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Trump’s Big News? Blatant Lies About Pence’s Authority to Reject Electoral Votes on January 6th

Posted by on August 16, 2023 at 1:03 pm. 4 Comments :

For nearly three years Donald Trump has been claiming that the 2020 presidential election, where he lost decisively to Joe Biden, was “rigged and stolen” from him. And for nearly three years he has failed to produce a shred of evidence to support his claims, despite dozens of opportunities to do so in court, on television, and at his cult rallies.

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Now, with four criminal indictments pending, Trump continues to whine that he’s the victim of a vast conspiracy orchestrated by Democrats, even though almost all of the evidence and testimony against him has come from Republicans, and largely from his own administration and campaign staff. On Tuesday Trump promised that next Monday he will hold a press conference where he will expose the whole nefarious scheme and unveil a “CONCLUSIVE Report” that will result in all charges being dropped and “complete EXONERATION!”

SEE THIS: YEAH, RIGHT! Trump Promises an ‘Irrefutable,’ ‘Completely Exonerating’ Report on Election Fraud

If anyone believes Trump about any of that, they are terminally naïve. It’s just a pitiful display of dishonesty, weakness, and paranoia, that his glassy-eyed disciples somehow view as veracity and strength. And on Wednesday he posted what may be a preview of his “irrefutable” report on his failing social media sham, Truth Social. He quoted from a Newsmax report about something Mike Pence said in his autobiography last year…

“Big News! Mike Pence said, ‘ I met with the Parliamentarian of the Senate, Elizabeth MacDonough, to discuss the procedures for the upcoming joint session on January 6. She told me that Congress always receives miscellaneous slates of electors every four years.’ Greg Kelly, ‘That’s huge! A game changer in terms of information. It really turns upside down everything the Democrats said about January 6th, and this latest Federal Indictment.’ DROP THE FAKE CASE!”

So Trump is babbling about allegedly “Big News” that he is presenting as affirmation of his preposterous position that Pence could have single-handedly thrown the election to Trump. He’s implying that Pence’s account of what the Parliamentarian told him means that “alternate” electors are common and countable. They are not. And Trump is not only wrong, he is purposefully misquoting Pence in order to deceive his flock of willfully blind devotees.

In his autobiography, “So Help Me God” (published November, 2022), Pence relates how he had told Trump many times that “I did not believe that I possessed the power under the Constitution to decide which votes to accept or reject.” To which Trump complained that “You’re too honest,” and threatened that “hundreds of thousands are gonna hate your guts,” and that “people are gonna think you’re stupid.” Then, after Trump warned him not “wimp-out,” Pence wrote what Trump quoted above, but Trump left out some significant parts (in bold below)…

“Later on Sunday, I met with the Parliamentarian of the Senate, Elizabeth MacDonough, to discuss the procedures for the upcoming joint session on January 6 […] I mentioned that I had heard that some alternate electors had been sent from several of the disputed states, and she told me that Congress always receives miscellaneous slates of electors every four years but that there was no alternate slate bearing what was known as a certificate of election from any competing state authority from any of the disputed states.“

So, in context, the Parliamentarian is only acknowledging the occasional presence of alternate electors, who may be legitimate replacements in the event that an original elector is unable to fulfill their duties. However, they would come with “a certificate of election” from a “state authority,” and that there were none of those in 2020. She never said that unauthorized, fake electors could replace the real ones chosen by voters.

Consequently, this is neither “huge,” nor a “game changer.” It’s old news that has no bearing whatsoever on Trump’s current legal predicament. And Trump is severely demented if thinks that it “turns upside down everything the Democrats said about January 6th.” It certainly isn’t cause to drop any of the charges against him. To the contrary, Pence’s account provides more proof that Trump knew that he had lost the election and that his efforts to alter the outcome were deliberately dishonest and illegal.

Pence’s decision to comply with the Constitution and certify the Electoral College vote count was not so much heroic as it is expected of every public servant. Still, many of his GOP confederates will chastise him for daring to defy Trump and declining to go along with his anti-democratic, authoritarian aspirations. But that’s where the Republican Party is today. And it’s why no patriotic American should vote Republican tomorrow, or any day thereafter.

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YEAH, RIGHT! Trump Promises an ‘Irrefutable,’ ‘Completely Exonerating’ Report on Election Fraud

Posted by on August 15, 2023 at 1:30 pm. 5 Comments :

The dimensions of Donald Trump’s delusions have become far too vast to measure by any modern standards. He has never been particularly stable psychologically, but as his legal peril has escalated in recent weeks, his mental state has suffered a total collapse. The evidence of his decline can be seen in each new outburst on his failing social media sham, Truth Social.

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On Monday Trump was served his fourth criminal indictment that raised his total of felony counts to 91. That’s a presidential record that will likely survive for decades in a competition where second place is a 45-way tie with zero indictments. Even before the announcement of the new charges, Trump displayed his disturbingly decaying mood in a series of comments that are textbook projection of his madness onto his perceived persecutors…

SEE THIS: UPDATE on Donald Trump’s Deteriorating Mental State

Following the fourth indictment announcement by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, who he has been viciously slandering, Trump managed to actually exceed the severity of those remarks with a posting that can’t be described as anything less than utterly deranged. He unleashed a harangue that would be laughable, were it not equally as frightening, considering that he still has millions of glassy-eyed disciples who worship him. He raged that…

“A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey. Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”

Fantastic! After nearly three years, Trump is finally promising to deliver the “CONCLUSIVE” evidence of fraud that he has been claiming to have, despite never presenting it in more than sixty court cases, or innumerable television appearances, or at any of his cult rallies. But in this upcoming press conference it’s all going to be laid out. And if you believe that, he also has a healthcare plan, an infrastructure bill, and a border wall paid for by Mexico, to sell you.

Trump appears to have forgotten that he previously promised to blow the lid off of the election fraudsters with a report compiled by a team of professional researchers that he hired to expose the Democratic “RIGGERS.” There’s just one problem with that report. It failed to show any voting irregularities that could have come remotely close to changing the outcome of the election.

Consequently, Trump buried it, hoping that it would never see the light of day. Unfortunately for Trump, insiders at the research firm talked to the Washington Post, who published a story on the report that Trump tried to kill.

“Former president Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral-fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election. […] None of the findings were presented to the public or in court.”

Nevertheless, Trump still insists that his new findings will change everything. And that after they are disclosed “all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION!” That’s something that Trump has promised for years. But for some reason, he hasn’t followed through until – we are now told – this coming Monday. Although it is not the first time that he has demanded that all charges against him be dropped…

SEE ALSO: Trump Demands Indictments Be Withdrawn After Fox News Falsely Reports on January 6th Committee

And so, as Trump also posted, “The Witch Hunt continues! 19 people Indicated (sic) tonight, including the former President of the United States, me, by an out of control and very corrupt District Attorney.” Never mind that his personal insults directed at prosecutors, judges, and potential witnesses, are as baseless as they are childish. But then, no one expects more than that from Trump given how far he is past his emotional expiration date.

UPDATE I: “Sources tell ABC News that Trump’s legal advisers have told him that holding such a press conference with dubious claims of voter fraud will only complicate his legal problems and some of his attorneys have advised him to cancel it.”

UPDATE II: SURPRISE: Trump has canceled his Monday press conference. In a post on Truth Social he wrote that…

“Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment by a publicity & campaign finance seeking D.A., who sadly presides over a record breaking Murder & Violent Crime area, Atlanta. Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!”

Trump obviously has no “irrefutable” evidence. If he did he would have disclosed it long ago. And there is nothing stopping him from releasing it now, other than the fact that it doesn’t exist. Now he’s using his lawyers to chicken out of his ill-advised press conference where he would likely have made comments that incriminated him further. His claim that he will put his evidence/lies in legal filings is preposterous. No credible judge would tolerate it. What’s more, anything he puts in those filings opens the door for prosecutors to investigate his alleged sources.

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Trump Lashes Out at Georgia Prosecutor After New Evidence of His Election Fraud is Revealed

Posted by on August 13, 2023 at 11:57 am. 4 Comments :

Nothing is a more reliable gauge of Donald Trump’s deteriorating mental state than his own rancid ravings on Truth Social, his floundering Twitter ripoff. Every posting is a marker of a new low for his paranoia, fear, malignant narcissism, and seething hatred of anything or anyone that is less than wholly worshipful.

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Last week Trump got a brutal smackdown by Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over his election fraud and coup attempt case in Washington, D.C. She warned him that any further “inflammatory statements” regarding the case, including those aimed at prosecutors and witnesses, would result in harsh consequences that “would force her to speed his trial on charges related to his bid to subvert the 2020 election.”

SEE THIS: OH MY: Judge Warns Trump that His ‘Inflammatory Statements’ Could Hasten His Legal Horror Story

Surprisingly, That admonition appears to have had some effect. Ever since the warning was given, Trump has totally refrained from the vile commentaries he had been disgorging. Don’t expect that to continue, however, as Trump’s notorious temper and infantile lack of self control is likely to reassert itself, resulting in more violations of the judge’s order.

In the meantime, things are heating up in Georgia, where Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, is said to be preparing his fourth criminal indictment. A new report has uncovered evidence that Trump and his anti-democratic accomplices exchanged emails and texts wherein they discussed a scheme to breach voting systems as part of their effort to overturn the election. According To CNN…

“Sources tell CNN that Atlanta prosecutors have text messages and emails that directly connect members of Trump’s legal team [and Trump] to the 2021 breach of a voting system.”

As a result of these new developments, Trump is now lambasting Willis in the most unsavory manner. He is spreading vicious lies about her personal life, alleging that she “is being accused of having an ‘affair’ with a Gang Member of a group that she is prosecuting.” Of course, those accusations are entirely without any factual basis, and are being made by disreputable MAGA cultists. And since Trump can’t smear Judge Chutkan and special counsel Jack Smith anymore, he is now bashing Willis and the Georgia prosecution, saying that…

“The only Election Interference that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, was done by those that Rigged and Stole the Election, not by me, who simply complained that the Election was Rigged and Stolen. We have Massive and Conclusive Proof.”

For the record, Trump did not “simply complain” about the election being “Rigged and Stolen.” He pressured the governor of Georgia and other election officials to illegally “find” 11,780 more votes to put him over the top in the state. He also threatened them with prosecution if they declined to comply with his demands.

SEE ALSO: LISTEN: Trump Threatens Georgia Officials For Not Helping Him Subvert the Election

What’s more, if Trump has “Massive and Conclusive Proof” of the election rigging he alleges, why has he kept it all to himself for nearly three years? And why didn’t he provide it in any of the sixty election fraud court cases that he lost? Why doesn’t he just release it now and clear his badly stained name, rather than whining impotently and throwing tantrums?

On Saturday, Trump was asked at an appearance in Iowa if he “defend[s] the actions by your allies in Georgia following the 2020 election?” This seems to be a reference to the CNN story about breaching voting systems in Georgia. Trump replied that…

“Many of the allies I don’t know because we have so many allies. So I don’t know exactly what you’re talking about.”

If you replace “allies” with “accomplices,” this answer would make more sense. Trump does have too many accomplices committing too many crimes to keep track of, poor guy. As his avenues to vindication seal up, his outbursts get ever more desperate and preposterous. And this is just the beginning as none of his trials have even commenced yet. Fasten you seat belts, America.

UPDATE: Trump resumed his attacks on Judge Chutkan, in violation of court orders to refrain from “inflammatory statements.”

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The Weak and Desperate Lies Told By Trump and Republicans About Hunter Biden’s Special Counsel

Posted by on August 12, 2023 at 12:32 pm. 3 Comments :

Last week Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he was appointing David Weiss to the post of special counsel investigating President Biden’s son, Hunter. Weiss was already working on the same matters in his role as U.S. Attorney. And while there are arguments pro and con as to whether this was necessary, there is no evidence that the decision was rooted in bias for or against Hunter Biden.

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The same cannot be said of the Republicans in Congress. From the moment that Republicans assumed their razor thin majority in the House of Representatives earlier this year, they made it their sole objective to manufacture crackpot conspiracies intended to malign Democrats in general, and the President in particular. They even said so explicitly…

SEE THIS: New GOP Subcommittee Chair Openly Admits His Only Purpose is to ‘Make Life Hell’ for Democrats

Seven months later, Republicans have kept their promise to ignore the issues that actually impact the lives of the American people, and instead have devoted themselves to scandal mongering. In all that time they have utterly failed to produce a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing by Biden or any of his Cabinet officials that Republicans are currently seeking to impeach.

Consequently, it is not surprising that the GOP is exhibiting a severe measure of hypocrisy with regard to the Hunter Biden special counsel. After insisting furiously for months that a special counsel be named, they are now complaining bitterly for having gotten what they asked for. And their reasoning – if you can call it that – for their outrage is patently absurd. Take, for instance, the GOP chairman of the House Oversight Committee,, James Comer, who raged on Newsmax that…

“We on the Oversight Committee, for all practical purposes, have been the special counsel for the past six months. We produced more evidence than anyone that’s supposedly investigating this criminal activity by the Biden family. And right as we get to the point that we traced it to Joe Biden, and we’re at a position that we can win in court, to fight their attorneys, and get their actual personal bank records, he comes out with this. This is another attempt to try to obstruct. They’re gonna try to use this in court when they say say ‘No, we can’t give the Oversight Committee our bank records because there’s an ongoing investigation by David Weiss.'”

First of all, if Comer’s Committee has “for all practical purposes been the special counsel,” it should be commended for having virtually exonerated the Bidens. Every hearing they held ended up proving that there was nothing to the allegations that the Republicans have been clamoring about. And if they “produced more evidence than anyone,” they doing a great job of keeping all of it secret.

Comer goes on to assert that the appointment of the special counsel is an “attempt to try to obstruct” his committee’s investigation, “right as we get to the point that we traced it to Joe Biden.” How convenient. To date, Comer has uncovered zero proof of anything untoward. But just as he’s about to blow the lid off the whole affair, Garland gums it up by appointing a special counsel who was already working on it. In other words, there was already an “ongoing investigation.” Comer is just looking for others to blame for his failures.

Not to be left out, Donald Trump weighed in on the matter with a comment on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. He whined that…

“David Weiss was picked by the two Democrat Senators from Delaware under ‘Blue Slip.’ He would not have been picked by me.”

For the record, Trump did pick Weiss. And he bragged about it at the time, saying that Weiss “shares the President’s vision for ‘Making America Safe Again.'” So his attempt to disown him now is just another of his notorious lies. And Republicans are taking their cues from Dear Leader Trump by lying themselves about the Weiss appointment. While they are now condemning him as being in league with the Democrats (Weiss is a lifelong Republican), on September 19, 2022, Senate Republicans sent Garland a letter specifically calling for Weiss to be named special counsel:

“We the undersigned write to request that United States Attorney David C. Weiss be extended special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the Hunter Biden investigation.”

One of Trump’s most frequent hissy fits is his daft and delusional declaration of “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” We must remember, however, that Hunter is not now, nor has he ever been, involved in government or politics. All of the GOP caterwauling about him is contrived solely to harm Biden’s reelection prospects. So if it is election interference to investigate Trump, wouldn’t that also be true about the investigations of the Bidens?

Oh, never mind. That would require Republicans to be rational, honest, and averse to hypocrisy.

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INDICT FOX NEWS! They Are as Guilty as Trump of the Same Crimes in His Latest Indictment

Posted by on August 4, 2023 at 1:24 pm. 2 Comments :

This week the twice-impeached Donald Trump was indicted for the third time for serious felonies against the United States. That brings the total count of the charges against him to 78. Which is a remarkable achievement considering that second place for the number charges against a president is a 45 way tie of zero counts.

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The latest batch of crimes in the new indictment charge Trump with: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of an official proceeding; and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted. Trump’s defense is the same one he has been yammering about since his first indictment. It consists mainly of insulting the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith, and of course President Biden. What his defense is conspicuously lacking is, well, a defense.

SEE THIS: Trump is OUTRAGED He Wasn’t Indicted Years Ago, While Desperately Trying to Delay His Trials

Trump’s new indictment also mentions six of his close associates as unindicted co-conspirators. They are not named in the indictment, but it is pretty clear who most of them are. Five of them have been identified in the press as Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, and an unknown political consultant. Interestingly, all of the known co-conspirators have been Trump’s legal advisors.

However, there is another co-conspirator that wasn’t mentioned in the indictment, but that deserves more scrutiny. And that is Fox News. Examining each of the counts charged in Trump’s indictment reveals that Fox News is just as guilty of those crimes as Trump. For instance…

Conspiracy to defraud the United States:
Trump has spent nearly three years claiming falsely that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” from him. He has never been able to provide a shred of evidence to support his claims. But Fox News has regurgitated his lies faithfully the whole time. Their dishonesty resulted in having to agree to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for 3/4 of a billion dollars.

Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding:
Trump and his team plotted to overturn the election results by soliciting slates of fake electors who would cast their Electoral College votes for Trump, against the will of the voters. Several of Fox’s hosts (i.e. Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Maria Bartiromo) were on board with that plot and encouraged Trump to pursue it.

Obstruction of an official proceeding;
Trump’s efforts to interfere with the constitutionally mandated duties of Congress to certify the election outcome resulted in the violent insurrection on January 6th, 2021. The riots that ensued caused Congress to shut down its proceedings as their members and staff, and even Trump’s Vice-President Mike Pence, fled for their lives.

Conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted:
All of Trump’s activities from election day November 3, 2020, until the the January 6th insurrection and beyond, were intended to deprive American voters of their right to have the candidate of their choice assume office. He even threatened the governor of Georgia (and other state officials) with prosecution if he didn’t “find” 11,870 more votes for Trump. And Fox News aided and abetted Trump every step of the way.

While the responsibility for these offenses against America and democracy lies primarily with Trump, it is impossible to separate Fox News from the conspiracy and the crimes. Although Trump was the criminal boss, he could not have gotten as far as he did without Fox News.

Trump’s lies about 2020 election fraud, his plots to undermine democracy, his inciting of an insurrection, his pressuring of state election officials to change vote counts, all contributed to his attempted coup, and were all backed by Fox News. And it is not insignificant that many of the January 6th defendants have cited Fox News as justification for their actions. But on Fox News those rioters were heralded as heroes and/or victims.

SEE ALSO: Tucker Carlson Spins January 6th Insurrection Videos to Spread Blatant Lies, Trump Praises Him

For all of the reasons stated above, it would be appropriate for Fox News to be included in the prosecution of Trump and his crimes against the United States. Fox principles like Rupert Murdoch and Suzanne Scott, along with hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, Maria Bartiromo, and others, should be held to account for their anti-American actions. They are more than disseminators of propaganda. They are co-conspirators and traitors.

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Trump Gushes Over Staffer Who Quit DeSantis Campaign, Who Also Says Biden Beats Trump in 2024

Posted by on August 3, 2023 at 3:39 pm. 3 Comments :

After eight years of Donald Trump demonstrating that he is a marginally cognitive, compulsively lying, malignant narcissist, it seems hard to imagine that he can still surprise anyone with his blustering idiocy and persistent state of blind rage. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s not to underestimate the depths to which he can sink.

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Trump is a perpetual outrage machine. He was consumed by anger when he won the election in 2016. Rather than celebrating, he delivered an inaugural address with the theme of “American Carnage.” And to no one’s surprise, his anger was multiplied many fold when he lost in 2020. For nearly three years now Trump has been whining about having been decisively beaten by President Joe Biden, a man he calls “Sleepy” or “Crooked” and who he thinks is both crippled by senility and driven by evil genius.

RELATED: Fox News Hypes Hostile ‘Trump Revenge Tour’ Promising that ‘If He Wins He’ll Be Out for Blood’

On Wednesday Trump posted a comment on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that once again illustrates just how demented he is. For several months Trump has been hammering at his competition for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. His main target has been Florida governor, Ron DeSantis. At every opportunity Trump lashes out at DeSantis, the only GOP candidate other than Trump who is in double digits in the polls. And in this case Trump reacted to the news that GOP campaign strategist, Ed Rollins, had quit the DeSantis “Ready for Ron” super PAC…

“Highly respected political pundit Ed Rollins just quit the DeSanctimonious Campaign saying that Ron is a highly ‘FLAWED CANDIDATE,’ whose poll numbers are crashing.”

Giving credit where it’s due, DeSantis is indeed a “highly ‘FLAWED CANDIDATE.'” Which might explain why his campaign has been going almost straight down ever since it began. Also, Rollins is a “Highly respected political pundit” in Republican campaign circles. However, Trump’s praise is peculiar for several reasons, as reported by Newsweek

To begin with, Trump is celebrating that Rollins departed the DeSantis PAC. But he must have forgotten that previously Rollins worked for Trump’s “Great America” PAC, which he left to go to work for DeSantis. So if quitting the DeSantis campaign reflects badly on DeSantis, the same thing must be true for quitting the Trump campaign. More to the point, after criticizing DeSantis, Rollins went on to say that with Trump as the GOP nominee…

“At the end of the day, I don’t see how Trump is a viable presidential candidate in part because of his legal problem. [but] unless something serious happens, Biden is probably going to get a second term…and I could even see Republicans losing their majority in the House.”

So the “highly respected political pundit” that Trump is praising so profusely for his good political sense, is predicting that Trump is going to lose again to Joe Biden. And Trump’s effect on the broader electoral landscape will also likely swing the House majority to the Democrats. And the same guy had the good sense to quit both the DeSantis and Trump campaigns. Sounds like a pretty savvy strategist. But don’t anybody tell Trump or it might trigger yet another meltdown.

SEE ALSO: Snowflake Trump Whines to DOJ that ‘An Indictment of Me Would Only Further Destroy Our Country’

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Fox News Hypes Hostile ‘Trump Revenge Tour’ Promising that ‘If He Wins He’ll Be Out for Blood’

Posted by on August 3, 2023 at 12:31 pm. 4 Comments :

The Republican Party has long employed brazenly violent imagery and narratives to advance their anti-democratic agenda. And in the Era of Trump they escalated it levels that eventually led to the deadly January 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C. that Donald Trump incited.

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in conjunction with that authoritarian style hostility, the GOP’s Ministry of Disinformation – Fox News – has embraced the themes of warfare as a means of keeping their viewers engaged, and more importantly, consumed with blinding anger. The network is committed to the encouragement of violence on behalf of Republican politics and the MAGA movement of Trump.

RELATED: Fox News Openly Encourages Violence Against Democrats: ‘We Need These Lawmakers to Be Victims’

On Wednesday night, Jesse Watters (who replaced the ultra-violent Tucker Carlson) delivered a frothing tirade that was dripping with the sort of malice that inspires public massacres. He was mortified by the recent news that Trump was indicted for the third time on felony charges of undermining democracy. And he was determined to see to it that retribution would be meted out to everyone he regarded to be Trump’s tormentors. He harangued…

“If Trump wins, after he pardons himself, welcome to the Revenge Tour. Oh, he’ll be out for blood. You think he’s going to let bygones be bygones? He’s going to put his men at Justice, and the Clinton’s, the Obama’s, the Pelosi’s, the Schiff’s, and yeah, of course, the Bidens, everyone will be legally assaulted. Their family members, providers, their businesses, everything’s fair game after this. Trump won’t care about reelection because he’s only serving one term.”

SHEESH! Watters managed to cram in every scrap of animus he could muster. He began by floating the notion that Trump would pardon himself, for which there is no provision in the Constitution. What’s more, Watters was not subtle about his lust for “assault[ing]” Trump’s perceived foes and for Trump being “out for [the] blood” of even their family members.

Watters also warned that Trump’s revenge rampages would be unhindered by public will because he wouldn’t have to face another election. That should stir fear in the heart of every rational, patriotic American. But it’s even more disturbing than it appears on the surface. Watters is right if all means is that Trump could not run for a third term. But the prospect of Trump declaring himself president-for-life is a plausible one considering his efforts to cling to power after he lost in 2020.

This isn’t the first time that Watters has expressed his yearning for deadly violence. He previously raged that citizens who disagreed with Dr. Anthony Fauci should “go in with the kill shot.” But as sick as that is, most of Watters’ ravings are grossly oversaturated with his sexual perversions.

For More, See… A Primer on Jesse Watters Who is Replacing Former Fox News White Nationalist, Tucker Carlson

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Trump Has Made His Decision to Chicken Out of the First GOP Primary Debate on Fox News

Posted by on July 31, 2023 at 1:10 pm. 5 Comments :

The roster of candidates for the 2024 Republican nomination for president is surprisingly long considering that the former GOP White House occupant is a candidate himself and is trouncing his rivals in the polls. That’s an indication that trouble is brewing for Donald Trump, and his party cohorts are willing to exploit it.

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Trump’s troubles are Titanic in scope. He has already been indicted on more than seventy felony counts ranging from violations of the Espionage Act, to paying hush money to a porn star, to obstruction of justice. And that isn’t counting the probable new charges related to his inciting the January 6th insurrection and staging an anti-democratic coup.

RELATED: Trump is OUTRAGED He Wasn’t Indicted Years Ago, While Desperately Trying to Delay His Trials

In the midst of this political apocalypse, the Republican Party is preparing for the the first presidential primary debate. It will be held August 23, and broadcast on Fox News. The candidates that have met the criteria for participation so far are Trump, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Doug Burgum. Which is not exactly anyone’s idea of an electoral “A” list.

In what must be a humiliating descent into obscurity, Mike Pence has yet to qualify. For his part, Trump has been teasing for weeks that he would not join the contest for America’s Biggest Loser. Why should he, since he already won that title in 2020? However, Trump’s foremost motivation for missing the debate is fear. He has always proven to be afraid of participating in any event that he doesn’t control. That’s why all of his appearances are either on friendly MAGA media or at his own cult rallies.

SEE ALSO: Trump Previews His Excuses for Chickening Out of the Fox News Republican Primary Debate

On Monday morning Trump posted a comment on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that appears to put to rest the speculation about whether he would have the guts to debate his GOP peers. The post said simply…

“Let them debate so I can see who I MIGHT consider for Vice President!”

Notice that he refers to letting “them” debate, explicitly separating himself from the rabble. And his only interest in the affair is that it might serve as a casting call for his vice-president, were he to become the nominee. Which, given his legal peril, is not a foregone conclusion. Also, does anyone think that Trump would actually consider Ron DeSantis or Chris Christie as possible running mates?

The madness of Trump was also evident in other comments he posted. For instance, he alt-tweeted his prediction of more criminal charges saying that “I assume that an Indictment from Deranged Jack Smith and his highly partisan gang of Thugs…will be coming out any day now.” And he slandered President Biden by asserting with zero evidence that “Crooked Joe Biden stole Millions and Millions of Dollars from China.”

Perhaps the most pitiful display of ignorance was his failure to comprehend double jeopardy. He clearly doesn’t grasp the difference between an impeachment and an indictment when he claims that it is “ridiculous” for special counsel Jack Smith to charge him because he has already “been fully acquitted, in the U.S. Senate.” And for the record, a bipartisan majority of 57 senators voted to convict Trump of crimes related to his role in the January 6th insurrection, which was shy of the 67 needed for passage.

No wonder Trump is to scared to show up for the debate. He would have to account for his multitude of criminal offenses, along with his record of incompetence, corruption, and chaos, as the alleged president. And while most of the candidates on the stage are just as cowardly as Trump – they still refuse to openly attack him at the risk of angering his cult – he would still have to face occasional criticism (i.e. from Chris Christie) that he would be incapable of responding to coherently.

What’s more, Trump’s fear also extends to Fox News as the host of the debate. His dysfunctional relationship with the network infamous goes back many years. So perhaps it’s for the best that he’s too scared to show. He can only make things worse if he does.

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Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Lawsuit Against CNN Tossed By Court Because Truth is Not Defamation

Posted by on July 29, 2023 at 11:33 am. 6 Comments :

The most litigious president in American history is unquestionably Donald Trump. He has a penchant for suing anyone and everyone, generally without any legal merit, as a means of retribution and to punish his political enemies for daring to challenge his delusional divinity.

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Trump’s most frequent attempts to abuse the court system have been through his challenges to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. He and his associates lost at least sixty such lawsuits, mostly for failing utterly to provide a shred of evidence supporting his baseless assertions of voter fraud. The parade of frivolous litigation came to be referred to by politicians and the press as Trump’s “Big Lie.” And that triggered the perpetually perturbed Trump to file a lawsuit against CNN for defamation.

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On Friday Trump’s case against CNN was thrown out of court for failing to present any argument that the reporting by CNN wasn’t actually true. According to Deadline…

“A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, litigation centered on references made by on-air figures to “the Big Lie,” or the former president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

Trump had argued in his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, that the references to the phrase were defamatory as they created a “false and incendiary association” between him and Adolf Hitler.”

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, a Trump appointee, ruled that the lawsuit cited CNN segments that were merely “a stacking of inferences that cannot support a finding of falsehood.” In other words, Trump could not prove that describing his unfounded claims of election fraud as the “Big Lie” was untrue. And as always, truth is the best defense against defamation. CNN’s reporting, according to the court, was lawful opinion, and Trump failed to make a plausible argument that it was in any way false.

The court also appropriately refused to entertain Trump’s complaint that associating him with a phrase that has been attributed to Hitler’s Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was defamatory. How could it be when such associations are objectively true. Trump has been a far more prolific and flagrant disseminator of lies and propaganda than the Nazi regime. If anything, Hitler might have a better case of defamation for being associated with Trump.

Many of Trump’s misadventures in legal malpractice involve the media. He is especially anxious to try to muzzle the free press that he believes is out to get him. Consequently, he has sued everyone from CNN, to the Washington Post, to Twitter, and more. He even sued the Pulitzer board for awarding prizes to newspapers that honestly reported on his unsavory ties to Russia.

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Trump has yet to prevail in of his defamation lawsuits. That’s because he has never even bothered to present a coherent argument that he was defamed or suffered any damages to his already repugnant reputation. It has always been a poorly staged melodrama of malice meant to bully those he hated or feared. And his record of losses is the best evidence of his disingenuous intent. Yet somehow, he persists in these losing causes no matter how many times he is struck down in humiliation.

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Pelosi Skewers Squeaker McCarthy as ‘Pathetic’ for Trying to Expunge Trump’s Impeachments

Posted by on July 23, 2023 at 12:14 pm. 4 Comments :

The traumatic tribulations of Donald Trump continue to unfold as both his political and legal troubles escalate into the 2024 election season. Trump has already been indicted twice with a total of more than 70 felony counts of criminal conduct. And he is currently venting his anxiety over imminent new indictments related to the the January 6th insurrection that he incited.

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Special counsel, Jack Smith, is said to be readying the latest batch of charges against Trump. Meanwhile, his first batch has just received a court date of May 20, 2024, which Trump had hoped would be delayed until after the next election. As would be expected of a malignant narcissist under these circumstances, Trump is grasping desperately for help from the glassy-eyed disciples of his cult that reside in Congress and the right-wing press.

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Among Trump’s most devoted congressional sycophants is Republican House Squeaker, Kevin McCarthy. And true to form, McCarthy is endeavoring to rescue his Dear Leader from the legal abyss. Although it may be more accurate to say that he is trying to rescue his speakership from the wrath of Trump and his MAGA caucus in Congress. In pursuit of that fear driven goal, McCarthy promised Trump that he would schedule a floor vote to “expunge” Trump’s two impeachments.

“About a month ago, the outlandish idea started to actually gain traction: Two prominent House Republicans — GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and Marjorie Taylor Greene — introduced parallel resolutions to ‘expunge’ the former president’s impeachments, and a few days later, McCarthy surprised many by endorsing the gambit. ‘I think it is appropriate,’ the House speaker told reporters.”

For the record, there is no constitutional provision that would support such an expungement. At best it might give Trump a fig leaf with which to pretend – contrary to reality – that he had never been impeached. And on Sunday morning former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the same argument in a pointed way. Pelosi was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash about the matter: “You oversaw both of those impeachment proceedings. What’s your reaction to this?”

“Well, the president was impeached because we had no choice. He had undermined our national security, jeopardized our well being of our country. Kevin is playing politics. It is not even clear if he constitutionally can expunge those things. If he wants to put his members on the spot – his members in difficult races on spot – that is a decision he has to make. But this is not responsible. […]

“This is about being afraid. As I’ve said before, Donald Trump is the puppeteer and what does he do all of the time but shine the light on the strings. These people look pathetic.”

The notion that historic impeachments on the congressional record can simply be disappeared by crybaby members of a wingnut faction of the GOP is patently absurd. But it’s even worse than that. There is a fair chance that the motion to expunge won’t even pass. There are Republicans in districts that Biden won who are not anxious to relitigate these issues. In fact, several Republicans have already said that they won’t vote for it. And McCarthy has a razor-thin margin of five votes in order to succeed.

What’s more, just bringing the question to the floor means that a debate would ensue for at least several days rehashing all of the reasons that Trump was justifiably impeached to begin with. It would refresh the memories of the American people as to just how corrupt he is, at the same time that the new indictments are being revealed.

Anyone with half a brain would recognize what a terrible idea this is for Trump and the GOP. Democrats are salivating at the thought of reminding the nation that Trump is unfit for office as he’s trying to mount a campaign to win it back. However, acting on terrible ideas is pretty much the hallmark of modern Republicanism. Just take a look at what they have been doing in Congress since they assumed their bare majority earlier this year…

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