Why now? Why suddenly is the commission openly interested in the secret service texts?
I would guess that there are somehow two different chains of thought on this subject and on this question. But the most obvious to me is that this was not an issue prior, because previously they did not have a witness (Hutchinson) who was so overwhelmingly undercut in any prior testimony.
The time for questions to the Secret Service, about the Secret Service, and any requests for more information should have been dealt with "long before" they put Hutchinson on the stand during a televised hearing. Not after her testimony blew up.
It's inconceivable to me that they would not have previously asked for text messages or been told that not all text messages might be present prior to now. Then again, the manner in which the questions are being asked today is really not about text messages (since secret service members communicate on secure audio channels - not text messages). The strategy seems to be about trying to undercut the credibility of the Secret Service now that the SS has disputed the accounts of Hutchinson. The commission wants people to believe that the SS is somehow are hiding important text messages that would somehow prove Hutchinson's third hand view of events.
You know, lack of evidence of a conspiracy is just proof of a coverup.
The reality is that there is almost no chance that any secret service member would have been "texting" about something like what was being suggested. Certainly not those in the limo. That sounds an awful lot like gossip and that sort of stuff would not have been done on the company phones. More to the point, had the secret service really witnessed the President reaching for the steering wheel and getting physical with an agent, the idea that no official report would have been filed is fairly difficult to believe.
No report, but they would have used a company phone to text? Extremely unlikely.
Now you could just ask the agents in question what happened? That seems to be the logical manner to resolve this. But since the commission already knows that they will not corroborate the testimony they will not be called on live television to answer those questions directly. Not in a million years.
So the committee needs to provide something else. Thus the concept of "missing text messages" when no actual text messages on the subject probably ever existed. That provides another bad orange man conspiracy (this time colluding with the secret service) for their faithful followers to fall for.
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Hutchinson's testimony did not, as Ch says, "blow up." Far from it.
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“The evidence is now overwhelming that Donald Trump was the driving force behind a massive criminal conspiracy to interfere with the official January 6 congressional proceeding and to defraud the United States of a fair election outcome,” former federal prosecutors Donald Ayer, Stuart Gerson and Dennis Aftergut wrote in a piece at the Atlantic last week.
Ayer, who participated alongside Parker at a Protect Democracy press briefing in June, served as principal deputy solicitor general in the administration of Ronald Reagan and as deputy attorney general under George H.W. Bush, while Gerson served as assistant attorney general during the first Bush administration. They highlighted their Republican bona fides, as well as their DOJ credentials, writing, “The evidence is clearer and more robust than we as former federal prosecutors — two of us as Department of Justice officials in Republican administrations — thought possible before the hearings began.”
Specifically, the three former prosecutors argued that “the committee has demonstrated repeatedly that [Trump] knew beyond all doubt that he had lost fair and square,” putting to rest speculation that his campaign to change the election outcome was based on a genuine belief that he was the rightful winner.
Additionally, they wrote, the witness testimony and other evidence presented during the hearings placed Trump solidly at the center of every aspect of his effort to overturn his electoral loss — from his direct calls to state officials to his personal ploy to use the Justice Department to legitimize his bogus voter fraud claims, and his alleged advance knowledge of the danger posed by the crowd on Jan. 6 when he directed it to march on the Capitol.
“Any argument that Donald Trump lacked provable criminal intent is contradicted by the facts elicited by the January 6 committee,” they wrote, concluding that “the tradition of not prosecuting a former president must yield to the manifest need to protect our constitutional form of government and to ensure that the violent effort to overthrow it is never repeated.”
Other initial skeptics, such as law professors Alan Rozenshtein and Jed Handelsman Shugerman, have reached a similar conclusion.
Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York, had both previously argued that the Justice Department lacked sufficient evidence to indict Trump for his actions on Jan. 6. But in a July 1 post for Lawfare, they wrote that they had been swayed by the unexpected testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
In particular, they cited Hutchinson’s account of a conversation that took place moments before Trump delivered his Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse, in which she said the former president ordered the removal of magnetometers, or metal detectors, that were being used to keep armed rally-goers away from the stage.
“I overheard the president say something to the effect of 'I don’t care that they have weapons, they’re not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away, let my people in. … They can march to the Capitol from here,’” Hutchinson recalled, explaining that Trump was frustrated by the empty space in the crowd. “He wanted it full, and he was angry that we weren’t letting people through the mags with weapons.”
Before Hutchinson’s testimony, Rozenshtein and Shugerman had independently argued that Trump’s statements on Jan. 6 urging his supporters to “fight” and telling them to march to the Capitol, while based on a lie, amounted to political speech covered by the First Amendment.
“In particular,” they wrote, “we were skeptical that Trump’s speech would satisfy the stringent requirement of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the landmark case in which the Supreme Court held that the government could only criminalize speech advocating unlawful action if ‘such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.’”
However, Hutchinson’s account of Trump’s demand to remove the magnetometers undermines that position, they wrote, serving as “additional proof of intent and context, and — crucially — a material act to increase the likelihood of violence,” which “easily distinguishes Trump’s speech at the rally from other kinds of core political speech that should never be criminalized.”
Not only could Hutchinson’s account be used to prosecute Trump for inciting or encouraging a riot under 18 U.S. Code section 2101, but Rozenshtein and Shugerman argued that the former White House aide’s testimony also “bolsters the case” for charging the former president with obstruction of Congress, as well as insurrection and seditious conspiracy.
They aren’t the only ones who were influenced by Hutchinson.
Solomon Wisenberg, a former deputy independent counsel under Ken Starr during the investigation of President Bill Clinton, called Hutchinson’s testimony “the smoking gun,” making a case for Trump’s “criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges.”
Meanwhile, John Dean, former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, appears to have been swayed by the “powerful” testimony of Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson for the Oath Keepers, and Stephen Ayres, a former Trump supporter who was charged with illegally entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Dean, who was a key witness in the Watergate investigation, predicted that “Trump is in trouble” after hearing Van Tatenhove and Ayres testify before the committee last Tuesday.
“I think a criminal case is going to come out of it,” Dean said on CNN following the committee’s seventh hearing. “And I don’t see how … prosecutors at the Department of Justice can’t take a lot of this evidence and use it. A lot of these people who are involved in this are going to be in front of a grand jury, if they’re not already.”
This week, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that Garland had issued a memo in May extending a 2020 policy first introduced by former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr, which requires federal investigators to obtain written approval from the attorney general for any investigations into a presidential candidate or their staff. Although Trump has strongly hinted that he intends to run for president again in 2024, he has yet to formally announce his candidacy.
A DOJ spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Garland memo or whether it applies to Trump.
Still, since the committee began its latest round of public hearings, there have been some signs that the Justice Department may be expanding the scope of its Jan. 6 inquiry. For example, the department renewed an earlier request for the panel’s interview transcripts, and issued several new subpoenas, apparently in relation to its ongoing inquiry into the potentially fraudulent effort to use fake pro-Trump electors to prevent certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Last month, federal agents also searched the home of former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who allegedly tried to help Trump use the department to help subvert the election.
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Meanwhile, in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has empaneled a special grand jury and subpoenaed several Trump advisers, including his attorney Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as well as a number of prominent Georgia Republicans, as part of her fast-moving investigation into Trump’s attempt to meddle with the election in her state. Willis told Yahoo News last week that she is considering calling Trump himself to testify to the special grand jury.
As the select committee wraps up this series of hearings, Parker argued that the real question is not whether the evidence it has presented is sufficient to indict Trump, but whether it’s enough to merit a criminal investigation of which the former president is the subject. “There’s more than enough evidence” for that, she said.
“I think sometimes we get so saturated with the coverage of this that we forget to step back and take note of just how incredible it is that we are hearing and seeing this amount of evidence of potential criminality on the part of the president of the United States that was aimed at overturning the results of an election,” she said. “I mean, criminality aimed at the very heart of our democratic system of government.”
Parker noted that one of the factors the Justice Department manual instructs prosecutors to consider when deciding whether to prosecute a criminal case is the seriousness of the offense.
“I’m not sure you could find a more serious offense than attempting to destroy American democracy,” she said, adding that federal prosecutors regularly bring charges against everyday Americans for arguably much less serious offenses, such as using or selling drugs or trying to enter the country illegally.
Parker suggested that if the Justice Department fails to prosecute Trump, “the most powerful person in the country,” for crimes “aimed at destroying our democratic system of government,” while continuing to bring charges against average citizens for these kinds of lesser offenses, it would send a “terrible and possibly even fatal message.”
“The criminal justice system in a democratic system is basically a form of a social contract. We all agree to be bound by the laws on the theory that the laws will be enforced fairly as to everyone,” she said. “That idea is seriously undermined when Joe and Jane Average can be charged with crimes but the president of the United States isn’t charged for the most serious thing you can imagine somebody doing."
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But Trump can't be charged? Oh yes
I do not put up such a lengthy article unless I believe it is ESPECIALLY important.
In future holiday season, there will be another holiday.
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Incitement Day
New Years Day
WASHINGTON – Don't expect a federal indictment of Donald Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection before the November election, legal analysts say a newly revealed Justice Department memo suggests.
Attorney General Merrick Garland reminded U.S. Department of Justice officials that extra steps are required before action can be taken in politically sensitive cases during the fall election season – and unprecedented charges against a former president would certainly seem to qualify.
Legal analysts said Garland is re-stating a long-standing policy that discourages the announcement of investigations or indictments of major political figures on the cusp of elections because it could be construed as interfering in the election.
The Secret Service turned over just one text message to the House January 6 committee on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena compelling the production of all communications from the day before and the day of the US Capitol attack, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Primetime January 6 hearing to go ahead despite chairman’s positive Covid test
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The Secret Service told the panel the single text was the only message responsive to the subpoena, the sources said, and while the agency vowed to conduct a forensic search for any other text or phone records, it indicated such messages were likely to prove irrecoverable.
House investigators also learned that the texts were seemingly lost as part of an agency-wide reset of phones on 27 January 2021, the sources said – 11 days after Congress first requested the communications and two days after agents were reminded to back up their phones.
The disclosures were worse than the committee had anticipated, the sources said. The panel had hoped to receive more than a single text and was dismayed to learn that the messages were lost even after they had been requested for congressional investigations.
It marked a difficult day for the Secret Service, which is required to preserve records like any other executive branch agency and now finds itself in the crosshairs of the committee investigating the Capitol attack.
The controversy – and the subpoena – over the lost text messages came last week after the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, the watchdog for the Secret Service, revealed many messages from the time in question had gone missing.
In a letter to Congress, the inspector general said some Secret Service texts from 5 and 6 January 2021 were erased amid a “device replacement program” and indicated that the agency was stonewalling his investigation by slow-walking the production of evidence.
The Secret Service has said the missing texts were purged as part of a planned agency-wide reset of phones and replacement of devices. Agents were told to back up data to an internal drive, one source said, but that directive appears to have been ignored.
It stinks!
The Fulton County district attorney's office said Tuesday 16 Republicans who signed an "unofficial electoral certificate" in Georgia are "targets" in its investigation into former President Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Why it matters: Tuesday's court filings mark a major acceleration in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation as they indicate the fake electors may face criminal charges.
Trump supporters reflexively insist President Donald Trump's critics have "Trump Derangement Syndrome," a condition in which the mere mention of the 45th president's name induces fits of hysteria.
"Orange Man Bad," they'll say, as a dismissive conversation-ending put-down.
The Justice Department will continue investigating Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack even if he runs for reelection, a department official said Tuesday.
“We’re going to continue to do our job, to follow the facts wherever they go, no matter where they lead, no matter to what level,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, according to a Bloomberg report. “We’re going to continue to investigate what was fundamentally an attack on our democracy.”
I see Scott is playing with the very woke n Triggered Roger and James.
The January 6 Hearings Are Wounding Trump
July 20, 2022 at 7:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“The conventional wisdom about the Jan. 6 committee hearings was that no single revelation was going to change Republican minds about Donald Trump,” Politico reports.
“What happened instead, a slow drip of negative coverage, may be just as damaging to the former president. Six weeks into the committee’s public hearing schedule, an emerging consensus is forming in Republican Party circles — including in Trump’s orbit — that a significant portion of the rank-and-file may be tiring of the non-stop series of revelations about Trump.
“The fatigue is evident in public polling and in focus groups that suggest growing Republican openness to an alternative presidential nominee in 2024.”
It is becoming more and more evident now to more and more people that America's biggest enemies are Russia, China, Iran, and Trump.
All of which are seeking to undermine American democracy.
I see the goat fucker still has nothing to post but his lunatic idea that woke is a winning GOP policy!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!
In any case, one question committee investigators cannot avoid is whether the Secret Service deviated from standard procedures at the behest of people the Trump administration placed in command there.
During Trump's administration, unprecedented coziness appears to have existed between the Secret Service and the White House. For example, Anthony Ornato was the Service's deputy assistant director who headed Trump's security detail until Trump made him White House deputy chief of staff for operations in December 2019.
While on Trump's staff, Ornato helped coordinate the infamous June 2020 Trump photo-op across from Lafayette Park, when police and military forcefully attacked peaceable political demonstrators. Following Hutchinson's June 2022 testimony, other former Trump administration aides have said that Ornato has a history of changing his story to protect Trump. Ornato is now back at Secret Service as an assistant director, and should be available to return to testify before the committee.
Given the reasonable probability of the House select committee recovering missing texts, Secret Service witnesses must bear in mind the danger of getting caught in a lie under oath. The committee has shown time and again that there is no substitute for the truth that is emerging from many of those closest to the events of Jan. 6.
The Secret Service deserves an opportunity to fully explain the process by which the texts came to be deleted. But it is clear that this most important chapter in the history of our republic can only be fully and accurately written with access to those missing texts or truthful testimony about what they would have revealed.
Intelligence Agencies Say Russia Election Threat Persists
July 20, 2022 at 6:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
“Top national security officials warned on Tuesday about the continuing threat of election interference from abroad, emphasizing that Russia could still seek to meddle or promote disinformation during the 2022 midterm races even as it wages war in Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.
Said FBI Director Christopher Wray: “I am quite confident the Russians can walk and chew gum.”
“Iran and China also remained potent threats, mounting their own campaigns to undermine American democracy.”
Democrats Hold Out Hope for Manchin
July 19, 2022 at 9:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 279 Comments
“The White House and some Senate Democrats aren’t giving up on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) just yet — and are leaving the door open to pursuing climate legislation in a potential second reconciliation package,” Axios reports.
“The keep-hope-alive approach means President Biden can’t antagonize Manchin by taking immediate executive actions on issues that matter deeply to the moderate West Virginia senator, like pipeline permitting.
The Secret Service was not responsible for security at the Capitol on January 6 – that is performed by US Capitol police – but agents led protection details for Trump, Pence, and other executive branch officials across Washington that day.
But Secret Service actions have become a focus for House investigators as they investigate whether and when the agency knew Trump wanted to go to the Capitol, and whether it intended to remove Pence from the complex as rioters sought to stop certification of Joe Biden’s election win.
The missing texts are also the subject of a new investigation, after the National Archives told the Secret Service to launch an internal review and issue a report within 30 calendar days, if it found that any texts were “improperly deleted”.
AMEN to 6:32
AND 6:36
AND 6:36
The conventional wisdom about the Jan. 6 committee hearings was that no single revelation was going to change Republican minds about Donald Trump.
What happened instead, a slow drip of negative coverage, may be just as damaging to the former president. Six weeks into the committee’s public hearing schedule, an emerging consensus is forming in Republican Party circles — including in Trump’s orbit — that a significant portion of the rank-and-file may be tiring of the non-stop series of revelations about Trump.
The fatigue is evident in public polling and in focus groups that suggest growing Republican openness to an alternative presidential nominee in 2024. The cumulative effect of the hearings, according to interviews with more than 20 Republican strategists, party officials and pollsters in recent days, has been to at least marginally weaken his support.
“It is definitely kind of this wet drip of, do you really want to debate the 2020 election again? Do you really want to debate what happened on Jan. 6?” said Bob Vander Plaats, the evangelical leader in Iowa who is influential in primary politics in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. “Frankly, I think what I sense a little bit, even among some deep, deep Trump supporters … there’s a certain exhaustion to it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/20/jan-6-hearings-trump-support-falls-00046662
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/19/secret-service-one-text-message-january-6-committee
And people don't give a rat's patooey about hearing of Hunter Biden.
(This got censored.)
Iran Expresses Support for Putin’s War in Ukraine
July 20, 2022 at 7:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“President Vladimir Putin left Russia for a rare international trip on Tuesday and received a handsome reward: a meeting with a prominent world leader who voiced a full-throated endorsement for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.
“Traveling to Iran, Mr. Putin worked to solidify an Iranian-Russian alliance that has been emerging as a significant counterweight to American-led efforts to contain Western adversaries. He met with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who issued a declaration of support for Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine of the kind that even other countries close to Russia have so far stopped short of making.”
Republicans, please stop rootin for Pootin. And Iran. And Russia. And China.
Trump’s Candidate in Arizona Suggests Primary Rigged
July 20, 2022 at 7:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
“Arizona Republican Blake Masters, who earned Donald Trump’s endorsement for the Senate race by embracing the former President’s lies that he won the 2020 election, has turned to questioning whether the 2022 midterm election will be legitimate, as he tries to lock up support among the party faithful ahead of next month’s primary,” CNN reports.
“That the first-time candidate is escalating doubts about the election system in Arizona — home to a months-long partisan review of 2020 ballots — is a sign of just how resonant some Republicans continue to believe those lies are with their base, even if similar pitches from Trump-backed candidates failed in Georgia, for example, earlier this year.”
AND THE GOOD NEWS JUST KEEPS COMING
Ohio Republicans Grumble About J.D. Vance
July 20, 2022 at 8:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Complaints about J.D. Vance and his Senate campaign are rising among Ohio Republicans after the conservative populist posted an anemic second-quarter fundraising report,” the Washington Examiner reports.
AND COMING
The GOP’s Grassroots Money Problem
July 20, 2022 at 8:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“Democrats across the 10 most competitive Senate races are out-raising Republicans by more than $75 million among small-dollar donors — those giving less than $200,” Axios reports.
“Inflation, Trump-induced donor fatigue and other factors are impacting the GOP grassroots, prompting Republican candidates to rely more heavily on high-dollar donors.”
Related from CBS News:
ActBlue processed more than half a billion dollars in three-month period.
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!!!!
RISE UP AND TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY FROM THE SUPER WEALTHY WHO WANT DICTATORIALLY TO RULE YOU!!!!!
AND THE GOOD NEWS JUST KEEPS COMING
Ohio Republicans Grumble About J.D. Vance
July 20, 2022 at 8:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“Complaints about J.D. Vance and his Senate campaign are rising among Ohio Republicans after the conservative populist posted an anemic second-quarter fundraising report,” the Washington Examiner reports.
AND COMING
The GOP’s Grassroots Money Problem
July 20, 2022 at 8:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“Democrats across the 10 most competitive Senate races are out-raising Republicans by more than $75 million among small-dollar donors — those giving less than $200,” Axios reports.
“Inflation, Trump-induced donor fatigue and other factors are impacting the GOP grassroots, prompting Republican candidates to rely more heavily on high-dollar donors.”
Related from CBS News:
ActBlue processed more than half a billion dollars in three-month period.
YES!!!!
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!!!!
RISE UP AND TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY FROM THE SUPER RICH WHO ARE SEEKING DICTATORIALLY TO RULE YOU!!!!
Nearly Half of Americans Expect Civil War
July 20, 2022 at 7:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments
A new study confirms one in five Americans believes violence motivated by political reasons is—at least sometimes—justified.
Nearly half expect a civil war, and many say they would trade democracy for a strong leader.
THAT'S WHAT GOT HITLER ELECTED.
TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY, AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!!!!!
Expecting civil war:
https://www.science.org/content/article/half-of-americans-anticipate-a-us-civil-war-soon-survey-finds
And now a break from the continuous spamming from the left.
I see they've completely lost any hint of sanity
and wo likes hanging around an insane asylum other than them?
think I'll start with an update on Biden's continuous fall
Geoff Pilkington
https://twitter.com/geoffpilkington/status/1549126267470880768
“That number is also 11 points below the low for former President Trump and 7 points below the lowest for former President Obama.”
thehill.com
Biden approval on economy hits new low: poll
President Biden’s economic approval ratings have hit a record low for his presidency — and surpassed the lowest ratings of the previous two presidents, new polling shows. A CNBC All-America ..
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3563946-biden-approval-on-economy-hits-new-low-poll/
explains the screaming banshees
CNN Plummets to Lowest Weekday Key Audience in 22 Years: ‘Obsession with Jan. 6 Not Working Magic’
CNN is officially seeing its smallest audience in 22 years for the key demographic that advertisers look for when spending. Many Americans have said the blatant bias and anti-Trump rhetoric deployed by the left-wing network is causing them to look for other news sources.
Media Research Center’s Tim Graham commented via Biz Pac Review that the left-wing network’s “obsession with January 6 is NOT working magic for CNN. No wonder Brian Stelter complains about their ‘freedom of reach’!”
According to reports, CNN averaged just 56,000 viewers between ages 25-54 on June 17. This tiny turnout hasn’t occurred since July 10, 2000.
To provide perspective, Fox News averaged 1.4 million total viewers and 209,000 in the critical demographic. This is the biggest lead by Fox News over CNN since 2015.
https://www.breakingreports.org/archives/661973
no one cares
except the screaming banshees
Courts Squash Democrats’ ‘Most Secure Election’ Lie: Swing States Didn’t Follow Their Own Laws In 2020
The 2020 election was full of chaos and irregularities. States across the country changed election policies and procedures last minute. Due to the pandemic, election officials claimed these emergency actions and deviations from election laws were necessary.
In 2020, the Wisconsin Elections Commission authorized “municipal clerks and local elections officials to establish ballot drop boxes” and said that people acting on behalf of the voter could deliver his or her ballot to these drop boxes.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg gave millions of dollars to election offices to change election procedures and fuel vote-by-mail efforts. The Capital Research Center uncovered that the Center for Technology and Civic Life, the non-profit Zuckerberg funneled his money through, gave Wisconsin election offices at least $6.7 million in 2020.
Much of this $6.7 million was used to set up drop boxes, which fueled ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting refers to a person returning ballots that are not their own. For example, you go to a drop box and return your ballot, your husband’s, and your two neighbors’.
These changes expanding drop boxes and allowing ballot harvesting drew much ire and complaints in 2020. President Trump and many others criticized drop boxes as being less secure than in-person voting.
Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court delivered a win for election integrity and strengthened the security of Wisconsin’s elections. In a 4-3 ruling, the court ruled that drop boxes will only be allowed at the offices of election clerks.
The court ruled that the Wisconsin Elections Commission does not have the power to enact and change election laws. This power belongs to the state legislature.
Under Wisconsin law, drop boxes are illegal. The law requires absentee ballots to be returned by mail, or the voter must personally deliver them to the municipal clerk. This ruling upheld the rule of law in elections: Election laws cannot be suspended before an election. That leads to chaos and distrust in results.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/14/courts-squash-democrats-most-secure-election-lie-swing-states-didnt-follow-their-own-election-laws-in-2020/
Running an illegal election is something they do in Banana Republics
including Joe Biden's America
GOP MANTRA:
REPEAT EVERY MORNING:
Every election lost by Republicans is "rigged."
:
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/voterga-uncovers-massive-election
VoterGA Uncovers Massive Election Fraud in Georgia
The stolen 2020 election data is still hiding in plain sight
The election integrity group VoterGA has produced a new video on Georgia’s 2020 election, and the video shows obvious and massive voter fraud.
This is one of the best videos that I’ve ever seen on how our elections are corrupted by using electronic voting machines. It covers the deceptive practices used in the election night vote, and the “risk-limiting” audit, and the machine recount. It’s the best use of 56 minutes of your life right now — especially before the 2022 midterms.
https://rumble.com/v1ciccp-georgia-election-fraud-report-2020.html
Couple of thoughts...
After every Jan 6th hearing and "bombshell" "new" revelations Joe Biden's approvals have gone
And simultaneiously more Americans believe he was fraudulently elected.
Maybe because it's obvious that the Jan 6th commission is fraudulent itself
And everyone sees that.
Except the screaming banshees
ROFLMFAO !!!
* After every Jan 6th hearing and "bombshell" "new" revelations Joe Biden's approvals have gone down
I now leave to let the lefty cesspool dwellers continue their spamming
and bitching about being caught spamming
ROFLMFAO !!!
Trump’s Choices Led to January 6 Insurrection
July 20, 2022 at 9:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Washington Post:
“At each moment when Trump could have soothed an agitated nation, he escalated tensions instead, the committee has illustrated through its presentation of 18 live witnesses, scores of videotaped depositions and vast documentary evidence.
"At each moment when longtime loyal advisers offered their view that his election loss was real, he refused to listen and found newcomers and outsiders willing to tell him otherwise.
“On at least 15 different occasions, the president barreled over those who told him to accept his loss and instead took actions that sought to circumvent the democratic process and set the nation on the path to violence, according to the committee’s evidence.
“The resulting attack on the Capitol was not spontaneous, the committee has argued, but instead a predictable outcome that Trump enabled even after learning the crowd he was addressing that day was armed and baying for blood.
RECONGNIZING IT IS TIME TO START GETTING THINGS DONE ON A BIPARTISAN BASIS,
Senate Advances Bill to Boost Semiconductor Production
July 20, 2022 at 8:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments
“The Senate voted to advance a slimmed-down version of its bill designed to boost U.S. semiconductor competition with China,” CNBC reports.
“The bill cleared a key procedural hurdle Tuesday evening in a 64-34 vote even as lawmakers worked to finish various sections of the legislation.
“The bill, which would provide about $50 billion in subsidies to bolster U.S. computer chip manufacturing, is a multifaceted bipartisan effort that combines the interests of several committees, ranging from national security to economics."
Punchbowl News
notes the bill might be expanded as it secured significant bipartisan support.
JFD is a tinfoil hat crazy person. Ignore it
tinfoil hat crazy
27 out of 29 posts here are by Roger and James. When this blog gets shut down, you two assholes will be the reason why.
For the most part, fairly short posts by me. What's to fear?
Biden's Recession deepens.
"Existing home sales (SAAR) June 5.12 million"
Down from 5.41 million the report before.
290,000 less American Dreams became a reality.
Nothing to fear dumbass, it’s voluminous spam NO ONE READS
Latest estimate: -1.6 percent — July 19, 2022
The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2022 is -1.6 percent on July 19, down from -1.5 percent on July 15. After this morning's housing starts report from the US Census Bureau, the nowcast of second-quarter real residential investment growth decreased from -8.8 percent to -10.1 percent.
If he shuts it down it is because most people who have been involved since soars have left because he became a cultists.
He used to be open minded about politicians but not since he was nominated in 2015
Caliphate4vrJuly 20, 2022 at 9:25 AM
Nothing to fear dumbass, it’s voluminous spam NO ONE READS
Exactly Right.
Scott , please throw Roger a bone (attention), he is Hangry.
Polling do you care about the Jan 6th something-or-other
Or
High gas prices
High food prices
Food shortages
Baby Formula get worse
Less homes being built
Bidens recession
Sad how the short fuck from UGA omitted this key statement from his GDP post....color me surprised.....>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
GDP now is not an official forecast from Atlanta Fed. Rather, it is best viewed as a running estimate of real GDP growth based on available economic data for the current measured quarter. There are no subjective adjustments made to GDPNow—the estimate is based solely on the mathematical results of the model. In particular, it does not capture the impact of COVID-19 and social mobility beyond their impact on GDP source data and relevant economic reports that have already been released. It does not anticipate their impact on forthcoming economic reports beyond the standard internal dynamics of the model.
Cali answered the question I asked that he did not read, lol.
CNN is officially seeing its smallest audience in 22 years for the key demographic that advertisers look for when spending. Many Americans have said the blatant bias and anti-Trump rhetoric deployed by the left-wing network is causing them to look for other news source
But they got Roger and the Reverend...
They will watch the propaganda network non-stop!
Funny how being anti-Trump has completely destroyed so many people and things. Your MSM, Network news (CNN/MSNBC). Even your publications like NYT and WaPos are struggling.
Not to mention people like Liz Cheney and the others who voted for Trump impeachment. So far not a one of those who voted for the Trump impeachment has won a primary. Most just retired knowing they were toast.
Yet... their hatred of Trump outways even their own well being. In 20 years what good will all of this Trump hate have done for CNN - who may just never recover.
TDS! Harm yourself over your hatred of Trump!
Guess who and what else is in trouble, Ch.
Trump himself.
She just spoke to the U.S Congress.
Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, got to bed late on the eve of the Russian invasion. Her kids were long asleep in the presidential residence south of Kyiv, a vast mansion of yellow stone that the family had always found a bit too grand, bordering on ostentatious. They had moved there in 2020 because the gated grounds contain a separate building to house their security detail. For days, Zelenska had sensed the bodyguards were nervous. The talk of war, she says, “was everywhere, just kind of hanging in the air.”
The government in Kyiv had urged civilians not to panic, but that had become harder as the Russians massed an invading force that surrounded Ukraine to the north, east, and south. Blogs brimmed with advice for would-be refugees. News programs showed instructions on what to pack while preparing to flee. On the night before the invasion, Zelenska made a note to get a suitcase ready for her family. But she never got around to it.
Neither did her husband Volodymyr Zelensky. The President of Ukraine had seen the intelligence reports—the satellite images, the intercepted phone and radio traffic—indicating the Russians were ready to attack. But he did not believe they would go through with it, and he did not urge his wife to get ready just in case. When they went to bed on Feb.23, Zelenska says, she did not imagine it would be the last time they would sleep side-by-side for months.
The Russian attack began before dawn the next day, and it split the First Family much like millions of other Ukrainians. Zelensky stayed in his compound in central Kyiv to lead the country, while his wife went into hiding with their two children. Her projects to improve the nation’s education and health care had to be halted, as was her career as a screenwriter. Surrounded by soldiers, she was seldom sure where she would sleep on any given night.
But 10 weeks into the invasion, Zelenska emerged from hiding, and she has since found her voice as a wartime leader of a different kind. While her husband has focused on securing weapons and other support from the West, the First Lady has devoted herself to helping the country cope with its traumas, both collective and personal. In May, she launched a government initiative to make psychological support available to every Ukrainian. It has now begun training trauma counselors, setting up mental-health hotlines and tapping foreign experts for clinical support.
Read More: Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s World.
The psychic toll of the war is overwhelming. Ukraine’s Health Ministry estimates that 15 million people—nearly a third of the population—are likely to require mental-health care. Some 8 million have been displaced by the war, the vast majority of whom are women and children. The number of military personnel has roughly tripled since the start of the invasion, to more than 700,000, and many of them are likely to experience trauma during their service. “There could be enormous consequences for the country,” Zelenska tells TIME in an interview at the presidential compound on June20, “if we end up with posttraumatic stress that goes untreated after the war.”
The Ukrainian armed forces will need help screening soldiers for signs of posttraumatic stress. Convincing regular Ukrainians to seek care will also be a challenge. When Zelenska, 44, talks about her efforts in this field, she often borrows the English phrase—mental health—because the concept is hard to describe in Ukrainian. “We have a particular distrust for terms that include the word psycho,’’ she says, in the muted gray rooms that now serve as her headquarters, down the hall from the Situation Room where her husband gets briefings from his generals. Ukrainians associate the practice of psychotherapy with state-run asylums, places that are designed to isolate the ill from society. A lot of that stigma, Zelenska says, has its roots in the Soviet Union, where generations of Ukrainians were raised to deal with trauma by hiding it away. The attitude, she says, was “Deal with it, get over it, and if you complain, you’re weak.”
All of the people there cheered her, except McCarthy
Abortion Vote In Kansas Looks Like It May Be Close
July 20, 2022 at 11:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments
FiveThirtyEight: “On Aug. 2, Kansans will vote on a state constitutional amendment that would clarify that the state’s bill of rights does not protect Kansans’ right to an abortion. And even though the state leans Republican, new polling and fundraising numbers suggest it’s a close race.”
Trump Still Trying to Overturn Election Results
July 20, 2022 at 11:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos (R) told WISN that Donald Trump called him “within the last week” still seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Said Vos:
“I explained that it’s not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion.”
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He's long been off the rails.
Maryland Republicans Go Extreme Right
July 20, 2022 at 11:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
Vice News: “A man who organized buses to Washington on Jan. 6, tweeted during the Capitol Riot that Vice President Mike Pence was a ‘traitor,’ tried to impeach Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan over his actions to stem Covid-19, and spoke at a QAnon conference this spring, just won the Republican nomination for Maryland governor.
“And he’s not even the most extreme candidate Maryland Republicans nominated for statewide office on Tuesday.”
Democrats Want Biden to Go Scorched Earth Against GOP
July 20, 2022 at 11:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 39 Comments
“When Michelle Obama declared ‘When they go low, we go high’ about Republicans in 2016, Democrats generally agreed with the sentiment,”
The Hill reports.
“After all, the party was up against Donald Trump, a man who seemed to find joy in making personal attacks part of his daily routine. But nearly six years later, the party that pledged to play nice is FED UP.
“Democrats are tired of being stomped on by the opposition. They hate the public perception of President Biden as a president in peril. And the conservative Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing them past their limits.
“Going low suddenly seems more appealing, some Democrats now say.”
TIME TO GO LOW, JOE!
Scott, it's not TDS. We care for our country and my grandchildren who should not have to grow up in the fascist regime.
Even DeSantis is not as dangerous as Trump.
Objective thinking escapes you mind.
But fortunately millions of others are stepping away.
Rudy Giuliani Ordered to Testify at Georgia Grand Jury
July 20, 2022 at 11:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to testify Aug. 9 before a grand jury in Georgia that is collecting evidence in a probe of possible criminal meddling in that state’s 2020 presidential election by former President Donald Trump,” CNBC reports.
“Giuliani spearheaded legal efforts by the Republican president to overturn the electoral results in multiple swing states that were won that year by President Joe Biden.”
Trump-Backed Candidate Shared Anti-Trump Meme
July 20, 2022 at 11:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) — who was endorsed by Donald Trump — shared a post on Facebook stating that Trump was “Not My President” just days before the former president’s inauguration in 2017, Fox News reports.
"Funny how being anti-Trump has completely destroyed so many people and things. Your MSM, Network news (CNN/MSNBC). Even your publications like NYT and WaPos are struggling"
Much deserved.
Hollywierd is pumping out lgpnqrtz movies to kids.
The parents are voting with thier Dollars and not going.
As of today the Felony weapon violations by Hunter Biden have not been filed.
AG Garland is stonewalling.
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