US Politics

[bustamente]

I think the artist captured the way Melania sees Trump after a jug of vine, maybe the artist is trolling everyone or maybe he just sucks

[JCon]

Trump is a pathetic loser. Imagine being so fragile that you have to cheat at golf. 

[bustamente]

39 mass shootings in 24 days, America

[Tracker]

Rachel Maddow Uncovers George Santos’s Biggest Lie Yet That He Was The Target Of An Assassination Attempt

Rachel Maddow obtained exclusive video of Rep. George Santos claiming he was the victim of an assassination attempt.

Maddow said:

I want you to see it. In this interview, then congressman-elect George Santos is speaking with the host in Portuguese, so we have subtitles it. He starts off talking about an alleged act of vandalism, which he says was targeted at him simply because he’s a Republican. But then in the midst of that, he says, oh, also someone tried to murder him.

"We have already suffered an attempt on my life, an assassination attempt. There was an assassination attempt," Really? Then congressman-elect George Santos did not elaborate on his claim in the interview.

[HardCoreBlue]

5 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Rachel Maddow Uncovers George Santos’s Biggest Lie Yet That He Was The Target Of An Assassination Attempt

Rachel Maddow obtained exclusive video of Rep. George Santos claiming he was the victim of an assassination attempt.

Maddow said:

I want you to see it. In this interview, then congressman-elect George Santos is speaking with the host in Portuguese, so we have subtitles it. He starts off talking about an alleged act of vandalism, which he says was targeted at him simply because he’s a Republican. But then in the midst of that, he says, oh, also someone tried to murder him.

"We have already suffered an attempt on my life, an assassination attempt. There was an assassination attempt," Really? Then congressman-elect George Santos did not elaborate on his claim in the interview.

He's a perfect fit for the GoP. And now a lot of his voters are flabbergasted at his lies? lol. Apparently they did just fall off the turnup truck.

Telling the truth no longer matters in this party of knuckle draggers, it's enabled, it's promoted, it's swilled around on the internet and it works to get what people need until of course lies, deceit, mistruths, half truths etc work against them (i.e., Santos giving them a bad name) then it becomes an issue as they clutch their pearls. 

[Tracker]

11 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

He's a perfect fit for the GoP. And now a lot of his voters are flabbergasted at his lies? lol. Apparently they did just fall off the turnup truck.

Telling the truth no longer matters in this party of knuckle draggers, it's enabled, it's promoted, it's swilled around on the internet and it works to get what people need until of course lies, deceit, mistruths, half truths etc work against them (i.e., Santos giving them a bad name) then it becomes an issue as they clutch their pearls. 

A culture of victimhood. Maligned, misunderstood and endlessly preyed upon by a evil media and public.

[JCon]

The Right is always projecting. 

2 hours ago, bustamente said:

I think the artist captured the way Melania sees Trump after a jug of vine, maybe the artist is trolling everyone or maybe he just sucks

Who are these people supposed to be? Is that Trump and Malaria? 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/classified-documents-found-pences-indiana-home-rcna67224

Edited January 24, 2023 by FrostyWinnipeg

[JCon]

4 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/classified-documents-found-at-mike-pence-home.html

[bustamente]

41 minutes ago, JCon said:

The Right is always projecting. 

Who are these people supposed to be? Is that Trump and Malaria? 

One locks like Melanie, the other looks like a  young plastic Jimmy Carter

[Tracker]

Retired chief FBI official involved in Trump-Russia probe arrested for ties to Russia, stealing $225K

A retired chief Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) official who reportedly worked on the Trump-Russia probe was arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly having close ties to a U.S. sanctioned Russian billionaire and stealing $225,000 in cash while investigating high-profile cases, The Washington Post reports.

Over the course of his 22 years as a top official at the agency, Charles McGonigal served in many roles including the chief of the FBI’s cybercrimes office in Washington, D.C., and chief of the FBI’s New York Counterintelligence office, in which he was responsible for investigating Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
McGonigal, Fox News reported, was one of the original FBI officials to discover Trump advisor George Papadopoulos’ claim that “he knew Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton,” which led to the start of the Trump-Russia probe, known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane, and allegations of election interference. A source revealed to Fox News that McGonigal “likely was briefed on Crossfire Hurricane at the time the investigation was launched.”

However, unbeknownst to McGonigal’s colleagues, in 2019 — one year post-retirement — the former top agent teamed up with former Soviet and Russian official-turned U.S. citizen, Sergey Shestakov, to work alongside Derispaska in an attempt to remove him from the U.S. sanctioned list.

As a result, according to Fox News, McGonigal, 54, and Shestakov, 69, have both been charged with “one count of conspiring to violate and evade U.S. sanctions, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA"); one count of violating the IEEPA; one count of conspiring to commit money laundering; and one count of money laundering,” with the possibility of a “maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.”

McGonigal’s money laundering charge is a result of his “hiding payments totaling $225,000 that he allegedly received from a New Jersey man employed decades ago by an Albanian intelligence agency,” according to The Post.

https://www.alternet.org/fbi-official-russian-ties-stealing/

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Classified Documents Found At Mike Pence's Home

NEW YORK (AP) — Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana Home last week, according to his attorney.

“The additional records appear to be a small number of documents bearing classified markings that were inadvertently boxed and transported to the personal home of the former Vice President at the end of the last Administration," Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week.

[HardCoreBlue]

7 hours ago, JCon said:

Trump is a pathetic loser. Imagine being so fragile that you have to cheat at golf. 

You had me at pathetic loser.

[Goalie]

9 hours ago, bustamente said:

39 mass shootings in 24 days, America

They are on pace for the average I'm sure. 

[bustamente]

Former AG Barr continues to try to rewrite history claiming that Mueller gave him no choice but to summarize the report the way he did

[bustamente]

MTG wants to be Trumps pick for VP, that's the joke

[Tracker]

Proud Boys members 'intend to subpoena' Donald Trump at their seditious conspiracy trial

Members of the Proud Boys are reportedly telling former President Donald Trump to stand back and stand by for a subpoena.  According to New York Times reported Alan Feuer, members of the Proud Boys who have been accused by the government of engaging in a seditious conspiracy are saying they "intend to subpoena Donald Trump as a witness at the trial."

Although it's not clear why members of the gang would want Trump to testify on their behalf, many other January 6th defendants have argued that broke into the Capitol and violently clashed with police officers because it was what the former president wanted them to do.

Feuer, however, expresses skepticism that the defendants will really be able to compel Trump's testimony.

"That hasn’t flown with judges in other J6 cases so we’ll see where it goes," he said of past efforts to score Trump as a witness. "An Ohio exterminator tried to subpoena Trump at his own trial last year. The judge shut it down."

The Proud Boys members are under increased pressure after the government earlier this week won seditious conspiracy convictions against four more members of the Oath Keepers militia, whom prosecutors argued engaged in a plot to block the peaceful transition of power to keep Trump in the White House.

https://www.alternet.org/proud-boys-subpoena-donald-trump/

[Tracker]

“Would make Alex Jones blush”: GOPer says land conservation is a plot to “control” and “kill” people

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., spewed conspiracy theories about an environmental plan to conserve 30% of US land and waters by 2030 ahead of her election last year.

Speaking at R-CALF, a convention for independent cattle producers, Hageman in August 2021 and 2022 baselessly claimed that conservation plans like the global initiative 30x30 are a government plot led by President Joe Biden to control Americans through starvation. 

The congresswoman likened the environmental plans to African dictators starving their people to stay in power.

"Anytime their dictator needed to control the masses and needed to make sure that there would be no uprising, he just starves his people," Hageman said in the previously unreported video. "You can look at Somalia, you can look at the Congo, you can look at country after country after country after country, and what they've done is they control their people with food. That's what 30 x 30 is about. That's what the Green New Deal is about."

https://www.salon.com/2023/01/26/would-make-alex-jones-blush-goper-says-land-conservation-is-a-plot-to-control-and-kill-people/

[Goldkobra]

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What a noob.  Doesn't he know you can just eat children, like the liberals do?

Edited January 26, 2023 by Goldkobra
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[bustamente]

Going to be a wild weekend in Memphis and maybe other cities after the release maybe tomorrow of the video of 5 policemen beating the **** out of a black man after a traffic stop, by the way the 5 arrested policemen were all black. 

[Tracker]

 

Special Counsel John Durham tried to use Russian intelligence memos that were suspected of containing disinformation in his investigation of Russiagate.

The New York Times reported:

In Mr. Durham’s case, the dubious sources were memos, whose credibility the intelligence community doubted, written by Russian intelligence analysts and discussing purported conversations involving American victims of Russian hacking, according to people familiar with the matter.

The memos were part of a trove provided to the C.I.A. by a Dutch spy agency, which had infiltrated the servers of its Russian counterpart. The memos were said to make demonstrably inconsistent, inaccurate or exaggerated claims, and some U.S. analysts believed Russia may have deliberately seeded them with disinformation.

Mr. Durham wanted to use the memos, which included descriptions of Americans discussing a purported plan by Mrs. Clinton to attack Mr. Trump by linking him to Russia’s hacking and releasing in 2016 of Democratic emails, to pursue the theory that the Clinton campaign conspired to frame Mr. Trump. And in doing so, Mr. Durham sought to use the memos as justification to get access to the private communications of an American citizen.

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2 minutes ago, Tracker said:

 

Special Counsel John Durham tried to use Russian intelligence memos that were suspected of containing disinformation in his investigation of Russiagate.

The New York Times reported:

In Mr. Durham’s case, the dubious sources were memos, whose credibility the intelligence community doubted, written by Russian intelligence analysts and discussing purported conversations involving American victims of Russian hacking, according to people familiar with the matter.

The memos were part of a trove provided to the C.I.A. by a Dutch spy agency, which had infiltrated the servers of its Russian counterpart. The memos were said to make demonstrably inconsistent, inaccurate or exaggerated claims, and some U.S. analysts believed Russia may have deliberately seeded them with disinformation.

Mr. Durham wanted to use the memos, which included descriptions of Americans discussing a purported plan by Mrs. Clinton to attack Mr. Trump by linking him to Russia’s hacking and releasing in 2016 of Democratic emails, to pursue the theory that the Clinton campaign conspired to frame Mr. Trump. And in doing so, Mr. Durham sought to use the memos as justification to get access to the private communications of an American citizen.

And yet nothing will happen to any of them hell if Trump becomes POTUS again he might make Dunham his acting AG cause why not.

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Trump 2020 Attorney John Eastman Faces Disbarment in California

California State bar regulators filed disciplinary actions against conservative lawyer John Eastman due to his efforts in trying to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump. The state seeks to disbar Eastman, who once clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.

“The Office of Chief Trial Counsel (OCTC) intends to seek Eastman’s disbarment before the State Bar Court,” the state bar of California wrote in a news release about the filing.

The filing contains 11 charges arising from allegations that “Eastman engaged in a course of conduct to plan, promote, and assist then-President Trump in executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states.”

They specifically cited Eastman’s “false and misleading statements regarding purported election fraud, including statements on January 6, 2020, at a rally in Washington, D.C., that contributed to provoking a crowd to assault and breach the Capitol to intimidate then-Vice President Pence and prevent the electoral count from proceeding.”

They add, “Eastman now faces multiple charges that he violated Business and Professions Code section 6106 by making false and misleading statements that constitute acts of ‘moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption.’”

“There is nothing more sacrosanct to our American democracy than free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power,” the State Bar of California’s Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona said. “For California attorneys, adherence to the U.S. and California Constitutions is their highest legal duty. The Notice of Disciplinary Charges alleges that Mr. Eastman violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land—an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy—for which he must be held accountable.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/26/trump-2020-attorney-john-eastman-faces-disbarment-in-california.html

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Trump made 'secret' $1M donation to failed Arizona election 'grift disguised as an audit': report

Former President Donald Trump made a “secret” $1 million donation to the election audit conducted in Arizona following his false claims that the election was stolen from him, the Guardian reports.

The audit was requested by Arizona GOP senators, and doubted by many of their colleagues due to the “wild conspiracy theories” it mirrored. An assertion “that bamboo fibers found in ballot sheets proved they had been printed in Asia” even caused some local GOP members to deem the probe a “grift disguised as an audit.”
But nevertheless, the audit persisted.

Although eventually proven baseless and unsuccessful, The Guardian reports that “one of the largest benefactors” behind this attempt to counter the 2020 election results remained a secret for nearly two years.

But watchdog group “Documented” was able to track funding for the failed assessment and eventually landed on Trump’s super PAC, Save America.

First, the group discovered that Cyber Ninjas, the Florida company that conducted the audit, was provided $5.7 million by far-right groups, and then given an additional $1 million from former Trump advisor and attorney Cleta Mitchell.  Still, questions around the origin of the $1 million remained unanswered.

The New York Times reports that in September of 2021, “unnamed ‘officials,’” as well as Arizona GOP senators who requested the election audit, adamantly denied Trump’s contribution.

However, with its research on many corporate, tax and campaign finance filings, as well as emails and text messages between Trump allies that were obtained by nonpartisan accountability group American Oversight, "Documented" managed to counter those claims.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-secret-donation-arizona-election/

[HardCoreBlue]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Trump made 'secret' $1M donation to failed Arizona election 'grift disguised as an audit': report

Former President Donald Trump made a “secret” $1 million donation to the election audit conducted in Arizona following his false claims that the election was stolen from him, the Guardian reports.

The audit was requested by Arizona GOP senators, and doubted by many of their colleagues due to the “wild conspiracy theories” it mirrored. An assertion “that bamboo fibers found in ballot sheets proved they had been printed in Asia” even caused some local GOP members to deem the probe a “grift disguised as an audit.”
But nevertheless, the audit persisted.

Although eventually proven baseless and unsuccessful, The Guardian reports that “one of the largest benefactors” behind this attempt to counter the 2020 election results remained a secret for nearly two years.

But watchdog group “Documented” was able to track funding for the failed assessment and eventually landed on Trump’s super PAC, Save America.

First, the group discovered that Cyber Ninjas, the Florida company that conducted the audit, was provided $5.7 million by far-right groups, and then given an additional $1 million from former Trump advisor and attorney Cleta Mitchell.  Still, questions around the origin of the $1 million remained unanswered.

The New York Times reports that in September of 2021, “unnamed ‘officials,’” as well as Arizona GOP senators who requested the election audit, adamantly denied Trump’s contribution.

However, with its research on many corporate, tax and campaign finance filings, as well as emails and text messages between Trump allies that were obtained by nonpartisan accountability group American Oversight, "Documented" managed to counter those claims.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-secret-donation-arizona-election/

Checks and balances? Nope. House of cards. Once again, greed, money, power drives the show.