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Trump Demands To Be Declared President Nearly 2 Years After Election If anyone needed more evidence of Donald Trump’s mind-bending view of reality, on Monday he demanded to be declared president — nearly two years after the election he decisively lost. But he was also open to another option. In a “minimal” alternative “solution,” someone (probably not President Joe Biden) must “immediately” launch a do-over election, he said in a message on Truth Social. “Declare the rightful winner or — and this would be the minimal solution —declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!” Trump wrote. Conspiracist podcaster Alex Jones said he was ready to vote for Trump in such an election. When Trump “does something like this, it makes me love him even more,” Jones added. Constitutional expert and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe quipped that if Trump is trying for an “insanity defense” against the various investigations against him, “it won’t work.” Trump continues to use “Hunter Biden’s laptop” as justification for his wild demands to completely upend a legitimate election. The former president has boosted unsubstantiated claims repeatedly accusing Biden and his son Hunter of corruption, after Hunter’s laptop ended in the hands of the FBI. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-declare-me-president-hunter-biden_n_630d29dce4b063d5e61dd319

Stupid people+greed= popular TV

Wouldn't bet on it.

Who can equally stupid things- ever watch "Honey boo-Boo"?

Most of them: EEWWW.

Hollywood has obviously run out of creativity.

I would be concerned that the increased prize money will spur people (stoopid people) to set up very risky scenarios to try to cash in.

And get an 8-figure retainer in advance.

The hate groups are known here in Canada but legitimized by those who benefit from their support.

Apparently the New York Jets' problems are not on the field but in team management. Idiots.

Over at Riderfans, there is a majority of posters who want Marino gone, or at least would be OK with that, but the Marino defenders are pretty much foaming at the mouth and citing Andrew Harris's suspension over the failed drug test as an example of how teams mollycoddle problematic players. Not sure how to equate the two, but there you have it.

One Key Element of Affidavit Shows FBI Has a Source Very Close to Trump The very fact that the FBI walked out with the very boxes that they listed in the warrant proved that the FBI had sources close to Trump. The assumption is that very few people would know exactly which documents were where. But now, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell believes that he’s found a single unredacted element in the affidavit in support of probable cause that proves without a doubt that the source is even closer than one could have assumed simply from the warrant and receipt. The very fact that the FBI walked out with the very boxes that they listed in the warrant proved that the FBI had sources close to Trump. The assumption is that very few people would know exactly which documents were where. But now, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell believes that he’s found a single unredacted element in the affidavit in support of probable cause that proves without a doubt that the source is even closer than one could have assumed simply from the warrant and receipt. As Lowell told Morning Joe’s crew: “The fact that Pine Hall was mentioned, you know, among other places, was really interesting. Pine Hall is an entrance way that leads into Trump’s area, and so the fact that the FBI has pinpointed that location suggests to me, and certainly to people around the former president, that the FBI has someone on the inside, someone close to Trump himself or around his family that knows the kind of documents that were being left around them. That spooked them to have that level of detail and knowledge. It’s not going to come from people from the help or the staff, that close quarters to the former president." To the average reader, the fact that a private area is named “Pine Hall” doesn’t scream out that it’s almost impossible for someone – especially Mar-a-Lago staff – to know, but Lowell knows the context and dynamic better than the average reader. Lowell also said the open-ended questions, the fact that Trump’s team has no idea where the FBI is going next with their investigation, is frustrating Trump’s team and is surely driving Trump into vessel-popping hysterics: I think a lot of this is coming from the fact that Trump’s lawyers don’t know where the Justice Department wants to go next. The Espionage Act, classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, they’re also monitoring the obstruction side. That’s where lawyers are very nervous, not least because it sounds like Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, two of the former president’s lawyers, might themselves be witnesses to that because of their interactions with the Justice Department, and that’s indicative of the general inability to find defense here. Lowell’s observation above is a little vague and is a bit of a head-scratcher. There is no question that Trump’s team should be worried about obstruction of justice charges. If Trump has scribbled all over documents or destroyed some of the nation’s most secret documents, that is just another very serious crime, and it is evidence that Trump knowingly possessed this stuff for a specific purpose. Why destroy it when he could simply give it back? But the comment about Trump’s former lawyers possibly being witnesses is odd unless those lawyers knew that Trump was lying to the FBI and National Archives. If that is true, they certainly are witnesses, but they might want to get lawyers themselves because it’s possible they would be accused of conspiring with Trump to obstruct justice. If they knowingly conveyed a lie to DOJ… well, DOJ will certainly evaluate that better than anyone on the outside. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/29/one-key-element-of-affidavit-shows-fbi-has-a-source-very-close-to-trump.html

And afterwards, they all go out for drinks together. Lorne Nystrom (former MP) said that when he first stood and delivered criticism to the then-government minister, he was royally raked over the coals. After the session was over, said minister met him in the hallway and sort of apologized followed by an invitation for the rookie to come along for a couple of beers.

Review Of Possibly Privileged Trump Papers Already Over, DOJ Says WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge’s weekend order indicating that she was inclined to grant the Trump legal team’s request for a special master who would oversee the review of documents taken during the Aug. 8 search of the Mar-a-Lago estate and ensure that any that might be protected by claims of legal privilege be set aside. In revealing that the department had completed its review of potentially privileged communications, law enforcement officials appeared to be suggesting that the appointment of a third-party special master might now be moot. The department had been relying on a specialized team to filter out potentially privileged communications and said Monday that it had completed its review of those materials before the judge’s order. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said on Saturday that it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master — which would be an early procedural win for the Trump legal team — but gave the department an opportunity to respond and scheduled a Thursday hearing to discuss the matter further. The judge also directed the Justice Department to submit under seal a more detailed description of the materials that were seized from Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, something the department on Monday said it would do. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fbi-privileged-papers-mar-a-lago_n_630ce126e4b0da54bae182da

The Mystery Man Vowing Putin’s Friends Will Get Blown Up Soon Almost a decade after he was exiled, a former Russian statesman has emerged from the shadows this week as a new thorn in the side of the Kremlin. In a shocking televised address from Kyiv last week, 47-year-old ex-politician Ilya Ponomarev debuted as a self-described messenger for what he says is an underground resistance movement operating in Russia, the National Republican Army. Ponomarev read the group’s so-called manifesto on a Kyiv-based TV channel he founded seven months ago, called February Morning, in which they claimed responsibility for the car bomb that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian nationalist and staunch Putin ally Alexander Dugin. “The activists chose a sacred figure of Russian fascism and that’s not up to me to criticize the target of their deed, ” Ponomarev said in an interview with The Daily Beast, claiming that he’s been in contact with the “resistance fighters” since April. Besides passing their messages along, Ponomarev said his “job is to provide commercial support” to the group as needed. Ponomarev’s connection to the alleged partisan movement is murky, and he hasn’t been able to provide evidence that they had a role in the attack on Dugina. But that hasn’t stopped a wave of press coverage spotlighting Ponomarev’s allegations and fueling skepticism that Russian citizens could be behind the car bomb incident. (Russia has since pinned the attack on a Ukrainian operative, though Kyiv has denied any responsibility.) “We have been receiving videos and text messages from the Russian rebels about their actions nearly every day,” Ponomarev said. “They throw Molotov cocktails at military draft offices, blow up railroads, pop tires of cars with Russian pro-war symbols and attack activists who were collecting money for the war.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-exile-ilya-ponomarev-claims-violent-reckoning-is-coming-for-vladimir-putins-allies?ref=home

Poilievre is using the same tactics as Trump- speaking in coded but unmistakable language to court the nutball votes and, most importantly, their willingness to use intimidation and violence. Without an overt endorsement of these, but clear in his meaning, he can vaguely distance himself without offending or alienating them should violence occur. Plausible deniability.

Mar-A-Lago Is A Magnet For Spies, Warns Former FBI Official Mar-a-Lago has long been a lure for foreign operatives seeking intelligence and access to Donald Trump and other U.S. political leaders even as the former president haphazardly stored top secret information at the unsecured resort, a former FBI official warned Sunday. “Any competent foreign intelligence service, whether those belonging to China, those belonging to Iran, to Cuba, certainly including Russia are ... and were interested in gaining access to Mar-a-Lago,” Peter Strzok, former deputy assistant director of counterintelligence at the FBI, told MSNBC host Katie Phang. Even without the knowledge that Trump was storing classified documents on the grounds “of course ... the intelligence services are going to have been trying to gain access,” said Strzok. But the situation is “especially concerning” because of “information coming out right now about the absolute lack of any control or memorialization of who gets access to Mar-a-Lago at any given time,” Strzok pointed out. The FBI earlier this month confiscated several boxes of government documents from Trump’s Florida estate, including classified information with highly sensitive material. The sworn affidavit supporting the search released Friday indicated that there were “classified documents were strewn all over the facility, not just in the storage room” near the Mar-a-Lago pool, said Strzok. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mar-a-lago-spy-lure-peter-strzok-trump_n_630bdd72e4b0da54bae08f94

Donald Trump's supporters are now threatening the National Archives The National Archives is now falling under the anti-government threats that other federal agencies have experienced in the past several weeks, Axios reported Sunday. The attacks first began when the FBI conducted a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's golf club in Palm Beach to recover classified documents he'd stolen from the White House upon leaving his office. One man attacked the Cincinnati, Ohio FBI headquarters. Another man jumped the fence at the Chicago FBI offices. Due to a Republican conspiracy theory, right-wing supporters are now threatening the IRS. Part of the Inflation Reduction Act gave funds to the IRS, which has been drastically underfunded for the past decade and has been unable to do audits against the super wealthy. Those individuals typically tie up the courts and cost the IRS more resources to fight just to get millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. Republicans claim that the funds will be all about arming IRS agents to shoot everyday Americans. Now the National Archives and Records Administration has faced an increase in threats after the Mar-a-Lago search. “NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down,’” acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall explained in an email to staff this week, according to the Washington Post. “Neither is accurate or welcome." Read the full report at Axios.com.

Maybe he was referring to his career?

Short of moving the capital of Canada from Ottawa to Red Deer, and probably not even then, nothing is going to satisfy these malcontents. They are just shadows of the Qanon/GOP cabal in hte US with fewer guns and less influence.

Warning ‘Troubling Number of Informants Killed or Captured’ According to the New York Times, the CIA sent a memo to every station across the globe warning that a “troubling number of informants” were being “captured or killed.” As the Times article emphasizes, when it comes to human intelligence, there are areas of the world in which the stakes couldn’t be higher. C.I.A. espionage operations inside numerous hostile countries have been compromised in recent years when the governments of those countries have arrested, jailed and even killed the agency’s sources. Last year, a top-secret memo sent to every C.I.A. station around the world warned about troubling numbers of informants being captured or killed, a stark reminder of how important human source networks are to the basic functions of the spy agency. The New York Times doesn’t say that the increased numbers of killed and captured agents are related to Trump’s handling of the human intelligence files (Hum-Int files were found at Mar-a-Lago), but it reinforces the danger of having these types of documents outside of secure facilities. One also gets an unsettling feeling in one’s stomach. Even though the FBI and CIA haven’t found a link between Trump holding the human intelligence documents and the noticeable uptick in sources lost, at least not to our knowledge, one cannot help but notice that the time periods overlap (The memo came out in October of 2021) and Trump held those documents while in the White House residence

As has been posted before in this forum, Garland is a meticulously patient, methodical prosecutor and he is at the center of a storm that will be the subject of debate for decades to come, whether Trump is indicted, convicted or given a pass. With all the potential consequences, he and his department have to have a watertight case before moving forward with prosecution so as to give the lunatic fringe as little reason as possible to declare Trump as a victim and martyr. In retrospect, perhaps it was a good thing he was not confirmed to the SCOTUS as he is probably the perfect person for this incredibly difficult task.

'We have to kill them': Russian mercenary holds up skull while bragging about slaughtering Ukrainians An alleged Russian mercenary brandished a human skull as a prop during a recent speech in which he justified his participation in genocide against Ukraine's population. The man was identified as "Igor Mangushev" by Ukrainian blogger Den Kazansky. "He is from Moscow. The Russian authorities deny that the Russian army organized the massacre in Bucha. But the Russian military openly calls for massacres and takes pride in torturing and killing Ukrainians," Kazansky tweeted early Sunday morning along with a video of Mangushev's macabre performance. "We're alive, and this guy's already dead. Let him burn in Hell. He wasn't lucky. We'll make a goblet out of his skull," Mangushev boasted. "We are not at war with people of blood and flesh. We are at war with the idea – with the idea of Ukraine as an anti-Russian state. There can be no peace. We must de-Ukrainize Ukraine. We must return our Russian lands. We are not at war with people. We are at war with the idea," he proclaimed. "This is the tragedy of Ukrainian soldiers. We don't care how many; we have to kill them," Mangushev continued. "If we were at war with people, we could make peace with them. But we are at war with the idea, so all bearers of an idea must be killed. Like this guy, probably he did not want to die near Azovstal." https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/we-have-to-kill-them/