The white males were given light sentences, usually no jail or prison time after knowingly scheming to commit voter fraud and doing it by using deceased relatives. In contrast, an African-American woman in Texas was sentenced to five years in prison for inadvertently voting while she was on supervised release. An election-related official told her it was permissible for her to vote
GOP voter gets light sentence after casting ballot for deceased wife excerpt: "But let's also spare a thought for Crystal Mason, who cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 elections while on supervised release for a federal conviction. She didn't know she was ineligible to vote, and her ballot was never counted, but Mason — a Black woman — was convicted of illegal voting and sentenced to five years in prison. It's hard not to notice that white guys like Donald Kirk Hartle, Robert Richard Lynn, Edward Snodgrass, and Bruce Bartman received vastly more lenient sentences, despite the fact that they knowingly hatched schemes to cast illegal ballots on behalf of dead relatives."
A business related to Hartle, who pleaded guilty to voting illegally, was involved with a Trump rally in NV and was fined $3,000 for violating Covid restrictions. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/us/voter-fraud-nevada.html excerpt: "Mr. Hartle is the chief financial officer and treasurer of Ahern Rentals, according to his LinkedIn profile. The business rents out construction equipment and is a part of the Ahern Family of Companies. One of its businesses, Xtreme Manufacturing, was fined $3,000 in 2020 for hosting a Trump rally that did not comply with the state’s Covid regulations at the time, said Kathleen Richards, a spokeswoman for the city of Henderson, Nev."
At his reunion rally in Butler, PA in October, Trump said, "We have and enemy from within, which I think is much more dangerous than the outside enemy." He also said, "We have an evil world. We have a very sick world."
16 years after the Great Recession started, Trump's supporters still have faith in billionaire moguls to save them.
Many of the tactics Jack Smith accused Trump of using to overturn the 2020 election are still in play for 2024 excerpt: "Smith’s filing recalled tense scenes from 2020, when counting sites in battleground states were swarmed by angry protesters, fueled by baseless claims of voter fraud, trying to disrupt poll workers from counting ballots. When a Trump campaign operative was told by a colleague during the 2020 election that the behavior of the crowd at Detroit’s TCF Center was headed in the direction of the so-called Brooks Brothers’ riot that sought to block ballot counting in Florida, the operative said “Make them riot” and “do it!!!,” Smith’s new filing revealed. Prosecutors allege that the Trump campaign used similarly aggressive tactics in Philadelphia to force confrontation with election officials, which Trump and his allies used to claim his supporters were denied access to observe the count."
Trump uses underhanded approaches. He riles his supporters to violence but it's difficult to legally hold him accountable for it. His insurrection at the Capitol is an example. Another is his anti-migrant, anti-refugee rhetoric that spawned a rash of bomb threats in Springfield, OH. An average person inciting with such rhetoric would have a higher chance of being arrested than Trump. Trump doesn't appear to have made any serious effort to stop the bomb threats in Springfield, OH that he caused. It's similar to his waiting for three hours before he made any significant effort to stop his riot at the Capitol. Trump said he loved the people of Texas in response to a group of Texans who ran a Biden-Harris tour bus off the road during the 2020 campaign.
Trump is the threat to democracy. Melania needs to learn how to become her own person. When she was asked in March 2024 if she would start accompanying Trump on the campaign trail, she should have said, :"Hell no." right in front of Trump. But she did her usual 'stay tuned' response. People did stay tuned. She never made any serious effort to join Trump on the campaign trail and be on stage with him.
Eleven damning details in unsealed filing.in the Trump election subversion case. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/jack-smith-trump-election-brief-details-00182287
Jury: Fleming Island man guilty of felony for $21K damage to 1850s door in U.S. Capitol riot excerpt: "A jury in Washington has convicted a Fleming Island man of destroying government property as part of a crowd that broke open a door at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot there. Marcus Smith, 47, faces a potential sentence of up to 10 years behind bars because the price of the damage exceeded $1,000. The door in the Capitol Senate Wing dated from the 1850s and replacing it was estimated to cost about $21,000, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington said in a release on the verdict, which the jury reached about 4:35 p.m. Monday."
Trump's latest threats to the media. Trump’s latest media threats add to an authoritarian-style agenda
Ok Melani-uh, you've been in this country for a long long time...maybe it's time to shake some of the mysterious Natasha Nogoodnik accent.
Donald Trump & Howard Stern go away back. Both testerone fueled New Yorkers who knew each other from the doings on in NY. Both masters of media manipulation. Preening before the public eye. Trump let go a damming indicement of a Stern softball interview: Trump slams Howard Stern over ‘SOFTBALL’ Harris interview
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/media/fcc-rosenworcel-trump-cbs-license-60-minutes/index.html excerpt: "Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel denounced former President Donald Trump’s “threats against free speech” Thursday after he attacked CBS and called for the network to “lose its license” over a recent “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. In recent days, the former president has lambasted the Harris interview, accusing CBS News of editing the sit-down with correspondent Bill Whitaker. On Thursday, Trump used his Truth Social platform to again take aim at what he alleged to be “a giant Fake News Scam,” accusing “60 Minutes” of replacing Harris’ answers with another to “make her look better.”"
Trump insults Detroit during speech in Detroit. Trump insults Detroit during speech … in Detroit excerpt: “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” Trump said.
A 43-foot tall naked Trump sculpture has been erected in Detroit. It seems to be making its way through the swing states. It's been seen in Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Man charged with assaulting police during Capitol riot. Midland man charged with assaulting Capitol police in Jan. 6 riots
Trump's reported calls with Putin may have been illegal. Susan Rice: Trump’s reported calls with Putin appear illegal