Trump's world....

[Warrior]

2 hours ago, concha said:

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas KNEW border agents did not whip Haitian migrants - two hours before he said the images were 'horrifying' and pushed the narrative, bombshell new emails show

 

Mayorkas is an open borders lying hack who should have been impeached a long time ago. 

[tommygun58]

On 10/7/2022 at 5:00 PM, concha said:

 

Vegan is an old Indian word meaning BAD HUNTER.

[concha]

BIDEN ECONOMY: Mortgage Rates Rise to 16 Year Highs – Annual Home Sales Slump by 39%

[DBP66]

14 times Donald Trump's political action committees promised worthless rewards for a donation

Madison Hall,Dave Levinthal

Wed, October 12, 2022 at 10:21 AM

 

 

 

Former President Donald Trump.REUTERS/Mike Cassese

• Since leaving office, former President Donald Trump has continued to aggressively fundraise.

• To entice donors, Trump regularly offers incentives to contributors — but they're worthless.

• They include trinkets, awards, and membership cards.

Former President Donald Trump has yet to formally announce another run for the presidency in 2024.

But since leaving Washington, DC, in January 2021, he's lined the coffers of his several post-president political action committees — Save America PAC, Make America Great Again PAC, and the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee among them — with tens of millions of dollars, sometimes sending prospective donors two or three email and text message fundraising solicitations each day.

To entice donors to his PACs, Trump regularly offers items that might appear to have prestige and value. In reality, they have no discernible value and are largely imaginary. These include "Trump cards" that have no use, memberships to groups that don't meet, and even the chance to be included on a "donor wall" that doesn't appear to exist.

Trump's team did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

Here's a run-down of 13 made-up awards, prizes, and perks that Trump has offered to contributors during 2022:

'Official 2022 Trump Premium Membership'

 

Trump Premium MembershipTrump political committees

Offered to "LOYAL and UNWAVERING" supporters, Trump has yet to say what his "BIG plans" are for Trump premium members.

'Trump Alliance Club'

 

'Trump Alliance Club'Trump political committees

"ONLY top MAGA Patriots" may join the "Trump Alliance Club," according to Trump, although invitations were sent to anyone who signed up for Trump's email list. Joining this club, the benefits of which are not defined, is as simple as making a donation.

'Trump Gold Card'

 

'Official Trump Gold Card'Trump political committees

This Trump card is gold in color and personalized. But there's nothing it can functionally be used for: It won't get you into a Trump golf club or Mar-a-Lago, and it won't get you a senior discount on, say, a two-pack of Trump-branded sour gummy bears the former president's namesake company sells for $15 a pop.

'Official Trump Card'

 

'Official Trump Card'Trump political committees

Just like the Trump gold card, but it's blue.

'Official Trump Election Year Donor Card'

 

An 'Official Trump Election Year Donor Card'Trump political committees

Another card from Trump, this time to signify that the donor donated during an election year.

'Trump Gold Member'

 

'Trump Gold Membership'Trump political committees

The Save America Joint Fundraising Committee promised Trump would see a list of "ALL PATRIOTS" who contributed to join the "Trump Gold Membership Roster," which has no discernible benefits to donors.

'Official Trump Announcement Priority List'

 

'Trump Announcement Priority List'Trump political committees

Trump has yet to use this "announcement priority list" for any updates on his presidential candidacy status for 2024.

'Official 2022 Trump Donor Wall'

 

The "Official 2022 Trump Donor Wall"Trump political committees

Back in 2016, Trump posted a video showing a "donor board" in Trump Tower in New York City. "The wall has only space for 2,000 more supporters," Trump said at the time while a fuzzy image of the board flashed on-screen. In the years since, Trump continued to promise donors inclusion on "boards" or "walls." Hundreds of thousands of people have since made contributions. But there's no evidence that Trump has created a physical Trump donor wall to honor his contributors.

'President Trump's Inner Friend Circle'

 

'President Trump's Inner Friend Circle'Trump political committees

According to this fundraising email, it's possible for a donor to pay their way into Trump's "Inner Friend Circle" by donating as little as $45.

'Official 2022 Trump MVP'

 

Invitation to join the "Official 2022 Trump MVP" list.Trump political committees

For a period of "limited time," it was possible to join the 'Trump MVP roster" for as little as $25.

'Great MAGA King Status'

 

A "Great MAGA King Status" invitation.Trump political committees

For just $25, you can earn yourself "Great MAGA King status." Although a solicitation pictures Trump holding a medieval scroll — "Your Name Here" it reads in Old English script — don't hold your breath waiting for a coronation ceremony.

'Trump XLV Society'

 

A "Trump XLV Society" invitation.Trump political committees

For $45, one could gain access to the "EXCLUSIVE Trump XLV Society."

Unlike, say, the National Geographic Society, there is no monthly magazine.

'Official 45 Advisory Board Member'

 

A Trump "Official 45 Advisory Board Member" invitation.Trump political committees

If you honestly think your $5 contribution to Trump's PAC will buy you a seat at his boardroom table, please read this first.

'Official Trump 100 Club'

 

An "Official Trump 100 Club" invitation.Trump political committees

This club has one fewer person than a Trump 101 club and one more person than a Trump 99 club.

All are equally imaginary and meaningless, even if Trump's team promises that this is a "once-in-a-lifetime" membership for "devoted Patriots."

 

[DBP66]

Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump's 'state of mind,' role in plot to overturn 2020 election

Caitlin Dickson

·Reporter

Wed, October 12, 2022 at 5:19 PM

 

 

Over the course of several public hearings this summer, members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection walked the public through each phase of what they described as a multipart plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Now the committee is preparing to take a broader look at that plan — and former President Donald Trump’s role in it — when it returns for its next and potentially final public hearing Thursday.

“We're going to bring a particular focus on the former president’s state of mind and his involvement in these events as they unfolded,” a select committee aide said Wednesday afternoon.

 

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., gavels the end of a hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, on July 21, 2022. (Alex Brandon/Pool via Reuters)

Speaking to reporters on background, committee aides offered relatively few details before the highly anticipated hearing, which had originally been scheduled for Sept. 28 but was postponed due to Hurricane Ian.

Unlike many of the panel’s previous public hearings, an aide said Thursday’s presentation will not feature live witnesses, but rather a multimedia presentation that will include new witness testimony, as well as “a great deal of new documentary evidence,” that the committee has obtained since it wrapped its blockbuster run of hearings this summer.

In particular, the aide said the committee plans to present new information from the “hundreds of thousands of pages that the United States Secret Service has produced to the committee” in response to a subpoena, as well as “new video footage showing efforts to respond in real time to the violence in January as that violence was unfolding.”

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the panel is expected to reveal newly obtained Secret Service records showing that Trump knew about the possibility of violence on Jan. 6 but still wanted to be taken to the Capitol. Such evidence would support parts of the explosive testimony given in late June by former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

Hutchinson testified that Trump was determined to join his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and that he dismissed concerns about the fact that many in attendance at his rally earlier that day were carrying weapons, saying, “They’re not here to hurt me.”

Though the panel has not announced plans for any additional hearings going forward, a committee staffer said Wednesday that it was “reluctant” to label Thursday’s hearing “as a closing argument.”

“The investigation is ongoing. And of course, at some point, there will be a comprehensive report released which will present the Select Committee's findings in a more complete manner,” the staffer said. “I would resist any characterization that makes this seem like the final time you're going to hear from the committee.”

[concha]

https://fakehatecrimes.org/

The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are recommended, as are the websites Watching the Watchdogs and Fake Hate Map.

[DBP66]

A Trump employee told the FBI that the former president ordered staff to move boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago

 

Joe Raedle

 

Ken Dilanian and Zoë Richards and Kristen Welker

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 12:55 AM

 

 

One of Donald Trump's employees told FBI agents the former president ordered boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago to be moved before federal agents searched the property, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The source also told NBC News that the FBI obtained security video showing people moving boxes out of a storage room at Trump's Florida estate.

The Washington Post first reported the employee's account on Wednesday.

When reached by NBC News, the FBI and Justice Department declined to comment.

The worker’s account offers new details about Trump’s actions before FBI agents executed a search warrant on Aug. 8 to retrieve classified material from Mar-a-Lago based on the Justice Department's assessment in the search warrant affidavit that there were likely documents and records at Mar-a-Lago “constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime and other items illegally possessed” in violation of three laws involving mishandling of government documents.

 

Trump has publicly insinuated without evidence that federal agents planted evidence during their search, which according to the Justice Department unearthed 100 classified, secret and top-secret documents, as well as thousands of other documents belonging to the government.

In a post on his social media website Wednesday night, Trump continued to characterize the search as an “unprecedented and unnecessary break in of my home.”

“There is no ‘crime’ having to do with the storage of documents at Mar-a- Lago, only in the minds of the Radical Left Lunatics who are destroying our Country, and were just forced by the Courts to give me back much of what they took (STOLE?) during their unprecedented and unnecessary break in of my home,” Trump said. “These people are CRAZY!!!”

The revelation about the witness account comes just days after NBC News first reported that Trump attorney Christina Bobb spoke with federal investigators last week and named two other Trump attorneys involved with the case.

Sources previously told NBC News that Bobb, Trump’s then-custodian of record, had signed a letter in June certifying that Trump was in compliance with a grand jury subpoena in May and no longer possessed a trove of documents with classification markings at Mar-a-Lago.

But the witness’ account suggests that the boxes were moved to Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago after the subpoena was issued. A majority of the seized material was found in boxes and containers in Trump’s office and a storage room.

Bobb said in August that Justice Department officials had expressed concern during a meeting in June over the unit storing the documents, and said it wasn’t properly secured. She said that Trump officials added a lock to the facility and that FBI agents broke the lock when they searched the property.

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich on Wednesday responded to the Washington Post report by accusing the Biden administration of using law enforcement for political purposes.

“The Biden administration has weaponized law enforcement and fabricated a Document Hoax in a desperate attempt to retain political power,” Budowich said in a statement to NBC News. “Every other President has been given time and deference regarding the administration of documents, as the President has the ultimate authority to categorize records, and what materials should be classified.”

[Slotback Right]

On 10/11/2022 at 9:40 AM, concha said:

The last sane Dem pol has left the building...

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.

I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not.

Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.

 

[Warrior]

1 hour ago, Slotback Right said:

That’s pretty good right there. I will say the Krysten Sinema isn’t someone I’d kick to the curb…plus I hear she’s a switch hitter, added bonus!

[concha]

 

Markets Crash After Inflation Rate Comes in Hot – Core CPI Surges to 6.6% the Highest Rate Since 1982 – Real Wages Declined for Record 18 Months!

 

 

[concha]

Saudis release bombshell statement saying Biden DID try and delay oil production cut until AFTER the midterms - in a desperate bid to avoid gas prices spiking again as Democrats stare down defeat

[concha]

[DBP66]

New York AG files injunction against Trump as part of fraud lawsuit

AARON KATERSKY

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 10:55 AM

 

 

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a preliminary injunction as part of her $250 million civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to stop what she says is his ongoing fraudulent conduct.

On the same day last month that James filed the lawsuit accusing Trump, his three eldest children, and two corporate executives of "staggering" fraud that she claims "grossly inflated" Trump's net worth, the Trump Organization quietly registered a new entity, Trump Organization II, according to a new court filing Thursday.

Investigators suspect that Trump could move assets from his family real estate business to the new entity in an attempt to evade liability posed by the lawsuit, according to the attorney general's motion for a preliminary injunction.

"[T]he Trump Organization now appears to be taking steps to restructure its business to avoid existing responsibilities under New York law," the filing said.

Thursday's filing also made clear James is concerned that Trump and the other defendants could be using the same alleged "fraud and misrepresentation" as they prepare Trump's financial statements for the current year.

"Indeed, in many areas, the Trump Organization has continued using practices they knew to be improper or fraudulent," the motion said.

James is also seeking the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's submission of financial information to accountants, lenders and insurers, "to enjoin Defendants from transferring to non-party affiliates or otherwise disposing of assets without Court approval," the filing said.

"Our investigation uncovered the fact that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in significant fraud to inflate his personal net worth by billions of dollars to illegally enrich himself and cheat the system," James said in a statement Thursday. "Since we filed this sweeping lawsuit last month, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have continued those same fraudulent practices and taken measures to evade responsibility. Today, we are seeking an immediate stop to these actions because Mr. Trump should not get to play by different rules."

 

PHOTO: Former President Donald Trump acknowledges supporters at a rally, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, in Mesa, Ariz. (Matt York/AP, FILE)

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to James' newest filing. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has called James' investigation a politically motivated "witch hunt" by an attorney general he has called "racist."

James, who is black, rejected a settlement offer from the Trump Organization last month to resolve the matter, sources told ABC News.

The lawsuit accused them of engaging in "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation in the preparation of Mr. Trump's annual statements of financial condition" that overstated the values of nearly every major property in the Trump portfolio over at least a ten-year period.

"These acts of fraud and misrepresentation grossly inflated Mr. Trump's personal net worth as reported in the Statements by billions of dollars and conveyed false and misleading impressions to financial counterparties about how the Statements were prepared," the lawsuit said.

"Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization used these false and misleading Statements repeatedly and persistently to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to satisfy continuing loan covenants, and to induce insurers to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums," said the suit.

In Thursday's motion, James said that nearly a month after she filed her suit, the former president and his son Eric have refused to accept service of the lawsuit. She sought permission to serve them electronically.

[Warrior]

6 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

New York AG files injunction against Trump as part of fraud lawsuit

AARON KATERSKY

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 10:55 AM

 

 

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a preliminary injunction as part of her $250 million civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to stop what she says is his ongoing fraudulent conduct.

On the same day last month that James filed the lawsuit accusing Trump, his three eldest children, and two corporate executives of "staggering" fraud that she claims "grossly inflated" Trump's net worth, the Trump Organization quietly registered a new entity, Trump Organization II, according to a new court filing Thursday.

Investigators suspect that Trump could move assets from his family real estate business to the new entity in an attempt to evade liability posed by the lawsuit, according to the attorney general's motion for a preliminary injunction.

"[T]he Trump Organization now appears to be taking steps to restructure its business to avoid existing responsibilities under New York law," the filing said.

Thursday's filing also made clear James is concerned that Trump and the other defendants could be using the same alleged "fraud and misrepresentation" as they prepare Trump's financial statements for the current year.

"Indeed, in many areas, the Trump Organization has continued using practices they knew to be improper or fraudulent," the motion said.

James is also seeking the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's submission of financial information to accountants, lenders and insurers, "to enjoin Defendants from transferring to non-party affiliates or otherwise disposing of assets without Court approval," the filing said.

"Our investigation uncovered the fact that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in significant fraud to inflate his personal net worth by billions of dollars to illegally enrich himself and cheat the system," James said in a statement Thursday. "Since we filed this sweeping lawsuit last month, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have continued those same fraudulent practices and taken measures to evade responsibility. Today, we are seeking an immediate stop to these actions because Mr. Trump should not get to play by different rules."

 

PHOTO: Former President Donald Trump acknowledges supporters at a rally, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, in Mesa, Ariz. (Matt York/AP, FILE)

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to James' newest filing. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has called James' investigation a politically motivated "witch hunt" by an attorney general he has called "racist."

James, who is black, rejected a settlement offer from the Trump Organization last month to resolve the matter, sources told ABC News.

The lawsuit accused them of engaging in "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation in the preparation of Mr. Trump's annual statements of financial condition" that overstated the values of nearly every major property in the Trump portfolio over at least a ten-year period.

"These acts of fraud and misrepresentation grossly inflated Mr. Trump's personal net worth as reported in the Statements by billions of dollars and conveyed false and misleading impressions to financial counterparties about how the Statements were prepared," the lawsuit said.

"Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization used these false and misleading Statements repeatedly and persistently to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to satisfy continuing loan covenants, and to induce insurers to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums," said the suit.

In Thursday's motion, James said that nearly a month after she filed her suit, the former president and his son Eric have refused to accept service of the lawsuit. She sought permission to serve them electronically.

 

Is Trump still president? Worst TDS I've seen. Let us know when you get him....this time. I'm sure it's any day now. 

 

What happened to those top secret Nuclear codes Trump somehow just walked out the WH and stashed at Mar-a-lago? 

[DBP66]

2 minutes ago, Warrior said:

 

Is Trump still president? Worst TDS I've seen. Let us know when you get him....this time. I'm sure it's any day now. 

 

What happened to those top secret Nuclear codes Trump somehow just walked out the WH and stashed at Mar-a-lago? 

he's got a lot on his plate.....doesn't he?!....😉

[DBP66]

 

'They're trying to f***ing kill me': McCarthy made desperate plea to Trump on Jan. 6, new book reveals

Dylan Stableford

·Senior Writer

Tue, October 11, 2022 at 11:55 AM

 

 

During the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke by phone with then-President Donald Trump, urging him to tell the angry mob of his supporters to go home.

“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said to McCarthy, according to an upcoming book by Robert Draper, “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind," excerpts of which were published by Politico on Tuesday.

“More upset?” McCarthy yelled back. “THEY'RE TRYING TO F***ING KILL ME!”

While their phone call had been widely reported, the new book reveals McCarthy’s side of the expletive-laden exchange.

 

Rioters clash with police outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A few days later, in a separate phone call, Trump claimed that the people who had assaulted police and stormed the Capitol were left-wing protesters. McCarthy forcefully rejected this and told Trump they were his supporters.

“They were in my office. They left zip ties,” McCarthy told a California newspaper. “I saw them as they broke my window.

“The president said there was some Antifa there. I said, ‘No, the people arrested, they’re MAGA,’” McCarthy said, referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

In a speech on the House floor on Jan. 13, 2021, a week after the insurrection, McCarthy said that “the president bears responsibility” for the attack.

“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding,” McCarthy said, calling on Trump to “accept his share of responsibility.”

“What we saw last week was not the American way. Neither is the continued rhetoric that Joe Biden is not the legitimate president,” he said, adding that Biden “won the election.”

McCarthy’s comments were later echoed by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said that “the mob was fed lies.”

“They were provoked by the president and other powerful people,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on the last full day of Trump’s presidency.

 

President Donald Trump speaks as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy looks on in the Rose Garden of the White House, Jan. 4, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

But McCarthy changed his tune a day later, saying he did not believe Trump provoked the attack on the Capitol.

The California Republican later flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet face to face with the former president, posing with Trump in an infamous photo op inside his Florida home.

At that meeting, Trump agreed to work with McCarthy to support GOP candidates in the 2022 midterm elections.

[Warrior]

1 hour ago, DBP66 said:

 

'They're trying to f***ing kill me': McCarthy made desperate plea to Trump on Jan. 6, new book reveals

Dylan Stableford

·Senior Writer

Tue, October 11, 2022 at 11:55 AM

 

 

During the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke by phone with then-President Donald Trump, urging him to tell the angry mob of his supporters to go home.

“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said to McCarthy, according to an upcoming book by Robert Draper, “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind," excerpts of which were published by Politico on Tuesday.

“More upset?” McCarthy yelled back. “THEY'RE TRYING TO F***ING KILL ME!”

While their phone call had been widely reported, the new book reveals McCarthy’s side of the expletive-laden exchange.

 

Rioters clash with police outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A few days later, in a separate phone call, Trump claimed that the people who had assaulted police and stormed the Capitol were left-wing protesters. McCarthy forcefully rejected this and told Trump they were his supporters.

“They were in my office. They left zip ties,” McCarthy told a California newspaper. “I saw them as they broke my window.

“The president said there was some Antifa there. I said, ‘No, the people arrested, they’re MAGA,’” McCarthy said, referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

In a speech on the House floor on Jan. 13, 2021, a week after the insurrection, McCarthy said that “the president bears responsibility” for the attack.

“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding,” McCarthy said, calling on Trump to “accept his share of responsibility.”

“What we saw last week was not the American way. Neither is the continued rhetoric that Joe Biden is not the legitimate president,” he said, adding that Biden “won the election.”

McCarthy’s comments were later echoed by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said that “the mob was fed lies.”

“They were provoked by the president and other powerful people,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on the last full day of Trump’s presidency.

 

President Donald Trump speaks as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy looks on in the Rose Garden of the White House, Jan. 4, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

But McCarthy changed his tune a day later, saying he did not believe Trump provoked the attack on the Capitol.

The California Republican later flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet face to face with the former president, posing with Trump in an infamous photo op inside his Florida home.

At that meeting, Trump agreed to work with McCarthy to support GOP candidates in the 2022 midterm elections.

Robert Draper??!!!….lol You’re bringing all the TDS hacks out. Another good op-ed you attempt to share as facts. 

[I AM IRONMAN]

3 hours ago, Warrior said:

 

Is Trump still president? Worst TDS I've seen. Let us know when you get him....this time. I'm sure it's any day now. 

 

What happened to those top secret Nuclear codes Trump somehow just walked out the WH and stashed at Mar-a-lago? 

Notice how he rarely comments on Biden and what’s currently happening?  Worst case of TDS ever!

[DBP66]

Secret Service Had Tip That Proud Boys Planned to ‘Literally Kill People’ on Jan. 6

 

 

Nikki McCann Ramirez

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 3:19 PM

 

 

 

dc protests - Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Im

The Jan. 6 committee during its hearing on Thursday displayed a tip relayed to the Secret Service by the FBI from a source warning that the Proud Boys planned to “literally kill people” on Jan. 6.

“Their plan is to literally kill people,” the tip read. “Please please take this tip seriously and investigate further.”

The committee dedicated a significant amount of time to establishing the extent that intelligence agencies, including the Secret Service, were aware of potential violence at the Capitol and against lawmakers. In his opening statement, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) indicated that the committee found claims from certain White House officials and Secret Service members that they had not received intelligence about potential threats to lack credibility.

The threats of armed protesters flocking to the Capitol discussed by the committee were connected to Trump’s alleged behavior at his Jan. 6 rally that preceded the riot. Former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified in June President Trump demanded that security measures and metal detectors be taken down, insisting that the armed attendees outside the designated rally space were “not here to hurt me.”

The response of the Secret Service on Jan. 6 continues to be a matter of interest to the committee, which subpoenaed the agency in July following reports that agents had wiped text messages from Jan. 6 from their phones following a request from oversight officials. NBC News reported earlier this week that the committee obtained over one million electronic communications from the Secret Service, including it appears, plenty about the violence that was set to unfold on Jan. 6.

 

“POTUS just tweeted about Pence,” one Secret Service chat read. “Probably not going to be good for Pence.”

[DBP66]

House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former President Donald Trump

 

 

Kevin Johnson and David Jackson, USA TODAY

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 3:44 PM

 

 

 

Jan. 6 panel hears state election officials describe pressure, targeting from Trump and allies

WASHINGTON – The House Committee investigating the Capitol attack voted Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump in an extraordinary move seeking a direct confrontation with the former president accused of instigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection and leading attempts to subvert the 2020 election.

“The vast weight of the evidence so far has shown us that the central cause of Jan. 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed,” Vice Chairperson Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, said.. “None of this would have happened without him. He was personally and substantially involved in all of it.

"We must seek the testimony under oath of Jan. 6's central player," Cheney said, adding that the committee had "sufficient" information to issue criminal referrals related to multiple figures in the panel's investigation. "We are obligated to seek answers from the man who set this all in motion."

 

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022.

The vote came during the committee's ninth, and possibly final public hearing, in which lawmakers offered closing arguments, interspersed with witness testimony, highlighting Trump's chaotic efforts to cling to power knowing that the election was lost.

Trump did not immediately respond to the vote.

Few expect Trump to submit to the committee's summons, a demand that will likely prompt a new round of legal challenges involving the former president. If Republicans win control of the House in the November elections, the new GOP majority would likely terminate the committee at the start of next year.

"I assume that Trump would take the Fifth if his hand was forced," said former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti. "But he will likely try to delay his testimony with frivolous legal proceedings challenging Congressional authority to compel his testimony."

National security lawyer Bradley P. Moss said: "There are zero circumstances in which Trump would ever voluntarily submit to a subpoena from the 1/6 Committee. None. He'd litigate it to SCOTUS, and absent Dems somehow holding the House next month this will all be over with come next January."

During Thursday's hearing, lawmakers repeatedly highlighted evidence of Trump's repeated attempts to reject President Joe Biden's victory.

Days before the 2020 election, according to the committee, a draft statement declaring a Trump victory was prepared for delivery regardless of the outcome.

“We had an election today – and I won,” according to the draft sent Oct. 31, 2020. ". “The ballots counted by the Election Day deadline show the American people have bestowed up on me the great honor of reelection to President of the United States.”

Despite numerous attempted interventions by top aides, including then-Attorney General William Barr, Trump's efforts to remain in office only appeared to become more desperate, the committee concluded.

When the Supreme Court rejected his election challenge a month after the vote, documents and witness testimony gathered by the committee offered a troubling account of an increasingly unyielding Trump.

“Just FYI potus is pissed – breaking news – supreme court denied his law suit,” an email from a Secret Service agent on Dec. 11, 2020 said. “He is livid now.”

The committee's Thursday hearing also featured testimony from former  White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson who recounted how she and then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows crossed paths with a “raging” Trump that day as he walked out of the Oval Office, telling Meadows: “I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. We need to figure it out. I don’t want people to know that we lost.”

[DBP66]

3 hours ago, Warrior said:

Robert Draper??!!!….lol You’re bringing all the TDS hacks out. Another good op-ed you attempt to share as facts. 

op-ed?...no it's documented in his book. Do you believe anyone besides Trump? or Fox news?...you don't think McCarthy said that?....I do. You do know he did give a speech on the floor condemning Trump for 1-6.

[DBP66]

1 hour ago, I AM IRONMAN said:

Notice how he rarely comments on Biden and what’s currently happening?  Worst case of TDS ever!

too much happening in Trump's world....😉

[Warrior]

11 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

op-ed?...no it's documented in his book. Do you believe anyone besides Trump? or Fox news?...you don't think McCarthy said that?....I do. You do know he did give a speech on the floor condemning Trump for 1-6.

No it’s not

[Warrior]

9 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

too much happening in Trump's world....😉

 

[DBP66]

7 minutes ago, Warrior said:

No it’s not

"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said to McCarthy, according to an upcoming book by Robert Draper.