Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
... the last two videos when watched back to back shows that Vladimir Putin was probably frustrated by his recent failed attempts to take over Ukraine by soft power and backroom deals. Putin is in his mind is possessed to return the Ukraine to Russian control. Without the ex President in power to help advance his agenda, a military attack seemed the only path forward.
Putin clearly underestimated how quickly the West united against his efforts with severe sanctions and how strongly the Ukrainians would resist his attack.Comment
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
World like more Trumph then Biden...Comment
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
Judge: ‘More likely than not’ that Trump ‘corruptly attempted’ to block Congress from counting votes on January 6
A federal judge said Monday that former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election.
“Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” Judge David Carter wrote Monday.
Carter, a federal judge in California, ordered Eastman to turn over 101 emails from around January 6, 2021, that he has tried to keep secret from the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack.
Carter’s reasoning is a startling acknowledgment by a federal court that Trump’s interest in overturning the election could be considered criminal. He also revealed new details about the emails the House is seeking and even calls for more investigation.
“The illegality of the plan was obvious,” Carter wrote. “Our nation was founded on the peaceful transition of power, epitomized by George Washington laying down his sword to make way for democratic elections. Ignoring this history, President Trump vigorously campaigned for the Vice President to single-handedly determine the results of the 2020 election … Every American – and certainly the President of the United States – knows that in a democracy, leaders are elected, not installed.”
Neither the judge nor the House committee has the ability to prosecute Trump or his allies for the conspiracy being alleged. That decision falls to the Justice Department, which is facing pressure from the left to more aggressively go after those – like Trump and his inner circle – whose involvement in the January 6 insurrection went beyond physically breaching the Capitol.
Eastman “intends to comply with the court’s order,” his attorney Charles Burnham said.
“Dr. Eastman has an unblemished record as an attorney and respectfully disagrees with the judge’s findings,” Burnham added. “Dr. Eastman asks all persons interested in this case to join him in calling upon the January 6th committee to release all the evidence so the courts and the public can reach accurate conclusions about the matters involved.”
Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich called the ruling “absurd.”
“This absurd and baseless ruling by a Clinton-appointed Judge in California is just another example of how the left is weaponizing every branch of government against President Trump,” Budowich said.
The emails that Carter has now approved for disclosure will not immediately be made public, but instead will go to the committee.
Judge issues a plea for accountability
In his order, Carter made an unusually bold statement wishing for accountability so that history does not repeat itself.
“If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself,” the judge wrote.
While Carter agreed with the House’s argument that Eastman and Trump shouldn’t be able to keep secret emails that show them trying to plan a crime, the judge decided many of the emails should be released to the House for other reasons, in a resounding loss for Eastman and Trump.
“Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower – it was a coup in search of a legal theory. The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation’s government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process.”
“More than a year after the attack on our Capitol, the public is still searching for accountability. This case cannot provide it. The Court is tasked only with deciding a dispute over a handful of emails. This is not a criminal prosecution; this is not even a civil liability suit,” he wrote.
“At most, this case is a warning about the dangers of ‘legal theories’ gone wrong, the powerful abusing public platforms, and desperation to win at all costs,” Carter added. “If Dr. Eastman and President Trump’s plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution.”
While Carter found the House’s crime-fraud argument applied to some of the documents, he decided many should be released to the House for other reasons as well, in a resounding loss for Eastman and Trump.
“it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history.”Comment
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
Biden's pick is crazy.
John Solomon Special Report - Biden’s Court Pick: Tipping The Scales
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
January 6 committee votes to recommend criminal contempt charges for 2 former Trump advisers
The House select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol voted Monday night to recommend two former advisers to former President Donald Trump be referred to the Department of Justice on criminal contempt of Congress charges for their refusal to cooperate with the committee’s investigation or appear for a scheduled deposition.
The votes on Trump White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and Trump’s onetime trade adviser, Peter Navarro, came after the committee filed reports Sunday night outlining the ways in which both men evaded investigators.
The referrals passed unanimously out of the committee, which is made up of nine lawmakers, and heads next to the full House for a vote. If both pass out of the House, the referrals would then be sent to the Department of Justice, which will decide if there is enough evidence to prosecute. The committee has advanced three previous criminal referrals.
The committee’s vice chair, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, connected the work of the panel to Ukrainian citizens fighting for freedom amid a Russian invasion.
“As we meet here tonight, Vladimir Putin continues his brutality against Ukraine, killing innocents, reminding us what happens when authoritarians rule,” Cheney said, drawing a direct parallel between the committee’s work to hold Trump accountable and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Both Cheney and the committee’s chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, linked the referral recommendation to Monday’s ruling by a federal judge that Trump and conservative lawyer John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6, 2021, congressional certification of the presidential election.
The panel claims it granted Scavino six extensions of his deadline to sit for an interview and hand over documents and noted that several of the issues Navarro said he could not discuss he had previously written about in his book.
The first, for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, was picked up by DOJ and has led to an indictment of Bannon. He faces a criminal trial this summer.
The Justice Department is still reviewing the contempt referral of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, which the full House voted on in December. Scavino was initially subpoenaed at the same time as Bannon and Meadows.
A third contempt referral, for former DOJ staffer Jeffrey Clark, was voted out of committee but did not make it to the House floor after Clark agreed to meet with the committee. Clark sat for an interview but pleaded the 5th Amendment more than 100 times.
Why the committee is voting on a criminal referral for Scavino
Scavino used a series of delay tactics to prevent any type of substantive cooperation with its investigation, according to the committee, which argues he never substantively engaged and therefore was in violation of his subpoena. Scavino is one of Trump’s closest and most loyal allies, having served in the administration from beginning to end and as one of his earliest campaign staffers.
He was intimately involved with Trump’s social media channels, often posting message to Trump’s followers on the then-President’s behalf. The committee believes Scavino is privy to meetings and details of the events leading up to and on January 6, including strategy sessions that were directly tied to Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
“Mr. Scavino reportedly attended several meetings with the President in which challenges to the election were discussed,” the committee wrote in its report. “Mr. Scavino also tracked social media on behalf of President (Donald) Trump, and he did so at a time when sites reportedly frequented by Mr. Scavino suggested the possibility of violence on January 6th.”
The committee cites news stories that discuss Scavino tracking the website “TheDonald.win,” which their report describes as a “an online forum frequented by individuals who openly advocated and planned violence in the weeks leading up to January 6th.”
Scavino has still contested his need to testify, according to a letter from his attorney Stanley Brand to the White House on March 25, which Brand provided on Sunday.
The letter kicks legal questions back to the Biden administration, which had determined it would not protect any of Scavino’s testimony.
Scavino, however, argues the law isn’t settled yet on whether the current president can waive privilege on all testimony, including Scavino’s conversations with Trump, especially if Trump may make a claim to secrecy of his own.
Why the committee is voting on a criminal referral for Navarro
The committee accuses Navarro, a former White House trade adviser, of making no effort to comply with its subpoena request, claiming that Navarro made it clear that he was unable to cooperate because Trump had asserted executive privilege in the matter.
Thompson cited the executive privilege argument in his opening statement Monday.
“They potentially played a part in an attack on American democracy, but they can ignore our investigation because they worked for the government at the time. That’s their argument,” Thompson said. “They’re not fooling anybody. They are obligated to comply with our investigation. They have refused to do so. And that’s a crime.”
The committee responded by informing him that there were several topic areas it wanted to discuss with him that were not covered under privilege, but Navarro rejected the offer. Navarro also asked the committee if the proceedings would be held in public. He ultimately closed off communication with the committee and referred all questions regarding his cooperation to Trump and his attorneys.
The committee made note of Navarro citing privilege despite the fact that many of the topics it wanted to discuss with him he had already written about in great detail in his book.
”There are topics that the Select Committee believes it can discuss with [him] without raising any executive privilege concerns at all, including, but not limited to, questions related to [his] public three-part report about purported fraud in the November 2020 election and the plan [he] described in [his] book,” the committee wrote in an email to Navarro on March 1.
“In the days leading up to January 6, 2021, according to evidence obtained by the Select Committee, Mr. Navarro also encouraged Mark Meadows (and possibly others) to call Roger Stone to discuss January 6th,” the committee wrote.
Navarro has been very public about his attempts to work with the Trump campaign to subvert the 2020 election. In his book, he details a plan called the “Green Bay Sweep,” which involved convincing state leaders in several swing states to call into question the election results in an attempt to delay and eventually prevent the certification.
Navarro responded to the committee’s contempt report filing by saying he believes President Joe Biden does not have the ability to waive Trump’s executive privilege in his case. He also claimed that the committee’s investigation is predicated on a false notion that the 2020 presidential election was “free and fair.”
“My position remains this is not my Executive Privilege to waive and the Committee should negotiate this matter with President Trump,” Navarro said in a statement. “If he waives the privilege, I will be happy to comply; but I see no effort by the Committee to clarify this matter with President Trump, which is bad faith and bad law.”
... Jared Kushner has agreed to be deposed by video in front of the Jan 6th commission.Comment
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
Every few months SSG falls for the same old bullshit from his liberal media sources and gets the rug pulled out from under him every time. You'd think he'd learn but nope. Trump did nothing wrong. He can't accept that.Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Re: Just how Crazy is Donald Trump!
It's sad how you willingly defend a guy who called the Georgia secretary of state to get him to "find" 11780 votes so he could steal the election. And this same guy praised and applauded Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Your credibility is hitting close to ZERO.Comment
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Nah. You're the one who will defend that douche bag till the end. I just use him to show everyone your hypocrisy.
It's part of the fun.
You go round in circles defending one corrupt politician while hating on another. It's funny to watch you twist yourself in knots.Comment
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