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Trump Executive Privilege Claim Shattered As Judge Orders Mark Meadows And Others To Testify

Special Counsel Jack Smith scored a big win as a federal judge rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege and ordered Mark Meadows and others to testify about the plot to overturn the 2020 election.

[HardCoreBlue]

7 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Trump Executive Privilege Claim Shattered As Judge Orders Mark Meadows And Others To Testify

Special Counsel Jack Smith scored a big win as a federal judge rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege and ordered Mark Meadows and others to testify about the plot to overturn the 2020 election.

Followed up by 'I plead the fifth' officially recorded 793 times throughout the testimony. 

Oh and "I don't recall' coming in a close second officially recorded 723 times throughout the testimony.

Edited March 24, 2023 by HardCoreBlue

[bustamente]

Trump must be all giddy as DA Bragg has received a death threat today, only yesterday he has called for death and destruction if he is indicted.

[SpeedFlex27]

On 2023-03-20 at 1:56 PM, Tracker said:

Right-wing broadcaster calls for Barack Obama and others to be executed if Trump is arrested

Right-wing broadcaster Pete Santilli recently argued that the U.S. military should execute former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is arrested.

In a video clip obtained by Right Wing Watch, Santilli pleaded with members of the military to take action.

"Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people," he said. "That you military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people. And ultimately, we demand, we absolutely demand that the criminals, the criminals in this country, if you want them held accountable, the criminals are Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Susan Rice, This entire criminal cabal that came about as a result of the murder of John F. Kennedy, the people that perpetrated the murder of John F. Kennedy, rise up to that."

"Military, join us and put all of them up against a concrete wall... and do what we must do to save not just our country, the entire world," he implored.

https://www.alternet.org/obama-trump/

There are wingnuts everywhere. 

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Trump's rape trial jury will be anonymous, for obvious reasons

[Tracker]

3 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Trump's rape trial jury will be anonymous, for obvious reasons

I would love to see Trump brought in wearing an orange jumpsuit like every others felon. I know its not gonna happen, but it is a delightful image,

[Tracker]

'He feels aggrieved': Mary Trump warns her uncle will play the grievance card to the hilt if indicted

One of former President Donald Trump's many outspoken critics is a member of his own family: niece Mary L. Trump, a clinical psychologist/author who is the daughter of the late Fred Trump, Jr. (a brother of the ex-president) and a cousin of Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump. But when Mary Trump criticizes her uncle during frequent appearances on CNN and MSNBC, her tone isn't one of total contempt.

Even when she is describing the former president as dangerous, corrupt and anti-democracy, Mary Trump sounds like a part of her feels badly for her uncle — who, she believes, has serious mental health issues. That tone was evident when she made a late March appearance on MSNBC and discussed his legal problems with one of his scathing critics: liberal host Lawrence O'Donnell.

O'Donnell asked Donald Trump's niece to weigh in on what the ex-president is "feeling" about a possible criminal indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. And she predicted that he will, true to form, use it to play the "grievance" card.

Mary Trump told O'Donnell, "The emotion of sadness is not in Donald's arsenal. What he's feeling, to the extent that he's feeling anything, is self-pity. And that makes sense. He's also feeling grievance, but he feels aggrieved every time he walks into the Mar-a-Lago dining room and his paid patrons don't pay him sufficient homage, right? So, none of this is new."

https://www.alternet.org/trump/mary-trump-2659650835/

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The field trip of the Republicans to a DC jail to visit 1/6 rioters tells you all you need to about the crazies that are running the GOP right now.

[Mark F]

I don't know what American law is, but Criminal code of Canada is as follows:

264.1 (1) Every one commits an offence who, in any manner, knowingly utters, conveys or causes any person to receive a threat (a) to cause death or bodily harm to any person; (b) to burn, destroy or damage real or personal property; or (c) to kill, poison or injure an animal or bird that is the property of any person.

 

In Canada, Trump would probably have committed an offence.

 

 

 

 

 

[HardCoreBlue]

For years now, Trump encourages violence. Says anything he wants with no consequences other then filling his coffers.

Weak democrats continue to tweet shame getting their likes, go onto the networks flexing their puny little muscles.

Merrick Garland huffs and puffs saying no one is above the law and democracy is being protected.

Pathetic.

 

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I think more Americans feel this way than support the crimes Trump has done and continues to do, and if you click on the line to the idiots letter to DA Bragg don't bother it's just a bunch of crap 

 

[bustamente]

To this day when someone blurts out that guy is a stupid idiot everyone knows who you are talking about

 

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Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.
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 Idaho lawmakers passed a bill on March 20, 2023, that would authorize the use of firing squads if the state is unable to obtain drugs required for its lethal injection program. The bill will head to the desk of Idaho Gov. Brad Little next. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File)VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

The Legislature passed the measure March 20 with a veto-proof majority. Under it, firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections.

Pharmaceutical companies increasingly have barred executioners from using their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives. One Idaho death row inmate has already had his execution postponed repeatedly because of drug scarcity.

The shortage has prompted other states in recent years to revive older methods of execution. Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. South Carolina’s law is on hold pending the outcome of a legal challenge.

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Airport rallies are going to be the norm because facilities want money up front and his doesn't have or wont pay it. Supposedly he still owes money in El Paso and I'm sure other cities are still waiting for payments that will never come

 

 

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CRAZIER AND CRAZIER......

QAnon now believes a body double replaced Senator John Fetterman

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), still recovering from the effects of a stroke he suffered on the campaign trail last year, publicly announced last month that he was admitting himself to Walter Reed Hospital to be treated for severe depression. After more than a month of psychiatric treatment, Fetterman is preparing to be discharged and return to full-time work in the Senate.

But far-right QAnon conspiracy theorists aren't buying it.

According to VICE News on Monday, a bizarre theory spread across the internet over the weekend, fanned by a handful of influential extreme-right voices, that Fetterman has been replaced by a body double.

"The entire basis of the conspiracy theory is the comparison of two photos of Fetterman that the conspiracists claim are not of the same person — even though both are very obviously both of the Pennsylvania senator," reported David Gilbert. "Body double conspiracies are a common trope in conspiracist circles: In recent years QAnon believers have claimed that President Joe Biden, Queen Elizabeth, and the Pope have been replaced by body doubles, all in an attempt to undermine the leaders’ credibility and boost the belief that the world is really run by a secret cabal of elites and the faceless 'deep state.'"

https://www.alternet.org/qanon-body-double-john-fetterman/

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Trump Is Also Trying To Intimidate Jurors And Judges

Former President Donald Trump is trying to intimidate more than just the various prosecutors who might be readying indictments against him, but also the jurors and judges, according to a former Southern District of New York Criminal Division Deputy Chief.

“If the case is charged, there will be jurors and judge to hear the case,” former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg noted on Ali Velshi’s MBNBC show. “He’s trying to intimidate everyone associated with this case.”

 

 

Greenberg also went on to explain that these many investigations into Donald Trump are examples of the system working because they show the law being applied without fear or favor.

The FBI is indeed investigating a death threat after the Manhattan DA received a letter threatening to kill him with white powder, reading “ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The letter came from Orlando, Florida.

Trump’s intimidation tactics have been getting him into enough hot water that his lawyer claimed that he quickly deleted the photo of himself with a bat next to a photo of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

“I think that was an ill-advised post that one of his social media people put up and he quickly took down when he realized the rhetoric and the photo that was attached to it,” Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina said on Meet the Press.

Except that Trump left that threat up for at least a day because it was posted on Thursday and we got a screengrab of it still up 21 hours later on Friday morning at 10:22 AM.

21 hours is more than enough time to realize the photo was a problem since it was making headline news for that entire 24 hours. For example, this is enough time for a news organization to get into trouble if anything in their article isn’t accurate, so it is more than enough time for Trump to realize that the photo he shared is a clear threat.

[Mark F]

the greatest country is going back to the 19th century.

 

"Are We Actually Arguing About Whether 14-Year-Olds Should Work in the meatpacking industry?"
 

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/underage-workers/

 

"Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas signed a bill this month rolling back the state’s child labor protections, making it easier for employers to hire children under 16. Elsewhere, bills to allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work in meatpacking plants and other dangerous jobs in Iowa as part of training programs and 16- and 17-year-olds to take jobs at construction sites in Minnesota are under consideration.

These enacted and potential rollbacks are happening just when the country is experiencing a surge of child labor violations on a scale and of a type that we hadn’t heard about for many years. Laws in the United States prohibit certain very dangerous work for minors, but recent investigative reporting by The New York Timesand Reuters has exposed migrant children as young as 12 working at car factories, meat processors and construction sites; household-name companies generally avoid liability through the use of sometimes sketchy subcontractors and staffing agencies."

New York Times.

( got it for fifty cents ca a week)

Edited March 27, 2023 by Mark F

[Tracker]

4 minutes ago, Mark F said:

the greatest country is going back to the 19th century.

 

"Are We Actually Arguing About Whether 14-Year-Olds Should Work in Meatpacking Plants?"

March 27, 2023

 

"A 13-year-old boy who works 12-hour shifts, six days a week, at an egg farm outside Grand Rapids, Mich.Credit...Kirsten Luce for The New York Times"

 

Agreed that there is ongoing, massive regression going on in the USA. There is nothing good in that country's future. The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum.

[iHeart]

Sigh another days other loser with a gun in America https://people.com/crime/nashville-school-shooting-multiple-victims/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=6421cd6004cb1500015f79c0

Edited March 27, 2023 by iHeart

[JCon]

2 hours ago, iHeart said:

Sigh another days other loser with a gun in America https://people.com/crime/nashville-school-shooting-multiple-victims/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=6421cd6004cb1500015f79c0

Murican God loves getting more children into his flock. 

[bustamente]

This is the representative of the of the district where the school shooting happened today, these people are insane

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.................and of course his thoughts and prayers