The Donald Trump Score Card

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s response to Rolling Stone’s January 6 bombshell gives away the game

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"Aside from Greene, the report also alleges that a number of other Republican representatives or their staffs may have had a hand in planning the rallies, including Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, Louie Gohmert, and Paul Gosar, along with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. (Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson is also implicated in the report as being involved in coordinating between organizers of the protests and the White House.)

The most eyebrow-raising accusations in the report include Representative Gosar allegedly offering a blanket pardon for an unrelated investigation in exchange for planning the protests, and Meadows allegedly receiving minute-by-minute updates of the rallies going off the rails and doing nothing to stop them. Furthermore, the sources claim that “members of Congress” were in touch with multiple people associated with the March for Trump and Stop the Steal events between the election and January 6. And lest anyone suggest that the planners are just making up all of these allegations to save their own skin, Rolling Stone claims to have separately obtained documentary evidence that its sources were in contact with Gosar and Boebert on January 6, although the report does not reveal the nature of that evidence, in order to preserve the planners’ anonymity."

 

'Call your lawyer': Legal experts weigh in on bombshell report naming GOPers involved in Jan. 6 rally planning

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""The potential that Members of Congress were deeply involved in the failed Trump Coup is another reason AG Garland must appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Jan. 6th," says former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean, who also makes clear this is a matter for DOJ. "There are Congressional staff who can testify to the involvement of Members."

Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor for 30 years, is calling it the "mother of all cover-ups."

Attorney Maya Wiley, an MSNBC and NBC News Legal Analyst and senior vice president for social justice at The New School says it "Certainly explains how hard GOP tried to derail" the January 6 Committee."

 

If Jenna Ryan had that great of a life going for herself that she says she did, she shouldn't have even bothered giving herself a criminal record in the name of someone like Trump.


North Texas Realtor Jenna Ryan Pleads Guilty over U.S. Capitol Riot

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“Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I'm not going to jail,” she tweeted. “Sorry to rain on your hater parade. I did nothing wrong.”

 

Is Merrick Garland letting Trump’s people off the hook?

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"In February, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to make the Capitol riot one of his primary focuses.

"I will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol on January 6 — a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy: the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government," he said during his confirmation hearing."

 

Is Merrick Garland letting Trump’s people off the hook?

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"Second, Garland has taken a relatively hands-off approach to reviewing potential misconduct from Trump’s Justice Department. Rather than initiating a broad review himself, he’s left individual issues of concern to the department’s inspector general to handle.

Finally, there’s a fear that the department won’t aggressively pursue merited criminal investigations against Trump or his associates. This is the toughest to assess, since so much of this decision-making happens behind the scenes. Still, last week’s indictment of Trump campaign adviser Tom Barrack and the raids of Rudy Giuliani’s home and office in April do seem to make clear there’s no generalized amnesty for Trump-affiliated lawbreakers.

The common theme is a worry among Garland’s critics that the wrongs of the Trump administration are being unaddressed, out of a desire to move on. There may be some truth to that, but the fuller story is more complicated and nuanced."

 

The Republicans' security blanket

 

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Jan. 6 committee: Biden White House rejects more executive privilege claims by Trump - CNNPolitics

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"President Joe Biden has once again refused to assert executive privilege over more documents that former President Donald Trump has sought to keep out of the hands of the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

According to a letter obtained by CNN, White House counsel Dana Remus informed National Archivist David Ferriero on Monday that Biden would not assert privilege over additional materials that Trump requested remain secret as a matter of executive privilege.

The former President has has already filed a lawsuit to stop the National Archives, the custodian of his administration's White House records, from giving documents to Congress that he believes are privileged, and the latest documents will likely become part of that lawsuit. The National Archives is set to begin turning over records to the House on November 12, unless Trump gets a court order.

"President Biden has considered the former President's assertion, and I have engaged in consultations with the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice," Remus wrote.

"President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified, as to the documents provided to the White House on September 16, 2021, and September 23, 2021. Accordingly, President Biden does not uphold the former President's assertion of privilege.""

 

Insanity defense?

MAGA rioter told investigators that Ashli Babbitt never existed and 'statistics' prove Trump is still president

Philip James Weisbecker said that he was at the Ellipse for Trump's two-hour speech where "there were thousands of people already surrounding the Capitol." It's not specified how he could see people surrounding the Capitol if he was over a mile away.

The indictment took a different turn when Weisbecker began spouting conspiracy theories that former President Donald Trump is still in office and that Ashli Babbit doesn't even exist.

"He stated [President] Trump is still the president and that all the statistics showed it

He went on to blame ANTIFA for the Capitol attack and called it a "false flag" by the anti-fascist group. He claimed, "the American Patriot(s) were there to tell the Senators to do the right thing and they were standing up for their rights." It doesn't explain why he thinks that ANTIFA was behind the attack if he also said "American Patriots" were there to talk to Senators.

 

What is executive privilege and can a former president use it? - CNNPolitics

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"Trump's White House had an expansive but inconsistent view of privilege

Trump initially used executive privilege to hide special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation from Congress and the public. He used it to hide documents related to the Census from Congress. Neither of those ultimately worked, but they were part of an attempted expansion of executive privilege.

Trump simply released the damning transcript of his infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, part of a nothing-to-see-here strategy to downplay the fact that he exerted political pressure on Ukraine to damage Biden.

But then, as impeachment approached, many White House aides refused to cooperate with House investigators. They simply ignored subpoenas and refused to testify or turn over documents. This lack of cooperation became the basis for one of the articles of impeachment, but Democrats, who were in a hurry at the time, didn't pursue the subpoenas in court.

Other witnesses -- the ones you saw testify against Trump -- ignored Trump and cooperated with investigators. He was impeached in the House, but Republicans in the Senate voted against convicting him.

Not satisfied simply with privilege, Trump's lawyers later argued he was also entitled to "total immunity." The Supreme Court disagreed, deciding he could not hide his financial records from lawmakers and state authorities."

 

Gaetz along with a group of about two dozen (supposed law-and-order) Republicans stormed a secure room in the Capitol to delay the testimony of a military official about Trump's dealings with Ukraine for which he was later impeached.

It was a mini version of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol that delayed the certification of Biden's win.


Republicans storm secure room, delay in questioning of top defense official on Ukraine aid

 

Each revelation is more explosive than the next

 

Former AG Jeff Sessions (whom Trump later fired) assigned Huber to investigate Hillary Clinton in 2017. The investigation came up empty in 2020.


U.S. inquiry into FBI, Clinton spurred by Republicans ends without results: Washington Post

 

Bonhoeffer's an idiot, who has no clue just how stupid his theory is, or how dangerous to society!

 

In a way, Trump was accurate if he said "you'd be in jail" and meant his followers, not Hillary.

 

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