Trump's world....

[OldTerrapin]

26 minutes ago, I AM IRONMAN said:

Wrong President if you’re talking about sniffing!

 

LOL.. It is some click bait site that basically had random quotes from Hooters girls about random customers and they put those quotes on other random photos of people with Hooters girls. Neither has anyting to do with the other.. does show how easy it is to spread bullshit though. Why I keep myself out of pictures the best I can. You never know who wants to be an ass. Then there's people like DBP that believe all of it hook, line and sinker. lmao

[DBP66]

1 hour ago, OldTerrapin said:

 

LOL.. It is some click bait site that basically had random quotes from Hooters girls about random customers and they put those quotes on other random photos of people with Hooters girls. Neither has anyting to do with the other.. does show how easy it is to spread bullshit though. Why I keep myself out of pictures the best I can. You never know who wants to be an ass. Then there's people like DBP that believe all of it hook, line and sinker. lmao

I guess I'm busted!!....Just because I think Trump won the election?!....like rest of the Trumpers here??...🙄

[DBP66]

Trump suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on North Korea and blaming it on someone else in 2017, book claims

 

 

Alia Shoaib

Sun, January 15, 2023 at 5:31 AM EST

 

 

 

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

• As president, Donald Trump suggested nuking North Korea and blaming someone else, a new book extract says.

• Trump was also reportedly "baffled and annoyed" that he would need congressional approval for a pre-emptive strike.

• It is alleged that Trump made the comments in 2017 around the time he was issuing public threats to North Korea.

In his first year in office, Donald Trump suggested striking North Korea with a nuclear weapon and blaming it on someone else, according to a new section of a book obtained by NBC News.

The revelation was made in a new afterword to the book "Donald Trump v. The United States" by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, due to be released on Tuesday.

 

Trump made the alleged comments behind closed doors in 2017 when he publicly warned North Korea that it would "be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if it continued to make threats.

The then-president also routinely took to Twitter to taunt North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who he had nicknamed "Rocket Man."

The book suggests that John Kelly, who had started as Trump's White House Chief of Staff in July 2017, was alarmed by the president's attitude towards the East Asian nation.

 

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," the new section of the book says.

Kelly tried to reason with Trump and explain why this would be a bad idea, according to the book.

"It'd be tough to not have the finger pointed at us," Kelly reportedly told him.

 

US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Kelly had the country's top military leaders brief Trump about the implications if war were to break out with North Korea and how many people could be killed, but this had "no impact on Trump," according to the book.

He also tried to point out the economic repercussions of war, but the book notes that this argument only held Trump's attention briefly.

Trump "would turn back to the possibility of war, including at one point raising to Kelly the possibility of launching a preemptive military attack against North Korea," the book said.

Schmidt wrote that Trump's White House aides were worried North Korea could be listening into to Trump's conversation on unsecured phones and get wind of the president's potential intent to use military force.

"Kelly would have to remind Trump that he could not share classified information with his friends," Schmidt wrote, reported NBC.

The president was also reportedly "baffled and annoyed" by Kelly's warning that Trump would need congressional approval for a preemptive strike.

Despite Trump's stern words about North Korea publicly and privately, the former president formed what he described as a "very good relationship" with Kim and called letters the North Korean dictator wrote him "love letters."

[DBP66]

Cohen meets Trump prosecutors amid renewed hush money probe

 

FILE - Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, arrives at Federal Court in New York, on Nov. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

 

JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK

Wed, January 18, 2023 at 2:09 PM EST

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours Tuesday with Manhattan prosecutors who have revived a years-old investigation into payments made to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged extramarital tryst.

Cohen said he had been “ordered not to disclose” any of the people present at the meeting or to discuss prosecutors’ area of interest in any detail.

“I have tremendous confidence in the team that I met with yesterday, as well as their depth and knowledge regarding this and other matters,” Cohen said.

Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal charges that he violated campaign finance law by arranging payouts to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal to keep them from going public with claims of extramarital affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the affairs.

 

The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan decided not to prosecute Trump personally over the hush-money payments. The Manhattan district attorney's office then began investigating the payments to see if any state laws were broken.

No charges were brought against Trump during the tenure of former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who shifted the probe's focus to the Trump Organization's business practices. The company was convicted of tax fraud last month and fined $1.6 million.

After that conviction, Vance's successor, District Attorney Alvin Bragg, said its Trump investigation was moving to the “next chapter," but he offered no specifics on where it was headed next.

Focusing again on hush money payments would be bringing the probe full circle.

A message seeking comment was left with the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

Bragg, a Democrat, has shown renewed interest in pursuing more charges, possibly against Trump himself. He has also shown concern about revealing too much about the probe, saying that acknowledging or disclosing certain details could harm a potential case.

On Wednesday, Bragg’s office sent a letter to Mark Pomerantz, the former prosecutor who once oversaw the office’s Trump inquiries, and his publisher Simon & Schuster, raising concerns that his book’s slated publication next month could “materially prejudice ongoing criminal investigations.”

Bragg’s office said Pomerantz failed to receive required authorization before writing the book, “People v. Trump, An Inside Account" and that he could be committing a crime if he was “unlawfully converting confidential government information for his personal advantage.” The office is seeking to review the manuscript before publication.

Pomerantz left the district attorney’s office last year after clashing with Bragg over the direction of the case and recently started a non-profit law firm, Free + Fair Litigation Group, with ex-Trump prosecutor Carey Dunne and former NBA players union Executive Director Michele Roberts.

In a statement, Pomerantz said: “I am confident that all of my actions with respect to the Trump investigation, including the writing of my forthcoming book, are consistent with my legal and ethical obligations."

As for Cohen, he met with Manhattan prosecutors earlier in the investigation more than a dozen times, including three times while serving a federal prison sentence. Tuesday’s session was his first since Bragg took office last year.

Bragg, told The Associated Press in a recent interview that his office’s investigation into Trump and his businesses is continuing and that no decision has been made on whether to charge the former president.

“We’re going to follow the facts and continue to do our job,” Bragg said.

Trump, a Republican, has decried the probe as politically motivated.

Bragg said the investigation slowed while the Trump Organization case was playing out, in part because he did not want to prejudice the trial or give rise to defense mistrial motions.

“Now with the trial having ended, we are now moving on to the next chapter, which may allow us to do things that are not 100% covert — may involve reaching out to people outside of the office to gather additional evidence,” Bragg said.

Last month, as the trial was wrapping up, Bragg hired former acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Colangelo to lead the Trump investigation and other white collar probes. Bragg and Colangelo worked together on Trump-related matters at the state attorney general’s office.

Manhattan prosecutors have also probed whether Trump misled banks and tax authorities about the value of assets, an issue Cohen raised while testifying before Congress in 2019. That matter is now the subject of a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

[DBP66]

The 2020 election continues.....the crazy man has spoken....

Trump Makes Bold Charge in New Rant: The Election Was ‘Stollen’!

Story by Tommy Christopher • 8h ago

Former President Donald Trump leveled a bold new charge in a social media rant against the 2020 presidential election, which he now says was “stollen.”

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks to guests at Mar-a-lago on Nov. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. An executive at Trump’s company testified Monday, Nov. 14 that he was afraid he’d hear those famous words — “you’re fired!” — if he went to the big boss with concerns that two top company officials were scheming to dodge taxes on company-paid perks.© Provided by Mediaite

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File

While Trump has spent a lot of time trying to capitalize on President Joe Biden’s classified documents flap by demanding an end to the various probes dogging Trumpworld, he’s also found time to reimagine the classics.

On Thursday morning, Trump posted a new rant on his own social media app, rehashing old false claims about Twitter and the election and one new one:

 

So with the FBI being caught red handed in Twitter Files, totally influencing the Election, on top of all of the other fraud and irregularities, the Fake News Media is finding it harder and harder to use the term “Big Lie" anymore. It actually angers people to do very bad things. The Radical Left should be careful in its use of that ridiculous term. The Election was Rigged and Stollen, the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs refused to discuss it, and so it goes. People want answers!

[DBP66]

Poll: As debt battle looms, 55% of Americans say GOP House is 'dysfunctional'

 

 

Andrew Romano

·West Coast Correspondent

Thu, January 19, 2023 at 6:31 PM EST

 

 

 

The Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

By a massive 30-point margin, Americans say Republicans’ protracted battle earlier this month to elect a new House speaker is a sign that “Congress is dysfunctional” (55%) rather than “functioning as intended” (25%), according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

And that’s probably a harbinger of trouble ahead as the United States breaches its debt limit and barrels toward yet another dramatic clash on Capitol Hill in the coming weeks.

Even among Republicans, more see the recent speaker standoff — described in the survey as taking “15 rounds of voting — the most in 100 years — because of resistance from a small group of Republicans” — as evidence that Congress is dysfunctional (48%) rather than functional (37%).

 

As the U.S. officially hit its debt ceiling Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she would have to take “extraordinary measures” to avoid a financial meltdown and urged congressional leaders to “promptly” raise the nation’s borrowing limit. (Raising the limit allows the federal government to cover expenses it has already authorized in order to avoid a catastrophic default that could wipe out $15 trillion in wealth and cost as many as 6 million jobs, according to one recent estimate.)

Yet conservative House Republicans — newly emboldened by their success in prolonging the speaker battle and by promises that the eventual winner, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, reportedly made to secure their votes — are demanding steep budget cuts in exchange for letting the government pay off its past debts. In contrast, the Biden administration says it won’t negotiate and is insisting instead on a “clean” increase of the sort that Republicans approved three times while Donald Trump was president.

The new Yahoo News/YouGov survey of 1,538 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Jan. 12 to 16, found that nearly twice as many favor the Biden position (“a traditional ‘clean’ debt-limit vote without new policy demands,” at 45%) than favor the right-wing Republican position (“attaching new policy demands to the debt-limit vote,” at 24%). Predictably, Democrats prefer the Biden position by a wide margin (61% to 19%) — but again, even Republicans are not particularly supportive of future debt-limit brinkmanship, with 35% preferring a clean vote and 36% preferring to attach policy demands.

In addition, it’s entirely possible that conservative demands for budget cuts could lose further public favor once conservatives announce which federal programs they actually want to cut. Of the choices offered in the poll — which mirror the latest reporting on potential GOP demands — cuts to federal spending on “aid to Ukraine in the war with Russia” (44% favor) is the only proposal that even approaches majority support. The rest — cutting spending on the U.S. military (22%), Social Security (10%) or Medicare (9%) — aren’t even close.

 

A billboard showing the national debt in Washington on Thursday. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

And while a majority of Republicans do favor cutting aid to Ukraine (63%), the share who want to slash spending on the military (15%), Social Security (12%) or Medicare (12%) is about as minuscule as it is among Americans as a whole.

Further complicating matters for House conservatives is the fact that many Americans don’t really get what the debt limit is all about — but the more they learn, the less they want Congress to hold it hostage. Less than half of U.S. adults (42%), for instance, correctly understand that the debt limit must be raised “to allow the federal government to pay for spending that Congress has already authorized”; more either say the U.S. regularly raises the debt limit “to authorize new federal spending” (25%) or are not sure (33%).

In that light, it’s not surprising that when Yahoo News and YouGov asked a random half of poll respondents whether they “favor or oppose raising the U.S. debt limit” — with no additional context — more said they opposed it (40%) than said they favored it (28%). Yet when the other half were asked the same question after hearing a description of the likeliest consequences — “defaulting on America’s past debts” and failing to pay “Social Security benefits and military salaries” while “sparking a possible recession” — the numbers completely flipped, with 45% now saying they favored raising the limit and just 24% saying they were opposed.

And meanwhile, about one-third of Americans say they’re “not sure” how to respond to any questions about the debt limit — suggesting that opposition to the GOP’s hardball tactics has further room to grow if the U.S. does default and economists’ worst predictions come to pass.

The upshot is that Speaker McCarthy has his work cut out for him going forward. For now, pluralities of Americans (43%) and Republicans (47%) are not sure if they view him favorably or unfavorably, and they’re equally uncertain whether they approve or disapprove of the job he’s doing as speaker (45% and 47% not sure, respectively).

Yet McCarthy’s early reviews among all U.S. adults — 20% favorable vs. 37% unfavorable; 24% approve vs. 31% disapprove — are negative, on the whole. And Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are divided over whether the House GOP should have chosen McCarthy (32%) or someone else (31%) as speaker.

At the same time, sizable pluralities of Americans oppose many of the reported concessions that the Californian made to “persuade holdouts in his own party,” including giving the anti-McCarthy holdouts seats on powerful committees (42% oppose, 24% favor); allowing any one member to force votes on an unlimited number of amendments to spending bills (42% oppose, 23% favor); and allowing any one member to force a vote to remove the speaker at any time (37% oppose, 30% favor).

 

Speaker Kevin McCarthy at a news conference in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Jan. 12. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)

Other reported concessions, however, are more popular: posting legislation at least 72 hours in advance of a vote so lawmakers have time to review it (68% favor, 10% oppose); creating a special committee to investigate the Justice Department and the FBI (51% favor, 27% oppose); and ending pandemic-era congressional voting by proxy, which allowed members of Congress to cast votes without being in Washington, D.C. (46% favor, 29% oppose).

For McCarthy to succeed, then, the trick will be placating his party’s most extreme members without succumbing to their least popular demands. Following the recent House speaker fight, just 26% of Americans say Republicans “have the right priorities” — down 5 points since late October — while more than twice as many (54%) say they are “not paying enough attention to America’s real problems.”

Perceptions of Democrats aren’t quite as bad — 30% “have the right priorities” vs. 52% “not paying enough attention to America’s real problems” — with no significant changes since August.

Likewise, Americans are now 20 points more likely to say Republicans have a greater interest in “damaging” the other party (48%) than “passing legislation” (28%) — and just 6 points more likely to say the same of Democrats (at 42% to 36%, respectively).

[concha]

 

 President Biden is named in 2017 email discussing multi-million dollar gas deal with CHINA: Louisiana lawyer wrote to Joe's brother Jim saying 'I've arranged a call with the VP and his son Hunter to discuss the purchase'

[Warrior]

Got him DP!….Congrats. This is to perfect not to post.

[DBP66]

Just like how he won the election!!...LOL...🤡

Trump declares himself winner of his own golf club championship – despite missing a round

 

Tom D'Angelo, Palm Beach Post

Tue, January 24, 2023 at 12:55 PM EST·2 min read

 

 

Donald Trump has declared himself a winner … again.

Trump announced on his social media platform on Tuesday that he won the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach last weekend, despite not playing the first round of the tournament.

Members arrived the second day surprised to see Trump with a five-point lead, according to the Daily Mail. But Trump never played the first round as he was attending a funeral in North Carolina of ardent supporter Lynette Hardaway, known by the moniker “Diamond” of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk.

Trump told tournament organizers he played a strong round on the course Thursday, two days before the tournament started, and decided that would count as his Saturday score for the club championship. That score was five points better than any competitor posted during Saturday's first round.

 

Trump called it a "great honor" to have won "on of the best courses in the Country, in Palm Beach County," in his post on Truth Social.

 

Oct 27, 2022; Miami, Florida, USA; Former President Donald Trump on the tenth tee during the Pro-Am tournament before the LIV Golf series at Trump National Doral.

“Competed against many fine golfers and was hitting the ball long and straight," he wrote. "The reason that I announce this on fabulous TRUTH is that, in a very real way, it serves as a physical exam, only MUCH tougher. You need strength and stamina to WIN, & I have strength & stamina – most others don’t. You also need strength & stamina to GOVERN!”

Trump's Thursday round gave him a score of 40 using the Stableford method, five better than Saturday's best round, according to the Daily Mail. The Stableford method awards one point for bogey, two for par, three for a birdie and so on.

Trump, the Palm Beach resident and former president who played more golf while in office than any other president, made a hole-in-one on the course in April, a feat verified by Hall of Fame golfer Ernie Els, who was part of Trump's foursome that day. Trump used a 5-iron on the 181-yard seventh hole.

[DBP66]

Georgia DA notes ‘imminent’ charging decisions in seeking to shield grand jury report

 

Rebecca Beitsch

Tue, January 24, 2023 at 2:01 PM EST

 

 

A Georgia prosecutor investigating whether former President Trump and his allies broke any laws as they sought to influence the outcome of the 2020 election has asked a judge to keep sealed a grand jury report detailing the probe, saying charging decisions for multiple people “are imminent.”

The probe, led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), comes in response to Trump’s phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) shortly before Jan. 6, 2021, asking him to “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.”

The report is expected to include recommendations to Willis on whether to charge Trump and others involved in numerous actions, including a plot to send so-called alternate electors for the state, which President Biden won.

Jurors involved in crafting the report have previously determined it should be released to the public, but the final decision over whether to do so rests with Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who will weigh whether to do so and if any redactions are necessary to disclose the document.

 

Willis cautioned the court against imminently releasing the report, saying it could impact the right of numerous defendants to have a fair trial.

“We have to be mindful of protecting future defendants’ rights. And so what the state does not want to see happen — and don’t think that there’s any way that the court would be able to guarantee — is that if that report was released, there somehow could be arguments made that it impacts the right for later individuals — multiple — to get a fair trial, to have a fair hearing, to be able to be tried in this jurisdiction,” Willis said at the outset of the hearing.

“Decisions are imminent,” she added.

Much of the hearing centered on whether the report qualifies as a “presentment” under Georgia’s complex laws dealing with special grand juries. If so, McBurney would be required to follow the recommendation of the jurors and release it.

McBurney did not make an immediate ruling from the bench, and said he expected to send additional questions to lawyers for both the state and the media, which on Tuesday argued in favor of releasing the documents.

The special grand jury, which was dissolved on Jan. 9, reviewed a number of actions in the state beyond the now-infamous phone call and included appearances — many under court order — from numerous Trump allies.

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, his then-attorney Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) all appeared before the jury.

Willis revealed a new detail in her opening remarks, noting that the grand jury heard in total from 75 witnesses.

Many view the probe as one of the most plausible paths for a prosecution of Trump.

A November prosecution memo prepared through the Brookings Institution found numerous state and federal statutes that may have been violated through the attempts to reverse the election results.

Attorneys for Trump said Monday they would not be present at the hearing, noting that the former president was never subpoenaed or asked to voluntarily appear before the grand jury.

“We can assume that the grand jury did their job and looked at the facts and the law, as we have, and concluded there were no violations of the law by President Trump,” attorneys Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little said in a joint statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

However, 16 Republicans who met at the Georgia Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, as part of the plot to falsely certify the election for Trump have been informed they are targets of the investigation and could face criminal charges.

Unofficial hearings led by Giuliani with state legislators reviewing baseless claims of fraud were also reviewed, and Giuliani has likewise been informed he may face prosecution.

Court filings also detail other areas of interest, including the abrupt resignation of B.J. Pak, then a U.S. attorney in the state, after he determined there was no substance to claims by Giuliani that there were “suitcases” full of ballots that were being mishandled by election workers.

Donald Wakeford, a deputy to Willis, noted the district attorney’s office has had little more than a week to review the report and determine how to proceed on any charges.

“The District Attorney in its ongoing investigation has to assess what has been provided by the Special Purpose Grand Jury. … There has been no opportunity whatsoever for this office to incorporate anything in the document into an ongoing investigation in a meaningful way,” he said.

“Our position should not be understood to be a blanket opposition to release of the report forever and until the end of time,” he added later.

Tom Clyde, a lawyer arguing on behalf of numerous media outlets, said prosecutors often must tangle with the release of information while continuing their investigation and that the DA’s office failed to offer sufficient specifics about how their cases might be harmed.

“We believe the report should be released now and in its entirety,” he said.

“It is not unusual for a district attorney or a prosecuting authority to be generally uncomfortable with having to release information during the progress of a case. That occurs all the time,” he argued, adding that judges have often mandated the release of information “because the faith of the public in the court system is much improved by operating in a public way.”

McBurney said any eventual decision to release the documents would be first announced through an order giving a future date for the release of the report.

He noted there were “precious few” prior cases on similar matters, and that while some reports had been released, “that doesn’t mean that that was the right thing to do.”

“I just want to be thoughtful about it because there’s clearly great interest in the work the Special Purpose Grand Jury completed,” he said. “And we need to be responsive to what may be competing concerns of the investigative interests of the District Attorney’s Office and the public’s interest in understanding what its colleagues, the members of the Special Purpose Grand Jury, did after they heard the evidence that was presented to them.”

[DBP66]

'Leave him alone': Trump defends Mike Pence as 'an innocent man' after discovery of classified records at former vice president's home

 

'Leave him alone': Trump defends Mike Pence as 'an innocent man' after discovery of classified records at former vice president's home

 

• Donald Trump defended Pence after classified documents were discovered at the VP's home.

• "Mike Pence is an innocent man," the former president wrote in a social media post.

• A lawyer for Pence turned over the records to the FBI last week, according to multiple news reports.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended former Vice President Mike Pence after around a dozen documents marked as classified were discovered at his Indiana home.

"Mike Pence is an innocent man," Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, shortly after the news broke. "He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!"

 

A lawyer for Pence found the records at Pence's Carmel, Indiana, home and turned them over to the FBI last week, CNN first reported on Tuesday. The FBI is reportedly reviewing the documents and how they turned up at Pence's home.

Trump's reaction comes as he's under criminal investigation over possibly mishandling classified materials after he left the White House. The FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Florida in August, finding roughly 100 documents with classified markings.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation in November, three days after Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid. The former president has heavily criticized the investigation and denied any wrongdoing in regard to the documents.

It also comes as classified documents have been found at President Joe Biden's former office and his Delaware home several times this month. The most recent discovery of records, which were from Biden's time as vice president, came during an FBI search of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home on Friday.

Earlier this month, Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate how the records ended up there.

Pence joins Trump and Biden as potential 2024 presidential frontrunners who are entangled in classified-documents controversies. Pence has been a rumored candidate but has not yet announced a campaign. Biden has repeatedly said he intends to run but has not formally launched a bid.

Legal experts have distinguished Trump's handling of classified records from Biden's, arguing that Biden's lawyers notified the authorities about the discovery whereas Trump's team resisted turning the records over. Still, both Trump and Biden have caught flak over the revelation of the records at their residences.

Trump's defense of Pence also comes as the two's relationship has fractured following the 2020 election and the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Trump, at the time, had sought to pressure Pence to challenge the results as Congress met to certify then-President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Pence dismissed the request, saying he had no constitutional authority to do so.

Since leaving office, Pence has said he may never "see eye to eye" with Trump on January 6, though he's praised the work the two accomplished during their one term in the White House.

[Warrior]

[Warrior]

What did AG Garland say the other day about we treat the R’s and D’s the same? Right. 

[DBP66]

35 minutes ago, Warrior said:

What did AG Garland say the other day about we treat the R’s and D’s the same? Right. 

LOL...not even close...one guy tried to steal files and refused to return files when asked and then LIED about having returned them all.....nice try though!         🤡

[Warrior]

1 hour ago, DBP66 said:

LOL...not even close...one guy tried to steal files and refused to return files when asked and then LIED about having returned them all.....nice try though!         🤡

You need new sources - 

[DBP66]

This guy was going to expose the "deep state"??....wonk...wonk...

Prosecutor appointed by Trump Justice Department used claims from Russian intelligence to obtain emails from a George Soros aide: NYT

 

 

Charles R. Davis

Thu, January 26, 2023 at 6:37 PM EST

 

 

 

John Durham and Donald Trump.Associated Press; Getty Images

• John Durham used Russian intelligence claims to obtain a US citizen's emails, per The New York Times.

• Durham was appointed by former Attorney General Bill Barr to examine the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

• But Durham pursued a dubious claim from Russia involving Hillary Clinton and an aide to George Soros.

John Durham, former US Attorney for the District of Connecticut, was supposed to be investigating the investigators, charged with looking into the origins of what former President Donald Trump often termed a "hoax": the FBI's examination of his campaign's dealings with the Russian government.

In the course of his hunt for wrongdoing, culminating in two failed prosecutions, the veteran prosecutor relied on dubious claims from the Kremlin to pursue a conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton, Democratic donor and right-wing boogeyman George Soros, and the former head of the Democratic National Committee, according to an investigation by The New York Times published Thursday.

[Wildcat Will]

7 hours ago, Warrior said:

You need new sources - 

Really?

You need a source.

Common knowledge.

Showing your ignorance.

[Warrior]

10 hours ago, Wildcat Will said:

Really?

You need a source.

Common knowledge.

Showing your ignorance.

Deep Willie, deep.

[Wildcat Will]

1 hour ago, Warrior said:

Deep Willie, deep.

I give it to you as shallow as deemed necessary. Your progression is graded on the Bell Curve and monitored to assess the verbiage appropriate to communicate simple thought.

[Warrior]

17 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

I give it to you as shallow as deemed necessary. Your progression is graded on the Bell Curve and monitored to assess the verbiage appropriate to communicate simple thought.

When "Common Knowledge" is used as a source your ignorance is glaring. But please continue.

[DBP66]

1 hour ago, Warrior said:

When "Common Knowledge" is used as a source your ignorance is glaring. But please continue.

LOL..because you clowns are too smart for common knowledge....everything comes wrapped in a conspiracy in your silly world...you guys prefer your "alternative facts"....🤡

[DBP66]

...hummm

John Durham's secret criminal investigation reportedly involved Trump, not Clinton or the FBI

 

 

Peter Weber, Senior editor

Fri, January 27, 2023 at 1:37 AM EST

 

 

 

John Durham Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images

Special Counsel John Durham's long investigation of the FBI's probe of Russia's ties to former President Donald Trump never proved former Attorney General Bill Barr's theories that the investigation had started with anti-Trump skulduggery by the CIA and allied intelligence services, or through a conspiracy from Hillary Clinton's rival presidential campaign. But it wasn't for lack of trying, The New York Times detailed Thursday, after a monthlong review Durham's investigation.

Durham is currently writing his final report after going 0 for 2 in courtroom prosecutions.

The Times report answered some lingering questions from Durham's politically charged investigation, including why his top lieutenant abruptly quit before the 2020 election, and uncovered new information, like Durham's use of grand jury powers to sidestep a federal judge and obtain emails from an associate of George Soros. And it revealed that Barr transformed Durham's administrative review into a criminal investigation not because of anything to do with the FBI or Clinton, but so Durham could investigate a possible crime involving Trump.

 

When Durham and Barr made a very unusual trip to Italy in September 2019, "Italian officials — while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation — unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes," the Times reports. Barr and Durham "decided that the tip was too serious and credible to ignore," but instead of assigning it to another prosecutor, Barr had Durham quietly investigate the matter, "giving him criminal prosecution powers for the first time."

"Durham never filed charges, and it remains unclear what level of an investigation it was, what steps he took, what he learned, and whether anyone at the White House ever found out," the Times adds. This "extraordinary fact" that Durham opened a criminal investigation of Trump "has remained secret," though "a garbled echo became public" when the Times, in October 2019, reported that Durham's review had become a criminal inquiry, presumably (but erroneously) because "Durham had found evidence of potential crimes by officials involved in the Russia inquiry."

Barr, "who weighed in publicly about the Durham inquiry at regular intervals in ways that advanced a pro-Trump narrative, chose in this instance not to clarify what was really happening," the Times notes.

You can read more at The New York Times about Barr's remarkable involvement in the Durham investigation, the dark hints he and Durham dropped to influence public perception, and how Durham kept going after hitting multiple dead ends.

[DBP66]

Revealed: Trump secretly donated $1m to discredited Arizona election ‘audit’

 

 

Brendan Fischer and Ed Pilkington

Fri, January 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST

 

 

 

Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential battle has been solved: who made a secret $1m donation to the controversial election “audit” in Arizona?

The identity of one of the largest benefactors behind the discredited review of Arizona’s vote count has been shrouded in secrecy. Now the Guardian can reveal that the person who partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen from Trump was … Trump.

An analysis by the watchdog group Documented has traced funding for the Arizona audit back to Trump’s Save America Pac. The group tracked the cash as it passed from Trump’s fund through an allied conservative group, and from there to a shell company which in turn handed the money to contractors and individuals involved in the Arizona audit.

 

Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company that led the Arizona audit, disclosed in 2021 that $5.7m of its budget came from several far-right groups invested in the “stop the steal” campaign to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential victory. It was later divulged that a further $1m had supported the audit from an account controlled by Cleta Mitchell, a Republican election lawyer who advised Trump as he plotted to subvert the 2020 election.

But who gave the $1m to Mitchell? In September 2021, as Cyber Ninjas was preparing to deliver its findings, the New York Times reported that unnamed “officials” had denied that Trump had played any part in securing the funds.

Republican leaders of the Arizona senate who asked Cyber Ninjas to carry out the audit also publicly denied that Trump was involved, saying “this absolutely has nothing to do with Trump”.

Documented’s analysis pierces through that denial. Basing its research on corporate, tax and campaign finance filings, as well as emails and text messages obtained by the non-partisan accountability group American Oversight through public records requests, the watchdog has followed the money on its circuitous journey from the former US president’s Pac to the Arizona review.

[Warrior]

55 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

LOL..because you clowns are too smart for common knowledge....everything comes wrapped in a conspiracy in your silly world...you guys prefer your "alternative facts"....🤡

Here's another conspiracy for you....

Charles McGonigal, who had been the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, is accused of taking secret payments from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in exchange for investigating a rival oligarch, according to court documents.

In 2016, Mr. McGonigal was serving as chief of the cybercrime section at FBI headquarters. In that position, he was one of the first FBI officials to learn that a Trump campaign official bragged that Russian officials had dirt on Hillary Clinton, sparking the Trump-Russia collusion investigation known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane.

Mr. McGonigal, 54, is one of the highest-ranking FBI officials ever charged with a crime. He faces one count of violating U.S. sanctions, one count of money laundering and two conspiracy counts.

So the guy in charge of investing the Trump Russia collusion was arrested for colluding with Russians....you really can't make this up.  

 

Instead calling them "Far Right" conspiracy's, maybe try "Right so Far"

 

[DBP66]

7 minutes ago, Warrior said:

Here's another conspiracy for you....

Charles McGonigal, who had been the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, is accused of taking secret payments from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in exchange for investigating a rival oligarch, according to court documents.

In 2016, Mr. McGonigal was serving as chief of the cybercrime section at FBI headquarters. In that position, he was one of the first FBI officials to learn that a Trump campaign official bragged that Russian officials had dirt on Hillary Clinton, sparking the Trump-Russia collusion investigation known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane.

Mr. McGonigal, 54, is one of the highest-ranking FBI officials ever charged with a crime. He faces one count of violating U.S. sanctions, one count of money laundering and two conspiracy counts.

So the guy in charge of investing the Trump Russia collusion was arrested for colluding with Russians....you really can't make this up.  

 

Instead calling them "Far Right" conspiracy's, maybe try "Right so Far"

 

it's not a conspiracy...it actually happened....the guy is an American/Russian spy....see the difference??....probably not.