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Cheney and Pence take the fight to Trump, from Georgia to Wyoming

Jon Ward

·Chief National Correspondent

Mon, May 23, 2022, 1:36 PM

 

 

The battle for the Republican Party is entering a new phase, and Rep. Liz Cheney sounded the first shot of it on Sunday evening.

“We face a threat we have never faced before: a former president attempting to unravel our constitutional republic. At this moment we must all summon the courage to stand against that,” Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and Donald Trump’s chief antagonist in the GOP, said in a speech Sunday night.

Cheney delivered the remarks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library after the institution presented her with a Profile in Courage award. She was one of five people given the award, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and three other American officials from both parties who came under intense attack by Trump and his supporters after the 2020 election.

 

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on Sunday. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Cheney’s direct shot at Trump — referring to him as a current and ongoing “threat” to the republic’s survival — kicks off a week full of drama within the GOP.

Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, will rally with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday evening, the night before Republican voters go to the polls in the Peach State. Trump made Kemp his No. 1 target for removal after the 2020 election, because Kemp, a conservative Republican, refused to go along with Trump’s efforts to overturn the results.

Kemp appears poised to defeat Trump’s handpicked candidate for governor, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Polling has consistently shown Kemp above 50%, ahead of Perdue by enough to avoid a runoff election and win the GOP nomination outright on Tuesday.

Pence’s appearance with Kemp is the former vice president’s boldest move yet in his ongoing divorce from Trump. Pence has walked a careful line for months, at once seeking to rebut Trump’s lies about the election while still celebrating their administration’s policy accomplishments.

 

Gov. Brian Kemp and then-Vice President Mike Pence after a roundtable discussion with small business owners in May 2020. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

Close observers of Pence have noticed a pattern of steady and gradual escalation of his willingness to rebuke Trump. But the Georgia rally is the clearest sign so far that he is willing to do more than just poke at Trump ahead of the 2024 Republican primaries, which is increasingly likely to pit the two men against each other.

Having reportedly concluded that Georgia is a lost cause, Trump is launching a new offensive out west against Cheney. On Saturday, he will travel to Wyoming to campaign against her and for her primary opponent, Harriet Hageman.

Trump has had a mixed record this year in contested primaries where he has tried to oust Republicans he deems insufficiently loyal to him. But defeating Cheney, the most outspoken Trump critic inside the GOP, in Wyoming’s Aug. 16 primary is now a top priority for him. Conversely, Republicans who hope to move the Republican Party past Trump have coalesced around Cheney, fundraising for her as she attempts to stave off the former president’s assault.

 

Then-President Donald Trump before speaking at a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

All of this will set up a series of public hearings held by the congressional committee investigating the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The committee believes it can demonstrate to the public that Trump sought to overturn the election results through various means, in a way that has not yet been fully revealed, and that he intentionally did nothing during the insurrection, one source told Yahoo News.

Cheney is the vice chair of that committee and will play a leading role in those hearings, which will begin on June 9. Her speech at the Kennedy Library on Sunday served as a preview for how she will contextualize the events of Jan. 6.

Cheney is Republican royalty; she is the daughter of Dick Cheney, the former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense who became George W. Bush’s vice president. But on Sunday she talked about her great-great-grandfather, Samuel Fletcher Cheney, who fought for the Union in the Civil War. She portrayed the current crisis of democracy in the context of America’s bloodiest conflict.

“I have found myself, especially since Jan. 6, thinking often of my great-great-grandfather and of the Union he fought to defend. And this was never more true than on the night of Jan. 6 itself,” she said.

Cheney then spoke in vivid detail about walking through the Capitol after pro-Trump rioters, who had sought to stop the certification of the 2020 election, had been expelled and defeated by law enforcement.

 

Police clash with Trump supporters who breached security and entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Cheney described the House chamber still strewn with broken glass and furniture piled against the walls in an effort to barricade against rioters. She narrated her walk through Statuary Hall, where Abraham Lincoln once served in Congress, and talked about seeing police in tactical gear resting against statues, surrounded by empty water bottles scattered across the floor, “exhausted from the brutal hand-to-hand combat in which they had been engaged for hours.”

And she talked about walking to the Capitol Rotunda, the majestic vaulted room at the center of the nation’s symbol of representative democracy, where late former presidents have lain in state. Cheney referred to the rotunda as “the most sacred space in our republic.” There too, police had battled Trump’s rioters.

Cheney spoke of looking at John Trumbull’s painting of George Washington resigning his commission as commander in chief of the Continental Army at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War in 1783.

 

John Trumbull’s painting of George Washington that hangs in the Capital Rotunda. (aoc.gov)

“With this noble act, George Washington set the indispensable example of the peaceful transfer of power in our country. This is what President Reagan called ‘nothing short of a miracle.’ This is what President Kennedy called, in his inaugural address, ‘a celebration of freedom,’” Cheney said. “And this sacred obligation to defend the peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president, except one.”

Cheney quoted Kennedy from his inaugural speech in 1961: “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.”

Cheney concluded: “Today that role is ours. … The question for every one of us is, in this time of testing, will we do our duty? Will we defend our Constitution? Will we stand for truth? Will we put duty to our oath above partisan politics? Or will we look away from danger, ignore the threat, embrace the lies and enable the liar?”

It was as robust and forceful a speech against Trump, and Trumpism, as any politician has given, and foreshadowed the case Cheney will make against the former president in the weeks to come.

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Trump suggested Mike Pence should be hanged for refusing to overturn 2020 election, witness testified

David Knowles

·Senior Editor

Wed, May 25, 2022, 5:20 PM

 

 

As he watched on television as his supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” while storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump remarked that his vice president should perhaps be hanged over his refusal to block the certification of Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The comment was relayed to colleagues by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, and appeared in testimony given to the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the events of that day, the Times reported.

Matching the story in the Times, Politico reported that “three people familiar with the matter” confirmed that Trump had “expressed support for hanging his vice president.”

Shortly before the violence erupted at the Capitol, Trump had whipped up a crowd of several thousand supporters at a rally where he specifically targeted Pence.

“Mike Pence, I hope you’re going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country, and if you’re not, I’m going to be very disappointed in you, I’ll tell you right now,” Trump said.

By then, Pence had already decided he would not attempt to block the certification of the Electoral College vote showing Trump had lost to Biden. As the formality of tallying the votes got underway, the crowd who had watched Trump outside the White House marched to the Capitol with the purpose of disrupting the count.

 

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Trump loses appeal, must testify in New York civil probe

MICHAEL R. SISAK

Thu, May 26, 2022, 11:23 AM

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, rejecting his argument that he be excused from testifying because his answers could be used in a parallel criminal probe.

A four-judge panel in the appellate division of the state’s trial court upheld Judge Arthur Engoron's Feb. 17 ruling, which enforced subpoenas requiring that Trump and his two eldest children — Ivanka and Donald Jr. — give deposition testimony in Attorney General Letitia James’ probe.

“The existence of a criminal investigation does not preclude civil discovery of related facts, at which a party may exercise the privilege against self-incrimination," the appellate panel wrote, citing the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and other legal protections for witnesses.

Lawyers for the Trumps agreed in March that they would sit for depositions within 14 days of an appellate panel decision upholding Engoron’s ruling. They could also appeal the decision to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, delaying the matter and the Trumps’ potential testimony indefinitely.

A message seeking comment was left with lawyers for the Trumps.

James lauded the ruling, which came just two weeks after the appellate panel heard oral arguments in the case. She tweeted that her investigation “will continue undeterred because no one is above the law."

“Once again, the courts have ruled that Donald Trump must comply with our lawful investigation into his financial dealings,” James said in a written statement. “We will continue to follow the facts of this case and ensure that no one can evade the law.”

James has said her investigation has uncovered evidence Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, used “fraudulent or misleading” valuations of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers to get loans and tax benefits. Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. have both been executives in the Trump Organization and are among their father’s most trusted allies.

The appellate panel, in its ruling, described the investigation as focusing on whether the Trumps “committed persistent fraud in their financial practices and disclosures.”

Trump, a Republican, denies the allegations and has said James’ investigation in part of a politically motivated “witch hunt.”

In appealing Engoron’s subpoena ruling, his lawyers argued that James, a Democrat, was engaging in “selective prosecution.” The appellate panel rejected that, saying the investigation was on solid legal footing and that the Trumps showed no evidence they or their company were “treated differently” than other companies under similar scrutiny.

A lawyer for the Trumps, Alan Futerfas, told the appellate panel in oral arguments on May 11 that James appeared to be using civil subpoenas to get around a New York law that requires immunity for people testifying before a criminal grand jury.

Judith Vale, arguing on behalf of James’ office, countered there was ample evidence from the civil investigation to support subpoenas for the Trumps’ testimony.

She also cited legal precedent allowing the attorney general’s office to do so, and said the Trumps could always invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination — as Trump’s son Eric did hundreds of times in a 2020 deposition.

Appellate Court Judge Rolando T. Acosta appeared to agree with that position, foreshadowing Thursday’s ruling as he questioned Futerfas from the bench.

Anything Trump says in a civil deposition in James’ investigation could be used against him in the criminal probe being overseen by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Last summer, spurred by evidence uncovered by James' office, the DA's office charged the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, with tax fraud, alleging he collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation. Weisselberg and the company have pleaded not guilty.

Thursday's appellate court ruling was the latest in a flurry of legal activity involving Trump and the attorney general’s investigation in the last few weeks.

Last week, Trump paid $110,000 in fines and met several other conditions as he seeks to end a contempt of court order Engoron issued on April 25 after he was slow to respond to another subpoena from James seeking documents and other evidence.

On Monday, James’ office said it had subpoenaed Trump’s longtime executive assistant, Rhona Graff, and planned to question her under oath next week in the probe.

Meanwhile, a federal judge in New York is expected to rule soon in a lawsuit Trump filed against James in December in an attempt to shut down her investigation. Trump’s lawyers want an injunction to halt the probe. James' office is seeking to throw out the lawsuit.

At a May 13 hearing in the federal case, a lawyer for James’ office said it was “nearing the end” of the probe and that “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence” to support a civil enforcement proceeding, although a final determination hasn't been made.

Since James’ investigation is civil in nature, she could end up bringing a lawsuit and seeking financial penalties against Trump or his company, or even a ban on them being involved in certain types of businesses.

That's what happened in January when a judge barred ex-drug company CEO Martin Shkreli from the pharmaceutical industry for life.

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Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Against New York Attorney General Letitia James Is Tossed Out

 

Erik Larson

Fri, May 27, 2022, 12:27 PM

 

 

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s federal lawsuit challenging the authority of New York to investigate his sprawling real estate business was dismissed, the latest setback in efforts by the former president to halt the three-year-old probe.

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and Trump gets laughed out of the courts M-F....🙄

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Crazy vs. more crazy......

Drama is brewing in the MAGAverse as pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood goes after MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and QAnon John

 

 

Cheryl Teh

Thu, June 2, 2022, 4:01 AM

 

 

 

Lin Wood (left), a pro-Trump lawyer, has gone after MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell (right).Apu Gomes/Getty Images; Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

• Lin Wood, a pro-Trump lawyer, took to Telegram on Wednesday to call out Mike Lindell and QAnon John.

• Wood called both Lindell and Sabal's patriotism into question in a series of Telegram posts.

• This brewing conflict marks a deep fracture in a previously-aligned segment of the MAGAverse.

A series of Telegram posts by Lin Wood, a pro-Trump lawyer, appears to indicate that the MAGAverse may be fracturing from within.

On Wednesday, Wood laid into Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, and John Sabal, a QAnon influencer also known as "QAnon John," on his official Telegram channel. QAnon is a baseless conspiracy theory that claims former President Donald Trump is fighting a cabal of satanic pedophiles.

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Lindell, Wood, and Sabal were previously thought to be part of an alliance of public figures who believe the baseless conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

In a Telegram post, Wood suggested that the MAGA movement was being compromised by "deep state operatives" disguised as "patriots" who were actually "communist infiltrators."

"Mike Lindell. Patriot or traitor? You decide," Wood wrote. "Do the research. Connect the dots. Draw your own conclusions."

"I have drawn mine. I know this: God does not lie. And god never overpromises and under-delivers," Wood added.

He then shared a lengthy message from one of his followers, which posited that Lindell could be associated with Antifa.

The post shared by Wood also claimed, without substantiation, that Lindell once offered a 66.6% discount on his pillows, implying that the pillow salesman had links to Satanism. The number 666 is sometimes used in popular culture to refer to "the mark of the beast," a Satanic symbol.

Some of Wood's followers also chimed in, criticizing the pillow CEO.

"I ordered a pillow from him awhile ago and that's the first thing I thought when I saw his enclosed 66% off coupon inside of the package. Out of all the available numbers he could have used and he chose 66%," read a post by one of Wood's followers.

Wood also attacked Sabal, telling his followers to "watch out" for the latter.

"I have had my eyes on Ol' QAnon John from the very beginning. He thought he was playing me. I was playing him to expose him as a FAKE Patriot," Wood wrote.

The Trump-allied lawyer also appealed to Sabal to "confess and repent." "I pray for you, John. I don't want anyone to spend eternity in hell," Wood wrote.

Also mentioned in Wood's posts were other conservative figures like former Attorney General William Barr and Trump-era special counsel John Durham. Wood asked his followers to consider whether they were "patriots or traitors."

Sabal has hit back at Wood, sarcastically quipping that he was "feeling the love" from the lawyer.

"I get be to placed with Mike Lindell too, another one of the GREATEST Patriots this country has ever seen! On top of Bill Barr and John Durham?!?!" he said in a message to Wood that the latter re-posted. "I gotta say … I am beyond words, Lin."

In December, Wood went after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a pawn of the devil and representative of the deep state. The month before, Wood stirred drama in the QAnon universe when he accused "Stop the Steal," a group of fellow Trump allies, of being a deep-state campaign.

Wood was also one of the right-wing figures who laid into Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in January, calling him "stupid" for suggesting that the January 6 Capitol riot was a violent attack.

Lindell and Woods did not immediately respond to requests for comments from Insider.

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Texts Show Republicans Believed Trump Could End Jan. 6 Chaos But Didn't For Hours: Report

Mary Papenfuss

Fri, June 3, 2022, 12:13 AM

 

 

A trove of text messages obtained by CNN reveal that a number of Republicans were convinced that Donald Trump could immediately stop the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but that the then-president failed to take any action for hours.

The messages “began pouring into the cellphone” of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows within minutes of the breach of the Capitol and throughout the afternoon, with pleas to get Trump to call off the violence, CNN reported.

Republican members of Congress, former members of the Trump administration, Fox News hosts and even Donald Trump Jr. reached out to Meadows, clearly convinced Trump could quell the insurrection aimed at overturning the 2020 election and keeping Trump in office.

“POTUS should go on air and defuse this. Extremely important,” Tom Price, Trump’s secretary of health and human services, texted to Meadows, CNN reported.

“POTUS needs to calm this shit down,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) reportedly messaged Meadows.

“Fix this now,” wrote Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).

“Mark: he needs to stop this, now. Can I do anything to help?” asked Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, according to CNN.

“TELL THEM TO GO HOME!!!” former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus reportedly texted.

“He’s to to condem [sic] this shit. Asap,” Donald Trump Jr. texted.

Trump’s dangerous delay before taking action to quell the violence is a key focus of the House select committee’s investigation of the events of Jan. 6, CNN noted. Members will attempt to determine if the holdup is proof that Trump was determined to obstruct Congress’s pro forma certification of the Electoral College count and that he may have been guilty of dereliction of duty.

The messages were among 2,319 texts that Meadows turned over to the House select committee before he stopped cooperating.

CNN reporters have since talked to more than a dozen people who texted Meadows that day, and they stood by their messages and the belief that Trump had the power to shut down the riot.

“I thought the president could stop it, and was the only person who could stop it,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, Trump’s director of strategic communications until she left the White House in December 2020, told CNN. She’s currently a political commentator.

Mulvaney told CNN: “I wish someone had responded to my outreach.”

A Meadows associate, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “Two hours [to act] is just inexcusable ... when the safety of the federal government is in question, you have the duty immediately to speak out. And Trump was derelict in that duty.”

Seven people lost their lives in connection with the riot, and 114 U.S. Capitol Police officers were injured in the violent breach. Nearly 850 people have been charged with crimes so far.

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Donald Trump explains why he can't find so many of the former secretaries NY AG Letitia James wants to hear from

Laura Italiano

Fri, June 3, 2022, 5:41 PM

 

 

 

New York Attorney General Letitia James and Donald TrumpAssociated Press

• A lawyer for Donald Trump revealed why he could not find 12 former executive assistants.

• Most would not return phone calls, the lawyer swore in an affidavit to the NY AG on Friday.

• AG Letitia James wants to know how the former assistants organized and preserved Trump's documents.

A defense lawyer has explained why so many of Donald Trump's former executive assistants can't be located: they won't return his phone calls.

New York Attorney General Letitia James demanded that Trump make his former secretaries available as she winds up her 3-year investigation of the former president's real estate and golf resort empire.

She wants them to swear out affidavits explaining the process they used to organize and preserve Trump's personal business records, scant few of which have been produced for the AG's probe.

"It is striking that counsel could not locate any of Mr. Trump's 12 former executive assistants," AG Special Counsel Andrew Amer had said in court papers on May 23.

But most of the 12 missing former executive assistants had not responded to voicemails or failed to call back as promised, explained the latest filing in Trump's battle against James' document subpoeana.

The filing gave this accounting for the 12 AWOL assistants:

Three couldn't be located because they had not left forwarding numbers, the filing said, and a fourth had apparently changed their phone number.

Six more had left forwarding numbers, but didn't return the lawyers' phone calls to those numbers, the filing said.

Another former executive assistant's phone was out of service, and yet another was reached, promised to call back, but did not.

That accounts for 11 of the dozen; the 12th was found in the week since the AG's office complained, and swore an affidavit stating "I have no formal document retention policy" that is now appended to the court record.

One additional executive assistant swore out affidavits earlier this month — longtime staffer Rhona Graff, who worked at the the Trump Organization headquarters at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the filing said.

The Manhattan judge presiding over the James-versus-Trump subpoeana battles, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, has warned that failing to comply could trigger a retroactive, $10,000-a-day contempt-of-court fine, costing the former president more than a quarter-million dollars in additional fines.

The court-ordered fine, for failing to fully comply with the AG's subpoena for his personal business documents, had been capped at $110,000 — and the contempt order lifted — but only conditionally.

 

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Rep. Louie Gohmert says Peter Navarro indictment means Republicans 'can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you'

Taiyler Simone Mitchell

Fri, June 3, 2022, 8:14 PM

 

 

 

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and members of the House Freedom Caucus conduct a news conference to call on Attorney General William Barr to release findings of an investigation into allegations of 2020 election fraud, outside the Capitol on Thursday, December 3, 2020.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

• "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent," Rep. Louie Gohmert said.

• He made his statement on Newsmax when asked about Peter Navarro's indictment.

• Navarro was indicted after refusing to cooperate with the January 6 committee.

Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, of Texas, said Friday that the Peter Navarro indictment points to "a two-tiered justice system."

"If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you," Gohmert said during a Newsmax appearance.

Title 18 U.S. Code § 1001 maintains that lying to "the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States" is a felony. The code does not mention a political party.

"They're gonna bury you. They're gonna put you in the DC jail and terrorize you and torture you," the Texas official went on.

Ex-Trump advisor Peter Navarro was indicted by a grand jury on Friday for refusing to testify and provide documents to the January 6 House select committee.

Gohmert is an ally of Former President Trump and has spread the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Gohmert is not running for reelection for his House seat, instead, he opted for an unsuccessful campaign for attorney general of Texas, where in the May primary he placed last out of four candidates.

Gohmert did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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Texts Show Republicans Believed Trump Could End Jan. 6 Chaos But Didn't For Hours: Report

Mary Papenfuss

Fri, June 3, 2022, 12:13 AM

 

 

A trove of text messages obtained by CNN reveal that a number of Republicans were convinced that Donald Trump could immediately stop the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but that the then-president failed to take any action for hours.

The messages “began pouring into the cellphone” of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows within minutes of the breach of the Capitol and throughout the afternoon, with pleas to get Trump to call off the violence, CNN reported.

Republican members of Congress, former members of the Trump administration, Fox News hosts and even Donald Trump Jr. reached out to Meadows, clearly convinced Trump could quell the insurrection aimed at overturning the 2020 election and keeping Trump in office.

“POTUS should go on air and defuse this. Extremely important,” Tom Price, Trump’s secretary of health and human services, texted to Meadows, CNN reported.

“POTUS needs to calm this shit down,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) reportedly messaged Meadows.

“Fix this now,” wrote Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).

“Mark: he needs to stop this, now. Can I do anything to help?” asked Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, according to CNN.

“TELL THEM TO GO HOME!!!” former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus reportedly texted.

“He’s to to condem [sic] this shit. Asap,” Donald Trump Jr. texted.

Trump’s dangerous delay before taking action to quell the violence is a key focus of the House select committee’s investigation of the events of Jan. 6, CNN noted. Members will attempt to determine if the holdup is proof that Trump was determined to obstruct Congress’s pro forma certification of the Electoral College count and that he may have been guilty of dereliction of duty.

The messages were among 2,319 texts that Meadows turned over to the House select committee before he stopped cooperating.

CNN reporters have since talked to more than a dozen people who texted Meadows that day, and they stood by their messages and the belief that Trump had the power to shut down the riot.

“I thought the president could stop it, and was the only person who could stop it,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, Trump’s director of strategic communications until she left the White House in December 2020, told CNN. She’s currently a political commentator.

Mulvaney told CNN: “I wish someone had responded to my outreach.”

A Meadows associate, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “Two hours [to act] is just inexcusable ... when the safety of the federal government is in question, you have the duty immediately to speak out. And Trump was derelict in that duty.”

Seven people lost their lives in connection with the riot, and 114 U.S. Capitol Police officers were injured in the violent breach. Nearly 850 people have been charged with crimes so far.

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The New York Times

Proud Boys Charged with Sedition in Capitol Attack

Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman - 1h ago

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Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, and four other members of the far-right group were indicted on Monday for seditious conspiracy in connection with the storming of the Capitol last January, the most serious crime to be charged in the Justice Department’s sprawling investigation of the assault.

The sedition charges against Mr. Tarrio and his co-defendants — Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — came in an amended indictment that was unsealed in Federal District Court in Washington. The men had already been charged in an earlier indictment filed in March with conspiring to obstruct the certification of the 2020 presidential election, which took place during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was not in Washington on the day of the assault on the Capitol. But federal prosecutors have said that even though Mr. Tarrio was not accused of “physically taking part in the breach of the Capitol,” he nonetheless “led the advance planning and remained in contact with other members of the Proud Boys during” the storming of the building.

It was not immediately clear what evidence led to the new charges against the members of the Proud Boys, who were central in the effort to storm the Capitol and help forestall President Donald J. Trump’s defeat.

Another Proud Boy lieutenant originally charged with the men, Charles Donohoe, pleaded guilty in April and is cooperating with the government’s inquiry into the group. Around the time of Mr. Tarrio’s arrest this spring, federal investigators searched the homes — and seized the phones — of three other high-ranking Proud Boys identified as unindicted co-conspirators in the case, but none of them have been publicly charged.

A charge of seditious conspiracy requires prosecutors to prove that force was used either to overthrow the government or to interfere with the execution of federal law.

The only other defendants in the Capitol riot investigation to have faced a seditious conspiracy charge so far are Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, and 10 of his subordinates. Prosecutors say that Mr. Rhodes led a conspiracy to forcibly stop the lawful transition of presidential power by sending men into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and by staging a heavily-armed “quick reaction force” outside of Washington that was prepared to rush to the aid of their compatriots at the building.

Unlike Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Tarrio was not in Washington on Jan. 6. He had been ordered to leave the city by a local judge two days earlier after being charged with burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a church during a spree of violence that followed a different pro-Trump rally in December.

Federal prosecutors have said that even though Mr. Tarrio was not accused of “physically taking part in the breach of the Capitol,” he nonetheless “led the advance planning and remained in contact with other members of the Proud Boys during” the storming of the building.

Prosecutors have claimed, for instance, that Mr. Tarrio issued orders before the attack for members of the group to leave behind their traditional black-and-yellow polo shirts and remain “incognito” when they arrived in Washington on Jan. 6. Mr. Tarrio also helped create a “command and control structure” for the group on a private Telegram group chat called the Ministry of Self Defense, prosecutors say.

As the riot at the Capitol unfolded, Mr. Tarrio appeared to take credit for the Proud Boys’ role in what was happening. “We did this,” he wrote at one point on the Telegram group chat.

Lawyers for Mr. Tarrio and the other men have repeatedly claimed there is no evidence that they conspired in advance to storm the Capitol. By setting up a “Ministry of Self Defense” group chat and by taking other measures like acquiring protective gear, the Proud Boys were simply trying to guard themselves against leftist activists with whom they had scuffled at earlier events in Washington, the lawyers said.

The Proud Boys will also be featured when the House committee investigating Jan. 6 holds its initial public hearing Thursday night. The committee intends to present live testimony from Nick Quested, a documentary film maker who was embedded with the group during the riot, and from Caroline Edwards, a Capitol Police officer who was injured in an early assault that day said to have been triggered by the Proud Boys.

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Biden is furious he's trailing Trump in polls, erupted at staff for 'keeping him out of the loop in the baby formula crisis' and is trying to avoid being compared to Jimmy Carter, report claims 

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Biden is furious he's trailing Trump in polls, erupted at staff for 'keeping him out of the loop in the baby formula crisis' and is trying to avoid being compared to Jimmy Carter, report claims 

it could be worse....they could be comparing him to Trump....🤡

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20 hours ago, DBP66 said:

You've got to be some missing a lot of something from between your ears to imagine that anybody on God's green earth ever believes anything put out by the imbeciles at "Occupy Democrats."

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13 hours ago, concha said:

Biden is furious he's trailing Trump in polls, erupted at staff for 'keeping him out of the loop in the baby formula crisis' and is trying to avoid being compared to Jimmy Carter, report claims 

Biden has a long way to go in order to be mentioned as being compared to Jimmy Carter. Although both were/are incompetent, at least Carter was/is an honorable man.

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Email shows fake Trump electors in Georgia told to conduct plan in ‘secrecy’

 

Monique Beals

Mon, June 6, 2022, 11:26 PM

 

 

A Trump campaign staffer instructed a group of Republicans in Georgia who were planning to cast Electoral College votes for former President Trump to conduct the plan in “complete secrecy,” according to an email obtained by media outlets.

The Washington Post and CNN reported Monday evening that the email, written by Trump campaign Georgia operations director Robert Sinners, instructed the fake electors to tell security at the state capitol that they had appointments with two state senators.

“I must ask for your complete discretion in this process,” Sinners wrote.

“Your duties are imperative to ensure the end result — a win in Georgia for President Trump — but will be hampered unless we have complete secrecy and discretion,” Sinners wrote.

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The Post reported that the email was sent on Dec. 13, 2020, and instructed the electors not to “mention anything to do with Presidential Electors or speak to the media.”

The Hill has reached out to a representative for Trump and to the former president’s campaign for comment.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in January that the Department of Justice was investigating fake electors who supported Trump.

Fake documents were sent to the National Archives in December alleging electors for the Electoral College supported Trump in seven states President Biden had won.

People from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have since been subpoenaed to appear before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack for their involvement with the alleged scheme.

The Jan. 6 committee is likely to highlight the newly uncovered email by a former Trump campaign staffer to fake electors during a prime-time hearing on Thursday, the Post noted.

Sinners said in a statement that he was working on behalf of senior campaign officials and senior Republicans in the state and was “advised by attorneys that this was necessary in order to preserve the pending legal challenge,” according to the Post.

Attorneys for Trump had for months after the 2020 election embarked on an ineffective legal campaign across the country in an attempt to overturn Biden’s victory, which ultimately failed.

Sinners now works for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), who recently fended off a Trump-backed primary challenger after Raffensperger refused to take up the former president’s effort to overturn the presidential election in the state, and he added that his “views on the matter have changed significantly from where they were on December 13th.”

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