An off-duty Massachusetts National Guard member aggressively confronted a tour bus full of senior citizens thinking they were migrants excerpt; "Vaughn told the local news outlet that the service member "was literally five feet off my bumper" as he tailed the vehicle, even when he tried slowing down and changing lanes."
People in law enforcement, fire fighting, and the armed forces seem particularly prone to being gullible to Trump's rhetoric and Trump-like rhetoric (Abbott, DeSantis). The unusually high percentage of such people at Trump's insurrection is an example.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-potentially-faked-being-a-reporter-debbie-dingell-call-book-2022-9 excerpt: "In the book "Confidence Man," Haberman detailed how the Michigan Democratic lawmaker said she received a call, where the person on the line asked if she wanted an apology from Trump, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. "When she answered, the man on the other end identified himself as a Washington Post reporter, and said he knew her husband from his investigations in Congress. The name he gave was not one she recognized," Haberman wrote. She continued: "The man asked Dingell if she was looking for an apology from Trump. No, she replied, merely that people could be civil to one another. As the man talked, Dingell couldn't shake the idea that his voice sounded like that of the forty-fifth president." Trump's office didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment."
Officer Fanone Says Jan. 6 Rioter’s Mom Apologized in Court—Then Called Him a ‘Piece of Sh*t’ excerpt: "Former Washington, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone says he was repeatedly called a “piece of shit” during the trial of one of the men who attacked him during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Fanone made the allegation while speaking on CNN after rioter Kyle Young was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Tuesday for his role in the attack, which included shocking Fanone with a stun gun. “When I was walking back from the podium delivering my victim impact statement, an individual who was seated with other relatives of Mr. Young stood up and called me a piece of shit,” Fanone said. “He was quickly escorted out of the courtroom and then out of the court building by the U.S. Marshalls.” Fanone added that he believed the remorse expressed by some Jan. 6 rioters and their relatives is merely performative in order to try and secure more lenient sentences. “His mother stood up and tried to apologize to me in the courtroom,” Fanone said, referring to Young’s mother. “And then later on, as I was leaving the courthouse, his mother and several other individuals who were seated with her in the courtroom again called me a piece of shit. So I think it’s just another example of a January 6 defendant begging for leniency, but in reality there’s no remorse there.”"
Trump's legal team says that vendors don't want to work with them for special-master review because 'seasoned IT professionals' can't handle the government's 11,000 files and strict deadlines excerpt: "Trump's legal team in a new filing is arguing that they can't retain a vendor to digitize the documents to be handed over to a special master for review because there are simply too many files, and too tight of a deadline. The filing was in response to the government's filing on Tuesday, where the Department of Justice said that the vendors simply refused to be engaged by Trump's team. But in their filing asking special master Raymond Dearie to consider new, longer deadlines in the digitization and turnover of the documents, Trump's legal team said it was more complex — and that they needed until mid-October to get the job done."
Trump avoids Friday deposition in lawsuit by being in Mar-a-Lago during hurricane | CNN Politics excerpt: "There’s a reason Donald Trump is riding out Hurricane Ian at his Florida beach club: He was scheduled to be deposed at Mar-a-Lago on Friday as a defendant in a class-action lawsuit. The revelation was made public in letters filed in court Wednesday by the lawyers suing him. They are trying to question the former President in an ongoing case that accuses him, his adult children and the Trump Organization of deception and fraud as they allegedly promoted scam businesses. John Quinn, one of the lawyers representing a group of people accusing Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that Trump refused to move his deposition out of Palm Beach, even as the hurricane approached. Quinn and his team didn’t want to fly into Florida this week given the severity of the storm, and they said Trump’s side wouldn’t move the deposition to Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump has a golf club. The court had set a Friday deadline for lawyers to be able to question Trump and others in the case under oath."
DeSantis now has enough to keep him busy. He appeared to have excess time on his hands with his political stunts of human trafficking. Hurricane Ian: Cities flooded and power cut as storm crosses Florida
A Trump-style election. Kremlin will annex 4 regions of Ukraine on Friday excerpt: "Armed troops had gone door-to-door with election officials to collect ballots in five days of voting. The suspiciously high margins in favor were characterized as a land grab by an increasingly cornered Russian leadership after embarrassing military losses in Ukraine."
Michigan election worker charged with tampering with voting equipment excerpt: "At the Aug. 2 primary, an election worker was seen inserting a USB drive into the computer used to administer the election at a precinct in Gaines Township in Kent County, according to a statement by county clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons. The incident highlights the so-called "insider threat" risk that has increasingly worried election officials, especially in battleground states like Michigan where falsehoods about systemic voter fraud in the 2020 election have spread most widely. "This incident is extremely egregious and incredibly alarming. Not only is it a violation of Michigan law, but it is a violation of public trust and of the oath all election workers are required to take," Lyons said in the statement. Chris Becker, the county's prosecuting attorney, said he had charged the election worker, James Donald Holkeboer, with falsifying election records and using a computer to commit a crime. If convicted, he could face up to nine years in prison."
The damage caused by Trump is almost irreparable. After the midterms will we even know who the winning side is days or even weeks after the election? An election that will be fought with dozens of claims of voter fraud, impropriety, and voting machine tampering by election officials (as witnessed by MAGA poll watchers)
Oh, stop. They're part of the well regulated militia that's necessary for the security of our free state....
Republicans have been bitching and crying about Biden over extending his authority during the COVID-19 crisis and now are not saying anything about Desense-less ordering evacuations? They complained Biden had ordered people to stay at home, not go to work without a mask, wear a mask on the bus and plane, wear a mask at the courthouse, get a vaccine; and now they are silent about orders from their senseless leaders.
200,000 pages of documents. JUST IN: New Trump Filing Shows a Staggering 200,000 Pages of Documents Were Seized in FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago excerpt: "A new court filing by Team Trump claims that “closer to 200,000 pages” of documents were seized in the FBI search of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort home in Florida. In their latest filing to Special Master in the Mar-a-Lago probe, Judge Raymond Dearie — who was one of two proposed candidates Team Trump suggested for Special Master — Trump attorneys James Trusty, Lindsey Halligan, and Evan Corcoran said they can’t find a vendor to scan all the documents in time. The reason? The 11,000 documents contained a lot more pages than they were expecting."
Trump is probably still hiding out in his document storage bunker. Mine...mine!...They're alllll mine......muhaaaahahaha.....rolling around in them like scrooge McDuck in his gold.
'They seem stunned': Bloomberg publishes Navy records of Donald Trump’s theatrical visit to Japan excerpt: "Former President Donald Trump's 2019 visit to Japan included an incident involving his ego and an American warship. On Thursday, Bloomberg Business Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold published the White House Military Office's records of the debacle that he obtained after a long-awaited fulfillment of a Freedom of Information Act Request. Leopold summarizes the partially-redacted emails between officials in the United States Pacific Command and the Navy in a Twitter thread."
'They seem stunned': Bloomberg publishes Navy records of Donald Trump’s theatrical visit to Japan excerpt: "NEW: Remember when Trump took a trip to Japan back in 2019 and reports surfaced that the WH requested the move the USS John McCain out of view so it wouldn't upset Trump? Well, I #FOIA'd the military for docs about this & 3 yrs later they just arrived. 'This just makes me sad' The White House Military Office passed along a request to keep the USS John McCain out of sight when Trump visited Japan. How the sequence of events unfolded: An email describing how the directives to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's 2019 visit to Japan were passed to US Indo-Pacific Command and the Navy. Navy officials wanted names of the individuals responsible for requesting the USS John McCain be kept out of view during Trump's visit to Japan. They seem stunned. All of the White House Military Office emails about the discussions to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's visit to Japan are classified and redacted except for one."