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Ladybbird · 02-09-20, 08:24

US Election 2020: Could Law and Order Secure Trump a Second Term?

As Donald Trump visits Kenosha, is he looking for a peaceful solution to racial violence or trying to sew division for political gain?

BBC Newsnight Sep 20202

US President Donald Trump has visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, to back law enforcement after the police shooting of a black man sparked protests.

Kenosha was rocked by days of violence after Jacob Blake was shot in the back by officers.

President Trump defended the actions of US police and accused the media of focusing only on "bad" incidents involving officer and blamed "domestic terror" for the "destruction" in the city.

With the president pushing a strong "law and order" message ahead of November’s election, does the recent violence in US cities offer Trump a clear route back to the White House?

US Correspondent David Grossman reports and Kirsty Wark is joined by Democratic Congresswoman for Michigan, Brenda Lawrence and Democratic politician from Georgia who's now supporting Donald Trump, Vernon Jones.

Ladybbird · 03-09-20, 16:40

As Election Nears, Trump Builds The Very 'Deep State' He Railed Against

White House manipulation of US intelligence on Russian and Chinese interference may rival WMD fiasco that led to Iraq war, say experts

The Guardian UK, 3 SEP 2020.

Donald Trump listens to homeland security secretary Chad Wolf, who reportedly blocked a warning about Russian efforts to question Joe Biden’s mental health. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

Two months before the presidential election, the US intelligence agencies are under increasing pressure from the Trump administration to provide only the information it wants to hear.

After installing loyalist John Ratcliffe at the pinnacle of the intelligence community, the administration is seeking to limit congressional oversight, and has removed a veteran official from a sensitive national security role in the justice department

One former senior intelligence officer has suggested Donald Trump is seeking to create the very thing he was repeatedly complained about: a “deep state”. Another official has compared it to the intelligence fiasco that preceded the 2003 Iraq invasion.

The intense focus of the current struggle is the covert Russian role in the election campaign. The intelligence community has assessed that Moscow is taking an active role, as it did in 2016, to damage Joe Biden and boost Trump, largely through spreading disinformation. But administration officials have sought to stop public discussion of such interference.

ABC News reported this week that an aide to the homeland security secretary, Chad Wolf, blocked a bulletin in July warning about Russian efforts to create doubts about Joe Biden’s mental health.

John Ratcliffe has halted in-person security briefings, preventing any chance of cross-examination. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AFP/Getty Images

Ratcliffe, the new director of national intelligence (DNI), informed Congress at the end of last week that his office would no longer provide in-person briefings on election security, but would instead deliver written reports that could not be subjected to cross-examination by sceptical legislators.

He justified his action by accusing Congress of leaking classified material but did not explain why the same risk did not apply to written reports. John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, said the fears of leaks should not outweigh the need for transparency.

“Frankly, having briefed the Congress many times, it’s possible to talk about sensitive things without giving away sources and methods,” McLaughlin told the Guardian.

“In my view the American voter needs to know as much about this as can be revealed. They need to know if someone is attempting to influence their vote or manipulate them.”

Ratcliffe’s predecessor as acting DNI, Richard Grenell, another highly partisan figure, had sought to consolidate responsibility for election security under that office, taking the highly charged issue out of the hands of career intelligence professionals.

And on Monday it emerged that the attorney general, William Barr, had abruptly removed a veteran official running the law and policy office in the justice department’s national security division.

The official, Brad Wiegmann, was a widely respected career professional, part of whose job was to advise on public disclosure of evidence of election interference. He was replaced by a much younger prosecutor, Kellen Dwyer, a conservative cyber-security specialist with very limited national security experience.

Katrina Mulligan, a former national security official who helped draft the policy by which the law and policy office could raise the alarm on meddling, said: “It remains the only avenue the [justice department] has to disclose foreign interference in the absence of criminal charges.

“As you can imagine, when it comes to foreign interference we may have things going on that the public should know, and we don’t want to wait to have all our ducks in a row for an indictment, before we disclose that to the public,” Mulligan argued.

Is China Really The Biggest Meddler?

As more voices on the issue have been muted, senior Trump officials have been putting out a different message on election interference – that it is China, not Russia, that is the biggest meddler.

“It simply isn’t true that somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China,” Ratcliffe told Fox News. “China is the greatest threat that we face.”

On Wednesday evening, Barr echoed the claim. “I believe it’s China,” he told CNN, “because I’ve seen the intelligence, that’s what I’ve concluded.”

What we are seeing is, in some respects, worse than the intelligence failures surrounding weapons of mass destruction-Susan Hennessey, former National Security Agency attorney

He would not say who China was backing, but he did not need to. In early August, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, issued a statement in which he said Russia and China were backing different sides in the election.

“Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former vice-president Biden,” Evanina said, adding: “We assess that China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win re-election.”

He gave details of concrete actions that Moscow was taking to damage Biden but was much more vague about Beijing, saying it was “expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment” to “deflect and counter criticism of China”.

Democrats and intelligence professionals have complained a false equivalence is being made between the two threats when it comes to direct election interference.

“The documentary evidence on Russia is massive and the documentary evidence – in public at least – on China is minuscule,” McLaughlin said.

US attorney general William Barr has echoed claims that China is a greater threat than Russia.

John Sipher, a CIA veteran who once ran the agency’s Russia operations, argued in a New York Times commentary on Tuesday that the pattern of the Trump administration’s actions “smacks of the very thing that Mr Trump has used to stoke outrage in his followers – the formation of a politicised national security apparatus that can serve as a personal weapon for the president. A ‘deep state’.”

David Rohde, journalist and author of a book published in April on the issue – In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” – agreed with Sipher’s assessment.

“If a ‘deep state’ is a group of officials who secretly wield government power with little accountability or transparency, Trump and his loyalists increasingly fit that definition,” Rohde said. “Under the guise of stopping a ‘coup’ that does not exist, Trump is politicising the intelligence community and the justice department and using them to boost his re-election effort.”

The battle over intelligence is set to intensify as the election approaches. Barr has picked a prosecutor, John Durham, to investigate the FBI and special counsellor investigators who looked into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The attorney general has said he would not observe normal protocol and wait until after the election to publish Durham’s findings, or at least a version of those findings, with the likely aim of creating the impression that Trump was the victim of a conspiracy to undermine his presidency.

“The Durham investigation presents the opportunity for bad actors to make a lot of mischief, but the lack of clarity makes it difficult for observers to criticise,” said Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency attorney.

She added that the Trump tactics in manipulating US intelligence represented a historic threat, potentially overshadowing the fiasco that led to the 2003 Iraq invasion.

“What we are seeing now is, in some respects, even worse than the intelligence failures surrounding weapons of mass destruction,” said Hennessey, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and executive editor of the Lawfare blog. “Iraq was obviously immensely consequential and illustrates why it is imperative to guard against even subtle political influence in intelligence reporting. But the politicisation here is brazen and explicitly partisan in nature.

“It’s all these little things and so it’s often hard to pin down the precise place where the line has been crossed,” she added. “Lots of lines have been crossed. At this point, the cumulative picture of where we are at is not that there is a risk of politicisation of intelligence, but that we’ve already crossed the Rubicon.”

Ladybbird · 05-09-20, 15:03

'He is a Coward': Trump Condemned For Reportedly Calling US War Dead ‘Suckers’

Trump claims accusations, confirmed by two former DHS officials, are ‘totally false’ as Biden criticizes president

FOX News' report says Trump refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, saying it was a place "filled with losers" and that he didn't want his hair to be ruined by rain. In addition, the report said Trump asked staff planning for a military parade to keep wounded veterans away.

Khizr Khan: 'Trump may damage American democracy permanently' - a Gold Star father whose son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq

When my son volunteered and joined the United States military and went to Iraq for a year … he was not a sucker -Joe Biden

“I take my wheelchair, and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day” - Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs in combat in Iraq,

The Guardian UK, 5 SEP 2020.

The US president referred to fallen soldiers as “suckers” and “losers”.

Current and former members of the military, elected officials and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacted with outrage and sadness on Friday, as ex-Trump administration officials confirmed key details of a bombshell report in which the US president referred to fallen soldiers as “suckers” and “losers”.

The Atlantic magazine published a story on Thursday in which four sources close to Donald Trump said he cancelled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were “losers” and “suckers” and did not want the rain to mess up his hair.

Elizabeth Neumann, a former assistant secretary of counter-terrorism in the Department of Homeland Security, and Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff in that department, said the account was true, asserting that Trump’s low opinion of soldiers killed and wounded in combat was well known inside the administration.

The White House moved to deny the report unusually quickly and forcefully. Trump himself dismissed it as a politically motivated “hoax” and claimed 11 current and former officials supported his account.

“There is nobody feels more strongly about our soldiers, our wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war than I do,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday. “It’s a hoax. Just like the fake dossier was a hoax, just like the Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax. It was a total hoax: no collusion. Just like so many other things, it’s a hoax. And you’ll hear more of these things, totally unrelated, as we get closer and closer to election.”

Asked why John Kelly, a retired marine corps general and Trump’s former chief of staff, was not among those defending him, the president added: “He was with me, didn’t do a good job, had no temperament and ultimately he was petered out, he was exhausted. This man was totally exhausted. He wasn’t even able to function in the last number of months. He was not able to function.”

The Atlantic’s source, he speculated, “could have been a guy like a John Kelly”.

Trump tweeted that he would not defund the Stars and Stripes newspaper, which serves US servicemen and women worldwide, after a Pentagon memo ordering its closure was reported by USA Today, causing huge controversy.

When my son volunteered and joined the United States military and went to Iraq for a year … he was not a sucker -Joe Biden

The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, also defended Trump, but the denials were met with widespread skepticism because of his past remarks about military veterans.

And in an unusual intervention, the first lady, Melania Trump, also weighed in, tweeting that the Atlantic story “was not true”.

“It has become a very dangerous time when anonymous sources are believed above all else, & no one knows their motivation,” she wrote.

A visibly angry Biden called the alleged comments “disgusting” and said Trump was “not fit to be commander-in-chief”.

“When my son volunteered and joined the United States military – and went to Iraq for a year, won the Bronze Star and other commendations, he was not a sucker,” Biden said, his voice rising, in remarks in Wilmington, Delaware.

His son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, deployed to Iraq in 2008.

“If these statements are true, the president should humbly apologize to every Gold Star mother and father and every Blue Star family,” Biden said. “Who the heck does he think he is?

“I’m always cautioned not to lose my temper,” Biden said. “This may be as close as I come in this campaign. It’s just a marker of how deeply the president and I disagree on the role of the president of the United States of America.”

Veteran Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who saved the lives of 155 people in 2009 when he guided his stricken plane onto the Hudson river, said: “For the first time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter and vulgar contempt and disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country.”

“While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the Oval Office. He has repeatedly and consistently shown himself to be completely unfit for and to have no respect for the office he holds.”

On a press call hosted by Biden’s campaign, the Democratic Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs in combat in Iraq, accused Trump of attempting to “politicize and pervert our military to stroke his own ego”.

“This is a man who spends every day redefining the concept of narcissism; a man who’s led a life of privilege, with everything handed to him on a silver platter,” she said.

“Of course, he thinks about war selfishly. He thinks of it as a transactional cost, instead of in human lives and American blood spilled, because that’s how he’s viewed his whole life. He doesn’t understand other people’s bravery and courage, because he’s never had any of his own.

“I take my wheelchair, and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day,” she added, referring to one reason Trump received draft deferments during the Vietnam war.

The call also included the congressman Conor Lamb, a marine veteran, and Khizr Khan, a Gold Star father whose son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004 and who was himself famously attacked by Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Khan said Trump was “incapable – let me repeat it again – he is incapable of understanding service, valor and courage”.

“His soul cannot conceive of integrity and honor. His soul is that of a coward.”

In an interview with the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Mike Pompeo defended the president’s support of the military.

“I’ve never heard that,” the secretary of state said of Trump allegedly calling the war dead “suckers”.

“Indeed, just the opposite. I’ve been around him in lots of settings where there were both active-duty military, guardsmen, reservists, veterans. This is a man who had the deepest respect for their service, and he always, he always interacted with them in that way. He enjoys those times. He values those people.”

The Biden campaign released a video quoting the president, based on the Atlantic story and later corroborating reports by the Washington Post and the Associated Press. Other media outlets, Fox News among them, also corroborated the Atlantic story.

With the tagline “If you don’t respect our troops, you cannot lead them,” the Biden campaign video displayed the alleged Trump quotes over images of military cemeteries.

At Friday’s briefing, Trump was asked about his past mockery of the late senator John McCain, who served in the military and was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. “I say what I say,” he told reporters.

“I disagreed with John McCain on a lot of things. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect him. I respected him but I really disagreed with him on a lot of things and I think I was right. I think time has proven me right to a large extent.”

Tarfoot · 05-09-20, 19:45

Democratic BS, that all it is......They're running scared.

Ladybbird · 05-09-20, 22:14

Margaret Atwood on The US Election, Trump and The Testaments

BBC Newsnight •5 Sep 2020

Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, discusses her work, with BBC Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark, on the upcoming US election and how Covid19 has changed us

Ladybbird · 06-09-20, 00:47

Trump Facing Backlash Over CONFIRMED Allegations He Described America's War Dead as Losers

Tarfoot · 06-09-20, 14:56

Even John Bolton who dislikes Trump to no end denies Trump ever said such a thing.

Ladybbird · 06-09-20, 17:17

Donald Trump Rips Into Steve Jobs' Widow For Wasting Money He Left Her on a 'Failing Radical Left Magazine' by Co-Owning The Atlantic -Which Ran Bombshell Report Claiming He Called Dead Troops 'Suckers'

Donald Trump went after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, in an early Sunday tweet
'Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine,' Trump wrote
The president was angry because Jobs owns a stake in The Atlantic, which ran a story saying Trump called U.S. servicemembers 'losers' and 'suckers'
Jobs also donated money to Trump's political rival, former Democratic vice president, Joe Biden

Daily Mail UK, 6 SEP 2020

Donald Trump went after the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, as she owns a stake in The Atlantic magazine, which ran the story that said the president had called U.S. war soldiers and war dead 'losers' and 'suckers.'

'Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,' Trump tweeted early Sunday morning. 'Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!'

Trump had shared a tweet from Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, a youth conservative activist, that claimed Jobs had donated 'at least $500,000 to Joe Biden's campaign this year.'

Trump continued to be outraged over The Atlantic's reporting that he disparaged American troops and war dead. On Sunday morning Trump went after Steve Jobs' widow over her financial stake in the magazine

President Donald Trump sent an outraged tweet Sunday morning aimed at Laurene Powell Jobs, who owns a stake in The Atlantic, suggesting that her late husband would be disappointed she was 'wasting money he left her' on a 'Radical Left Magazine'

Laurene Powell Jobs photographed at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C. in September 2019

Laurene Powell Jobs (right) with her late husband Steve Jobs (left), the co-founder of Apple, at the Academy Awards in 2010

Recode reported in July that Jobs was among the Silicon Valley mega-donors who were giving the max donation, or close to it, of $620,600 to Biden's campaign.

Earlier in the cycle she gave money to some of Biden's competitors, including Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang.

A 70 per cent stake of The Atlantic was purchased by Jobs' Emerson Collective in 2017, according to Politico.

Trump has been infuriated over Jeffrey Goldberg's story about him in The Atlantic, first addressing its contents Thursday night after returning to Joint Base Andrews from his Latrobe, Pennsylvania rally.

He's continued to tweet about it through the weekend.

Trump's attack comes after he spent lashed out at another woman in media - Fox News Channel's Jennifer Griffin, who used her own unnamed sources to back up chunks of the Atlantic's reporting.

Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting. Never even called us for comment. @FoxNews is gone!' Trump tweeted late Friday.

After Goldberg first reported anecdotes about Trump disparaging war dead and wounded veterans and not wanting to go to a military cemetery during a trip to France, Griffin matched must of his reporting.

She confirmed that the president' did not want to drive to honor American war dead' at the Aisne-Marnce cemetery.

Weather was the president's original excuse for not making the trek.

An official also told Griffin that Trump used the word 'suckers' to describe those for fought in Vietnam.

'When the President spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, 'It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker,' Griffin was told by an unnamed official. 'It was a character flaw of the President. He could not understand why someone would die for their country, not worth it'

Ladybbird · 09-09-20, 13:03

TRUMP Demanded He Should Stay at Buckingham Palace for State Visit

When Barack Obama, Mr Trump’s predecessor, visited the UK with wife Michelle in 2003 they got a bed in Buckingham Palace so Trump expected the same, according to sources

Daily Mirror UK, 9 SEP 2020.

Donald Trump demanded to stay at Buckingham Palace when he visited the UK in 2019, it's claimed.

The US President made the request but was told the royal household in London was under extensive renovations, according to reports.

Trump was first invited for a formal state visit by the Queen in January 2017, but only in the summer of 2019 the trip started being organised.

White House aides told Downing Street that it was "critically important" that Mr Trump was allowed to stay overnight in Buckingham Palace, The Telegraph says.

When Barack Obama, Mr Trump’s predecessor, visited the UK with wife Michelle they got a bed in Buckingham Palace so Trump expected the same, sources told the paper.

“It was very, very clear Trump loved the Queen," they said. "He wanted to spend as much time as possible with the Queen and to stay at Buckingham Palace,” said one UK official at the centre of the state visit planning.

“We went to the point of saying to the Palace ‘can you tell us which rooms are undergoing refurbishment’. It was properly looked into. The last thing we wanted was a snub story coming out. But it couldn’t work.”

Elizabeth II and Trump at Buckingham Palace last summer (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

The President instead stayed in Winfield House, the US ambassador's residence in Regent's Park, during his state visit.

But there will still concerns "Regent's Park Mosque would wake him up in the morning", one White House adviser told The Telegraph.

During the state visit, Trump met Queen Elizabeth II at an event at Buckingham Palace, as well as other members of the British royal family, including Kate Middleton.

The State Banquet with President Donald Trump at Buckingham Palace in London (Image: REUTERS)

Mr Trump and First Lady Melania had to cut short their earlier function with Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Clarence House to dash to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

While the US president was visiting the UK, protests took place in London bearing signs that read “Trump hands off our NHS” and “cut war not health care”.

Ladybbird · 11-09-20, 06:29

Woodward Tells How Allies Tried to Rein in Childish Trump's Foreign Policy

Senator Lindsey Graham, who had emerged as one of his closest advisers, urged him not to take such a “giant step”, that could trigger “almost total war”.

On the golf course, Lindsey Graham urged restraint on Iran, while James Mattis slept in his clothes in case of emergency

The Guardian UK, 11 SEP 2020.

Four days before ordering a drone strike against the Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani, Donald Trump was debating the assassination on his own Florida golf course, according to Bob Woodward’s new book on the mercurial president.

Trump’s golfing partner that day was Senator Lindsey Graham, who had emerged as one of his closest advisers, and who urged him not to take such a “giant step”, that could trigger “almost total war”.

Graham warned Trump he would be raising the stakes from “playing $10 blackjack to $10,000-a-hand blackjack”.

“This is over the top,” the senator said. “How about hitting someone a level below Suleimani, which would be much easier for everyone to absorb?”

Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Mick Mulvaney, also begged Graham to help change Trump’s mind.

Trump would not be persuaded, pointing to Iranian-orchestrated attacks on US soldiers in Iraq, which he said were masterminded by the Iranian general, the leader of the elite Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Suleimani was killed in Baghdad on 3 January, triggering a retaliatory Iranian missile strike against a US base in Iraq, but so far not the large-scale conflict Graham and others warned the president about.

The golf course exchange is described in a forthcoming book, Rage, a second volume on the Trump presidency by Woodward, a veteran investigative reporter famous for covering the Watergate affair and the consequent fall of an earlier scandal-ridden president, Richard Nixon.

Woodward interviewed Trump 18 times for the book and spoke extensively to Graham, as well as many presidential aides.

The portrait that emerges is familiar by now: a volatile president, easily swayed by authoritarian leaders and capable of swinging dramatically from fiery bellicosity to fawning over America’s most ardent adversaries.

Nowhere was that whiplash more violent than in policy towards North Korea. The book chronicles the period between July and November 2017 when Pyongyang tested a succession of long-range missiles capable of hitting the US mainland and carried out its sixth underground nuclear test.

Conscious that the next missile could be heading towards the US, and that decisions would have to be taken in minutes that could put the country on the path to nuclear war, the then defence secretary, James Mattis, took to sleeping in his gym clothes and having a flashing light and bell installed in his bathroom in case a missile alert happened when he was in the shower.

He also spent more time praying in the National Cathedral in Washington and preparing himself for the worst. In the US command system, the president has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, but Mattis believed he would be asked for his recommendations.

“What do you do if you’ve got to do it?” Mattis asked Woodward. “You’re going to incinerate a couple million people. No person has the right to kill a million people, as far as I’m concerned. Yet that’s what I have to confront.”

Mattis’s fears were aggravated by Trump’s furious tweets threatening destruction and “fire and fury” against North Korea.

Mattis said the tweets were “unproductive, childish and dangerous” and pleaded with Trump to stop.

“I got over enjoying public humiliation by second grade,” he told the president, to no avail.

A conflagration was ultimately averted and by early 2018, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, declared that the goal of developing a nuclear arsenal had been achieved and he would therefore pivot towards focusing on the economy.

Trump also switched direction and made peace overtures to Kim Jong-un, which led to a string of spectacular but ultimately ineffective summits and a remarkable flurry of 27 warm – sometimes breathlessly affectionate – letters between the two leaders, which Woodward has published for the first time.

In December 2018, Kim recalled their first summit 200 days earlier in Singapore.

“Even now I cannot forget that moment of history when I firmly held Your Excellency’s hand at that beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched,” the North Korean leader wrote. Woodward noted that Trump was thrilled by the use of the title “Excellency”.

The US president described the missives as “love letters” and told Kim they had “a unique style and a special friendship”. After the scare of 2017, the president insisted the flattery was essential for avoiding disaster.

“You can’t mock Kim,” he warned Woodward. “I don’t want to get in a ****ing nuclear war because you mocked him.”

Donald Trump described his correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as ‘love letters’.

US intelligence never worked out who had crafted Kim’s purple English prose, but Woodward wrote: “The analysts marveled at the skill someone brought to finding the exact mixture of flattery while appealing to Trump’s sense of grandiosity and being center stage in history.”

The manipulation of Trump by foreign potentates is a recurring theme of the book. Despite the fact that the special counsel’s Russia investigation found no proof of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, the US director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, became convinced that Vladimir Putin “had something on Trump”.

“How else to explain the president’s behavior? Coats could see no other explanation,” Woodward wrote after interviewing the former spy chief. “He was sure that Trump had chosen to play on the dark side – the moneyed interests in the New York real estate culture, and international finance with its corrupt anything-to-make-a-buck deal making.”

Trump freely admits his affinity for foreign strongmen to Woodward.

“It’s funny the relationships I have,” he told the reporter. “The tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them … Explain that to me someday.”

Another example is the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, implicated by US intelligence in the murder and dismemberment of a US-based Saudi dissident and writer, Jamal Khashoggi, in October 2018. Trump refused to put his own intelligence chiefs’ assessment and congressional outrage over the prince’s protestations of innocence.

“I saved his ass,” Trump is reported as saying. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.”

Woodward repeatedly asked Trump whether he believed in Prince Mohammed’s innocence. The president replied only that “he says very strongly that he didn’t do it” and, when pressed further, diverted the conversation to US arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

In another extraordinary scene, the former secretary of state Rex Tillerson describes joining a meeting between Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in May 2017 in Jerusalem, in which the Israeli leader showed the US president a videotape supposedly showing the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, inciting violence against Jews.

Tillerson believed the tape had been faked or manipulated, splicing together words and sentences out of context, but Trump - who had previously been distrustful of Netanyahu - was totally convinced. The next day in Bethlehem, Trump hurled abuse at Abbas, calling him a liar and a murderer, and he severed diplomatic relations and financial support for the Palestinians soon after.

Tillerson came to the conclusion that “Netanyahu had manufactured the tape to counter any pro-Palestinian sentiments that were surfacing”.

The president also expressed pride in his relationship with Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who in October 2019 persuaded Trump to announce a troop withdrawal from north-eastern Syria, abandoning America’s Kurdish allies, who had taken the lead in the fight against Isis.

The decision was the last straw for an outraged Mattis.

“When I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world, and everything else. That’s when I quit,” the former defence secretary said.

Mattis predicted Trump’s impact on the country would be lasting.

“This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements,” he said.

Coats, the former intelligence director, fired in July 2019 while he was playing golf on one of Trump’s courses, came to a similar conclusion.

“To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks,” Coats said. “He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”

Ladybbird · 07-11-20, 14:45

Donald Trumps' Stolen Election Outbursts Fuelled by Fear He Could Go to Prison

EXCLUSIVE: Trump will suddenly be vulnerable to a string of legal actions - both criminal and civil once he loses the protections of the presidency

Daily Mirror UK, 7 NOV 2020

Donald Trump will suddenly be vulnerable to a barrage of legal actions – both criminal and civil – if he loses the presidency.

Until now Trump has used “executive privilege” to prevent people from testifying against him but that changes if he loses to Joe Biden, as now seems likely.

The Trump Organisation is already at the centre of a criminal probe. Trump also faces a case over his taxes.

White House insiders have claimed to the Mirror his outbursts that the election has been “stolen” from him are in part fuelled by his fear of going to prison.

Harry Sandick, a former US federal prosecutor, says: “In every regard, his leaving office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against him.

“For example, he is claiming a higher protection from subpoenas in the criminal cases and also in the congressional subpoena cases, [and that] is based largely on the fact that he is President.”

In September last year, the President’s legal team made an attempt to defeat a subpoena from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which had petitioned for eight years of tax returns.

Lawyers for New York State are trying to determine whether the Trump Organisation falsified company records concerning payouts allegedly made to Playboy model Karen McDougal and pornographic film star Stormy Daniels.

As well as the Manhattan DA’s probe into the Trump Organisation, the reality television star would be open to defamation lawsuits sparked by his denials of accusations from dozens of women that he sexually assaulted them.

They include writer E Jean Carroll, who has accused the former US Apprentice host of raping her in a changing room at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.

Asked about her claims, Trump simply said: “She’s not my type.”

Another defamation lawsuit waiting to be heard is by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos.

Shortly before the 2016 election, she accused the then-candidate of “aggressively” kissing, groping and rubbing his genitals against her in 2007.

Trump called her allegations “fiction”. But Trump’s most serious and immediate danger by far is from the criminal probe into the Trump Organisation.

The allegations cover the time the US leader was in charge, before handing over two his son Don Jr and Eric when he was made President.

Prosecutors have subpoenaed for documents detailing business transactions and tax records, which Trump has bitterly fought against.

On five occasions courts have said the information requests are valid.

On top of the criminal probe, the New York Attorney General is pressing ahead with a civil law investigation into the Trump Organisation.

They are looking into whether the firm falsely valued several assets, inflating or lowering them as needed to secure either loans or tax breaks.

Several of Trump’s golf courses, hotels and tower blocks are said to be at the centre of the investigation.

The Internal Revenue Service – the US’s HMRC – is circling too.

According to the New York Times, tax investigators are probing a £55.5million refund he claimed.

The state attorneys general of Maryland and Washington DC sued the President three years ago, claiming he corruptly benefited from the presidency by putting the interests of American citizens below his own, earning millions of dollars.

In many civil litigations, Trump has sought to avoid giving evidence, or in Carroll’s alleged rape case refused to provide a DNA sample.

On Thursday the US Office of Special Counsel opened a probe into whether the Trump campaign’s use of the White House violated federal law.

Representative Bill Pascrell called on the watchdog to conduct an investigation, to which the agency responded that it “was not consulted on the decision to use space inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as a campaign war room”.

The Hatch Act prohibits the use of federal property for campaign events.

But the Republican Party hosted its election convention and many other events at the White House.

But it’s not just law enforcement agencies taking action against Trump – the President’s niece Mary Trump is suing Donald, his sister and the estate of their deceased brother.

She alleges fraud, saying they deprived her of her entitlements in the family property empire.

Some legal experts have predicted that if he loses, Trump will use his final days in office before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 to pardon himself of any and all federal crimes.

If he did, the decision of whether to reopen those cases would fall to the new Biden administration.

Trump may also be damned by former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony to Congress in 2016 that a President could be charged “with a crime after he left office”.

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Ladybbird · 10-11-20, 02:59

Mark Esper Fired as Pentagon Chief After Contradicting Trump. Trump Fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper by Tweet

Defence secretary resisted deployment of active-duty troops-Esper was criticised for joining Trump at controversial photo op

Barr Tells Prosecutors to Pursue 'Clear' Fraud Claims, Without Evidence

Ivanka Trump Will Lose White House Status and Job

The Guardian UK, 10 NOV 2020.

Mark Esper's Firing May Be the Beginning of Donald Trump's Post-Election Reckoning

The post-election period got off to a raucous start Monday when President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper by tweet, a decision that tossed Pentagon leadership into tumult with just 72 days before transitioning to a new administration.

Donald Trump has fired his defence secretary, Mark Esper, in the latest sign that the transition to a new Biden administration in January is going to be turbulent on both domestic and foreign fronts.

Esper was fired by tweet on Monday afternoon, with the president declaring he was “pleased to announce that Christopher C Miller, the highly respected director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be acting secretary of defense, effective immediately.

“Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated.

Esper had been at odds with Trump on a number of issues, most importantly his insistence at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer that there were no legal grounds to deploy active-service troops on the streets of US cities.

He was also working with Congress on legislation to rename US army bases named after Confederate generals. In a final interview Esper predicted that he would be followed by a “yes man”, adding “And then God help us.”

In a coolly worded final letter to the president, Esper wrote: “I serve the country in deference to the Constitution, so I accept your decision to replace me.” He left the Pentagon quietly on Monday without the “clap-out” from staff traditionally accorded to a departing secretary.

Miller arrived at the Pentagon on Monday amid questions about the legality of his appointment. By law, the deputy secretary of defence, currently David Norquist, would become acting secretary in the event of a sudden departure at the top. Furthermore, the law requires that a secretary of defence to have been out of active duty military service for seven years. Miller, a former Green Beret, only left the military in 2014.

The law can be sidestepped by a vote in Congress, as was done for Esper’s predecessor James Mattis, a retired marine.

Barr Tells Prosecutors to Pursue Claims of Irregularities Despite Lack of Evidence

William Barr, rhe US attorney general, has told prosecutors across the country to pursue “clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities” in the voting system, despite a lack of evidence that such fraud is occurring.

In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Barr – who has not shied away from violating norms in his efforts to prop up Donald Trump – told attorneys that investigations “may be conducted if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State”, the AP reports.

States have another month to resolve election disputes before members of the electoral college finalize the outcome on 14 December.

Ivanka Trump Will Lose White House Status and Job – What Will She Do Next?

Ivanka Trump isn’t just losing her status as first daughter with her father Donald Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden – she’s also losing her job.

In her father’s White House, Ivanka Trump works as “advisor to the president”, purportedly focusing on “the education and economic empowerment of women and their families as well as job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training and entrepreneurship”.

Before that, she “oversaw development and acquisitions” for her father’s real estate company, the Trump Organization, and had a fashion clothing line. She also appeared as a boardroom judge on Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice.

But her role in the White House, and the fact that virtually her entire professional history is tied to her father, raise the question: What will she wind up doing?

While Ivanka could probably return to the Trump Organization, it may not be the most stable workplace when her father leaves office. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is seeking Trump’s tax returns in a “complex financial investigation”, previously citing public reports on “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization” in their request.

Ladybbird · 01-12-20, 16:34

TRUMPS' Lawyer: Ex-Election Security Chief Krebs Should Be Taken Out and Shot

Trump Lawyer Joe DiGenova Says Fired Cybersecurity Chief Should Be 'Shot' For Defending Election

Joe DiGenova condemned for ‘mob attorney’ remark made on podcast shown on conservative Newsmax TV

The Guardian UK, 1 DEC 2020.

Trump 'Mob' Lawyer Joe DiGenova

Trump fired Chris Krebs for refusing to lie about the election result

A former head of US election security who said Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was not subject to voter fraud should be “taken out at dawn and shot”, a Trump campaign lawyer said.

Condemnation of Joe DiGenova’s remark about Chris Krebs was swift, including calls for his disbarment and the charge that he was behaving like a “mob attorney”.

Krebs was fired as head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) on 17 November, not long after he said the election, contrary to Trump’s claims, “was the most secure in American history”.

Krebs also used Twitter to publicly debunk Trump’s conspiracy theories.

DiGenova defended the president in the Russia investigation and is now involved in attempts to overturn results in battleground states. The Trump campaign has won one lawsuit – and lost 39.

DiGenova made the remark about Krebs on The Howie Carr Show, a podcast shown on YouTube and the Trump-allied Newsmax TV, on Monday.

“Anybody who thinks the election went well,” he said, “like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity, that guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.”

Carr did not challenge the remark.

A day earlier, Krebs told CBS 60 Minutes Trump was trying to “undermine democracy … to undermine confidence in the election, to confuse people, to scare people”.

Trump called that interview “ridiculous, one-sided [and] an international joke”.

DiGenova is not the first close Trump aide to call for the death of an official in the president’s disfavour. In early November, former campaign chief and White House strategist Steve Bannon said FBI director Christopher Wray and public health expert Anthony Fauci should be beheaded. He was banned from Twitter.

DiGenova said Trump’s legal team was “talking to the jury, trying to influence the jury. And that includes judges and state legislatures. And the governors in these states are a bunch of losers, along with their secretaries of state. I’ve never seen such wimps wearing an R [being Republican].

“You know, they’re going to have to be dealt with politically. It’s the only way you deal with these people.”

Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia who has resisted attempts to overturn Biden’s win there, has said he and his wife have received death threats from Trump supporters.

Condemnation of DiGenova’s remark about Krebs was swift.

Lois Clark, chief executive of the Government Accountability Project, said in a statement: “Threats like these trigger an avalanche of them. They terrorise other whistleblowers into silence. It’s behavior befitting a mob attorney.”

Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI deputy director, said DiGenova had made “a retaliatory threat involving Krebs’ official duties, in violation of federal law Title 18 USC 351”.

Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor and senior aide to special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia investigation, tweeted that the remark was “shocking” and DiGenova should “face disbarment at least”.

Krebs, he said, had shown “fearless integrity”.

Ladybbird · 15-12-20, 14:45

TRUMP Officially Loses (Again) as Joe Biden Victory Approved by Electoral College

William Barr: US Attorney General to Leave Post by Christmas-Barr's term was due to end on 20 January, when Mr Trump leaves office.

Tensions between the two flared after Mr Barr said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in November's vote.

ALL of Donald Trump's baseless legal challenges have floundered in the courts as the sore loser continues to make inaccurate and damaging claims on Twitter

BBC News, 15 DEC 2020.

William Barr will step down on 23 December, President Trump said

Donald Trump has been officially dumped by America with Joe Biden confirmed as the new President of the United States.

Members of the TRUMP Proud Boys kick a member of Antifa on the ground during a protest on December 12, in Washington (Image: Getty Images)

Joe Biden, already the President-elect, has won the necessary Electoral College votes to make him the next President of the United States.

State by state, the US Electoral College convened today to formally confirm Democrat Biden's victory as the next President and effectively end President Donald Trump's long-shot attempt to overturn the election results.

Members of the Electoral College in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona - battleground states won by Biden but challenged unsuccessfully in court by Trump - all cast the states' electoral votes for the former vice president.

The Electoral College votes, traditionally a formality, have assumed exceptionally large significance this year because of Trump's baseless and wild claims of widespread fraud in November's poll.

Results for weeks have shown Biden won 306 Electoral College votes - exceeding the 270 needed to win - after four tumultuous years under the Republican Trump. Biden and running mate Kamala Harris are due to take office on January 20.

There was next to no chance that Monday's voting would negate Biden's victory and, with Trump's legal campaign to reverse the results floundering, the president's hopes of clinging to power will rest with a special meeting of the US Congress on January 6 where the odds against him are as good as insurmountable.

California, the most populous US state, formally pushed Biden over the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win overall.

Biden, 78, is due to make a speech at 1am our time - 8pm in America - calling on Americans to turn the page following the Electoral College vote.

The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago," he was expected to say, according to excerpts released by his transition team. "And we now know that nothing - not even a pandemic - or an abuse of power - can extinguish that flame."

Once in office, Biden faces the challenging task of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, reviving the US economy and rebuilding relations frayed with U.S. allies abroad by Trump's "America First" policies.

Ladybbird · 03-01-21, 15:51

Ted Cruz and Other Republican Senators Oppose Certifying Election Results

Republicans say they will reject presidential electors from states where Trump campaign contested results unless audit completed

Trump refuses to concede. He lost more than 50 lawsuits mounted in battleground states, alleging electoral fraud.

Friday, a federal judge dismissed a suit lodged by a House Republican which attempted to give Pence, who will preside over the certification of the electoral college result on Wednesday, the power to overturn it. An appeal was rejected Saturday night.

AP / The Guardian UK, 3 JAN 2021.

Around 140 Republicans expected vote against counting of electoral college votes, in symbolic move to disrupt Congress and bolster Trump

Maverick super-loyalists to Donald Trump are set to make an audacious spectacle in Washington next week by voting against the formal counting of electoral college votes certifying Joe Biden’s victory.

While the tactic by outliers won’t be enough to stop Biden becoming the 46th president, it will serve to disrupt Congress, bolster Trump and establish an acidic tone to political co-operation with the incoming Democratic administration.

Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and nine other Republican US senators or senators-elect said on Saturday they will reject presidential electors from states where Donald Trump has contested his defeat by Joe Biden, “unless and until [an] emergency 10-day audit” of such results is completed.

The move – welcomed by Vice President Mike Pence – is largely symbolic and unlikely to overturn the presidential election. Nonetheless, it adds to a sense of deepening crisis affecting US democracy.

Trump has refused to concede, though Biden won more than 7m more votes nationally and took the electoral college by 306-232, a margin Trump called a landslide when he won it over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The Trump campaign has lost the vast majority of more than 50 lawsuits it has mounted in battleground states, alleging electoral fraud, and before the supreme court. On Saturday night, Trump urged his Twitter followers to “be a part of history” and join a protest march in Washington DC against the election result on Wednesday.

On Friday, a federal judge dismissed a suit lodged by a House Republican which attempted to give Pence, who will preside over the certification of the electoral college result on Wednesday, the power to overturn it. An appeal was rejected Saturday night.

Nonetheless, the senators and senators-elect who issued a statement on Saturday followed Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri in committing to challenging the result.

Objections are also expected from a majority of House Republicans. Objections must be debated and voted on but as Democrats control the House and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and other senior Republicans have voiced opposition, the attempt to disenfranchise a majority of Americans seems doomed to fail.

Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, said in a statement on Saturday that the vice president welcomed the effort to raise objections “to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th”.

On Saturday, Utah Senator Mitt Romney described as “nonsense”, the idea that a congressional audit would restore trust in the election, saying the American people trusted federals judges more than Congress.

In a statement, he said: “The egregious ploy to reject electors may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic … President Trump’s lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed.”

On Saturday, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she would vote to certify the results, writing: “The oath I took at my swearing-in was to support and defend the constitution of the United States, and that is exactly what I will do.” Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a state where Trump has sued, said he would “vigorously defend our form of government by opposing this effort to disenfranchise millions of voters in my state and others”.

But Cruz and Johnson were joined by Senators James Lankford (Oklahoma), Steve Daines (Montana), John Kennedy (Louisiana), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) and Mike Braun (Indiana). Senators-elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming), Roger Marshall (Kansas), Bill Hagerty (Tennessee) and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) also signed on.

“The election of 2020,” they said, “like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states, narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.”

No hard evidence for such claims has been presented. Federal officials including former attorney general William Barr and Christopher Krebs, a cyber security chief fired by Trump, have said the election was secure.

Biden spokesman Michael Gwin said: “This stunt won’t change the fact that President-elect Biden will be sworn in on January 20th, and these baseless claims have already been examined and dismissed by Trump’s own attorney general, dozens of courts, and election officials from both parties.”

Regardless, the senators said Congress “should immediately appoint an electoral commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.”

The senators made reference to the contested election of 1876, which ended in the appointment of such a commission.

“We should follow that precedent,” they said.

Most well-informed observers would suggest otherwise, given that process put an end to post-civil war Reconstruction and led to the institution of racist Jim Crow laws across the formerly slave-owning south.

In August, the Pulitzer-winning historian Eric Foner told the Guardian: “The election of 1876 would not have been disputed at all if there hadn’t been massive violence in the south to prevent black people from voting and voter suppression like we have today. Now, voter suppression is mostly legal.”

Presciently, given baseless claims that voting under a pandemic was abused by Democrats, he added: “Today, I can certainly see the Trump people challenging these mail-in ballots: ‘They’re all fraudulent, they shouldn’t be counted.’ Challenging people’s voting.”

Cruz, like Hawley, is prominent among Republicans expected to run for president in 2024, and thus eager to appeal to supporters loyal to Trump. On Saturday, Christine Pelosi, daughter of House speaker Nancy Pelosi and a member of the Democratic National Committee, referred to the bitter 2016 primary when she tweeted: “Ted Cruz is defending Trump’s assaults on democracy with more energy than he defended his own family against Trump’s assaults on his wife and father.”

The Democratic strategist Max Burns wrote: “The exact same Senate GOP that refused to allow a single witness during President Trump’s impeachment trial now wants to … call a bunch of witnesses to ‘investigate’ Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.”

In Congress, the Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal branded the statement “pathetic”, “un-American” and “an attack on our democracy”. Amy Klobuchar, from Minnesota, said Biden “will be inaugurated on 20 January, and no publicity stunt will change that”.

Trump claimed “plenty more” senators would back his ploy. But there was some criticism from the right. Joe Walsh, a former congressman who ran against Trump in 2020, wrote: “They cite ZERO evidence of voter fraud … Donald Trump’s single greatest legacy is the destruction of truth.”

Walsh added: “These Republicans know this is bad for the country. But they don’t care. They believe it’s good for them politically. They are placing their own interests before the country’s interests.”

With unintended irony – or simple bad faith – the senators and senators-elect said their “allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are widespread. Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged’. That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).

“… Whether or not our elected officials or journalists believe it, that deep distrust of our democratic processes will not magically disappear. It should concern us all. And it poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations.”

Marc Elias, a leading Democratic elections lawyer, said of the senators:

“History will remember and curse them for their cowardice and treachery.”

# LAND OF THE GREEDY, CORRUPT, POWER HUNGRY COWARDS

Tarfoot · 12-01-21, 23:59

The Demon-crats ain't doing nothing but stirring an already boiling pot by trying to impeach Trump. They'd best leave well enough alone......or they haven't seen nothing yet.
It's definitely a sad time in our Country.

Ladybbird · 14-08-23, 05:56

Revelations TRUMP Pocketed Millions of Dollars in Foreign Emoluments

TRUMP Received Millions from Foreign Governments, Hid Debts & Losses

BBC 14 AUG 2023

Democratic lawmakers have been targeting former President Donald Trump‘s business activities during his tenure in the top office.

What Happened:
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), during an interview on ABC revealed plans for a report on the millions of dollars from foreign governments that went into Trump’s businesses, including hotels and golf courses, during his presidency.

“We’re going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments — millions of dollars — we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses [and] business deals when he was president and that his family got,” Raskin said.

“During the Trump administration, we saw the development of a completely new public philosophy, which is that government is not an instrument of the common good in the public interest,” he added.

Why It Matters:

Although the focus of numerous news stories during the Trump administration, the former president’s business interactions with foreign nations had no legal repercussions. In 2021, the Supreme Court dismissed lawsuits that alleged the president had accepted unlawful payments, deeming them irrelevant due to his departure from office.

However, Raskin criticized Republicans, including Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer, for displaying a double standard by investigating the Bidens while overlooking inquiries into Trump and his family.

“We have said, let the justice system run its course. They’re not saying that about Donald Trump,” Raskin said.

Meanwhile, this came after Comer had accused Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of ethical breaches over a Saudi investment deal. “I’ve been vocal that I think that what Kushner did crossed the line of ethics,” Comer said.

Ladybbird · 31-08-23, 08:25

TRUMP Inflated His Net Worth by as Much as $2.2BN in 2014

TRUMPs' Family Inflated His Net Worth by BILLIONS, Says New York State Lawsuit

BBC 31 AUG 2023

Lawyers for Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claim the ex-president then used that blown up value for business deals...

Former President Donald Trump routinely overstated his net worth -- sometimes by more than $2 billion -- during years when the actual values of his real estate holdings were far less than he claimed, according to a court filing Wednesday by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The attorney general's office included the numbers in a motion for summary judgement that asks the court to resolve a civil fraud claim before the AG's $250 million civil suit against Trump goes to trial.

The former president, meanwhile, called his real estate portfolio "the Mona Lisa of properties" during an April deposition in the suit, according to a transcript of the deposition that was made public Wednesday.

"We have properties that make money, but you can sell for many, many times because of the quality of the property, like a Turnberry in Scotland," Trump said, according to the transcript. "I could sell that. That's like selling a painting. A painting on a wall that sells for $250 million and doesn't make income. It just sits on a wall, but it sells for numbers."

Unlike his first deposition with James, during which Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination hundreds of times, the former president in the April deposition answered questions for hours about his real estate holdings, which he suggested are worth far more than what appeared on property valuations.

The trial is scheduled to begin in October.

Ladybbird · 01-09-23, 11:53

TRUMP Trial to Be Televised....as His 'Proud Boys' Will Be Sentenced to Longest Jail Terms Yet Over Capitol Riots

Proud Boys: From Storming The Capitol For TRUMP to Protesting Drag Shows...

Two more members of the far-right Proud Boys will be sentenced later for their role in the US Capitol riot, on 6 January 2021.

BBC 1 SEP 2023

Leader Joe Biggs was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges.

US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38 - was jailed for 17 years on Thursday. Prosecutors said he was an instigator of the storming of Congress, in support of Donald Trump after his election defeat. Zachary Rehl was sentenced to 15 years for spraying a chemical irritant at officers.

Several members of the far-right Proud Boys are facing long prison sentences for their role in the attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021. But that has not distracted the group from a new target - drag shows.

They started as a drinking club seven years ago, but quickly immersed themselves in street violence and culture wars.

After shooting to mainstream attention during the 2020 presidential campaign, they made up one of the main organised groups at the Capitol riot.

Joseph Biggs, an Iraq war veteran who was a leading figure at the attack on Congress, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Zachary Rehl, former president of the Philadelphia Proud Boys, received 15 years.

Three more members will be sentenced in the days ahead. As they face long spells behind bars, the group has dispersed and, at the same time, picked up a new focus - anti-transgender activism.
Drag story protests - and fighting

Fights broke out outside a drag story hour event in New York City in late March, and according to reports, men wearing Proud Boys gear were in the middle of the melee.

It was not an isolated incident. In recent months, supporters of the far-right group have been at the forefront of similar actions across the country.

Their involvement may seem, on the surface, like a departure from the group's libertarian roots. When the BBC went to interview Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon in 2019, we met a gay member of the club, and a transgender supporter.

But their live-and-let-live ideals have always been in conflict with the group's description of themselves as "Western chauvinists" who believe in traditional gender roles. "Venerate the housewife" was one of their early precepts, and the organisation limits membership to "biological males". This focus on hyper-masculinity has made them a perfect fit for the new wave of anti-transgender activism on the right and far-right.

How did the Proud Boys begin?

The group was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, a British-Canadian podcaster who previously co-founded Vice Magazine.

Members of the group have always been keen to portray themselves as ordinary guys who were mostly interested in beer - "a drinking club with a political problem" is how they sometimes put it.

In 2019, our crew was invited to a bar and later visited a boozy impromptu barbecue.

But violence was always at the heart of their activities, and the group was better known for its battles with anti-fascist - also known as antifa - protesters. These street battles became a regular feature of life in Portland and other major cities before 2020.

Despite some of their internal contradictions, what united them above all was intense dislike of left-wing politics and a special love for Donald Trump.

Over the years, the Proud Boys went through a series of leadership changes, from Mr McInnes to an "elders chapter" and Tarrio, who took over in 2018.

But the group's national structure frayed after the events of 6 January 2021 when the Proud Boys, like other organised groups who took part in the riots, started to face criminal charges and social media bans.

After a short period of confusion, inactivity and a leadership breakdown, today the group shows no sign of slowing down.

Individual Proud Boys chapters continue to operate, says Megan Squire, deputy director of data analytics at the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. In some cases, they've added members, gaining visibility as they join anti-transgender protests, which over the past few years have become a flashpoint in America's culture wars.

Ms Squire notes that the Proud Boys were "early adopters" of anti-trans sentiment starting around 2020.

According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), which tracks far-right movements in the US, the number of anti-LGBT incidents - demonstrations, political violence, and offline propaganda activity - is growing.

In 2022, far-right groups including the Proud Boys were involved in over 200 incidents, a three-fold increase from 2021, ACLED data shows.

In a blog post last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted that Proud Boys have turned their attention to "issues most likely to drive right-wing outrage and, in turn, to help the group forge new coalitions".

"We're seeing this on every wavelength, every flavour of hate," says Ms Squire, who's been researching Proud Boys activity across the country. "They're just all glomming onto anti-trans sentiment."

And as they did during the Capitol riots, the Proud Boys have shown up at these anti-drag events ready to be the "far-right muscle," says Chuck Tanner, research director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

"They're not the movement thinkers out in front, they chase a lot of issues," he says.

What next for the group?

Before Thursday's verdict, Mr McInnes, the Proud Boys founder, told the BBC that the five defendants "did something wrong" by entering the Capitol, but said he believes their actions amounted to relatively minor offences.

He said that if they are given long prison sentences they will become "martyrs for the cause", and insisted the group will continue despite its current lack of leadership.

"It's just set in stone and you can't kill it. There's no top, there's no head," he said.

Expert observers largely agree.

Samantha Kutner, a researcher who's written about the group and is co-founder of Glitterpill LLC, an anti-extremism consultancy group, says that given the increasing politicisation after the Capitol riots, the convictions may give the Proud Boys a boost.

"It will give them more momentum," she says. "Every time they lose it furthers their martyrdom and persecution complex."

In an audio interview on Twitter which Tarrio joined via phone from his jail cell just after arguments ended in the court case, the former Proud Boys leader accused authorities of "weaponising" the justice system and likened the current US government to the regime in Nazi Germany.

"This is not the end of the Proud Boys," Ms Kutner says. "Their threat now is as a larger and more decentralised network."

Ms Squire of the Southern Poverty Law Center agrees, and says the Proud Boys will still survive, even without their leader.

"The trial is a morale hit, but a small one," she says. "They're going to keep doing what they're doing. I don't see them going away any time soon."

Expert: Proud Boys are Fascist NOT Patriotic

TRUMP meanwhile, will appear live on TV from a Georgia courtroom when he fights charges that he conspired with 18 others to overturn the state’s election result, after a judge ruled it should be livestreamed. The trial could happen next year, as the former president seeks re-election

Ladybbird · 02-09-23, 08:28

TRUMP Pleads NOT Guilty in Georgia Election FRAUD Case

TRUMP is Waiving The Right to Appear in Court Next Week.

TRUMP Co-Defendant Rudy Giuliani Pleads NOT Guilty in Georgia Case

TRUMPS' Personal Lawyer Rudy Giuliani And Six Other Co-Conspirators Have Pleaded NOT Guilty to State Charges in Georgia.

BBC 2 SEP 2023

Trump is among 19 people charged with a conspiracy to overturn the US state's 2020 vote results.

He turned himself in at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week, where he had his mugshot taken.

In total, Trump faces 13 felony counts - including racketeering - for allegedly pressuring Georgia officials to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.

In a court document filed on Thursday, Trump said he "fully understands" the nature of the allegations and his right to appear in court.

"Understanding my rights, I do hereby freely and voluntarily waive my right to be present at my arraignment on the indictment and my right to have it read to me in open court," the signed document says.

Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has appeared at each of his three previous arraignments.

He was required to do so for the cases he is facing in New York and Florida, and opted not to request a virtual appearance for a separate case in Washington DC.

In all three cases, there was tight security as Trump supporters and counter-protesters gathered near the courthouses.

Trump surrendered and was arraigned simultaneously in his federal court cases, which led to his high-profile courtroom appearances. However, in Georgia state court, a defendants' surrender and arraignment usually happen separately.

Donald Trump: "I just want to find 11,780 votes"

Brian Tevis, an Atlanta attorney who represents one of Mr Trump's co-accused, Rudy Giuliani, told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that "99% of the time" defendants who are given the option choose to waive their arraignment.

Clark Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that decision is "usually non-controversial".

"Trump fully knows the charges against him," he said. "That's the main purpose of the arraignment, to read the charges to the accused, and [to enter] the person's plea. So he doesn't need to be there, he knows what they are."

Earlier this week, three other co-defendants in the case entered not guilty pleas, including former Trump attorneys Ray Stallings Smith and Sidney Powell, as well as former celebrity publicist Trevian Kutti.

Trump was originally due to be arraigned on 6 September, followed by the other defendants in 15-minute intervals.

All 19 defendants in the case - including Trump - are charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, commonly known as the Rico act.

Across the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime.

Fulton County's District Attorney, Fani Willis, a Democrat, has increasingly come under fire from some Republicans and Trump allies for her decision to indict Mr Trump in the case.

Earlier in August, State Senator Colton Moore sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican, calling for a special session to impeach Ms Willis.

At a Thursday news conference, Mr Kemp said he had yet to see evidence that such a move would be justified.

"As long as I am governor, we're going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically," the governor said.

All court proceedings against Trump and the 18 co-defendants in Georgia will be televised and broadcast on YouTube, a Fulton County judge ruled on Thursday.

Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani is charged with 13 crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

He joins Trump and several other co-defendants in entering not guilty pleas, waiving their right to appear in person for a hearing next week.

All 19 have been allowed to go free pending trial after paying a bail bond.

On Thursday, the judge overseeing Mr Trump's case announced that the trial will be streamed on YouTube.

A date for the trial has not yet been set, but it could be next year, in the middle of the former president's run for re-election.

The next court date is an arraignment on Wednesday, a short hearing at which the plea is officially entered in court.

Trump and the other alleged co-conspirators briefly travelled to Atlanta last week to turn themselves in at Fulton County Jail and have their mugshots taken.

All 19 defendants in the case - including Donald Trump - are charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, commonly known as the Rico act.

Across the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime.

They have denied any wrongdoing.

After surrendering to authorities in Georgia last week, Mr Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, stood outside the jail and called the prosecution "a travesty".

"I am very, very honoured to be involved in this case, because this case is a fight for our way of life," he said.

Other suspects who have entered not guilty pleas include Ken Chesebro; the alleged architect of the fake electors scheme who has petitioned the court for a speedy trial; and lawyers Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis.

Ladybbird · 07-09-23, 04:21

Mark Meadows, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark Plead Not Guilty in Georgia Election Interference Case

All 19 Defendants in Georgia Election Interference Case Have Pleaded Not Guilty

The Federal judge who will decide whether to move the case still hasn’t issued a ruling.

BBC 7 SEP 2023

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and the remaining defendants in the election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia, have pleaded not guilty and have waived their arraignments, new court filings show.

Misty Hampton, who faces charges related to the Coffee County voting system breach and was the last holdout among the 19 defendants changed in District Attorney Fani Willis’ case, entered her plea early Tuesday afternoon. The other defendants have been filing their pleas in recent days.

Arraignment hearings had been scheduled for Wednesday in Atlanta. Georgia law allows criminal defendants to waive their in-person appearance and formally enter a not guilty plea through paperwork filed with the court.

Meadows has been charged with two state crimes: violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering RICO law and soliciting a public official to violate their oath. The charges mostly revolve around the infamous January 2021 phone call where Trump and Meadows pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to flip the election results in then-President Donald Trump’s favor.

Meadows is trying to move his case out of state court and into federal court, where he could possibly get the indictment dismissed by invoking immunity that shields many federal workers from litigation.

At a high-stakes hearing in August, Meadows testified under oath for more than three hours and claimed that the alleged actions described in the Georgia indictment were connected to his formal government duties as Trump’s chief of staff.

Other Notable Allies

Hampton, who has been charged with seven counts, is accused of participating in a conspiracy to allow supporters of Trump to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting equipment at the Coffee County election office. Hampton also faces the racketeering charge that is central to Willis’ case.

Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is similarly seeking to move his case to federal court, also pleaded not guilty in a court filing. Georgia law allows criminal defendants to waive their in-person appearance and formally enter a not-guilty plea through paperwork filed with the court.

Clark was charged with two counts in the Georgia case. He served as a senior Trump appointee at the Justice Department and tried to use his powers as a federal official to overturn the 2020 election. He drafted a letter, which was ultimately never sent, promoting false claims of voting irregularities and urged Georgia lawmakers to consider throwing out Biden’s legitimate electors.

Clark lobbied Trump to make him the acting attorney general so he could send the letter and have the Justice Department intervene in the Georgia election. Trump decided not to put Clark in charge after other senior Justice Department officials threatened to resign.

Pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, former Coffee County GOP Chair Cathy Latham and former Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer also entered not guilty pleas and waived their formal arraignments in court filings Tuesday.

Eastman was indicted on nine counts, including a racketeering charge. He devised and promoted a six-step plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden’s victory while presiding over the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021. He also urged Georgia state lawmakers to appoint fake GOP electors to replace the legitimate slate of Democratic electors.

Still was charged with seven state crimes and is one of the 16 Republicans who served as “fake electors” in Georgia and signed paperwork falsely claiming that Trump won the Peach State. This was part of the Trump campaign’s plan to subvert the Electoral College process and nullify Joe Biden’s victory.

Latham was charged with 11 counts related to an alleged plot to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting equipment in Coffee County, in addition to the racketeering charge that is central to Willis’ case. Latham also signed on to be an alternative elector for Trump in Georgia.

Shafer was charged with eight state crimes. Fulton County prosecutors accused him of playing a key role in organizing the Trump campaign’s slate of fake electors in Georgia, as part of the effort to subvert the Electoral College.

He served as a fake elector and convened the other 15 fake electors in the Georgia State Capitol in December 2020, where they signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump won the state over Biden.

Shafer has previously claimed that the fake electors scheme came at the direction of Trump and the Trump campaign.

Shafer and Latham are also seeking to move their cases from state court to federal court.

Judge Sets Wednesday Hearing on Scheduling

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Georgia election subversion case, scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to address questions about trial scheduling and possibly breaking up the case.

In an order posted Tuesday, McAfee said there will be a hearing on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET to deal with critical scheduling matters. This is the first hearing McAfee will hold in the case, and the proceedings are expected to be televised.

The judge said he’ll want prosecutors to provide a “good-faith estimate” for how long it would take to hold a joint trial for all 19 defendants, and how long it would take if the case is divided into subgroups of defendants.

Kenneth Chesebros’ trial is scheduled to begin October 23, and Willis wants to keep the case together and hold one massive trial beginning that day. Trump opposes that speedy timeline, and many of the defendants want to break up the case.

Ladybbird · 07-09-23, 07:30

Special Counsels' Focus Shifts to People Outside of Trumps' Circle...

Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The widening of the probe focuses on people outside of Donald Trumps' circle and comes a month after indicting the former president for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power.

Ladybbird · 08-09-23, 19:38

Special Grand Jury Recommended Charging Lindsey Graham.

A special grand jury that spent eight months investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and others to overturn Georgias' 2020 election results recommended nearly 40 people face criminal charges.

Fulton County recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), according to the special counsel grand jury report released by a judge Friday.

BBC 9 SEP 2023

The front of the Fulton County Courthouse, the site of criminal proceedings against former President Donald Trump for election interference.

Georgia panel recommended prosecutors seek charges against 39 people in Trump case

In a 9-page report fully unsealed by a judge Friday, the special purpose grand jury told Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis they recommended prosecutors seek indictments against the former president for his Jan. 2, 2021 call with Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where he pressed the state's top election official to overturn his already-certified defeat.

The special panel, which interviewed more than 75 witnesses but did not have the power to issue indictments, found 39 different people allegedly violated more than a dozen state laws including making false statements and writings, solicitation of election fraud and Georgia's sweeping anti-racketeering law.

Several high-profile Republicans found in the jury's report did not face charges in the 98-page indictment handed up in Fulton County last month, such as former Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., current Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., attorneys Lin Wood and Cleta Mitchell and others involved in the months-long, multifaceted effort to undo Trump's narrow loss in Georgia.

Perdue and Loeffler called for Raffensperger to resign and made false claims about Georgia's election results before losing in Jan. 2021 runoffs that saw some conservative voters stay home because of their claims. Graham called Raffensperger after the election and discussed if the secretary of state could reject certain absentee ballots.

While the report does not reference specific charges for certain high profile players, Sen. Graham and former Sens. Perdue and Loeffler are listed along with 23 total people the special grand jury recommended for indictment "with respect to the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election."

Ultimately, the decision of who to charge with what rests with the district attorney's office and a regularly empaneled grand jury, and the special jury's inclusion of many names like Perdue, Loeffler and Graham neither indicates cooperation with prosecutors nor possibility of future charges.

In a footnote, the report makes clear that "one of the dissenting jurors voting against recommending seeking indictments of former Sens. Perdue and Loeffler on a racketeering claim believes that their statements following the November 2020 election while pandering to their political base, do not give rise to their being guilty of a criminal conspiracy."

The brief report largely mirrors the charges and characters found in Willis' racketeering indictment brought in August, including Trump, his onetime personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Georgia Republican Party Chair David Shafer as central figures.

In addition to the Trump-Raffensperger call, the special jury recommended charges stemming from "persistent, repeated communications directed to multiple Georgia officials and employees;" efforts to harass and coerce a Fulton County poll worker into falsely admitting she committed election fraud; a scheme to have 16 Republicans falsely claim to be Georgia's official electors; unlawful access of election equipment in rural Coffee County; a series of legislative hearings where false claims were made about the state's election results and the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia and other swing states.

Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case

Judge Robert McBurney ordered a limited release of the report in February, only allowing the introduction, conclusion and a section detailing concerns about witnesses lying under oath to be made public. McBurney wrote that those sections did not violate due process concerns of anyone that may or may not be later charged.

The report opens with a timeline of the special grand jury's work, from the DA's first request for the panel to the 75 witnesses that came before the closed-door body, also noting that the group voted unanimously that "no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election."

Ladybbird · 13-09-23, 04:38

TRUMP Threatens He Will Lock Up Political Opponents If Re-Elected.

DOJ Says TRUMP Has Hidden Classified Documents as Mar-a-Lago IT Worker Cooperates With Special Counsel

Mark Meadows: TRUMP Aide FAILS to Have Georgia Case Moved

US judge has denied a bid from Mark Meadows, a TRUMP aide charged in Georgia election conspiracy inquiry, to move his case to a federal court.

BBC 13 SEP 2023

Former President Donald Trump revealed plans to prosecute his political opponents if he gets reelected.

Trump communicated this to Glenn Beck during a BlazeTV show appearance. Beck questioned Trump on his 2016 statements about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and asked if he regretted not prosecuting her.

In response, Trump expressed no choice but to prosecute his political adversaries, dismissing the charges he faces in multiple states. “Well, I'll give you an example… The answer is you have no choice, because they're doing it to us"

Mar-a-Lago IT Worker Flips on TRUMP and Strikes a Deal With Special Counsel

Mar-a-Lago IT worker struck cooperation agreement with special counsel, his former lawyer says

Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras has struck a cooperation agreement with the special counsel’s office in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, Taveras’ former defense attorney said in a new court filing.

Taveras struck the deal with prosecutors after he was threatened with prosecution, defense attorney Stanley Woodward wrote in the filing dated Tuesday.

Taveras is referred to in the filing and in the superseding indictment as “Trump Employee 4,” and CNN has identified him as that employee.

According to the terms of the deal explained in the filing, Taveras agreed to testify in the classified documents case and in exchange will not be prosecuted. He has not been charged with any crimes.

The filing marks the first public acknowledgment that special counsel Jack Smith has won the cooperation of key witnesses as part of his prosecution of Trump, his longtime valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira.

Prosecutors have argued that Woodward, who now represents Nauta, could face conflicts of interest – particularly if the defense lawyer has to cross-examine his former client – and that the judge overseeing the case should scrutinize those potential conflicts.

Woodward wrote in the filing Wednesday that he “played no role” in Taveras’ cooperation and said that prosecutors did not offer Taveras the cooperation deal until after Taveras got a different lawyer. Woodward asked the judge to block Taveras from testifying in any eventual trial.

Taveras’ July testimony in front of a grand jury, which wasn’t public, was the source of new allegations against Trump that were included in a superseding indictment filed later that month

Those allegations include efforts by Trump, de Oliveira and Nauta to delete incriminating security footage from the club.

Trump, de Oliveira and Nauta have pleaded not guilty to all allegations.

Ladybbird · 16-09-23, 19:52

Twitter Turned Over 32 Messages From TRUMPS’ Account to Special Counsel...Twitter Declared War on Conservatives: More Pro-Trump Accounts Purged Overnight

Special Counsel Warned TRUMP Could Precipitate Violence if Twitter Turned Over His Messages

BBC 16 SEP 2023

Newly unsealed court records indicate special counsel Jack Smith’s team warned that former President Trump could “precipitate violence” unless the court shielded its efforts to obtain information on his Twitter account.

The records show Smith’s office obtained a total of 32 direct messages from Trump’s account as part of its investigation, with a copy of the warrant also unsealed Friday showing the breadth of the information prosecutors sought.

The 71-page filing from prosecutors, submitted to the court in April but unsealed Friday, offers new details about why Smith’s team feared alerting Trump to the matter.

The secret battle to obtain the records was revealed in an opinion unsealed in August, showing that Twitter, now known as X, was fined $350,000 for not complying with a court order to turn over the records.

Earlier unsealed court records showed the special counsel was concerned that if Trump knew about the warrant to access his account he could disclose it to the public, something they said “could precipitate violence as occurred following the public disclosure of the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.”

The arguments were made as X appealed a lower court order to turn over the information to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

While prosecutors reiterated prior arguments that Trump could jeopardize the case if the warrant was disclosed, it cites Trump’s past behavior as the need to do so.

“These are not hypothetical considerations in this case. Following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, the former President propagated false claims of fraud (including swearing to false allegations in a federal court filing), pressured state and federal officials to violate their legal duties, and retaliated against those who did not comply with his demands, culminating in violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6,” prosecutors wrote.

“More recently, the former President has taken several steps to undermine or otherwise influence the investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information following the end of his presidency, including publicizing the existence of the Mar-a-Lago Warrant.”

The filing goes on to detail Trump’s offer to pay the legal fees of those who might otherwise be witnesses against him.

“This pattern of obstructive conduct amply supports the district court’s conclusion that the former President presents a significant risk of tampering with evidence, seeking to influence or intimidate potential witnesses, and “otherwise seriously jeopardizing” the Government’s ongoing investigations,” they wrote.

The filing leaves unclear the content of the 32 direct messages Trump exchanged on the platform, with the detail only used to combat arguments from X’s attorneys that such messages might be covered under executive privilege.

“Twitter offers no reason to conclude that the former President, with the full array of communication technologies available to the head of the Executive Branch, would have used Twitter’s direct message function to carry out confidential communications with Executive Branch advisors,” prosecutors wrote.

The unsealed search warrant, first signed in January, shows prosecutors were seeking extensive information about Trump’s X account, including all IP addresses and devices that accessed the account. DOJ also wanted to review all tweets, even those drafted and deleted, and a list of every account Trump block or who blocked Trump.

Prosecutors likewise asked for location data associated with the account for the months leading up to the election through January 2021 as well as every tweet the former president liked or those who tweeted at him for the same time period.

X fought the warrant on numerous grounds, including making a First Amendment argument and also claiming that disclosure to Trump would not be harmful, as he knew he was being investigated and some details about the probe had become public.

The appeals court ultimately sided with prosecutors and the lower court, calling the Department of Justice’s concerns “unquestionably compelling.”

“The district court found that there were ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump ‘would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation’ by giving him ‘an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates,’” the appeals court noted in its ruling.

Could the 14th amendment be used to stop Trump from running for presidency again?

Ladybbird · 18-09-23, 07:47

TRUMP Interview - Music to The Ears of Prosecutors. & TRUMP Blames Nancy Pelosi For Jan 6 Insurrection

TRUMP Lawyer Jenna Ellis Turns on Malignant Narcissist Ex-President. Ellis, One of 18 Trump Associates Charged in Georgia Case, Says She Simply Can’t Support Him Again

US Special Counsel Jack Smith Asks Judge to Place Gag Order on TRUMP.

The prosecutor leading the federal election meddling case against Donald Trump has asked a judge to place him under a gag order, limiting how he is able to publicly comment on the case.

BBC 18 SEP 2023

Jenna Ellis – the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 – says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a “malignant narcissist” who cannot admit mistakes

“I simply can’t support him for elected office again,” Ellis said. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.”

Ellis, 38, was speaking on her show on American Family Radio, a rightwing evangelical network run by the American Family Association, a non-profit that by its own description has been “on the frontlines of America’s culture war” since 1977.

Ellis was one of 18 Trump associates charged with him in Georgia over attempts to overturn Biden’s victory there. Charged with violating state anti-racketeering laws and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer, she was granted $100,000 bail and pleaded not guilty.

Trump pleaded not guilty to 13 racketeering and conspiracy charges.

Denying all wrongdoing and claiming political persecution, he also faces four federal counts related to election subversion; 40 federal counts related to retention of classified information; 34 state counts in New York over hush-money payments; and civil cases including a $250m lawsuit lodged by the New York attorney general over his business affairs and a defamation claim arising from a rape allegation a judge said was “substantially true”.

Nonetheless, Trump leads polling regarding the 2024 Republican presidential primary by vast margins, in national and key state surveys.

Ellis is a former counsel for the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic group, whose claims to be a constitutional lawyer have been widely doubted.

Described by the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman as “a lawyer whom Trump sought out after seeing her television commentary”, in 2020 Ellis rose from relative obscurity to become part of what she called an “elite strike force team” working to overturn Trump’s defeat by Biden.

That effort failed. American Family Radio signed up Ellis in December last year. On her show on Thursday, she spoke to Steve Deace, another rightwing host.

Deace said: “Before that man [Trump] needs to be president again … [to] escape the quote-unquote, ‘witch-hunts’, that man needs Jesus again because … his ambitions would be fueled by showing some self-awareness. And he won’t do it because he can’t admit, ‘I’m not God.’”

Ellis said Deace had “perfectly articulated exactly how I as a voter feel”. She knew Trump well “as a friend, as a former boss”, she said, adding: “I have great love and respect for him personally.

“But everything that you just said resonates with me as exactly why I simply can’t support him for elected office again. Why I have chosen to distance is because of that, frankly, malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.

“And the total idolatry that I’m seeing from some of the supporters that are unwilling to put the constitution and the country and the conservative principles above their love for a star is really troubling.

“And I think that we do need to, as Americans and as conservatives and particularly as Christians, take this very seriously and understand where are we putting our vote.”

TRUMP Blames Nancy Pelosi For Jan 6

Donald Trump offered up a strange scapegoat for the Jan. 6 insurrection in a new interview.

The former president accused former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of allowing mobs of violent Trump supporters to overtake the U.S. Capitol by allegedly turning down his offer... to activate the National Guard.

Ladybbird · 06-10-23, 16:02

TRUMP Seeks to Dismiss Election Interference Charges, Saying He Had Presidential Immunity

Donald Trump has asked a federal court to dismiss charges against him of election interference, arguing his role entitled him to "absolute immunity".

BBC 6 OCT 2023

Trumps' lawyers say his attempts to cast doubt on the 2020 results fell within his duties as president.

His public statements were attempts at "ensuring the integrity of federal elections", they added.

The indictment, brought by Jack Smith, alleges he made illegal attempts to stay in office.

It is one of a number of filings in recent days from his legal team.

Trump has asked that this trial for improperly handling sensitive files be held after the 2024 presidential election.

And on Thursday, his lawyers also dropped a lawsuit against his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who he was suing for at least $500m (£410m) in damages.

Mr Trumps' campaign said that his legal suits and 2024 presidential campaign were using up too much of his time for him to pursue the claim.

The former president made a range of allegations about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost, but no evidence has emerged of any widespread fraud that would have altered the result.

In a new filing on Thursday, his lawyers argue that Mr Trump's public statements about the 2020 contest "lie firmly within the 'outer perimeter' of the President's official responsibility".

Apparently classified files on the floor of Trumps' Mar-a-Lago office.. Trump is also accused of holding on to classified documents after leaving office

"Therefore, they cannot form the basis of criminal charges against President Trump."

In the criminal complaint against the former president, special prosecutor Jack Smith acknowledged that Mr Trump "had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won".

However he said that Mr Trump went further than allowed and "also pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results".

The former president has repeatedly said the cases against him are politically motivated.

Mr Trumps' attorneys have also requested the dismissal of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. The request was publicly released on Thursday, after his lawyers filed the motion last week.

The case, in New York, stems from his payment of $130,000 (£105,000) to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to stay quiet after having sex with him.

Prosecutors say Mr Trump illegally altered records in order to claim that the payment was for legal fees.

In the legal filing, his lawyers call the case a "five-year meandering, halting, and roving investigation that entailed inexplicable and unconstitutional delay" and argue that the charges are a novel interpretation of the law and "politically driven".

Ladybbird · 16-10-23, 19:30

TRUMP Rages on Truth Social During Judge Chutkans’ Hearing on Gag Order

- Federal Judge Issues Gag Order Against Donald Trump

A federal judge issued a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting what he can say about special counsel Jack Smiths’ federal prosecution into his alleged attempt to subvert in the 2020 presidential election

BBC 16 OCT 2023

Deranged Donald Trump lashed out on Truth Social as Judge Tanya Chutkan began a hearing on a proposed gag order in the former president’s election interference case. “The TRUMP GAG ORDER that the CORRUPT Biden Administration is trying to obtain is totally Unconstitutional!”

Trump wrote on his social media platform as proceedings got underway in D.C. Chutkan ultimately issued a partial gag order relating to statements about special counsel Jack Smith, the federal court and staff and possible witnesses in the case. “This is not about whether or not I like the language Mr. Trump uses," Chutkan said, according to The Messenger. "This is about language that presents a danger to the administration of justice.”

Trump during the hearing also shared a post from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who attended the proceedings in person. “They are attempting to muzzle the most popular political figure in America!” Greene wrote in the post, alleging that a gag order would strip all Americans of the “opportunity to hear from the leading candidate for President.”

Deranged Trump, ahead of the hearing on Sunday night teased a “big day for Democracy” on Monday.

“A Leaking, Crooked Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to criticize those who are doing the silencing, namely Crooked Joe Biden, and his corrupt and weaponized DOJ & FBI,” he wrote.

“They want to take away my First Amendment rights, and my ability to both campaign and defend myself. In other words, they want to cheat and interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election.

Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. It is strictly Banana Republic kind of ‘stuff.’ These political Hacks and Thugs are destroying our Country.

Ladybbird · 20-10-23, 02:44

Sidney Powell: TRUMP Ex-Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Case

Sidney Powell Has Been Sentenced to Six Years of Probation.

She is also required to write an apology letter to the citizens of the State of Georgia

BBC 20 OCT 2023

Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty to six charges in the Georgia election interference case.

Powell, who was charged alongside the former president, reached a deal with prosecutors and will now testify at future trials.

There are 19 defendants in the case, most of whom have pleaded not guilty.

Powell faced charges of conspiracy to commit intentional interference of election duties.

Her agreement to testify, in exchange for six years of probation, is a huge win for prosecutors in the sweeping case. Powell was intimately involved in Mr Trump's fight to overturn the state's results in the 2020 presidential election.

The deal also required her to record a proffer, essentially a verbal account of her activities, and to pay a fine and write an apology letter to Georgia citizens.

Powell entered her guilty plea in a downtown Atlanta courtroom on Thursday, a day before her trial was set to start.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the BBC it was unsurprising that she took a deal.

"If you're a criminal defendant who's never spent a night in jail and you're offered no time, you take it," Mr Rahmani said.

He added she may act as a "domino", with other defendants following her example.

"I think the other defendants have to be taking a long, hard look in the mirror and asking themselves, 'Hey, do I want to go to Georgia State Prison, or do I want to take this offer that's going to guarantee I do no time?'" he said.

Prosecutors have accused Powell of being among a group of Trump officials and supporters who breached the elections system in rural Coffee County, Georgia, in January 2021. They were trying to persuade officials and voters that the election had somehow been rigged against Mr Trump.

Specifically, Powell was accused of hiring a forensics team and sending it to Coffee County to illegally access government computers to look at voter data.

Prosecutors have said she conspired to tamper with voting machines, electronic ballots and voter data, have ballots taken from a polling place, and stop an election worker from doing her job.

Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case. In total, the former president faces 13 felony counts - including racketeering - for allegedly pressuring state officials to reverse results in the presidential election.

He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and has described the case as politically motivated.

Powell was one of the most visible, and vocal, supporters of his false claims about the 2020 election.

She notably appeared at a press conference with other Trump lawyers in November 2020, where she alleged, without evidence, that US voting machines run by Dominion Voting Systems can be hacked to "take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President (Joe) Biden".

At a White House meeting the following month, Mr Trump mulled appointing Powell as a special counsel to "investigate allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere", prosecutors said.

The congressional committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot featured her prominently in its televised hearings last year, showing she worked closely with Mr Trump and his aides on election overturning strategies.

Dominion has sued Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3bn (£1.07bn) in restitution.

Powell is the second person among the defendants to plead guilty in the Georgia election interference case.

Bail bondsman Scott Hall struck a plea deal with prosecutors in late September.

The former Republican poll watcher was also accused of trying to gain access to sensitive election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia.

As part of his deal, he was sentenced to five years probation. He is also required to testify against others in future trials.

MORE:

Who are Trump's 18 co-accused in the Georgia case?

Georgia Republicans begin to look beyond Donald Trump

Ladybbird · 21-10-23, 00:34

Pro-TRUMP Attorney Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Case

Kenneth Chesebro: Pro-TRUMP Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Subversion Case, Implicates TRUMP in Fake Elector Conspiracy

Three defendants have now pleaded guilty in the sprawling racketeering case: Chesebro, Powell and Georgia-based bail bondsman Scott Hall.

BBC 21 OCT 2023

Kenneth Chesebro, a Donald Trump-aligned attorney who helped craft the 2020 fake elector plot, is pleading guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.

The plea deal is another major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results

Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s 2020 fake electors plot, pleaded guilty Friday in the Georgia election subversion case to being part of a conspiracy alongside former President
and others.

The plea deal is another blow to Trump and a major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It comes one day after former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell also pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony – conspiracy to commit filing false documents. Fulton County prosecutors recommended that he serve 5 years of probation and pay $5,000 in restitution, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee imposed that sentence at Friday’s hearing.

Chesebro has also agreed to testify in future court proceedings.

As part of his plea deal, Chesebro admitted that he conspired to put forward fake GOP electors in Georgia with Trump and former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. Giuliani and Eastman have both pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case, and now face the prospect of Chesebro taking the witness stand against them.

The plea came shortly after jury selection in the trial began Friday morning as planned, but was short-lived. A source familiar with the discussions said the likelihood of Chesebro taking a deal increased after Powell made a surprise turn and pleaded guilty on Thursday.

Fake Electors Plot

An attorney who worked to undermine the results of the 2020 election, Chesebro helped develop the Trump’s campaign’s plot to put forward unauthorized slates of GOP electors in Georgia and six other states. (In previous court filings, Chesebro’s lawyers have denied that he devised the plan.)

He wrote a series of memos in 2020 spelling out what the pro-Trump electors should do in their respective states. In one memo Chesebro acknowledged that he was promoting a “controversial strategy” that even the Supreme Court with its conservative supermajority would “likely” reject.

Chesebro and other Trump allies hoped then-Vice President Mike Pence would use the GOP electors to justify delaying Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory – or even throw out Biden’s lawful electors and recognize the fake GOP slates instead on January 6, 2021.

Prosecutors said in court that Chesebro acknowledged in the plea that he “created and distributed false Electoral College documents” to Trump operatives in Georgia and other states, and that he worked “in coordination with” the Trump campaign.

“The defendant provided detailed instructions to co-conspirators in Georgia and other states for creating and distributing these false documents,” prosecutor Daysha Young said at the plea hearing Friday.

Chesebro was originally charged with seven crimes, including a violation of Georgia’s RICO act, conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer. Six of the seven felony charges were dropped as part of the deal.

In addition to testifying at future trials, Chesebro agreed to write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia.

Powell and Hall both admitted their roles in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia. As part of her plea deal, Powell agreed to testify at future trials, which could hurt Trump’s defense. Both Powell and Hall were sentenced to probation.

Ahead of their scheduled trial, Chesebro and Powell lost several bids to get the case thrown out, including earlier this week. In a spate of pretrial rulings, McAfee rejected their arguments that Fulton County prosecutors misapplied Georgia’s RICO law and that the indictment failed to establish key elements of the crimes that have been charged.

Both Powell and Chesebro are unindicted co-conspirators in Trump’s federal election subversion case, which was brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s federal trial is set for March 2024 in Washington, DC.

Steve Sadow, lead counsel for Trump in the Georgia case, said he believes Friday’s developments will help the former president.

“It appears to me that the guilty plea to count 15 of the Fulton County indictment was the result of pressure by Fani Willis and her team and the prosecution’s looming threat of prison time,” Sadow said. “However, it is very important for everyone to note that the RICO charge and every other count was dismissed. Once again, I fully expect that truthful testimony would be favorable to my defense strategy.”

Jurors asked about Trump rallies, Jan. 6 hearings

Hundreds of potential jurors for the Chesebro trial were summoned to the Fulton County courthouse on Friday, where they filled out questionnaires that were designed to weed out people with conflicts-of-interest or anyone who couldn’t act impartially.

CNN overheard a court official reading aloud from portions the jury questionnaire in a public area of the courthouse where the jury selection process was taking place. The questionnaire itself has not been made public.

The potential jurors were asked if they “express divisive political opinions,” if they ever attended a Trump rally or any “MAGA events,” or posted anything online about “Donald Trump’s charges.”

They were also asked specifically if they watched the highly publicized January 6 committee hearings last year, which presented in dramatic fashion how Trump tried to overturn the election.

The potential jurors were also asked if they voted in any federal elections over the past 15 years. There is no indication that they were asked who they voted for, and that is never typically part of a jury questionnaire.

At a hearing earlier this week, Fulton County prosecutors and attorneys for Chesebro haggled over how many politically charged questions should be included. Specifically, Chesebro’s attorneys wanted to include questions that could tease out how jurors feel about “MAGA Republicans” and Trump’s attempt to “steal the election.” It’s unclear if those questions made it into the questionnaire.

After Chesebro’s plea, McAfee returned to the jury room to dismiss the jury pool, which responded with applause and cheers.

Ladybbird · 25-10-23, 05:49

Mark Meadows Given Immunity To Testify About TRUMP And 2020 Election

EX Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has ALSO Been Talking With Special Counsel Jack Smith and His Team in Exchange For Immunity in The FED Jan 6 Probe

Meadows has Spoken With Special Counsel Jack Smiths' Team Three Times

BBC 25 OCT 2023

Mark Meadows FLIPS On Trump After Being Granted Immunity

TRUMP GANG DEAL DAY

Mark Meadows, TRUMPs’ chief of staff, was granted immunity for testifying under oath about TRUMPs’ role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results

Key Facts

Meadows spoke with special counsel Jack Smith’s team—which is leading the case against Trump for his attempts to overturn the election and his mishandling of classified documents—at least three times this year, ABC News reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

He testified in front of a federal grand jury only after Smith gave him immunity, the report says.

Meadows told Smith’s team that Trump was “dishonest” to voters when he claimed he won the election on November 3, 2020, and that following the election, he told Trump a number of times the voter fraud claims were baseless—despite saying in his book that election was “stolen” and “rigged.”

Key Background

Meadows was Trumps’ final chief of staff during his time in the White House and is facing charges in Georgia over his involvement in Trump’s attempt to overturn election results. Meadows has pleaded not guilty in Georgia, arguing the actions mentioned in his indictment were under the purview of his role as White House chief of staff.

The Georgia indictment accuses Meadows—who was on the infamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump directed him to “find” the votes needed to win—of participating in a campaign to pressure the secretary of state to violate his oath of office, and committing several other acts as part of the racketeering conspiracy.

Recently, in an interview with NBC, Trump said he hoped Meadows stayed “loyal” to him, and when asked if he was worried about Meadows “flipping,” Trump said “I didn’t do anything wrong,” the New York Times reported.
Whether Meadows changes how he’s pleading in his Georgia case. So far, four of Trumps’ other co-defendants in the case have taken plea deals, including attorney Sidney Powell and attorney Jenna Ellis.

Ladybbird · 10-11-23, 08:04

FAKE Electors From Arizona Focus of Federal Criminal Investigation in TRUMPs' 2020 Election FRAUD

High Profile Arizona Republican Politicians Catch Attention of DOJ

Two Arizona lawmakers were subpoenaed in connection to the group of "fake electors" who created their own election certification in 2020 Election

BBC 10 NOV 2023

Arizona Republican Jake Hoffman who signed phony 'certification' saying Trump won flees from reporter

Arizona was one of seven states where so-called “fake electors” signed paperwork that falsely claimed former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Their hope at the time was that then-Vice President Mike Pence would recognize them when the electoral college met to certify the results. Of course, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, backfired and now fake electors across the country, have attracted the attention of the Department of Justice.

Some of Arizonas’ false electors included high-profile and powerful politicians. Like Kelli Ward, former chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, and her husband.

Two current GOP state lawmakers Jake Hoffman from Queen Creek and Anthony Kern from Glendale, were also involved.

After a hearing Tuesday about Arizona State University, when asked if he’s been contacted by the DOJ, Kern rolled his eyes.

TRUMPs' EX Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has Been Given Immunity To Testify About TRUMP And 2020 Election

Reporter Tracks Down Arizona Fake Electors

Ladybbird · 15-11-23, 04:16

'Just Call Him a Child Abuser’: TRUMP Told GOP Candidate Herschel Walker to Use Slur Against Warnock - Advice to Use Debunked Claim in US Senate Race

Jenna Ellis, Has Testified in Election Interference Case She Was Told TRUMP Was “NEVER Going to Leave The White House

BBC 15 NOV 2023

Herschel Walker and Donald Trump hold a rally in Perry Georgia.

As Herschel Walker faced defeat by his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock in a high-stakes US Senate election in Georgia last year, Donald Trump advised the Republican candidate: “Just call him a child abuser.”

At first, Walker did not take the former president’s advice, letting go his sole debate with Warnock – a church pastor – without raising the slur.

But according to Jonathan Karl, ABC News’s chief Washington correspondent and the author of a new book on Trump’s Republican party, “all bets were off once the race went to a run-off”.

“‘Y’all know what he did at that camp?’ Walker falsely told a crowd of supporters in late November. ‘This young man said there was sexual abuse and there was physical abuse. I’m like, Who did that? It has to be Senator Raphael Warnock, because he was responsible for it.’”

Trump’s advice to the former college football and NFL star, and Walker’s garbled recounting of the slur, is reported in Karl’s new book, Tired of Winning, published in the US on Tuesday.

Karl’s source is an unidentified senior Walker adviser who witnessed the conversation, which Walker put “on speakerphone so his team in the room could hear the strategic wisdom that was about to be offered”.

The claim against Warnock concerned alleged abuse in 2002 at a Maryland summer camp run by a church where he was then senior pastor. The allegation surfaced – and was used by the Republican Kelly Loeffler – during Warnock’s first victorious Senate run, which ended with a runoff win in January 2021.

Karl writes that a camper alleged a counselor threw urine at him and locked him outside overnight, as a punishment for wetting his bed.

“The story was horrible,” Karl writes, noting a reported financial settlement. “But labeling Warnock a ‘child molester’ was ridiculously wrong. There was no allegation of sexual abuse and no allegation whatsoever against Warnock himself. He was the pastor at the church, not the director of the camp.”

As reported at the time by the Baltimore Sun, Warnock and another church official were arrested after “a state trooper said the ministers prevented her from interviewing counselors as she investigated” the alleged abuse.

But the charges of interfering with an investigation were dismissed.

Ex-Trump Lawyer Says ‘Boss’ Was NOT Going to Leave White House

Revelation comes during interview with Georgia district attorney’s office about events around US election

Jenna Ellis reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trumps 2020 election loss in Georgia.

An attorney for Donald Trump has told prosecutors in Georgia that one of the former president’s top aides told her in December 2020 that Trump was “not going to leave” the White House “under any circumstances”, despite having lost the election to Joe Biden.

The revelation from Jenna Ellis came during an interview with the Georgia district attorney’s office in Fulton County. Ellis is cooperating as part of a plea agreement in the Georgia election interference case against Trump and various allies.

Sections of the video recordings were published on Monday by ABC News and the Washington Post, along with excerpts from interviews with lawyer Sidney Powell and two other defendants who have reached plea agreements in the case in exchange for testifying.

Ellis said the longtime Trump aide – his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino – told her “the boss” would refuse to cede power. She also alluded to two other “relevant” instances for the case but did not disclose them in the video, apparently prevented from doing so by attorney-client privilege.

Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis won't vote for him in 2024, calls him a 'malignant narcissist'

Jenna Ellis in Court

Ladybbird · 16-11-23, 03:12

TRUMP RICO Defendants' Lawyer Admits to Leaking Witness Video to The Press

Convicted TRUMP Aides’ Lawyer on RICO Criminal Case & Coup Tape Leak:

Manny Arora, the lawyer for guilty Trump aide Kenneth Chesebro, joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss the latest developments in the Georgia RICO case.

BBC 16 NOV 2023

A lawyer for one of former President Donald Trumps' co-defendants in the Fulton County racketeering case admitted he sent the media previously unreleased footage of defendants' conversations with prosecutors.

TRUMPs' Election Interference is a Criminal Case

The admission came from attorney Jonathan Miller, who represents co-defendant Misty Hampton, a Coffee County election supervisor charged in the sweeping election subversion case. The "proffer" or witness footage showed four of Trump's co-defendants speaking with prosecutors after agreeing to plead guilty to their charges.

All four witnesses accepted plea deals with District Attorney Fani Willis's office.

"Judge, I did release those videos to one outlet. And in all candor ... I need the court to know that," Miller said.

"All four of those people that did their proffers, they stood in front of you, they did their plea, it was all recorded, it was sent out there for the world to see," Miller said. "And to hide those proffers that show all the underlying things that went into those pleas misleads the public about what's going on."

In part of the proffer footage, former Trump attorney and co-defendant Jenna Ellis told prosecutors that Trump's then-deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino told her "the boss" wouldn't leave the White House after losing the 2020 election.

"He said, 'The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power,'" Ellis said in the footage, suggesting "the boss" referred to Trump. "And I said to him, 'Well, it doesn't quite work that way, you realize.' And he said, 'We don't care.'"

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is weighing whether to impose the protective order prosecutors requested after the previously undisclosed video of defendants who accepted plea deals leaked. In court on Wednesday, Miller pushed back on the notion that the footage he sent to the media was a "leak."

Prosecutors initially blamed the release of the footage on a separate co-defendant, Black Voices for Trump leader Harrison Floyd. His counsel told the court on Wednesday that there was a typo in their email exchange with prosecutors and continued to argue that Floyd's team was not the source of the footage.

Protective orders are typically put in place to protect parties in certain cases from harassment or violence. In this case, Willis wants one to bar disclosure of discovery footage that was not intended to be made public at this point in the pretrial phase.

Judge Scott McAfee is expected to rule on whether to impose a protective order soon but did not offer an exact time.

Ladybbird · 17-11-23, 11:15

TRUMP Assails Judge and Clerk AGAIN in Election Criminal Fraud Trial as Gag Order Temporarily Lifts

Donald Trump has assailed a judge and clerk handling his New York fraud trial as a gag order banning him from criticising court personnel was paused.

BBC 17 NOV 2023

The ex-president sued the judge in the civil case, Arthur Engoron, after he barred him and his attorneys from speaking about judicial staff.

Mr Trump's lawyers had argued the gag order was unconstitutional.

A state intermediate appeals court has granted what is known as an interim stay.

Judge David Friedman cited the "constitutional and statutory rights at issue" in Thursday's ruling.

It means that, for now, Mr Trump and his lawyers can once again make public comments about the court officials.

The former president wasted little time in reopening attacks on Judge Engoron, calling his actions "Radical and Unprecedented".

"His Ridiculous and Unconstitutional Gag Order, not allowing me to defend myself against him and his politically biased and out of control, Trump Hating Clerk, who is sinking him and his Court to new levels of LOW, is a disgrace," the 77-year-old wrote in a lengthy post on social media.

Mr Trump's lawyer Christopher Kise also welcomed the ruling, which he said would restore his client's right "to talk about bias in his own trial".

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Ladybbird · 22-11-23, 01:58

Gagged? TRUMP on Defense as Jack Smith Takes Tough Gag Order to Powerful Court

Hear Audio From Inside TRUMP Election Interference Criminal Case Courtroom

BBC 22 NOV 2023

Prosecutors for Special Counsel Jack Smith clashed in court with Donald Trumps' legal team over a gag order in the DC election crimes case. The arguments played out before judges on a federal appeals court, and the audio is public.

A federal appeals court on Monday was skeptical of former President Donald Trump‘s attempt to scrap a gag order in his election-subversion case but seemed willing to narrow down limits on what the ex-president can say, particularly in the heat of the 2024 campaign.

During oral arguments, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit explored what kind of rhetoric should be allowed or out of bounds under the gag order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

The order prohibits Mr. Trump and his lawyers from targeting special counsel Jack Smith, court personnel or witnesses in the run-up to trial on charges he conspired against the U.S. by trying to reverse the results of the 2020 election.

Mr. Trump, who frequently posts on social media and gives long speeches at campaign rallies, opposes the gag order. He says it’s an unprecedented attempt to limit his First Amendment right to speech while he campaigns for president ahead of a possible rematch with President Biden in 2024

Ladybbird · 28-11-23, 15:38

Georgia Prosecutors Oppose Plea Deals For TRUMP, Meadows and Giuliani

Fulton County Prosecutors Unwilling to Offer Deals to Key Trio, Preferring Instead to Force Them to Trial & Wield The Power of Georgias’ Racketeering Statute to Their Advantage.

BBC 28 NOV 2023

Georgia prosecutors oppose plea deals for TRUMP, Meadows and Giuliani

Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial.

The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Aside from those three, the Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis has opened plea talks or has left open the possibility of talks with the remaining co-defendants in the hope that they ultimately decide to become cooperating witnesses against the former president, the people said.

it signals who prosecutors consider their main targets, and how they want to wield the power of Georgia’s racketeering statute to their advantage.

A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.

Trump and 18 co-defendants in August originally pleaded not guilty to a sprawling indictment that charged them with violating the Rico statute in seeking to reverse his 2020 election defeat in the state, including by advancing fake Trump electors and breaching voting machines.

In the weeks that followed, prosecutors reached plea deals in quick succession with the former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro – who all gave “proffer” statements that were damaging to Trump to some degree – as well as the local bail bondsman Scott Hall.

The plea deals underscore the strategy that Willis has refined over successive Rico prosecutions: extending offers to lower-level defendants in which they plead guilty to key crimes and incriminate higher-level defendants in the conspiracy pyramid.

As the figure at the top of the alleged conspiracy, Trump was always unlikely to get a deal. But the inclusion of Meadows and Giuliani on that list, at least for now, provides the clearest roadmap to date of how prosecutors intend to take the case to trial.

The preference for the district attorney’s office remains to flip as many of the Trump co-defendants as possible, one of the people said, and prosecutors have asked the Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee to set the final deadline for plea deals as far back as June 2024.

At least some of the remaining co-defendants are likely to reach plea deals should they fall short in their pre-trial attempts to extricate themselves from Trump, including trying to have their individual cases transferred to federal court, or have their individual charges dismissed outright.

The prosecutors on the Trump case appear convinced that they are close to gaining more cooperating witnesses. In recent weeks, one of the people said, prosecutors privately advised the judge to delay setting a trial date because some co-defendants may soon plead out, one of the people said.

On Monday, former Trump lawyer and co-defendant John Eastman asked the judge to allow him to go to trial separately from the former president, and earlier than the August 2024 trial date proposed by prosecutors.

Eastman also asked for the final plea deal deadline to be moved forward.

The court filing from Eastman reflected the apparent trepidation among a growing number of Trump allies charged in Fulton county about standing trial alongside Trump as a major Rico ringleader, a prospect widely seen as detrimental to anyone other than Trump.

In a statement, Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow suggested the former president was uninterested in reaching a deal. “Any comment by the Fulton county district attorney’s office offering ‘deals’ to President Trump is laughable because we wouldn’t accept anything except dismissal,” Sadow said.

But the lack of a plea deal would be a blow to Meadows. The Guardian previously reported that the former Trump White House chief of staff has been “in the market” for a deal in Georgia after he managed to evade charges in the federal 2020 election subversion case in Washington after testifying under limited-use immunity.

It was unclear why prosecutors are opposed to negotiating with Meadows, though the fact that he only testified in Washington after being ordered by a court suggested he might only be a reluctant witness. Reached by phone on Monday, Meadows’s local counsel declined to comment.

The lawyers for Giuliani, meanwhile, have long said he never expected a plea deal offer. Giuliani’s associates have also suggested he wanted to remain loyal to Trump, who is scheduled to host a dinner at Mar-a-Lago in December to raise money to pay for his compounding legal debts.

'No Guardrails': Experts sound alarm about Trump’s plot for ‘radical’ second term

Ladybbird · 30-11-23, 06:28

TRUMPS’ Trial Nightmare: Jack Smith on Offense With Pence Testimony

Mike Pence Will Be Killer Witness' Against Donald Trump—Pence Provided Jack Smith With Post-2020 Election Details Detrimental to TRUMP

Mike Pence Testified That He “Clearly and Repeatedly” Emphasized to TRUMP That Rejecting Certain Votes on Jan. 6 Would Violate The Constitution

MSN 30 NOV 2023

Former Vice President Mike Pence provided details to special counsel Jack Smith about the aftermath of the 2020 election

He revealed that Trump surrounded himself with “crank” attorneys, espoused “un-American” legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a “constitutional crisis.”

Pence also told investigators that he warned Trump about the lack of evidence of significant election fraud before the Jan 6 2021 riot.

Pences’ testimony could be crucial in the special counsels’ election interference case against Trump.

“Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year,” ABC News wrote, the former Vice President “offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election,” Trump “surrounded himself with ‘crank’ attorneys, espoused ‘un-American’ legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a ‘constitutional crisis,’ according to sources familiar with what Pence told investigators.”

“My only higher loyalty was to God and the Constitution,” Pence said to Smith’s team.

“Pence said he grew concerned when, within days of the election, Trump began ignoring the advice of credible and experienced attorneys inside the White House, instead relying on outside attorneys like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who pushed notions of widespread election fraud and, as Pence allegedly told Smith’s team, ‘did a great disservice to the president and a great disservice to the country,’” ABC noted.

He also shared previously undisclosed anecdotes about his friendship with Trump unraveling in the final weeks of their time in the White House.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked the judge in her case against former President Donald Trump for a trial date of 5 Aug 2024.

Ladybbird · 02-12-23, 06:27

TRUMP Attorneys Facing Fulton Co. Judge For First Time. Attorneys Presented Arguments in a Pretrial Hearing Friday.

TRUMP Attorneys Argue Georgia Election Case Should be Dismissed Due to First Amendment...

Judge Issues Protective Order in TRUMPS' Georgia Election Interference Case

Fulton County judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others issued a protective order in the case Thursday, following a request from District Attorney Fani Willis' office

BBC 2 DEC 2023

Former President Donald Trumps' attorney told a Fulton County court Friday that the Georgia election interference indictment against Trump "needs to be dismissed" on the grounds that it prosecutes conduct protected by the First Amendment.

The argument came in the first of two hearings scheduled Friday in which attorneys for the former president and several of his co-defendants are seeking the dismissal of the case or a delay in the case's upcoming deadlines.

"You take the facts as alleged in the indictment ... and when you do that ... you find that it violates free speech, freedom of petitioning, all the expressions that the First Amendment is designed to protect," Trump's attorney Steve Sadow told the court.

It marked the first time Trump's team has presented arguments in the case.

"Every single count of the complaint, every single act ... relates to that political speech regarding probably the most important election in 2020 -- the presidential election," said Chris Anulewicz, an attorney for Trump co-defendant Robert Cheeley.

Anulewicz made the bulk of the First Amendment arguments before the court, telling the judge that political speech is "given the highest level of protection of any speech."

A prosecutor for the Fulton County district attorney's office pushed back on the First Amendment argument, saying the case that goes far beyond speech.

Some of these are crimes involving expression; some of them are not," Deputy District Attorney Will Wooten said. "Conspiracy is not a crime involving expression. It's a crime involving a corrupt agreement."

"The list goes on and on," Wooten said.

Sadow also pushed back on the Aug. 5 trial date proposed by the Fulton County district attorney, citing the timing of the 2024 presidential election.

"Can you imagine the notion of the Republican nominee for president not being able to campaign for the presidency because he is in some form or fashion in a courtroom defending himself?" Sadow asked the court. "That would be the most effective election interference in the history of the United States. And I don't think anybody wants to be in that position."

"Let's be clear -- this is not election interference," responded Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade. "This is moving forward with the business of Fulton County."

Judge Scott McAfee brought up the question of what what would happen if Trump won the election, asking, "Could he even be tried in 2025?"

"The answer to that is, I believe, that under the supremacy clause and his duties as president, this trial would not take place at all until after he left his term of office," Sadow responded.

At one point, an attorney for Trump co-defendant John Eastman jumped in to offer his client's opinion that the trial date should be set earlier than August.

"There are a number of defendants, as noted, who are not running for president of the United States," he said.

Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty in August to all charges in the Fulton County district attorney's sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. Defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Jena Ellis and Scott Hall subsequently took plea deals in exchange for agreeing to testify against other defendants.

Judge McAfee indicated that he would likely break up the case's 14 remaining defendants into multiple trials -- but that it was "still a little too far out" to set the maximum number of defendants per trial.

"Even 12 defendants would be pushing it," said McAfee. "That's where I'm at now."

Sadow also argued for access to discovery materials in the federal election interference case brought against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith, saying there is "remarkable" overlap between the two cases and asking for authorization to subpoena Smith's team and Trump's D.C. counsel for the records.

"All I'm asking for is a list of the discovery, so I'm able to determine what they have," Sadow argued, saying there is "no doubt" that the special counsel's office "has relevant and material information that deals with the allegations in this case."

"A perfect example is what just came out about Vice President Pence," he told the judge, citing ABC News' recent reporting that Mike Pence had earlier this year told the special counsel's team that, among other things, he had informed Trump in the days before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that he still hadn't seen evidence of significant election fraud -- but that Trump was unmoved and continued to claim the election was stolen.

The district attorney's office responded that their case was "independent" from any other investigation, but that "to the extent it is being made our business, we intend to cooperate."

Judge McAfee tabled the issue for the time being, saying, "We'll put a pin in it for next time."

Also Friday, lawyers for Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark present arguments seeking to delay several rapidly approaching deadlines in the case.

Meadows' attorney told the judge he is seeking an extension while he works to have his case removed to federal court.

"I don't think this is a big ask. I don't think it prejudices the state at all," Meadows' attorney told the judge.

Clark's attorney asked for a brief extension based on scheduling issues and the magnitude of the legal issues Clark is facing.

"I detest whining by lawyers, but there is only so much I can get done," Clark's attorney, Harry MacDougal, told the judge.

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MORE: Judge issues protective order in Trump's Georgia election interference case

Ladybbird · 03-12-23, 07:00

Judge Denies TRUMPS' Attempt to Dismiss January 6 Case. See What She Wrote

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan Rejected TRUMPS' Attempt to Dismiss The Special Counsels' 2020 Election Interference Case Against Him in Washington DC.

TRUMP Had Previously Asked Judge Tanya Chutkan in Federal Elections Case to Step Aside Which Was Denied

BBC 3 DEC 2023

Judge denies Trumps Jan 6 committee request in election fraud case

A judge has blocked former President Donald Trump's attempt to obtain records related to the congressional investigation into 6 January.

Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a motion from his team to issue subpoenas to members of the committee that looked into the Capitol attack in 2021.

In an opinion filed on Monday, she cast the motion as a "fishing expedition".

This is the latest courtroom defeat for Mr Trump in the case alleging he plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Judge Chutkan has already issued a gag order and denied Mr Trump's request to remove language from the indictment that he said could prejudice a jury against him.

In the motion, filed in October, Mr Trump had sought to issue subpoenas to Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the 6 January committee, White House Counsel Richard Sauber, the Department of Homeland Security's general counsel, the national archivist, the House clerk, the committee on House administration, and Representative Barry Loudermilk.

The subpoenas were for what Mr Trump called "missing materials" and communications about how those materials were handled.

Judge Chutkan said that Mr Trump had not specified what information he was seeking in the materials and only gave a "vague description of their potential relevance".

She focused on his requests for the committee's video recordings and transcripts of witness interviews.

Noting that the transcripts had already been provided to Mr Trump, she said he had not articulated how the videos could help his case.

Altogether, he had not "sufficiently justified" his request, she wrote.

In a series of primetime televised hearings last year, the bipartisan committee presented its own case.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

The bipartisan committee argued that Mr Trump sought to stay in the White House by contesting the results of the 2020 election and that he rallied supporters to try to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden as the rightful winner.

It often showed videos of depositions from Mr Trump's closest aides and confidants, including his daughter Ivanka Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr.

Mr Trump is the current front-runner for the Republican nomination in next year's election, and juggling four criminal court cases with his busy campaign schedule.

The former president, though, is not slowing down on either side.

On the same day that Judge Chutkan denied his subpoena request, Mr Trump filed a new, 34-page motion to compel the prosecution to give him information from the Justice Department and Homeland Security, mostly on supposed threats to the integrity of the 2020 election.

Ladybbird · 05-12-23, 04:43

Coup Bombshell: TRUMP Busted For Dictator Plot as Secret Texts Tie Indicted Plotter to Congress, as March Trial Looms

Jack Smiths' Plan For TRUMPS' 2020 Election Interference Trial & Path to Prison

'He acts like someone who wants to be a dictator. He acts like someone who doesn't care for the Constitution'

MSN 5 DEC 2023

TRUMP GOP allies could return him to White House, Cheney warns:

'Supporting him equates to sleepwalking into dictatorship.'

The former president faced widespread criticism last year after he called for the "termination" of parts of the U.S. Constitution over the 2020 election, which he continues to falsely claim was stolen.

He also drew comparisons earlier this month to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini after he described his political opponents as "vermin."

Coup Bombshell:

'He is Not The Lesser of Two Evils': Cheney emphasizes severity of Trump threat

Coup Bombshell: See Prosecutor Jack Smith's Plan For Trump Trial, Path to Prison

Ladybbird · 06-12-23, 09:29

TRUMP Tells Hannity He Will be a Dictator Only on Day One If Elected President

At town hall event in Iowa with Fox News host Sean Hannity, TRUMP was asked to deny that he would use ‘power as retribution’

A WARNING to America - ‘TRUMP Will Never Leave Office Again’

The Guardian UK 6 DEC 2023

TRUMP DECLINED to rule out abusing power if he returns to the White House after Fox News host Sean Hannity asked him to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric.

The Republican presidential frontrunner has talked about targeting his rivals – referring to them as “vermin” – and vowed to seek retribution if he wins a second term for what he argues are politically motivated prosecutions against him.

As Trump has dominated the Republican presidential primary, president Joe Biden has stepped up his own warnings, claiming Trump is “determined to destroy American democracy”.

Trump had to be asked twice during the televised town hall event in Iowa to deny that he would abuse power to seek revenge on political opponents if re-elected to the White House.

--'A second Trump term will be far more autocratic than the first. He’s telling us'....Jan-Werner Müller

“Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked Trump in the interview taped in Davenport, Iowa on Tuesday.

“Except for day one,” Trump responded. Trump said on the “day one” he referred to, he would use his presidential powers to close the southern border with Mexico and expand oil drilling.

Trump then repeated his assertion. “I love this guy,” he said of the Fox News host.

“He says,

‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling.($$) After that, I’m not a dictator.’”

Ladybbird · 07-12-23, 18:38

Georgia Prosecutors Predict Jail Sentences in TRUMP 2020 Election Case - NO PLEA DEALS For TRUMP

Six Nevada Republicans Charged With Casting Fake Electoral Votes in 2020

The Attorney General of Arizona is Also Investigating The Fake Elector Slate There.

Fake Electors in Wisconsin First to Admit Biden Won Election and Face Penalty

--The group of Republicans formally acknowledged the wrongdoing and will be barred from serving as presidential electors again

The Guardian 7 DEC 2023

Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against TRUMP and his top allies for allegedly violating the racketeering statute as part of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Prosecutors are not presently expected to offer plea agreements to TRUMP, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his former election lawyer Rudy Giuliani, but left open the possibility of talks with other co-defendants, the Guardian previously reported.

Six Nevada Republicans Charged With Casting Fake Electoral Votes in 2020

State’s attorney general charged the fake electors with two felonies each, with penalties up to five years in prison

Six Republicans who cast fake electoral votes for Donald Trump in Nevada in 2020 were charged with two felonies each by the state’s attorney general on Wednesday.

Fake Electors in Wisconsin

A group of Republican fake electors in Wisconsin acknowledged Joe Biden won the presidency and agreed they would not serve in the electoral college in 2024 as part of a settlement agreement in a civil lawsuit on Wednesday.

The settlement, first reported by the Washington Post, marks the first time any of the fake electors from 2020 have formally acknowledged wrongdoing in a legal case and have faced any kind of penalty. The case was filed by two Biden electors and a Wisconsin voter last year. They sought up to $2.4m in damages, in addition to permanently barring the fake electors from ever being able to serve as presidential electors again.

No money is involved in the settlement, according to a copy of the agreement that was obtained by the Washington Post. The fake electors agreed to never serve in an election in which Donald Trump is on the ballot.

They also agreed to fully cooperate in any justice department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The lawsuit is continuing against Jim Troupis, a Wisconsin attorney who helped organize the effort there, as well as Ken Chesebro, a lawyer who was the architect of the effort to convene false slates of electors across the country.

The effort to get pro-Trump slates of electors in place if allies were able to stop the certification of the presidential vote has drawn scrutiny from both federal and state prosecutors. The Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel, has criminally charged those who served as fake electors there. Chesebro and some of the Georgia fake electors were also charged as part of the wide-ranging Rico prosecution into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election there.

The attorney general of Nevada is also reportedly investigating the fake elector slate there as is the Arizona attorney general.

Ladybbird · 09-12-23, 17:50

Appeals Court Judges Restoring TRUMP GAG Order Backed Judge Chutkan In Every Important Way

US Appeals Court Upholds Partial Gag Order on TRUMP in 2020 Election FRAUD Case - TRUMP Slams Decision

MSNBC 9 DEC 2023

WASHINGTON, DC: On Friday, 8 December, a US federal appeals court upheld a partial gag order that barred former President Donald Trump from targeting witnesses in his 2020 election interference case.

The Washington DC Circuit Court of Appeals' three-judge panel upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan's order prohibiting Trump from making statements about witnesses in the contentious case, which is due to go to trial on March 4, 2024.

"Trump's public statements pose a significant and imminent threat to the fair and orderly adjudication of the ongoing criminal proceeding," the three-judge panel said in a unanimous ruling.

The appeals judges modified the verdict by allowing Trump to continue his typical scathing assaults on special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution, and whom the former POTUS often refers to on his beleaguered social media platform as a "deranged lunatic", a "thug," and worse.

What Did The Judges Say?

The judges acknowledged the ruling's political sensitivity, saying that Trump is a presidential candidate and that "there is strong public interest in what he has to say."

However, they stated that no criminal defendant should be allowed to tip the balance of justice by interfering with witnesses.

"He must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures governing any other criminal defendant," the judges said and added, "That is what the rule of law means."

Judge Patricia Millet, Bradley Garcia, and Cornelia Millard served on the appeals court panel and it's worth noting that all three of them were appointed by Democratic presidents in the past.

Judge Chutkan's arguments in her order were mainly supported by the judges. However, the appellate panel directed her to rewrite it to allow Trump to reference or even criticize possible witnesses even if he does not directly allude to the case or their potential testimony, per Reuters.

"The interest in protecting witnesses from intimidation and harassment is doubtless compelling, but a broad prohibition on speech that is disconnected from an individual's witness role is not necessary to protect that interest, at least on the current record," Judge Millet noted for the panel.

The judges affirmed Trump's ban on making comments against court staff or their families, which would include attacks on Smith's wife.

They did, however, permit him to mock Smith as he saw fit, as well as other Department of Justice officials and members of President Biden's administration.

Judge Chutkan, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued the order after Trump unleashed on potential witnesses such as ex-Vice President Mike Pence and former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, both of whom have offered some cooperation to special counsel Jack Smith's team.

Prosecutors say the limits are required to maintain the case's integrity and to protect possible witnesses and anyone engaged in the case from harassment and threats prompted by Trump's inflammatory social media posts.

What Did TRUMP Say About The Ruling?

Trump contested the order as an infringement on his First Amendment right to free expression, particularly as he campaigns for US President being the frontrunner amongst the pool of Republican nominees for 2024.

A Trump campaign official stated in response to the judgment, "President Trump will continue to fight for the First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans to hear from the leading presidential candidate at the height of his campaign."

Trump announced on his Truth Social website that he would appeal the Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on Friday, which would then prompt for the case to be heard by the United States Supreme Court.

"What is becoming of our First Amendment, what is becoming of our Country?" Trump asked in a post on his social media site, Truth Social.

The former President of the United States is facing charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and retain his position in power.

Prosecutors allege that this effort culminated in the events leading up to the riot by his supporters on January 6, 2021.

In addition to these charges, Trump is also facing a trial on RICO conspiracy counts in the state of Georgia, along with more than a dozen co-defendants, for some of the same conduct.

Trump has sought to delay the case and other criminal trials because he enjoyed blanket immunity as President.

However, a ruling by Judge Chutkan went against him on this issue.

Trump has since appealed this ruling to the same DC appeals court, and the matter is likely to be decided by the Supreme Court.

It is suspected that SLY TRUMP is hoping to use this legal tactic to delay the case and other criminal trials until after the 2024 election, at which point he hopes to regain power and avoid prosecution.

Ladybbird · 12-12-23, 21:37

Jack Smith Seeking TRUMP Case SCOTUS Fast-Track is High-Speed History

Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to decide whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election.

Daily Mail 12 DEC 2023

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes a flurry of new filings in Special Counsel Jack Smiths’ case against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the U.S. Supreme Courts’ decision to consider whether to fast-track TRUMPs’ appeal on presidential immunity grounds.

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Special Counsel to Disclose TRUMPs’ Phone Data at Election Interference Trial

Filing suggests experts could connect former president’s tweets with the movements of January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol...

The Guardian 12 DEC 2023

Special counsel prosecutors indicated on Monday they will call three expert witnesses at Donald Trump’s trial over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election who could potentially show how January 6 rioters moved on the Capitol in response to the former president’s tweets.

The witnesses, according to a three-page filing, involve two experts on geolocation data to show the crowd’s movement during and after Trump’s speech at the Ellipse, and an expert on cellular phone data to testify about when and how Trump’s phone was being used, including over the same time period.

Expert 3 will testify that they extracted data from official government phones belonging to Trump and one unnamed individual, how the phones were used in the post-2020 election period, including the websites visited, and when Trump’s phone accessed Twitter during January 6.

The fact that the special counsel, Jack Smith, had obtained warrants for Trump’s phone and Trump’s Twitter/X account was disclosed in unsealed court filings. But the description of the anticipated testimony suggested they gathered more granular information than previously known.

The notice of expert testimony in Trump’s federal 2020 election interference case – he is also facing a 2020 interference case in Fulton county, Georgia – also reveals how prosecutors intend to deploy the evidence they amassed during the criminal investigation at trial.

In recent weeks, prosecutors have made it increasingly clear that they want to make the case that Trump sought to obstruct the January 6 congressional certification of the election results with the rioters by tying him to the Capitol attack, as well as through political means.

The notice about the subject of the expert witness testimony suggests prosecutors also intend to make the case that Trump – through his action and inaction – simultaneously advanced the physical obstruction of Congress as the Capitol attack progressed.

Testimony from the first two geolocation experts will help to “aid the jury in understanding the movements of individuals toward the Capitol area during and after the defendant’s speech at the Ellipse”, the filing said.

Still, the filing stopped short of claiming that the experts could definitely say who used the phones at any given moment, probably because Trump often used other people’s phones and had aide Dan Scavino compose tweets for him – something Trumps’ defense lawyers are almost certain to focus on.

Ladybbird · 14-12-23, 03:47

In History Justice Kavanaugh Destroyed TRUMPS Attempt at Immunity Claim- NO 'Pardon' For NIXONS' Attempt 25 Years Ago

Federal Prosecutors Shot Back at TRUMPS Bid to Have His CRIMINAL Charges Thrown Out.

TRUMPS Claim of immunity from prosecution defies American history, special counsel argues

The Guardian 14 DEC 2023

Donald Trumps lawyers contended earlier this month that he can’t be prosecuted for efforts to overturn that election because they related to his official responsibility as president

After Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to take up TRUMPS claims of presidential immunity, MSNBC analyzes a 25-year-old filing from Brett Kavanaugh that shoots down the legal arguments of the president who would go on to appoint him to the Supreme Court.

Justice Department prosecutors asked the Supreme Court Monday to decide if former President Donald Trump can get out of the federal indictment for trying to overturn the 2020 election, asking the court to decide “promptly” whether Trump is immune from the charges against him in order to have the dispute resolved before the 2024 election.

Donald Trumps argument that as a former president he enjoys “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution is sharply refuted by nearly all of American history, special counsel Jack Smith argued Thursday.

Invokes US v. Nixon

The special counsel’s team is pointing to a similar maneuver employed in US v. Nixon, the 1974 Supreme Court case in which the justices rejected then-President Richard Nixon’s claims of presidential privilege in a subpoena fight over Oval Office tapes. In that case, the high court moved quickly to resolve the matter so that one of the Watergate-era cases could proceed swiftly.

“Historically, the Supreme Court has rarely agreed to this kind of gambit – to take up an appeal before a federal court of appeals has had a chance to do so”

“But not only has the court shown far more willingness to expedite appeals since 2019, even before then, this was the exact kind of case in which it would have agreed to move quickly,” Vladeck added.

In their appeal to the Supreme Court, prosecutors with the special counsel wrote that “nothing could be more vital to our democracy” than holding a former president accountable if they break the law.

In a 54-page filing taking on Trump’s sweeping bid to derail the federal criminal case against him over his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 election, Smith’s team cited the prosecution of Aaron Burr, the pardon of Richard Nixon, the civil lawsuit against Bill Clinton and Trump’s own comments on his impeachment trial in 2021 for allegedly inciting an insurrection at the Capitol.

In every instance, prosecutors said, the Constitution and those tasked with upholding it make clear that former presidents can be prosecuted criminally for actions they took while in office.

“The implications of the defendant’s unbounded immunity theory are startling,” prosecutor James Pearce and other lawyers from Smith’s team argued.

“It would grant absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to a president who accepts a bribe in exchange for a lucrative government contract for a family member; a president who instructs his FBI Director to plant incriminating evidence on a political enemy; a president who orders the National Guard to murder his most prominent critics; or a president who sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary.”

The dispute is the first substantive showdown over the legal framework that will define the prosecution of Trump for conspiracies he allegedly led while attempting to subvert the 2020 election.

Trump’s lawyers contended earlier this month that he simply can’t be prosecuted for efforts to overturn that election because they related to his official responsibility as president to safeguard federal elections.

But prosecutors said Trump’s efforts to illegally pressure state and federal officials to subvert a lawful election were fundamentally political in nature and not part of his job. And in any case, prosecutors added, such a sweeping assertion would turn the Constitution on its head — particularly because the founding document envisions the prosecution of former presidents for crimes that may occur while in office.

While Trump is known for wrapping himself in the flag, sometimes literally, Smith’s team painted his legal position as essentially un-American — beginning their brief by rejecting his own comparisons to Washington and Lincoln.

“Throughout American history, there have been federal criminal prosecutions of high-ranking officials from all three branches of the federal government — including the Vice President, members of the Cabinet, Senators, Representatives, and judges — as well as of governors, mayors, sheriffs, and more,” prosecutors wrote.

“Far from chilling public officials in the exercise of their duties, these prosecutions have helped ensure that officials and citizens alike know that ours is a system based on the rule of law, applicable without fear or favor to even the most powerful public officials.”

Well into their brief, Smith’s prosecutors cited one authority the judge overseeing the case, Tanya Chutkan, is undoubtedly familiar with: her 2021 decision rejecting Trump’s bid to shield his presidential papers from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. “Presidents are not kings,” Chutkan famously wrote.

While that was a civil dispute, prosecutors contend the rationale she cited two years ago applies even more strongly to criminal prosecutions.

“The principle that no one is above the law underlies the universal consensus that a president may be subject to criminal prosecution at some point,” the brief says.

Prosecutors also sharply rejected Trumps contention that his acquittal in a 2021 impeachment trial — for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — barred his criminal prosecution on the matter two years later. Notably, they said, Trump took the precise opposite position during that trial, contending that he couldn’t be put on trial by the Senate as a former president because he was now subject to potential criminal prosecution.

Smith’s team also cited the statements of more than 30 Republican senators — including GOP leader Mitch McConnell — who agreed with Trump at the time, rejecting the Senate trial because they viewed the criminal justice system as the proper forum for accountability.

The impeachment charge, prosecutors added, was about inciting the Jan. 6 attack, while his criminal charges allege that he mounted three conspiracies to subvert state and federal election processes for months before the violence at the Capitol.

Trump faces two criminal cases focused on his attempt to remain in office notwithstanding the election results: the federal one brought by a grand jury in Washington in early August and another brought by a state-court grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., a couple of weeks later.

The resolution of the presidential immunity issue in the D.C. case could influence the case in Georgia, particularly if Trump pursues a pretrial appeal and the immunity issue ends up landing quickly before an appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump is also pursuing an aggressive immunity argument in a series of civil lawsuits brought against him by people injured or terrorized during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

A federal judge in Washington rejected his absolute immunity claim in those suits, but Trump has appealed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

DOJ Takes Trump To Supreme Court: Asks Justices If Trump Has Immunity In Criminal Election Case

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Judge Pauses TRUMP Election Interference Case in an Order That Could Delay March Trial

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trumps 2020 election interference case has temporarily paused all procedural deadlines while appeals over a major issue play out – which could lead to his March 2024 trial date being pushed back.

The order from Judge Tanya Chutkan acknowledged that she no longer has jurisdiction over aspects of the criminal case while the DC Circuit Court of Appeals considers whether Trump is immune and can be tried.

In a bid to speed that appeals process, special counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to step in.
Special counsel Jack Smith and former President Donald Trump

Chutkan said in her order that the trial date of March 4, 2024, could be affected, and that she would reconsider that date when the appeals process has concluded.

Chutkan, however, said that the pause does not bar her from enforcing measures she has already imposed to “safeguard the integrity of these proceedings,” including the limited gag order against Trump and his conditions of release.

“(I)f a criminal defendant could bypass those critical safeguards merely by asserting immunity and then appealing its denial, then during the appeal’s pendency, the defendant could irreparably harm any future proceedings and their participants,” she wrote.

Earlier this week, Smith asked the US Supreme Court to take the rare step of skipping over the federal appeals court to quickly decide fundamental issues to the Trump case – whether the former president has immunity from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, and whether Trump is protected by double jeopardy because he was acquitted by the Senate during his impeachment trial.

Prosecutors simultaneously asked the DC Circuit to expedite its review of the immunity matter, so that the case can be quickly appealed to the high court under the regular appeals process if the justices don’t agree to immediately hear the case.

Defense attorneys have pushed back against an expedited appeals process, saying that prosecutors are trying to disrupt their holiday travel plans and to “disenfranchise” voters in 2024.

Ladybbird · 21-12-23, 06:22

Conservative Judge Delivers Major Setback to Key TRUMP Ally

CNN News 21 DEC 2023

Judge Rejects Mark Meadows’ Attempt to Move Election FRAUD Case to FED Court

A federal appeals court rejected Mark Meadows’ effort to move his Georgia election interference case to federal court.

Ladybbird · 22-12-23, 09:33

Caught: TRUMP Pressuring 2020 MI Election Officials in Newly Revealed Audio

TRUMP was captured on audio telling Michigan election workers they'd look 'terrible' if they certified the election, new report says

MSNBC 22 DEC 2023

Craig Mauger, state politics reporter for The Detroit News, says he's heard newly revealed audio recordings of Trump pressuring Michigan officials not to certify Bidens' 2020 win in that state.

The audio showed Trump and Ronna McDaniel telling the election workers they'd help them get lawyers.

A Trump spokesperson said he was doing his duty as president to "ensure election integrity."

Former President Donald Trump pressured election workers in Michigan not to sign papers certifying the election results, according to audio obtained by The Detroit News.

The phone call, which took place on November 17, 2020, included Trump, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann.

Wayne County, which includes the city of Detroit, is the largest in Michigan, a swing state Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump told the canvassers they would look "terrible" if they signed the papers to certify the election after having previously voted against certification, according to The Detroit News.

"We've got to fight for our country," Trump said, according to The Detroit News. "We can't let these people take our country away from us."

McDaniel told the pair not to sign the document and said, "We will get you attorneys," the outlet reported.

"We'll take care of that," Trump added.

Trump's office and the RNC did not immediately respond to Business Insider's requests for comment.

Palmer told The Detroit News that she and Hartmann had taken the call but she could not recall what was said. Hartmann died in 2021.

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Detroit News Trump's behavior was "taken in furtherance of his duty as president of the United States to faithfully take care of the laws and ensure election integrity, including investigating the rigged and stolen 2020 presidential election."

"What I said publicly and repeatedly at the time, as referenced in my letter on Nov. 21, 2020, is that there was ample evidence that warranted an audit," McDaniel said in a statement to The Detroit News, referencing a letter she wrote to the Board of State Canvassers requesting an audit of the election in Michigan.

Palmer and Hartmann had initially voted against certifying the election, but they then voted in favor of it later during the same meeting, The Detroit News reported. They ended up not signing the certification statement and the next day tried to take back their vote in favor of certification.

The Michigan Bureau of Elections determined Palmer and Hartmann's signatures were not needed to advance the election certification, Jonathan Kinloch, a Democrat on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, told the outlet.

The call was reminiscent of Trump's infamous call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the president pressured him to "find" an additional 11,780 votes, or one more than what Biden had beaten him by in the state.

"The people of Georgia are angry — the people in the country are angry," Trump said on the call. "And there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you've recalculated."

Trump defended his call with Raffensperger, calling it "perfect" and saying he "didn't say anything wrong in the call."

The call helped fuel Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's criminal investigation into the efforts to overturn the election.

The investigation ultimately resulted in Trump and 18 co-defendants being charged with racketeering for an alleged plot to subvert the 2020 election.

History Has Bad News For TRUMP and His Hope For Supreme Court Salvation...as;

Jack Smith keeps heat on Supreme Court to deal with TRUMP issues quickly

Ladybbird · 23-12-23, 11:48

Supreme Court Won't Immediately Settle TRUMP Immunity Claim

The Supreme Court Helped TRUMPS’ Delay Strategy.

Ex-presidents' trial on election subversion charges faces long delay after special prosecutors' request turned down

The Guardian 23 DEC 2023

TRUMP won a significant legal victory after the Supreme Court turned down a request from special prosecutor Jack Smith to expedite his claim for immunity.

The decision means that TRUMPS’ trial on four election subversion charges, which was due to start on March 4, is likely to be delayed for several months.

As a result of the ruling, TRUMPS’ attempt to have the case dismissed on the grounds of presidential immunity will have to work its way through the appeal courts.

He seized on the ruling to send out another fundraising appeal....AS USUAL...

“I will still have to fight for my rights in the Appeals Court – as the Biden Special Counsel will do everything in their power to rush my fake trial and wrongly convict me before the 2024 election.”

The former president, who faces a barrage of litigation, has sought to delay the cases until after the election in the hope that he will be able to order the Justice Department to dismiss the charges if he returns to the White House.

Mr Smith sought to head off the delay, at least in the Jan 6 trial, by asking the Supreme Court to fast-track a hearing on immunity cTRUMPS’laim, enabling the case to start as scheduled in March.

He urged the justices to bypass the appeals court system to protect the original trial timetable.

‘An Extraordinary Case’

Mr Smith wrote;
“This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin,”

“The United States recognises that this is an extraordinary request,” he added. “This is an extraordinary case.”

Tanya Chutkan, who is hearing the subversion case, rejected TRUMPS’ claims of absolute immunity because the actions took place while he was still in office.

However, Judge Chutkan also put the case on hold until higher courts had ruled on the former presidents’ immunity claims.

TRUMPS’lawyers argued that Mr Smiths’ attempt to fast-track the immunity hearing was politically motivated.

Ladybbird · 25-12-23, 09:13

As Supreme Court Elects to Wait, TRUMP Takes Immunity Claim to D.C. Circuit

TRUMP asks appeals court to toss federal election interference case. He argued that he has broad immunity protecting him from prosecution.

Lawyer Claims TRUMP Quoted Hitlers’ Comments Word For Word

MSNBC 25 DEC 2023

TRUMPS' legal team has filed a brief asking a federal appeals court to toss the D.C. election subversion case against him, claiming his actions as president are immune from prosecution.

Donald Trump on Saturday demanded that the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals toss the federal election interference case against him, arguing again that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution.

“The structure of our government, the text of the Constitution and its early commentators, common-law immunity doctrines, our political history, the Supreme Court’s analogous immunity doctrines, and the policy considerations rooted in the separation of powers all dictate that no President, current or former, may be criminally prosecuted for his official acts unless he is first impeached and convicted by the Senate,” Trump lawyers wrote in a brief to the D.C. Circuit.

“Nor may a President face criminal prosecution based on conduct for which he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate,” he added. “The indictment against President Trump is unlawful and unconstitutional. It must be dismissed.”

Top Attorney Sounds The Alarm Over Massive Republican THREAT of Rigourous Purges to Control Voting
----Marc Elias warns of Republican efforts to undermine the voter rolls in states across the country.

Lawyer Claims TRUMP Quoted Hitlers’ Comments Word For Word

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After installing loyalist John Ratcliffe at the pinnacle of the intelligence community, the administration is seeking to limit congressional oversight, and has removed a veteran official from a sensitive national security role in the justice department One former senior intelligence officer has suggested Donald Trump is seeking to create the very thing he was repeatedly complained about: a “deep state”. Another official has compared it to the intelligence fiasco that preceded the 2003 Iraq invasion. The intense focus of the current struggle is the covert Russian role in the election campaign. The intelligence community has assessed that Moscow is taking an active role, as it did in 2016, to damage Joe Biden and boost Trump, largely through spreading disinformation. But administration officials have sought to stop public discussion of such interference. ABC News reported this week that an aide to the homeland security secretary, Chad Wolf, blocked a bulletin in July warning about Russian efforts to create doubts about Joe Biden’s mental health. John Ratcliffe has halted in-person security briefings, preventing any chance of cross-examination. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AFP/Getty Images Ratcliffe, the new director of national intelligence (DNI), informed Congress at the end of last week that his office would no longer provide in-person briefings on election security, but would instead deliver written reports that could not be subjected to cross-examination by sceptical legislators. He justified his action by accusing Congress of leaking classified material but did not explain why the same risk did not apply to written reports. John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, said the fears of leaks should not outweigh the need for transparency. “Frankly, having briefed the Congress many times, it’s possible to talk about sensitive things without giving away sources and methods,” McLaughlin told the Guardian. “In my view the American voter needs to know as much about this as can be revealed. They need to know if someone is attempting to influence their vote or manipulate them.” Ratcliffe’s predecessor as acting DNI, Richard Grenell, another highly partisan figure, had sought to consolidate responsibility for election security under that office, taking the highly charged issue out of the hands of career intelligence professionals. And on Monday it emerged that the attorney general, William Barr, had abruptly removed a veteran official running the law and policy office in the justice department’s national security division. The official, Brad Wiegmann, was a widely respected career professional, part of whose job was to advise on public disclosure of evidence of election interference. He was replaced by a much younger prosecutor, Kellen Dwyer, a conservative cyber-security specialist with very limited national security experience. Katrina Mulligan, a former national security official who helped draft the policy by which the law and policy office could raise the alarm on meddling, said: “It remains the only avenue the [justice department] has to disclose foreign interference in the absence of criminal charges. “As you can imagine, when it comes to foreign interference we may have things going on that the public should know, and we don’t want to wait to have all our ducks in a row for an indictment, before we disclose that to the public,” Mulligan argued. Is China Really The Biggest Meddler? As more voices on the issue have been muted, senior Trump officials have been putting out a different message on election interference – that it is China, not Russia, that is the biggest meddler. “It simply isn’t true that somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China,” Ratcliffe told Fox News. “China is the greatest threat that we face.” On Wednesday evening, Barr echoed the claim. “I believe it’s China,” he told CNN, “because I’ve seen the intelligence, that’s what I’ve concluded.” What we are seeing is, in some respects, worse than the intelligence failures surrounding weapons of mass destruction-Susan Hennessey, former National Security Agency attorney He would not say who China was backing, but he did not need to. In early August, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, issued a statement in which he said Russia and China were backing different sides in the election. “Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former vice-president Biden,” Evanina said, adding: “We assess that China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win re-election.” He gave details of concrete actions that Moscow was taking to damage Biden but was much more vague about Beijing, saying it was “expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment” to “deflect and counter criticism of China”. Democrats and intelligence professionals have complained a false equivalence is being made between the two threats when it comes to direct election interference. “The documentary evidence on Russia is massive and the documentary evidence – in public at least – on China is minuscule,” McLaughlin said. US attorney general William Barr has echoed claims that China is a greater threat than Russia. John Sipher, a CIA veteran who once ran the agency’s Russia operations, argued in a New York Times commentary on Tuesday that the pattern of the Trump administration’s actions “smacks of the very thing that Mr Trump has used to stoke outrage in his followers – the formation of a politicised national security apparatus that can serve as a personal weapon for the president. A ‘deep state’.” David Rohde, journalist and author of a book published in April on the issue – In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” – agreed with Sipher’s assessment. “If a ‘deep state’ is a group of officials who secretly wield government power with little accountability or transparency, Trump and his loyalists increasingly fit that definition,” Rohde said. “Under the guise of stopping a ‘coup’ that does not exist, Trump is politicising the intelligence community and the justice department and using them to boost his re-election effort.” The battle over intelligence is set to intensify as the election approaches. Barr has picked a prosecutor, John Durham, to investigate the FBI and special counsellor investigators who looked into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The attorney general has said he would not observe normal protocol and wait until after the election to publish Durham’s findings, or at least a version of those findings, with the likely aim of creating the impression that Trump was the victim of a conspiracy to undermine his presidency. “The Durham investigation presents the opportunity for bad actors to make a lot of mischief, but the lack of clarity makes it difficult for observers to criticise,” said Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency attorney. She added that the Trump tactics in manipulating US intelligence represented a historic threat, potentially overshadowing the fiasco that led to the 2003 Iraq invasion. “What we are seeing now is, in some respects, even worse than the intelligence failures surrounding weapons of mass destruction,” said Hennessey, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and executive editor of the Lawfare blog. “Iraq was obviously immensely consequential and illustrates why it is imperative to guard against even subtle political influence in intelligence reporting. But the politicisation here is brazen and explicitly partisan in nature. “It’s all these little things and so it’s often hard to pin down the precise place where the line has been crossed,” she added. “Lots of lines have been crossed. At this point, the cumulative picture of where we are at is not that there is a risk of politicisation of intelligence, but that we’ve already crossed the Rubicon.” __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

05-09-20, 15:03	#103
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election 'He is a Coward': Trump Condemned For Reportedly Calling US War Dead ‘Suckers’ Trump claims accusations, confirmed by two former DHS officials, are ‘totally false’ as Biden criticizes president FOX News' report says Trump refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, saying it was a place "filled with losers" and that he didn't want his hair to be ruined by rain. In addition, the report said Trump asked staff planning for a military parade to keep wounded veterans away. Khizr Khan: 'Trump may damage American democracy permanently' - a Gold Star father whose son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq When my son volunteered and joined the United States military and went to Iraq for a year … he was not a sucker -Joe Biden “I take my wheelchair, and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day” - Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs in combat in Iraq, The Guardian UK, 5 SEP 2020. The US president referred to fallen soldiers as “suckers” and “losers”. Current and former members of the military, elected officials and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacted with outrage and sadness on Friday, as ex-Trump administration officials confirmed key details of a bombshell report in which the US president referred to fallen soldiers as “suckers” and “losers”. The Atlantic magazine published a story on Thursday in which four sources close to Donald Trump said he cancelled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were “losers” and “suckers” and did not want the rain to mess up his hair. Elizabeth Neumann, a former assistant secretary of counter-terrorism in the Department of Homeland Security, and Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff in that department, said the account was true, asserting that Trump’s low opinion of soldiers killed and wounded in combat was well known inside the administration. The White House moved to deny the report unusually quickly and forcefully. Trump himself dismissed it as a politically motivated “hoax” and claimed 11 current and former officials supported his account. “There is nobody feels more strongly about our soldiers, our wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war than I do,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday. “It’s a hoax. Just like the fake dossier was a hoax, just like the Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax. It was a total hoax: no collusion. Just like so many other things, it’s a hoax. And you’ll hear more of these things, totally unrelated, as we get closer and closer to election.” Asked why John Kelly, a retired marine corps general and Trump’s former chief of staff, was not among those defending him, the president added: “He was with me, didn’t do a good job, had no temperament and ultimately he was petered out, he was exhausted. This man was totally exhausted. He wasn’t even able to function in the last number of months. He was not able to function.” The Atlantic’s source, he speculated, “could have been a guy like a John Kelly”. Trump tweeted that he would not defund the Stars and Stripes newspaper, which serves US servicemen and women worldwide, after a Pentagon memo ordering its closure was reported by USA Today, causing huge controversy. When my son volunteered and joined the United States military and went to Iraq for a year … he was not a sucker -Joe Biden The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, also defended Trump, but the denials were met with widespread skepticism because of his past remarks about military veterans. And in an unusual intervention, the first lady, Melania Trump, also weighed in, tweeting that the Atlantic story “was not true”. “It has become a very dangerous time when anonymous sources are believed above all else, & no one knows their motivation,” she wrote. A visibly angry Biden called the alleged comments “disgusting” and said Trump was “not fit to be commander-in-chief”. “When my son volunteered and joined the United States military – and went to Iraq for a year, won the Bronze Star and other commendations, he was not a sucker,” Biden said, his voice rising, in remarks in Wilmington, Delaware. His son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, deployed to Iraq in 2008. “If these statements are true, the president should humbly apologize to every Gold Star mother and father and every Blue Star family,” Biden said. “Who the heck does he think he is? “I’m always cautioned not to lose my temper,” Biden said. “This may be as close as I come in this campaign. It’s just a marker of how deeply the president and I disagree on the role of the president of the United States of America.” Veteran Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who saved the lives of 155 people in 2009 when he guided his stricken plane onto the Hudson river, said: “For the first time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter and vulgar contempt and disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country.” “While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the Oval Office. He has repeatedly and consistently shown himself to be completely unfit for and to have no respect for the office he holds.” On a press call hosted by Biden’s campaign, the Democratic Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs in combat in Iraq, accused Trump of attempting to “politicize and pervert our military to stroke his own ego”. “This is a man who spends every day redefining the concept of narcissism; a man who’s led a life of privilege, with everything handed to him on a silver platter,” she said. “Of course, he thinks about war selfishly. He thinks of it as a transactional cost, instead of in human lives and American blood spilled, because that’s how he’s viewed his whole life. He doesn’t understand other people’s bravery and courage, because he’s never had any of his own. “I take my wheelchair, and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day,” she added, referring to one reason Trump received draft deferments during the Vietnam war. The call also included the congressman Conor Lamb, a marine veteran, and Khizr Khan, a Gold Star father whose son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004 and who was himself famously attacked by Trump during the 2016 campaign. Khan said Trump was “incapable – let me repeat it again – he is incapable of understanding service, valor and courage”. “His soul cannot conceive of integrity and honor. His soul is that of a coward.” In an interview with the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Mike Pompeo defended the president’s support of the military. “I’ve never heard that,” the secretary of state said of Trump allegedly calling the war dead “suckers”. “Indeed, just the opposite. I’ve been around him in lots of settings where there were both active-duty military, guardsmen, reservists, veterans. This is a man who had the deepest respect for their service, and he always, he always interacted with them in that way. He enjoys those times. He values those people.” The Biden campaign released a video quoting the president, based on the Atlantic story and later corroborating reports by the Washington Post and the Associated Press. Other media outlets, Fox News among them, also corroborated the Atlantic story. With the tagline “If you don’t respect our troops, you cannot lead them,” the Biden campaign video displayed the alleged Trump quotes over images of military cemeteries. At Friday’s briefing, Trump was asked about his past mockery of the late senator John McCain, who served in the military and was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. “I say what I say,” he told reporters. “I disagreed with John McCain on a lot of things. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect him. I respected him but I really disagreed with him on a lot of things and I think I was right. I think time has proven me right to a large extent.” __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

05-09-20, 19:45	#104
Tarfoot Honoured Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: US Posts: 1,914 Thanks: 547 Thanked 1,107 Times in 992 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election Democratic BS, that all it is......They're running scared. __________________ I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4

05-09-20, 22:14	#105
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election Margaret Atwood on The US Election, Trump and The Testaments BBC Newsnight •5 Sep 2020 Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, discusses her work, with BBC Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark, on the upcoming US election and how Covid19 has changed us __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

06-09-20, 00:47	#106
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election Trump Facing Backlash Over CONFIRMED Allegations He Described America's War Dead as Losers __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

06-09-20, 14:56	#107
Tarfoot Honoured Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: US Posts: 1,914 Thanks: 547 Thanked 1,107 Times in 992 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election Even John Bolton who dislikes Trump to no end denies Trump ever said such a thing. __________________ I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4

06-09-20, 17:17	#108
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election Donald Trump Rips Into Steve Jobs' Widow For Wasting Money He Left Her on a 'Failing Radical Left Magazine' by Co-Owning The Atlantic -Which Ran Bombshell Report Claiming He Called Dead Troops 'Suckers' Donald Trump went after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, in an early Sunday tweet 'Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine,' Trump wrote The president was angry because Jobs owns a stake in The Atlantic, which ran a story saying Trump called U.S. servicemembers 'losers' and 'suckers' Jobs also donated money to Trump's political rival, former Democratic vice president, Joe Biden Daily Mail UK, 6 SEP 2020 Donald Trump went after the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, as she owns a stake in The Atlantic magazine, which ran the story that said the president had called U.S. war soldiers and war dead 'losers' and 'suckers.' 'Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,' Trump tweeted early Sunday morning. 'Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!' Trump had shared a tweet from Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, a youth conservative activist, that claimed Jobs had donated 'at least $500,000 to Joe Biden's campaign this year.' Trump continued to be outraged over The Atlantic's reporting that he disparaged American troops and war dead. On Sunday morning Trump went after Steve Jobs' widow over her financial stake in the magazine President Donald Trump sent an outraged tweet Sunday morning aimed at Laurene Powell Jobs, who owns a stake in The Atlantic, suggesting that her late husband would be disappointed she was 'wasting money he left her' on a 'Radical Left Magazine' Laurene Powell Jobs photographed at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C. in September 2019 Laurene Powell Jobs (right) with her late husband Steve Jobs (left), the co-founder of Apple, at the Academy Awards in 2010 Recode reported in July that Jobs was among the Silicon Valley mega-donors who were giving the max donation, or close to it, of $620,600 to Biden's campaign. Earlier in the cycle she gave money to some of Biden's competitors, including Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang. A 70 per cent stake of The Atlantic was purchased by Jobs' Emerson Collective in 2017, according to Politico. Trump has been infuriated over Jeffrey Goldberg's story about him in The Atlantic, first addressing its contents Thursday night after returning to Joint Base Andrews from his Latrobe, Pennsylvania rally. He's continued to tweet about it through the weekend. Trump's attack comes after he spent lashed out at another woman in media - Fox News Channel's Jennifer Griffin, who used her own unnamed sources to back up chunks of the Atlantic's reporting. Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting. Never even called us for comment. @FoxNews is gone!' Trump tweeted late Friday. After Goldberg first reported anecdotes about Trump disparaging war dead and wounded veterans and not wanting to go to a military cemetery during a trip to France, Griffin matched must of his reporting. She confirmed that the president' did not want to drive to honor American war dead' at the Aisne-Marnce cemetery. Weather was the president's original excuse for not making the trek. An official also told Griffin that Trump used the word 'suckers' to describe those for fought in Vietnam. 'When the President spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, 'It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker,' Griffin was told by an unnamed official. 'It was a character flaw of the President. He could not understand why someone would die for their country, not worth it' __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

09-09-20, 13:03	#109
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election TRUMP Demanded He Should Stay at Buckingham Palace for State Visit When Barack Obama, Mr Trump’s predecessor, visited the UK with wife Michelle in 2003 they got a bed in Buckingham Palace so Trump expected the same, according to sources Daily Mirror UK, 9 SEP 2020. Donald Trump demanded to stay at Buckingham Palace when he visited the UK in 2019, it's claimed. The US President made the request but was told the royal household in London was under extensive renovations, according to reports. Trump was first invited for a formal state visit by the Queen in January 2017, but only in the summer of 2019 the trip started being organised. White House aides told Downing Street that it was "critically important" that Mr Trump was allowed to stay overnight in Buckingham Palace, The Telegraph says. When Barack Obama, Mr Trump’s predecessor, visited the UK with wife Michelle they got a bed in Buckingham Palace so Trump expected the same, sources told the paper. “It was very, very clear Trump loved the Queen," they said. "He wanted to spend as much time as possible with the Queen and to stay at Buckingham Palace,” said one UK official at the centre of the state visit planning. “We went to the point of saying to the Palace ‘can you tell us which rooms are undergoing refurbishment’. It was properly looked into. The last thing we wanted was a snub story coming out. But it couldn’t work.” Elizabeth II and Trump at Buckingham Palace last summer (Image: AFP/Getty Images) The President instead stayed in Winfield House, the US ambassador's residence in Regent's Park, during his state visit. But there will still concerns "Regent's Park Mosque would wake him up in the morning", one White House adviser told The Telegraph. During the state visit, Trump met Queen Elizabeth II at an event at Buckingham Palace, as well as other members of the British royal family, including Kate Middleton. The State Banquet with President Donald Trump at Buckingham Palace in London (Image: REUTERS) Mr Trump and First Lady Melania had to cut short their earlier function with Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Clarence House to dash to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace. While the US president was visiting the UK, protests took place in London bearing signs that read “Trump hands off our NHS” and “cut war not health care”. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

11-09-20, 06:29	#110
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: STONE to TRUMP >Bring in MARTIAL LAW If You Lose Election Woodward Tells How Allies Tried to Rein in Childish Trump's Foreign Policy Senator Lindsey Graham, who had emerged as one of his closest advisers, urged him not to take such a “giant step”, that could trigger “almost total war”. On the golf course, Lindsey Graham urged restraint on Iran, while James Mattis slept in his clothes in case of emergency The Guardian UK, 11 SEP 2020. Four days before ordering a drone strike against the Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani, Donald Trump was debating the assassination on his own Florida golf course, according to Bob Woodward’s new book on the mercurial president. Trump’s golfing partner that day was Senator Lindsey Graham, who had emerged as one of his closest advisers, and who urged him not to take such a “giant step”, that could trigger “almost total war”. Graham warned Trump he would be raising the stakes from “playing $10 blackjack to $10,000-a-hand blackjack”. “This is over the top,” the senator said. “How about hitting someone a level below Suleimani, which would be much easier for everyone to absorb?” Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Mick Mulvaney, also begged Graham to help change Trump’s mind. Trump would not be persuaded, pointing to Iranian-orchestrated attacks on US soldiers in Iraq, which he said were masterminded by the Iranian general, the leader of the elite Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Suleimani was killed in Baghdad on 3 January, triggering a retaliatory Iranian missile strike against a US base in Iraq, but so far not the large-scale conflict Graham and others warned the president about. The golf course exchange is described in a forthcoming book, Rage, a second volume on the Trump presidency by Woodward, a veteran investigative reporter famous for covering the Watergate affair and the consequent fall of an earlier scandal-ridden president, Richard Nixon. Woodward interviewed Trump 18 times for the book and spoke extensively to Graham, as well as many presidential aides. The portrait that emerges is familiar by now: a volatile president, easily swayed by authoritarian leaders and capable of swinging dramatically from fiery bellicosity to fawning over America’s most ardent adversaries. Nowhere was that whiplash more violent than in policy towards North Korea. The book chronicles the period between July and November 2017 when Pyongyang tested a succession of long-range missiles capable of hitting the US mainland and carried out its sixth underground nuclear test. Conscious that the next missile could be heading towards the US, and that decisions would have to be taken in minutes that could put the country on the path to nuclear war, the then defence secretary, James Mattis, took to sleeping in his gym clothes and having a flashing light and bell installed in his bathroom in case a missile alert happened when he was in the shower. He also spent more time praying in the National Cathedral in Washington and preparing himself for the worst. In the US command system, the president has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, but Mattis believed he would be asked for his recommendations. “What do you do if you’ve got to do it?” Mattis asked Woodward. “You’re going to incinerate a couple million people. No person has the right to kill a million people, as far as I’m concerned. Yet that’s what I have to confront.” Mattis’s fears were aggravated by Trump’s furious tweets threatening destruction and “fire and fury” against North Korea. Mattis said the tweets were “unproductive, childish and dangerous” and pleaded with Trump to stop. “I got over enjoying public humiliation by second grade,” he told the president, to no avail. A conflagration was ultimately averted and by early 2018, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, declared that the goal of developing a nuclear arsenal had been achieved and he would therefore pivot towards focusing on the economy. Trump also switched direction and made peace overtures to Kim Jong-un, which led to a string of spectacular but ultimately ineffective summits and a remarkable flurry of 27 warm – sometimes breathlessly affectionate – letters between the two leaders, which Woodward has published for the first time. In December 2018, Kim recalled their first summit 200 days earlier in Singapore. “Even now I cannot forget that moment of history when I firmly held Your Excellency’s hand at that beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched,” the North Korean leader wrote. Woodward noted that Trump was thrilled by the use of the title “Excellency”. The US president described the missives as “love letters” and told Kim they had “a unique style and a special friendship”. After the scare of 2017, the president insisted the flattery was essential for avoiding disaster. “You can’t mock Kim,” he warned Woodward. “I don’t want to get in a ***ing nuclear war because you mocked him.” Donald Trump described his correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as ‘love letters’. US intelligence never worked out who had crafted Kim’s purple English prose, but Woodward wrote: “The analysts marveled at the skill someone brought to finding the exact mixture of flattery while appealing to Trump’s sense of grandiosity and being center stage in history.” The manipulation of Trump by foreign potentates is a recurring theme of the book. Despite the fact that the special counsel’s Russia investigation found no proof of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, the US director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, became convinced that Vladimir Putin “had something on Trump”. “How else to explain the president’s behavior? Coats could see no other explanation,” Woodward wrote after interviewing the former spy chief. “He was sure that Trump had chosen to play on the dark side – the moneyed interests in the New York real estate culture, and international finance with its corrupt anything-to-make-a-buck deal making.” Trump freely admits his affinity for foreign strongmen to Woodward. “It’s funny the relationships I have,” he told the reporter. “The tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them … Explain that to me someday.” Another example is the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, implicated by US intelligence in the murder and dismemberment of a US-based Saudi dissident and writer, Jamal Khashoggi, in October 2018. Trump refused to put his own intelligence chiefs’ assessment and congressional outrage over the prince’s protestations of innocence. “I saved his ass,” Trump is reported as saying. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.” Woodward repeatedly asked Trump whether he believed in Prince Mohammed’s innocence. The president replied only that “he says very strongly that he didn’t do it” and, when pressed further, diverted the conversation to US arms sales to Saudi Arabia. In another extraordinary scene, the former secretary of state Rex Tillerson describes joining a meeting between Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in May 2017 in Jerusalem, in which the Israeli leader showed the US president a videotape supposedly showing the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, inciting violence against Jews. Tillerson believed the tape had been faked or manipulated, splicing together words and sentences out of context, but Trump - who had previously been distrustful of Netanyahu - was totally convinced. The next day in Bethlehem, Trump hurled abuse at Abbas, calling him a liar and a murderer, and he severed diplomatic relations and financial support for the Palestinians soon after. Tillerson came to the conclusion that “Netanyahu had manufactured the tape to counter any pro-Palestinian sentiments that were surfacing”. The president also expressed pride in his relationship with Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who in October 2019 persuaded Trump to announce a troop withdrawal from north-eastern Syria, abandoning America’s Kurdish allies, who had taken the lead in the fight against Isis. The decision was the last straw for an outraged Mattis. “When I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world, and everything else. That’s when I quit,” the former defence secretary said. Mattis predicted Trump’s impact on the country would be lasting. “This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements,” he said.* Coats, the former intelligence director, fired in July 2019 while he was playing golf on one of Trump’s courses, came to a similar conclusion. “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks,” Coats said. “He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.” __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

07-11-20, 14:45	#111
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMPS' Lawyer:Ex Security Chief Must Be Taken Out & Shot Donald Trumps' Stolen Election Outbursts Fuelled by Fear He Could Go to Prison EXCLUSIVE: Trump will suddenly be vulnerable to a string of legal actions - both criminal and civil once he loses the protections of the presidency Daily Mirror UK, 7 NOV 2020 Donald Trump will suddenly be vulnerable to a barrage of legal actions – both criminal and civil – if he loses the presidency. Until now Trump has used “executive privilege” to prevent people from testifying against him but that changes if he loses to Joe Biden, as now seems likely. The Trump Organisation is already at the centre of a criminal probe. Trump also faces a case over his taxes. White House insiders have claimed to the Mirror his outbursts that the election has been “stolen” from him are in part fuelled by his fear of going to prison. Harry Sandick, a former US federal prosecutor, says: “In every regard, his leaving office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against him. “For example, he is claiming a higher protection from subpoenas in the criminal cases and also in the congressional subpoena cases, [and that] is based largely on the fact that he is President.” In September last year, the President’s legal team made an attempt to defeat a subpoena from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which had petitioned for eight years of tax returns. Lawyers for New York State are trying to determine whether the Trump Organisation falsified company records concerning payouts allegedly made to Playboy model Karen McDougal and pornographic film star Stormy Daniels. As well as the Manhattan DA’s probe into the Trump Organisation, the reality television star would be open to defamation lawsuits sparked by his denials of accusations from dozens of women that he sexually assaulted them. They include writer E Jean Carroll, who has accused the former US Apprentice host of raping her in a changing room at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Asked about her claims, Trump simply said: “She’s not my type.” Another defamation lawsuit waiting to be heard is by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos. Shortly before the 2016 election, she accused the then-candidate of “aggressively” kissing, groping and rubbing his genitals against her in 2007. Trump called her allegations “fiction”. But Trump’s most serious and immediate danger by far is from the criminal probe into the Trump Organisation. The allegations cover the time the US leader was in charge, before handing over two his son Don Jr and Eric when he was made President. Prosecutors have subpoenaed for documents detailing business transactions and tax records, which Trump has bitterly fought against. On five occasions courts have said the information requests are valid. On top of the criminal probe, the New York Attorney General is pressing ahead with a civil law investigation into the Trump Organisation. They are looking into whether the firm falsely valued several assets, inflating or lowering them as needed to secure either loans or tax breaks. Several of Trump’s golf courses, hotels and tower blocks are said to be at the centre of the investigation. The Internal Revenue Service – the US’s HMRC – is circling too. According to the New York Times, tax investigators are probing a £55.5million refund he claimed. The state attorneys general of Maryland and Washington DC sued the President three years ago, claiming he corruptly benefited from the presidency by putting the interests of American citizens below his own, earning millions of dollars. In many civil litigations, Trump has sought to avoid giving evidence, or in Carroll’s alleged rape case refused to provide a DNA sample. On Thursday the US Office of Special Counsel opened a probe into whether the Trump campaign’s use of the White House violated federal law. Representative Bill Pascrell called on the watchdog to conduct an investigation, to which the agency responded that it “was not consulted on the decision to use space inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as a campaign war room”. The Hatch Act prohibits the use of federal property for campaign events. But the Republican Party hosted its election convention and many other events at the White House. But it’s not just law enforcement agencies taking action against Trump – the President’s niece Mary Trump is suing Donald, his sister and the estate of their deceased brother. She alleges fraud, saying they deprived her of her entitlements in the family property empire. Some legal experts have predicted that if he loses, Trump will use his final days in office before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 to pardon himself of any and all federal crimes. If he did, the decision of whether to reopen those cases would fall to the new Biden administration. Trump may also be damned by former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony to Congress in 2016 that a President could be charged “with a crime after he left office”. . __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

10-11-20, 02:59	#112
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMPS' Lawyer:Ex Security Chief Must Be Taken Out & Shot Mark Esper Fired as Pentagon Chief After Contradicting Trump. Trump Fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper by Tweet Defence secretary resisted deployment of active-duty troops-Esper was criticised for joining Trump at controversial photo op Barr Tells Prosecutors to Pursue 'Clear' Fraud Claims, Without Evidence Ivanka Trump Will Lose White House Status and Job The Guardian UK, 10 NOV 2020. Mark Esper's Firing May Be the Beginning of Donald Trump's Post-Election Reckoning The post-election period got off to a raucous start Monday when President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper by tweet, a decision that tossed Pentagon leadership into tumult with just 72 days before transitioning to a new administration. Donald Trump has fired his defence secretary, Mark Esper, in the latest sign that the transition to a new Biden administration in January is going to be turbulent on both domestic and foreign fronts. Esper was fired by tweet on Monday afternoon, with the president declaring he was “pleased to announce that Christopher C Miller, the highly respected director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be acting secretary of defense, effective immediately. “Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated. Esper had been at odds with Trump on a number of issues, most importantly his insistence at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer that there were no legal grounds to deploy active-service troops on the streets of US cities. He was also working with Congress on legislation to rename US army bases named after Confederate generals. In a final interview Esper predicted that he would be followed by a “yes man”, adding “And then God help us.” In a coolly worded final letter to the president, Esper wrote: “I serve the country in deference to the Constitution, so I accept your decision to replace me.” He left the Pentagon quietly on Monday without the “clap-out” from staff traditionally accorded to a departing secretary. Miller arrived at the Pentagon on Monday amid questions about the legality of his appointment. By law, the deputy secretary of defence, currently David Norquist, would become acting secretary in the event of a sudden departure at the top. Furthermore, the law requires that a secretary of defence to have been out of active duty military service for seven years. Miller, a former Green Beret, only left the military in 2014. The law can be sidestepped by a vote in Congress, as was done for Esper’s predecessor James Mattis, a retired marine. Barr Tells Prosecutors to Pursue Claims of Irregularities Despite Lack of Evidence William Barr, rhe US attorney general, has told prosecutors across the country to pursue “clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities” in the voting system, despite a lack of evidence that such fraud is occurring. In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Barr – who has not shied away from violating norms in his efforts to prop up Donald Trump – told attorneys that investigations “may be conducted if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State”, the AP reports. States have another month to resolve election disputes before members of the electoral college finalize the outcome on 14 December. Ivanka Trump Will Lose White House Status and Job – What Will She Do Next? Ivanka Trump isn’t just losing her status as first daughter with her father Donald Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden – she’s also losing her job. In her father’s White House, Ivanka Trump works as “advisor to the president”, purportedly focusing on “the education and economic empowerment of women and their families as well as job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training and entrepreneurship”. Before that, she “oversaw development and acquisitions” for her father’s real estate company, the Trump Organization, and had a fashion clothing line. She also appeared as a boardroom judge on Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice. But her role in the White House, and the fact that virtually her entire professional history is tied to her father, raise the question: What will she wind up doing? While Ivanka could probably return to the Trump Organization, it may not be the most stable workplace when her father leaves office. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is seeking Trump’s tax returns in a “complex financial investigation”, previously citing public reports on “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization” in their request. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

01-12-20, 16:34	#113
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMPS' Lawyer: Ex Security Chief Must Be SHOT TRUMPS' Lawyer: Ex-Election Security Chief Krebs Should Be Taken Out and Shot Trump Lawyer Joe DiGenova Says Fired Cybersecurity Chief Should Be 'Shot' For Defending Election Joe DiGenova condemned for ‘mob attorney’ remark made on podcast shown on conservative Newsmax TV The Guardian UK, 1 DEC 2020. Trump 'Mob' Lawyer Joe DiGenova Trump fired Chris Krebs for refusing to lie about the election result A former head of US election security who said Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was not subject to voter fraud should be “taken out at dawn and shot”, a Trump campaign lawyer said. Condemnation of Joe DiGenova’s remark about Chris Krebs was swift, including calls for his disbarment and the charge that he was behaving like a “mob attorney”. Krebs was fired as head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) on 17 November, not long after he said the election, contrary to Trump’s claims, “was the most secure in American history”. Krebs also used Twitter to publicly debunk Trump’s conspiracy theories. DiGenova defended the president in the Russia investigation and is now involved in attempts to overturn results in battleground states. The Trump campaign has won one lawsuit – and lost 39. DiGenova made the remark about Krebs on The Howie Carr Show, a podcast shown on YouTube and the Trump-allied Newsmax TV, on Monday. “Anybody who thinks the election went well,” he said, “like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity, that guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.” Carr did not challenge the remark. A day earlier, Krebs told CBS 60 Minutes Trump was trying to “undermine democracy … to undermine confidence in the election, to confuse people, to scare people”. Trump called that interview “ridiculous, one-sided [and] an international joke”. DiGenova is not the first close Trump aide to call for the death of an official in the president’s disfavour. In early November, former campaign chief and White House strategist Steve Bannon said FBI director Christopher Wray and public health expert Anthony Fauci should be beheaded. He was banned from Twitter. DiGenova said Trump’s legal team was “talking to the jury, trying to influence the jury. And that includes judges and state legislatures. And the governors in these states are a bunch of losers, along with their secretaries of state. I’ve never seen such wimps wearing an R [being Republican]. “You know, they’re going to have to be dealt with politically. It’s the only way you deal with these people.” Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia who has resisted attempts to overturn Biden’s win there, has said he and his wife have received death threats from Trump supporters. Condemnation of DiGenova’s remark about Krebs was swift. Lois Clark, chief executive of the Government Accountability Project, said in a statement: “Threats like these trigger an avalanche of them. They terrorise other whistleblowers into silence. It’s behavior befitting a mob attorney.” Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI deputy director, said DiGenova had made “a retaliatory threat involving Krebs’ official duties, in violation of federal law Title 18 USC 351”. Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor and senior aide to special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia investigation, tweeted that the remark was “shocking” and DiGenova should “face disbarment at least”. Krebs, he said, had shown “fearless integrity”. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

15-12-20, 14:45	#114
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Biden Says TRUMP & Aides are Obstructing His Transition TRUMP Officially Loses (Again) as Joe Biden Victory Approved by Electoral College William Barr: US Attorney General to Leave Post by Christmas-Barr's term was due to end on 20 January, when Mr Trump leaves office. Tensions between the two flared after Mr Barr said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in November's vote. ALL of Donald Trump's baseless legal challenges have floundered in the courts as the sore loser continues to make inaccurate and damaging claims on Twitter BBC News, 15 DEC 2020. William Barr will step down on 23 December, President Trump said Donald Trump has been officially dumped by America with Joe Biden confirmed as the new President of the United States. Members of the TRUMP Proud Boys kick a member of Antifa on the ground during a protest on December 12, in Washington (Image: Getty Images) Joe Biden, already the President-elect, has won the necessary Electoral College votes to make him the next President of the United States. State by state, the US Electoral College convened today to formally confirm Democrat Biden's victory as the next President and effectively end President Donald Trump's long-shot attempt to overturn the election results. Members of the Electoral College in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona - battleground states won by Biden but challenged unsuccessfully in court by Trump - all cast the states' electoral votes for the former vice president. The Electoral College votes, traditionally a formality, have assumed exceptionally large significance this year because of Trump's baseless and wild claims of widespread fraud in November's poll. Results for weeks have shown Biden won 306 Electoral College votes - exceeding the 270 needed to win - after four tumultuous years under the Republican Trump. Biden and running mate Kamala Harris are due to take office on January 20. There was next to no chance that Monday's voting would negate Biden's victory and, with Trump's legal campaign to reverse the results floundering, the president's hopes of clinging to power will rest with a special meeting of the US Congress on January 6 where the odds against him are as good as insurmountable. California, the most populous US state, formally pushed Biden over the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win overall. Biden, 78, is due to make a speech at 1am our time - 8pm in America - calling on Americans to turn the page following the Electoral College vote. The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago," he was expected to say, according to excerpts released by his transition team. "And we now know that nothing - not even a pandemic - or an abuse of power - can extinguish that flame." Once in office, Biden faces the challenging task of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, reviving the US economy and rebuilding relations frayed with U.S. allies abroad by Trump's "America First" policies. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

03-01-21, 15:51	#115
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMPs' Crumbling Empire-$300+Mil Debts & Missing Melania Ted Cruz and Other Republican Senators Oppose Certifying Election Results Republicans say they will reject presidential electors from states where Trump campaign contested results unless audit completed Trump refuses to concede. He lost more than 50 lawsuits mounted in battleground states, alleging electoral fraud. Friday, a federal judge dismissed a suit lodged by a House Republican which attempted to give Pence, who will preside over the certification of the electoral college result on Wednesday, the power to overturn it. An appeal was rejected Saturday night. AP / The Guardian UK, 3 JAN 2021. Around 140 Republicans expected vote against counting of electoral college votes, in symbolic move to disrupt Congress and bolster Trump Maverick super-loyalists to Donald Trump are set to make an audacious spectacle in Washington next week by voting against the formal counting of electoral college votes certifying Joe Biden’s victory. While the tactic by outliers won’t be enough to stop Biden becoming the 46th president, it will serve to disrupt Congress, bolster Trump and establish an acidic tone to political co-operation with the incoming Democratic administration. Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and nine other Republican US senators or senators-elect said on Saturday they will reject presidential electors from states where Donald Trump has contested his defeat by Joe Biden, “unless and until [an] emergency 10-day audit” of such results is completed. The move – welcomed by Vice President Mike Pence – is largely symbolic and unlikely to overturn the presidential election. Nonetheless, it adds to a sense of deepening crisis affecting US democracy. Trump has refused to concede, though Biden won more than 7m more votes nationally and took the electoral college by 306-232, a margin Trump called a landslide when he won it over Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Trump campaign has lost the vast majority of more than 50 lawsuits it has mounted in battleground states, alleging electoral fraud, and before the supreme court. On Saturday night, Trump urged his Twitter followers to “be a part of history” and join a protest march in Washington DC against the election result on Wednesday. On Friday, a federal judge dismissed a suit lodged by a House Republican which attempted to give Pence, who will preside over the certification of the electoral college result on Wednesday, the power to overturn it. An appeal was rejected Saturday night. Nonetheless, the senators and senators-elect who issued a statement on Saturday followed Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri in committing to challenging the result. Objections are also expected from a majority of House Republicans. Objections must be debated and voted on but as Democrats control the House and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and other senior Republicans have voiced opposition, the attempt to disenfranchise a majority of Americans seems doomed to fail. Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, said in a statement on Saturday that the vice president welcomed the effort to raise objections “to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th”. On Saturday, Utah Senator Mitt Romney described as “nonsense”, the idea that a congressional audit would restore trust in the election, saying the American people trusted federals judges more than Congress. In a statement, he said: “The egregious ploy to reject electors may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic … President Trump’s lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed.” On Saturday, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she would vote to certify the results, writing: “The oath I took at my swearing-in was to support and defend the constitution of the United States, and that is exactly what I will do.” Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a state where Trump has sued, said he would “vigorously defend our form of government by opposing this effort to disenfranchise millions of voters in my state and others”. But Cruz and Johnson were joined by Senators James Lankford (Oklahoma), Steve Daines (Montana), John Kennedy (Louisiana), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) and Mike Braun (Indiana). Senators-elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming), Roger Marshall (Kansas), Bill Hagerty (Tennessee) and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) also signed on. “The election of 2020,” they said, “like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states, narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.” No hard evidence for such claims has been presented. Federal officials including former attorney general William Barr and Christopher Krebs, a cyber security chief fired by Trump, have said the election was secure. Biden spokesman Michael Gwin said: “This stunt won’t change the fact that President-elect Biden will be sworn in on January 20th, and these baseless claims have already been examined and dismissed by Trump’s own attorney general, dozens of courts, and election officials from both parties.” Regardless, the senators said Congress “should immediately appoint an electoral commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.” The senators made reference to the contested election of 1876, which ended in the appointment of such a commission. “We should follow that precedent,” they said. Most well-informed observers would suggest otherwise, given that process put an end to post-civil war Reconstruction and led to the institution of racist Jim Crow laws across the formerly slave-owning south. In August, the Pulitzer-winning historian Eric Foner told the Guardian: “The election of 1876 would not have been disputed at all if there hadn’t been massive violence in the south to prevent black people from voting and voter suppression like we have today. Now, voter suppression is mostly legal.” Presciently, given baseless claims that voting under a pandemic was abused by Democrats, he added: “Today, I can certainly see the Trump people challenging these mail-in ballots: ‘They’re all fraudulent, they shouldn’t be counted.’ Challenging people’s voting.” Cruz, like Hawley, is prominent among Republicans expected to run for president in 2024, and thus eager to appeal to supporters loyal to Trump. On Saturday, Christine Pelosi, daughter of House speaker Nancy Pelosi and a member of the Democratic National Committee, referred to the bitter 2016 primary when she tweeted: “Ted Cruz is defending Trump’s assaults on democracy with more energy than he defended his own family against Trump’s assaults on his wife and father.” The Democratic strategist Max Burns wrote: “The exact same Senate GOP that refused to allow a single witness during President Trump’s impeachment trial now wants to … call a bunch of witnesses to ‘investigate’ Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.” In Congress, the Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal branded the statement “pathetic”, “un-American” and “an attack on our democracy”. Amy Klobuchar, from Minnesota, said Biden “will be inaugurated on 20 January, and no publicity stunt will change that”. Trump claimed “plenty more” senators would back his ploy. But there was some criticism from the right. Joe Walsh, a former congressman who ran against Trump in 2020, wrote: “They cite ZERO evidence of voter fraud … Donald Trump’s single greatest legacy is the destruction of truth.” Walsh added: “These Republicans know this is bad for the country. But they don’t care. They believe it’s good for them politically. They are placing their own interests before the country’s interests.” With unintended irony – or simple bad faith – the senators and senators-elect said their “allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are widespread. Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged’. That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%). “… Whether or not our elected officials or journalists believe it, that deep distrust of our democratic processes will not magically disappear. It should concern us all. And it poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations.” Marc Elias, a leading Democratic elections lawyer, said of the senators: “History will remember and curse them for their cowardice and treachery.” # LAND OF THE GREEDY, CORRUPT, POWER HUNGRY COWARDS __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

12-01-21, 23:59	#116
Tarfoot Honoured Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: US Posts: 1,914 Thanks: 547 Thanked 1,107 Times in 992 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	re: TRUMPs' Crumbling Empire-$300+Mil Debts & Missing Melania The Demon-crats ain't doing nothing but stirring an already boiling pot by trying to impeach Trump. They'd best leave well enough alone......or they haven't seen nothing yet. It's definitely a sad time in our Country. __________________ I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4

14-08-23, 05:56	#117
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMPs' Crumbling Empire-Pocketed Mils of Foreign Govts US$ to Pay His $400 Mil D Revelations TRUMP Pocketed Millions of Dollars in Foreign Emoluments TRUMP Received Millions from Foreign Governments, Hid Debts & Losses BBC 14 AUG 2023 Democratic lawmakers have been targeting former President Donald Trump‘s business activities during his tenure in the top office. What Happened: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), during an interview on ABC revealed plans for a report on the millions of dollars from foreign governments that went into Trump’s businesses, including hotels and golf courses, during his presidency. “We’re going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments — millions of dollars — we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses [and] business deals when he was president and that his family got,” Raskin said. “During the Trump administration, we saw the development of a completely new public philosophy, which is that government is not an instrument of the common good in the public interest,” he added. Why It Matters: Although the focus of numerous news stories during the Trump administration, the former president’s business interactions with foreign nations had no legal repercussions. In 2021, the Supreme Court dismissed lawsuits that alleged the president had accepted unlawful payments, deeming them irrelevant due to his departure from office. However, Raskin criticized Republicans, including Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer, for displaying a double standard by investigating the Bidens while overlooking inquiries into Trump and his family. “We have said, let the justice system run its course. They’re not saying that about Donald Trump,” Raskin said. Meanwhile, this came after Comer had accused Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of ethical breaches over a Saudi investment deal. “I’ve been vocal that I think that what Kushner did crossed the line of ethics,” Comer said. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

31-08-23, 08:25	#118
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Trial to Be Televised & His 'Proud Boys' To Be Sentenced to LONG Jail Terms TRUMP Inflated His Net Worth by as Much as $2.2BN in 2014 TRUMPs' Family Inflated His Net Worth by BILLIONS, Says New York State Lawsuit BBC 31 AUG 2023 Lawyers for Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claim the ex-president then used that blown up value for business deals... Former President Donald Trump routinely overstated his net worth -- sometimes by more than $2 billion -- during years when the actual values of his real estate holdings were far less than he claimed, according to a court filing Wednesday by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. The attorney general's office included the numbers in a motion for summary judgement that asks the court to resolve a civil fraud claim before the AG's $250 million civil suit against Trump goes to trial. The former president, meanwhile, called his real estate portfolio "the Mona Lisa of properties" during an April deposition in the suit, according to a transcript of the deposition that was made public Wednesday. "We have properties that make money, but you can sell for many, many times because of the quality of the property, like a Turnberry in Scotland," Trump said, according to the transcript. "I could sell that. That's like selling a painting. A painting on a wall that sells for $250 million and doesn't make income. It just sits on a wall, but it sells for numbers." Unlike his first deposition with James, during which Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination hundreds of times, the former president in the April deposition answered questions for hours about his real estate holdings, which he suggested are worth far more than what appeared on property valuations. The trial is scheduled to begin in October. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

01-09-23, 11:53	#119
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP, Giuliani, & 6 Others Plead NOT Guilty in Georgia Election FRAUD TRUMP Trial to Be Televised....as His 'Proud Boys' Will Be Sentenced to Longest Jail Terms Yet Over Capitol Riots Proud Boys: From Storming The Capitol For TRUMP to Protesting Drag Shows... Two more members of the far-right Proud Boys will be sentenced later for their role in the US Capitol riot, on 6 January 2021. BBC 1 SEP 2023 Leader Joe Biggs was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38 - was jailed for 17 years on Thursday. Prosecutors said he was an instigator of the storming of Congress, in support of Donald Trump after his election defeat. Zachary Rehl was sentenced to 15 years for spraying a chemical irritant at officers. Several members of the far-right Proud Boys are facing long prison sentences for their role in the attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021. But that has not distracted the group from a new target - drag shows. They started as a drinking club seven years ago, but quickly immersed themselves in street violence and culture wars. After shooting to mainstream attention during the 2020 presidential campaign, they made up one of the main organised groups at the Capitol riot. Joseph Biggs, an Iraq war veteran who was a leading figure at the attack on Congress, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Zachary Rehl, former president of the Philadelphia Proud Boys, received 15 years. Three more members will be sentenced in the days ahead. As they face long spells behind bars, the group has dispersed and, at the same time, picked up a new focus - anti-transgender activism. Drag story protests - and fighting Fights broke out outside a drag story hour event in New York City in late March, and according to reports, men wearing Proud Boys gear were in the middle of the melee. It was not an isolated incident. In recent months, supporters of the far-right group have been at the forefront of similar actions across the country. Their involvement may seem, on the surface, like a departure from the group's libertarian roots. When the BBC went to interview Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon in 2019, we met a gay member of the club, and a transgender supporter. But their live-and-let-live ideals have always been in conflict with the group's description of themselves as "Western chauvinists" who believe in traditional gender roles. "Venerate the housewife" was one of their early precepts, and the organisation limits membership to "biological males". This focus on hyper-masculinity has made them a perfect fit for the new wave of anti-transgender activism on the right and far-right. How did the Proud Boys begin? The group was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, a British-Canadian podcaster who previously co-founded Vice Magazine. Members of the group have always been keen to portray themselves as ordinary guys who were mostly interested in beer - "a drinking club with a political problem" is how they sometimes put it. In 2019, our crew was invited to a bar and later visited a boozy impromptu barbecue. But violence was always at the heart of their activities, and the group was better known for its battles with anti-fascist - also known as antifa - protesters. These street battles became a regular feature of life in Portland and other major cities before 2020. Despite some of their internal contradictions, what united them above all was intense dislike of left-wing politics and a special love for Donald Trump. Over the years, the Proud Boys went through a series of leadership changes, from Mr McInnes to an "elders chapter" and Tarrio, who took over in 2018. But the group's national structure frayed after the events of 6 January 2021 when the Proud Boys, like other organised groups who took part in the riots, started to face criminal charges and social media bans. After a short period of confusion, inactivity and a leadership breakdown, today the group shows no sign of slowing down. Individual Proud Boys chapters continue to operate, says Megan Squire, deputy director of data analytics at the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. In some cases, they've added members, gaining visibility as they join anti-transgender protests, which over the past few years have become a flashpoint in America's culture wars. Ms Squire notes that the Proud Boys were "early adopters" of anti-trans sentiment starting around 2020. According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), which tracks far-right movements in the US, the number of anti-LGBT incidents - demonstrations, political violence, and offline propaganda activity - is growing. In 2022, far-right groups including the Proud Boys were involved in over 200 incidents, a three-fold increase from 2021, ACLED data shows. In a blog post last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted that Proud Boys have turned their attention to "issues most likely to drive right-wing outrage and, in turn, to help the group forge new coalitions". "We're seeing this on every wavelength, every flavour of hate," says Ms Squire, who's been researching Proud Boys activity across the country. "They're just all glomming onto anti-trans sentiment." And as they did during the Capitol riots, the Proud Boys have shown up at these anti-drag events ready to be the "far-right muscle," says Chuck Tanner, research director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. "They're not the movement thinkers out in front, they chase a lot of issues," he says. What next for the group? Before Thursday's verdict, Mr McInnes, the Proud Boys founder, told the BBC that the five defendants "did something wrong" by entering the Capitol, but said he believes their actions amounted to relatively minor offences. He said that if they are given long prison sentences they will become "martyrs for the cause", and insisted the group will continue despite its current lack of leadership. "It's just set in stone and you can't kill it. There's no top, there's no head," he said. Expert observers largely agree. Samantha Kutner, a researcher who's written about the group and is co-founder of Glitterpill LLC, an anti-extremism consultancy group, says that given the increasing politicisation after the Capitol riots, the convictions may give the Proud Boys a boost. "It will give them more momentum," she says. "Every time they lose it furthers their martyrdom and persecution complex." In an audio interview on Twitter which Tarrio joined via phone from his jail cell just after arguments ended in the court case, the former Proud Boys leader accused authorities of "weaponising" the justice system and likened the current US government to the regime in Nazi Germany. "This is not the end of the Proud Boys," Ms Kutner says. "Their threat now is as a larger and more decentralised network." Ms Squire of the Southern Poverty Law Center agrees, and says the Proud Boys will still survive, even without their leader. "The trial is a morale hit, but a small one," she says. "They're going to keep doing what they're doing. I don't see them going away any time soon." *Expert: Proud Boys are Fascist NOT Patriotic* TRUMP meanwhile, will appear live on TV from a Georgia courtroom when he fights charges that he conspired with 18 others to overturn the state’s election result, after a judge ruled it should be livestreamed. The trial could happen next year, as the former president seeks re-election __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

02-09-23, 08:28	#120
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Mark Meadows John Eastman Jeffrey Clark & All Others Plead Not Guilty in Georgia TRUMP Pleads NOT Guilty in Georgia Election FRAUD Case TRUMP is Waiving The Right to Appear in Court Next Week. TRUMP Co-Defendant Rudy Giuliani Pleads NOT Guilty in Georgia Case TRUMPS' Personal Lawyer Rudy Giuliani And Six Other Co-Conspirators Have Pleaded NOT Guilty to State Charges in Georgia. BBC 2 SEP 2023 Trump is among 19 people charged with a conspiracy to overturn the US state's 2020 vote results. He turned himself in at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week, where he had his mugshot taken. In total, Trump faces 13 felony counts - including racketeering - for allegedly pressuring Georgia officials to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state. In a court document filed on Thursday, Trump said he "fully understands" the nature of the allegations and his right to appear in court. "Understanding my rights, I do hereby freely and voluntarily waive my right to be present at my arraignment on the indictment and my right to have it read to me in open court," the signed document says. Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has appeared at each of his three previous arraignments. He was required to do so for the cases he is facing in New York and Florida, and opted not to request a virtual appearance for a separate case in Washington DC. In all three cases, there was tight security as Trump supporters and counter-protesters gathered near the courthouses. Trump surrendered and was arraigned simultaneously in his federal court cases, which led to his high-profile courtroom appearances. However, in Georgia state court, a defendants' surrender and arraignment usually happen separately. Donald Trump: "I just want to find 11,780 votes" Brian Tevis, an Atlanta attorney who represents one of Mr Trump's co-accused, Rudy Giuliani, told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that "99% of the time" defendants who are given the option choose to waive their arraignment. Clark Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that decision is "usually non-controversial". "Trump fully knows the charges against him," he said. "That's the main purpose of the arraignment, to read the charges to the accused, and [to enter] the person's plea. So he doesn't need to be there, he knows what they are." Earlier this week, three other co-defendants in the case entered not guilty pleas, including former Trump attorneys Ray Stallings Smith and Sidney Powell, as well as former celebrity publicist Trevian Kutti. Trump was originally due to be arraigned on 6 September, followed by the other defendants in 15-minute intervals. All 19 defendants in the case - including Trump - are charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, commonly known as the Rico act. Across the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime. Fulton County's District Attorney, Fani Willis, a Democrat, has increasingly come under fire from some Republicans and Trump allies for her decision to indict Mr Trump in the case. Earlier in August, State Senator Colton Moore sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican, calling for a special session to impeach Ms Willis. At a Thursday news conference, Mr Kemp said he had yet to see evidence that such a move would be justified. "As long as I am governor, we're going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically," the governor said. All court proceedings against Trump and the 18 co-defendants in Georgia will be televised and broadcast on YouTube, a Fulton County judge ruled on Thursday. Rudy Giuliani Giuliani is charged with 13 crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. He joins Trump and several other co-defendants in entering not guilty pleas, waiving their right to appear in person for a hearing next week. All 19 have been allowed to go free pending trial after paying a bail bond. On Thursday, the judge overseeing Mr Trump's case announced that the trial will be streamed on YouTube. A date for the trial has not yet been set, but it could be next year, in the middle of the former president's run for re-election. The next court date is an arraignment on Wednesday, a short hearing at which the plea is officially entered in court. Trump and the other alleged co-conspirators briefly travelled to Atlanta last week to turn themselves in at Fulton County Jail and have their mugshots taken. All 19 defendants in the case - including Donald Trump - are charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, commonly known as the Rico act. Across the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime. They have denied any wrongdoing. After surrendering to authorities in Georgia last week, Mr Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, stood outside the jail and called the prosecution "a travesty". "I am very, very honoured to be involved in this case, because this case is a fight for our way of life," he said. Other suspects who have entered not guilty pleas include Ken Chesebro; the alleged architect of the fake electors scheme who has petitioned the court for a speedy trial; and lawyers Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

07-09-23, 04:21	#121
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Grand Jury Recommended Charging Lindsey Graham & 39 Others in TRUMP Case Mark Meadows, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark Plead Not Guilty in Georgia Election Interference Case All 19 Defendants in Georgia Election Interference Case Have Pleaded Not Guilty The Federal judge who will decide whether to move the case still hasn’t issued a ruling. BBC 7 SEP 2023 Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and the remaining defendants in the election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia, have pleaded not guilty and have waived their arraignments, new court filings show. Misty Hampton, who faces charges related to the Coffee County voting system breach and was the last holdout among the 19 defendants changed in District Attorney Fani Willis’ case, entered her plea early Tuesday afternoon. The other defendants have been filing their pleas in recent days. Arraignment hearings had been scheduled for Wednesday in Atlanta. Georgia law allows criminal defendants to waive their in-person appearance and formally enter a not guilty plea through paperwork filed with the court. Meadows has been charged with two state crimes: violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering RICO law and soliciting a public official to violate their oath. The charges mostly revolve around the infamous January 2021 phone call where Trump and Meadows pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to flip the election results in then-President Donald Trump’s favor. Meadows is trying to move his case out of state court and into federal court, where he could possibly get the indictment dismissed by invoking immunity that shields many federal workers from litigation. At a high-stakes hearing in August, Meadows testified under oath for more than three hours and claimed that the alleged actions described in the Georgia indictment were connected to his formal government duties as Trump’s chief of staff. Other Notable Allies Hampton, who has been charged with seven counts, is accused of participating in a conspiracy to allow supporters of Trump to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting equipment at the Coffee County election office. Hampton also faces the racketeering charge that is central to Willis’ case. Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is similarly seeking to move his case to federal court, also pleaded not guilty in a court filing. Georgia law allows criminal defendants to waive their in-person appearance and formally enter a not-guilty plea through paperwork filed with the court. Clark was charged with two counts in the Georgia case. He served as a senior Trump appointee at the Justice Department and tried to use his powers as a federal official to overturn the 2020 election. He drafted a letter, which was ultimately never sent, promoting false claims of voting irregularities and urged Georgia lawmakers to consider throwing out Biden’s legitimate electors. Clark lobbied Trump to make him the acting attorney general so he could send the letter and have the Justice Department intervene in the Georgia election. Trump decided not to put Clark in charge after other senior Justice Department officials threatened to resign. Pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, former Coffee County GOP Chair Cathy Latham and former Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer also entered not guilty pleas and waived their formal arraignments in court filings Tuesday. Eastman was indicted on nine counts, including a racketeering charge. He devised and promoted a six-step plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden’s victory while presiding over the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021. He also urged Georgia state lawmakers to appoint fake GOP electors to replace the legitimate slate of Democratic electors. Still was charged with seven state crimes and is one of the 16 Republicans who served as “fake electors” in Georgia and signed paperwork falsely claiming that Trump won the Peach State. This was part of the Trump campaign’s plan to subvert the Electoral College process and nullify Joe Biden’s victory. Latham was charged with 11 counts related to an alleged plot to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting equipment in Coffee County, in addition to the racketeering charge that is central to Willis’ case. Latham also signed on to be an alternative elector for Trump in Georgia. Shafer was charged with eight state crimes. Fulton County prosecutors accused him of playing a key role in organizing the Trump campaign’s slate of fake electors in Georgia, as part of the effort to subvert the Electoral College. He served as a fake elector and convened the other 15 fake electors in the Georgia State Capitol in December 2020, where they signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump won the state over Biden. Shafer has previously claimed that the fake electors scheme came at the direction of Trump and the Trump campaign. Shafer and Latham are also seeking to move their cases from state court to federal court. Judge Sets Wednesday Hearing on Scheduling Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Georgia election subversion case, scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to address questions about trial scheduling and possibly breaking up the case. In an order posted Tuesday, McAfee said there will be a hearing on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET to deal with critical scheduling matters. This is the first hearing McAfee will hold in the case, and the proceedings are expected to be televised. The judge said he’ll want prosecutors to provide a “good-faith estimate” for how long it would take to hold a joint trial for all 19 defendants, and how long it would take if the case is divided into subgroups of defendants. Kenneth Chesebros’ trial is scheduled to begin October 23, and Willis wants to keep the case together and hold one massive trial beginning that day. Trump opposes that speedy timeline, and many of the defendants want to break up the case. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

07-09-23, 07:30	#122
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Grand Jury Recommended Charging Lindsey Graham & 39 Others in TRUMP Case Special Counsels' Focus Shifts to People Outside of Trumps' Circle... Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The widening of the probe focuses on people outside of Donald Trumps' circle and comes a month after indicting the former president for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

08-09-23, 19:38	#123
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Lawyer Takes Plea Deal & Implicates TRUMP in Fake Elector Conspiracy Special Grand Jury Recommended Charging Lindsey Graham. A special grand jury that spent eight months investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and others to overturn Georgias' 2020 election results recommended nearly 40 people face criminal charges. Fulton County recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), according to the special counsel grand jury report released by a judge Friday. BBC 9 SEP 2023 The front of the Fulton County Courthouse, the site of criminal proceedings against former President Donald Trump for election interference. Georgia panel recommended prosecutors seek charges against 39 people in Trump case In a 9-page report fully unsealed by a judge Friday, the special purpose grand jury told Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis they recommended prosecutors seek indictments against the former president for his Jan. 2, 2021 call with Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where he pressed the state's top election official to overturn his already-certified defeat. The special panel, which interviewed more than 75 witnesses but did not have the power to issue indictments, found 39 different people allegedly violated more than a dozen state laws including making false statements and writings, solicitation of election fraud and Georgia's sweeping anti-racketeering law. Several high-profile Republicans found in the jury's report did not face charges in the 98-page indictment handed up in Fulton County last month, such as former Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., current Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., attorneys Lin Wood and Cleta Mitchell and others involved in the months-long, multifaceted effort to undo Trump's narrow loss in Georgia. Perdue and Loeffler called for Raffensperger to resign and made false claims about Georgia's election results before losing in Jan. 2021 runoffs that saw some conservative voters stay home because of their claims. Graham called Raffensperger after the election and discussed if the secretary of state could reject certain absentee ballots. While the report does not reference specific charges for certain high profile players, Sen. Graham and former Sens. Perdue and Loeffler are listed along with 23 total people the special grand jury recommended for indictment "with respect to the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election." Ultimately, the decision of who to charge with what rests with the district attorney's office and a regularly empaneled grand jury, and the special jury's inclusion of many names like Perdue, Loeffler and Graham neither indicates cooperation with prosecutors nor possibility of future charges. In a footnote, the report makes clear that "one of the dissenting jurors voting against recommending seeking indictments of former Sens. Perdue and Loeffler on a racketeering claim believes that their statements following the November 2020 election while pandering to their political base, do not give rise to their being guilty of a criminal conspiracy." The brief report largely mirrors the charges and characters found in Willis' racketeering indictment brought in August, including Trump, his onetime personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Georgia Republican Party Chair David Shafer as central figures. In addition to the Trump-Raffensperger call, the special jury recommended charges stemming from "persistent, repeated communications directed to multiple Georgia officials and employees;" efforts to harass and coerce a Fulton County poll worker into falsely admitting she committed election fraud; a scheme to have 16 Republicans falsely claim to be Georgia's official electors; unlawful access of election equipment in rural Coffee County; a series of legislative hearings where false claims were made about the state's election results and the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia and other swing states. Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case Judge Robert McBurney ordered a limited release of the report in February, only allowing the introduction, conclusion and a section detailing concerns about witnesses lying under oath to be made public. McBurney wrote that those sections did not violate due process concerns of anyone that may or may not be later charged. The report opens with a timeline of the special grand jury's work, from the DA's first request for the panel to the 75 witnesses that came before the closed-door body, also noting that the group voted unanimously that "no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election." __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

13-09-23, 04:38	#124
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	TRUMP Threatens to Lock Up Opponents as Mar-a-Lago IT Worker TALKS to Special Counsel TRUMP Threatens He Will Lock Up Political Opponents If Re-Elected. DOJ Says TRUMP Has Hidden Classified Documents as Mar-a-Lago IT Worker Cooperates With Special Counsel Mark Meadows: TRUMP Aide FAILS to Have Georgia Case Moved US judge has denied a bid from Mark Meadows, a TRUMP aide charged in Georgia election conspiracy inquiry, to move his case to a federal court. BBC 13 SEP 2023 Former President Donald Trump revealed plans to prosecute his political opponents if he gets reelected. Trump communicated this to Glenn Beck during a BlazeTV show appearance. Beck questioned Trump on his 2016 statements about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and asked if he regretted not prosecuting her. In response, Trump expressed no choice but to prosecute his political adversaries, dismissing the charges he faces in multiple states. “Well, I'll give you an example… The answer is you have no choice, because they're doing it to us" Mar-a-Lago IT Worker Flips on TRUMP and Strikes a Deal With Special Counsel Mar-a-Lago IT worker struck cooperation agreement with special counsel, his former lawyer says Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras has struck a cooperation agreement with the special counsel’s office in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, Taveras’ former defense attorney said in a new court filing. Taveras struck the deal with prosecutors after he was threatened with prosecution, defense attorney Stanley Woodward wrote in the filing dated Tuesday. Taveras is referred to in the filing and in the superseding indictment as “Trump Employee 4,” and CNN has identified him as that employee. According to the terms of the deal explained in the filing, Taveras agreed to testify in the classified documents case and in exchange will not be prosecuted. He has not been charged with any crimes. The filing marks the first public acknowledgment that special counsel Jack Smith has won the cooperation of key witnesses as part of his prosecution of Trump, his longtime valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira. Prosecutors have argued that Woodward, who now represents Nauta, could face conflicts of interest – particularly if the defense lawyer has to cross-examine his former client – and that the judge overseeing the case should scrutinize those potential conflicts. Woodward wrote in the filing Wednesday that he “played no role” in Taveras’ cooperation and said that prosecutors did not offer Taveras the cooperation deal until after Taveras got a different lawyer. Woodward asked the judge to block Taveras from testifying in any eventual trial. Taveras’ July testimony in front of a grand jury, which wasn’t public, was the source of new allegations against Trump that were included in a superseding indictment filed later that month Those allegations include efforts by Trump, de Oliveira and Nauta to delete incriminating security footage from the club. Trump, de Oliveira and Nauta have pleaded not guilty to all allegations. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

16-09-23, 19:52	#125
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Lawyer Takes Plea Deal & Implicates TRUMP in Fake Elector Conspiracy Twitter Turned Over 32 Messages From TRUMPS’ Account to Special Counsel...Twitter Declared War on Conservatives: More Pro-Trump Accounts Purged Overnight Special Counsel Warned TRUMP Could Precipitate Violence if Twitter Turned Over His Messages BBC 16 SEP 2023 Newly unsealed court records indicate special counsel Jack Smith’s team warned that former President Trump could “precipitate violence” unless the court shielded its efforts to obtain information on his Twitter account. The records show Smith’s office obtained a total of 32 direct messages from Trump’s account as part of its investigation, with a copy of the warrant also unsealed Friday showing the breadth of the information prosecutors sought. The 71-page filing from prosecutors, submitted to the court in April but unsealed Friday, offers new details about why Smith’s team feared alerting Trump to the matter. The secret battle to obtain the records was revealed in an opinion unsealed in August, showing that Twitter, now known as X, was fined $350,000 for not complying with a court order to turn over the records. Earlier unsealed court records showed the special counsel was concerned that if Trump knew about the warrant to access his account he could disclose it to the public, something they said “could precipitate violence as occurred following the public disclosure of the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.” The arguments were made as X appealed a lower court order to turn over the information to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. While prosecutors reiterated prior arguments that Trump could jeopardize the case if the warrant was disclosed, it cites Trump’s past behavior as the need to do so. “These are not hypothetical considerations in this case. Following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, the former President propagated false claims of fraud (including swearing to false allegations in a federal court filing), pressured state and federal officials to violate their legal duties, and retaliated against those who did not comply with his demands, culminating in violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6,” prosecutors wrote. “More recently, the former President has taken several steps to undermine or otherwise influence the investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information following the end of his presidency, including publicizing the existence of the Mar-a-Lago Warrant.” The filing goes on to detail Trump’s offer to pay the legal fees of those who might otherwise be witnesses against him. “This pattern of obstructive conduct amply supports the district court’s conclusion that the former President presents a significant risk of tampering with evidence, seeking to influence or intimidate potential witnesses, and “otherwise seriously jeopardizing” the Government’s ongoing investigations,” they wrote. The filing leaves unclear the content of the 32 direct messages Trump exchanged on the platform, with the detail only used to combat arguments from X’s attorneys that such messages might be covered under executive privilege. “Twitter offers no reason to conclude that the former President, with the full array of communication technologies available to the head of the Executive Branch, would have used Twitter’s direct message function to carry out confidential communications with Executive Branch advisors,” prosecutors wrote. The unsealed search warrant, first signed in January, shows prosecutors were seeking extensive information about Trump’s X account, including all IP addresses and devices that accessed the account. DOJ also wanted to review all tweets, even those drafted and deleted, and a list of every account Trump block or who blocked Trump. Prosecutors likewise asked for location data associated with the account for the months leading up to the election through January 2021 as well as every tweet the former president liked or those who tweeted at him for the same time period. X fought the warrant on numerous grounds, including making a First Amendment argument and also claiming that disclosure to Trump would not be harmful, as he knew he was being investigated and some details about the probe had become public. The appeals court ultimately sided with prosecutors and the lower court, calling the Department of Justice’s concerns “unquestionably compelling.” “The district court found that there were ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump ‘would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation’ by giving him ‘an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates,’” the appeals court noted in its ruling. Could the 14th amendment be used to stop Trump from running for presidency again? __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

18-09-23, 07:47	#126
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP Lawyer Turns on Narcissist Ex-President +His BIG Mouth is Fodder For Prosec TRUMP Interview - Music to The Ears of Prosecutors. & TRUMP Blames Nancy Pelosi For Jan 6 Insurrection TRUMP Lawyer Jenna Ellis Turns on Malignant Narcissist Ex-President. Ellis, One of 18 Trump Associates Charged in Georgia Case, Says She Simply Can’t Support Him Again US Special Counsel Jack Smith Asks Judge to Place Gag Order on TRUMP. The prosecutor leading the federal election meddling case against Donald Trump has asked a judge to place him under a gag order, limiting how he is able to publicly comment on the case. BBC 18 SEP 2023 Jenna Ellis – the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 – says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a “malignant narcissist” who cannot admit mistakes “I simply can’t support him for elected office again,” Ellis said. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.” Ellis, 38, was speaking on her show on American Family Radio, a rightwing evangelical network run by the American Family Association, a non-profit that by its own description has been “on the frontlines of America’s culture war” since 1977. Ellis was one of 18 Trump associates charged with him in Georgia over attempts to overturn Biden’s victory there. Charged with violating state anti-racketeering laws and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer, she was granted $100,000 bail and pleaded not guilty. Trump pleaded not guilty to 13 racketeering and conspiracy charges. Denying all wrongdoing and claiming political persecution, he also faces four federal counts related to election subversion; 40 federal counts related to retention of classified information; 34 state counts in New York over hush-money payments; and civil cases including a $250m lawsuit lodged by the New York attorney general over his business affairs and a defamation claim arising from a rape allegation a judge said was “substantially true”. Nonetheless, Trump leads polling regarding the 2024 Republican presidential primary by vast margins, in national and key state surveys. Ellis is a former counsel for the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic group, whose claims to be a constitutional lawyer have been widely doubted. Described by the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman as “a lawyer whom Trump sought out after seeing her television commentary”, in 2020 Ellis rose from relative obscurity to become part of what she called an “elite strike force team” working to overturn Trump’s defeat by Biden. That effort failed. American Family Radio signed up Ellis in December last year. On her show on Thursday, she spoke to Steve Deace, another rightwing host. Deace said: “Before that man [Trump] needs to be president again … [to] escape the quote-unquote, ‘witch-hunts’, that man needs Jesus again because … his ambitions would be fueled by showing some self-awareness. And he won’t do it because he can’t admit, ‘I’m not God.’” Ellis said Deace had “perfectly articulated exactly how I as a voter feel”. She knew Trump well “as a friend, as a former boss”, she said, adding: “I have great love and respect for him personally. “But everything that you just said resonates with me as exactly why I simply can’t support him for elected office again. Why I have chosen to distance is because of that, frankly, malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong. “And the total idolatry that I’m seeing from some of the supporters that are unwilling to put the constitution and the country and the conservative principles above their love for a star is really troubling. “And I think that we do need to, as Americans and as conservatives and particularly as Christians, take this very seriously and understand where are we putting our vote.” TRUMP Blames Nancy Pelosi For Jan 6 Donald Trump offered up a strange scapegoat for the Jan. 6 insurrection in a new interview. The former president accused former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of allowing mobs of violent Trump supporters to overtake the U.S. Capitol by allegedly turning down his offer... to activate the National Guard. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

06-10-23, 16:02	#127
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP to Feds 'Dismiss Election Interference Charges, I Had Presidential Immunity TRUMP Seeks to Dismiss Election Interference Charges, Saying He Had Presidential Immunity Donald Trump has asked a federal court to dismiss charges against him of election interference, arguing his role entitled him to "absolute immunity". BBC 6 OCT 2023 Trumps' lawyers say his attempts to cast doubt on the 2020 results fell within his duties as president. His public statements were attempts at "ensuring the integrity of federal elections", they added. *The indictment, brought by Jack Smith, alleges he made illegal attempts to stay in office.* It is one of a number of filings in recent days from his legal team. Trump has asked that this trial for improperly handling sensitive files be held after the 2024 presidential election. And on Thursday, his lawyers also dropped a lawsuit against his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who he was suing for at least $500m (£410m) in damages. Mr Trumps' campaign said that his legal suits and 2024 presidential campaign were using up too much of his time for him to pursue the claim. The former president made a range of allegations about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost, but no evidence has emerged of any widespread fraud that would have altered the result. In a new filing on Thursday, his lawyers argue that Mr Trump's public statements about the 2020 contest "lie firmly within the 'outer perimeter' of the President's official responsibility". Apparently classified files on the floor of Trumps' Mar-a-Lago office.. Trump is also accused of holding on to classified documents after leaving office "Therefore, they cannot form the basis of criminal charges against President Trump." In the criminal complaint against the former president, special prosecutor Jack Smith acknowledged that Mr Trump "had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won". However he said that Mr Trump went further than allowed and "also pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results". The former president has repeatedly said the cases against him are politically motivated. Mr Trumps' attorneys have also requested the dismissal of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. The request was publicly released on Thursday, after his lawyers filed the motion last week. The case, in New York, stems from his payment of $130,000 (£105,000) to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to stay quiet after having sex with him. Prosecutors say Mr Trump illegally altered records in order to claim that the payment was for legal fees. In the legal filing, his lawyers call the case a "five-year meandering, halting, and roving investigation that entailed inexplicable and unconstitutional delay" and argue that the charges are a novel interpretation of the law and "politically driven". __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

16-10-23, 19:30	#128
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Lawyer Takes Plea Deal & Implicates TRUMP in Fake Elector Conspiracy TRUMP Rages on Truth Social During Judge Chutkans’ Hearing on Gag Order - Federal Judge Issues Gag Order Against Donald Trump A federal judge issued a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting what he can say about special counsel Jack Smiths’ federal prosecution into his alleged attempt to subvert in the 2020 presidential election BBC 16 OCT 2023 Deranged Donald Trump lashed out on Truth Social as Judge Tanya Chutkan began a hearing on a proposed gag order in the former president’s election interference case. “The TRUMP GAG ORDER that the CORRUPT Biden Administration is trying to obtain is totally Unconstitutional!” Trump wrote on his social media platform as proceedings got underway in D.C. Chutkan ultimately issued a partial gag order relating to statements about special counsel Jack Smith, the federal court and staff and possible witnesses in the case. “This is not about whether or not I like the language Mr. Trump uses," Chutkan said, according to The Messenger. "This is about language that presents a danger to the administration of justice.” Trump during the hearing also shared a post from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who attended the proceedings in person. “They are attempting to muzzle the most popular political figure in America!” Greene wrote in the post, alleging that a gag order would strip all Americans of the “opportunity to hear from the leading candidate for President.” Deranged Trump, ahead of the hearing on Sunday night teased a “big day for Democracy” on Monday. “A Leaking, Crooked Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to criticize those who are doing the silencing, namely Crooked Joe Biden, and his corrupt and weaponized DOJ & FBI,” he wrote. “They want to take away my First Amendment rights, and my ability to both campaign and defend myself. In other words, they want to cheat and interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. *Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. It is strictly Banana Republic kind of ‘stuff.’ These political Hacks and Thugs are destroying our Country.* __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

20-10-23, 02:44	#129
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP Ex-Lawyer Guilty in Election Case-Will Testify For Prosecutors at Future Tr Sidney Powell: TRUMP Ex-Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Case Sidney Powell Has Been Sentenced to Six Years of Probation. She is also required to write an apology letter to the citizens of the State of Georgia BBC 20 OCT 2023 Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty to six charges in the Georgia election interference case. Powell, who was charged alongside the former president, reached a deal with prosecutors and will now testify at future trials. *There are 19 defendants in the case, most of whom have pleaded not guilty.* Powell faced charges of conspiracy to commit intentional interference of election duties. Her agreement to testify, in exchange for six years of probation, is a huge win for prosecutors in the sweeping case. Powell was intimately involved in Mr Trump's fight to overturn the state's results in the 2020 presidential election. The deal also required her to record a proffer, essentially a verbal account of her activities, and to pay a fine and write an apology letter to Georgia citizens. Powell entered her guilty plea in a downtown Atlanta courtroom on Thursday, a day before her trial was set to start. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the BBC it was unsurprising that she took a deal. "If you're a criminal defendant who's never spent a night in jail and you're offered no time, you take it," Mr Rahmani said. He added she may act as a "domino", with other defendants following her example. "I think the other defendants have to be taking a long, hard look in the mirror and asking themselves, 'Hey, do I want to go to Georgia State Prison, or do I want to take this offer that's going to guarantee I do no time?'" he said. Prosecutors have accused Powell of being among a group of Trump officials and supporters who breached the elections system in rural Coffee County, Georgia, in January 2021. They were trying to persuade officials and voters that the election had somehow been rigged against Mr Trump. Specifically, Powell was accused of hiring a forensics team and sending it to Coffee County to illegally access government computers to look at voter data. Prosecutors have said she conspired to tamper with voting machines, electronic ballots and voter data, have ballots taken from a polling place, and stop an election worker from doing her job. Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case. In total, the former president faces 13 felony counts - including racketeering - for allegedly pressuring state officials to reverse results in the presidential election. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and has described the case as politically motivated. Powell was one of the most visible, and vocal, supporters of his false claims about the 2020 election. She notably appeared at a press conference with other Trump lawyers in November 2020, where she alleged, without evidence, that US voting machines run by Dominion Voting Systems can be hacked to "take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President (Joe) Biden". At a White House meeting the following month, Mr Trump mulled appointing Powell as a special counsel to "investigate allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere", prosecutors said. The congressional committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot featured her prominently in its televised hearings last year, showing she worked closely with Mr Trump and his aides on election overturning strategies. Dominion has sued Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3bn (£1.07bn) in restitution. Powell is the second person among the defendants to plead guilty in the Georgia election interference case. Bail bondsman Scott Hall struck a plea deal with prosecutors in late September. The former Republican poll watcher was also accused of trying to gain access to sensitive election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia. As part of his deal, he was sentenced to five years probation. He is also required to testify against others in future trials. MORE: *Who are Trump's 18 co-accused in the Georgia case?* Georgia Republicans begin to look beyond Donald Trump __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

21-10-23, 00:34	#130
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: EX Chief of Staff Meadows to Testify AGAINST TRUMP Re Election Con & Jan 6 RIOT Pro-TRUMP Attorney Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Case Kenneth Chesebro: Pro-TRUMP Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Subversion Case, Implicates TRUMP in Fake Elector Conspiracy Three defendants have now pleaded guilty in the sprawling racketeering case: Chesebro, Powell and Georgia-based bail bondsman Scott Hall. BBC 21 OCT 2023 Kenneth Chesebro, a Donald Trump-aligned attorney who helped craft the 2020 fake elector plot, is pleading guilty in the Georgia election subversion case. The plea deal is another major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s 2020 fake electors plot, pleaded guilty Friday in the Georgia election subversion case to being part of a conspiracy alongside former President and others. The plea deal is another blow to Trump and a major victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged Trump and 18 others in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It comes one day after former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell also pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony – conspiracy to commit filing false documents. Fulton County prosecutors recommended that he serve 5 years of probation and pay $5,000 in restitution, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee imposed that sentence at Friday’s hearing. *Chesebro has also agreed to testify in future court proceedings.* As part of his plea deal, Chesebro admitted that he conspired to put forward fake GOP electors in Georgia with Trump and former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. Giuliani and Eastman have both pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case, and now face the prospect of Chesebro taking the witness stand against them. The plea came shortly after jury selection in the trial began Friday morning as planned, but was short-lived. A source familiar with the discussions said the likelihood of Chesebro taking a deal increased after Powell made a surprise turn and pleaded guilty on Thursday. Fake Electors Plot An attorney who worked to undermine the results of the 2020 election, Chesebro helped develop the Trump’s campaign’s plot to put forward unauthorized slates of GOP electors in Georgia and six other states. (In previous court filings, Chesebro’s lawyers have denied that he devised the plan.) He wrote a series of memos in 2020 spelling out what the pro-Trump electors should do in their respective states. In one memo Chesebro acknowledged that he was promoting a “controversial strategy” that even the Supreme Court with its conservative supermajority would “likely” reject. Chesebro and other Trump allies hoped then-Vice President Mike Pence would use the GOP electors to justify delaying Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory – or even throw out Biden’s lawful electors and recognize the fake GOP slates instead on January 6, 2021. Prosecutors said in court that Chesebro acknowledged in the plea that he “created and distributed false Electoral College documents” to Trump operatives in Georgia and other states, and that he worked “in coordination with” the Trump campaign. “The defendant provided detailed instructions to co-conspirators in Georgia and other states for creating and distributing these false documents,” prosecutor Daysha Young said at the plea hearing Friday. Chesebro was originally charged with seven crimes, including a violation of Georgia’s RICO act, conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer. Six of the seven felony charges were dropped as part of the deal. In addition to testifying at future trials, Chesebro agreed to write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia. Powell and Hall both admitted their roles in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia. As part of her plea deal, Powell agreed to testify at future trials, which could hurt Trump’s defense. Both Powell and Hall were sentenced to probation. Ahead of their scheduled trial, Chesebro and Powell lost several bids to get the case thrown out, including earlier this week. In a spate of pretrial rulings, McAfee rejected their arguments that Fulton County prosecutors misapplied Georgia’s RICO law and that the indictment failed to establish key elements of the crimes that have been charged. Both Powell and Chesebro are unindicted co-conspirators in Trump’s federal election subversion case, which was brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s federal trial is set for March 2024 in Washington, DC. Steve Sadow, lead counsel for Trump in the Georgia case, said he believes Friday’s developments will help the former president. “It appears to me that the guilty plea to count 15 of the Fulton County indictment was the result of pressure by Fani Willis and her team and the prosecution’s looming threat of prison time,” Sadow said. “However, it is very important for everyone to note that the RICO charge and every other count was dismissed. Once again, I fully expect that truthful testimony would be favorable to my defense strategy.” Jurors asked about Trump rallies, Jan. 6 hearings Hundreds of potential jurors for the Chesebro trial were summoned to the Fulton County courthouse on Friday, where they filled out questionnaires that were designed to weed out people with conflicts-of-interest or anyone who couldn’t act impartially. CNN overheard a court official reading aloud from portions the jury questionnaire in a public area of the courthouse where the jury selection process was taking place. The questionnaire itself has not been made public. The potential jurors were asked if they “express divisive political opinions,” if they ever attended a Trump rally or any “MAGA events,” or posted anything online about “Donald Trump’s charges.” They were also asked specifically if they watched the highly publicized January 6 committee hearings last year, which presented in dramatic fashion how Trump tried to overturn the election. The potential jurors were also asked if they voted in any federal elections over the past 15 years. There is no indication that they were asked who they voted for, and that is never typically part of a jury questionnaire. At a hearing earlier this week, Fulton County prosecutors and attorneys for Chesebro haggled over how many politically charged questions should be included. Specifically, Chesebro’s attorneys wanted to include questions that could tease out how jurors feel about “MAGA Republicans” and Trump’s attempt to “steal the election.” It’s unclear if those questions made it into the questionnaire. After Chesebro’s plea, McAfee returned to the jury room to dismiss the jury pool, which responded with applause and cheers. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

25-10-23, 05:49	#131
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Assails Judge & Clerk AGAIN in Election Criminal Fraud Trial Mark Meadows Given Immunity To Testify About TRUMP And 2020 Election EX Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has ALSO Been Talking With Special Counsel Jack Smith and His Team in Exchange For Immunity in The FED Jan 6 Probe Meadows has Spoken With Special Counsel Jack Smiths' Team Three Times BBC 25 OCT 2023 Mark Meadows FLIPS On Trump After Being Granted Immunity TRUMP GANG DEAL DAY Mark Meadows, TRUMPs’ chief of staff, was granted immunity for testifying under oath about TRUMPs’ role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results Key Facts Meadows spoke with special counsel Jack Smith’s team—which is leading the case against Trump for his attempts to overturn the election and his mishandling of classified documents—at least three times this year, ABC News reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. He testified in front of a federal grand jury only after Smith gave him immunity, the report says. Meadows told Smith’s team that Trump was “dishonest” to voters when he claimed he won the election on November 3, 2020, and that following the election, he told Trump a number of times the voter fraud claims were baseless—despite saying in his book that election was “stolen” and “rigged.” Key Background Meadows was Trumps’ final chief of staff during his time in the White House and is facing charges in Georgia over his involvement in Trump’s attempt to overturn election results. Meadows has pleaded not guilty in Georgia, arguing the actions mentioned in his indictment were under the purview of his role as White House chief of staff. The Georgia indictment accuses Meadows—who was on the infamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump directed him to “find” the votes needed to win—of participating in a campaign to pressure the secretary of state to violate his oath of office, and committing several other acts as part of the racketeering conspiracy. Recently, in an interview with NBC, Trump said he hoped Meadows stayed “loyal” to him, and when asked if he was worried about Meadows “flipping,” Trump said “I didn’t do anything wrong,” the New York Times reported. Whether Meadows changes how he’s pleading in his Georgia case. So far, four of Trumps’ other co-defendants in the case have taken plea deals, including attorney Sidney Powell and attorney Jenna Ellis. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

10-11-23, 08:04	#132
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: Arizona~FEDS Find GOP FAKE Electors in Criminal Investigation of TRUMPs' Election FAKE Electors From Arizona Focus of Federal Criminal Investigation in TRUMPs' 2020 Election FRAUD High Profile Arizona Republican Politicians Catch Attention of DOJ Two Arizona lawmakers were subpoenaed in connection to the group of "fake electors" who created their own election certification in 2020 Election BBC 10 NOV 2023 Arizona Republican Jake Hoffman who signed phony 'certification' saying Trump won flees from reporter Arizona was one of seven states where so-called “fake electors” signed paperwork that falsely claimed former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Their hope at the time was that then-Vice President Mike Pence would recognize them when the electoral college met to certify the results. Of course, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, backfired and now fake electors across the country, have attracted the attention of the Department of Justice. Some of Arizonas’ false electors included high-profile and powerful politicians. Like Kelli Ward, former chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, and her husband. Two current GOP state lawmakers Jake Hoffman from Queen Creek and Anthony Kern from Glendale, were also involved. *After a hearing Tuesday about Arizona State University, when asked if he’s been contacted by the DOJ, Kern rolled his eyes.* TRUMPs' EX Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has Been Given Immunity To Testify About TRUMP And 2020 Election Reporter Tracks Down Arizona Fake Electors __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

15-11-23, 04:16	#133
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP Told Candidate 'Just Call Him Child Abuser’ Witness Testified in Election C 'Just Call Him a Child Abuser’: TRUMP Told GOP Candidate Herschel Walker to Use Slur Against Warnock - Advice to Use Debunked Claim in US Senate Race Jenna Ellis, Has Testified in Election Interference Case She Was Told TRUMP Was “NEVER Going to Leave The White House BBC 15 NOV 2023 Herschel Walker and Donald Trump hold a rally in Perry Georgia. As Herschel Walker faced defeat by his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock in a high-stakes US Senate election in Georgia last year, Donald Trump advised the Republican candidate: “Just call him a child abuser.” At first, Walker did not take the former president’s advice, letting go his sole debate with Warnock – a church pastor – without raising the slur. But according to Jonathan Karl, ABC News’s chief Washington correspondent and the author of a new book on Trump’s Republican party, “all bets were off once the race went to a run-off”. “‘Y’all know what he did at that camp?’ Walker falsely told a crowd of supporters in late November. ‘This young man said there was sexual abuse and there was physical abuse. I’m like, Who did that? It has to be Senator Raphael Warnock, because he was responsible for it.’” Trump’s advice to the former college football and NFL star, and Walker’s garbled recounting of the slur, is reported in Karl’s new book, Tired of Winning, published in the US on Tuesday. Karl’s source is an unidentified senior Walker adviser who witnessed the conversation, which Walker put “on speakerphone so his team in the room could hear the strategic wisdom that was about to be offered”. The claim against Warnock concerned alleged abuse in 2002 at a Maryland summer camp run by a church where he was then senior pastor. The allegation surfaced – and was used by the Republican Kelly Loeffler – during Warnock’s first victorious Senate run, which ended with a runoff win in January 2021. Karl writes that a camper alleged a counselor threw urine at him and locked him outside overnight, as a punishment for wetting his bed. “The story was horrible,” Karl writes, noting a reported financial settlement. “But labeling Warnock a ‘child molester’ was ridiculously wrong. There was no allegation of sexual abuse and no allegation whatsoever against Warnock himself. He was the pastor at the church, not the director of the camp.” As reported at the time by the Baltimore Sun, Warnock and another church official were arrested after “a state trooper said the ministers prevented her from interviewing counselors as she investigated” the alleged abuse. But the charges of interfering with an investigation were dismissed. Ex-Trump Lawyer Says ‘Boss’ Was NOT Going to Leave White House Revelation comes during interview with Georgia district attorney’s office about events around US election Jenna Ellis reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trumps 2020 election loss in Georgia. An attorney for Donald Trump has told prosecutors in Georgia that one of the former president’s top aides told her in December 2020 that Trump was “not going to leave” the White House “under any circumstances”, despite having lost the election to Joe Biden. The revelation from Jenna Ellis came during an interview with the Georgia district attorney’s office in Fulton County. Ellis is cooperating as part of a plea agreement in the Georgia election interference case against Trump and various allies. Sections of the video recordings were published on Monday by ABC News and the Washington Post, along with excerpts from interviews with lawyer Sidney Powell and two other defendants who have reached plea agreements in the case in exchange for testifying. Ellis said the longtime Trump aide – his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino – told her “the boss” would refuse to cede power. She also alluded to two other “relevant” instances for the case but did not disclose them in the video, apparently prevented from doing so by attorney-client privilege. Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis won't vote for him in 2024, calls him a 'malignant narcissist' Jenna Ellis in Court __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

16-11-23, 03:12	#134
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Assails Judge & Clerk AGAIN in Election Criminal Fraud Trial TRUMP RICO Defendants' Lawyer Admits to Leaking Witness Video to The Press Convicted TRUMP Aides’ Lawyer on RICO Criminal Case & Coup Tape Leak: Manny Arora, the lawyer for guilty Trump aide Kenneth Chesebro, joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss the latest developments in the Georgia RICO case. BBC 16 NOV 2023 A lawyer for one of former President Donald Trumps' co-defendants in the Fulton County racketeering case admitted he sent the media previously unreleased footage of defendants' conversations with prosecutors. TRUMPs' Election Interference is a Criminal Case The admission came from attorney Jonathan Miller, who represents co-defendant Misty Hampton, a Coffee County election supervisor charged in the sweeping election subversion case. The "proffer" or witness footage showed four of Trump's co-defendants speaking with prosecutors after agreeing to plead guilty to their charges. All four witnesses accepted plea deals with District Attorney Fani Willis's office. "Judge, I did release those videos to one outlet. And in all candor ... I need the court to know that," Miller said. "All four of those people that did their proffers, they stood in front of you, they did their plea, it was all recorded, it was sent out there for the world to see," Miller said. "And to hide those proffers that show all the underlying things that went into those pleas misleads the public about what's going on." In part of the proffer footage, former Trump attorney and co-defendant Jenna Ellis told prosecutors that Trump's then-deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino told her "the boss" wouldn't leave the White House after losing the 2020 election. "He said, 'The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power,'" Ellis said in the footage, suggesting "the boss" referred to Trump. "And I said to him, 'Well, it doesn't quite work that way, you realize.' And he said, 'We don't care.'" Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is weighing whether to impose the protective order prosecutors requested after the previously undisclosed video of defendants who accepted plea deals leaked. In court on Wednesday, Miller pushed back on the notion that the footage he sent to the media was a "leak." Prosecutors initially blamed the release of the footage on a separate co-defendant, Black Voices for Trump leader Harrison Floyd. His counsel told the court on Wednesday that there was a typo in their email exchange with prosecutors and continued to argue that Floyd's team was not the source of the footage. Protective orders are typically put in place to protect parties in certain cases from harassment or violence. In this case, Willis wants one to bar disclosure of discovery footage that was not intended to be made public at this point in the pretrial phase. Judge Scott McAfee is expected to rule on whether to impose a protective order soon but did not offer an exact time. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

17-11-23, 11:15	#135
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,639 Thanks: 27,645 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: TRUMP Stung by Filing on 'GAG Order Must Remain' & Posts Insane Thanksgiving Message TRUMP Assails Judge and Clerk AGAIN in Election Criminal Fraud Trial as Gag Order Temporarily Lifts Donald Trump has assailed a judge and clerk handling his New York fraud trial as a gag order banning him from criticising court personnel was paused. BBC 17 NOV 2023 The ex-president sued the judge in the civil case, Arthur Engoron, after he barred him and his attorneys from speaking about judicial staff. Mr Trump's lawyers had argued the gag order was unconstitutional. A state intermediate appeals court has granted what is known as an interim stay. Judge David Friedman cited the "constitutional and statutory rights at issue" in Thursday's ruling. It means that, for now, Mr Trump and his lawyers can once again make public comments about the court officials. The former president wasted little time in reopening attacks on Judge Engoron, calling his actions "Radical and Unprecedented". "His Ridiculous and Unconstitutional Gag Order, not allowing me to defend myself against him and his politically biased and out of control, Trump Hating Clerk, who is sinking him and his Court to new levels of LOW, is a disgrace," the 77-year-old wrote in a lengthy post on social media. Mr Trump's lawyer Christopher Kise also welcomed the ruling, which he said would restore his client's right "to talk about bias in his own trial". . __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES