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'Possible crime-a-thon': Experts weigh in on bombshell Trump Org report
   
Experts in the legal and journalism world are weighing in on the bombshell news that the Trump Organization "will be criminally charged" and "will have faced criminal charges" by this time next week, according to an on-air report from MSNBC's Tom Winter reports. The New York Times published a similar report stating charges could come "as soon as next week."

"An indictment of the Trump Organization could mark the first criminal charges to emerge from an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into Donald J. Trump and his business dealings," The Times reports. "The Manhattan district attorney's office has informed Donald J. Trump's lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter."

'Possible crime-a-thon': Experts weigh in on bombshell Trump Org report - Alternet.org

 

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'Possible crime-a-thon': Experts weigh in on bombshell Trump Org report
   
Experts in the legal and journalism world are weighing in on the bombshell news that the Trump Organization "will be criminally charged" and "will have faced criminal charges" by this time next week, according to an on-air report from MSNBC's Tom Winter reports. The New York Times published a similar report stating charges could come "as soon as next week."

"An indictment of the Trump Organization could mark the first criminal charges to emerge from an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into Donald J. Trump and his business dealings," The Times reports. "The Manhattan district attorney's office has informed Donald J. Trump's lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter."

'Possible crime-a-thon': Experts weigh in on bombshell Trump Org report - Alternet.org

 

Our culture now: ‘Yawn. Fake news. Witch-hunt, what about (insert name/organization)’.

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If people get a chance they should read the NY courts 33 page ruling on the suspension of Rudy Guiliani’s law license.  Very well documented evidence of Rudy Colludy’s staggering level of lies and unsupported claims of election fraud.  Hopefully this leads to permanent disbarment and adds to the charges he is already facing.  Frankly damn near everyone in Trump’s orbit needs jail time or never be allowed in politics again.

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1 hour ago, Mark F said:

better include Trump personally. or its useless.

Stripping Trump of his wealth and status would be a greater blow than any imprisonment. Moreover, his flunkies did not do this without Trump's direction, so they will roll on him in a nanosecond. "The wheels of the gods grind exceeding slow but they grind exceeding fine".

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Trump aides prepared Insurrection Act order against BLM protests: report
   
New information is coming to light about the extraordinary actions that almost happened to crack down on Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of Georgia Floyd by Minneapolis police.

"Responding to interest from President Donald J. Trump, White House aides drafted a proclamation last year to invoke the Insurrection Act in case Mr. Trump moved to take the extraordinary step of deploying active-duty troops in Washington to quell the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, two senior Trump administration officials said. The aides drafted the proclamation on June 1, 2020, during a heated debate inside the administration over how to respond to the protests," The New York Times reported Friday.

(This was a martial law enactment)

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Stripping Trump of his wealth and status would be a greater blow than any imprisonment. Moreover, his flunkies did not do this without Trump's direction, so they will roll on him in a nanosecond. "The wheels of the gods grind exceeding slow but they grind exceeding fine".

Not fine enough for me.

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Saw a giant truck in calgary the other day flying a huge trump flag from the back... no idea why people in canada are such fans of that idiot or why people feel the need to proclaim loudly to the whole world "I am a ******* moron!"

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On 2021-06-26 at 12:45 PM, Tracker said:

Stripping Trump of his wealth and status would be a greater blow than any imprisonment. Moreover, his flunkies did not do this without Trump's direction, so they will roll on him in a nanosecond. "The wheels of the gods grind exceeding slow but they grind exceeding fine".

He's already gone bankrupt multiple times. Regaining his wealth won't be a problem. 

On 2021-06-25 at 7:08 PM, Tracker said:

'Possible crime-a-thon': Experts weigh in on bombshell Trump Org report
   
Experts in the legal and journalism world are weighing in on the bombshell news that the Trump Organization "will be criminally charged" and "will have faced criminal charges" by this time next week, according to an on-air report from MSNBC's Tom Winter reports. The New York Times published a similar report stating charges could come "as soon as next week."

"An indictment of the Trump Organization could mark the first criminal charges to emerge from an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into Donald J. Trump and his business dealings," The Times reports. "The Manhattan district attorney's office has informed Donald J. Trump's lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter."

'Possible crime-a-thon': Experts weigh in on bombshell Trump Org report - Alternet.org

 

I'll believe it when I see it. I still firmly believe that that Donald will never see the inside of a jail cell.

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1 hour ago, Bigblue204 said:

He's already gone bankrupt multiple times. Regaining his wealth won't be a problem. 

I'll believe it when I see it. I still firmly believe that that Donald will never see the inside of a jail cell.

Trump has been able to juggle a lot of financial balls in the air for a couple of decades but now his biggest lender (Deutsche Bank) as well as several American banks see Trump's organization as toxic and will not longer touch him. He has only Russian mob money to sustain him and since his properties as been over-leveraged and over-valued, their investments are being devalued along with all of Trump's properties.  He may never see jail, but his ride on the gravy train is over. He has probably scammed the Russian mob along with everyone he could, and the Russian mob will not be pleased. No doubt they have a lot of personally embarrassing if not criminally damning stuff on him, which will leak out if they are angry enough.

'Barr belongs in prison': Critics of former AG furious over new behind the scenes Trump revelations
   
Reacting to a series of interviews former Attorney General William Barr gave with the Atlantic's Jonathan Karl, critics of Donald Trump's former AG lashed out at Barr for keeping his true thoughts about Trump's election fraud claims to himself that ended up leading to the Jan 6th insurrection at the Capitol.

According to the report, Barr believed Trump's claims of a stolen election were "bullshit," and resisted pleas from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to intercede with the ex-president and force him to tone down his inflammatory rhetoric.

'Barr belongs in prison': Critics of former AG furious over new behind the scenes Trump revelations - Alternet.org

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Trump had a rally yesterday in Ohio and even the stupid people are starting to get tired of the same old garbage being spouted by the grand stupid one, apparently he is going to make a decision on running in  '24 soon cause August is coming up fast and he needs to change to the talk about being reinstated so as to continue the grift

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Text messages show Trump aides knew Jan. 6 would likely get out of hand
A new investigation shows how Stop the Steal leaders fooled Capitol police and welcomed racists into their midst

(This article originally appeared on ProPublica.)


On Dec. 19, President Donald Trump blasted out a tweet to his 88 million followers, inviting supporters to Washington for a "wild" protest.

Earlier that week, one of his senior advisers had released a 36-page report alleging significant evidence of election fraud that could reverse Joe Biden's victory. "A great report," Trump wrote. "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"

The tweet worked like a starter's pistol, with two pro-Trump factions competing to take control of the "big protest."

On one side stood Women for America First, led by Amy Kremer, a Republican operative who helped found the tea party movement. The group initially wanted to hold a kind of extended oral argument, with multiple speakers making their case for how the election had been stolen.

On the other was Stop the Steal, a new, more radical group that had recruited avowed racists to swell its ranks and wanted the President to share the podium with Alex Jones, the radio host banned from the world's major social media platforms for hate speech, misinformation and glorifying violence. Stop the Steal organizers say their plan was to march on the Capitol and demand that lawmakers give Trump a second term.

ProPublica has obtained new details about the Trump White House's knowledge of the gathering storm, after interviewing more than 50 people involved in the events of Jan. 6 and reviewing months of private correspondence. Taken together, these accounts suggest that senior Trump aides had been warned the Jan. 6 events could turn chaotic, with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill-prepared law enforcement officials.

Rather than trying to halt the march, Trump and his allies accommodated its leaders, according to text messages and interviews with Republican operatives and officials.

Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign official assigned by the White House to take charge of the rally planning, helped arrange a deal where those organizers deemed too extreme to speak at the Ellipse could do so on the night of Jan. 5. That event ended up including incendiary speeches from Jones and Ali Alexander, the leader of Stop the Steal, who fired up his followers with a chant of "Victory or death!"

The record of what White House officials knew about Jan. 6 and when they knew it remains incomplete. Key officials, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, declined to be interviewed for this story.

The second impeachment of President Trump focused mostly on his public statements, including his Jan. 6 exhortation that the crowd march on the Capitol and "fight like hell." Trump was acquitted by the Senate, and his lawyers insisted that the attack on the Capitol was both regrettable and unforeseeable.

 

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Trump campaign had paid $2.7M to organizers of rally ahead of Capitol riot: report
 
Former President Trump’s campaign had paid out more than $2.7 million to several individuals and firms behind the Jan. 6 rally in Washington that devolved into a violent insurrection at the Capitol, the Center for Responsive Politics reported on Friday.

Several organizers listed on the event permit granted by the National Parks Service (NPS) and posted online by the Center for Responsive Politics previously held positions within the Trump campaign or had ties to those who did. 

Federal Election Commission filings show that the former president’s reelection campaign made payments to several of those individuals through Nov. 23, the most recent day for which financial disclosures are available.

Among those individuals listed on the permit was Maggie Mulvaney, a niece of former U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland Mick Mulvaney, who resigned from his role after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Maggie Mulvaney’s LinkedIn profile lists her current position as director of finance operations and manager of external affairs for the Trump campaign.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Mulvaney was paid at least $138,000 by the Trump campaign through last November. 

Caroline Wren, who served as a national finance consultant for the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee’s joint fundraising operation, was also listed on the NPS permit for the rally as a “VIP advisor.” The Trump campaign paid Wren $170,000 from March to November. 

Megan Powers, whose LinkedIn profile listed her as director of operations for the Trump campaign as recently as this month, was also among those whose names appeared on the permit. She was paid about $290,000 by the Trump campaign from February 2019 through November, according to the Center for Response Politics.

The largest recipient of payments from the Trump campaign was Event Strategies Inc., which received more than $1.7 million from the campaign and the former president’s joint fundraising committee. 

That firm is owned by Justin Caporale, the Trump campaign’s advance director, and his business partner Tim Unes, who are listed on the rally permit as project manager and stage manager, respectively. 

Event Strategies Inc. also received $2.1 million from the Trump-affiliated dark money group America First Policies from 2018 to 2019. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, America First Policies also provided funding to Women for America First, a political nonprofit whose leaders are listed on the rally permit as the event hosts.

Trump campaign had paid $2.7M to organizers of rally ahead of Capitol riot: report | TheHill

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How Trump Ally Michael Flynn Nurtured — And Profited From — the QAnon Conspiracy Theory

OF THE MANY mysteries surrounding the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency, few have been more confounding than the connections between former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the QAnon conspiracy theory, and Trump’s #StoptheSteal campaign.

Most media outlets treated Flynn’s videotaped oath last summer, in which he uttered a well-known QAnon slogan, as a sort of coming-out story about a onetime Trump insider who had gone off the rails. The video has since become the subject of a lawsuit by members of Flynn’s family who claim that “left-wing media outlets began to spread false narratives” about the Flynn family’s connections to QAnon. An Intercept investigation has found that Flynn’s ties to the QAnon phenomenon stretch back much further than the July 4 weekend last year when the video first appeared, however, to the days immediately following Trump’s 2016 election victory.

That November, nearly a year before the first cryptic clue from QAnon’s organizers – known as a “Q drop” — appeared on the online message board 4chan, Flynn told a roomful of Trump supporters that the president-elect had been borne into office by an “army of digital soldiers.” The phrase “digital soldiers,” which Flynn later trademarked, has become a central QAnon rallying cry and a key indicator of the movement’s growing turn toward violent extremism and insurrection.

Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who once oversaw military intelligence in Afghanistan and led a sprawling intelligence agency in Washington, would go on to become a central hero in QAnon’s conspiratorial narrative. But his move to trademark the term “digital soldiers” — ensuring that only he and others who obtain his express permission can profit from the sale of “Digital Soldiers”-branded merchandise — hints at his attempt to capitalize on a marketing and communication strategy that resonates with the Q community.
Flynn hitched his financial fortunes to QAnon at least as early as the summer of 2019, when he was facing a mountain of legal costs, The Intercept’s investigation found. His push to leverage QAnon’s viral popularity with the far-right coincided with his efforts to reverse his guilty plea for lying to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

How Michael Flynn Profited From QAnon Conspiracy Theory (theintercept.com)

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‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell

Donald Trump issued a lengthy and rambling statement late Sunday attacking two of his staunchest allies during his one term in office.

Trump called former attorney general Bill Barr and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “spineless RINOs” (Republicans in Name Only) after Barr told The Atlantic that Trump’s constant claims of election fraud were “bullshit.” Barr also told the magazine that McConnell urged him to “inject some reality” into Trump as he repeated debunked claims of election fraud and baseless conspiracy theories last winter. 

McConnell confirmed that account, the magazine reported. That was enough to trigger the former president. 

Trump, who once claimed he would hire only “the best and most serious people,” called Barr a “disappointment in every sense of the word,” much as he has attacked many of the other “best people” he hired, including Jeff Sessions (attorney general), Rex Tillerson (secretary of state), James Mattis (defense secretary) John Bolton (national security advisor), H.R. McMaster (national security advisor) John Kelly (homeland security and chief of staff) and Mike Pence (vice president), just to name a few. 

‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell | HuffPost

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Trump breaks with reality to accuse McConnell and Bill Barr of conspiring to put Biden in the White House
   
Unwilling to accept he lost the 2020 election more than seven months ago Donald Trump, the former president, on Monday appeared to accuse his own former Attorney General Bill Barr, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of engaging in fraud and a conspiracy to put Democrat Joe Biden, now the U.S. President, in the White House.

"Had Mitch McConnell fought for the Presidency like he should have there would now be Presidential Vetoes on all of the phased Legislation that he has proven to be incapable of stopping," Trump said in a statement. "He never fought for the White House and blew it for the Country. Too bad I backed him in Kentucky, he would have been primaried and lost!"

Trump breaks with reality to accuse McConnell and Bill Barr of conspiring to put Biden in the White House - Alternet.org

Roger Stone urges Trump to dump "weak-kneed" lawyers in the face of likely indictment

Roger Stone, former advisor to President Donald Trump, speaks in front of the Supreme Court on January 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Roger Stone, former advisor to President Donald Trump, speaks in front of the Supreme Court on January 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty
Veteran Republican operative Roger Stone, with his longtime ally Donald Trump (or at least his company) facing possible criminal indictment in New York, has a message for the former president: Ditch his "weak-kneed" lawyers and hire one tough attorney to fight the potential charges.

Stone offered Trump his advice in a Sunday afternoon appearance on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' "Infowars" program. Speaking about the charges reportedly being drawn up by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. against the Trump Organization — and perhaps the former president himself — Stone urged Trump to "select one attorney" to handle his legal matters. 

Stone said he thinks Trump "needs to be very wary of this" potential indictment. "If I were him, I would not be confident about the lawyers who handled his impeachment. That fellow Bruce Castor was an embarrassment. So, I think it's vitally important that the president select one attorney who is not Eric Herschmann, who is not [former White House counsel Pat] Cipollone, these two guys who sold him out repeatedly."

Roger Stone urges Trump to dump "weak-kneed" lawyers in the face of likely indictment | Salon.com

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Trump Reportedly Shrieked at Gen. Milley: ‘You Can’t F*cking Talk to Me Like That!’

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Last summer, when former President Donald Trump was attempting to exploit racial justice protests to appease his racist supporters, he reportedly came up with a plan to deal with them—and then erupted in a fit of anger when he was told that it was completely unworkable. Axios got hold of a passage from a new book from The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender with the excellent title Frankly, We Did Win This Election.

In the book, Bender reports that Trump wanted Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to take charge of a “scorched-earth military campaign” to squash the protests. In the White House’s Situation Room, Milley reportedly told Trump that he legally couldn’t take charge of the strategy, causing Trump to scream: “I said you’re in ******* charge!” Milley then shouted back: “Well, I’m not in charge!” Trump then bellowed: “You can’t ******* talk to me like that!” An exasperated Milley then appealed to others at the meeting: “Goddamnit... There’s a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?” Then-Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly told Trump that Milley was correct.

Trump denied the account of the meeting to Axios, commenting: “If Gen. Milley had yelled at me, I would have fired him.”

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'I'm already crazy!’: QAnon pastor goes on delusional rant about sex trafficking in secret DC tunnels
   
Although People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch has announced that it has been indefinitely suspended by YouTube, its Twitter feed is alive and well — and over the weekend, the account tweeted an unhinged sermon by far-right evangelical pastor Greg Locke, who is claiming that secret tunnels used for child sex trafficking can be found underneath the White House and the U.S. Capitol Building.

Locke's sermon parrotted the fictional conspiracy theories of the extremist QAnon cult, which believes that the United States' federal government has been infiltrated by an international cabal of child sex traffickers, Satanists and cannibals and that former President Donald Trump was elected in 2016 to fight them.

'I'm already crazy!’: QAnon pastor goes on delusional rant about sex trafficking in secret DC tunnels - Alternet.org

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'I'm already crazy!’: QAnon pastor goes on delusional rant about sex trafficking in secret DC tunnels
   
Although People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch has announced that it has been indefinitely suspended by YouTube, its Twitter feed is alive and well — and over the weekend, the account tweeted an unhinged sermon by far-right evangelical pastor Greg Locke, who is claiming that secret tunnels used for child sex trafficking can be found underneath the White House and the U.S. Capitol Building.

Locke's sermon parrotted the fictional conspiracy theories of the extremist QAnon cult, which believes that the United States' federal government has been infiltrated by an international cabal of child sex traffickers, Satanists and cannibals and that former President Donald Trump was elected in 2016 to fight them.

'I'm already crazy!’: QAnon pastor goes on delusional rant about sex trafficking in secret DC tunnels - Alternet.org

So much projecting. I wouldn't be surprised if his computer was filled with a lot of really nasty stuff. 

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Total failure, but think of the mansions and yachts that were  paid for. 

 

"In just a matter of days, the last U.S. soldiers will depart Bagram. They are leaving what probably everyone connected to the base, whether American or Afghan, considers a mixed legacy.

“Bagram grew into such a massive military installation that, as with few other bases in Afghanistan and even Iraq, it came to symbolize and epitomize the phrase ‘mission creep’,” said Andrew Watkins, Afghanistan senior analyst for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group."

 

 

https://apnews.com/article/europe-3555f9cb68f905fac3a1fee0af56ec95

 

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'We're gonna be in a civil war': Trump supporter warns of more violence if the ex-president isn't reinstated
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CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan traveled to former President Donald Trump's weekend rally in Ohio and spoke to some of his supporters who warned of more violence like that witnessed at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

In a CNN clip posted to his Twitter page, O'Sullivan interviewed one Trump supporter who was convinced the former president would be reinstated by August. He espoused a fictional conspiracy theory holding that the "military" already knows Trump won the 2020 election by "over 80 percent."

"He's coming back," the supporter said.

"And what if that doesn't happen?" asked O'Sullivan, pointing out that the Constitution doesn't have a mechanism to "reinstate" a defeated president.

"We're gonna be in a civil war," the supporter said. "Because the militia will be taking over."

Tucker Carlson Claims NSA Is Spying On Him To Cancel His Fox News Show

Tucker Carlson alleged Monday that the National Security Agency is spying on him to get his prime time Fox News show canceled. (Watch the clip below.)

“Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,” he said.

Carlson, a Fox News star who has pushed revisionist takes on the Capitol insurrection, stoked fears over teaching students about racism and advanced anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, said he had proof of government spying from his source, who knew about a story the show is working on that could have only come from Carlson’s texts and emails.

“The Biden administration is spying on us,” Carlson declared. “We have confirmed that.”  “Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy,” he added. “This is scary and we need to stop it right away.” 

Tucker Carlson Claims NSA Is Spying On Him To Cancel His Fox News Show | HuffPost

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