The Conference Board’s index decreased for a third month to 95.7 from a downwardly revised 98.4 reading in June, data Tuesday showed. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a decline to 97.
The steady weakening in sentiment risks causing consumers to cut back on discretionary purchases at a time when the economy is struggling for momentum. Inflation has dented confidence and forced the Federal Reserve to pursue aggressive interest-rate hikes geared at curbing demand.The American public will ultimately decide what sort of state they feel the economy is in. That will not be up to the Biden administration, the bureau of economic nonsense, or anyone else to decide. Republican will pounce on the two consecutive quarter benchmark and let the Democrats decide if they want to defend this economy to the American electorate and put themselves in a position to be seen as even more out of touch.
Think about it. Consumer sentiment is in the crapper. Most of the country believes we are already in a recession. But the Biden Administration would prefer to have us believe that things are going just swell. That the economy is blasting away and that nobody should be upset with it. You cannot change the mind of someone having issues paying for necessities, knowing that we are looking at another Fed increase that will likely slow down the economy even more.
How can Democrats step up with a straight face and tell the public that the economy is good. But how can they admit it is bad when they own it 100% completely without question. There are no fingers to point at anyone but themselves.
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I wonder if the American people will be able to see that what we are facing is GLOBAL inflation and the likelihood of GLOBAL recession that is affecting all nations and can be blamed on Russia and covid and monkey pox and other issues beyond the control of any one government.
So James thinks there's a global recession because of monkeypox. Good grief, not even dopey posts that level of stupidity.
Nope. I didn't say that. I only listed monkey pox along with lots of other things that are causing problems.
Why do you feel so compelled to lie about me?
Nope. I never said that. I only listed monkey pox along with many other difficulties that are causing immense problems in the global economy.
Why do you feel so compelled to lie about me?
Right now, Russia's failure to live up to their promise to allow the free flow of Ukrainian grain to deserately needy areas like Africa and others, is causing immense suffering to many millions in the world.
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By the way, THIS got deleted by the cowardly spam filter operator.
Now that Biden is President Covid is nobody's fault. But before you blamed me. Even though there have been way more deaths under slow Joe.
Trump and Pence back in Washington for rival speeches
By JILL COLVIN
2 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is returning to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a speech hours after his Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, exhorted Republicans to stop looking backward.
Trump's appearance in the nation's capital — his first trip back since Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office despite Trump's frantic efforts to remain in power — comes as some who are mulling White House bids have been increasingly willing to challenge him directly. They include Pence, who on Tuesday outlined his “Freedom Agenda " not far from where Trump was to speak before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second Trump term.
While the former president remains consumed by the election he falsely claims was stolen from him a year and a half ago, Pence again implored the party to look to the future as he mulls his own.
“Some people may choose to focus on the past, but elections are about the future," Pence said in an address to Young America’s Foundation, a student conservative group. “I believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back America. We can’t afford to take our eyes off the road in front of us because what’s at stake is the very survival of our way of life.”
No, Donald, we blamed you for repeatedly LYING about the seriousness of Covid, promising it would go away like magic in a few days, and for advocating injecting disinfectant, etc. etc. etc. and for foolishly wanting to pack the churches for an Easter that would have led to a disaster of deaths
--all that and SO much more.
If you are a homeowner this is great news if your not already in selling it 😀
Home-price growth remained strong in May despite rising mortgage rates and steep prices that are pushing some buyers out of the market.
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the nation, rose 19.7% in the year ended in May, down from a 20.6% annual rate the prior month.
A big increase in interest rates since the start of the year has pushed up many buyers’ expected monthly payments by hundreds of dollars a month. Some home shoppers are now unable to qualify for loans, and others have backed away from the market due to higher costs and economic uncertainty. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 5.54% in the week ended July 21, up from 2.78% from a year earlier, according to housing-finance agency Freddie Mac.
So it's not just bad news Scott 😕
I have a foolproof plan to stop Covid in its tracks!
625,000 deaths on my watch later and I am still working on that plan!
I destroyed your comments about recessions yesterday but you can't admit it
Tony Dow, the producer, director and actor most famous for his role as one of the stars on "Leave It To Beaver" has died after a battle with liver cancer.
A statement from Tony's team reveals he died Tuesday morning, "Tony was a beautiful soul - kind, compassionate, funny and humble. It was truly a joy to just be around him. His gentle voice and unpretentious manner was immediately comforting and you could not help but love him. The world has lost an amazing human being, but we are all richer for the memories that he has left us.
I didn't watch it much because one of the two TV stations had horrible picture quality.
KRSD TV
On Trump’s Last Full Day, Nation Records 400,000 Covid Deaths
Pres. Joe Failure.
😄😅🤣We're not coming into recession, in my view," Biden said Monday, saying that the unemployment rate "is still the lowest we’ve had in history to the 3.6 area."
February 2020 unemployment was 3.5 %
U.S. economists really do defer to the National Bureau of Economic Research business cycle dating committee to make rulings about when recessions start and end, and have for decades. This is not some new idea invented by the Biden team to deflect recession accusations.
The committee bases its decisions on a wide range of data, not a simplistic "two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction" frequently invoked by commentators like the fox News reporter
Oh oh, now the Truth .
Dr. Deborah Birx: I knew shots would not prevent COVID infection"
‘I think we overplayed the vaccines’ Dr. Brix
Attempting to cleanse herself.
Roger is a good Boi.
Waterboi
Guess what Rog!
It doesn't matter what Biden, the NBER, or anyone else says... now does it? What matters is what the American public believes and they believe the economy sucks and that we are in a recession.
But as even pointed out previously... there has only been once where we had two consecutive quarters of GDP growth that was not declared a recession and that was over 70 years ago.
So for the past 7 decades, every time we have had two quarters of consecutive negative GDP growth, we have been officially in a recession. That is your life time, my life time, and most everyone else's lifetime.
Right now we have negative GDP, incredibly historically high inflation that is eating up disposable income, a crashing housing market, and supply chain issues across the board.
I don't see how "low unemployment" has anything to do with the problems we are seeing or how "low unemployment" somehow makes the rest of the problems any better.
We have fully employed people here in Seattle who live in shelters because they cannot afford the $1500+ for 200-200 SF studio apartments. I don't think they find the economy good because they are working.
Scott.
Well said and way,way over the Heads of The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
The ❤ beat of middle and lower income people.
"121.72 USD −10.30 (7.80%)today"
Walmart believes we are in a Recession.
Inflation has crushed real income.
I doubt any honest economist would suggest that our economy is good "in spite" of the negative GDP growth. Even when our GDP was still growing slightly at the end of 2021, people still rated the economy low and believed we were heading into a recession or already in one.
You would have to really stretch the logical boundaries of an overall economy by suggesting that low unemployment trumps everything else that it negative about the economy (which frankly is everything else).
Oh yeah...
Almost forgot... people are coming back to the workforce or delaying retirement because their investments have tanked and they can no longer afford to retire.
So the markets are another indicator of a bad economy.
US want to be home owners .
Yet.
"About 60,000 home-purchase agreements were canceled in June 2022, or about 14.9 percent of all homes that went under contract throughout the month, according to a new report released Monday by Redfin."
Emails Shed Light on Trump Fake Electors Plan
July 26, 2022 at 1:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“Previously undisclosed emails provide an inside look at the increasingly desperate and often slapdash efforts by advisers to President Donald Trump to reverse his election defeat in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack, including acknowledgments that a key element of their plan was of dubious legality and lived up to its billing as ‘fake.'” the New York Times reports.
“The dozens of emails among people connected to the Trump campaign, outside advisers and close associates of Mr. Trump show a particular focus on assembling lists of people who would claim — with no basis — to be Electoral College electors on his behalf in battleground states that he had lost.”
Walmart loses $36 billion as shares tank 10 PERCENT one day after it issued 'train wreck' profits forecast amid cost of living crisis
Walmart shares fell by 10 percent on Tuesday morning, with shares still down more than 7.7 percent after a small rebound by the afternoon
Walmart is a bellwether for the retail sector that caters to cost-conscious shoppers
Company said on Monday its full-year profit would decline 11 to 13 percent, far greater than the one percent fall it previously forecast
Shares of rivals, including Target and Amazon, also tanked after the warning
It comes amid a cost of living crisis, with U.S. inflation at 9.1 percent, its highest since 1981, causing the prices of goods to soar
As of Tuesday, the average price of gasoline has slipped to $4.32 per gallon, down from $4.90 a month ago but still way up from $3.15 a year ago
They want to go back to the 50s
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/25/wokeism-is-collapsing-on-itself/
For the first time Attorney General Merrick Garland is saying in public
Attorney General Merrick Garland left open the possibility that former President Donald Trump could be prosecuted in connection with inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in an exclusive interview Tuesday with NBC News.
"Look, we pursue justice without fear or favor," Garland told NBC News' Lester Holt, when asked whether indicting a former president would "arguably tear the country apart."
"We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding Jan. 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable," Garland continued. "That’s what we do."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/merrick-garland-not-rule-prosecuting-trump-jan-6-rcna40092
Scott is pissed off about this
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who assaulted police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6 because he believed the former president's lies about the 2020 presidential election was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Tuesday.
Mark Ponder, one of just four D.C. residents arrested for their actions on Jan. 6, was given 63 months in federal prison by Judge Tanya Chutkan. Ponder is now tied for the longest Jan. 6 sentence imposed to date with Robert Scott Palmer, who attacked law enforcement officers with a fire extinguisher.
Instead of spinning opinion.
Just the news.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is caught in an awkward, painful place. A confusing one, too.
Growth appears to be sputtering, home sales are tumbling and economists warn of a potential recession ahead. But consumers are still spending, businesses keep posting profits and the economy keeps adding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month.
In the midst of it all, prices have accelerated to four-decade highs, and the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to douse the inflationary flames with higher interest rates. That's making borrowing more expensive for households and businesses.
The Fed hopes to pull off the triple axel of central banking: Slow the economy just enough to curb inflation without causing a recession. Many economists doubt the Fed can manage that feat, a so-called soft landing.
Surging inflation is most often a side effect of a red-hot economy, not the current tepid pace of growth. Today's economic moment conjures dark memories of the 1970s, when scorching inflation co-existed, in a kind of toxic brew, with slow growth. It hatched an ugly new term: stagflation.
The United States isn’t there yet. Though growth appears to be faltering, the job market still looks quite strong. And consumers, whose spending accounts for nearly 70% of economic output, are still spending, though at a slower pace.
So the Fed and economic forecasters are stuck in uncharted territory. They have no experience analyzing the economic damage from a global pandemic. The results so far have been humbling. They failed to anticipate the economy's blazing recovery from the 2020 recession — or the raging inflation it unleashed.
Even after inflation accelerated in spring of last year, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and many other forecasters downplayed the price surge as merely a “transitory” consequence of supply bottlenecks that would fade soon.
It didn’t.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT
Simply can not debate facts on Bidenomics.
It requires thought and understanding of data.
So sad to see the elderly in mental decline.
Alky , missed Cali's Post on Walmart.
"businesses keep posting profits"
Google missed earnings
GM..missed earnings
Capital One missed earnings
There are many more in the S&P 500 that have missed earnings.
Thier guidance going forward is dark.
It requires thought and understanding of data.
So says the goat fucking moron who can't find his stinky white ass in the dark.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! BTW....you sure cherry picked your list of missed earnings....how come you ignored those that have????????? Too stupid LOLOLOLOL Use the google machine.......many companies beat their expected results.....you dumb fuck!!!!!
Madam Buttigeg 2024
Oh look. Which POS owns Dennis,,,, James or Roger?
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! As your trump infected brain looks more like syphilitic grey matter.......LOLOLOLOL
Alky , missed Cali's Post on Walmart.
"businesses keep posting profits"
More 'Misses'
"UBS misses expectations; CEO cites one of the 'most challenging' quarters for investors in a decade"
New home sales (SAAR) June. 590,000 down Sharply.
Down 52,000 units.
The reverberation is felt down the line less durable goods being purchased.
2020
Trump back in Washington, repeating election lies
By JILL COLVIN
31 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — In dueling speeches not far from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump repeated the false election claims that sparked the Jan. 6 insurrection while his former vice president, Mike Pence, implored the Republican Party to stop looking backward.
Potential foes for the 2024 GOP nomination, neither man was ready to announce a campaign, but their speeches underscored divisions in the party between Trump loyalists and Republicans who may still like Trump's ideas but are more than ready to move on.
The former president was clearly not ready to move on.
"It was a catastrophe that election. A disgrace to our country," Trump said, insisting despite all evidence that he had won in 2020. And he continued to tease his plans for the future, telling his cheering crowd, “We may just have to do it again.”
Federal and state election officials from both parties and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the 2020 election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges appointed by Trump.
Pence, in an opposite approach from Trump, said, “Some people may choose to focus on the past, but elections are about the future."
Roger...
You attack a police officer with a fire extinguisher... then you should go to jail if you are Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, or whomever.
Unfortunately you get away with it if you are attacking a police officer during riot that broke out supporting a liberal cause.
Liberals are the only people who support "their side" getting away with committing felonies...
That is not Conservatives.
We say if you are violent then you should pay the consequences.
But we will argue (as the majority of the country believes) that carrying a sign too close to the Capitol is not worthy of criminal prosecution.
Again... projection Mr locked down cut nanner eating disabled man.
The American Thinker reminded me of the 1950s rhetoric.
I am not a professional academic but for many years I have been a member of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), a politically conservative academic professional group that has always opposed the Marxist socialist, collectivist invasion of educational and other institutions of Western democracies.
On June 13, 2022, Peter Wood (PhD Anthropology, U of Rochester) President of NAS, released a position paper opposing leftist invasions of American education and culture that are broadly referred to as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) in a long and thorough (more than 4000 words) critique and call to arms and opposition: Regime Change: Repelling the DEI Assault on Higher Education .
The Greatest Lie in US 🇺🇸 History.
The knew, the media are thier foot soldiers.
. Deborah Birx: I knew shots would not prevent COVID infection."
‘I think we overplayed the vaccines’ Dr. Brix
Attempting to cleanse herself
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is in active discussions with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his testimony behind closed doors, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Pompeo is tentatively scheduled to speak with the committee in the coming days, sources said.
The recent outreach to Pompeo is an indication of the committee's continuing interest in gathering information and testimony from high-level Trump administration officials as it moves toward the release of a public report on its findings this fall.
A lawyer for Pompeo declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is in acti
Meanwhile gas is $4.50, families still can’t get baby formula, prices are skyrocketing, boats are stacked in California because of another stupid law while dementia Joe wanders around aimlessly
November is coming and it’s going to be a shellacking
No one that can go outside gives a shit about 01/06
Got door code?
Correction no one under 80 gives a shit
I’m kinda hoping Trump runs with DeSantis as his veep and promises to leave after 2 hrs so DeSantis can get re-elected twice
2 yrs FYAC
The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states, the people said. Some of the questions focused directly on the extent of Trump’s involvement in the fake-elector effort led by his outside lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, these people said.
41 days Alky tic tok
Wheeee and I pay for this
Unfuckingbelievable. Tin ear
EXCLUSIVE: Republican leader Kevin McCarthy tears into Biden for making it 'EASIER' for migrants to get to the U.S. with I.D. cards during the 'worst border crisis in history' that has seen almost one million cross undetected in a year
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told DailyMail.com that President Joe Biden is make it 'easier' for illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Specifically pointed to the new initiative that would provide migrants with temporary I.D. cards so they can more easily access services and benefits
The program is meant to be mutually beneficial to migrants and the government
Incentivizes migrant check-ins and more communication with law enforcement
Democrats are looking to get congressional approval for the program before the end of September to avoid a roadblock should Republicans win a majority
The Biden administration plans to launch an initiative giving temporary I.D. cards to migrants awaiting decisions on their immigration proceedings so they can more easily access services and government benefits.
Illegal immigrants and asylum-seeking migrants awaiting final decisions on their cases often have difficulty getting housing, healthcare and transportation without identification cards.
In order to relieve some of these obstacles, and serve as a mutual benefit to the government, officials are now considering a pilot program that would provide I.D. cards while incentivizing checks ins and more frequent communication with law enforcement throughout immigration proceedings, two sources familiar with planning told Axios.
The cards would feature a photo and biographic identifiers. It would also include 'cutting-edge security features,' an ICE spokesperson said.
Since the start of Fiscal Year 2021 in October, approximately 900,000 migrants have avoided detection when crossing illegally into the U.S., sources at the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.
Half-a-million of those so-called 'getaways' happened since October 1, 2022 – and there are still three months left in the fiscal year.
Meanwhile, nearly 1.75 million migrants have had run-ins with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the southern border so far in Fiscal Year 2022 – the most of any previous year at this point.
EXCLUSIVE
Justice Dept. investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe
People familiar with the probe said investigators are examining the former president’s conversations and have seized phone records of top aides
The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
In addition, Justice Department investigators in April received phone records of key officials and aides in the Trump administration, including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, according to two people familiar with the matter. That effort is another indicator of how expansive the Jan. 6 probe had become, well before the high-profile, televised House hearings in June and July on the subject.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol built their case over a series of eight public hearings.
The Washington Post and other news organizations have previously written that the Justice Department is examining the conduct of Eastman, Giuliani and others in Trump’s orbit. But the degree of prosecutors’ interest in Trump’s actions has not been previously reported, nor has the review of senior Trump aides’ phone records.
A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Justice Department spokesman and a lawyer for Meadows both declined to comment.
The revelations raise the stakes of an already politically fraught probe involving a former president, still central to his party’s fortunes, who has survived previous investigations and two impeachments. Long before the Jan. 6 investigation, Trump spent years railing against the Justice Department and the FBI; the investigation moving closer to him will probably intensify that antagonism.
Federal criminal investigations are by design opaque, and probes involving political figures are among the most closely held secrets at the Justice Department. Many end without criminal charges. The lack of observable investigative activity involving Trump and his White House for more than a year after the Jan. 6 attack has fueled criticism, particularly from the left, that the Justice Department is not pursuing the case aggressively enough.
In trying to understand how and why Trump partisans and lawyers sought to change the outcome of the election, one person familiar with the probe said, investigators also want to understand, at a minimum, what Trump told his lawyers and senior officials to do. Any investigation surrounding the effort to undo the results of the election must navigate complex issues of First Amendment-protected political activity and when or whether a person’s speech could become part of an alleged conspiracy in support of a coup.
Many elements of the sprawling Jan. 6 criminal investigation have remained under wraps. But in recent weeks the public pace of the work has increased, with a fresh round of subpoenas, search warrants and interviews. Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, and lawyer, Greg Jacob, appeared before the grand jury in downtown Washington in recent days, according to the people familiar with the investigation. Both men declined to comment.
What color was your jello tonight?
Enjoy insanity and be sure the 5th gets a “good Rogering”
Cold keep the blog thru 60 days to see if his gutless ass will actually leave
The U.S. Justice Department’s investigating Donald Trump's actions in its criminal probe of the former president's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing sources. Fake electors scheme
The Justice Department plans to prosecute anyone who was “criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday, speaking more expansively than he has previously about a federal criminal investigation that appears to have moved far beyond the rioters who attacked the Capitol.
Alky broke the thread
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/merrick-garland-not-rule-prosecuting-trump-jan-6-rcna40092
You don't understand how big this is.
The Attorney General Merrick Garland is publicly for the first time
The Attorney General Merrick Garland is publicly for the first time
O’Tay
Where’s pedo claiming Cold has some nefarious plot to make all our posts bold?
Feds Looking at Trump’s Actions in January 6 Probe
July 26, 2022 at 8:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results,“
the Washington Post reports.
“Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won.
“The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021;
his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election;
and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states.”
WOWZA!
lol I DIDN'T NOTICE. I PURPOSEFULLY MADE MY LAST POST BOLD.
lol I DIDN'T NOTICE. I
Just like everyone else here reacts to your spam
I guess I’m supposed to be honored, the pedo deemed me worthy of a response
LMAO
Joe Failure is this out of touch with Americans.
TWITTER
For American families looking for a little more breathing room, these savings matter," Biden’s presidential account tweeted.
The tweet also included a graphic informing followers that "At current prices, the average driver will spend $35 less per month for one peson [sic]" or "$70 less per month for a family with two cars than they would if gas prices stayed at their peak."
The Justice Department is Asking Witnesses About Trump in Its Jan. 6 Investigation
Federal prosecutors sought information about the former president’s role in the efforts to overturn the election AS THE INQUIRY ACCELERATES.
EVEN AS the Jan. 6 committee has helped establish former President Donald J. Trump’s role in parts of the push to overturn his election loss, the Justice Department has been largely silent about whether it would weigh potential charges against him.
EVEN AS the Jan. 6 committee has helped establish former President Donald J. Trump’s role in parts of the push to overturn his election loss, the Justice Department has been largely silent about whether it would weigh potential charges against him.
BUT
Federal prosecutors have directly asked witnesses in recent days about former President Donald J. Trump’s involvement in efforts to reverse his election loss, a person familiar with the testimony said on Tuesday, suggesting that the Justice Department’s criminal investigation has moved into a more aggressive and politically fraught phase.
Mr. Trump’s personal role in elements of the push to overturn his loss in 2020 to Joseph R. Biden Jr. has long been established, both through his public actions and statements and evidence gathered by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
But the Justice Department has been largely silent about how and even whether it would weigh pursuing potential charges against Mr. Trump, and reluctant even to concede that his role was discussed in senior leadership meetings at the department.
Asking questions about Mr. Trump in connection with the electors plot or the attack on the Capitol does not mean the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into him, a decision that would have immense political and legal ramifications.
The department’s investigation into a central element of the push to keep Mr. Trump in office — the plan to name slates of electors pledged to Mr. Trump in battleground states won by Mr. Biden — now appears to be accelerating as prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington ask witnesses about Mr. Trump and members of his inner circle, including the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, the person familiar with the testimony said.
MAKING A CASE AGAINST TRUMP.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is laying out evidence that could allow prosecutors to indict former President Donald J. Trump, though the path to a criminal trial is uncertain. Here are the main themes that have emerged so far:
AN UNSETTLING NARRATIVE.
During the first hearing, the committee described in vivid detail what it characterized as an attempted coup orchestrated by the former president that culminated in the assault on the Capitol. At the heart of the gripping story were three main players: Mr. Trump, the Proud Boys and a Capitol Police officer.
CREATING ELECTION LIES.
In its second hearing, the panel showed how Mr. Trump ignored aides and advisers as he declared victory prematurely and relentlessly pressed claims of fraud he was told were wrong. “He’s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff,” William P. Barr, the former attorney general, said of Mr. Trump during a videotaped interview.
PRESSURING PENCE.
Mr. Trump continued pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to go along with a plan to overturn his loss even after he was told it was illegal, according to testimony laid out by the panel during the third hearing. The committee showed how Mr. Trump’s actions led his supporters to storm the Capitol, sending Mr. Pence fleeing for his life.
FAKE ELECTION PLAN.
The committee used its fourth hearing to detail how Mr. Trump was personally involved in a scheme to put forward fake electors. The panel also presented fresh details on how the former president leaned on state officials to invalidate his defeat, opening them up to violent threats when they refused.
STRONG ARMING THE JUSTICE DEPT.
During the fifth hearing, the panel explored Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging and relentless scheme to misuse the Justice Department to keep himself in power. The panel also presented evidence that at least half a dozen Republican members of Congress sought pre-emptive pardons.
THE SURPRISE HEARING.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, delivered explosive testimony during the panel’s sixth session, saying that the president knew the crowd on Jan. 6 was armed, but wanted to loosen security. She also painted Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, as disengaged and unwilling to act as rioters approached the Capitol.
PLANNING A MARCH.
Mr. Trump planned to lead a march to the Capitol on Jan. 6 but wanted it to look spontaneous, the committee revealed during its seventh hearing. Representative Liz Cheney also said that Mr. Trump had reached out to a witness in the panel’s investigation, and that the committee had informed the Justice Department of the approach.
A “COMPLETE DERELICTION” OF DUTY.
In the final public hearing of the summer, the panel accused the former president of dereliction of duty for failing to act to stop the Capitol assault. The committee documented how, over 187 minutes, Mr. Trump had ignored pleas to call off the mob and then refused to say the election was over even a day after the attack.
In April, before the committee convened its series of public hearings, Justice Department investigators received phone records of key officials and aides in the Trump White House, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
Two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence testified to the federal grand jury in the case last week, and prosecutors have issued subpoenas and search warrants to a growing number of figures tied to Mr. Trump and the campaign to forestall his loss.
A spokesman for Attorney General Merrick B. Garland declined to comment, saying the Justice Department did not provide details of grand jury proceedings. The department’s questioning of witnesses about Mr. Trump and its receipt of the phone records were reported earlier by The Washington Post.
IF A DECISION WERE MADE to open a criminal investigation into Mr. Trump after he announced his intention to run in the 2024 election, as he continues to hint he might do, the department’s leadership would be required to undertake a formal consultation process, then sign a formal approval of the department’s intentions under an internal rule created by former Attorney General William P. Barr and endorsed by Mr. Garland.
BUT IN RECENT DAYS, MR. GARLAND has repeatedly asserted his right to investigate or prosecute anybody, including Mr. Trump, provided that is where the evidence leads.
“The Justice Department has from the beginning been moving urgently to learn everything we can about this period, and to bring to justice everybody who was criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which is the fundamental element of our democracy,” Mr. Garland told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Tuesday, when asked to comment on criticism that his investigation was moving too slowly.
The questions about Mr. Trump focused on, among other topics, the plan he was pushing to derail congressional certification of Mr. Biden’s Electoral College victory on Jan. 6, 2021, the person familiar with the testimony said.
The two Pence aides who testified to the grand jury — Marc Short, who was his chief of staff, and Greg Jacob, who was his counsel — were present at an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 4, 2021, when Mr. Trump sought to pressure Mr. Pence into embracing the plan to cite the competing slates of electors as justification to block or delay the Electoral College certification.
IM RECENT WEEKS, the Justice Department also seized phones from two key figures, John Eastman, the lawyer who helped develop and promote the plan to upend the Electoral College certification, and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who was at the center of the related push to send the slates of electors pledged to Mr. Trump from states Mr. Biden won.
Prosecutors have also issued grand jury subpoenas to figures connected to the so-called fake electors scheme. Those who have received the subpoenas have largely been state lawmakers or Republican officials, many of whom put their names on documents attesting to the fact that they were electors for Mr. Trump from states that were won by Mr. Biden.
The subpoenas, some of which have been obtained by The New York Times, show that prosecutors are interested in collecting information on a group of pro-Trump lawyers who helped to devise and carry out the plan, including Mr. Eastman and Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer.
There are also indications that the tense standoff between the Justice Department and congressional investigators over the transcripts of interviews conducted for the Jan. 6 committee hearings IS EASING. THE HOUSE IS SET TO BEGIN HANDING OVER SOME OF THE TRANSCRIPTS AND INTEND TO INCREASE THE PACE IN THE COMING WEEKS, according to people familiar with the situation.
Members of the committee, led by Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, have said they are still considering making a criminal referral to the Justice Department in hopes of increasing the pressure on Mr. Garland to prosecute Mr. Trump.
Mr. Garland shrugged off that suggestion.
“I think that’s totally up to the committee,” he said in his NBC interview. “We will have the evidence that the committee has presented, and whatever evidence it gives us, I don’t think that the nature of how they style, the manner in which information is provided, is a particular significance from any legal point of view.”
Cowardly Cal should be especially delighted.
I answered him with an entire excellent NYT article that I now dedicate entirely to his non reading pleasre.
You're WELCOME!
This is a historic event.
Justice Dept. investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe.
The first centers on seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding, the type of charges already filed against individuals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and on two leaders of far-right groups, Stewart Rhodes and Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, who did not breach the Capitol but were allegedly involved in planning the day’s events.
The second involves potential fraud associated with the false-electors scheme or with pressure Trump and his allies allegedly put on the Justice Department and others to falsely claim that the election was rigged and votes were fraudulently cast.
He will get charged.
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
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If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
A cut and paste no one read, pedo
Good for you
LOL
This is a bombshell.
The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states, the people said. Some of the questions focused directly on the extent of Trump’s involvement in the fake-elector effort led by his outside lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, these people said.
https://wapo.st/3z8YphW
Anybody with any brains at all will give due consideration to a major article publiched by the WSJ, the NYT, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, etc., etc.
So lol right back atcha.
The long article above is from the NYT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJkZZZsiao
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in regards to the criminal investigation into Donald Trump, even if it triggers protest.
“We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding Jan. 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. That’s what we do. We don’t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that.”
Axios reveals more information.
Department of Justice investigators are asking witnesses questions about former President Trump's conduct and examining his conversations with aides concerning the 2020 election as part of their criminal investigation, the Washington Post first reported.
Why it matters: This would mark a major escalation in the DOJ's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The reports came hours after Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to rule out prosecuting Trump.
Federal investigators would "pursue justice without fear or favor" over events surrounding the U.S. Capitol riot or attempts "to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another," Garland told NBC News on Tuesday.
For the record: There's no evidence that Trump is himself is an investigation target, but "prosecutors are asking questions related to him and his aides," per CBS News, which also reported on the Justice Department investigation.
Driving the news: Prosecutors have questioned witnesses testifying before a grand jury in recent days about conversations with Trump and his close advisers about "fake electors," per WashPost.
"People familiar with the probe said investigators are examining the former president’s conversations and have seized phone records of top aides," WashPost reports.Two witnesses who were senior aides to former Vice President Mike Pence in the Trump administration, Marc Short and lawyer Greg Jacob, were among those questioned, several outlets reported.The focus of the questions on Trump concerned matters including a plan to thwart the congressional certification of President Biden's Electoral College win on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the New York Times.
Trump's lawyer John Eastman may be the key witnesses into this investigation. He could be granted immunity to testify on the actions by the former President.
No former president has ever been criminally charged in US history. But Garland this week suggested he hasn't ruled out indicting Trump for his role in the attack.
"We pursue justice without fear or favor. We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable, that's what we do," the attorney general said. "We don't pay any attention to other issues with respect to that."
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
https://www.businessinsider.com/wapo-doj-jan-6-criminal-probe-zeroes-in-on-trump-2022-7?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar
Roger goes to bed with Trump and wakes up with President Trump.
So very sad.
The goat fucker again wakes up in his trump induced coma of stupidity as the DOJ seems to be on the right track to eliminate trump from fucking up the country any more.......maybe his fat ass will spend some quality time in Leavenworth!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
So Roger owns Denny.
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“I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization,” Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19
Durable goods orders
Report out soon.
Should so a decline .
How you starve the beast....OAN death blow as major carriers drop this POS network.......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/business/oan-troubles.html
Good morning.
The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, said he would “pursue justice without fear or favor” in his decision on whether to charge Donald Trump with crimes related to the Capitol attack and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, as news reports indicate the justice department’s investigation is heating up!
"Just more disinformation by the Democrats, like the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, the long running Mueller Report, which ended in No Collusion, and so much more,”
“Now that we have found the answers to these crooked, election changing events, why is the Justice Department not prosecuting those responsible? Plenty of time left!”
Ex-Defense Secretary Says Trump NEVER Ordered Troops
July 27, 2022 at 7:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
Former Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller testified to the January 6 Committee that he never received an order to deploy National Guard troops on January 6, 2021, Insider reports.
Said Miller:
“I was never given any director or order or knew of any plans of that nature.”
He added:
“We obviously had plans for activating more folks, but that was not anything more than contingency planning. There was no official message traffic or anything of that nature.”
Trump previously said he had “suggested & offered up to 20,000 National Guard” be deployed to be Capitol, “because it was felt that the crowd was going to be very large.”
Amanda Carpenter: Trump’s January 6 National Guard lie crumbles.
CAN THE ORANGE MAN EVER EVEN OPEN HIS MOUTH WITHOUT LYING?
Democrats Unify Around Simple Midterm Message, namely, "REPUBLICANS ARE EXTREMISTS!"
July 27, 2022 at 8:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“Seized by genuine panic about the prospect of Republicans winning control of Congress and governors’ mansions across the country, multiple Democratic leaders and candidates in some of the tightest races are calling on party leaders – including President Joe Biden – to focus on calling out Republicans as ‘extremists,’” CNN reports.
“They don’t think Biden’s poll numbers are going to go up much or inflation is going to go down much.
But in the continuing wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade
and with hundreds of election deniers on the ballot across the country,
many Democratic leaders are looking to reframe the stakes of the midterms around a GOP they say has become
a threat to America
arguing that Republican control in states and in Congress would lead to a federal abortion ban,
major rights restrictions,
and attacks on democracy
which could endanger the 2024 presidential election.”
GOP Links to EXTREMISM Surface in Primary
July 27, 2022 at 6:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
“A congressional candidate whose compelling personal story of military valor and unfathomable loss helped him win former President Donald Trump’s support has connections to right-wing EXTREMISTS, including a campaign consultant who was a member of the Proud Boys,” the AP reports.
“Republican Joe Kent, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state in the Aug. 2 primary, has also courted prominent WHITE NATIONALISTS and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described ADOLF HITLER as a ‘complicated historical figure’ who ‘many people misunderstand.’”
The same could be said of poor ole extremist Donald Trump.
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GOP Senators Mum on EXTREMIST Same-Sex Marriage Bill
July 27, 2022 at 7:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
Washington Post:
“The complicated part is the politics: Despite the fact that 7 in 10 Americans now approve of same-sex marriage, the issue remains a fraught one for Republicans.
“They still count the EXTREMIST religious right as a key part of their electoral coalition, and they remain wary of being baited by Democrats into highlighting what some of them believe is a purely speculative threat to same-sex marriage rights nationally when Republicans would much rather be talking about rising inflation and a softening economy.”
Republicans Fear Their EXTREMIST Candidates May Blow It
July 27, 2022 at 6:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
Politico: “The Warnock-Walker matchup in Georgia isn’t the only midterm race where the Senate GOP is starting to worry about blowing it in a tough environment for Democrats.
From Pennsylvania to Ohio to Georgia to Arizona, Republicans are being outraised and not yet running away with must-win races that they need to flip the Senate in November.”
AMERICANS DON'T LIKE EXTREMIST VIEWS ON THINGS.
Crank up those windmills
Putin’s new gas squeeze condemns Europe to recession and a hard winter of rationing
Europe’s descent into an economic contraction looks to have been confirmed with Russia squeezing natural gas supplies to the region and heavy industry facing tough rationing in the coming months.
Just days after Europeans breathed a sigh of relief as Russian gas giant Gazprom announced it would resume supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, it then announced Monday that flows would be reduced yet again.
The announcement, with Gazprom saying it would be for maintenance of a turbine along the pipeline, was greeted with incredulity and condemnation in Europe.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the move — which will see flows to Germany fall to 20% of its capacity from an already low level of 40% — was tantamount to a “gas war” with Europe. Germany’s economy minister, Robert Habeck, said the excuse that maintenance was the reason for the supply cut was a “farce.”
It puts Europe in a tricky situation as it contends with rampant inflation, the war in Ukraine and an already troubled supply chain following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Germany, the region’s largest economy and traditional growth driver, has a particular reason to worry. It’s largely reliant on Russian gas and is sliding toward a recession. The government is particularly concerned about how it will keep the lights on over the winter: Habeck said Monday evening that “we have a serious situation. It is time for everyone to understand that,” during an interview with broadcaster ARD.
More gas price relief could be on the way for cash-strapped Americans as the government continues to tap into oil from its stockpile.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced it would release even more crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) — and work to replenish that SPR's supply. The White House would do so by establishing a federal guarantee to buy oil from some drillers at preset prices to help restock the SPR.
It seems to be an effort to encourage more domestic drilling during a stretch of a high gas prices. The Energy Department will soon put forward a rule helping them do that.
Per the release from the White House, over 125 million barrels of crude oil have already been sold since the government first began its "unprecedented" releases in March, and the reserve is set to release about 180 million barrels by the fall.
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More gas price relief could be on the way for cash-strapped Americans as the government continues to tap into oil from its stockpile.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced it would release even more crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) — and work to replenish that SPR's supply. The White House would do so by establishing a federal guarantee to buy oil from some drillers at preset prices to help restock the SPR.
It seems to be an effort to encourage more domestic drilling during a stretch of a high gas prices. The Energy Department will soon put forward a rule helping them do that.
Per the release from the White House, over 125 million barrels of crude oil have already been sold since the government first began its "unprecedented" releases in March, and the reserve is set to release about 180 million barrels by the fall.
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A report from the Department of Treasury estimates that releasing crude oil from the reserves has brought the prices of gasoline down by about 17 to 42 cents a gallon from where it would be without the federal action.
Gas prices began spiking in late February and early March, as the war in Ukraine prompted Biden to ban oil and gas imports from Russia. He said soaring gas prices were "Putin's price hike."
Without Russian imports, the US was under more pressure to produce more oil, and fast — but the end of the fracking boom meant that wasn't happening, leading to prices going up even more.
In the months that followed, the White House sparred with the oil industry, pressing executives at companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Marathon to ramp up production, while also highlighting outsized profits for the oil and gas industry following the price increases.
The US energy industry meanwhile asked for more support for domestic oil producers, and some in the industry expressed skepticism over ramping up production when Democrats are pushing for a transition away from oil and gas towards renewable energy.
The plan to restock the strategic reserve at set prices is intended to sway producers to ramp up drilling, incentivizing investments that might produce oil in the medium term, and locking in guaranteed demand.
In the meantime, Americans' wallets are getting squeezed by soaring gas prices. In June, inflation reached a 41-year-high; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Consumer Price Index, skyrocketing gas prices fueled nearly half of the increase in inflation.
Yet gas prices have been declining for over a month, the product of a drop in demand. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the price of a gallon hit $4.33 for the week ending July 25. The current average gas price calculated by AAA is $4.327 a gallon, down from $4.90 a month ago.
"Gas prices have declined by an average of 69 cents per gallon over the past 42 days. That's six straight weeks of declines – and the fastest decline in over a decade!" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter.
FRANK WORDS FROM JONATHAN CHAIT ABOUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICAN JOURNALISM AND EXTREMIST CONSERVATIVE MEDIA BIAS:
The BUBBLE EFFECT in the CONSERVATIVE MEDIA
July 27, 2022 at 9:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
Jonathan Chait:
“Whether the news media treats the Republican Party more or less harshly than the Democratic Party is a question that can’t be measured, and which most people settle by resorting to anecdotes.
Partisans cling to examples of the media treating their side unfairly, with especially noxious examples hauled out of storage to be gazed at repeatedly, like cherished family heirlooms.
“For the purposes of my argument here, I’d like to bracket it. The only point I need to make is that the mainstream media does routinely report critically on the Democratic Party. If you are watching CNN or reading the New York Times, you have encountered a steady stream of articles questioning whether Joe Biden is too old for the job, noting high inflation, pummeling the Afghanistan withdrawal, and so on. Whether you believe this level of criticism is excessive or insufficient is a matter of perspective, but the clear fact is that IT EXISTS.
“NOTHING LIKE THIS EXISTS WITHIN THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA. The communications apparatus of the conservative movement was established with the goal of ADVANCING HE RIGHT'S POLITICAL INTGERESTS. Its organs often borrow superficial conventions, like bylines and the inverted-pyramid structure, to create the simulacrum of a traditional news medium.
But the people working in these institutions understand they are working for the conservative movement, not on behalf of the public’s right to know. Their approach to malfeasance by their side is to ignore, distort, or change the subject to some agreed-upon sin by the enemy (a practice called ‘whataboutism’).”
CH PRACTICES AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF THIS "WHAT ABOUT ISM."
READ THE ENTIRE REASONABLY EXPRESSED ARTICLE LINKED at politicalwire.com.
But the Justice Department is investigating criminal actions by the former President and his advisors.
Federal prosecutors have directly asked witnesses in recent days about former President Donald J. Trump’s involvement in efforts to reverse his election loss, a person familiar with the testimony said on Tuesday, suggesting that the Justice Department’s criminal investigation has moved into a more aggressive and politically fraught phase.
Mr. Trump’s personal role in elements of the push to overturn his loss in 2020 to Joseph R. Biden Jr. has long been established, both through his public actions and statements and evidence gathered by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
But the Justice Department has been largely silent about how and even whether it would weigh pursuing potential charges against Mr. Trump, and reluctant even to concede that his role was discussed in senior leadership meetings at the department.
U.S. Justice Department probing
Trump's efforts to overturn election
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Donald Trump's actions in its criminal probe of the former president's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
The Justice Department has been interviewing former White House officials, including the former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, who confirmed on Monday that he had testified to a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his defeat.
Prosecutors questioning witnesses before the grand jury have asked about conversations with Trump and his lawyers and others close to him, the Post reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
The testimony of Pence's former Pence chief of staff, Marc Short, the most high-profile official known to have appeared before the grand jury, is a sign the Justice Department's investigation of the attack on the Capitol and the fake elector plot is heating up.
Justice Department investigators in April also received phone records of important officials such as Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows, the Washington Post said.
The Justice Department could not be immediately reached for comment.
A spokeswoman for Trump did not reply to a request for comment from Reuters. Trump has denied wrongdoing.
In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco confirmed the Justice Department had received referrals about slates of alternative fake electors that were sent to the National Archives, and said prosecutors were reviewing them.
The fake elector plot has featured prominently in multiple hearings of the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the attack on the Capitol.
TRUMP DID NOTHBING WRONG, SO THERE'S NOTHING FOR THE DOJ TO INVESTIGATE, ACCORDING TO CH AKA SCOTT.
The 🔥 Flaming Dumpster Fire of Bidenomics.
Pending home sales index June -8.6
Down 9 % in two months.
The 🔥 Flaming Dumpster Fire of Bidenomics.
Where is that 8 Trillion dollar in New debt build back better stuff?
Gaslighting
"Gas prices have declined by an average of 69 cents per gallon over the past 42 days. That's six straight weeks of declines – and the fastest decline in over a decade!" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter."
So which is it alky, Biden raised price or he has the power to lower them,?
Biden tests negative for Covid
Trump tests positive for Justice Department investigation
DOJ secures Cassidy Hutchinson's cooperation in January 6 probe: report
Matthew Chapman
July 27, 2022
On Wednesday, ABC News reported that former Donald Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is cooperating with Justice Department investigators as part of their probe into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the former president's effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"The Justice Department reached out to her following her testimony a month ago before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the sources said," reported Katherine Faulders, Mike Levine, and John Santucci. "The extent of her cooperation was not immediately clear."
"Hutchinson becomes the latest known figure with knowledge of the actions of top Trump administration officials on Jan. 6 to cooperate with the Justice Department's inquiry
Cassidy Hutchinson Talking with Justice Department
“Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top adviser to then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, has recently cooperated with the Department of Justice investigation into the events of Jan. 6,” ABC News reports.
“The Justice Department reached out to her following her testimony a month ago before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.”
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Yes, the Justice Department is really turning its focus to Trump
Gas prices have declined by an average of 69 cents per gallon over the past 42 days. That's six straight weeks of declines – and the fastest decline in over a decade!" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter."
The perfect response
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect illustration of ‘the government breaks your leg and then hands you a (taxpayer funded) crutch and says ‘See? If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’
Donald Trump is at the center of a lengthy Justice Deparment investigation
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top adviser to then-President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, has recently cooperated with the Department of Justice investigation into the events of Jan. 6, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department reached out to her following her testimony a month ago before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the sources said.
The extent of her cooperation was not immediately clear.
Hutchinson becomes the latest known figure with knowledge of the actions of top Trump administration officials on Jan. 6 to cooperate with the Justice Department's inquiry.
A lawyer for Hutchinson did not respond to ABC News' request for comment. Officials with the DOJ also declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee.
Hutchinson publicly testified before the Jan. 6 committee earlier this month, spending some two hours recounting details about what she said went on behind the scenes at the White House leading up to, during, and after the Jan. 6 attack.
Her account included descriptions of events she both witnessed directly and other events she said were described to her.
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