Tuesday, March 29, 2022

About that judges ruling which stated Trump more likely than not committed a crime?

There is probably a pretty good reason why no other judge had floated this idea 


To put this into some form of context, the issue at hand had nothing to do with whether or not Trump should or should not be charged with a crime. The issues was about whether or not the bone dry old Jan 6th committee had the right to more documentation to add to the forty seven tons of documents that they already subpoenaed from everyone and their brother. 

For the judge to authorize the continuance of this fiasco, some sort of crime had to pretty much be involved. Without the pretense of a crime, there would be no subpoena granted. This is a similar sort of logic that is used to garner any sort of search warrant or subpoena. Some "probable cause" that a crime has been committed. Had the judge determined differently then the committee would have been out of luck.

As far as the smoking gun claim that Trump committed a crime. That was based on a draft memo that was written (but never executed) suggesting that Mike Pence should reject the electors from a handful of contested states. This is not a bombshell, a smoking gun, or even anything particularly new. This is just a single judge coming down on the minority side of the legal analysis arguments as to whether or not what was done was "criminal". 

What is probably most telling about this is the lack of immediate responses from most legal analysts. Apparently it was not serious enough to even provide an opinion about. But the reality is that once again the legal left are apparently wanting Trump to be charged with an obstruction of justice that never happened. Much like they felt there was some sort of "intent" to obstruct justice in the Mueller probe in spite of the fact that he fully cooperated in every aspect of the law. The argument (in both cases) is that just because (congress or Mueller)  wasn't obstructed, doesn't mean that Trump shouldn't be charged with a crime for having some thought about possibly doing something. 

The reality here is that the draft memo was internal. The suggestion was never implemented. Moreover, there is still a disagreement about what legal standing Mike Pence did or did not have in that situation. 

But whether or not Mike Pence did or did not have constitutional authority to reject ballots would never had been a "criminal" question, but a constitutional question. Had he rejected the electors from the disputed states, had they gone to court, and had the USSC eventually sided against Pence, that does not mean that he would have committed a crime and be sent to jail. No more than Barack Obama or any other President goes to jail when the court finds an executive action unconstitutional.  His actions would have been overruled, not criminalized.

So given there is no chance that Mike Pence would have committed a "crime" if he exercised authority that the courts hypothetically argued that he did not have, there can be no chance that someone would have been aiding and abetting a criminal action for suggesting it. 

But more oddly, the argument isn't that Trump was trying to aid and abet Pence, but that Trump was the only person committing the crime. Again, apparently the fact that Trump believed that Pence had that authority is somehow now considered "the crime" here. This argument also requires the hypothetical idea that we already know how the courts would have ruled (when we don't) and that being wrong about that case would be criminal. The implication of this sort of ruling (if serious) would be staggering to say the least.  

This is quite literally a suggestion of a crime that goes looking for an action to justify the allegation. More to the point, this ruling was merely an excuse to allow the Jan 6th committee to continue their nonsense.


91 comments:

rrb said...



This whole thing is such a stretch it's not even funny. A last gasp 'Hail Mary' to prevent Trump from running in '24. Right as they collide with the slaughter of the mid-terms.

The democrats are a fucking joke at so many levels. One needs to be a complete fucking imbecile to support them.

Alex Jones said...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) delivered a speech on the Senate floor Monday night in which he exposed lucrative financial deals between the communist Chinese government and Joe Biden’s brother James as well as Joe’s son Hunter Biden.

Sen. Grassley chastised Democrat members of the chambers, saying they should be “ashamed of themselves” for calling Hunter Biden’s laptop “Russian disinformation” in 2020.

At that time, Sen. Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis) had called for an inquiry into Hunter Biden.

rrb said...



LOL.

When democrats face defeat, it's always "an attack on our democracy."



Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in an interview published Monday that she fears for American democracy if Republicans win the House in this year's midterm elections.

Republicans are highly favored to win the House in November given that they need to flip only five seats, along with the historic tendency for the incumbent president's party to lose seats in Congress during midterm elections.

Pelosi framed the stakes of the fight for the House in existential terms given the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and former President Trump's continued influence over the Republican Party.

"It is absolutely essential for our democracy that we win. I fear for our democracy if the Republicans were ever to get the gavel. We can't let that happen," Pelosi said during an interview with Time magazine's Molly Ball as part of a virtual ceremony to award the 2022 Toner Prizes for political journalism.


https://thehill.com/homenews/house/600120-pelosi-i-fear-for-our-democracy-if-republicans-win-house

rrb said...



Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs To Hunter Biden

https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/29/senators-release-receipts-showing-direct-payments-from-foreign-oligarchs-to-hunter-biden/


$100 large. No middleman. Direct payments to Hunter. Receipts.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The last phone call Donald Trump made before the Jan. 6 insurrection began was with an "unidentified person," according to White House call logs.

That call came at 11:17 a.m., before Trump addressed his supporters at a "Stop the Steal" rally at the White House Ellipse, and was the last official record of a phone conversation the then-president made until seven hours and 37 minutes later -- a gap that has fallen under investigation by the House select committee, reported the Washington Post.

“The President talked on a phone call to an unidentified person," reads the 11:17 a.m. entry.

Records turned over by the National Archives show no calls until 6:54 p.m., when he instructed the operator to call aide Dan Scavino, and committee members are investigating as whether Trump used burner phones or backchannels to communicate as his supporters stormed the Capitol.

RELATED: 'I have no idea what a burner phone is': Trump denies wrongdoing after White House call logs reveal seven-hour gap

""I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term," Trump told the Post in a statement.

The call records show Trump spoke to allies Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani before 9 a.m. and then returned a call from chief of staff Mark Meadows before instructing the operator to call then-vice president Mike Pence at 9:02 a.m.

Bannon asked Trump during their one-minute call whether Pence was coming for a breakfast meeting, where he hoped he could be pressured to stop the certification of Joe Biden's win, according to two people familiar with the conversation, but Trump said the vice president would not be coming to the White House after their heated meeting the previous evening in the Oval Office.

Trump agreed to call Pence again and ask him to delay certification, and the call logs show he and Bannon spoke again for seven minutes starting at 10:19 p.m.

RELATED: Over 7 hours of disappearing Trump phone records makes Nixon's tapes 'look like nothing': Harvard law professor

The final call with Pence was not listed in the records, although multiple sources close to both men say they spoke by phone in the late morning, before the "Stop the Steal" rally, and the vice president reportedly enraged Trump by stating he would not block certification.

The call logs also show Trump spoke Jan. 6 with election lawyers, White House officials, outside allies including then-Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), conservative pundit William Bennett and Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Other calls were made to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who an aide says declined the call, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Trump spoke for 10 minutes with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) starting at 9:24 a.m.

He next spoke with Giuliani for six minutes at 9:41 a.m., and then again for nine minutes at 8:39 p.m., and the logs show Giuliani called from different phone numbers.

READ: 'Possible coverup': White House logs show seven-hour gap in Trump phone calls

Trump spoke to senior adviser Stephen Miller for 26 minutes starting at 9:52 a.m.

The records show Trump spoke that evening with White House counsel Pat Cipollone, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, political adviser Jason Miller, former North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice Mark Martin and conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell.

His final call was a 17-minute conversation with John McEntee, his director of presidential personnel, starting at 11:32 p.m.

NOW WATCH: Over 7 hours of disappearing Trump phone records makes Nixon's tapes 'look like nothing'

Over 7 hours of disappearing Trump phone records makes Nixon's tapes 'look like nothing!

If they find out that he directed others to commit a crime, he can be indicted for the same crime.

It not as simple as you think.

The Attorney General is under a lot of pressure. But he has to sturling record. He is not as political as Barr but even Barr might have opened an investigation.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-call-logs-2657056774/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/trump-white-house-logs/

rrb said...



If we had a DOJ that was not totally corrupt from top to bottom, Hunter would be facing and indictment where if convicted, he'd probably face at least 50 years.

Instead we have nickel dicks blathering about a gap in Trump's Jan 6 'phone logs.'

LMAO.

I can only imagine how all these Stage IV TDS sufferers are going to react when the midterms hit. The left wing Burning, Looting and Murdering will make Junkie Floyd look like a weenie roast. This time we just need to make sure we shoot the fuckers.






Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is where it gets interesting

The records show that former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon – who said on his Jan. 5 podcast that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow” – spoke with Trump twice on Jan. 6. In a call that morning, Bannon urged Trump to continue to pressure Pence to block congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, according to people familiar with the exchange.


Trump was known for using different phones when he was in the White House, according to people familiar with his activities. Occasionally, when he made outbound calls, the number would show up as the White House switchboard’s number, according to a former Trump Cabinet official. Other times, he would call from different numbers – or no number would appear on the recipient’s phone, the official said.

A spokesman for the committee declined to comment.

A Trump spokeswoman said that Trump had nothing to do with the records and had assumed any and all of his phone calls were recorded and preserved.

In a statement Monday night, Trump said, “I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.”

Like you said Pence didn't have the authority to open the election but he could have sent it back to the house of Representatives. They have the power to change the state's certification of the electoral vote. Since the Republicans have more States than the Democrats they could have certified the electorate vote in favor of President Trump.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Lawandcrime.com

According to the report from veteran journalist Bob Woodward and CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa, the gap of seven hours and 37 minutes has prompted the House Jan. 6 Committee to investigate “whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones, known as ‘burner phones,’ according to two people with knowledge of the probe, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.”

Woodward and Costa reported that the House committee is also trying to determine “whether it received the full logs” from that day.

The National Archives has previously revealed that Trump took boxes of classified White House documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida when he left the White House.  It is unclear precisely what may have been taken.

According to the report, Trump regularly used different phones when he was in the White House.

“Occasionally, when he made outbound calls, the number would show up as the White House switchboard’s number, according to a former Trump Cabinet official,” Woodward and Costa’s report said. “Other times, he would call from different numbers – or no number would appear on the recipient’s phone, the official said.”

“I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term,” Trump reportedly said to the Washington Post in a statement on Monday.

The records show that Trump was on the phone nearly nonstop from 8:23 a.m. until 11:06 a.m. During that time, he spoke with adviser Steve Bannon, who on a Jan. 5 podcast said “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.” Trump also spoke with Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), adviser Stephen Miller, and others.

The last person Trump spoke to before the hours-long gap appears to be David Perdue (R-Ga.) at 11:04 a.m. Perdue, a staunch Trump ally and former Republican senator, had lost his runoff election against Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, on Jan. 5.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

At around noon, Trump spoke at the “Stop the Steal” rally.

The logs don’t reflect any more phone calls until 6:54, when Trump told the White House switchboard operator to call back with aide Dan Scavino.

Trump then resumed his nearly nonstop phone activity, which continued until almost midnight. During that time, Trump spoke with Scavino, Giuliani, Jason Miller, Kayleigh McEneny, Bannon again, then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Fox host Sean Hannity, among others.

As Woodward and Costa note in their report, the hours-long gap “stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he had with allies during the attack, such as a call Trump made to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — seeking to talk to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) — and a phone conversation he had with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).”

Trump had also posted on Twitter during that time, NPR noted.

As Law&Crime previously reported on Saturday, Giuliani admitted in a civil defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia election workers that he was at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the week following Jan. 2, 2021, manning what the election workers alleged was a Trump campaign “war room.” this is what matters Scott,


“Giuliani admits . . . to being engaged at activities on behalf of the Trump Campaign at the Willard Hotel but denies . . . remaining allegations,” his reply indicates.  The reply places Giuliani physically in Washington, D.C., and indicates he was involved in campaign-related activities but does not directly confirm he was talking with Trump on Jan. 6.

The 11 pages of phone records were turned over to the House committee by the National Archives earlier this year, according to the report. CNN had previously reported that the White House phone logs contained “hours-long gaps” on Jan. 6.

Trump had repeatedly fought the release of certain White House documents relating to Jan. 6 but repeatedly failed in lower federal courts. In January, the Supreme Court denied his request to block the National Archives from releasing the documents to the committee. Notably, the only justice to dissent from that ruling was Clarence Thomas, whose wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, is currently facing scrutiny for attending Trump’s so-called “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol assault and for appearing to believe widely-rejected legal theories about the 2020 presidential election in communications with top Trump advisers on Jan. 6.



It is possible that this is like the Nixon tapes!








Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://lawandcrime.com/jan-6-committee/white-house-phone-logs-provided-to-jan-6-committee-contain-unexplained-eight-hour-gap-report/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Legalinsurrection
Lmao

Brian Flood reports at FOX News:

ABC, CBS, NBC ignore Hunter Biden scandals, haven’t mentioned his name in 259 days, study says

Morning and evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC haven’t uttered the name “Hunter Biden” in 259 days despite ongoing scandals surrounding the president’s son, according to a study by the Media Research Center.

“It has now been 259 days — 37 weeks — since July 12, 2021. That’s when any of the corrupt network newscasts last uttered the words ‘Hunter Biden.’ Scandal after scandal, nothing seems to shake the determination of the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news shows to keep the public from knowing about the President’s wayward son and his sketchy financial and foreign dealings,” MRC research director Scott Whitlock wrote.

Whitlock analyzed ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” CBS’ morning offerings, “CBS Evening News,” NBC’s “Today” and “NBC Nightly News” and discovered zero mentions of “Hunter Biden” since last July.

While the broadcast networks have avoided Hunter Biden at all costs, the president’s son has been mentioned by other news outlets.

The New York Times confirmed earlier this month the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, which he left in a Delaware repair shop in 2019 before it was turned over to the FBI by the repair shop owner.

The New York Post, which was silenced by social media companies when they first reported on Hunter’s laptop, is now reporting on a new Hunter scandal:



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

And one more thing a direct result ��

Former President Donald Trump “more likely than not” tried to “corruptly” obstruct the congressional certification of the 2020 election, a federal judge found on Monday. The determination allows the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to obtain more than 100 previously guarded communications, in a ruling invoking the crime-fraud exception under a felony statute routinely charged against accused rioters.

The ruling does not fall under any criminal proceeding but rather in a discovery battle filed by so-called “coup memo” author, lawyer, and former law professor John Eastman in the Central District of California. Eastman had been fighting to preserve 111 emails from his tenure as dean at Chapman University. The communications at issue were from between Nov. 3, 2020 and Jan. 20, 2021, between Election Day and President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Earlier this month, the Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol tried to overcome Eastman’s assertions of privilege through the crime-fraud exception, outlining three theories of allegedly illegal conduct by Trump and Eastman: obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and common law fraud.

Finding the first two theories plausible, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter did not see a need to reach the final theory. Carter also found that the evidence “clearly supports” an attorney-client relationship between Eastman and Trump and his campaign between Jan. 4 and 7, 2021. But the judge, citing Eastman’s remark “we’re no longer playing by Queensbury Rules,” found that the lawyer explicitly envisioned going beyond the boundaries of law and norms in urging former vice president Mike Pence to engage in what he called a “minor violation” of the Electoral Count Act.

“The illegality of the plan was obvious,” Carter wrote in a scathing 44-page order. “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. As Vice President Pence stated, ‘no Vice President in American history has ever asserted such authority.’ Every American—and certainly the President of the United States—knows that in a democracy, leaders are elected, not installed. With a plan this ‘BOLD,’ President Trump knowingly tried to subvert this fundamental principle.”

“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,” added Carter, a Bill Clinton appointee.

rrb said...




If Hunter was a Trump he'd be hanging by his balls in the middle of Times Square, and the story would be the headline in every paper and the lead story on every network.

But because he's a Biden he's entitled to a media blackout on EVERYTHING.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/federal-judge-fearing-repeat-of-jan-6-finds-trump-more-likely-than-not-tried-to-commit-felony-obstruction-of-congress/

rrb said...


Former President Donald Trump “more likely than not” tried to “corruptly” obstruct the congressional certification of the 2020 election, a federal judge found on Monday.

And you approve of this malfeasance.

I don't give a fuck if you're ticketed for spitting on the fucking sidewalk, and you decide to go to trial, if the presiding judge begins the proceedings with telling the courtroom you're "more likely than not" GUILTY, you're entitled to a mistrial and that judge has no business presiding over any court, anywhere, ever.

Those afflicted with Stage IV TDS approve of this fascist shit.

Fortunately for the rest of us at least one is locked away and will only be let out strapped to a gurney in a fucking body bag.


rrb said...

Trump had every right to believe he got fucked, and had every LEGAL right to wish to challenge the result. The J6 bullshit is just that - bullshit, meant to provide a smokescreen for the dems.

A new deep dive into discrepancies in the ballot counts of six key battleground states in the 2020 election has turned up more than 250,000 “excess votes” for President Joe Biden, and maybe far more.

The key point in the upcoming peer-reviewed study for the journal Public Choice by economist and noted gun expert John Lott Jr. is that the excess voting may challenge — or explain — Biden’s margin of victory over former President Donald Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

In his report, on the Public Choice website but still awaiting final approval, Lott said that there were 255,000 excess votes and possibly as many as 368,000 for Biden in the key states.

And in a review of his statistical study he provided to RealClearPolitics, he said that “Biden only carried these states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — by a total of 313,253 votes. Excluding Michigan, the gap was 159,065.”

Lott, who runs the Crime Prevention Research Center, said that his report was not meant to overturn the 2020 election but to reinforce the need for changes to voter identification, absentee voting, and provisional ballots.

“The point of this work isn’t to contest the 2020 election, but to point out that we have a real problem that needs to be dealt with. Americans must have confidence in future elections,” he wrote.

In the study, Lott reviewed voter registration rolls, actual in-person vote counts, absentee voting, and provisional ballots in counties where fraud has been alleged or suggested. He compared those counts to neighboring counties, arguing that the percentages should be similar.

What he found were major differences, raising questions of fraud.

He found unexplained votes, vast differences in absentee voting, and other problems such as bloated voter lists and felons illegally voting.

“In Fulton County, Georgia, 2,423 voters were not listed on the state’s records as registered, and 2,560 felons voted even though they had not completed their sentences,” Lott said in the report.

He concluded, “The voter turnout rate data provide stronger evidence of significant excess Biden votes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The estimates imply that the counties wherein vote fraud was alleged returned between 142,000 and 368,000 excess Biden votes. While the findings reported here are dramatic, they may be underestimates because the voter turnout estimates do not account for ballots cast for the opposing candidate that are lost, destroyed, or replaced with ballots filled out for the other candidate. While it would involve a lot more work, it would be possible to apply the precinct level tests to compare turnout rates in adjacent precincts across all the counties where fraud was alleged."

The findings are likely to continue fueling questions raised by Trump supporters and the former president himself that an election they saw going their way on election night turned against them after midnight.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/new-report-255-000-excess-votes-for-biden-in-six-key-2020-states

rrb said...




“In a book about life in the Soviet Union, Elena Gorokhova (a woman, by the way) explained the great fictions their society was built upon.

‘They lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.’


https://instapundit.com/512101/

C.H. Truth said...

“The illegality of the plan was obvious,”

Well that is one opinion... and not an opinion that counts for anything right now. And quite frankly a stupid opinion based on the laws. I am not even a lawyer and I can tell that in order for there to be "obstruction" something actually needs to be "obstructed".

There was a peaceful transfer or power and not a single person in the world obstructed it. So once again, the left argues that Trump should be charged with a crime for following the law, but in a manner that makes then believe that he didn't want to.



Again Roger...

I dare Merrick Garland to charge Trump!

You want 2024 to be a bigger bloodbath for Democrats than 2022 looks to be... just go ahead and be that petty! They will never live it down!

Anonymous said...

The images of Joe Biden's notes is scary, he has the Nuke codes.

rrb said...


Again Roger...

I dare Merrick Garland to charge Trump!

You want 2024 to be a bigger bloodbath for Democrats than 2022 looks to be... just go ahead and be that petty! They will never live it down!



They can't, and they know it, which is why the J6 Kangaroo Court is vital to the left. They must find a way to declare Trump not eligible to run again. That's all of it. Period. Full stop.

We're 2 years out from the J6 "parading" and if they had something to charge Trump with those charges would've been brought.

Instead they want to impeach the only Black currently on the USSC because his wife has the audacity to have an independent opinion.

These people are fucking crazy. Fascist fucking CRAZY.

rrb said...

Well that is one opinion... and not an opinion that counts for anything right now. And quite frankly a stupid opinion based on the laws. I am not even a lawyer and I can tell that in order for there to be "obstruction" something actually needs to be "obstructed".

If you want a good fucking laugh, check out the alky's new favorite site - Law & Crime.

It's like "RAW STORY!!!11!" for jailhouse/nursing home lawyers afflicted with TDS.

The comments are comedy fucking gold.

C.H. Truth said...

Rat...

As I stated previously.

The only way they have a case if is they can prove that Trump was "fraudulently" attempting to overturn the election and that he believed that he was being "fraudulent".

While it seems difficult for those on the left to understand (because they are sheep who follow what they are told) - Trump never did buy (right or wrong) the idea that this was the most secure election evah!


So they wouldn't just have to prove that Trump wanted Pence to reject electors, they would literally have to prove that he, himself, believed that he lost... but was just trying to fraudulently hang on to power.

Imagine a trial where the defense would be fully entitled to put out every actual claim of election fraud that has been so far ignored by the media?

I mean... it would be a trial that would have so much coverage and ratings that it would make the O.J. Simpson trial look like the public network channel showing to local city board argue about a new stop light.


Everyone would be watching...

And Trump would have his forum to show all of the evidence of fraud.

The media would go crazy, not knowing whether to cover it or cover it up!


anonymous said...


And Trump would have his forum to show all of the evidence of fraud.

WHICH EXISTS ONLY IN HIS EMPTY FUCKING HEAD, LIL SCHITTY!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

rrb said...

So they wouldn't just have to prove that Trump wanted Pence to reject electors, they would literally have to prove that he, himself, believed that he lost... but was just trying to fraudulently hang on to power.

Yep.

And if you caught my c/p comment from earlier by John Lott, Trump had every reason to believe the election was a fraud and it was fucking STOLEN. As more and more of the electorate is believing every day as the evidence continues to come to light.

All the left has to hang their hat on is the various courts not willing to hear the 61 or so cases because the complainants lacked "standing" which is legalese bullshit for simply not wanting to hear the case.

And now what we are witnessing with Captain 81 MILLION votes and "the most secure election evah!" is Karma. And Karma as we all know, is the ultimate bitch. You simply do not pull the shit the left pulled and get away with it for long, and not have it come back to bite you in the ass.

The problem we have now is we have an imbecile stumbling us straight into WWIII. With the other problem being that even though there has never been a more iron-clad case for the 25th Amendment, the clown in the on-deck circle is just as fucking stupid and incoherent, but without the benefit of the excuse of dementia.

By every objective measure in every measureable category this presidency is in collapse. Nothing get's better anytime soon, in fact we had better be prepared for things to get a whole lot fucking WORSE.

But at least no mean tweets.

Every fucking Biden/Harris voter in America should be tarred, feathered, and lashed to a lamp post in their town square.

Fucking assholes.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

One of America's foremost constitutional law experts drew on his decades-long experience to arrive at a "duh" conclusion as the political class discusses potential indictments for former President Donald Trump.

Tribe, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, taught constitutional law for 50 years and has argued three-dozen cases before the United States Supreme Court.

"Maybe too obvious, but it’s STUPID to keep saying 'Prosecuting a former president is something we just don’t do.' The REASON we don’t is that former presidents haven’t launched insurrections or attempted criminal coups! That’s WHY there’s no precedent for prosecuting them. Duh," he explained.

Tribe's former students include Chief Justice John Roberts, Attorney General Merrick Garland, House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-MD), and White House chief of staff Ron Klain, among many others. His textbook on the Constitution is also used in law schools from coast to coast.

Tribe noted a seven-hour gap in the White House call records on Jan. 6, which he described as a "smoking gun."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The gap drew comparisons to former President Richard Nixon's 18.5-minute gap in White House recordings amid the Watergate break-in, and not just because Bob Woodward was involved in reporting both.

Trump's lengthy gap, tweeted former Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, "makes the infamous 18-minute gap in Nixon's tapes look like nothing in comparison."

The gap in Trump's records is "25 times as big as the gap in the Nixon tapes that figured so largely [in] Watergate," wrote Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va. "Trump made several calls that we already know about during this gap, as he watched the attack on the Capitol unfold without lifting a finger to stop it for several crucial hours."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Politics aside.

The best legal minds said that he broke the law


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If you watch shows about law professor using burner phones is a method used by criminals. Because they can't be found by their ip address and where they were used and by whom.

But

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen tweeted Tuesday in response to the bombshell Washington Post report that so-called "burner phones" may have been used to communicate with the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. According to Cohen's tweet, someone did purchase the burner phones and they are about to tell Congress about it.

Raw Story spoke to Cohen, who said that he has been in contact with the person who will testify to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and what led up to it in the coming weeks. That person will reveal, according to Cohen, that they were given $400 in cash and instructed to purchase the burner phones.

Those phones were then "delivered to two individuals who were engaged in conversations with Mark Meadows and others in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 coup," said Cohen.

RELATED: ‘Woodward and I have the docs’: Robert Costa posts Jan. 6 WH call logs that could be big trouble for Trump and allies

Cohen added that the individual who instructed the person to purchase the phones asked for a receipt. However, as any person who shops at CVS knows, a shopper may enter their phone number to earn CVS rewards. Even if one pays cash, the purchase may be recorded in their system.

The committee is now obtaining the receipts for the burner phone, according to Cohen.

It not a witchhunt







Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott the changes are probably obstruction of justice on January 6th.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Now give us an article about all the other numerous charges that keep on mounting up against Trump.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

When you repeatedly and repeatedly try to pressure people to do acts which they refuse to do because they are obviously illegal, you have committed crimes.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Interesting picture of Mortimer Snerd, by the way.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Another lawyer website.

It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the United States has never seen an account of a president’s conduct quite so devastating as the first nine pages of Judge David Carter’s opinion of March 28 in Eastman v. Thompson. The opinion, legally speaking, concerns the Jan. 6 Committee’s efforts to secure emails from John Eastman, the law professor who provided President Trump with advice aimed at overturning the 2020 election. But that is not why it will be remembered. 

Certainly Watergate produced no document about Richard Nixon comparable to it in its combination of brevity, spare factual simplicity, and total evisceration of its subject’s honor and conduct. Nor did Teapot Dome or the Whisky Ring scandals produce such material concerning Warren Harding or Ulysses S. Grant. Nothing that Lawrence Walsh had to say about Ronald Reagan or that Kenneth Starr wrote about Bill Clinton, both after years of investigation and exposition at great length, remotely approaches it in power. 

Yet at the risk infuriating readers, I want to point out a paradox about the opinion: Despite the power of its narrative, despite its correct statement that Trump likely violated criminal laws, and despite its laying out the contours of those violations clearly and without apparent ambiguity, the opinion will actually not necessitate a Justice Department criminal investigation of the former president.

Before explaining this point, I want to take a moment to appreciate a genuinely historic piece of judicial writing. The opinion’s first section—entitled “A. Facts”—begins on page three of Judge Carter’s opinion and runs through the middle of page 12. In a footnote attached to the word “Facts” in the subhead leading the section, Judge Carter notes in a fashion characteristic of the section’s understatement, “In this discussion, the Court relies solely on facts provided by Dr. Eastman and the Select Committee in their briefing and attached exhibits.” 

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He is not exaggerating. The section contains no judgments, no legal interpretations, no conclusions. It contains virtually no rhetoric at all. What’s more, the section does not contain a whole lot of new facts. The story of Eastman and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the relationship between that effort and Trump’s concurrent plot to decapitate the Justice Department, and ultimately to the insurrectionary activity of January 6, 2021, has dribbled out bit by bit over the months already. And to the extent the current litigation has revealed new material, that mostly emerged in the committee’s briefing and the accompanying exhibits a few weeks ago.

What makes Judge Carter’s account so powerful is that it is linked tightly to record evidence, that it tells the story in an end-to-end fashion crisply and efficiently, and that it thus assembles the evidence into a coherent account of the big picture. I cannot do Judge Carter’s account justice; please do read it. For present purposes, let me just say that it leaves the fair-minded reader in no doubt that the events that took place between Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump at the polls and congressional certification of Biden’s victory on Jan. 6 were an all-out effort by the lame duck president to seize and retain power in unapologetic defiance of the law using extra-constitutional means—up to and including violence directed against a coordinate branch of government. 

Such a story requires no denunciation from the judge. His account of it alone constitutes its own denunciation, at least it should to decent citizens of a functioning democracy. 

Judge Carter’s opinion is attracting attention less because of its opening section than because of its final one, in which he finds that Donald Trump likely committed crimes and that Eastman’s attorney work product, in one instance, is thus not privileged under the crime-fraud exception to the attorney work product doctrine. 

On its own terms, the opinion seems uncomplicatedly correct on this point. The question before Judge Carter is whether it is more likely than not that Eastman’s legal services were being used in furtherance of a crime. The standard of proof here is relatively low—the preponderance of the evidence—and the judge did not have before him the many arguments that would complicate, say, an attempt actually to prosecute Trump or Eastman for these crimes. 

In this context, the judge certainly appears to be correct that Trump was using Eastman’s legal services in conduct that, as a prima facie matter, violates both 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and 18 U.S.C. § 371, the former of which forbids the corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding and the latter of which criminalizes conspiring to defraud the United States. In at least one important respect, Judge Carter goes significantly beyond holding that the evidence meets what he takes to be the relevant legal threshold in the 9th Circuit. He writes specifically that the evidence before him "exceed[s]" even the showing necessary to find that Trump acted corruptly, and he cites voluminous evidence that the former president and Eastman both knew full well that Eastman's legal arguments were nonsense and that his proposed course of action was unlawful. To have a judge write this, all tied rigorously to specific pieces of evidence, about a former president’s mental state and conscious awareness of criminality is no small matter.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He won't be charged.
All of which, in my view, has a number of important implications: 

First and easiest, the discussion above applies to Donald Trump only. It does not apply to John Eastman. To the extent the Justice Department does not have an open investigation related to Eastman’s conduct in this area, that seems like an indefensibly cautious exercise of discretion. A federal judge has now identified Eastman’s likely criminal activity in what amounts to a presidentially-led insurrection—and has done so very publicly in a credibly detailed, significant opinion. It is unfathomable to me that the Justice Department would not now consider action of its own.

With respect to Trump, the department here is in a genuinely tough spot. A lot of commentators will try to make it sound easy. It isn’t easy. Perhaps the most important thing the Justice Department could do is release any OLC opinions from the Mueller Report period that might exist bearing on how broadly it has interpreted the clear statement rule with respect to these statutes. More generally, an indication that the department is considering the Eastman case would go a long way to making clear to the public that it is at least thinking about the criminal implications of Trump’s conduct in this period.

In the long run, the most important public policy implications are for Congress. After writing his critique of the Mueller obstruction memo, Goldsmith went on, writing with Bob Bauer in the book After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, to urge Congress to fix this problem by applying these statutes clearly to presidential conduct. “It is an intolerable state of affairs for the president, Congress, and the American people not to have a clearer sense of whether and under what conditions the president can obstruct justice,” they write. Their admonition rings even truer today than it did when Bauer and Goldsmith wrote it. If not for Trump than for future presidents of comparably low character, the problem that may be holding the Justice Department up really needs to be fixed.

The Jan. 6 Committee has made some important noises about clarifying that Trump’s conduct was illegal. This is the low-hanging fruit in that effort. It shouldn’t continue to escape Congress’s attention.

Because when a federal judge writes the most devastating account of a president in American history, the public really should be able to expect criminal charges.

C.H. Truth said...

Tribe, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, taught constitutional law for 50 years and has argued three-dozen cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Lawrence Tribe!

Demanded Trump would not survive the Mueller probe!
Demanded Mueller had him dead to rights on election fraud
Demanded Mueller had him dead to rights on obstruction
Demanded Papadopoulou would take down Trump
Demanded Manafort would take down Trump
Demanded Trump was guilty of campaign laws with Stormy Daniels
Demanded Trump was guilty of crimes associated with Ukraine
Demanded Trump was going to jail for federal tax fraud
Demanded SDNY had him dead to rights on multiple cases
Demanded SDNY would charge him with campaign finance crimes
Demanded SDNY would charge him with tax fraud

Should I go on and on and on some more about how wrong Mr Tribe has been about everything Trump related.

Leave it to you, Roger...

To quote Lawrence "brain dead wrong about everything Trump" Tribe!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/donald-trump-john-eastman-and-silence-justice-department

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Benjamin Wittes (born November 5, 1969) is an American legal journalist and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Research Director in Public Law, and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School–Brookings Project on Law and Security.[1] He works principally on issues related to American law and national security. Along with Robert M. Chesney and Jack Goldsmith, Wittes cofounded the Lawfare Blog.[2] Wittes is also a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law.[3][4] Wittes is a frequent speaker on topics of detention, interrogation, and national security, before academic, government, policy, and military audiences.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You are still addicted to Trump.

People like you have helped authotarian people destroy free nations.

C.H. Truth said...

Oh and Roger....

Thanks for following up with a post from a guy who also was completely 100% convinced that the Mueller probe proved beyond a doubt that Trump committed obstruction and should be charged?


Could you actually post something from a legal person who has been correct at least once?

C.H. Truth said...

Roger...

Difference between you and I. I have a degree. I finished several semesters of math above and beyond calculus. I rubbed elbows with the smartest people in the school every day.

I am not impressed by degrees like someone who never went to school. You probably think it's a big thing to graduate from college since you were unable to do so.


But for my money.

Give me someone who is correct in their opinions.


Again. You will take wrong every time with a Harvard degree.

I will take the person who is right every time, with or without an Ivy league degree!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - The top two U.S. Justice Department officials in the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency are cooperating with a Washington legal body's ethics probe of their former colleague Jeffrey Bossert Clark, who tried to help Trump overturn his 2020 election loss, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Jeffrey Rosen, who served as acting attorney general, and Richard Donoghue, his former acting deputy, each have given voluntary interviews in recent months to the District of Columbia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which is investigating Clark for possible misconduct, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.



Rosen and Donoghue received Justice Department approval beforehand, the source said.

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel is part of the D.C. Bar, which was created as an official arm of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to govern and set rules for lawyers licensed to practice in the U.S. capital. It investigates possible misconduct by Washington lawyers and has the power to pursue disciplinary charges against attorneys found to have engaged in unethical conduct. In more serious cases, such charges can lead to the suspension of a license to practice law or disbarment.


The office is examining whether Clark violated ethics rules that prohibit lawyers from engaging in "dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation" when he urged Rosen and Donoghue to send officials in states pivotal to the 2020 election outcome a letter that contained false statements, the source said.

Trump, a Republican, has made false claims that the election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, was stolen through widespread voting fraud.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Rosen and Donoghue did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.

Clark separately faces investigations from the Justice Department's internal watchdog and a House of Representatives committee that is looking into last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who sought to block formal congressional certification of his election loss.

Clark and his attorney Harry MacDougald did not respond to questions sent by Reuters.

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel investigation could complicate Clark's efforts to revive his career as a corporate attorney as well as any possible return to government service. Reuters first reported the investigation in December. read more

The office makes the findings of its investigations public only if it decides to pursue disciplinary action. To date, no public action has been filed against Clark.

Hamilton "Phil" Fox, who leads the office, said it does not confirm or deny the existence of any investigation. The office received 1,400 complaints about the conduct of lawyers in 2020 and 1,200 in 2021, Fox said. As of the end of 2021, it had 224 active cases under investigation, Fox added.

According to a report by U.S. Senate Democrats, Clark unsuccessfully tried to get Trump to fire Rosen and install him as attorney general after Rosen blocked his attempt to enlist the Justice Department in Trump's efforts to overturn his election defeat. At the time, Clark was serving as the acting head of the department's Civil Division and led its environmental and natural resources unit.

After issuing the report last October, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, a Democrat, asked the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to investigate Clark's conduct.



The office's investigation is primarily focused on Clark's efforts to pressure Donoghue and Rosen to send a letter to lawmakers in Georgia falsely claiming that the Justice Department had "significant concerns" about the legitimacy of Biden's victory in the state and echoing Trump's false claims of voting fraud, according to the source and ethics complaints that were filed against Clark and seen by Reuters.

Clark also pressed Donoghue and Rosen to send a similar letter to other states that were crucial in Biden's victory, according to testimony that Rosen and Donoghue provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Rosen declined to send the letter. Trump ultimately decided not to fire Rosen and install Clark after department leadership threatened to resign en masse.

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel is also investigating Trump's former attorney Rudy Giuliani for statements he made about the 2020 presidential election, Giuliani's attorneys said last year.

Clark has said little publicly about his actions during the final weeks of Trump's presidency. Using a new Twitter account he created this month, Clark has called himself "one of the top targets of the politically motivated J6 committee," a reference to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Unless he cooperates Jeffrey Bossert Clark could be disbarred


C.H. Truth said...

Unless he cooperates Jeffrey Bossert Clark could be disbarred

Wow Roger...

Which Ivy League legal expert at being wrong are you quoting now?

You haven't quoted Jeffrey Toobin recently. I am sure he is also convinced that the legal walls are closing in on Trump? You should go find out what he is saying!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Talked About ‘Burner Phones’ with John Bolton
3:58 pm
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton told CBS News that he recalls Donald Trump using the term “burner phones” in several discussions and that Trump was aware of its meaning.

Bolton also said he and Trump have spoken about how people have used “burner phones” to avoid having their calls scrutinized.

After reporting this morning that Trump might have used a “burner phone” during the January 6 Capitol riots, Trump issued a statement denying knowing the term.
_____

OF COURSE, WE ALL KNOW TRUMP NEVER, NEVER LIES.

Anonymous said...

Everyone Lies James, God knows you do.

"During the 2020 presidential election, Biden repeatedly condemned then-President Trump for his bombastic rhetoric that could result in negative consequences, arguing that the words of a president "matter" and suggesting he would be more disciplined as the commander in chief"

Anonymous said...

Joe makes a Gaffe and his team has to change his diaper.

"There is regular interaction between Ukrainian soldiers in Poland' and US troops,"

Biden blundered and let it be known .

I am not ok with this revelation.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

What Congress has not received from the White House appears to also be evidence, according to a top lawyer from Donald Trump's first impeachment hearing.

Former prosecutor Daniel Goldman was interviewed on Tuesday about a mysterious gap in White House call logs from Jan. 6, 2021.

"Fifty years ago, the scandalous actions of an American president were shielded from public view, thanks to a suspiciously convenient 18½-minute gap in the Nixon White House’s call recordings. Today, the actions of another American president remain shielded thanks to another convenient — and inexplicable — gap in White House records," The Washington Post reported. "The gap takes place between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m., covering virtually the entirety of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which was breached at 2:11 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. Other Trump actions are recorded in that period, including an hour-plus-long speech he gave at a rally that preceded the insurrection, and some of his movements inside the White House. But vast stretches of time are unaccounted for."



"Do they indicate a likely cover-up and is there a way for the investigators to actually figure out what happened in that time and get those records?" Velshi asked.

"Well, it certainly indicates something nefarious," Goldman replied. "Because either the Trump administration concealed the logs, erased them, or did not include them when they turned over presidential records to the national archives, which is where the January six committee got the logs from. Or it means that he was trying to avoid a record of the phone calls that he was making during the insurrection."

"So there is no real good, possible explanation for him," he explained.

"So we know that there were phone calls and the way that the January six committee can try to sort of reverse engineer what occurred that day is through other witnesses and other phone records," Goldman explained. "So there are ways of figuring it out, but it is certainly an alarming and a very conspicuous absence of information."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel is part of the D.C. Bar, which was created as an official arm of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to govern and set rules for lawyers licensed to practice in the U.S. capital. It investigates possible misconduct by Washington lawyers and has the power to pursue disciplinary charges against attorneys found to have engaged in unethical conduct. In more serious cases, such charges can lead to the suspension of a license to practice law or disbarment.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Former Donald Trump lashed out at the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol -- while also praising supporters of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In a statement emailed to reporters, Trump lashed out a Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for investigating those who supported his coup attempt.

"Shifty Adam Schiff and the same 'scum' who fought us on Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and more, coupled with Crazy Liz Cheney and Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, have gone on, as the Unselect Committee, to try and destroy the lives of many wonderful people. It can’t be allowed to happen!" Trump argued.

Trump describing those who tried to overturn the election as "wonderful people" was an upgrade from Monday, when he described them as "very good people."

His comments came years after he was widely condemned for claiming there were "very fine people" on both sides of the racism scandal in Charlottesville, Virginia which culminated in the 2017 fatal "Unite the Right" rally.

Trump went on to tell his oft-repeated lie that the 2020 election was a coup instead of his efforts to overturn the results.

"While they say that January 6 was an 'attempted coup,' which it was not, they should add that the Election on November 3 was the actual coup. All you have to do is look at the massive evidence in Swing States, available upon request (with much more to come)," Trump argued, even though he has never once presented any evidence of fraud would overturn the results of the election he decisively lost.

"Our Country is paying a big price for that Rigged Election!" Trump said in a statement that appeared to blame America for his inability to accept the fact he's a loser.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It’s true Donald Trump was impeached twice.

And special counsel Robert Mueller detailed at least 10 counts of Trump’s obstruction of justice during his Russia investigation.

And two Manhattan prosecutors wanted to bring criminal charges against Trump and his company — but quit when the district attorney overruled them.

And he’s been accused of so many more things.

But nothing is more devastating than Judge David Carter’s legal opinion about Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election to stay in office. It’s absolutely incredible.

As Benjamin Wittes points out:

What makes Judge Carter’s account so powerful is that it is linked tightly to record evidence, that it tells the story in an end-to-end fashion crisply and efficiently, and that it thus assembles the evidence into a coherent account of the big picture. I cannot do Judge Carter’s account justice; please do read it.

For present purposes, let me just say that it leaves the fair-minded reader in no doubt that the events that took place between Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump at the polls and congressional certification of Biden’s victory on Jan. 6 were an all-out effort by the lame duck president to seize and retain power in unapologetic defiance of the law using extra-constitutional means—up to and including violence directed against a coordinate branch of government. 

No decent citizen can read Judge Carter’s opinion and not see that Donald Trump was a criminal president. Read it for yourself.

What’s absolutely stunning is that so many Americans still don’t see it. But it’s even more stunning that criminal charges haven’t been filed against Trump yet.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.260.0.pdf

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The gap covers 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. on Jan. 6, meaning there is no record of any calls the president made or received while the Capitol riot was in progress.

Thompson said that the committee does not yet have any evidence that there were calls the president made or received in that time period, but "if the Capitol of the United States is being overrun, somebody made some calls. And we just have to find them."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

. Cheney has said the committee has firsthand testimony that Mr. Trump watched the riot unfold on television from the White House dining room and spoke to multiple people by phone during that time, including members of Congress.

“There were 187 minutes when there was no activity and reportedly the former president was watching this unfold, this attack on the Capitol and not lifting a finger,” Mr. Aguilar said Tuesday. “So we need to know, as we’ve said consistently, what was happening during this time.”

anonymous said...

Sad how the slurpers of trumps man hood continue to follow the twice impeached, lying slime ball with this BS continues to emanate from his fat mouth.....once again, total bullshit our slurpers will embrace and cum all over themselves with excitement!!!!

Trump, who was impeached in 2019 for his request to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he do Trump a "favor" by investigating Joe Biden's son Hunter, told right-wing television host John Solomon in an interview published Tuesday that he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to shed light on unverified reports that Biden's son received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Yelena Baturina, the wife of Moscow's former mayor.

“She gave him $3.5 million, so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that,” Trump told Solomon. “I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”

“How is it that the mayor of Moscow, his wife, gave the Biden family three and a half million dollars?” he continued. “I think Putin now would be willing to probably give that answer. I’m sure he knows.”

In a presidential debate with Biden during the 2020 campaign, Trump seized on that claim, which appears in a U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security report authored by the then-Republican majority but has not been verified.

rrb said...

“There were 187 minutes when there was no activity and reportedly the former president was watching this unfold, this attack on the Capitol and not lifting a finger,” Mr. Aguilar said Tuesday. “So we need to know, as we’ve said consistently, what was happening during this time.”

From the original post -

This is quite literally a suggestion of a crime that goes looking for an action to justify the allegation. More to the point, this ruling was merely an excuse to allow the Jan 6th committee to continue their nonsense.

Fuck you "Mr." Aguilar. You don't 'need to know what was happening during this time.' You have no right to know. Your desperation is palpable. Democrats have fucked themselves so thoroughly and so royally, they are left with the J6 kangaroo court to somehow try to save themselves. President Trump owes you no explanation as you pull your "show me the man and I'll show you the crime" bullshit.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Democratic lawmakers are openly pressuring Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring the weight of U.S. law enforcement against members of former President Trump's inner circle they've deemed uncooperative with the House's investigation of the Jan. 6 attack.

Why it matters: The House select committee is seeking to compel or punish Trump loyalists who don't comply with the investigation, while Republicans are preparing to win back control of Congress in November — and end the probe.

The big picture: The pressure campaign is putting President Biden on a collision course with his own party.

Distinguishing himself from Trump, who Democrats lambasted for pressuring Justice Department officials during his White House years, Biden has pledged to ensure Garland operates independently of politics."I told you I would not tell the Justice Department what position to take or not take, and I’m not going to instruct the Congress, either," he told reporters on Monday.

What we're watching: During a meeting Monday night at which the select committee recommended House contempt votes against former Trump aides Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro, Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) all called on Garland to act.

Luria said the Justice Department "must act swiftly," adding: "Attorney General Garland, do your job so that we can do ours."On Tuesday Schiff told reporters it's important for the Justice Department to act quickly and decisively to enforce the committee's prerogatives because "we're trying to prevent another Jan. 6. ... We feel a sense of urgency and we hope the department does also."Schiff said the cases against Navarro and Scavino are "pretty clear cut," so "it shouldn't be that difficult for the department to act."Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chairs the select committee, was asked Tuesday about committee members' frustrations with the Justice Department's pace. He replied: "I'm in agreement with my members."

How we got here: The ramped-up calls come three months after the House voted to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt for ending cooperation with the investigation.

Federal prosecutors — so far — have not brought charges.

They also follow revelations about more than two dozen texts in which Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged Meadows to keep pushing to overturn the 2020 election results.Meanwhile, a federal judge — who this week ordered a Trump attorney and staunch ally to turn over a cache of documents to the select committee — wrote that the lawyer and Trump had "launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history."In addition, the White House will not assert executive privilege over testimony by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, or Trump's daughter Ivanka to the committee, it was announced on Tuesday.

But, but, but: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Democratic Caucus, said neither the committee nor the Justice Department should "operate under false deadlines and timeframes that would render their work incomplete."

Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), vice chair of the Democratic caucus and a member of the Jan. 6 committee, said it's clear the Justice Department is "committed to democracy."He also credited the DOJ for prosecuting former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, indicted in November by a federal grand jury for refusing to comply with committee subpoenas."We hope that they act on it with the Meadows citation," Aguilar said, "and with others that could follow."


anonymous said...

This is quite literally a suggestion of a crime that goes looking for an action to justify the allegation. More to the point, this ruling was merely an excuse to allow the Jan 6th committee to continue their nonsense

Reading Lil Schitty's inane opinion a day later shows he has lost complete touche of reality!!!!!!! With the evidence of more wide spread cover ups with the missing phone records points directly that not only has trump coregraphed the riots but was an active participant....Fuck him....he absolutely knew what was happening and no amount of spin will cover his fat white ass anymore!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump's new lawyer is rrb on steroids.

Here are just a few highlights from the résumé of Donald Trump’s latest lawyer: amateur poet... twice suspended from the Florida bar... and—perhaps most importantly—the man who helped fabricate a “ladies’ man” yearbook award for Trump when they were classmates at a junior military academy.

The attorney, local Florida lawyer Peter Ticktin, is Trump’s man on the ground for his latest legal salvo—a sprawling, conspiracy theory-laden broadside against Hillary Clinton and nearly 50 loosely affiliated co-defendants, all of whom Trump levels with conspiring to “weave a false narrative” to deprive him of the presidency in 2016.


The suit—which includes charges of “injurious falsehoods,” “theft of trade secrets,” and “conspiracy to commit racketeering”—has been ripped as a fantasy and “a press release.” But Ticktin and his lead counsel, Alina Habba, are taking it seriously.

But Ticktin is a curious choice to lead the lawsuit for more reasons than his poems. His firm, whose website URL is “legalbrains.com,” does not count government or election law among its many areas of expertise (though it does host 17 of the lawyer’s own poems). And while the office achieved recognized success in foreclosure law after the 2008 recession, Ticktin himself has also drawn legal scrutiny, including those two bar suspensions and a third investigation into shady billing practices during that same recession.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Shut up rrb and kputz


Federal investigation of Hunter Biden heats up
By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Mar 29, 2022
Washington (CNN) - A Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities has gained steam in recent months, with a flurry of witnesses providing testimony to federal investigators and more expected to provide interviews in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The probe, led by the US Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, began as early as 2018 and concerns multiple financial and business activities in foreign countries dating to when Biden's father was vice president. Investigators have examined whether Hunter Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and other regulations, multiple sources said.
To do so, law enforcement has gathered information from lobbyists connected to Hunter Biden, from his business partners, and from others who've observed his financial engagements, including a woman with whom he had a child.
Hunter Biden has not been charged with any crimes and has denied any wrongdoing. His father, President Joe Biden is not being investigated as part of the probe of his son's business activities, according to sources who have been briefed.
But the ongoing investigation has persistently raised questions about the ethics and behavior of the President's son and fueled right-wing political attacks. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate the Bidens over Hunter's work for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, eventually leading to Trump's first impeachment.
In 2020, Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, helped orchestrate news stories centered on a laptop purported to belong to Hunter Biden and said to include his business documents and other potentially salacious materials. CNN previously reported that the FBI took possession of the laptop in late 2019, according to a computer repairman in Delaware who showed reporters a copy of a subpoena.
Activity in the investigation has ebbed and flowed for years -- with coronavirus disruptions and pausing around the 2020 election -- and in some instances, investigators have not followed up for months after making initial outreach to possible witnesses.
But in recent months, investigative activity in the Biden probe has intensified along with discussions among Justice Department officials about the strength of the case, and whether more work is needed before seeking a decision on possible charges, according to people briefed on the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Those discussions have involved investigators from the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation agency and prosecutors in Delaware and at Justice Department headquarters, one person briefed on the matter said. Hunter Biden has publicly discussed his own substance abuse struggles, and some Justice officials have debated whether his open discussions of his past drug use could potentially weaken their case should they bring one.
Some officials have noted that Biden could argue he wasn't aware of wrongdoing because he was on drugs, the source said. Others have countered that Biden's own public accounts of his recovery show he was fully responsible for actions now under scrutiny, according to the person briefed on the matter.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Investigators have at various times inquired about multiple facets of Hunter Biden's life -- initially focusing on tax issues and money transfers related to business activities in China, according to multiple people familiar with the probe. They're also examining Biden's role while on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma years ago, the sources said.
Biden has told associates he paid outstanding tax bills, and public records show more than $450,000 in state liens in Washington, DC, were lifted in 2020, indicating those liabilities were likely paid off.
But those payments haven't resolved his legal issues. Investigators have examined the source of funds to pay the tax bills.
The gun incident
Prosecutors also have examined a 2018 incident in which a firearm owned by Hunter Biden ended up tossed by his then-girlfriend into a dumpster in Wilmington, a person briefed on the matter said. Biden described in media interviews last year that he was addicted to drugs, which raised the possibility he broke federal law when he bought the firearm.
Federal law prohibits firearms purchases by anyone who uses or is addicted to illegal drugs. It's unclear whether the gun incident remains an active part of the investigation.
Biden has denied wrongdoing in his business activities. In late 2020 after being notified by the Delaware US attorney about the investigation, Hunter Biden said in a statement issued by his father's presidential transition office: "I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors."
Hunter Biden's attorney, Christopher Clark, did not respond to multiple requests for comment in recent days.
The Delaware US Attorney's Office and the Justice Department declined to comment.
In recent months, Biden has tried to turn a page, publishing a memoir and debuting his work as an artist with shows in Los Angeles and New York. But even apparent attempts to avoid controversy have backfired. The White House acknowledged it played a role in the arts sales, setting up a legal process to shield the identity of buyers of Hunter Biden pieces, for the stated purpose of ensuring that no one could curry favor with the President by buying his son's art. But critics noted that art sales and anonymity of buyers have long raised concerns about money laundering.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Ukraine business dealings
Biden's involvement in Ukraine has been a major source of his legal and political issues. He served on the board of Burisma, paid as much as $50,000 a month, from 2014 to 2019, according to a Republican-led Senate report on Biden's business activities released in 2020. That partly overlaps with a period during which his father was vice president and tapped by then-President Barack Obama to handle Ukraine issues. The overlap raised concerns about a conflict of interest among some Obama administration officials at the time.
Joe Biden has said his son's work in Ukraine had no influence on his decisions at the time, and State Department critics of Hunter Biden's Ukraine ties say they were never influenced improperly, according to transcripts of Senate testimony.
Federal prosecutors from Justice headquarters in Washington and in Delaware have focused at least in part on whether a lobbying firm working with Burisma called Blue Star Strategies approached US government officials in an attempt to burnish the Ukrainian firm's reputation after State Department officials criticized the oligarch who founded it.
The firm's founders have testified to Congress previously that they were merely interested in understanding the US government's views of the foreign company.
The Justice Department requires lobbyists and public relations firms working on behalf of foreign entities to disclose their ties, and in recent years national security investigators expanded the Department's initiatives to prosecute groups and people who don't publicly disclose their international connections.
Blue Star did not respond to a request for comment.
In the past year, a grand jury in Delaware has issued subpoenas and prosecutors have gathered information about Blue Star Strategies, as well as about Hunter Biden, four people briefed on the matter said. The inquiries included how closely the lobbyists were working with Hunter Biden, how active he was in Blue Star's work on Burisma's reputation in the US, and what their efforts for Burisma entailed, the sources said.
The Blue Star employees previously disclosed in the Senate inquiry that Hunter Biden was included on emails about their work related to Burisma, but said he wasn't particularly involved in the project.
Late last year, witnesses provided interviews in the federal criminal probe. And prosecutors have continued to seek information from some witnesses this year, including about Blue Star Strategies.
Also last year, investigators pursued information from former business contacts of Hunter Biden. His long-time associate and Burisma co-board member Devon Archer went before the Delaware grand jury last July, according to a person familiar with the matter. Archer was asked about the structure of payments Burisma made to an entity founded by Biden and other partners, which appeared to be related Biden's taxes, the source says. He was also asked about lobbying efforts involving Blue Star Strategies, the source said.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Archer was sentenced last month to more than a year in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a native American tribe. There hasn't been any contact with investigators since July, the source said.
Archer's attorney, Matthew L. Schwartz of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, said, "Mr. Archer has cooperated completely with the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office investigation from the moment he became aware of it."
Archer is in the process of appealing his sentence.
Also among the witnesses to meet with investigators is an Arkansas woman who had a child with Biden and who had sued him for child support, people briefed on the matter said. Her attorney told CNBC that she testified in February to the grand jury in Delaware as part of the investigation and turned over Hunter Biden's financial records she had.
Clint Lancaster, the attorney, didn't respond to CNN requests for comment. Lancaster is not new to the political world: He was listed as an attorney working on a Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 election results, a failed effort to find fraud in the election that President Joe Biden won.
A political live wire
The swirl of partisan politics has hung over the investigation for years. The prospect of the Justice Department continuing to investigate the sitting President's son has added to the sensitivity.
President Joe Biden has said he won't interfere in the independence of the Justice Department. Early on in his presidency, Biden decided to keep in office US Attorney David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, to continue to oversee the investigation in Delaware.
As the law enforcement work in Biden's home state has stayed relatively quiet, the political smears of Hunter Biden persisted.
Trump had sought to make the Hunter Biden probe a part of the 2020 campaign, publicly urging Attorney General William Barr to announce an investigation of both Hunter and Joe Biden. Barr responded by publicly announcing that Joe Biden wasn't under investigation.
Giuliani helped orchestrate news stories seeking to tie then-candidate Joe Biden to allegations of corruption in Ukraine. He later helped push stories on documents he said came from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden.
CNN last year reported that the FBI took possession of the laptop in 2019 and investigators believed it belonged to Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden, last year making the publicity rounds for his memoir, dodged questions about the laptop.
"There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me," he said in a CBS interview. "It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the -- that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me."
Giuliani also sought to provide law enforcement a trove of documents he said came from sources in Ukraine and that purported to show wrongdoing by Hunter Biden and his father.
The role of Giuliani and Trump added unusual hurdles for Justice Department officials overseeing the probe, current and former law enforcement officials say.
Barr, concerned about Giuliani's credibility and trying to keep what he viewed as a legitimate investigation of Hunter Biden from being tainted, directed that the documents be handed over to prosecutors in Pittsburgh, according to people briefed on the matter. There, Barr instructed, prosecutors would work with US intelligence agencies to try to determine their authenticity and then turn over any relevant materials to prosecutors in Delaware and elsewhere.
It's unclear whether any of the materials provided by Giuliani or the laptop remain part of the investigation.
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Russian TV Calls For ‘Partner’ Trump to Be Put in Power
March 29, 2022 at 11:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“A Russian TV host called for ‘regime change’ in the U.S., and also for former President Donald Trump to be reinstated,”
Mediaite reports.

“The host, Evgeny Popov, went as far as to refer to Trump as a ‘partner’ to the Russian people.”

_________

Submission this morning to the Pantagraph of Bloomington-Normal, IL for this Friday:

From the Pulpit:
James Boswell

When Jesus was only a toddler, two thousand Jewish insurrectionists were captured and crucified by Roman soldiers at Jerusalem. Some thirty years later, Jesus entered the city accompanied by large Passover crowds who were excitedly shouting, “Blessed is the Kingdom that is coming” – words which upset the city’s wealthy ruling priestly power brokers who, in collaboration with the still occupying Romans, did not want to see change come about.

Today we face a somewhat similar situation wherein foreign soldiers have invaded Ukraine in an attempt to force it to submit to being ruled by others. Some of those who want to rule claim to be “orthodox” representatives of Jesus.

A like-minded power arrangement existed in czarist days when Russia’s rulers utilized the church to defend its exploitation of society for the sake of the wealthy. When communism arose, the church suffered persecution, but managed to survive by keeping a low profile.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, however, Vladimir Putin has cynically brought the church back into favor, but only as a willing tool in support of his own corrupt ambitions, and the Russian head of the church, Kiril, has been his obedient servant in doing this. Kiril refused to denounce Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and even blessed it, for which many Ukrainian and other Orthodox Christians no longer recognize his authority. Both men pretend to be defenders of the faith against such Western “immoralities” as acceptance of the rights of gays and women, and in this they enjoy support from far too many Americans who also claim to be Christians.

In reality, both men are willing collaborators with a selfish oligarchy committed to nothing more than holding on to their own corruptly gained wealth by keeping a dishonest dictator safe in his seat of power.

How different was Jesus’ “invasion” of Jerusalem, not arrogantly riding a war chariot, but a humble little donkey, his only weapon love, and his strategy not to kill, but be killed. Comparing himself to a mother hen calling her endangered chicks to the safety of her protective wings at cost to her own life, Jesus invited everyone, not to an enforced servitude, but to a freely given loving servanthood for the sake of all.


Boswell is a retired pastor of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in Normal. His views may be accessed at www.jesuslaidbare-truthsaboutjesus.com.

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

Democratic lawmakers are openly pressuring Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring the weight of U.S. law enforcement against members of former President Trump's inner circle they've deemed uncooperative with the House's investigation of the Jan. 6 attack.



Oh really?

That's nice, Dunning-Kruger alky.

Does "bringing the weight of U.S. law enforcement against members of former President Trump's inner circle" mean charging anyone with an actual fucking CRIME?

This is the Mueller investigation redux. More MILLION$ wasted because democrats have fucked themselves. Again.


Federal investigation of Hunter Biden heats up

This is also nice, Dunning-Kruger alky.

And without the appointment of an independent counsel this goes exactly fucking nowhere. And you know it.


Learn how to comment without the aid of plagiarism, alky.

Ask the 5th Beatle to show you how. He's supposedly an author.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Newsweek
'Treachery'—Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Asking Vladimir Putin a Favor
Ewan Palmer - 2h ago

Donald Trump has been widely criticized for calling on Vladimir Putin to release any information he has about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings in Russia while the Russian president is carrying out attacks on Ukraine.

In an interview on Real America's Voice show Just the News, Trump pushed unsubstantiated claims regarding President Joe Biden's son's and his dealings in Russia.

The former president repeated an accusation that Hunter Biden's company received $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, the widow of former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, a claim he often spouted during the 2020 election campaign.

"Why did the mayor of Moscow's wife give the Bidens—both of them—three and half million dollars? That's a lot of money," Trump said.

"She gave him three and half million dollars. So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer."

One political expert told Newsweek that by appealing for Putin to "smear" Hunter Biden, Trump is doing "what Trump does best" by "trolling the media, cozying up to authoritarians," and timing his comments for "maximum shock value."

This is also not the first time that Trump has asked Russia for help getting political dirt against one of his opponents.

In 2016, Trump called on Russia to try to find 30,000 emails associated with his then election rival Hillary Clinton, which were deleted during her time as Secretary as State.

Trump was impeached for the first time over allegations he threatened to withhold military aid from Ukraine unless President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings ahead of the 2020 election. Trump denied pressuring the Ukrainian leader in several media reports published around the time.

Trump has now been condemned for asking Putin to help unearth information on Hunter Biden amid the war in Ukraine, where Russia is accused of committing war crimes by purposely targeting civilians and hospitals.

Author, journalist and attorney Seth Abramson wrote: "President Biden is America's commander-in-chief; we're at the brink of open war with Russia; Putin is unambiguously an enemy of America.

"So one would expect any info Putin releases about our commander-in-chief to be a lie—and yet Trump now begs for Putin's aid. Open treachery."

Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, tweeted: "Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and a butcher. Here are two responses—President Biden: This man cannot remain in power.

"Trump: Please help me Vladimir. I am damn proud of our current President. And nauseated by the former President."

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...


Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison added: "Trump, the leader of the GOP, loves Putin more than he loves America. It has been evident for awhile that the man seriously needs some professional help."

Richard Painter, attorney and former chief White House ethics lawyer under the George W. Bush administration, described Trump as a "sleazeball" and a "traitor" over his comments.

Filmmaker Andy Ostroy said: "This traitor is seeking personal gain right now from a brutal enemy of America who's literally slaughtering innocent men, women, pregnant women, children and babies and decimating cities. Lock...his...a**...up."

Trump's latest remarks also arrived after he praised Putin as a "genius" and "savvy" for his tactics gearing up to the all out invasion of Ukraine in late February.

Trump later doubled down on his remarks, telling a crowd at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that the Russian president was Putin was "pretty smart" as he had "taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions."

Speaking to Newsweek, Thomas Gift, founding director of University College London's Centre on U.S. Politics, added: "As the rest of the world looks on at Russia's aggression in horror, Trump, in typical Trumpian fashion, sees a golden opportunity to keep his name in the headlines—and it's working.

"His recent comments calling Putin a 'genius' and 'savvy' garnered plenty of media attention, so it's hard not to think this is just him going back for seconds.

"Consider: As Joe Biden expresses his moral indignation over Putin—admitting he personally wants Russia's leader ousted from power and labeling him a 'war criminal'—Trump is content to solicit support from the same adversary. The contrasts couldn't be sharper."

Trump has been contacted for comment.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

LOL
Just as in the last election:
Trump is his own worst enemy.

Anonymous said...

Biden or Harris will run in 2024?

To flawed and broken to Run.

rrb said...

Blogger KansasDemocrat said...

Biden or Harris will run in 2024?


They should.

To the soundtrack of Dumb & Dumber

Campaign slogan:

We will not rest until the destruction of America is complete.


rrb said...

I think this is a great idea provided that they remain behind to colonize the moon, preventing Putin from colonizing it first. -


Biden's 2023 budget includes $7.5 billion to "land the first woman and person of color on the moon"

https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1508892780466257926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508927121028263938%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F2022%2F03%2Ftop-20-tweets-tonight-032922-400-days.html

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Could Trump Blow the Midterms for Republicans?

OF COURSE HE COULD. AND MAYBE WILL!


Playbook:
“All signs point to a typical midterm election this year in which the president’s party suffers double-digit losses in the House. The GOP has the big structural advantages on its side: a Democratic president with low approval ratings, a sour public mood driven by inflation concerns and an edge in polling on issues like crime, education and immigration that are proving important to voters in the crucial swing suburbs where the midterms will be decided.

“One of the few ways Republicans could potentially blow this electoral equivalent of a layup is if former President Donald Trump suddenly returns to center court.

“Trump is not toxic for his party everywhere. Republicans did better than expected in House races in 2020 because of the high MAGA turnout Trump generated.

"But he’s deadly for the GOP in the decisive suburbs at the heart of 2022 politics. Recall how Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin treated Trump like Voldemort, concerned that even uttering his name would repel potential supporters in NoVa.”

Goody!

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Could Biden Blow up the Midterms for Democrats?

OF COURSE HE COULD. AND MAYBE WILL!

Goody!



fixed the sophomoric "post" from the waterboy

ROFLMFAO !!!

James's Fucking Daddy said...

John Ashbrook
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnAshbrook/status/1508974858310463490


BLOOMBERG: “Inflation will mean the average U.S. household has to spend an extra $5,200 this year ($433 per month) compared to last year...”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-29/u-s-households-face-5-200-inflation-tax-this-year-chart



Every month it is getting worse and Biden's hole he is digging is getting deeper

Americans are hurting

It's a very dark presidency

He's broken much and fixed nothing

Wonder what that will do for the midterms ?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Why it matters: The senator from Maine is the first Republican to announce her intent to back President Biden's nominee.

Driving the news: "After reviewing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s extensive record, watching much of her hearing testimony, and meeting with her twice in person, I have concluded that she possesses the experience, qualifications, and integrity to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court," Collins said in a statement on Wednesday.

"I will, therefore, vote to confirm her to this position," she added.

The big picture: Collins told the New York Times that she decided to support Jackson's confirmation after the pair met on Tuesday afternoon.

The GOP lawmaker revealed she had been reassured that Jackson would not be "bending the law to meet a personal preference," per the Times, which first wrote about Collins' decision.

What she's saying: "In my meetings with Judge Jackson, we discussed in depth several issues that were raised in her hearing ... And just as I have disagreed with some of her decisions to date, I have no doubt that, if Judge Jackson is confirmed, I will not agree with every vote that she casts as a Justice," Collins said.

"That alone, however, is not disqualifying. Indeed, that statement applies to all six Justices ... whom I have voted to confirm."

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Trump would beat Biden by six points and Kamala by 11 if the election were held today, another dire poll for White House and Democrats shows


Donald Trump would beat both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in respective hypothetical match-ups if the 2024 election were held today, a new poll reported on Tuesday suggests.

The Republican former president leads Biden by a six-point margin in the latest Harvard CAPS-Harris survey exclusively obtained by The Hill, yet another dire poll for a White House that's been plagued by sinking approval ratings and multiple crises.

Forty-seven percent of survey respondents would back Trump in 2024, compared to 41 percent who support Biden. Twelve percent said they were undecided.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10665545/Trump-beat-Biden-six-points-Kamala-11-2024-election-held-today-Poll.html

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Guess that includes all the positive Biden bounces and toxic Trump stories we have bee reading here from the charlatan POS "pastor" and alky

Else Trump would really be destroying him

To quote the "pastor"... Goody

ROFLMFAO !!!

rrb said...


Trump would beat Biden by six points and Kamala by 11 if the election were held today, another dire poll for White House and Democrats shows


Which is exactly why the J6 Kangaroo Court must find a way to declare Trump ineligible to run in '24.

It's their last gasp to retain power.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

POLITICO Playbook: Could Trump blow the midterms for the GOP?

By RYAN LIZZA, RACHAEL BADE and EUGENE DANIELS 

 

03/30/2022 06:19 AM EDT

Presented by

 

Former President Donald Trump is not toxic for his party everywhere. But he’s deadly for the GOP in the decisive suburbs at the heart of 2022 politics. | AP

DRIVING THE DAY

He’s back.

All signs point to a typical midterm election this year in which the president’s party suffers double-digit losses in the House. The GOP has the big structural advantages on its side: a Democratic president with low approval ratings, a sour public mood driven by inflation concerns and an edge in polling on issues like crime, education and immigration that are proving important to voters in the crucial swing suburbs where the midterms will be decided.

One of the few ways Republicans could potentially blow this electoral equivalent of a layup is if former President DONALD TRUMP suddenly returns to center court.

Trump is not toxic for his party everywhere. Republicans did better than expected in House races in 2020 because of the high MAGA turnout Trump generated. But he’s deadly for the GOP in the decisive suburbs at the heart of 2022 politics. Recall how Virginia’s GLENN YOUNGKIN treated Trump like Voldemort, concerned that even uttering his name would repel potential supporters in NoVa.

This week, despite a war in Europe, a new presidential budget at home and a Supreme Court nominee battle, Trump emerged as the dominant story, mostly because of the geyser of news related to the Jan. 6 committee in recent days:

rrb said...



Learn how to comment without the aid of plagiarism, alky.

Ask the 5th Beatle to show you how. He's supposedly an author.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If the Democrats run on a platform of funding the police, expanding oil and gas production, supporting the bipartisan infrastructure law and supporting Biden’s call to lower health care and prescription-drug costs, they might hold onto power.

And run campaign adds that the show, Republicans keep saying Trump won the 2020 presidential election, and they want to overturn Roe v. Wade.

It might save the world from Republicans of this era.



James's Fucking Daddy said...


rrb said...


Learn how to comment without the aid of plagiarism, alky.

Ask the 5th Beatle to show you how. He's supposedly an author.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C58ttB2-Qg

Maybe alky and his roommate can do a duet with a little help from his friends ?

practice, practice, practice

The facility will probably love it

chance to be a rock star !!!



rrb said...


If the Democrats run on a platform of funding the police, expanding oil and gas production, supporting the bipartisan infrastructure law and supporting Biden’s call to lower health care and prescription-drug costs, they might hold onto power.


So in other words they need to LIE to the electorate and get the electorate to believe they're suddenly FOR all of the things they've advocated AGAINST for the past 8 years.

This confirms the fact that low information voters and a permanent underclass are absolutely vital to the left in order for them to remain in power.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This sucks.

NBC News
Russian units suffering heavy losses on the ground have been forced to return to Belarus and Russia to "reorganize and resupply," Britain's defense ministry said early Wednesday.

The development demonstrates "the difficulties Russia is having reorganizing its units in forward areas within Ukraine," it said. However, the defense ministry warned that Russia would likely compensate for its reduced capability on the ground through mass artillery and missile strikes.

That comes as both U.S. and Ukrainian officials have expressed skepticism over claims from Russia on Tuesday that it would "drastically" reduce military operations around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. The vow was made as peace talks unfolded in Istanbul.

President Joe Biden said he would not "read anything" into the claims "until I see what their actions are." He said the United States had no plans to withdraw sanctions or military aid to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that while there were "positive" signals from ongoing negotiations, they did not "drown out the ruptures of Russian shells."

On Wednesday, the United Nations refugee agency said the number of people who have fled the war in Ukraine has reached more than 4 million, with over 2.3 million seeking refuge in neighboring Poland.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Biden has been governing like this since Biden took office on a platform of funding the police, expanding oil and gas production, supporting the bipartisan infrastructure law and supporting Biden’s call to lower health care and prescription-drug costs.

Low informed people like you don't understand it

James's Fucking Daddy said...


The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

Low informed people like you don't understand it



I know it's real late in your life but maybe you can take a home correspondence course in basic English ?

Maybe one specifically for low information students ?

You will probably need to be able to pay in advance though.

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

President Biden has been governing like this since Biden took office on a platform of funding the police, expanding oil and gas production, supporting the bipartisan infrastructure law and supporting Biden’s call to lower health care and prescription-drug costs.



Which explains why one of his very first moves was to KILL the Keystone XL pipeline.


Also -

In a statement last month, his folks insisted: “Biden does not believe that police should be defunded.”

Later, though, asked if money should be “redirected” away from cops, he replied, “Yes, absolutely.” And the charter for his alliance with Bernie Sanders vows to “reinvigorate community policing . . . and make smart investments to incentivize departments to build effective partnerships with social workers and mental-health and substance-use counselors” — which aligns with the #Defunders’ goals.


https://nypost.com/2020/08/09/joe-bidens-doubletalk-on-defund-the-police/

Lowering drug costs? Trump already addressed that.


Sorry Dunning-Kruger alky, but your LIES are not in alignment with the facts in evidence.



rrb said...

Oh, and alky?

It appears that you and the democrats have pinned their mid-term election hopes on lies and deception.

Lying about what Joey Soft-serve has actually done, trying to take credit for what he hasn't done, and overall deceiving the electorate in order to salvage at least a majority in one chamber of congress.

Having to lie is a cynical strategery, and it appears that's what you're left with.

Try being honest with the American people.

Tell them you insist upon destroying fossil fuels. Tell them you insist upon gun confiscation. Tell them you insist upon sexually gro0ming children as young as infants. Tell them you endorse child p0rn. Tell them you DO want to defund the police.

Tell them that your overarching goal is a new world order with it's basis in globalism, with the main goal here in America to make as many people as possible dependent upon the nanny state.

Explain Cloward-Piven to them and insist that it IS the goal.

Go for it alky. Serve the leftist agenda to the American electorate straight up, with no lies, deception, sleight of hand or other double-talk.

Stand on those principles alky. Just once. Be honest. And do it dripping with the disdain you guys have for middle America.