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Trump: 'RINO' Graham 'wrong' on pardoning Jan. 6 rioters

 

 

 

Tue, February 1, 2022, 11:04 PM

 

 

 

Former President Trump in a new interview called Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) a "RINO" and said the Republican senator was "wrong" to say that pardoning those who took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection was "inappropriate."

Trump made his comments during an interview with Newsmax aired Tuesday night. The former president was responding to remarks Graham, a longtime Trump ally, made on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

During Graham's Sunday show appearance, a clip was played of Trump telling attendees at a rally in Texas that if he ran and won the presidency again, he would "treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly" and give out pardons if need be.

 

When Graham was asked if he agreed, he replied, "No, I don't want to send any signal that it was OK to defile the Capitol."

"I think it's inappropriate. ... I don't want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future," he later added.

Trump was then asked in his interview on Newsmax what he thought of Graham's comments.

"You talked about the potential, if it's appropriate, of pardoning some of the January 6ers," Newsmax's Rob Schmitt asked the former president. "Lindsey Graham said a couple days later, he thinks that's inappropriate. What do you think?"

"Well, Lindsey Graham's wrong. I mean, Lindsey's a nice guy, but he's a RINO. Lindsey's wrong," Trump said, using the acronym for "Republican In Name Only."

"Lindsey Graham doesn't know what the hell he's talking about if he says that," Trump added later in the interview.

However, Graham is not the only Republican to disagree with pardoning those who participated in the Jan. 6 riot.

"I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Tuesday.

"The election of 2020 was decided Dec. 14 of 2020 when the Electoral College certified the winner of the election. What we saw here on January the 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which has never happened before in our country," he added.

Though McConnell has at times drawn the ire of Trump, and has been referred to as a "RINO" by the former president, Graham is considered one of Trump's closest allies in the Senate.

But the comments illustrate the delicate balance that GOP members are trying to maintain with Trump while also condemning the violence that took place over a year ago at the Capitol.

The Hill has reached out to Graham's office for comment.

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Trump pushes false claims that Pence could 'send back' votes

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Conroe, Texas. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP)

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JILL COLVIN

Tue, February 1, 2022, 3:14 PM

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is intensifying his effort to advance the false narrative that his vice president, Mike Pence, could have done something to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.

In a statement on Tuesday, Trump said the committee investigating his role in sparking the violent Jan. 6 insurrection should instead probe “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” In another statement on Sunday, he blasted Pence by falsely claiming that “he could have overturned the Election!”

The vice president does not have the authority to unilaterally overturn the results of an election, and doing so would have amounted to a profound break from precedent and democratic norms in the U.S.

Trump’s escalating rhetoric comes in response to at least two developments on Capitol Hill. He is under growing scrutiny from the committee investigating the insurrection for his role in sparking the attack. And a bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing changes to the Electoral Count Act to eliminate any ambiguity that a vice president could reject electors to prevent a future president from making the same threats.

 

Vice presidents play only a ceremonial role in the counting, but Trump has long insisted that Pence could have overturned the election results by sending the results back to state legislatures, falsely citing mass voter fraud. Numerous state and federal election officials, as well as Trump's own attorney general, have said the vote was fair.

The renewed attacks by Trump come as Pence has been traveling the country, visiting early voting states, delivering speeches and hosting fundraisers for midterm candidates as he mulls a run for president in 2024. Pence, unlike some possible contenders, has notably declined to rule out running against Trump, who has been teasing his own comeback campaign.

A Pence spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump's attacks. Pence will be delivering a speech Friday at the conservative Federalist Society and may respond then.

Pence has so far tried to thread a needle on his actions Jan. 6, which continue to enrage large portions of Trump's base. Pence has said he and Trump will likely never see “eye to eye” on what happened that day, when a mob of Trump supporters violently smashed through the U.S. Capitol building, assaulting police officers and hunting down lawmakers, including Pence. But Pence has defended his actions, saying he was abiding by his constitutional role.

Pence said in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters last month that he and Trump hadn't spoken since last summer, but insisted that they had “parted amicably.”

“You know, I’ve said many times we — it was difficult, Jan. 6th was difficult. It was a tragic day in the life of the nation. I know I did my duty under the Constitution of the United States. But the president and I sat down in the days that followed that. We spoke about it, talked through it. We parted amicably,” he said.

Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chair of the Jan. 6 committee, and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California have both said they plan to call Pence to testify as part of their investigation. But it's unclear what Pence will do.

During a trip to New Hampshire in December, Pence declined to say how he would respond, telling The Associated Press that "we’ll evaluate any of those requests as they come.”

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Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Are Fundraising Laps Around Their MAGA Primary Opponents

 

 

William Vaillancourt

Thu, February 3, 2022, 2:29 PM

 

 

 

Liz Cheney - Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

All seven House Republicans who are seeking reelection after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol are faring well financially, campaign disclosures filed this week with the Federal Election Commission show.

The New York Times points out that despite drawing Trump’s wrath, the seven Republicans are out-raising their primary opponents. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), for instance, raised a war chest of around $6.5 million in 2021, and is entering the 2022 election year with just under $5 million, while her opponent, Harriet Hageman, has about $380,000 in cash on hand. Cheney became a lightning rod for attacks from Trump and his allies after speaking out against the former president’s false election claims, as well as for her prominent seat on the Jan. 6 committee. Former president George W. Bush donated $5,800 to Cheney’s campaign, while establishment figures in the GOP like Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Paul Ryan have each helped with fundraising.

 

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Pence: Trump is 'wrong' to say election could be overturned

JILL COLVIN

Fri, February 4, 2022, 3:44 PM

 

 

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply “wrong.”

In a speech to a gathering of the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Pence addressed Trump's intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that, as vice president, he had the unilateral power to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.

“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said. “I had no right to overturn the election.”

While Pence has previously defended his actions on Jan. 6 and said that he and Trump will likely never see “eye to eye” on what happened that day, the remarks Friday marked his most forceful rebuttal of Trump to date. And they come as Pence has been laying the groundwork for a potential run for president in 2024, which could put him in direct competition with his former boss, who has also been teasing a comeback run.

Trump this week had escalated his attacks against Pence. In a statement Tuesday, Trump had said the committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead probe “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” And on Sunday, he blasted Pence, falsely declaring that “he could have overturned the Election!”

Vice presidents play only a ceremonial role in the the counting of Electoral College votes, and any attempt to interfere in the count would have represented a profound break from precedent and democratic norms.

Pence, in his remarks Friday, described Jan. 6, 2021, as “a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol" and framed his actions that day as in line with his duty as a constitutional conservative.

“The American people must know that we will always keep our oath to the Constitution, even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise,” he told the group Friday. He noted that, under Article II Section One of the Constitution, “elections are conducted at the state level, not by the Congress” and that “the only role of Congress with respect to the Electoral College is to open and count votes submitted and certified by the states. No more, no less.”

He went on to call out those who have insisted that isn't the case.

“Frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,” he added. “Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election. And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.”

The audience applauded Pence's line about beating the Democrats in the upcoming presidential election, but remained silent when Pence said earlier that “Trump is wrong.”

Pence was inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, presiding over the joint session of Congress to certify the presidential election, when a mob of Trump’s supporters violently smashed inside, assaulting police officers and hunting down lawmakers. Pence, who had released a letter moments before the session got underway that made clear he had no authority to overturn the will of the voters, was rushed to safety as some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence!”

Pence, in his remarks Friday, acknowledged the lingering anger among many in Trump’s base, even as he said it was time “to focus on the future.”

“The truth is, there’s more at stake than our party or political fortunes," he said. "Men and women, if we lose faith in the Constitution, we won’t just lose elections — we’ll lose our country.”

Trump’s escalating rhetoric comes as he has been under growing scrutiny from the House committee investigating the attack. The panel has interviewed hundreds of witnesses, issued dozens of subpoenas and obtained reams of government documents that Trump tried to keep hidden.

It also comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers has been pushing to update the Electoral Count Act to eliminate any ambiguity about the vice president’s role.

While a basic declaration of fact, Pence’s decision to describe Trump as “wrong” was especially significant given Pence’s own posture in the White House. As Trump’s vice president, Pence was exceptionally deferential to him, never publicly voicing disagreement and defending even his most controversial actions.

Pence has so far tried to thread a needle on his actions Jan. 6, which continue to enrage large portions of Trump’s base, posing a potential complication if he runs for president in 2024.

In recent months, he has generally refrained from voluntarily raising the events of that day but has defended his actions when pressed, saying he was abiding by his constitutional role and was “proud” of the actions taken by Congress that day.

“I will always be proud that we did our part on that tragic day to reconvene the Congress and fulfilled our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States,” he said in one speech last year.

He has also accused Democrats and the media of continuing to focus on the insurrection to score political points against Republicans and divert attention from Biden’s agenda.

Pence has been traveling the country, visiting early voting states, delivering speeches and hosting fundraisers for midterm candidates. Pence, unlike some possible 2024 presidential contenders, has notably declined to rule out running against Trump.

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This is what an insane man says and you clowns eat up like candy....

In a statement Tuesday, Trump had said the committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead probe “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” And on Sunday, he blasted Pence, falsely declaring that “he could have overturned the Election!”

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GOP accused of 'declaring war on democracy' after calling the deadly January 6 riot 'legitimate political discourse'

 

 

John Haltiwanger

Fri, February 4, 2022, 3:42 PM

 

 

 

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.Brent Stirton/Getty Images

• The GOP faced criticism after RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel seemingly called January 6 "legitimate political discourse."

• McDaniel made the remarks as the GOP moved to censure Kinzinger and Cheney for sitting on the committee investigating the riot.

• The GOP has engaged in a broad effort to whitewash the deadly Capitol insurrection.

The GOP faced a wave of criticism on Friday after Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel referred to the deadly January 6 insurrection as "legitimate political discourse."

"We've had two members engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse," McDaniel told The Washington Post as the RNC moved to censure Republican Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming for serving on the House committee investigating January 6.

"This has gone beyond their original intent," she added. "They are not sticking up for hard-working Republicans."

The RNC's resolution to censure Kinzinger and Wyoming — an official GOP document — also accused them of "participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse."

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McDaniel in a tweet on Friday said that she has repeatedly condemned the violence on January 6. The resolution contained no mention of the violence and criminal acts by Trump loyalists during the riot.

Democrats, historians, and democracy experts, among others, ripped into the Republican party for framing the deadly riot in this way.

"Today @GOPChairwoman said Jan 6th insurrectionists were 'ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse,'" Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, said in a tweet. "They stormed the Capitol. Threatened the VP & Speaker. Injured police. Broke windows. Smeared feces on walls. GOP is truly the Party of #FraudFearFascism."

Walter Shaub, a former director of the Office of Government Ethics, said the "deadly insurrection that sought to stop the transfer of power was not 'legitimate political discourse,' and any persons or groups who say so are declaring war on democracy and aligning themselves with terrorists."

Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia echoed the sentiment.

"The Republican Party just declared the January 6th attack on the Capitol – 140+ police officers wounded, multiple deaths, and criminal charges for sedition – 'legitimate political discourse,'" Beyer tweeted. "The GOP officially supports violent criminal assaults on police, and on our democracy."

Jennifer Mercieca, a historian of American political rhetoric at Texas A&M University, said she can say with "certainty that the January 6th insurrection was not legitimate, nor was it 'political discourse,'" adding that the riot "was political violence."

"The Republican Party says attacking cops during insurrectionist riots is 'legitimate political discourse,'" Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California said in a tweet.

Describing January 6 as an "attempted coup," Yale historian Joanne Freeman said the "violent storming" of the Capitol "is not legitimate political discourse."

"And censuring Cheney and Kinzinger for doing damage to the republic? The right are truly masters of projection," Freeman added.

Joe Walsh, who ran for president in 2020 as a Republican and previously served in the House, in a tweet responding to McDaniel's comments said, "This party cannot be saved."

And Cheney, for her part, tweeted a video of violent clashes on the Capitol on January 6, saying, "This was January 6th. This is not 'legitimate political discourse.'"

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

The January 6 insurrection was provoked by President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election, including the false notion that it was "stolen" from him. Trump and his GOP allies pushed baseless allegations of mass voter fraud, unsuccessfully filing dozens of lawsuits to overturn the results.

As Congress met to certify the Electoral College vote on January 6, a pro-Trump mob violently stormed the US Capitol. Insurrectionists fought with and mercilessly beat police, in some cases with their own weapons, as lawmakers hid and feared for their lives. Nine people died in relation to the riot.

Since January 6, Republicans have engaged in a broad effort to whitewash the insurrection and downplay its significance. GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, for example, described the riot as "a normal tourist visit." And Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said the Capitol attack was a largely "peaceful protest." The censure of Kinzinger and Cheney is indicative of the GOP's desire to rewrite the history of the insurrection and the party's unprecedented effort to overturn the election.

Read the original article on Business Insider

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Trump, Jordan spoke for 10 minutes morning of Jan. 6 attack

 

 

 

Fri, February 4, 2022, 3:51 PM

 

 

 

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) gives an opening statement during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on Thursday, October 21, 2021.

 

Former President Trump and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) spoke on the phone for 10 minutes the morning of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in 2021, two sources told CNN.

The two sources reviewed call records the Jan. 6 House committee received from the National Archives last month.

Jordan has previously said he spoke to Trump on the day of the Capitol riot, but has been inconsistent about when the two talked or for how long.

 

"I talked to the president a number of times that day, but I don't remember the times," Jordan told CNN on Friday when questioned about the 10-minute call.

Jordan said he could "not recall" when the two specifically talked, but said he knows "I talked to him after we left off the floor."

Jordan spoke on the floor around 1:30 p.m. that day to reject Biden's electors from Arizona and again around 10:30 p.m., after legislators returned to the Capitol following the attack, according to CNN.

Jordan told CNN he could not remember how long he talked to the president.

The committee is also investigating other communications Jordan had leading up to the riot, including with Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

Jordan and the Jan. 6 panel clashed last month when Jordan said he would no longer voluntarily cooperate with the investigation.

"Mr. Jordan has admitted that he spoke directly to President Trump on January 6th and is thus a material witness. Mr. Jordan's letter to the committee fails to address these facts," the committee said in response to Jordan's refusal to cooperate anymore.

The committee alleged "the Trump team has persuaded him to try to hide the facts and circumstances of January 6th," but did not provide any evidence for the statement.

The Hill has reached out to Jordan and the committee for comment.

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sure it is...LOL....more and more facts coming out daily about the MULTIPLE plots the Trumpers had planned for him to STEAL the election for Joe Biden....a bunch of anti-Americans trying to overturn an election...nothing to see in your silly world?..LOL....🤡

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sure it is...LOL....more and more facts coming out daily about the MULTIPLE laptops Hunter had, and for him to buy the election for Chinese and Joe Biden....a bunch of anti-Americans trying to burn an election...nothing to see in your silly world?..LOL....🤡

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Capitol Riot Defendant Seeks Subpoena For Trump, Says He 'Directed' Him To Storm Capitol

 

 

Mary Papenfuss

Fri, February 4, 2022, 11:42 PM

 

 

 

A defendant in a Capitol riot case is calling for Donald Trump to be subpoenaed to testify because the man claims Trump

A defendant in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has filed a court brief calling for Donald Trump to be subpoenaed to testify because the accused claims the former president “directed” him and others to storm the Capitol as part of a deceptive plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

“It will be established at trial that Mr. Trump and his conspirators engaged in a concerted effort to deceive the public, including Defendant, into believing that American democracy was at stake if Congress was permitted to certify the election,” according to the court filing Friday on behalf of Ohio resident Dustin Thompson.

“Defendant submits that the testimony of Mr. Trump and his conspirators will establish that they were determined, by any means necessary, to prevent Congress from fulfilling its constitutional mandate to certify the election results,” states the filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“In order to accomplish that goal, the conspirators Defendant now seeks to subpoena engaged in a concerted effort to organize, encourage, and direct rally participants to storm the Capitol, enter the grounds, ‘fight like hell,’ and ’engage in trial by combat,” the brief added.

 

It was all part of a “carefully crafted plot” to call into question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, according to the filing.

Thompson will also seek to subpoena other “conspirators,” including Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, onetime White House strategist Steve Bannon, “coup memo” right-wing lawyer John Eastman and Donald Trump Jr.

Thompson has been charged with a number of offenses in the storming of the Capitol, including obstruction of an official proceeding, theft of government property, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and disorderly conduct in the Capitol.

In an interview with The Columbus Dispatch shortly after initial charges were filed against Thompson, his attorney, Samuel Shamansky, said his client and others who breached the Capitol “got brainwashed to the point they felt duty bound to follow the encouragement of their commander in chief.”

The demand to subpoena Trump faces an uphill battle but is broadening the debate about the former president’s role at the center of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

Trump could not be reached for comment.

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Chris Christie rips Trump's Jan. 6 claims: 'He actually told the truth by accident'

Colin Campbell

·Managing Editor

Sun, February 6, 2022, 10:27 AM

 

 

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did not hold back Sunday in his criticism of how former President Donald Trump has sought to depict the deadly attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"Let's face it. Let's call it what it is. Jan. 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week: Overturn the election," Christie said on ABC's "This Week."

Christie, a former GOP presidential candidate, made the comment in reaction to the back-and-forth between Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump incorrectly claims that Pence had the power to reverse the 2020 presidential contest, and the former president put his falsehoods in blunt terms in a statement last week.

"Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump exclaimed.

Christie said Sunday that Trump's statement let the truth slip: Trump lost the election to now-President Biden and was trying to cling to power.

"He actually told the truth by accident," the ex-governor said. "He wanted the election to be overturned."

 

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on "This Week." (Screenshot: Twitter/@ABCpolitics)

Trump's effort to get Pence to unconstitutionally change the election culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of Congress's certification of Biden's Electoral College win. Pence, as vice president, held the mostly ceremonial position of president of the Senate, and presided over the certification.

"Unfortunately, the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake-oil salesmen giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do," Marc Short, Pence's former chief of staff, recalled Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Trump, who has spun a web of false conspiracy theories alleging widespread voter fraud, headlined the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington on the day of the attack, where he urged his supporters to "fight." A mob of those supporters then assaulted the Capitol, with some of them even chanting, "Hang Mike Pence." More than 100 police officers were injured, and five people died in connection to the riot. More than 700 people have been arrested by authorities and charged with federal crimes related to the assault.

At a recent campaign rally, Trump floated the idea of pardoning some of the Jan. 6 rioters, drawing more attention to his actions that day, which ultimately led to his second impeachment.

Rebutting Trump last week, Pence defended his own actions that day.

“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech. “I had no right to overturn the election.”

 

Then-Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, as it convenes to count the Electoral College votes cast in the 2020 presidential election. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Trump, in turn, has kept his fire on Pence.

"I was right and everyone knows it," he said in a statement blasting Pence’s defense.

Christie, a former Trump ally and a former federal prosecutor, has had harsh words for Trump's conduct on Jan. 6, previously saying the rioters were "driven from the top" by Trump's rhetoric. On Sunday, Christie backed Pence in the dispute over the election certification.

"I think that the action the vice president took on Jan. 6 spoke loudly, and I'm glad he's finally put words to it. I don't know why it took him so long, but I'm glad that he did," Christie said.

"Donald Trump did respond to what the vice president said, and I think it's kind of akin to a kid standing in the corner holding his breath," Christie added. "It's immature, and it's beneath the office that he held."

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Donald Trump will be 'playing the role of disc jockey' at Mar-a-Lago dinners, note to members reportedly says

 

 

Joshua Zitser

Sat, February 5, 2022, 5:04 AM

 

 

 

Then-President Donald Trump dances at the end of a rally in Bern Township, Pennsylvania on October 31, 2020.Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

• Former President Donald Trump will DJ at The Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, per a note sent to members.

• He will spin the decks for guests during dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings, the note claims.

• The music will be "amazing" and will go on until the late evening, the note continues.

Donald Trump could have a new job according to a note sent on Wednesday to members of The Mar-a-Lago Club, the exclusive resort where the former president now spends much of his time.

Trump will be "playing the role of disc jockey" during dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings at the resort in Palm Beach, Florida, said the note, per senior journalist Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.

"The music will be amazing, it will be lots of fun, and will go until the late evening," the note continued.

It's unclear when the former president will assume the role of part-time DJ and will actually spin the decks or is just selecting the music. Insider reached out to The Mar-a-Lago Club for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

 

 

 

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Chris Christie rips Trump's Jan. 6 claims: 'He actually told the truth by accident'

Colin Campbell

·Managing Editor

Sun, February 6, 2022, 10:27 AM

 

 

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did not hold back Sunday in his criticism of how former President Donald Trump has sought to depict the deadly attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"Let's face it. Let's call it what it is. Jan. 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week: Overturn the election," Christie said on ABC's "This Week."

Christie, a former GOP presidential candidate, made the comment in reaction to the back-and-forth between Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump incorrectly claims that Pence had the power to reverse the 2020 presidential contest, and the former president put his falsehoods in blunt terms in a statement last week.

"Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump exclaimed.

Christie said Sunday that Trump's statement let the truth slip: Trump lost the election to now-President Biden and was trying to cling to power.

"He actually told the truth by accident," the ex-governor said. "He wanted the election to be overturned."

 

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on "This Week." (Screenshot: Twitter/@ABCpolitics)

Trump's effort to get Pence to unconstitutionally change the election culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of Congress's certification of Biden's Electoral College win. Pence, as vice president, held the mostly ceremonial position of president of the Senate, and presided over the certification.

"Unfortunately, the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake-oil salesmen giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do," Marc Short, Pence's former chief of staff, recalled Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Trump, who has spun a web of false conspiracy theories alleging widespread voter fraud, headlined the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington on the day of the attack, where he urged his supporters to "fight." A mob of those supporters then assaulted the Capitol, with some of them even chanting, "Hang Mike Pence." More than 100 police officers were injured, and five people died in connection to the riot. More than 700 people have been arrested by authorities and charged with federal crimes related to the assault.

At a recent campaign rally, Trump floated the idea of pardoning some of the Jan. 6 rioters, drawing more attention to his actions that day, which ultimately led to his second impeachment.

Rebutting Trump last week, Pence defended his own actions that day.

“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech. “I had no right to overturn the election.”

 

Then-Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, as it convenes to count the Electoral College votes cast in the 2020 presidential election. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Trump, in turn, has kept his fire on Pence.

"I was right and everyone knows it," he said in a statement blasting Pence’s defense.

Christie, a former Trump ally and a former federal prosecutor, has had harsh words for Trump's conduct on Jan. 6, previously saying the rioters were "driven from the top" by Trump's rhetoric. On Sunday, Christie backed Pence in the dispute over the election certification.

"I think that the action the vice president took on Jan. 6 spoke loudly, and I'm glad he's finally put words to it. I don't know why it took him so long, but I'm glad that he did," Christie said.

"Donald Trump did respond to what the vice president said, and I think it's kind of akin to a kid standing in the corner holding his breath," Christie added. "It's immature, and it's beneath the office that he held."

 

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White House record boxes recovered at Trump's Mar-a-Lago: report

 

 

 

Mon, February 7, 2022, 7:48 AM

 

 

 

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) retrieved multiple White House record boxes last month that were improperly kept at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, The Washington Post reported.

The boxes reportedly contained important records of communication, gifts and letters from world leaders, which, according to the Post, is a violation of the Presidential Records Act.

The newspaper added that the boxes retrieved from the Florida estate included correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as well as a letter from former President Obama to Trump.

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The Post noted that recent administrations have all had some Presidential Records Act violations, including the use of unofficial email and telephone accounts as well as the destruction of emails.

But a source told the newspaper that the transfer to Mar-a-Lago was "out of the ordinary ... NARA has never had that kind of volume transfer after the fact like this."

The Hill has reached out to the National Archives and Trump's office for comment.

The Presidential Records Act, which was put in place following the Watergate scandal, requires administrations to document and maintain records of the White House decisionmaking process.

The new development comes just a week after NARA handed over some Trump White House documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that were reportedly torn up and taped back together.

The National Archives said last week that the documents "included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump."

The former president had sued to stop the committee from being given certain documents, with his attorney claiming it was illegal and that Trump wanted to preserve privileges over certain documents.

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/donald-trump-coffee-table-book/index.html
 

Kramer > The Grift 

 

 

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On 2/5/2022 at 8:58 AM, golfaddict1 said:

True dat 

"...cuck shill sellout betrayer caucus, Trump is hating his Twitter ban with a fury that burns like a billion suns in the center of a fiery galaxy of pure energy."

Too funny...Sometimes you just gotta admire the way some people can string words together.  

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37 minutes ago, 15yds4gibberish said:

"...cuck shill sellout betrayer caucus, Trump is hating his Twitter ban with a fury that burns like a billion suns in the center of a fiery galaxy of pure energy."

Too funny...Sometimes you just gotta admire the way some people can string words together.  

😄

 

Indeed, he can articulate with venomous satire.   I've enjoyed following his feed for some time.  

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Trump: 'Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party'

Dylan Stableford

·Senior Writer

Wed, February 9, 2022, 1:42 PM

 

 

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, a day after McConnell issued a strong rebuke to the Republican National Committee for its attempt to reframe the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as "legitimate political discourse."

“Let me give you my view on what happened on Jan. 6. We were all here," McConnell said on Tuesday. "It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election.”

The blunt assessment from McConnell, one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, drew a lengthy statement from Trump.

The former president railed against McConnell and President Biden alike, repeating his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump’s debunked election conspiracy theories were the basis for the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the assault on the Capitol that day.

"Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters," Trump said. "He did nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history. And he does nothing to stop the lawless Biden Administration, the invasion of our Borders, rising Inflation, Unconstitutional mandates, the persecution of political opponents, fact finding on the incompentent [sic] Afghanistan withdrawal, the giving away our energy independence, etc., which is all because of the fraudulent election. Instead, he bails out the Radical Left and the RINOs.

"If Mitch would have fought for the election, like the Democrats would have if in the same position, we would not be discussing any of the above today, and our Country would be STRONG and PROUD instead of weak and embarrassed," Trump added.

 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

On Friday, the RNC voted to censure Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., for their participation in the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 mob attack, which attempted to disrupt and overturn Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory in the Electoral College. The RNC measure, however, downplayed the violent events of Jan. 6.

"Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse," the resolution adopted by the RNC reads.

McConnell's criticism of the RNC stood in stark contrast to the response of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who insisted that the term "legitimate political discourse" referred to subpoenas issued by the committee to six RNC members who were not at the Capitol on the day of the assault.

The text of the RNC resolution, though, does not include that detail.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the RNC's statement — and McCarthy's tepid response — is evidence that the GOP has been "hijacked" by Trump loyalists who are too scared to cross him.

"Take back your party from this cult," Pelosi said at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. "America needs a strong Republican Party."

McConnell is not the only prominent Republican to speak out against the Jan. 6 narrative being pushed by Trump and his supporters.

Last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said Trump was wrong to claim that Pence had the authority to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to the conservative Federalist Society in Florida. “I had no right to overturn the election.”