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Posted: Jan 7, 2021 at 4:22 Quote
Yesterday's attempted insurrection at the Capital building was not a big surprise for me and I'm actually glad it went down the way it did. Trump completely destroyed any narrative that tries to put a positive spin on his disastrous one and done term in office. It was a disappointment that the police did not use more lethal force to thwart the attack, which would have sent a clear message to the delusional "Don't tread on me" crowd of violent losers who have been so easily manipulated by Trumps constant lies and conspiracy theories.

But where do we go from here now that a US President has caused an attack on his own government? A huge priority has to be holding Trump accountable for all his crimes and corruption during the last 4 years. Too long of a list to even start detailing everything, but enough to prevent him from ever being a free man again. He also should be held accountable for his criminal neglect in downplaying and sowing lies about the Covid 19, which continues to cause thousands of deaths every day. The FBI will find and prosecute the worst criminals from yesterday's invasion and punish them severely. Trump has surprisingly destroyed any chance at a questionable self pardon by throwing VP Mike Pence under the bus yesterday. Pence might actually become supportive of removing Trump by way of the 25tg amendment in light of this, which would really be a great ending for his failed term in office.

Trump has also destroyed any chance of creating an alternative political movement with yesterday's chaos, which means the Republican party will survive as the defenders of anti-science, religious bigotry, racial divisiveness, and tax cuts for the rich. But it will be a new Republican party hated by many former Republicans, and with no credibility in light of what they tolerated from traitor Trump for 4 years. Trumps family's future political hopes were also all flushed directly down the toilet yesterday. Sorry Ivanka, and good luck selling your Trump branded Chinese garbage anymore.

Putin is actually a loser of Trumps presidency. He invested alot into Trump and thought getting Trump elected would end the sanctions on Russia. But Trump was so sloppy in trying to pull off his hush deal with Putin that he couldn't end the sanctions and wasn't actually much of a help to Russia overall. Any joy Putin got from watching Trump supporters overrun the Capital building will end once Biden puts more sanctions on Russia, which they deserve in light of what they have attempted to do throughout the world to weaken democracy.

The biggest disaster could be yet to come unless Trump is removed soon via the 25th amendment. The likely reason he was so desperate to stay in office is because he fears criminal prosecution after he leaves. So how does he leave? Who knows. It will be ugly, thats the only thing we can probably assume. A post-Jan 20th vacation to Russia by Trump should not be allowed, because he probably would not come back. Hopefully America will learn from Trump, but only if he is completely exposed as the lying, divisive, manipulative corrupt con man that he is.
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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 at 4:10 Quote
Republicans have completely miscalculated their political strategy of protecting Trump, and the lying, manipulative ex President will be exposed and hopefully finally be held accountable for inspiring a terrorist insurrection attack on his own country's Capitol on Jan. 6.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/26/nancy-pelosi-capitol-attack-panel-trump



Nancy Pelosi primes Capitol attack panel to take hard line on Trump
The Republican leadership’s decision to boycott the inquiry leaves the ex-president without defenders on the committee

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon 26 Jul 2021 02.00 EDT

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is readying the committee that will on Tuesday begin its investigation into the attack on the Capitol to press ahead with an aggressive inquiry into Donald Trump, as she seeks to exploit Republicans’ refusal to participate that could leave the former US president unguarded.

Can Pelosi’s power play on Capitol attack panel thwart wrecking tactics?
The move by the top Democrat in the House last week to block Jim Banks and Jim Jordan – vociferous allies of the former president – from serving on the House select committee, prompted the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, to boycott the inquiry, pulling his three other Republican picks from the panel.


But Pelosi won strong support from Democrats for her vetoes and told her lieutenants that she may have emerged with the upper hand ahead of the select committee’s first hearing.

“We have the duty, to the constitution and the country, to find the truth of the 6 January insurrection and to ensure that such an assault on our Democracy cannot again happen,” Pelosi said of the investigation in a letter to Democrats.

The speaker has suggested to top Democrats in recent days that McCarthy’s reflexive move to boycott the panel leaves Trump without any defenders in the high-profile investigation into the 6 January insurrection, according to a source familiar with the matter.


Pelosi chose some of the former president’s most critical opponents when she made her appointments to the select committee, installing both lead House impeachment managers from Trump’s two impeachments as well as the Republican dissident Liz Cheney, who was ousted from party leadership in May for repudiating Trump.

But the absence of any Republican picks on the select committee means that when the investigation pivots from examining security failures to the role Trump played on 6 January, the inquiry will be conducted solely by his political foes, emboldening Pelosi to seek an aggressive inquiry, the source said.

It was not immediately clear how Pelosi might proceed with the select committee. But Democrats have agitated for weeks for her to take a hard line against Republicans after they doomed a 9/11-style bipartisan commission into the Capitol attack.


Democrats close to Pelosi say she remains furious at how Republicans have sought to downplay the brutal violence of the insurrection, which informed her decision to not give Banks and Jordan a platform from which to twist or minimize the select committee’s findings.

But the speaker’s relationship with Republicans deteriorated to a new low, after McCarthy shouted down the phone at her when she informed him of her decision to veto Banks and Jordan, the source said.

Republicans have seized on Pelosi’s intervention against Banks and Jordan, as well as her close involvement with the panel, to portray the inquiry as a partisan exercise to gain political advantage ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, shouted down the phone at Pelosi when she informed him of her decision to veto two of his picks.
The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, shouted down the phone at Pelosi when she informed him of her decision to veto two of his picks. Photograph: Craig Hudson/Rex/Shutterstock
McCarthy lashed out anew a day after he was denied his two top picks for the select committee, and pledged to carry out a Republican-only investigation that would focus on how Pelosi should have done more to protect the Capitol.


But Democrats said Pelosi was more than justified in upending congressional norms in refusing to appoint Banks and Jordan, both of whom amplified Trump’s lies about a stolen election and objected to certifying Joe Biden’s election win.

“We want people who are going to have allegiance to the oath of office that they took, not an allegiance to one person. And they’ve clearly pledged their allegiance to the former president,” said Democrat Pete Aguilar, a member of the select committee.

Several Democrats said they were particularly disturbed by a CNN report that an alleged Capitol rioter, Anthony Aguero, accompanied Banks on a trip sponsored by the Republican Study Committee to the southern border and, at times, served as an interpreter.


They also said that Pelosi came to the conclusion that Banks could not be trusted to serve as the top Republican appointee on the panel after he issued a statement that he wanted to investigate the role of the Biden administration in the insurrection.

Democrats expressed deep reservations as well about Jordan, the top Republican on the House judiciary committee, after he disparaged the select committee and accused Pelosi of being responsible for a diminished security presence at the Capitol.

The speaker does not herself oversee security at the Capitol, which is the responsibility of the US Capitol police board and the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms. Both sergeants-at-arms at the time of the attack were hired by Republican congressional leaders.


A bipartisan Senate report released last month detailed multiple security failings on the parts of the US Capitol police and the sergeants-at-arms. It did not blame Pelosi or her then opposite number in the Senate, Mitch McConnell.
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Posted: Sep 29, 2021 at 21:07 Quote
Trump's insurrection attempt and political suicide are coming full circle. Subpoenas for Trump's cronies for all communications. ☑️ This could likely destroy Trump.⬅️⬅️⬅️⚠️

Please read:
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack on Wednesday issued a second tranche of subpoenas to individuals connected to the rally immediately preceding the 6 January riot, where Donald Trump incited his supporters to commit insurrection.

The new subpoenas for people involved in the march and rally reflects the select committee’s far-reaching mandate to examine whether the attack on the Capitol was planned in advance, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret
House select committee investigators in total subpoenaed 11 individuals connected to the Trump-supporting organization Women for America First that organized the rally at the Ellipse, including its two co-founders, Amy Kremer and her daughter Kylie Jane Kremer.


“The investigation has revealed credible evidence of your involvement in events within the scope of the select committee’s inquiry,” the chairman of the select committee, Bennie Thompson, said in the subpoena letters.

“Accordingly, the select committee seeks both documents and your deposition testimony regarding these and other matters that are within the scope of the select committee’s inquiry,” Thompson said.

The select committee also subpoenaed other individuals linked to Women for America First: Caroline Wren, Cynthia Lee Chafian, Hannah Salem Stone, Justin Caporale, Katrina Pierson, Lyndon Brentnall, Maggie Mulvaney, Megan Powers, and Tim Unes.

House select committee investigators are specifically questioning Pierson – a spokesperson for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign – about a 4 January encounter with Trump where the former president asked about a separate event featuring Roger Stone and Ali Alexander.

The select committee, in subpoenaing Pierson and investigating an additional event on the day before the Capitol attack organized by Chafian, is examining connections between the rally leaders and Trump, who helped drive attendance by elevating 6 January as a “wild” protest.

House select committee investigators said in the subpoenas that they believed the 11 people assisted in organizing the rally in support of Trump and his lies about a stolen 2020 election, which incited his supporters to storm the Capitol in his name.

But in a notable addition, the select committee added in the subpoenas that they had been identified as potential witnesses because they communicated with former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows – as well as Trump himself.

The select committee is expected in the coming weeks to authorize still further subpoenas to Trump officials and other individuals connected to the Capitol attack, which could ultimately number in the hundreds, according to a source familiar with internal deliberations.

But it was not immediately clear whether the latest subpoena targets would comply with the orders that compelled them to produce documents by 13 October and appear for depositions in October and November before a select committee that has plainly enraged Trump.

The Guardian first reported on Wednesday that Trump and his advisers are planning to sue to block the release of White House records from his presidency to House investigators over executive privilege claims, according to a source familiar with his planning.

Trump also expects the four aides subpoenaed in the first tranche of orders last week – Meadows, deputy chief Dan Scavino, strategist Steve Bannon and department defense aide Kash Patel – to defy the orders, the source said.

The former president’s efforts to resist the select committee on every front by claiming executive privilege faces steep obstacles, in part because the justice department declined to assert protection over prior testimony related to 6 January.

But the plan to mount legal challenges could ensure the most sensitive Trump White House records are tied up in court for months, delaying the select committee as it aims to produce a final report before the 2022 midterms to shield it from accusations of partisanship.
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Posted: Dec 7, 2021 at 7:15 Quote
❗❇️☮️️⚛️☯️☦️Awesome ❗❗♥️♥️The Jan 6 committee now has it's own Twitter page♥️♥️❗

⬇️⬇️Check this link regularly for updates

I think they will end up charging Trump when we see all the evidence.

⚠️⚠️Check it out☑️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️



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Posted: Jan 18, 2022 at 22:53 Quote
⬇️⬇️⬇️❤️Check out these Power Tweets I just saw on Twitter❗

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✅Top 3 headlines at NYT right now:

❤️-- NY Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Jail Fraud at Trump Business

❤️-- Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Giuliani

❤️-- Prosecutors asked at least one defendant about former President Trump’s role in the Capitol riot, court papers suggest.:P
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Duty To Warn Speaker with one sound wave
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Eek Remember when Rudy said he's not worried because he "has an insurance policy?"
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Big Grin PERSONALLY, I can't wait for Ivanka's perp walk.
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tup Might want to get rid of Louis DeJoy before it’s time to start shipping out those covid tests.
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lol BREAKING - Mike Lindell sued for defamation again, this time by voting machine company SmartMatic. At the rate this is going for Lindell, his company will soon be called EveryoneElse’sPillowMoon
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