Review, conservative author Andrew McCarthy agreed that the filing made clear that a Trump indictment is a strong possibility. “Former president Donald Trump is facing the very serious prospect of being indicted for obstruction of justice and causing false statements to be made to the government,” McCarthy wrote. “That is the upshot of a court submission filed by the Justice Department on Tuesday night, in response to the Trump camp’s belated motion for the appointment of a special master to review materials seized three weeks ago from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate.” On Sunday, days before the DOJ laid out its case against appointing a special master, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., made headlines when he predicted what would happen if Trump were to be indicted. “If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement, there literally will be riots in the street. I worry about our country,” he said. Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz picked up on what Trump and his supporters see as a potential double standard regarding former Secretary of State Clinton’s handling of classified material, and, prior to the DOJ filing on Tuesday, confidently predicted that Trump would not face indictment over the documents. “There is enough evidence here to indict Trump, but Trump will not be indicted, in my view, because the evidence doesn’t pass what I call the Nixon-Clinton standards. The Nixon standard is, a case has to be so overwhelmingly strong that even Republicans support it, and the [Hillary] Clinton standard is, why is this case more serious than Clinton’s case where there wasn’t the criminal prosecution?” Dershowitz said Friday on Fox News. “So I think the three points are: There was probable cause, they shouldn’t have sought a warrant, there is enough for an indictment but there will not be an indictment and should not be an indictment based on what we've seen to now. Maybe once we see it unredacted, we’ll have to change our minds.” Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision on whether to indict Trump will likely wait until after the midterm elections due to a department policy that prohibits prosecutors from “taking investigative steps or filing charges for the purpose of affecting an election or helping a candidate or party, traditionally 60 days before an election,” Bloomberg journalist Chris Strohm wrote. Donald Trump Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (Jonathan Jones/USA Today Sports) Of course, that policy did not prevent former FBI Director James Comey from reopening an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private computer server only days prior to the 2016 election. Given the historical significance of a possible criminal indictment of the former president, the Justice Department will not make its decision lightly, most legal analysts agree. That’s especially true given that the DOJ will seek to keep the highly classified material at the heart of the case from public view. As Politico's senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein put it, charging Trump would result in likely “the highest-profile criminal case in American history,” and one in which a not-guilty verdict would have long-lasting implications for the DOJ while a conviction might result in the unrest Graham predicted. A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found that 50% of Americans believe Trump should face criminal charges over his handling of the classified documents, while 41% do not. While Trump and his supporters see a plot by the Biden administration to damage his political prospects in 2024, others say his public statements are not helping his case. On Wednesday, for instance, Trump posted a message to Truth Social, his struggling social media platform, that appeared to confirm that he knew he had been in possession of the classified documents in question. "There seems to be confusion as to the ‘picture’ where documents were sloppily thrown on the floor and then released photographically for the world to see, as if that’s what the FBI found when they broke into my home,” Trump wrote. “Wrong! They took them out of cartons and spread them around on the carpet, making it look like a big ‘find’ for them. They dropped them, not me — Very deceiving ... And remember, we could have NO representative, including lawyers, present during the Raid. They were told to wait outside.” CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen said that message involved “really the last key issue that will determine whether or not Donald Trump is charged ... his personal knowledge that these classified documents were where they were." "Well, guess what," Eisen continued, "by admitting that he knew they were in the cartons, he just provided the government with more proof that, yes, he was involved in this.” The last piece of the puzzle re: whether to charge Trump is proving his personal knowledge & intent Well his ramblings on Truth Social just provided evidence that he knew where the classified docs from DOJ's photo were located I joined @CNN@NewDay w/ @JohnBerman to discuss pic.twitter.com/oWprtepUho — Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) September 1, 2022 The appearance that the Justice Department may be preparing to indict Trump is not the same, however, as the announcement of an actual indictment. “It seems to me that it’s moving in the direction of warranting criminal charges,” David Laufman, former chief of the counterespionage section at the Justice Department’s National Security Division, told Politico. “I think [Trump] has significant criminal exposure. Whether they ultimately decide to exercise prosecutorial discretion in favor of prosecuting him is another question.” | |
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| 09-01-22 11:23pm - 749 days | #345 | |
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If a Republican loses an election, they cry scam or fake results or say the election was rigged. But if Dongle Trump is running, then hold your horses: he wins all elections, even the ones that are stolen away from him. That's why the GOP is the party of the whiners and losers: they scream foul a lot. ----- ----- After Sarah Palin's election loss, Sen. Tom Cotton calls ranked-choice voting 'a scam' Tom Brenner Rebecca Shabad Thu, September 1, 2022 at 7:24 AM WASHINGTON — After Democrat Mary Peltola defeated Sarah Palin in Alaska's special election Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., discredited the voting system Alaskans chose to implement in their state. Cotton tweeted that Alaska's new ranked-choice voting system "is a scam to rig elections," casting doubt on the outcome of the process to fill the seat of late GOP Rep. Don Young. "60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat 'won,'" Cotton said in a separate tweet. This is the first time Alaskans used the ranked-choice system after voting to adopt it in 2020. Voters pick their member of Congress by ranking the candidates, and a write-in candidate if they choose to do so, in order of preference. If a candidate wins a majority of votes on the first round, that person wins the race. But if no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the person with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the second-choice votes of that candidate's supporters will go to the remaining candidates. The rounds continue until two candidates are left, and the person with the most votes wins. As of Thursday morning, with 93% of votes counted in the ranked-choice results, Peltola defeated Palin 51.5% to 48.5%. Related video: How ranked choice voting could affect Alaska's senate race this fall Palin also criticized the system after losing, saying in a statement that it was a "mistake" that was originally "sold as the way to make elections better reflect the will of the people." But now, she said, Alaska and the rest of America see "the exact opposite is true." "The people of Alaska do not want the destructive democrat agenda to rule our land and our lives, but that’s what resulted from someone’s experiment with this new crazy, convoluted, confusing ranked-choice voting system," she said. "It’s effectively disenfranchised 60% of Alaska voters." In response to Cotton, retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., tweeted, "Ranked choice voting gives all Americans a voice and not the extremes of a party. So youd be outta luck. No wonder you don’t like it." Former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who left the Republican Party to become a Libertarian in 2020 before retiring from Congress, tweeted, "The problem for the Republican Party in Alaska wasn’t ranked-choice voting; it was their candidates. Requiring a candidate to get more than 50% to be elected isn’t a scam; it’s sensible. Let’s get ranked-choice voting everywhere." Michael Steele, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011, tweeted, "Wrong. Again, Tom. Would love to see your tweet if Palin had won. And exactly how does #RCV “rig elections”, again? Typical BS claptrap and no facts. Defeat. It’s a real thing, Tom." According to the Alaska Division of Elections, the system benefits voters. "By ranking multiple candidates, you can still have a voice in who gets elected even if your top choice does not win," its website says. "Ranking multiple candidates ensures your vote will go toward your second, third, fourth, or fifth choice if your top choice is eliminated, giving you more voice in who wins." Palin, the GOP's vice presidential nominee in 2008, will have another chance at a political comeback. She will run against Peltola and Republican Nick Begich again in November, which will determine who will serve a full two-year term in the House. For her part, Peltola served in the state Legislature for 10 years and will be the first Alaska Native in Congress. Until her election, she had been working as the executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. CORRECTION (Sept. 1, 2022, 2:59 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated who is on the ballot in Alaska’s general election. Republican Tara Sweeney suspended her campaign last week after advancing to the election in last month’s primary. This article was originally published on NBCNews.com | |
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| 09-01-22 10:43am - 749 days | #344 | |
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Dongle Trump is using novel ways to reduce the Black population. He has helped to destroy drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi is mainly Black. So it's fine with Dongle if the residents there suffer from dangerous drinking water. "Make America Great Again", Dongle screams loudly. "I want the Whitest Folk to be Proud and Free". -------- -------- The city of Jackson was already struggling with a deteriorating water system long before the latest rains cut off access to safe drinking water for more than 150,000 people in Mississippi's capital. For years, residents of the majority-Black city have endured everything from service disruptions and recurring boil-water advisories to concerns over contaminants like lead and E. coli bacteria, thanks to failures to upgrade Jackson's aging infrastructure. With the city now under a state of emergency, officials are scrambling to distribute bottled water to tens of thousands of people in a city where roughly 1 in 4 people live in poverty. Amid the fledgling response, officials have sent mixed signals about how long it may take to restore service. City officials have said it could be "days," but Gov. Tate Reeves has said it is unclear exactly how long it will take. Hinds County Emergency Management Operations Deputy Director Tracy Funches (right) and Operations Coordinator Luke Chennault wade through floodwaters in Jackson, Miss., on Monday. Rogelio V. Solis/AP National Jackson, Miss., is in a water emergency and residents don't have clean drinking water The current crisis began last week, when days of torrential rain caused the Pearl River, which runs through Jackson, to swell and then crest around 35 feet high, according to the National Weather Service. In an emergency order issued Monday, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said the flooding "created problems with treating water" at the city's primary water-treatment facility, the O.B. Curtis Water Plant. Yet even before last week's rains, concerns over Jackson's water system were well-documented, and the city was already under a state-issued boil water notice in the month leading up to the flooding. "It was a near certainty that Jackson would begin to fail to produce running water sometime in the next several weeks or months if something didn't materially improve," Reeves told reporters this week. "Until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale," Reeves said. "It means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets, and to meet other critical needs." A similar crisis played out last year Recent flooding in Jackson, Miss., has caused mass disruptions at the city's O.B. Curtis Water Plant. More than 150,000 people were without clean drinking water on Tuesday. Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Across Jackson, the situation is an unwelcome replay of the winter of 2021, when bruising storms blanketed the state in ice and nearly decimated the city's water system. Pipes and water mains burst throughout the city, leaving tens of thousands without water — some for as long as three weeks. The crisis came at a moment when the city was continuing to confront widespread worries about the safety of its drinking water. In 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order warning that the water system in Jackson posed "an imminent and substantial endangerment" to residents and could contain dangerous contaminants such as E. coli. Four years earlier, state health officials alerted the city about elevated levels of lead in its drinking water. At the root of the challenges in Jackson are decades of underinvestment in a sprawling water system made up of roughly 1,500 miles of water mains, some of which are over 100 years old. In 2013, the city sought to overhaul the system through a $90 million contract with Siemens to upgrade sewer lines, water-treatment plants and to install a new water-sewer billing system for residents. But the deal brought myriad new issues for the city, including the installation of faulty water meters that measured water use in gallons instead of cubic feet. In the years following the installation, some residents received exorbitant bills for months of water use at a time, while others weren't billed at all. At one point, city officials advised residents to simply pay what they thought they owed, but unpaid bills would eventually strain Jackson's ability to address the system. The city ultimately sued Siemens and several local subcontractors for $450 billion in damages, reaching an $89.8 million settlement in 2020. Fixing the system could cost billions The city has also been unable to fully chip away at its service backlog, in part because a shrinking population has left it with a tax base that is roughly 20% smaller today than it was in 1980. At the same time, it has struggled to secure state infrastructure funding. Last year, at least two bills aimed at helping raise money for water-system repairs died in the legislature. And in June 2020, Reeves, a Republican, vetoed bipartisan legislation designed to help residents with overdue water bills which, in turn, would have enabled the city to collect sorely needed water revenue. In vetoing the bill, the governor acknowledged that residents "got overcharged in the past," but said the legislation would allow "politicians to say that individuals are not responsible for paying their water bill." Reeves also said there were "no safeguards in place" to ensure aid would go only to "the impoverished or needy." Mayor Lumumba has estimated that modernizing the city's infrastructure could cost as much as $2 billion. Mississippi received $75 million from the federal infrastructure bill signed by President Biden last year for water and sewage needs, but that money is for the entire state, not Jackson alone. | |
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| 09-01-22 09:21am - 749 days | #343 | |
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Dongle Trump praises Vlad Putin for cleaning house. Dongle wishes he had the power to clean house like Putin. For example, a Russian oil executive who criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine died after falling out of a hospital window. Did the dead Russian die of shame? Because he did not agree with Putin? ----- ----- Russian oil executive dies after falling from Moscow window: Reports Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan September 1, 2022, 6:32 AM WASHINGTON — A prominent Russian oil executive died Thursday morning after reportedly falling out of a hospital window in Moscow, stoking suspicions of foul play, given how frequently vocal critics of the Kremlin have been shot, poisoned or defenestrated. Ravil Maganov, 67, was chairman of the board at Lukoil, the Russian energy giant. His death was reported by Russian news agency Interfax and confirmed by Western outlets. In March, Lukoil criticized the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine launched at President Vladimir Putin’s insistence in late February. “We fully support its resolution through negotiations, by diplomatic means,” that statement said. It was a remarkable show of dissent in a nation where, even in peacetime, corporations and their leaders are expected to never contradict the Kremlin. The company’s chairman, Vagit Alekperov, resigned the following month. Maganov became chairman of Lukoil’s board in 2020, after three decades of ascending through its ranks. His death took place at Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, where the country’s power elite routinely receive treatment. Putin visited the hospital on the day of Maganov’s death to pay his respects to the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died earlier this week. People who knew Maganov said it was “highly unlikely he had committed suicide,” according to a Reuters report. “Observers of such matters know that faulty windows are extremely common in the vicinity of Putin critics,” Nazir Afzal, a leading top British prosecutor, noted acidly on Twitter. In April, oligarch Sergey Protosenya died in Spain under what some say are suspicious circumstances, as did banker Vladislav Avayev. The following month, former Lukoil executive Alexander Subbotin died after reportedly trying to treat his hangover with toad venom. Last month, Putin critic Dan Rapoport died in Washington, D.C., in what law enforcement authorities said was a suicide. Some, however, are skeptical of that explanation. “I think the circumstances of his death are extremely suspicious,” Putin nemesis Bill Browder told Politico. “Whenever someone who is in a negative view of the Putin regime dies suspiciously, one should rule out foul play, not rule it in.” | |
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| 09-01-22 07:51am - 749 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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| 09-01-22 06:31am - 749 days | #342 | |
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Dongle Trump says "We're trying to make America Free and White again. That's why Black men are getting killed." -------- -------- Ohio police release video of officer fatally shooting Black man in bed Reuters September 1, 2022, 2:08 AM (Reuters) - The police department in Columbus, Ohio, released body-worn camera videos on Wednesday showing an officer fatally shooting a Black man in his bed during an attempt to serve an arrest warrant. Donovan Lewis, 20, was unarmed when he was shot in the early hours of Tuesday by Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran of the Columbus Division of Police, the Columbus Dispatch reported, citing a news conference by city police. Less than a second passed between Anderson pushing open the bedroom door as a police dog barked before the officer fired a single shot into Lewis' abdomen, Police Chief Elaine Bryant told reporters. It appeared that Lewis had a vaping device in his hand, and no weapons were found in the apartment, Bryant said. Police had a warrant to arrest Lewis on charges of domestic violence, assault and the improper handling of a firearm, Bryant told reporters. The Ohio Bureau of Investigation is investigating the killing, the latest in a long string of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police in the United States. Bryant said officers knocked on the apartment door for nearly ten minutes and identified themselves as Columbus police before anyone answered. The videos from police body-worn cameras show two men, neither of them Lewis, opening the door and being handcuffed. Officers ask the two men who else is inside the apartment. "He's gonna get bit by a dog," one officer tells them before the canine unit enters the apartment with drawn handguns. The dog barks to indicate someone in the bedroom behind the closed door. Officers yell out, saying the dog is coming in. Anderson then leashes the dog and throws open the door, the video shows. Lewis can be seen in the beam of an officer's flashlight propping himself upward on his left hand on his mattress as Anderson shoots. Lewis falls to the bed. An officer repeatedly tells Lewis to "crawl" out of the room. Lewis writhes and moans on his bed as officers come in to cuff his hands behind his back and tell him to stop resisting. Officers then carry the bleeding Lewis down the stairs of the apartment building and perform medical aid on him while waiting for a medic. Lewis was pronounced dead at 3:19 a.m. at a nearby hospital, the Dispatch reported. "These incidents leave behind grieving family members, unanswered questions from the community and a further divide between the citizens and the police department," the Columbus chapter of the civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in a statement. | |
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| 09-01-22 06:22am - 749 days | #341 | |
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Dongle Trump screams: "The FBI is corrupt. That's why I tried to clean the scum from the Justice Department: I fired or forced out Andrew McCabe, FBI deputy director, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI Director James Comey, and too many other incompetent people to name specifically. And now the federal government is coming after me, after all I've done to help our great nation. There will be blood in the streets when people rise up to protect me, the Chosen Son of God. Allah be praised!!!!" ----- ----- Trump's seized passports could be a problem for him, legal experts say NBC Universal Dareh Gregorian and Tom Winter September 1, 2022, 4:00 AM Donald Trump has complained that FBI agents' seizure of his passports showed that investigators ran amok as they searched his Florida resort, but new information about how and where the documents were found could spell major trouble for the former president, legal experts told NBC News. In a footnote in Tuesday's court filing pushing back against Trump's demand for a special master to sort through the evidence that was seized at his Mar-a-Lago property, Justice Department officials countered his contention that it was an overreach to take three passports that were later returned. Consistent with the terms of the search warrant, the Justice Department said in the filing that "the government seized the contents of a desk drawer that contained classified documents and governmental records commingled with other documents." "The other documents included two official passports, one of which was expired, and one personal passport, which was expired," it said. "The location of the passports is relevant evidence in an investigation of unauthorized retention and mishandling of national defense information." NBC News legal analyst Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, said the reason the passports are "relevant evidence" is clear — they point directly to Trump. “In most searches you look for identity documents to tie a suspect to the evidence you’re looking for — photographs, IDs, utility bills. If you find the contraband in the same room as the identity documents, there’s a fair inference that person had dominion and control over the documents,” said McQuade, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. According to the Justice Department, the drawer with the classified documents and the passports was in Trump's "45 office" in Mar-a-Lago. "Finding the passports side by side with the classified documents suggests he himself was the one who handled" them, McQuade said. It also makes it difficult for Trump to argue that movers or aides mishandled the documents or that he was unaware of their presence, McQuade said, arguing, "That's pretty damning evidence." NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, agreed. "The two things we always take when we're executing search warrants is evidence of crime and evidence of ownership or possessory information," Kirschner said. "If there are utility bills at the scene, you seize the bills, not because they're evidence of a crime but because they're evidence of possession and ownership." Trump complained a week after the Aug. 8 search that FBI agents “stole my three passports” — just after a Justice Department official emailed Trump’s lawyers to say the Justice Department had the passports and was returning them. In his filing calling for a special master, Trump’s attorneys argued that in returning the passports, investigators acknowledged they "were not validly seized." His legal team responded to the Justice Department's filing Wednesday night, with arguments over the special master request set for Thursday. Trump lawyer Christina Bobb told Fox News last month that the agents' seizure of the passports “goes to show the level of audacity that they have.” “I think it goes to show how aggressive they were, how overreaching they were, that they were willing to go past the four corners of the warrant and take whatever they felt was appropriate or they felt that they could take,” Bobb said. The government's filing Tuesday noted that the search warrant expressly allowed agents to take items that were mixed in with "documents with classification markings," and McQuade and Kirschner agreed that there was most likely no reason for the government to hang on to the passports, which they said would have been photographed and copied before they were returned to Trump's lawyers. "You just need to be able to document that the passport was found next to the contraband," Kirschner said. McQuade said investigators returned the passports "because they got what they needed out of them." | |
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| 08-31-22 11:42am - 750 days | #340 | |
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Dongle Trump supporter says he did nothing wrong. "I was following the orders of the President of the Untied States. Therefore, if he had ordered me to start shooting members of Congress, that would have been my duty and honor. I'm only saddened that I didn't get to kill a few of those Commie-loving Democrats from Hell." ------ ------ Trump supporter L. Lin Wood says will testify before Georgia grand jury -NYT Tue, August 30, 2022 at 5:35 PM (Reuters) - Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood said on Tuesday that he would testify before a grand jury investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the New York Times reported. Wood, who has previously said that he had been subpoenaed by the grand jury, told the New York Times that he had been asked to take the witness stand by Fulton County District Attorney's office. "I didn't do anything wrong," Wood told the Times. "I've got nothing to hide, so I'll go down and talk to them." Wood joins a growing number of Republicans who have been asked to appear before the grand jury to answer questions about Trump's attempts to reverse his loss in Georgia, a battleground state that helped propel Democrat Joe Biden to the presidency. (Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Christopher Cushing) | |
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| 08-31-22 07:26am - 750 days | #339 | |
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Dongle Trump reveals new truths: Sleepy Joe Biden, a Russian agent, has weaponized the US government to persecute Dongle Trump. This is not only immoral, but unethical and dangerous. Dongle Trump is the anointed Son of God. Sleepy Joe Biden is Satan's love child who loves to torment Dongle Trump. Dongle is trying to make America great again. But Sleepy Joe Biden is standing in the way. When will Dongle be able to take down Sleepy Joe, and put that *&^^^### bastard in jail? Followers of Dongle are chanting, "Lock him up", to the tune of America the Beautiful. ------- ------- Justice Department says Trump's request for special master would impede investigation USA TODAY Kevin Johnson August 31, 2022, 6:45 AM Justice Department officials told a federal judge late Tuesday that the appointment of a special master to oversee a review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month would impede the government's investigation which has already uncovered evidence of obstruction in the handling of classified records. In a biting response to Trump’s request for an independent screener, prosecutors also refuted claims that the former president had cooperated with authorities in the months leading to the unprecedented Aug. 8 search. Justice officials asserted that efforts were made to conceal records eventually recovered by investigators and that Trump's lawyers prohibited agents from viewing the contents of boxes inside a storage room in June "to confirm that no documents with classification markings remained." Two months later, FBI agents descended on the property where they discovered 11 sets of classified documents among the more than 30 boxes removed from the property, according to the new government filing. Christina Bobb: How Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, an ex-OAN host, took spotlight in Mar-a-Lago case "The legal issues presented, and the relief requested in the filings, are narrow, notwithstanding the wide-ranging meritless accusations leveled against the government in the motion," Justice officials argued, referring to the Trump request. "Not only does Plaintiff lack standing to raise these claims at this juncture, but even if his claims were properly raised, Plaintiff would not be entitled to the relief he seeks." Included in the Justice filing was a photograph, showing how investigators found top secret records, some of them designated at the highest classifications in government, strewn about a carpeted room, next to a box of magazines. While Trump’s lawyers have claimed that they had been engaged in “months of cooperation" prior to the FBI’s August search, Justice officials Tuesday offered a detailed and potentially damning counterpoint. After serving a May subpoena at Trump’s property, Justice officials said Trump’s lawyers had certified in June that they had turned over the last of all documents sought by the government. Among them: 38 documents bearing classification markings, including five marked as confidential; 16 documents marked as secret; and 17 documents marked as top secret. "Counsel for the former President offered no explanation as to why boxes of government records… remained at the premises nearly five months after the production of (15 boxes of documents) and nearly one-and-a-half years after the end of the Administration," according to the court filing, which referred to an initial tranche of materials transferred from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives in January. HERE'S WHAT WAS TAKEN OUT: Redacted affidavit justifying Trump Mar-a-Lago search released. In short order, Justice officials argued they soon found evidence that even more documents remained at the property and, equally troubling, that efforts had been made to possibly "obstruct" the federal inquiry. “The government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the (Mar-a-Lago) Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” the Justice filing stated. During the Aug. 8 search, Justice officials said they recovered more than 100 documents with classified markings, more than twice the number turned over in June in response to the government subpoena. "The search cast serious doubt on the claim... that there had been 'a diligent search' for records responsive to the grand jury subpoena," Justice officials argued. "In the storage room alone, FBI agents found 76 documents bearing classification markings. "That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the 'diligent search' that the former President’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made" in June when Trump's attorneys certified that all of the records had been turned over to investigators. The Justice filing comes a day after prosecutors notified a federal judge that a "limited set of materials" which may be protected by attorney-client privilege were identified among the documents seized in this month's search of former President DonaldTrump's Florida estate. TRUMP RECORDS INVESTIGATION: From early red flags to the search at Mar-a-Lago Justice officials said they had completed the review of information recovered in the search and are addressing any privilege "disputes." While Trump's lawyers have called for the appointment of a special master or third party to screen the documents for any privileged information, federal authorities said a so-called "privilege review team" already had been assigned to do the same thing. As a result, prosecutors said Tuesday that an appointment of a master at this time was "unnecessary." Trump's lawyers had called for a halt to the document review until a special master was appointed, but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon did not grant that request. Cannon, who last week signaled her intent to appoint a document master, has set a hearing on the matter for 1 p.m. Thursday. The legal dispute is playing out as a separate federal court in Florida authorized the release of the heavily redacted affidavit used to support the unprecedented search, indicating that possible "evidence of obstruction" could be found at Trump's property. Federal investigators also revealed in the affidavit that an initial tranche of 15 boxes of documents transferred from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives and Records Administration in January included 184 classified documents, including some marked as "HSC" relating to clandestine human sources. SCRIBBLED NOTES, GOLF CARTS: Here's how the millions of White House documents and artifacts should be archived The disclosure has prompted a separate assessment of whether the unsecured documents pose any new threat to national security. Justice acknowledged this week that U.S. intelligence officials are in the process of conducting the risk assessment. Trump lawyers, in their initial call for a special master, cast the search in stark political terms and described the government's search warrant as overly broad because it authorized FBI agents to seize "boxes of documents merely because they are physically found together with other items purportedly within the scope of the warrant." The former president's attorneys also accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of using the criminal justice system to alter the political landscape. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump request for special master would impede document probe, DOJ says | |
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| 08-31-22 02:03am - 751 days | #338 | |
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Dongle Trump is finally revealing the truth: Sleepy Joe Biden is a greater enemy than Russia. Dongle Trump, the true messiah, has the power of God on his side. Dongle will lead the revolt against the armies of Hell, with his good buddy Vlad Putin at his side. And Dongle will personally put Sleepy Joe Biden 6 feet under, while saving America from the Unholy Democrats. Praise be to God, and to God's holy son, Dongle Trump. ----- ----- With legal peril rising, Trump turns to QAnon and 4chan memes for support Yahoo News David Knowles August 30, 2022, 11:48 AM With the Justice Department investigation of his handling of classified documents pressing forward, former President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning posting dozens of messages to Truth Social, his financially troubled social media platform, and sharing content from QAnon-linked conspiracy theory accounts and 4chan message boards. Trump posted or reposted more than 60 messages early Tuesday, hours after he demanded on Truth Social that he be declared “the rightful winner” of the 2020 election, amplifying several memes that portrayed him as a political messiah, attacking President Biden and moderate Republicans and portraying Democrats as greater enemies of the state than Russia. Among the conspiracy theories Trump reposted Tuesday was one that suggested that it was the FBI and members of antifa who had stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, rather than his own supporters, anti-vaccine messaging and assertions that U.S. intelligence agencies do not have the legal authority to conduct an ongoing review of the classified documents Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act. Many of the posts Trump has shared have contained QAnon messages and iconography. The conspiracy memes Trump has promoted are the stock and trade of QAnon and 4chan message boards, a toxic blend of misinformation and calls for violent insurrection against the so-called deep state that Trump and his followers see as the entrenched enemy of democracy in the U.S. In 2020, Facebook and Twitter banned QAnon accounts on their platforms, citing threats of violence. But those bans have not been easy to enforce. On Monday, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it had banned around 480 accounts linked to the extremist group the Proud Boys more than four years after Facebook had attempted to rid its platform of such accounts. Trump launched Truth Social after being suspended from Facebook for two days prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, and banned from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021, following prior suspensions due to terms of service violations. But the platform, which has billed itself as a “free speech haven,” has faced multiple problems since debuting in February. On Tuesday, Google announced that it would continue to ban Truth Social from appearing in its app store due to its lax content moderation standards that failed to police threats of violence by users. “On Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play,” Google said in a statement. After peaking in March, Truth Social’s stock price has fallen nearly 75%, the Washington Post reported, in part due to Trump's legal jeopardy stemming from his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. The conservative internet-hosting company RightForge, meanwhile, is also reportedly claiming that Trump’s social media outlet owes them more than $1 million in unpaid bills, Fox Business reported last week. And in a further blow, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused an application by the former president’s company last week because the name Truth Social was too similar to those already in use by other businesses. While the former president and his supporters have often blamed Trump’s precipitous social media decline in followers — from more than 88 million on Twitter prior to his permanent suspension to just 4 million on Truth Social — on a premeditated effort to silence him and curtail free speech, his critics argue that his social media presence helped incite the Jan. 6 riot and remains a threat to public safety. On Aug. 12, Ricky Shiffer, an armed man clad in body armor who regularly posted to Truth Social, attempted to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati before being killed in a shootout with agents. In one of his conspiracy-laden posts Tuesday morning, however, Trump included a message that both sides in that debate might agree upon: “Nobody said that to ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ was going to be easy!” | |
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| 08-30-22 05:41am - 751 days | #337 | |
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Ederly woman dead after drinking diswashing liquid instead of juice. However, the caretakers have a strong defense: they claim they were only following the guidelines of medical expert Dongle Trump, who advised drinking bleach to cleanse the body. Will the prosecutor and a jury believe in Dongle Trump's unorthodox treatment regimen, or decide the staff responsible can be held accountable? ----- ----- California assisted living resident dead after ingesting toxic chemicals NBC Universal Phil Helsel August 29, 2022, 9:52 PM Atria Park of San Mateo. (Google Maps) Atria Park of San Mateo. (Google Maps) A 93-year-old resident of a California care facility is dead and two others were sickened after “ingesting toxic chemicals,” San Mateo police said Monday. Police were dispatched on a report of a woman poisoned at Atria Hillsdale around 8:10 p.m. Sunday, the department said. “Three home care residents were hospitalized after ingesting toxic chemicals,” and one of those people, 93, died, police said in a statement. Atria Park of San Mateo told NBC Bay Area that the residents had been given dishwashing liquid instead of juice and that it was fully cooperating with investigators. 'Employees involved have been suspended' "Our sincerest condolences are with the family. When this occurred, our staff immediately contacted authorities, and the residents were transported to the hospital for evaluation and treatment. We are conducting our own internal investigation, and the employees involved have been suspended until this investigation concludes," Atria Park San Mateo said in the statement to NBC Bay Area. Alison Gilmore, the public information officer for the police department, said that the investigation continues and that the department will release more information as it is available. "We are unable to specify what exactly occurred at this time," she said. "However we are investigating every avenue just to ensure that if there is any culpable party, the individual will be brought to justice." Atria Park said that it was also conducting an investigation, and the employees involved have been suspended until that concludes. Atria did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News on Monday night. The California Department of Social Services is also investigating, police said. | |
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| 08-30-22 05:33am - 751 days | #336 | |
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claims there will be riots if his master, Dongle Trump, is indicted. Sleepy Joe Biden is considering having Lindsey arrested for treason. Can a US Senator be arrested and tried for treason for inciting people to violence? Enquiring minds want to know: why are so many Republican senators full of shit and treason, and able to get away with it? ------- ------- The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell kicked off Monday with O’Donnell railing against Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who predicted on Fox News over the weekend that there would be riots in the streets if former President Donald Trump were to be indicted. The FBI seized hundreds of highly classified documents the former president took to his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, when he left office. “Well, Lindsey Graham has hit rock bottom,” O’Donnell said. “Rock bottom is the sad term that AA uses for the spot where people who drink too much have to find themselves before they can help themselves or be helped. But there is no cure for what has sunk Lindsey Graham to his own very dangerous rock bottom.” O’Donnell claimed that no sitting senator has ever made such a threat against the country. “No senator in history has ever predicted or threatened riots in the streets if a friend of that senator was prosecuted,” O’Donnell said. “The so-called friend in this case is Donald Trump, who is an actual friend to no one, as Lindsey Graham so tragically knows.” O’Donnell also recalled Graham’s previous condemnation of the man he now goes to great lengths to defend. In 2016, Graham said that if Trump were to be the GOP nominee, they would be destroyed in the election, and that they would deserve it. Graham also went so far to say that he wouldn’t vote for Trump. “To understand how low Lindsey Graham’s rock bottom is tonight, remember where Lindsey Graham stood when he was running against Donald Trump for president in 2016,” O’Donnell said before showing a clip of Graham on CNN saying of Trump, “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party.” O’Donnell also pushed back against Graham’s assertion that Trump supporters would be willing to take to the streets to commit political violence, pointing out that very few, relative to the number of people who voted for Trump, showed up to the Capitol on January 6 in an attempted insurrection. Less than 1,000 people have been arrested for their activities on that day, out of the more than 74 million who voted for the former president. “Lindsey Graham is also lying about Trump supporters, and he is insulting them,” O’Donnell said. “If Donald Trump is indicted, 74 million Trump supporters will do exactly what they did when Donald Trump lost the election: nothing.” The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell airs weeknights at 10 p.m. on MSNBC. | |
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| 08-26-22 02:29pm - 755 days | #335 | |
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President Dongle Trump, probably the most expert witness on national security the world has ever known, has stated that he de-classified all documents he took to his home in Florida from the Whitest House. Sleepy Joe Biden has argued that Dongle is not the best expert on national security. But Dongle served as President of the Untied States of Trumperland, and has the credentials to back his claim of expert in national security. ----- ----- Yahoo News 5 key takeaways from release of affidavit in FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Dylan Stableford, Caitlin Dickson and Christopher Wilson Fri, August 26, 2022 at 10:50 AM The Justice Department on Friday unsealed a redacted version of the affidavit used to secure the warrant for the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The release of the 38-page document comes a day after a federal judge ordered the DOJ to unseal the affidavit — which details the probable cause on which the search warrant was based — without revealing the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, grand jury information or anything else that would compromise the ongoing investigation into Trump’s handling of classified materials. Multiple news organizations had filed motions asking for its release, citing intense public interest in the case. Here are some of the key takeaways from the unsealed affidavit: FBI found more than 100 classified documents in its initial review. It was reported earlier this year that the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from Mar-a-Lago in January. According to the affidavit, the FBI reviewed those boxes in mid-May and found that 14 of the 15 contained classified information of some sort. The boxes allegedly included 184 unique documents with classification markings, including 67 marked as confidential, 92 marked as secret and 25 marked as top secret. Trump has denied reports that some of the documents were tied to nuclear weapons. The FBI said some of the documents were marked "HCS," referring to clandestine human sources, or intelligence personnel, and “SI,” which is information derived from monitoring foreign communication channels. The affidavit alleges “several of the documents also contained what appears to be [Trump’s] handwritten notes.” Heavy redactions needed to protect a ‘significant number of civilian witnesses’ In addition to the affidavit, a Justice Department court filing was released explaining the need for heavy redactions. (That memo was itself heavily redacted.) According to U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez, “the materials the government marked for redaction in the attached document must remain sealed to protect the safety and privacy of a significant number of civilian witnesses, in addition to law enforcement personnel.” “If witnesses’ identities are exposed, they could be subjected to harms including retaliation, intimidation, or harassment, and even threats to their physical safety,” read the memo. “As the Court has already noted, ‘these concerns are not hypothetical in this case.’” Gonzalez added that “the government has well-founded concerns that steps may be taken to frustrate or otherwise interfere with this investigation if facts in the affidavit were prematurely disclosed.” The FBI did not consider Mar-a-Lago a secure place to store classified documents, even with the extra lock Trump has repeatedly insisted that the FBI raid was unnecessary because, he claims, he and his legal representatives had previously been cooperating with the Justice Department in its investigation of the documents at Mar-a-Lago. In particular, he has noted that in searching the Palm Beach estate, agents broke a lock that had been added at the DOJ’s request to a storage area that housed some of the documents, after a department official visited the property in June. The affidavit unsealed Friday includes part of a letter a Justice Department official sent to Trump's council after that June visit, requesting that the storage room be secured. The letter, part of which is redacted, explains that because “Mar-a-Lago does not include a secure location authorized for the storage of classified information,” the classified documents that have been held there since Trump left the White House in January 2021 “have not been handled in an appropriate manner or stored in an appropriate location.” “Accordingly,” the letter continues, “we ask that the room at Mar-a-Lago where the documents had been stored be secured and that all of the boxes that were moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago (along with any other items in that room) be preserved in that room in their current condition until further notice.” [Read the FBI's affidavit to search Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate] The affidavit goes on to note that Trump’s counsel sent an email the following day acknowledging receipt of the DOJ letter, but that doesn’t seem to have satisfied the department’s concerns about the security of the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Toward the end of the heavily redacted court filing, the FBI seems to conclude that, even with the additional lock, the storage area is still not an appropriate setting for the kinds of documents that had been transported to Mar-a-Lago. It also appears to suggest that all of the boxes that had been relocated from the White House may not have been moved to that reinforced storage space as the DOJ requested. “Based upon this investigation, I believe that the STORAGE ROOM, FPOTUS’s residential suite, Pine Hall, the ’45 Office,’ and other spaces within the PREMISES are not currently authorized locations for the storage of classified information or [National Defense Information],” the affidavit states. “Similarly, based upon this investigation, I do not believe that any spaces within the PREMISES have been authorized for the storage of classified information at least since the end of FPOTUS’s Presidential Administration on January 20, 2021.” There was probable cause to believe evidence of obstruction would be found Local law enforcement officer A local law enforcement officer at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 9. (Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images) A search warrant and property receipt unsealed days after the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., home indicated that the former president is under investigation for several potential crimes, including possible violations of the Espionage Act and potential obstruction of justice charges. In the affidavit, prosecutors said there was probable cause to believe that additional classified documents or presidential records “subject to record retention requirements” would be found at Mar-a-Lago, and that there was also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction would be found on the premises. “There is Probable Cause to Believe That Documents Containing Classified NDI and Presidential Records Remain at the Premises,” the affidavit states. Trump complains about redactions — and attacks the judge In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump complained that the affidavit was “heavily redacted!!!” and lamented turning over the documents he did before the FBI search. “WE GAVE THEM MUCH,” Trump wrote before attacking the federal judge who approved the warrant. “Judge Bruce Reinhart should NEVER have allowed the Break-In of my home,” Trump added. “He recused himself two months ago from one of my cases based on his animosity and hatred of your favorite President, me. What changed? Why hasn’t he recused himself on this case? Obama must be very proud of him right now!” The former president and his lawyers never formally requested Reinhart recuse himself from the case, and Trump and his team did not participate in legal arguments over the affidavit’s release. Trump has claimed without evidence that the investigation is a politically motivated “weaponization” of the Justice Department. He’s also suggested that the FBI planted evidence and insisted that he had a “standing order” to declassify documents that were brought to his residence from the Oval Office. President Biden has denied that he had any advance notice of the search. At the White House Friday, Biden was asked whether he believes national security was threatened by documents at Mar-a-Lago. “We’ll let the Justice Department determine that,” Biden responded. | |
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| 08-25-22 08:27am - 756 days | #334 | |
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Lindsey Graham is a traitor to Dongle Trump. Dongle can't depend on Lindsey, who trembles every time a Democrat smells Lindsey's stink. But not to worry: Lindsey will wrap himself in the American flag, and bray that he is protected by the US Constitution. But will that lie hold up against the light of reason? Lindsey asked if Georgia votes could be thrown away. To allow Dongle, the loser, to claim victory in Georgia. Overturning the legal results of an election. But Lindsey claims he was only wondering. Not acting. But the question remains: does a bear shit in the woods? Is the GOP corrupt? Is Lindsey guilty of criminal behavior? Lindsey did the crime. Now make him do the time. Strip him of office, and put the bastard in prison, where he can learn to be a man again. ----- ----- For Lindsey Graham, a Showdown in Georgia Danny Hakim and Richard Fausset Thu, August 25, 2022 at 5:02 AM ATLANTA — Six days after major news organizations declared Donald Trump the loser of the 2020 presidential election, his allies were applying a desperate full-court press in an effort to turn his defeat around, particularly in Georgia. Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell went on television claiming there was abundant evidence of foreign election meddling that never ultimately materialized. Another lawyer, Lin Wood, filed a lawsuit seeking to block the certification of Georgia’s election results. That same day, Nov. 13, 2020, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, made a phone call that left Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, immediately alarmed. Graham, he said, had asked if there was a legal way, using the state courts, to toss out all mail-in votes from counties with high rates of questionable signatures. The call would eventually trigger an ethics complaint, demands from the left for Graham’s resignation and a legal drama that is only culminating now, nearly two years later, as the veteran lawmaker fights to avoid testifying before an Atlanta special grand jury that is investigating election interference by Trump and his supporters. Graham has put together a high-powered legal team, which includes Don McGahn, a White House counsel under Trump. While Graham’s lawyers say they have been told that he is only a witness — not a target of the investigation — that could change as new evidence arises in the case, which is being led by Fani Willis, district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia. Her efforts to compel Graham to testify have been aided by legal filings from a number of high-profile, outside attorneys, including William Weld, a Trump critic and former Republican governor of Massachusetts. Underscoring the risks for Graham, lawyers for 11 people who have been designated as targets who could face charges in the case have said they were previously told their clients were only “witnesses, not subjects or targets,” according to court filings. On Sunday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked Graham from testifying and directed a lower court to determine whether he was entitled to a modification of the subpoena based on constitutional protections afforded to members of Congress. After that, the appeals court said, it will take up the issue “for further consideration.” The matter is now back before Leigh Martin May, a U.S. District Court judge who already rejected Graham’s attempt to entirely avoid testifying; she asked the sides to wrap up their latest round of legal filings by next Wednesday. It seems increasingly likely that Graham will testify next month. Willis has said that she is weighing a broad array of criminal charges in her investigation, including racketeering and conspiracy. She has already informed at least 18 people that they are targets, including Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former personal lawyer. Giuliani fought to avoid testifying in person but was forced to appear before the grand jury last week. Regarding Graham, Willis’ office is seeking to learn more about his role in Trump’s post-election strategy, and who he spoke to on the Trump campaign team before or after he called Raffensperger. While Trump assailed Raffensperger on Twitter as a “so-called Republican” on the same day as that call, Graham told CNN that the former president did not encourage him to place the call. Graham has insisted that he did nothing improper, and his lawyers have argued that a sitting senator should not have to answer questions about his conduct in a state court. “We will go as far as we need to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you,” Graham said recently. That Graham finds himself sparring with the district attorney because of his involvement with Trump might have seemed unlikely before the 2016 election, when he called Trump “unfit for office” and “a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.” But he swiftly became a key ally of Trump and spent the days after the 2020 election railing against its legitimacy. “If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” he told Fox News on Nov. 9, 2020. Democrats win, he said, “because they cheat.” (A spokesperson for Graham, Kevin Bishop, noted that the senator ultimately voted to certify the election of Joe Biden.) At the time he made the call to Raffensperger, Graham was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he has said that he was acting in his official capacity. His legal team did not respond to requests from The New York Times to provide evidence to suggest that the committee was conducting an official inquiry. May has rejected arguments that Graham was acting solely in his Senate capacity, and said that by Graham’s account of the Raffensperger call, he was trying to influence state election rules rather than solely explore federal remedies. Indeed, in a television interview a few days after the call, Graham said he suggested to Raffensperger new state procedures for verifying signatures on mail-in ballots and creating an appeal process. (He also said at the time that he made similar calls to Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, another state Trump narrowly lost.) Raffensperger’s account of his conversation with Graham — and his inference that Graham wanted to explore tossing mail-in votes from counties with high rates of questionable signatures — has been backed up by one of the secretary of state’s aides who was also on the call. Even so, Graham made no overt request to discard ballots, according to another Raffensperger aide, Gabriel Sterling. Graham has said that it is “ridiculous” to suggest he was asking for votes to be thrown out. During a hearing in federal court this month, Brian C. Lea, one of Graham’s lawyers, said: “We have one phone call, and that phone call has been described by everybody. Everybody acknowledges that it is about electoral process and about verification of absentee ballots, how you ensure security.” He said the “only dispute” was brought about by Raffensperger’s account that it was implied that legal ballots should be thrown out. “Strip away the implication that Secretary of State Raffensperger claims to have picked up, all you have is a conversation about electoral process.” Legal precedent, he argued, meant that “motive is irrelevant.” But May told Graham’s lawyers that it was critical to understand why the call was made. “You keep saying that it’s improper for the court to look at motive, but how can I classify an act as political or legislative without knowing why the act was done?” Knowing what happened around the call could prove critical to Willis, the Fulton County district attorney. “The judge in her decision, and the DA in her filing, have outlined several different topics beyond the content of the call that could influence the DA’s charging decision,” said Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, a former district attorney of neighboring DeKalb County. “This includes whether there is sufficient evidence of a connection between anything Sen. Graham did or said and the former president’s allies — or even the former president himself — to establish some of the elements of a possible conspiracy or RICO charge.” Fleming is a co-author on a 114-page Brookings Institution report on the case that found that Trump was “at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes.” The report called the suggestion that all mail-in ballots from certain counties be disqualified “extreme and bizarre.” Soon after the call, three legal experts, including Walter Shaub, former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, wrote to the chair and vice chair of the Senate ethics committee, decrying Graham’s contact with Raffensperger, which took place as Georgia elections officials were conducting a hand recount. “Any call by a sitting chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to a state election official during an ongoing count of votes is inherently coercive and points to an attempt to influence the outcome,” they wrote. “The allegation that Sen. Graham placed a behind-the-scenes call to a member of his own political party, without having launched a formal investigation, suggests that he hoped to act out of public view.” The two other signatories of the complaint, law professors Claire O. Finkelstein of the University of Pennsylvania and Richard W. Painter of the University of Minnesota said Wednesday that the ethics committee had not been in touch with them or Shaub about the complaint, other than to acknowledge that they had received it. The ethics committee staff did not return calls for comment. Michael J. Moore, a former U.S. attorney in Georgia, said Graham “should be afraid of being wrapped up in any conspiracy indictment.” | |
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| 08-25-22 07:06am - 756 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Sly's wife of 25 years files for divorce. Says Dongle Trump came between them. "I only wanted us together in bed. But when Dongle Trump moved in, I knew the marriage was over", she cries. Sly has taken a hurtful body blow, but vows he will rekindle the romance between them. And will try to get Dongle out of his bedroom. ---- ---- Sylvester Stallone's wife Jennifer Flavin files for divorce after 25 years Yahoo Celebrity Raechal Shewfelt August 24, 2022, 12:46 PM Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin, his wife of 25 years, are divorcing. On Aug. 19, she filed for dissolution of marriage in Palm Beach County, Fla., according to online records. The couple began dating in 1988 — after the Rocky star and the model had an unplanned meeting that year at a Beverly Hills restaurant — but broke up in March 1994. That one was a shock to her, as he infamously broke it off with a six-page letter delivered via FedEx. (She later learned that he had been having an affair with another model, Janice Dickinson, and that he thought he had fathered the child Dickinson was expecting. He hadn't.) Flavin and Stallone reunited in 1995 and married in 1997. The two had three daughters: Sophia, who turns 26 on Aug. 27; Sistine, 24; and Scarlet, 20, all of whom served as Miss Golden Globe in 2017. "I love my family," Stallone told Yahoo Entertainment via a rep. "We are amicably and privately addressing these personal issues." Flavin gave her own statement to People: "I'm sad to announce that after 25 years of marriage I have filed for divorce from my husband Sylvester Stallone. While we will no longer be married, I will always cherish the more than 30-year relationship that we shared, and I know we are both committed to our beautiful daughters." In May, Stallone sent his wife a loving message recognizing their special day. "Happy 25th anniversary to my amazing wife," Stallone captioned several pictures of the couple and their daughters. "There is not enough words to describe what this incredibly selfless dedicated, patient, woman has meant to our lives and I only wish they could be another 25! Thank you sweetheart!" Stallone has divorced before. He was married to Sasha Czack from 1974 to 1985. He and Czack share an adult son, Seargeoh, and late son Sage, who appeared in Rocky V and died of heart disease at 36 in 2012. The Expendables actor also was married to his Rocky IV co-star Brigitte Nielsen from 1985 to 1987. | |
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| 08-24-22 07:59am - 757 days | #333 | |
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CONTINUED: “He’s so impulsive that he does this on his own,” said Alan Marcus, a New Jersey-based consultant who worked for Trump’s company in the 1990s. Marcus described Trump’s approach to much of his life as “ready, fire, aim,” as opposed to something more strategic. “So much of the ‘ready, fire, aim’ comes when he’s sitting alone,” he said.  2022 The New York Times Company | |
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| 08-24-22 07:58am - 757 days | #332 | |
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Dongle Trump is aiming at Sleepy Joe Biden. "When I am president of the Untied States of Trumperland again, I will not falter. I will put Sleepy Joe Biden in jail, where he belongs. And I will have his son executed in front of a firing squad. That's the way to deal with enemies." Dongle knows that Sleepy Joe Biden is cackling with glee as the federal government hounds our hero, Dongle Trump, for fabricated lies and untruths. ------ ------ The New York Times Trump, Without the Presidency's Protections, Struggles for a Strategy Maggie Haberman Wed, August 24, 2022 at 4:43 AM On Tuesday, a Florida judge informed two lawyers representing former President Donald Trump, neither of them licensed in the state, that they had bungled routine paperwork to take part in a suit filed after the FBI’s search this month of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club. “A sample motion can be found on the Court’s website,” the judge instructed them in her order. Trump has projected his usual bravado, and raised millions of dollars online from outraged supporters, since federal agents descended on the property more than two weeks ago and carted off box loads of material including highly classified documents. But something is different this time — and the errant court filing offered a glimpse into the confusion and uncertainty the investigation has exposed inside Trump’s camp. The documents investigation represents the greatest legal threat Trump has faced in years, and he is going into the battle shorn of the protective infrastructure and constitutional armor of the presidency. After years of burning through lawyers, he has struggled to hire new ones, and has a small group of lawyers of varying experience. He is facing a Justice Department he no longer controls, run by a by-the-book attorney general, Merrick Garland, who has pursued various investigations into Trump methodically and quietly. Trump is serving as his own communications director and strategic adviser, seeking tactical political and in-the-moment public relations victories, sometimes at the risk of stumbling into substantive legal missteps. One example came late Monday, when a conservative writer allied with Trump made public a letter that the National Archives had sent to Trump’s legal team in May. Spun by Trump and his allies as evidence that President Joe Biden had played a role in the case after saying he was not involved, the letter confirmed information damaging to the former president’s case, including that Trump had retained more than 700 pages of documents with classification markings, including some at the most restricted level. On Tuesday, the judge handling the Trump legal team’s request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago came back with some pointed questions. Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, asked the lawyers to respond by Friday about whether she even had jurisdiction to hear Trump’s request, and what precisely his motion was asking her to do. This came hours after Cannon informed the lawyers about their basic paperwork mistake. A Trump spokesperson later showed stamped filings showing their paperwork had been accepted. But as has become standard operating practice in Trump’s world, the primary focus there is not about legal claims, or even political ones, but the state of mind of the man at the center of the crisis. He feels other people’s actions toward him haven’t gotten enough attention, some of his advisers say privately, regardless of whether the facts actually bear out his grievances. “The Democrats have spent seven years fabricating hoaxes and witch hunts against President Trump, and the recent unprecedented and unnecessary raid is just another example of exactly that,” said Taylor Budowich, a spokesperson for Trump. For years, Trump operated from a playbook taught to him in the 1970s by Roy Cohn, the ruthless former federal prosecutor and aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy who represented Trump early in Trump’s career. That approach — demonize investigators, intimidate allies to keep them from straying, paint himself as persecuted and depict every criticism as a political witch hunt — was Trump’s go-to strategy to discredit the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s possible ties to Russia, and in his first impeachment trial. Yet at the time, he had the lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office helping to guide him, and a team of experienced legal hands familiar with Washington. Now, as in the days after he lost the 2020 election, Trump is relying on an ad hoc team of advisers with varying levels of experience and judgment, and trying to use his political support as both a shield and a weapon to be aimed at the people investigating him. But even as he fuels outrage in sympathetic media outlets and tries to turn attention to Biden and the so-called deep state, Trump is to some extent walking on the phantom limbs of his expired presidency, claiming executive privilege still applies to him even though he is out of office and maintaining he had a sweeping, standing order to declassify some documents, which his aides have declined to produce. If the investigation into Trump’s possible connection with Russia was convoluted or hard for Americans to grasp, this one is not. The documents inquiry is about boxes of papers, storerooms, souvenirs and “top secret” stamps — the kind of identifiable items that Trump has weaponized to bludgeon opponents, akin to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server or Hunter Biden’s laptop. The documents investigation is also about whether Trump or his associates may have obstructed the inquiry, according to court papers filed with the search warrant. And despite the bravura, Trump has betrayed anxiety in private conversations about where this is all leading, people who have spoken to him say. “He was never subjected to an investigation of this heft and potency prior to his presidency,” said Tim O’Brien, a biographer of Trump and the executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. O’Brien noted that when Trump was president he learned how to use his powers to protect himself. “Right now he is in the most vulnerable position he has been in, in his life, legally.” Trump’s court filing Monday requesting the special master to review the seized documents was styled as a legal motion, but it sounded more like a news release drafted by Trump himself. It was filled with bombastic complaints that the government had long treated Trump unfairly. The document cited purported examples like “two years of noisy ‘Russian collusion’ investigations.” It also contained Trumpian boasts about the former president being “the clear front-runner” for the 2024 election. Justice Department officials, who have maintained an open channel with Trump’s representatives, have said they operate under the assumption that none of his attorneys can speak with authority for the former president, knowing he is liable to change his mind in a moment, or withhold information from his own representatives. In one respect, Trump and his current roster of lawyers are fundamentally in lock step. They maintain, without any apparent evidence, that the Justice Department and FBI used the document search at Mar-a-Lago to uncover new information for the widening investigation into his actions leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol during certification of the 2020 election. And they maintain, without proof, that Biden has been ordering up all the investigations to destroy his political opponent, according to three people close to Trump. Justice Department officials have repeatedly denied any connection between the Mar-a-Lago search and their other work, and White House officials have told reporters that neither the president nor senior West Wing officials had prior knowledge of the search. The letter in May from the archives to the Trump legal team said that the Justice Department had sent a request to the archives through the Biden White House for access to the initial 15 boxes of government material that Trump had turned over to the archives in January. The letter also said that Biden had deferred to the archivist’s decision, based on consultations with the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, to reject Trump’s assertion that the material in the boxes was protected by executive privilege. Two of Trump’s most ferocious defenders on the matter are not even on his legal team. Kash Patel, a former Trump White House and Pentagon aide, and John Solomon, who runs a conservative news site and is close to the Trump team, are both representatives for Trump with the National Archives. Both argued that Trump had a standing order to declassify documents that went to the president’s residence. Trump’s aides have provided no evidence that this was the case. The result, according to people who have worked for him over the years, is that the only real continuity in the defense is Trump himself, and his demands that his lawyers do what he wants, which is why so many of his legal filings sound as if they were dictated by him. It is possible that Trump is the only one who knows what material he took with him from the White House. His concentric circles of political advisers, several layers deep when he held power, are also shrinking. Trump is thinly staffed as he sits at his private club at Bedminster, New Jersey, or at Trump Tower in New York City for the summer, and sometimes makes decisions without keeping his close advisers in the know. To that point, few of Trump’s advisers appeared to have been aware that Solomon was publicizing the letter that the archives had sent to Evan Corcoran, one of Trump’s lawyers. Many of them acknowledged that they had learned of it when reporters began reaching out after Solomon made it public. | |
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| 08-24-22 07:42am - 757 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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This is not right. Celebritries are using too much water in California. They need to be put in jail, and only allowed to shower once a week. Then they can pay back the state for the excess water they used. The state of California has been too lenient on celebrities, treating them like royal persons. You do the crime, you do the time. Put them in jail until they learn to conserve water like the rest of us. --------- Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart, Dwyane Wade repeatedly used over 150% of their water budget amid California drought NBC Universal Mirna Alsharif and Alicia Victoria Lozano August 23, 2022, 3:52 PM Some of the world's most recognizable faces have been served with notices for repeatedly exceeding their monthly water budgets amid a dire drought in California, according to the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District. Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, Kevin Hart, Dwyane Wade and Sylvester Stallone were served with the notices for exceeding 150% of their monthly water budgets at least four times at their Southern California properties, said Michael McNutt, the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District’s communications manager. Requests for comment from the celebrities were not immediately answered. They're among over 1,600 customers to have been served with the notices since the water district started issuing them in December, McNutt said. Las Virgenes’ 22,000 service connections provide service to around 76,000 residents. McNutt now wants the celebrities to lead by example and use their platforms to bring awareness to the historic drought. "The reason this is important is that those individuals have a platform that they could use, like social media — some of them have millions following them," he said. "What I want them to do is work with me, work with my district, in order to put out public service announcements and educate the community on how dire this drought is. I want those celebrities to lead by example, then use that knowledge for themselves." McNutt, however, noted that "the celebrities' properties are massive" and said he doesn't expect them to change their water consumption overnight. Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded a statewide drought emergency in October as California struggled with unprecedented dry conditions and ongoing strain on state water resources. That authorized the state water board to ban wasteful water uses, such as using potable water for washing sidewalks and driveways. The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District declared a state of emergency as a result and called for mandatory reductions in water use. Customers were asked to reduce their usage, and if they didn't, they were subject to penalties, including a charge of $2.50 to $10 per extra unit of water or even having a "flow restriction device" installed in their homes, according to the water district. "Visualize it: You have a 1-inch pipe with no restrictions, then we put on a flow restrictor — a stainless steel disk with a 1-inch diameter," NcNutt said. "So water flows through that. Imagine how much your water pressure and water is reduced. More than anything, it completely removes the functionality of an outdoor irrigation system, and 70% of water consumption usually goes towards outdoor irrigation systems." The flow restriction device can be installed in homes that have exceeded the monthly water budget three or more times. It's first installed for two weeks maximum, and then the customer is monitored by the district. If water usage doesn't improve, the device is reinstalled for a month. "We’re very serious about this. This drought is more dire and more historic than anything this state has ever seen, hands down," McNutt said. "We rely 100% on imported water, because we have no local source of water, and the drought is disproportionately impacting our area because of this, so we are serious about conserving water, because we have to." Newsom announced a strategy this month that "prioritizes actions to capture, recycle, de-salt and conserve more water," according to a news release. But the Kardashians, Hart, Wade and Stallone won't be getting flow restriction devices at their homes because they've all signed a "Water Use Commitment Form." NBC News obtained a copy of the form, which allows customers to request a water use survey from the district, as well as get tips from specialists about how they can cut down on their usage. It also requires customers to demonstrate "significant improvement in the efficiency" of their water use every month after they submit the form by doing things like installing "a weather-based irrigation control device" to help reduce outdoor water use. If no progress is made, customers could face financial penalties and flow restriction devices. "The district’s position is it doesn’t matter who you are, how successful you are, how much money you have — everyone is treated exactly equal," McNutt said. "So you can be Kim K or any of these other celebrities, and you’ll get a flow restrictor." In response to a Los Angeles Times story about the notices, the Wade family told the paper that they had “taken drastic steps to reduce water usage in accordance with the new city guidelines and have since we moved into our home.” A lawyer for Stallone told the Times, “My client has been addressing the situation responsibly and proactively.” Representatives for the Kardashians and Hart did not respond to the Times' requests for comment. | |
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| 08-24-22 03:59am - 757 days | #331 | |
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GOP is the party of sex perverts and pedophiles. The GOP represents America. The best and worst. If you're a sex pervert or a pedophile, that won't stop you from running as a GOP candidate. And you might even win. Hurray, for America, the land of sexual freedom and persecution. Be like Dongle Trump: stick em where it hurts, then deny like crazy. And reach out to supporters to grab millions of dollars for your slush funds. ---- ---- Gaetz wins GOP primary in Florida after fending off attacks over sex trafficking investigation NBC Universal Marc Caputo August 23, 2022, 7:22 PM MIAMI — Rep. Matt Gaetz defeated his Republican primary opponent Tuesday in one of Florida’s most conservative congressional districts, NBC News projects, as voters declined to hold a federal sex crimes investigation against him. Gaetz, the self-styled firebrand endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who also managed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s transition team in 2019, spent $1.1 million on local TV ads to drive home his MAGA bona fides. Challenger Mark Lombardo spent at least $500,000 calling Gaetz’s character into question in three ads. But ultimately, Trump’s endorsement — and Gaetz’s deep roots and relentless campaigning in the district — carried the day for Gaetz, who was a state representative from the Panhandle area before he won his congressional seat in 2016. Trump is dominant in the district, which he carried by more than 33 percentage points in 2020. In one commercial, Lombardo insinuated, without evidence, that Gaetz was an informant who ultimately gave the FBI evidence to execute a search warrant Aug. 8 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The ad also mentioned the allegations of sex trafficking of a minor that have been dogging Gaetz since last year and falsely insinuated that Gaetz wasn’t endorsed by Trump. Federal officials are looking into whether Gaetz and an associate used the internet to find women they could pay for sex and whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a minor he paid to travel with him, NBC News has reported. Gaetz has not been charged with a crime, and he has denied all accusations. Another Lombardo ad played up reports of a sex-filled Bahamas trip that is part of the federal investigation into Gaetz. The Trump-endorsement attack annoyed Gaetz so much that he hounded a Business Insider reporter on Twitter for publishing it in a story. He later tweeted the text of a new endorsement from Trump, who had verbally issued an endorsement before that. Gaetz couldn’t be reached for comment. A Justice Department spokesperson couldn’t be reached for comment about the sex trafficking case. The agency typically doesn’t indict 90 days before an election. In January, Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testified before a grand jury investigating him, but there has been no major movement in the case since then. Gaetz's opponent is former state Health Department worker Rebekah Jones, who won the Democratic primary in the 1st Congressional District on Tuesday night, NBC News projects. Jones was temporarily removed from the ballot over questions about her party qualifications, but an appeals court reinstated her the day before the election. Jones, who helped design the state's Covid dashboard, accused DeSantis and his administration of manipulating Covid data in 2020. A report from the state Health Department’s Office of Inspector General released in May said it had found “insufficient evidence” to support her claims and, in another instance, “exonerated” health workers she accused of wrongdoing. Jones also faces a felony charge of accessing and downloading confidential Health Department data after she was fired in May 2020 for what officials said was insubordination. Jones says she was fired for refusing to manipulate data, and her attorney said in May that she still intends to pursue a wrongful termination claim. “It’s simple: She was fired for refusing to manipulate Covid data,” her attorney said then, noting that his client had issued a lengthy rebuttal to the Health Department this year when it released initial findings, which were confidential. | |
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| 08-23-22 07:56pm - 758 days | #330 | |
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Dongle Trump screams: "The FBI told me to bend over, and when I complied, they fucking raped me!!!! They seized my precious Secret Documents that I used to read to put me to sleep. When will I be able to forgive them? Never!!!!!" ----- ----- Agency identified 700-plus pages of classified records at Trump's home Reuters Sarah N. Lynch August 23, 2022, 11:11 AM By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Archives discovered more than 700 pages of classified documents at Donald Trump's Florida home in addition to material seized this month by FBI agents, according to a newly disclosed May letter that the records agency sent to the Republican former president's attorney. The large quantity of classified material in 15 boxes recovered in January by the National Archives and Records Administration, some marked as "top secret," provides more insight into what led to the FBI's court-authorized Aug. 8 search of Trump's residence at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. The agency is responsible for preserving government records. The May 10 letter was sent by Acting U.S. Archivist Debra Steidel Wall to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran. It was released late on Monday by John Solomon, a conservative journalist who Trump authorized in June to access his presidential records. The National Archives then confirmed its authenticity and posted a copy on its website. "Among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages. Some include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) materials," Wall's letter said, referring to security protocols reserved for some of the country's most closely held secrets. The letter contains additional information about Trump's handling of classified materials and his efforts to delay federal officials from being able to review the documents. The letter shows that Trump's legal team repeatedly tried to stall the Archives from letting the FBI and intelligence officials review the materials, saying that he needed more time to determine if any of the records were covered by a doctrine called executive privilege that enables a president to shield some records. President Joe Biden's administration - specifically the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel - has determined that the materials were not covered by executive privilege. It found that "there is no precedent" for a former president to shield records from a sitting president using executive privilege when the materials in question legally belong to the federal government, according to the letter. Even after Trump returned the 15 boxes to the Archives, the Justice Department still suspected he had more classified material at Mar-a-Lago. The Aug. 8 search was part of a federal investigation into whether Trump illegally removed documents from the White House when he left office in January 2021 after his failed 2020 re-election bid and whether he tried to obstruct the government's investigation into the removal of the records. In a lawsuit Trump filed late on Monday against the Justice Department over the search, he said he was served a grand jury subpoena on May 11 seeking additional classified records. On June 3, the department's head of counterintelligence and three FBI agents visited Mar-a-Lago to inspect a storage room and collect additional records. Trump received a second subpoena later that month seeking surveillance footage from security cameras, which he also provided. During the Aug. 8 search, FBI agents recovered more than 20 additional boxes containing about 11 sets of records marked as classified. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Will Dunham, Scott Malone) | |
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| 08-23-22 07:40am - 758 days | #329 | |
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Dongle Trump claims the FBI violated me. I was almost a virgin when the FBI spread my legs and rammed a legal prod up my ass. Never before has a president been treated so horribly. And they took my Secret Documents, where they were perfectly safe. Donate $5,000 and I will write you a signed Thank You letter, certified authentic by my lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. ---------- ---------- Trump had 300 classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, called boxes 'Mine': Report HuffPost Nick Visser August 22, 2022, 6:32 PM Former President Donald Trump had more than 300 classified documents at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, that have since been recovered by the federal government, The New York Times reported Monday. The figures represent three batches of documents that federal officials have recovered in recent months amid growing concern Trump had absconded with the files after he left the White House. About 150 documents marked classified were handed over to the National Archives in January, a large number that prompted concern from officials there that Trump may have had additional sensitive material in the bowels of the resort. Trump reportedly went through those boxes himself late last year before they were turned over. Officials at the Justice Department later went to the Florida estate in June with a subpoena for any additional classified material. But reviews of security footage and information from interviews with Trump’s aides led them to believe there were even more documents that hadn’t been turned over. The Times added that former White House officials were tasked with trying to return the documents to the federal government, but Trump resisted, calling the boxes “Mine.” The FBI, armed with a search warrant, went to Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8 and recovered about 20 boxes, including 11 sets of classified material. A federal judge unsealed the warrant shortly afterward, which shows Trump was under investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act. Documents related to the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., are photographed Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (Jon Elswick/AP) Documents related to the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., are photographed Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (Jon Elswick/AP) The Times, the first to report on the sensitive material found during the searches, added it’s unclear what type of classified information officials found. But the paper, citing a person briefed on the investigation, said they included material from the CIA, the National Security Agency and the FBI on topics related to national security. It’s unclear if Trump could face any charges related to the documents. The Presidential Records Act requires all official government material be turned over to the National Archives at the end of a presidential term. The archives knew, in part, that it was missing documents that had been widely reported in the media, including Trump’s “love letters” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Times’ report comes amid a firestorm after FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump has castigated those involved in carrying out the search, declaring the FBI’s actions a politicization of the Justice Department that has never happened to a former president. His aides quickly moved to say he had a “standing order” to automatically declassify documents that left the Oval Office for his residence, although there is no evidence so far to back up that claim. The DOJ’s investigation into the documents is ongoing, as are several other government inquiries into Trump’s behavior leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and his efforts to remain in power. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. | |
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| 08-23-22 07:20am - 758 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Holly Madison: 'Everybody' called Hugh Hefner 'Daddy' in 'the bedroom' Yahoo Celebrity Taryn Ryder August 22, 2022, 2:08 PM Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt launched their new podcast Girls Next Level on Monday, where they plan to dish about behind-the-scenes drama from the E! show Girls Next Door. But before diving in, Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriends dedicated an episode to their relationship with the Playboy founder. Appropriately titled "In the Bedroom..." Madison and Marquardt talk about their first time sleeping with Hefner and, spoiler alert, it wasn't very romantic. "Everybody wanted to get this over with as quickly as possible. None of the females were into it, like sorry to burst the bubble," Madison shared. "We thought of it as a chore that we had to do or else we'll get kicked out of the house and everybody just wanted to make it go by as quickly as possible." Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, here with Hugh Hefner together in 2008, open up about their relationship with the Playboy mogul. Marquardt, 48, slept with Hefner for the first time after a night clubbing with him and other girls. She called the encounter, which lasted about a minute, "disappointing and embarrassing." "So embarrassing," Madison, 42, agreed. She became one of Hefner's girlfriends at age 21. They dated from 2001 to 2008. "I can't explain to you guys how embarrassing that whole routine was, especially as we got later down the road when there would be, like, a lot of conflict with the other girls," Madison continued. "You're literally sitting there naked having sex in front of a group of people who hate you and talk s**t about you while you're having sex and you can hear it. It was just, like, hell." "There's definitely not really romance involved," Marquardt added. She and Hefner split in 2009 after seven years together. Madison shared her story (again) about sleeping with Hefner for the first time. It happened after a night out in Los Angeles and she was "f***ing wasted." When they returned to the mansion, the girls went upstairs to Hefner's room and took a bath before getting on with the "routine." Related video: Holly Madison on first night sleeping with Hugh Hefner: "No romance or seduction" "I go over to the bed, the other new girl is already lying there," Madison shared. "There's vibrators laid out for everybody. I'd never used a vibrator in my life. So, I'm lying there waiting for everybody else." Madison said a woman, whom they call "The Recruiter" on the podcast as they won't reveal her real name, called out to Hefner. "The Recruiter says... 'Daddy… Do you wanna get the new girl?'" Madison recalled, noting that "everybody used to call [Hefner] 'Daddy' in the bedroom which is so gross." "I shit you not, the next thing I know he's on top of me," Madison continued. "Later on, things would get so routine, like, he wouldn't move. He would be like a bump on the log in the middle of the bed." "The Recruiter" got Madison a pair of pajamas and she moved into the Playboy Mansion shortly after that night. Madison went on to be Hefner's No. 1 girlfriend and starred on The Girls Next Door with Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson from 2005 to 2009. Madison and Marquardt both recalled how gross Hefner's bedroom was. "I was shocked at how messy it was," Marquardt shared. "We walked in and it was just a disaster in there. The lights were out, but there were two giant TV screens in there that were playing porn… There’s just so much junk." Marquardt also noted how there were "vibrators all over the bed." Madison called the lair "hoarder-style." "Imagine thinking you’re this big player and you're bringing all these girls home, and your room looks like s**t,” she continued. "It's like the weird eccentric millionaire version of the guy with the mattress on the floor and a Pulp Fiction poster." Madison called the experience "traumatic" noting that she felt "so gross and so used." Marquardt explained how she "felt guilty" and "beat herself up" for a while after becoming intimate with Hefner. She eventually moved into the house and signed on to do the show. Girls Next Level drops new episodes every Monday. Next week, they will talk about "the mean girls era" at the mansion. | |
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| 08-22-22 11:06pm - 759 days | #328 | |
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Trump legal team slams 'shockingly aggressive move' Dongle Trump can't believe Sleepy Joe Biden will allow the Feds to move aggressively. "i'm the only one who can be decisive or aggressive. I can call women whores, and get away with it, because I'm protected by Free Speech and the right of politicians to say whatever the hell they want". But Sleepy Joe Biden needs to take a nap. He is not decisive. Or aggressive. "Lock him up!" screams Dongle Trump. "If I did the crime, I'll do the time!" screams Dongle. But I've got AK47s and 357 Magnums and 44 Magnums in my paws before I let you take me!!!!" "Give me liberty or give me death", screams Dongle Trump. | |
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| 08-22-22 09:08pm - 759 days | #327 | |
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Congress wants to know what the Secret Documents were that the FBI seized at Dongle Trump's home. Why are they hiding the facts from Congress? Why can't Congress and the FBI and the Justice Department work together? Why can't Sleepy Joe Biden light a fire under the Justice Department and tell them to work with Congress and show them the papers that Dongle Trump stole from the Whitest House? Why is Sleepy Joe Biden asleep at his job, when he should be helping move the investigation of Dongle Trump along? ------ ------ Congressional leaders responsible for examining top-secret intel ask Biden for access to Trump Mar-a-Lago docs Raw Story - 10h ago The so-called "Gang of Eight" congressional leaders who have access to some of America's top intelligence secrets are asking the Biden administration to show them what documents former President Donald Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago. Politico reports that the bipartisan group of lawmakers -- which includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as well as the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees -- wants more insight into what documents were seized from Trump's property earlier this month. "Privately, Capitol Hill aides have expressed frustration about the fact that Congress has learned little about the investigation into the former president, especially since it reportedly involves matters of national security," reports Politico. "The executive branch has historically resisted congressional inquiries about ongoing law-enforcement actions, arguing that it could compromise the investigation." A search warrant and inventory from the Mar-a-Lago search revealed that the United States Department of Justice found probable cause to believe that evidence of crime existed at Mar-a-Lago, including potential violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice. IN OTHER NEWS: Colorado GOP lawmaker switches parties — and cites Trump's election lies as a primary reason Additionally, the inventory revealed that FBI agents found multiple sets of classified information at the former president's home, including some information that was granted the designation of top secret. | |
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| 08-22-22 08:42pm - 759 days | #326 | |
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Dongle Trump wants to prevent the FBI from reading the Secret Documents they stole from his Florida home. Says the FBI is not cleared to read Secret Documents. Besides which, the FBI planted Fake Documents to incriminate Dongle. Dongle is a man of the people. He would never do anything to harm the Untied States of Trumperland, the land that his secret fathers, Adolf Hitler und Man of Steel Josef Stalin, helped make great. Will you donate your money to Dongle Trump, while he fights to make Trumperland uber alles? ---- ---- Trump seeks special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents Associated Press ERIC TUCKER August 22, 2022, 3:26 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records. The request was included in a court filing, the first by Trump's legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are expected to make as the probe proceeds. The filing casts the Aug. 8 search, in which the FBI said it recovered 11 sets of classified documents, as a “shockingly aggressive move” and describes Trump and his representatives as having cooperated for months as federal agents scrutinized the presence of presidential records and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. It also attacks the warrant as overly broad. "Law enforcement is a shield that protects America. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes," the lawyers wrote Monday. “Therefore, we seek judicial assistance in the aftermath of an unprecedented and unnecessary raid” at Mar-a-Lago. The filing specifically requests the appointment of a special master not connected the case who would be tasked with inspecting the records recovered from Mar-a-Lago and setting aside those that are covered by executive privilege — a principle that permits presidents to withhold certain communications from public disclosure. In other cases, that role has sometimes been filled by a retired judge. “This matter has captured the attention of the American public. Merely ‘adequate’ safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege,” the attorneys wrote. Separately Monday, a federal judge acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search might be so extensive as to make the document “meaningless” if released to the public. But he said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its entirety because of the “intense” public interest in the investigation. A written order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week, when he directed the Justice Department to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret. That submission is due Thursday at noon. Justice Department officials have sought to keep the entire document sealed, saying disclosing any portion of it risks compromising an ongoing criminal investigation, revealing information about witnesses and divulging investigative techniques. They have advised the judge that the necessary redactions to the affidavit would be so numerous that they would strip the document of any substantive information and make it effectively meaningless for the public. Reinhart acknowledged that possibility in his Monday order, writing, “I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government.” Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have urged the judge to unseal additional records tied to this month's search of Mar-A-Lago, when FBI officials said they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, including top secret records, from the Florida estate. Of particular interest is the affidavit supporting the search, which presumably contains key details about the Justice Department's investigation examining whether Trump retained and mishandled classified and sensitive government records. Trump and some of his supporters have also called for the document to be released, hoping it will expose what they contend was government overreach. In his written ruling, Reinhart said the Justice Department had a compelling interest in preventing the affidavit from being released in its entirety. But he said he did not believe it should remain fully sealed, and said he was not persuaded by the department's arguments that the redaction process “imposes an undue burden on its resources." “Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,” he wrote. | |
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| 08-21-22 08:08am - 760 days | #325 | |
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Dongle Trump scream: "I admit. I ordered the hit on the Russian woman because she got between me and my best buddy Putin. But I can't be arrested, because this happened outside of the Untied States of Trumperland." This is another expose about Dongle Trump, the man who made conspiracy theories popular in the Untied States. ---- ---- Associated Press Car blast kills daughter of Russian known as 'Putin's brain' In this handout photo taken from video released by Investigative Committee of Russia on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, investigators work on the site of explosion of a car driven by Daria Dugina outside Moscow. Daria Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, the Russian nationalist ideologist often called "Putin's brain", was killed when her car exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday. The Investigate Committee branch for the Moscow region said the Saturday night blast was caused by a bomb planted in the SUV driven by Daria Dugina.(Investigative Committee of Russia via AP) JIM HEINTZ Sun, August 21, 2022 at 12:42 AM MOSCOW (AP) — The daughter of an influential Russian political theorist often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, authorities said Sunday. The Moscow branch of the Russian Investigative Committee said preliminary information indicated 29-year-old TV commentator Daria Dugina was killed by an explosive planted in the SUV she was driving Saturday night. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the bloodshed gave rise to suspicions that the intended target was her father, Alexander Dugin, a nationalist philosopher and writer. Dugin is a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes traditional values, restoration of Russia’s power and the unity of all ethnic Russians throughout the world. He is also a vehement supporter of Russia's sending of troops into Ukraine. The explosion took place as his daughter was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with him. Some Russian media reports cited witnesses as saying that the SUV belonged to Dugin and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another vehicle. The vivid act of violence, unusual for Moscow, is likely to aggravate tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, the pro-Moscow region that is a focus of Russia’s fighting in Ukraine, blamed it on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin.” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukrainian involvement, saying, "We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state.” Analyst Sergei Markov, a former Putin adviser, told the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that Dugin, not his daughter, was probably the intended target and said, “It’s completely obvious that the most probable suspects are Ukrainian military intelligence and the Ukrainian Security Service.” While Dugin's exact ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin are unclear, the Kremlin frequently echoes rhetoric from his writings and appearances on Russian state TV. He helped popularize the “Novorossiya," or New Russia, concept that Russia used to justify the 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. He promotes Russia as a country of piety, traditional values and authoritarian leadership, and disdains Western liberal values. His daughter expressed similar views and had appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad, where Dugin had served as chief editor. Dugina herself was sanctioned by the United States in March for her work as chief editor of United World International, a website that the U.S. described as a disinformation source. The sanctions announcement cited a United World article this year that contended Ukraine would “perish” if it were admitted to NATO. Dugina, "like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad said on Sunday. | |
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CONTINUED: Whenever Trump does announce his 2024 plans, one of his properties could wind up being the backdrop. Some venues that have been under discussion include Mar-a-Lago and the Trump National Doral golf club near Miami, according to people familiar with the matter. An advantage of both is that they would send DeSantis a message: that Trump is unafraid to challenge the sitting Florida governor on his own turf. Staging the announcement at Mar-a-Lago would be “a direct shot at Ron DeSantis,” the first person close to Trump said. Caputo, the former Trump administration official and campaign adviser, said he’s not sure if Trump will want Mar-a-Lago as an announcement spot, but he’s positive that Trump is now entirely unconcerned about a serious primary opponent if he runs in 2024. “I know now he can raise as much money as he damn well pleases,” Caputo said. “There is no challenger.” | |
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| 08-20-22 03:18pm - 761 days | #323 | |
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Dongle Trump reveals the presidency was hell. But says he is determined to take back the office. For the good of America. And to punish his enemies. And to re-write the laws that accuse him of crimes. Dongle is a God-fearing man who only wants to do good. And he vows to smash his enemies to little bits, to clean the corruption in Washington. Also, he vows to only golf on days when his desk is clear of Top-Secret Papers. He's learned his lesson: Top-Secret Papers should be de-classifed immediately, with the Advise and Consent of the Supreme Court. ---- ---- Trump calls the presidency 'hell.' As legal woes mount, allies say he’s more determined than ever to win it back. NBC Universal Marc Caputo and Carol E. Lee and Peter Nicholas and Courtney Kube August 19, 2022, 3:30 PM Scroll back up to restore default view. The day after federal agents searched Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump told a group of conservative lawmakers that “being president was hell,” according to three people at the meeting. But to some he sounded ready to have the job again. “He was not to be deterred,” said Rep. Randy Weber of Texas, one of a dozen Republican House members who met with Trump on Aug. 9. He described Trump’s state of mind in the immediate aftermath of the search as “pretty miffed, but measured.” Everything that’s occurred since that Bedminster, New Jersey, meeting — and since federal agents seized a trove of top secret and other highly classified documents from his resort — has put Trump exactly where he and his supporters want him to be, according to people close to him. He’s in a fight, squaring off with Washington institutions and a political establishment he says are out to get him, issues he brought up in the meeting with the lawmakers and in conversations with others. Taken together, it’s reoriented Trump’s thinking about whether he should announce a presidential campaign before or after the midterm elections, according to those who have spoken with him over the past two weeks. They said Trump feels less pressure to announce early because viable challengers who might otherwise force his hand have faded into the background. But there are other reasons to wait. Rep. Randy Weber (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) Rep. Randy Weber (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) Trump is now inclined to launch his candidacy after the November elections, in part to avoid blame should an early announcement undermine the GOP’s effort to win control of Congress, said one person close to him, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk more freely. A post-midterm announcement would suit Republican leaders who’ve been urging Trump to hold off so that he doesn’t overshadow the party’s candidates.Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign and administration official, described Trump’s attitude in recent days after speaking with him, as “business as usual.” “He’s already moved on. It’s business as usual for him,” he said. Still, there are many in his orbit who believe Trump is shrugging off the legal issues too quickly, and that he’s front and center for the wrong reasons. Two days after the Mar-a-Lago search, Trump invoked his right to avoid self-incrimination 440 times in a New York civil case targeting his business practices. On Monday, his longtime friend and onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani officially became a target of an unrelated criminal investigation into alleged attempts to interfere with the 2020 election results in Georgia. On Thursday, the Trump Organization’s former CFO pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges and is expected to testify against the former president’s eponymous business in a New York case. On the same day, federal prosecutors in open court raised the possibility of witness intimidation and obstruction of justice in its investigation into the sensitive documents stored at Mar-a-Lago to argue against unsealing the affidavit used to search his club. The cascading revelations would typically crush any politician’s presidential hopes. But for Trump they have, at least for now, increased his resolve to run for president, while also giving him a paradoxical aura of calm, according to six people close to him who have spoken recently with him but requested anonymity to speak candidly because of the multiple investigations surrounding him. They said Trump sounds buoyed by an uptick in fundraising when his political committee last week took in $1 million a day on two separate days, according to a Washington Post report confirmed by NBC News. Trump, sources said, also revels in surveys showing him widening a lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in a potential Republican primary. Trump has also been encouraged by focus groups that show his popularity surging among Republican voters offended by the FBI search of his home, one of the sources said. Another described him as “over the moon” on Tuesday night when his high-profile nemesis, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, lost her primary by a wide margin. “Yes, we have problems. He’s aware of that,” a different Trump ally said. “But the fact is that he needs a fight to give him focus. He has that now. He has that sense he’s in the arena.” Still, even some of Trump’s most ardent allies question how long his streak of fending off grievous threats can last. While Trump insists the investigations are “hoaxes,” polls show voters don’t think so, and some in his orbit are not nearly so sanguine. One close Trump ally who hopes he’ll run in 2024 said the former president doesn’t seem to be aware of the perilous position he’s in, saying, “He may get closer to the prize but in reality, he’s slipping.” “It seems like the net is surrounding him more and more, and his ability to dance around these things is going to get more challenging,” this ally said. “It’s a double-edged sword.” Another person close to Trump voiced concern that the former president wasn’t taking the investigations seriously enough. “Look, when I spoke to him it was kind of weird. It was like he didn’t really care about all of this going on or didn’t take it seriously,” this person said. “He thinks it’s all bulls—. I do, too. But bulls— can still cause you problems.” Those problems aren’t likely to soon go away. At the court hearing over unsealing the affidavit, a Justice Department official said the probe into the Mar-a-Lago records is still in the “early stages.” The investigation could end up shadowing Trump throughout the 2024 campaign, forcing him to fend off a federal inquiry backed by the U.S. government’s virtually unlimited resources. Of all the potential legal threats Trump faces, though, some people close to him consider the most immediate to be the criminal investigation unfolding in Georgia, where local prosecutors are examining his alleged effort to overturn the state’s 2020 result. Giuliani spent six hours before a grand jury in Atlanta this week after being told he’s a “target” of the probe, something his lawyer confirmed to NBC News. Giuliani and his attorneys did not comment on his testimony, with his attorneys previously saying he would not answer questions that would violate attorney-client privilege. One attorney said the former New York City mayor “showed up” as required. “Georgia is a much more serious investigation,” said the first person close to Trump who is familiar with his inclination to announce his 2024 plans after the midterms. “I don’t care who you are,” the source added, “this takes a toll on you.” For now, though, Trump seems to be consolidating Republican support since the unprecedented search at his home. In retrieving the records, the FBI tapped into deep-seated grievances among many Republicans that government institutions aren’t trustworthy and are persecuting their lone defender, multiple GOP operatives interviewed by NBC News said. “I don’t think him being behind bars would stop him from winning the Republican nomination,” said Brendan Buck, a Republican consultant. Sarah Longwell, a GOP strategist who conducts focus groups among swing voters, said for much of the summer they seemed to be drifting away from the former president. A common concern among voters was that he carried too much baggage and was destined to lose a general election, Longwell said, but that changed on Aug. 8 when the FBI arrived at Trump’s doorstep. “The rally-around-Trump effect is real,” she said, while adding that “whether or not it sticks” is uncertain. Elizabeth Preate Havey, chair of the Montgomery County Republican Committee in Pennsylvania, said the past two weeks “so far have energized the party” and that “even Republicans who don’t like Trump and don’t want him to be our nominee have taken this news with alarm.” Trump is pointing to these same trend lines. He has mentioned to allies a Politico/Morning Consult poll that showed him with a 10-point bounce over DeSantis. (The poll was conducted in a single day after the Mar-a-Lago search, Aug. 10.) One source said Trump has also seen other survey data that shows he went from virtually tied against DeSantis in a multi-candidate 2024 field before the FBI search, to leading DeSantis 52% to 20% afterward. Yet as Trump savors polling that shows his support among Republicans growing, he’s having trouble with independent voters, according to a new national online YouGov poll conducted for The Economist after the Mar-a-Lago search and released Wednesday. | |
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| 08-20-22 07:59am - 761 days | #322 | |
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A GOP candidate had his Twitter account suspended after he tweeted that federal agents could be shot on sight. This is not right. The GOP has the right of free speech, protected by the US Constitution. Not only that, but the GOP is now trying the drain the swamp of corrupt cops. So the man should have been given a medal for being honest and brave, and trying to make America great again, following in the steps of Dongle Trump. However, the GOP candidate said he was not endorsing violence. Instead, he said, this is the humane way to treat corrupt cops. ---- ---- A Republican candidate seeking a House seat in the Florida Legislature had his Twitter account yanked this week after a post about violence against federal agents. Luis Miguel, who's running in Florida's House District 20, said on Twitter that under his plan, federal agents could be shot on sight in the state. He told the website Florida Politics that Twitter had notified him that his account had been permanently suspended, which he later confirmed to NBC News on Friday. A Twitter spokesperson said the account is permanently suspended for violating the company's hateful conduct policy. Miguel confirmed to NBC News that his tweet on Thursday said: “Under my plan, all Floridians will have permission to shoot FBI, IRS, ATF and all other feds on sight! Let freedom ring!” The post comes amid increased threats to the FBI after agents executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida. Last week, an armed man attacked an FBI field office in Cincinnati and was fatally shot by law enforcement. On Friday, two top congressional Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to social media companies about “a flood of violent threats on social media” that pose a danger to law enforcement. “We urge you to take immediate action to address any threats of violence against law enforcement that appear on your company’s platforms,” wrote committee chair Carolyn Maloney of New York and Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, who leads the subcommittee on national security. The letters — sent to Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Truth Social, Rumble, Gettr, Telegram and Gab — also requested information about how social media companies are responding to the threats. In speaking to NBC News, Miguel insisted he was not endorsing violence. “I am in no way advocating any kind of vigilante, extra-judicial, illegal or other form of violence against federal officers,” he said. Miguel argued that his tweet was referring to planned legislation that would require federal agencies to have permission from Florida to operate in the state, and that people could protect themselves against threats to their lives or property. He said he found out about the Twitter suspension Friday morning when he checked his account, and that he has filed an appeal with the social media company. Earlier Friday, Miguel defended the tweet in an interview with Florida Politics, saying what he wrote was justified because the IRS has been “weaponized by dissident forces” — an apparent reference to misleading characterizations by some Republicans that the tax agency is assembling an armed force of 80,000 agents to target average Americans. Miguel also said that Instagram deleted a similar post Friday. By Friday night it appeared as though the account was removed. A representative of Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, said Friday that both his Instagram and Facebook accounts had been removed. The spokesperson did not detail why. Miguel is on the ballot in Tuesday's primary along with state Rep. Bobby Payne, another Republican. They are the only two candidates, according to the Florida Department of State. | |
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| 08-20-22 12:41am - 762 days | #321 | |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham loses bid to delay testifying in Georgia Trump probe. This is not right. Lindsey should be happy to testify. Everyone wants to hear his golden voice and the lies he will tell under oath. Or maybe not. Telling lies under oath can get you into trouble. Maybe Lindsey will take the Fifth, just like Dongle Trump did recently. ----- ----- Sen. Lindsey Graham loses bid to delay testifying in Georgia Trump probe NBC Universal Dareh Gregorian August 19, 2022, 2:07 PM A federal judge in Georgia on Friday denied Sen. Lindsey Graham's latest attempt to escape a subpoena to testify before a grand jury investigating alleged election interference in the state. Lawyers for Graham, R-S.C., had asked Judge Leigh Martin May to temporarily block an order she issued earlier this week denying his bid to quash the grand jury subpoena. They appealed the decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and asked May to put her ruling on hold during the appeals process. The Fulton County district attorney's office urged the judge to deny the request in a court filing Friday, arguing that Graham's legal maneuverings have already cost the special grand jury precious time. The DA's office noted it first sought Graham's appearance in early July. "Six weeks later, after litigation in three separate jurisdictions, the District Attorney is still attempting to provide the [Special Purpose Grand Jury] with the Senator’s crucial testimony," the DA's office wrote, noting that a stay of May's ruling could lead to months of additional litigation. “Given the possibility that Senator Graham’s testimony could reveal additional routes of inquiry, staying remand and enjoining his appearance at this stage could ultimately delay the resolution of the SPGJ’s entire investigation,” their filing said. The judge sided with the DA's office later Friday. "Senator Graham raises a number of arguments as to why he is likely to succeed on the merits, but they are all unpersuasive," she wrote in the ruling. The grand jury was impaneled this year to assist District Attorney Fani Willis’ criminal investigation into possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and others. Among the incidents Willis has said she's investigating is a pair of post-election phone calls Graham made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, and his staff. Raffensperger said Graham pressed him about whether he had the power to reject certain absentee ballots, which Raffensperger interpreted as a suggestion to toss out legally cast votes. Graham “also made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign," according to a subpoena demanding his testimony. Graham and his lawyers have said he made the calls in his then-role as a chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, adding in a statement last month that he "was well within his rights to discuss with state officials the processes and procedures around administering elections." In court filings, Graham's lawyers also argued that because he was acting in a legislative role, the speech and debate clause of the Constitution shields him from testifying. The judge found that Graham's interpretation was too broad, and said investigators could ask him about the circumstances of the calls, including whether there was "any coordination either before or after the calls with the Trump campaign’s post-election efforts in Georgia." Graham's attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. Barring a stay from the higher court, Graham is scheduled to testify Aug. 23. | |
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Dongle Trump is accused of twisting the truth. Many of Dongle's top officials say Dongle is fibbing when he claims he had a standing order to de-classify secret documents. ---- ---- 'Fiction': Top Trump officials tell CNN his 'standing order' claim is rubbish HuffPost Josephine Harvey August 18, 2022, 7:13 PM More than a dozen former top Trump administration officials have refuted former President Donald Trump’s claim that he had a “standing order” stipulating that classified documents automatically became declassified when he took them from the Oval Office to his White House residence, CNN reported Thursday. Since the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for top-secret materials that may have been improperly taken there, Trump and his allies have claimed, among other excuses, that the former president had a “standing order” in place that declassified them. But, according to 18 officials from his administration who spoke to CNN, no such order was ever issued. Several officials reportedly laughed or scoffed at the notion. One called it “bullshit.” Many of them even went on the record. John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, told CNN that “nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given” during his tenure. “And I can’t imagine anyone that worked at the White House after me that would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed that order to go forward without dying in the ditch trying to stop it,” he added. Mick Mulvaney, Kelly’s successor, also said he was not aware of any such order. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton called Trump’s claim “a complete fiction.” Olivia Troye, who was a homeland security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, called the idea of a blanket declassification “ludicrous.” A president does have the authority to declassify documents, but there is a formal process involved. It’s not clear if Trump followed that process. The documents the FBI sought from Mar-a-Lago were reportedly very sensitive in nature and included materials related to nuclear weapons. The “standing order” excuse is among a rotation of other explanations that Trump and his team have offered. Trump has also claimed baselessly that any damaging materials found by the FBI must have been planted on his property. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. | |
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Dongle Trump has his hands out for more of your money. He already has over $100 million in PACs. Now he is grabbing for even more money. Dongle's goal is to reach $100 billion in taxpayer funds, that he will try to spend on himself first, then on him family, then on building a monument to his glory. Dongle Trump, the most corrupt president of the Untied States of Trumperland the world has known. ---- ---- 'Can I count on you?' Trump revs up fundraising pitches after FBI's Mar-a-Lago search USA TODAY Erin Mansfield August 19, 2022, 6:56 AM Former President Donald Trump is aggressively fundraising off the FBI’s seizure of confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, sending a blitz of emails that urge supporters to donate to an “Official Trump Defense Fund.” The money is being solicited through a fundraising vehicle that can dump money into Donald Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, and to another fund, Make America Great Again PAC, which evolved out of his first presidential campaign. Trump is using the criminal investigation as an opportunity to motivate his supporters to stock war chests that already have more than $100 million. He will be able to use the money in a variety of ways, including opposing his political enemies, and preserving and extending his already-firm grip on the Republican Party. Some examples of what the former president sent to his followers in the days after the law enforcement actions include: “What recently took place at my Mar-a-Lago home was an unprecedented infringement of the rights of every American citizen,” the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee wrote on Aug. 12, which included the “Official Trump Defense Fund” logo at the bottom. “Scam after Scam, year after year. This POLITICAL PROSECUTION is merely a continuation of Russia, Russia, Russia, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax # 2, the no collusion Mueller Report, and more,” he said. A fundraising email sent Aug. 9 had the subject line, “The Democrats broke into the home of President Donald J. Trump.” The search was approved by a federal judge after the Department of Justice made a case that there was probable cause to believe a crime was committed. Answers to your questions: What's happening at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home? Was the FBI there? What is Save America?: Trump's 'Save America' PAC raised millions after the election. Here's what you need to know about it. In the first 10 days since the Mar-a-Lago search, Trump and his allies sent out more than 120 emails explicitly fundraising off the raid. There were at least dozens more referring more generally to things like a “witch hunt” or the left being out to get Trump. 'Cocktail napkins, raincoats and golf balls' The vast majority were sent by the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee. Fifteen of the emails reference an “Official Trump Defense Fund,” language that is strikingly similar to the “Official Election Defense Fund” that the House committee probing Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack said likely never existed. The Save America Joint Fundraising Committee did not immediately reply to a question about whether there was a segregated fund for money that comes in for the “Official Trump Defense Fund” or where that money goes. Information on fundraising and spending this month will not be available until they report to the Federal Election Commission in September. Save America: Trump PAC formed to push debunked voter fraud claims paid $60K to Melania Trump's fashion designer Other fundraising emails came from the campaign arms of House Republicans and Senate Republicans, as well as funds affiliated with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. "Every single dollar raised will go directly to FIGHTING OFF the corrupt Left and their LIES,” an email sent Tuesday said. On Wednesday, an email promised a 1300% match in donation amounts for one day only, with text that claimed the FBI went on "a wild goose chase looking for cocktail napkins, raincoats and golf balls from the White House." The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is shown Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is shown Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Not all emails explicitly say what the money will be used for, and the amount raised this month will not be disclosed with the FEC until September. “There’s nothing inherently wrong with profiteering off of galvanizing news — and this is obviously very galvanizing for his base — as long as it’s going to the stated purpose,” said Danya Perry, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Perry said the “Official Election Defense Fund” was a “cut and dried” case because the Jan. 6 committee determined that the money largely did not go to election litigation. “Time and maybe FEC records will tell,” she said. She said Trump could also run into trouble if he’s fundraising not off of hyperbole, but off of false statements. A fundraising email sent Aug. 9 had subject line, “The Democrats broke into the home of President Donald J. Trump.” The search was approved by a federal judge after the Department of Justice made a case that there was probable cause that a crime was committed. Bruce Udolf, a defense attorney and former prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida, said the new Official Trump Defense Fund is “entirely predictable” and raises concerns. "If Trump's doing it, it's questionable," he said. Daniel Weiner, a director at New York University’s Brennan Center, said it's common for people across the political spectrum to use the concept that a candidate is being unfairly persecuted when asking for donations. And others have used the concept of a “fund” before. “This is a particular fundraising tactic that the Trump campaign has perfected,” he said. Fundraising emails promising matches are also common, and in Trump’s case, Weiner said there’s no indication the donations in the past have been being matched. “It’s just a fundraising tactic,” Weiner said. Ann Ravel, a Democrat who served on the Federal Election Commission, said fundraising off of Mar-a-Lago is “really unseemly.” “He is turning it into a fundraising (mechanism) and also using it probably for his purposes of politicizing it and therefore advancing his own career,” Ravel said. “Which is why I think it has to be related to deciding to run again in 2024 and to rile up the base.” Trump has not filed to run for election in 2024, but allies have called for him to take another stab at the White House, and his fundraising emails regularly ask supporters if they would vote for him a third time. Money that ends up with Save America can be spent for personal use, from clothing to defense attorneys, but cannot be turned back over to a potential campaign, Ravel said. The Make America Great Again PAC is not a leadership fund. Erin Chlopak, a senior director for campaign finance at the nonprofit watchdog group Campaign Legal Center, said the influx of fundraising emails could be “misleading at best” and “fraudulent at worst” if the donations do not in fact go to Trump’s legal defense. “There’s not necessarily a specific campaign finance law that prohibits general misleading fundraising,” she said, “but it’s certainly a problem that we have seen for many years.” This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump PACs use Mar-a-Lago raid to unveil 'Official Trump Defense Fund' | |
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| 08-19-22 06:34am - 762 days | #318 | |
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Dongle Trump says he knew nothing about any illegal behavior on the part of people working for him. However, Dongle takes full responsibility for all things done in his name. And he will apologize soon, in tweets, as he calls for the people who did these crimes to confess. Innocent until proven guilty, Dongle screams to his supporters. Waving the flag above his head with pride. ----- ----- Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to tax fraud Yahoo Finance Alexis Keenan August 18, 2022, 8:44 AM Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty on Thursday to 15 criminal tax fraud charges alleging that he and the Trump Organization participated in a scheme to evade federal, state, and local taxes. Weisselberg, 75, who started working for the Trump family nearly 50 years ago and served as its long-time chief financial officer, admitted to omitting $1.7 million in personal income from his tax filings between 2005 and 2021 and agreed to full repayment of taxes due, plus interest, totaling $1,994,321. "Yes, your honor," Weisselberg said in response to the judge's separate questions asking whether he agreed to plead guilty to each of the 15 criminal charges during a hearing Thursday morning in New York state's Supreme Court. The plea agreement requires that Weisselberg testify truthfully, if called to take the stand in the criminal fraud trial scheduled to proceed against the Trump Organization. Jury selection in that case is scheduled for October 24. Weisselberg's official sentencing, tentatively agreed to as a split sentence including 5 months incarceration and 5 years probation, is postponed until after that trial — though the judge mentioned a sentencing date of November 17 during Thursday's proceedings. Prosecutors recommended a split sentence of 6 months imprisonment and 5 years probation. Weisselberg's attorneys told the judge Weisselberg agreed to five-months incarceration. However, prosecutors said sentencing would happen at the conclusion of the Trump Organization trial because the agreement is contingent upon Weisselberg's follow through with testimony in the case. Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg looks on as then-U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. Picture taken May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg looks on as then-U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. Picture taken May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri The Manhattan District Attorney’s office alleged in their indictment that Weisselberg and the Trump Organization participated together in a scheme to disguise employment compensation that then went unreported to tax authorities. Weisselberg illegally failed to report “indirect” payments by the Trump Organization that should have been reported as income. According to the indictment, payments flowed from the Trump Organization to support Weisselberg's Upper West Side New York City apartment, tuition payments for his grandchildren, and Mercedes cars for himself and his wife. As for the Trump Organization, prosecutors allege that the company failed to pay payroll taxes for the compensation in question and to withhold income taxes on wages, salaries, and bonuses paid to Weisselberg and other employees. Weisselberg started working for the Trump family in 1973 and worked his way up through the Trump Organization | |
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The GOP wraps itself in the flag. Says if they call for an opponent to be executed, they are just joking. And can't be held responsible for their words. Say their words are protected by free speech. The GOP is the party of Washington, Lincoln, and Dongle Trump. Three of the greatest presidents we've ever had. Except Dongle is also the most corrupt president we've ever had. He specialized in corruption and ignoring the law and weaponizing the government against people he didn't like. Firing them, cutting off their pensions, having the IRS investigate their tax returns. Good clean fun, that he denied, while saying "Trust me". ----- ----- GOP candidate says call for Garland's death was ‘facetious’ Associated Press August 18, 2022, 9:53 PM BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Congress in western New York said in a radio interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be executed” for authorizing a search former President Donald Trump's home, before clarifying later in the show that he wasn't being serious. Buffalo-area businessman Carl Paladino made the comment in an interview with Breitbart News Saturday on Aug. 13. During the interview, Paladino was criticizing President Joe Biden for what he said was a lack of leadership and disengagement from government. “So we have a couple of unelected people who are running our government, in an administration of people like Garland, who should be not only impeached, he probably should be executed,” Paladino said. “The guy is just lost. He’s a lost soul. He’s trying to get an image, and his image, his methodology is just terrible. To raid the home of a former president is just — people are scratching their heads and they’re saying, ‘What is wrong with this guy?’” A short time later in the interview, host Matthew Boyle pressed Paladino about what he meant when he said that Garland should be executed. “I’m just being facetious. The man should be removed from office,” Paladino said. “He shows his incompetence. He wants to get his face in front of the people and show he’s got some mettle to him, but his choice of issues and choice of methodology is very sad.” Paladino, a millionaire real estate developer who was the party’s candidate for governor of New York in 2010, is in a close primary fight with New York Republican State Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy. Paladino has been endorsed by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik. Election Day is Aug. 23. A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The FBI is generally responsible for investigating threats made against the attorney general. Paladino's campaign responded to a request for comment Thursday by reiterating that the remark wasn't serious. A Paladino spokesperson, Vish Burra, also told The Buffalo News on Wednesday that Paladino wasn't actually calling for Garland's death. “The comment is clear: Carl does not think Garland should be executed and when you listen to the interview, when asked what he meant, he stated he was being facetious,” Burra said. The FBI and Justice Department have faced a barrage of violent threats in the days since agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago home as part of an investigation into the discovery of classified White House records. A man, who had said on social media that federal agents should be killed “on sight,” died in a shootout with law enforcement officers in Ohio after trying to get inside the FBI's Cincinnati field office with a semiautomatic rifle. Paladino has a long history of outrageous comments. In June, he shared a Facebook post suggesting that a racist mass shooting in Buffalo was part of a conspiracy to take away people’s guns. The same month, he apologized for a comment he'd made in an interview in which he said Adolf Hitler was “the kind of leader we need today” because of his ability to rally crowds. In 2016, Paladino joked to a newspaper that he hoped then-President Barack Obama would die from mad cow disease and said Michelle Obama should “return to being a male" and be sent to live with a gorilla in a cave. The following year, he was removed from Buffalo’s school board for improperly discussing teacher contract negotiations, although he contended the comments about the Obamas were the real reason for his removal. During his run for governor, he was criticized for forwarding emails to friends containing racist jokes and pornography. | |
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| 08-18-22 11:46pm - 763 days | #316 | |
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announces FL has “charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals … for voter fraud.” This is proof the 2020 election was fraudulent. And that Dongle Trump was the real victor. Put Dongle Trump back in the Whitest House, and put Sleepy Joe Biden in jail, where he belongs. Go, Dongle, you continue to lead us to greatness. Your shit smells so sweet, it can be sold as perfume. Also, Gov. Ron DeSantis might be have elected by voter fraud. Lock him up until we can investigate him for criminal behavior. Thank God there are honest people to investigate these criminals. ----- ----- Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announces FL has “charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals … for voter fraud.” Thu, August 18, 2022 at 12:54 PM Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a presser in a courthouse to announce that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security, which began on July 1, has discovered 20 instance of voter fraud. DeSantis says the 20 individuals will be charged and arrested for their crimes. The state of Florida will continue to monitor voter fraud in the upcoming election as well as review the 2020 election results. DESANTIS: The State of Florida has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. Now, the majority of these people illegally voted in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade. Although there are others and other parts of the state. These folks voted illegally in this case and there's going to be other other grounds for other prosecution's in the future. They are disqualified from voting because they've been convicted of either murder or sexual assault and they do not have the right to vote. | |
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| 08-18-22 11:17pm - 763 days | #315 | |
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Dongle Trump raises his battle cry: Rally around me, you White Supremacists. I am the begotten son of Adolf Hitler, the Great German Killer of lower humans. Dongle Trump has been attacking the Police and FBI and other law enforcement agencies. He wants to set up his own cadre of Sturmabteilung. Instead of Spanish or other lower class languages, US schools will now teach German, in honor of Adolf Hitler. ---- ---- Trump supporters' threats to judge spur democracy concerns Associated Press GARY FIELDS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI August 18, 2022, 2:27 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of federal judges face the same task every day: review an affidavit submitted by federal agents and approve requests for a search warrant. But for U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the fallout from his decision to approve a search warrant has been far from routine. He has faced a storm of death threats since his signature earlier this month cleared the way for the FBI to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a probe into whether he inappropriately removed sensitive materials from the White House. Reinhart's home address was posted on right-wing sites, along with antisemitic slurs. The South Florida synagogue he attends canceled its Friday night Shabbat services in the wake of the uproar. Trump has done little to lower the temperature among his supporters, decrying the search as political persecution and calling on Reinhart to recuse himself in the case because he has previously made political donations to Democrats. Reinhart has also, however, contributed to Republicans. The threats against Reinhart are part of a broader attack on law enforcement, particularly the FBI, by Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the search. But experts warn that the focus on a judge, coming amid an uptick in threats to the judiciary in general, is dangerous for the rule of law in the U.S. and the country’s viability as a democracy. “Threats against judges fulfilling their constitutional responsibilities strike at the very core of our democracy,” U.S. Second Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan, chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Security, said in a statement issued recently in the aftermath of the search. “Judges should not have to fear retaliation for doing their jobs.” A phone message left in Reinhart's chambers was not immediately returned. He will preside over a hearing Thursday on a request by media organizations, including The Associated Press, seeking to unseal the underlying affidavit the Justice Department submitted when it asked for the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Asked to comment about measures it has taken to protect Reinhart and his family the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement "while we do not discuss our specific security measures, we continuously review the measures in place and take appropriate steps to provide protection as necessary to ensure the integrity of the federal judicial process.” The vitriol directed at the magistrate, while striking, is becoming increasingly common. In 2014, the U.S. Marshals Service handled 768 incidents that it classified as “inappropriate communications” aimed at judges and court employees. Last year, it reported more than 4,500. At one point “virtually everyone recognized how inappropriate it was to threaten the life or security of a judge because of a disagreement with the judge’s decision,” said Barbara Lynn, chief judge for the northern district of Texas. “Now I think there are a lot of people that don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.” Lynn is one of many judicial officials pushing Congress to approve the Daniel Anderl bill, named for the 20-year-old son of District Judge Esther Salas. He was killed in 2020 when a gunman came to their New Jersey home. His father was wounded. The bill, which has the support of groups ranging from the American Bar Association to the National Association of Attorneys General, would keep more of judges’ personal information private. In June, a retired Wisconsin county circuit judge, John Roemer was killed in his home in what authorities said was a targeted killing by a gunman, who fatally wounded himself as well. Later that month, protesters converged on the homes of conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices after they overturned a 49-year-old ruling that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. Police arrested a man with knives, zip ties and a gun near the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and he said he planned to kill the conservative justice. Congress rapidly approved money to bolster security at the justices' homes and provide 24-hour protection to their families. The increased targeting of judges comes as trust in public institutions plummets and partisan rhetoric escalates. It's part of a pattern that Steven Levitsky has seen before. “This is a classic precursor of a democratic breakdown,” said Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and co-author of How Democracies Die. “To call this a warning sign is an understatement.” Trump’s initial presidential campaign — during which he personally condemned a judge who ruled against him in a lawsuit over his now-defunct Trump University — changed the ground rules governing threats and explosive rhetoric, said Matthew Weil, executive director of the Democracy Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC. “There are threats everywhere now, it’s become more normalized because he changed what was allowed in public discourse,” Weil said, who said both the right and the left have turned to threatening the judicial branch. Nathan Hall, a principal consultant with the National Center for State Courts, noted that the combination of lagging public trust, coupled with access to judges’ addresses and personal information impacts everyone from nationally-known Supreme Court justices to otherwise anonymous state judges. “This gets to the core issue of having equal access to justice, a core foundational principle of our ability to function as a third and independent branch of government. It’s really shaken to the core,” Hall said. “Judges are just people at the end of the day. They put on a robe, but they still go home to their families.” The most recent warning sign came after last week's search of Mar-A-Lago, Trump's Florida resort and political and personal headquarters. FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified information as part of an investigation of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act, according to court records. Trump accused the government of abuse of power in targeting him, and his supporters railed against the search online, targeting the FBI and Department of Justice. An armed man who posted threats against the FBI on Trump's Truth Social network was killed by authorities after trying to storm the agency's Cincinnati office. Still, Trump and his supporters have waged rhetorical war against the FBI for years since the investigation into whether his initial campaign was aided by Russia in 2016. The intense focus on an individual judge like Reinhart is relatively new. Gretchen Helmke, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, said Trump's action mirrors what demagogues have done in other countries where democracy has collapsed. “A popularly elected leader targeting a judiciary is often one early indicator of democratic erosion,” Helmke said in an email. Helmke cited Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru as places where an incoming administration vowed to clean up the judiciary, then stocked it with its followers. “The public never develops any real trust or confidence in the judiciary, and it is essentially costless for each incoming administration to use the previous government’s manipulation of the judiciary as a pretext to create the court it wants, Helmke said. ”The end result is no judicial independence and no rule of law." Hall said people can look at other countries and see what happens when public servants fear reprisals, places where “the rule of law has suffered. I guess you probably get a lot of differences of opinions on how far down that road we’re already hitting, but it raises the important question.” ___ Riccardi reported from Denver. | |
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