It takes insight and reading comprehension to realize the trick.These Tweets are all still up. These geniuses still don't realize they've been tricked into condemning Maxine Waters."
Former President Donald Trump has actually gained — not lost — political clout since leaving office, a political observer asserted Friday.
Politico reporter Tara Palmeri’s observation runs contrary to the assumptions of many in the Washington D.C. establishment and the mainstream media.
She followed up by saying that his base was getting “stronger”:“People don’t want to hear anything against Trump,” Palmeri said during an appearance on MSNBC. “Actually, the more he stays out of the media, the more that he becomes this martyr, this looming figure over the GOP.”
Watch the video here:In Wyoming, she added, “A lot of people said they aren’t really Republicans, that, like, they’re for Trump. That’s it … I think the base is getting stronger, truly. I think an impeachment would make him even more powerful — a conviction, is what I mean.”
Republican voters want a party that fights for them and the country.“They see themselves now on a crusade for Donald Trump… What I heard overwhelmingly from the people that were against [Liz Cheney], she did not vote for Wyoming when she voted to impeach, and therefore she has to go” – @tarapalmeri w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/0BXuYsHYBn
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) January 30, 2021
I had a GREAT call with my all time favorite POTUS, President Trump!
I’m so grateful for his support and more importantly the people of this country are absolutely 100% loyal to him because he is 100% loyal to the people and America First.
Cont’d…
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 30, 2021
A sophisticated China-linked social media operation played a key role in spreading disinformation during and after the US election, a report from Cardiff University concludes.
The study, from the Crime and Security Research Institute, shows evidence of the network’s activities reaching a wide audience, most successfully through a now debunked viral video that was later shared by Eric Trump, son of former US President Donald Trump, falsely showing ballots being burned on election day.
Researchers also found evidence of the same network spreading anti-US propaganda which amplified calls for violence before and after the Capitol riot in Washington on 6 January 2021.
Professor Martin Innes, Director of the Crime and Security Research Institute, who leads the Open Source Communications, Analytics Research (OSCAR) research team said: “Although only Twitter can fully certify an attribution, our analysis using open-source traces strongly suggests multiple links to China. Our initial findings suggested that the operation was not especially complex, but as we have dug deeper into the network, we have had to substantially revise our original view. The behaviour of the accounts was sophisticated and disciplined, and seemingly designed to avoid detection by Twitter’s counter-measures.
There is at least one example of these accounts helping to propagate disinformation that went on to receive more than a million views.”
Dr. Eastman went on to share that the machine then matches the un-voted ballots with the un-voted voter and put them together in the machine. Eastman concludes:…The old way was to have a bunch of ballots sitting on a box on the floor and when you needed more you pulled them out in the dark of night. They put those ballots in a secret folder in the machines, sitting there waiting until they know how many they needed… “
We saw it happen in real time last night and it happened on November 3rd as well.”
We reported that the election fraud was massive in the November 2020 election and we reported it was done in the machines:WE CAUGHT THEM Election fraud captured live in last night’s Senate election in Georgia pic.twitter.com/YWQL8hDsd8
— Catherine (@catherinedbay) January 6, 2021
There is now a group of Eastman defenders hoping to vindicate his service and his legacy.172 members of the Chapman Faculty , including administrators and Trustees, found out that the esteemed Chapman Law professor, Dr. John C. Eastman, spoke at the event on January 6 and supported President Trump’s calls for investigations into fraudulent handling of the Presidential Election. As a result, they issued this letter, which was published by the LA Times. ( Chapman faculty speak out - Jan 6 incitement ). Not happy with merely defaming Dr. Eastman, they began a pressure campaign to force Chapman University President Daniele Struppa to fire Eastman. Struppa issued multiple statements that maligned and defamed Dr. Eastman, and eventually forced him into retirement.
Myself and a group of current and former Chapman Law students have formed a coalition to defend Dr. Eastman’s legacy, and some of us have written a “rebuttal” to the 172 Chapman Faculty’s letter that sets the record straight. I would love to provide you with a copy of that as an Op-Ed submission. Or, in the alternative, I would love to provide you with all the information you might need in order to expose this travesty for what it is; a professional death sentence for the “crime” of supporting the Constitution.
You can be sure Mr. Sullivan will use his time at home in self-education by reading a book and writing letters. He may even chat with friends.Prosecutors asked that he be held in jail until his trial, claiming he uses social media to incite riots and "thrives on chaos."
Oberg ordered Sullivan be detained at his home until his trial in Washington D.C.
Individuals charged in complaints are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
When you are the founder of a group called "Insurgence USA," it should be a big hint that your passion is in inciting armed riots.You can be sure Mr. Sullivan will use his time at home in self-education by reading a book and writing letters. He may even chat with friends.
NOT.
Daphne A. Oberg is a new judge (May 2020) having served before in the Public Defenders office. Her newness is apparent in underestimating the honesty of her defendants.
Dobbin
CNN, The New York Times, and the Associated Press noted that the team fell apart after Trump wanted them to focus on claims that the election was stolen from through election fraud—a claim that former Attorney General William Barr, a favorite in Trump world, had completely dismissed as false. The lawyers reportedly said no and that was when the parties decided to part ways.If you’re Trump this is rather a no brainer. With Senate Rs aka the jury on record that impeaching former president is unconstitutional why spend money on lawyers ? https://t.co/VSgLRBoAPg
— Janet Mullins Grissom (@JMullinsGrissom) January 31, 2021
“These things aren’t panning out,” Barr told the president, standing beside his chief of staff Will Levi. “The stuff that these people are filling your ear with just isn’t true.” Barr explained that if Trump wanted to contest the election results, the president’s internal campaign lawyers would have to do it.
The report indicated that Cipollone and others in the room were stunned that Barr came out and said it in such a blunt manner, even though they agreed. Barr reportedly warned Trump that his legal team was “clownish.”The Justice Department, he continued, had looked at the major fraud allegations that Trump’s lawyers had leveled. “It’s just bullshit,” Barr told the president. [White House counsel Pat] Cipollone backed up Barr by saying the DOJ was investigating these claims.
Bad optics ARE bad for the legal bottom line - especially in a venue (Congress) which focuses more on optics than truth.Multiple reports indicated that Butch Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer who assembled the impeachment defense team, and Deborah Barbier, a criminal defense lawyer in South Carolina, were no longer going to be part of Trump’s team and that the decision was “mutual.” Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney, has also reportedly left Trump’s team, and South Carolina lawyers Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris are also reportedly out.
As for that audit, what actually comes from it – likely not much, but it is important to know that state law actually prevents the county from handing over any actual ballots.”
If the Board of Supervisors in Maricopa County wanted to get to the truth about the 2020 election results in the county they would be transparent.
In addition, says Pulitzer, when they pull boxes from the warehouse for audit, ‘they don’t tell you that the boxes have code number. In a transparent audit, we will randomly pull boxes. The people pulling the boxes know what the code means.” Often, they are “rigging the districts they know are not cheating. All of it is designed to usurp the vote. All the troubled states are doing it.”Senate decides to conduct own audit of Maricopa votes after @FannKfann concludes that what the supes are offering really won't answer all the questions. But now the issue is will the county provide access and the ballots? Arizona Senate to conduct own audit of 2020 election results after all
— azcapmedia (@azcapmedia) January 30, 2021
Roseanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia was ‘trampled in the Rotunda’, her family told DailyMail.com on Thursday after police she had been potentially ‘crushed’ in the mob.
Her family said she had planned to ‘hang back’ but was emboldened by Trump’s speech earlier on Wednesday.
They say they blame Trump for her death.
Ashli Babbitt, 35, was a 14-year air force veteran who was fatally shot in the chest by Capitol Police as she breached the building.
Kevin Greesen…Social media photographs show Greeson posing proudly with two AR-15 rifles. He regularly posted on the website Parler where he encouraged violence against Democrats.
Big Media appears to not really care what happened to the four Trump supporters who died on January 6th because there is very little written about their deaths.Ben Phillips… According to The Inquirer, Phillips described the day as ‘the first day of the rest of our lives‘.
And later around the 25-minute mark, he refers to the events of January 6th, 2021 as “a terrorist attack on the United States Capital.”Senator Ted Cruz: “President Trump’s rhetoric, I think, went way too far over the line. I think it was both reckless and irresponsible because he said repeatedly—and he said over and over again—he won by a landslide; there was massive fraud; it was all stolen everywhere. That evidence, the campaign did not prove that in any court, and to make a determination about an election it has to be based on the evidence, and so simply saying the result you want, that’s not responsible and you’ve never heard me use language like that. What I’ve said is voter fraud is real, and we need to examine the evidence, and look at the actual facts; and in particular, what is the evidence of how much voter fraud occurred, and did it occur in sufficient quantities and in sufficient states to alter the outcome of the election. That would have been the mandate of the election commission; to assess.”
U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.
“Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament.
King, a Baptist minister who became a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, won the Nobel prize in 1964 and remains among its most famous laureates.
“Abrams’ efforts to complete King’s work are crucial if the United States of America shall succeed in its effort to create fraternity between all its peoples and a peaceful and just society,” Haltbrekken said.
In a court document filed last week, U.S. Pretrial Services Officer Josh Cahoon alleged that Sullivan violated his approved Internet usage on four separate instances, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Magistrate Judge Daphne Oberg, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, issued a court summons for Sullivan based on the filing. He faces federal charges of civil disorder, entering a restricted building and violent entry or disorderly conduct.
The judge had ordered Sullivan to be released conditonally without bail on Jan. 15, deciding that prosecutors failed to meet the legal threshold required to keep him jailed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Reeves had argued Sullivan is a risk for trying to threaten witnesses or jurors, but Oberg said Reeves lacked substantial evidence.
The terms of his release agreement required Sullivan to stay off social media before trial, surrender his passport and be on house arrest. He also was ordered to stop working for the Insurgence USA activist group he founded, although he didn’t have to cede control. His computer and internet activities would be monitored.
The United States is alarmed by reports that the Burmese military has taken steps to undermine the country’s democratic transition, including the arrest of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian officials in Burma. President Biden has been briefed by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. We continue to affirm our strong support for Burma’s democratic institutions and, in coordination with our regional partners, urge the military and all other parties to adhere to democratic norms and the rule of law, and to release those detained today. The United States opposes any attempt to alter the outcome of recent elections or impede Myanmar’s democratic transition, and will take action against those responsible if these steps are not reversed.
Hat Tip NHWe are monitoring the situation closely and stand with the people of Burma, who have already endured so much in their quest for democracy and peace.
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The Red State Observer had more on the story:The leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, previously worked as an informer for local and federal law enforcement, according to court records https://t.co/6Z4wOeE2nT pic.twitter.com/jJreRVX1D8
— Forbes (@Forbes) January 27, 2021
Earlier in the month, shortly before the installation of Joe Biden as president by the political establishment, I posted on the FBI scaremongering about armed extremists coming to Washington, DC, to disrupt the sparsely attended affair (The FBI Claims Armed Protesters Will ‘Storm’ State Capitols on Inauguration Day; Don’t Get Drawn Into This Nonsense).
The FBI has been on the “white supremacist militia” kick since before they slaughtered the Branch Davidians and gunned down Vicki Weaver. As I pointed out in The FBI’s Latest Homegrown Terrorist Plot Is an Obvious Joke but What Is Going to Happen to the People Involved Is Not, virtually all these militia arrests have one thing in common, that is, the group doing the planning is riddled with FBI informants who push members into a criminal conspiracy and then introduce them to an FBI agent to close the deal.
Tying these arrests to loosely organized groups is critical to the Security Theater taking place in Washington, DC. My colleague Jeff Charles, writing in Here’s Why The National Guard Is Still In D.C. Ten Days After An Uneventful Inauguration, notes:
It’s easy to see what this is. Democrats wish to maintain a troop presence for as long as possible to make it seem as if conservatives are such a huge threat that a constant National Guard deployment is needed to ensure that these rabid fascist bigots don’t carry out another assault on the U.S. Capitol building.
Again, there are no armed marches planned for all 50 states. This group is simply hopeful that they can do marches in all of these states. They do not have the ability to pull this off. It's not happening. The scare narrative was crafted by the FBI.
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) January 12, 2021
Reuters had more details on Enrique:The head of the PB's is Enrique Tarrio. He's Afro-Cuban. pic.twitter.com/Nf1afBD7LO
— Maureen Moore (@HopesMom12) January 31, 202
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”
Law-enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio’s denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that “he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.”
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.Exclusive: Dozens of Former Bush Officials Leave Republican Party, Calling It 'Trump Cult'
CNN also cited Jessica Stern, a Boston University professor who “believes a number of factors could have been at play” among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Some, she surmised, could have been “more attracted to the theater, violence or attention they would get from a demonstration like the one at the Capitol than to actually achieving their purported goal — in this case, different election results,” as the outlet reported.Among those who didn’t vote were a 65-year-old Georgia man who, according to government documents, was found in his van with a fully-loaded pistol and ammunition, and a Louisiana man who publicly bragged about spending nearly two hours inside the Capitol after attending Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally. Another was a 21-year-old woman from Missouri who prosecutors say shared a video on Snapchat that showed her parading around with a piece of a wooden sign from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. And a Florida man previously convicted of attempted murder who was accused by the government of refusing to leave the Capitol likely did not have the option to cast a ballot because of his unpaid court fines.
“The Republican Party has a fundamental decision to make. Will it be a conservative party functioning within a democratic society? Or will it be an authoritarian party built upon the Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence?”
The January 6 event, which has been overwhelmingly branded as a pro-Trump protest, sparked the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump as Democrats, primarily, blamed him for the incitement of insurrection after he delivered a speech to supporters earlier in the day. Not once during the speech did Trump encourage supporters to engage in acts of lawlessness or destruction…
…According to CNN, which analyzed the data of over 180 of those arrested, “at least eight of the people who are now facing criminal charges for their involvement in the events at the Capitol did not vote in the November 2020 presidential election, according to an analysis of voting records from the states where protestors were arrested and those states where public records show they have lived.”
While it is true that “most” of the 80 had voted in the presidential election and “many” were registered Republicans, the analysis found that “a handful were registered as Democrats in those jurisdictions that provided party information.”
“Public access to voter history records varies by state, and CNN was unable to view the records of some of those charged,” the outlet reported alongside the revelations.
Investigators have recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a US Capitol Police officer in the shooting of a pro-Trump rioter who was killed during the insurrection, according to people familiar with the matter.
Babbitt was shot in the Capital and she died along with three other Trump supporters on January 6th at the Capitol. Babbitt was shot in cold blood and she was unarmed. We asked multiple times why the Capitol police officer’s name has not been released.The shooting of pro-Trump rioter, Ashli Babbitt, remains under investigation by the DC Metropolitan Police, the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and civil rights prosecutors, a routine process for shootings involving the Capitol Police. A final decision hasn’t been made, the people familiar with the probe told CNN.
Justice Department officials could make a final decision in the coming days.