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Billionaire Speaks Candidly About Biden: He's Either Lying to America or Truly Clueless
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1. For Trump, the crowd was armed, dangerous – and welcome.
The former president knew the crowd had weapons, knew of the intelligence that violence could come on Jan. 6, but according to a White House aide, he didn't care.
Why?
"They're not here to hurt me," he said, per Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. "Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here."
Hutchinson said Trump was "furious" that people who were armed on Jan. 6 were deterred by metal detectors, or magnetometers, and thereby making his crowd appear smaller.
2. A president with a flash temper and desperate to hold onto power.
Throwing plates at the wall because he was upset that his attorney general said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Grabbing the steering wheel of a presidential vehicle, because he so badly wanted to go to the Capitol with the rioters.
Hutchinson painted a picture of a president unhinged. This isn't the first time people around Trump have described a man with a temper who demanded fealty.
Multiple witnesses during these hearings have described a president who couldn't accept the truth, would find people to tell him what he wanted to hear, had descended down a deep rabbit hole of conspiracy and was willing to do whatever it took in a desperate effort to cling to power that was slipping through his fingers.
3. No one was too big or too small for Trump's pressure campaign.
From as high up as his former vice president Mike Pence all the way down to GOP state elections officials and election workers, no one was spared from Trump's persistent goading.
"You heard him, Pat. He thinks Mike deserves it," Meadows told White House lawyer Pat Cipollone, per Hutchinson, about the crowd chanting, "Hang, Mike Pence!"
(Cipollone may himself be compelled to testify soon. The committee has subpoenaed him.)
Publicly, including in ad-libbed portions of his speech on Jan. 6, Trump has said multiple times that Pence didn't have the "courage" to do what he wanted. At a recent rally, Trump derided Pence as a "conveyor belt."
Trump wrongly accused Georgia election worker Shaye Moss of altering votes because of a video he irresponsibly talked about.
She testified that her personal life had been ruined since.
"I've gained about 60 pounds. I just don't do nothing anymore," Moss said. "I don't want to go anywhere. I second guess everything that I do. It's affected my life in a — in a major way. In every way. All because of lies. For me doing my job, same thing I've been doing forever."
Originally Posted by Phil B.
So, either biden controls gas prices or he doesn't. You can't have it both ways Phil.
I guess now you won't be blaming one person for the price of gasoline?
4. The potential for criminal prosecution may be growing.
A scheme for fake electors. Knowledge of the potential for violence. The lack of caring about that violence.
A White House lawyer concerned about potential obstruction of Congress and defrauding the country charges.
Members of Congress and others inside Trump's inner circle asking for pardons.
And now oblique threats against committee witnesses.
"I think most Americans know that attempting to influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents very serious concerns," Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. said.
The committee is leaving lots of bread crumbs for prosecutors to peck at.
5. The credibility of the witnesses is hard to dismiss.
As much as Trump World is trying to undermine some of the testimony, particularly that of Hutchinson, ask yourself whether Hutchinson had more to gain or lose through her testimony and whether any of those, including the president, who are casting doubt on her testimony will do so under oath before the committee and the FBI.
We've seen on lots of occasions when Trump has sat for depositions under oath, he has had a very different tune than in public. Almost everyone who has testified has been a Republican, who worked for Trump, was trying to get him reelected or voted for him.
The conspiracy has to run pretty deep for them all to be lying or have an ax to grind.
10-year-old rape/ incest victim in Ohio reportedly denied abortion, travels to Indiana for procedure
A 10-year-old girl was denied an abortion in her home state of Ohio and had to travel to Indiana to have the procedure performed, according to multiple media reports.
The young rape victim was six weeks and three days pregnant but was not allowed to have an abortion in Ohio because the state bans the procedure after six weeks when fetal cardiac activity may be detected.
An Ohio child abuse doctor, who determined the term of the girl’s pregnancy, referred her to Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Caitlin Bernard, three days after the Supreme Court ruling, the Indianapolis Star first reported. An abortion ban had not taken effect in Indiana and the girl traveled to Bernard’s office to have the procedure.
There were no additional details about the girl’s situation or the circumstances of what happened possibly based on her age, according to a Huffington Post story.
The report comes in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24.
Before the Supreme Court’s decision, Ohio did not ban most abortions until the 22nd week of pregnancy. But the state has since imposed a host of other restrictions, including parental consent for minors, a required ultrasound, and in-person counseling followed by a 24-hour waiting period.
Abortions are prohibited for the reason of a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.
Ohio also limits the public funding of abortions to cases of rape, incest or endangerment of the patient’s life.
A ban on most abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat became the law in Ohio hours after the Supreme Court ruling. Enforcement of Ohio’s 2019 "heartbeat" ban had been on hold for nearly three years under a federal court injunction.
Abortion in Indiana is legal for up to about 20 weeks, with some provisions for medical emergencies. Before an abortion, patients must undergo an 18-hour waiting period. Medical providers must tell patients about the risks involved in abortion and must say the fetus can feel pain around 20 weeks, which is disputed. Providers must report complications related to abortion.
After the SCOTUS ruling, there were no immediate changes to Indiana’s abortion law, but the state’s Republican attorney general has asked federal judges to lift orders blocking several state anti-abortion laws. Those include one aimed at prohibiting abortions based on gender, race or disability, and another banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure that the legislation called "dismemberment abortion."
The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade has been a divisive issue for many with abortion advocates praising the decision, while abortion supporters expressed their anger and disappointment and vow to fight to protect women’s rights.
The June 24 ruling was expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The decision also set up the potential for legal fights between the states over whether providers and those who help women obtain abortions can be sued or prosecuted.
Several Republican-controlled states had already passed strict abortion bans in recent years. Some of these "trigger laws" are now going into effect, while some are being blocked, at least temporarily. In some states, older laws that became null and void because of Roe are now resurfacing. The most liberal states are seeking to add more protections.
FOX 2 Detroit, FOX 5 DC, and the Associated Press contributed to this story. This story was reported from Washington,
... some Republican states are now OK with forcing 10 year old girls to give birth. There are often many legal complications around the court orders to get an abortion that might force this 10 year old girl into foster care or a shelter alone by herself against her will.
This is like a bomb exploded on this poor girl!
... it is really just cruel what these laws in Republican states will do to females regardless of age.
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