All Things Trump: the story continues...

[JimC]

He is very open about using lack of endorsement as a weapon against people in the Republican Party who do not fully support him. Would it be true that Republican politicians who defy him in some way will most likely not be nominated to contest elections, or is it an empty threat?

[Tero]

He is attempting to "primary" any republicans he can. Some are in voting districts barely won by democrats. The thinking is that the more colorful populist would bring out voters and vote in the trumpster.They have no platform. Just hatred of liberals and biden. I doubt any house seat will flip in 2022. Loss of senate would be worse.

[Joe]

Michael Cohen trying out his new career as an online comic.

[JimC]

Has he been told not to give up his day job?

[Joe]

On the contrary, he was told quite explicitly to give up his day job.

[Seabass]

Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump
https://www.justsecurity.org/75032/liti ... ald-trump/

There's so many!

[JimC]

Hopefully, the shotgun principle works, so at least some hit home...

[Joe]

Wow, that's the first time I've seen a case citing the Ku Klux Klan Act. I remember reading about that in an American history class - the chapter on Reconstruction.

[Tero]

Me onbike.

Stopped to ride a few miles at Bozeman, which is only some 45-50% Trumpsters. It looked half way civilized, with bike lanes.

Trump here:
https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story ... 872433002/

[L'Emmerdeur]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-31/ ... /100339562

Former United States president Donald Trump has suffered a pair of setbacks, with the Department of Justice clearing the way for the release of his tax records and also disclosing a memo showing he urged top officials to falsely claim his election defeat was "corrupt".

Handwritten notes taken by then-acting deputy attorney-general Richard Donoghue in December were released on Friday by the chair of the House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee, Carolyn Maloney.

They paint a damning picture of Mr Trump as he sought to get the department to take the unprecedented step of intervening to try to upend his 2020 election loss.

Hours later, the department cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over Mr Trump's tax records to congressional investigators — a move he has long fought.

The fact that the Justice Department allowed the handwritten notes concerning the election to be turned over the congressional investigators marks a dramatic shift from actions taken during the Trump administration, which repeatedly invoked executive privilege to skirt congressional scrutiny.

The newly released notes detail a December 27 phonecall in which Jeffrey Rosen, who was appointed as acting attorney-general a few days later, is quoted as telling Mr Trump: "Understand that the DOJ can't + won't snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election."

"Don't expect you to do that," Mr Trump replied.

"Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," in a reference to Republican politicians.

Little by little, the noose tightens...

Maybe Clark will be prosecuted, but given the current US Justice Department's track record of accepting presidential malfeasance on a nearly carte blanche basis, it would be no surprise if they ignored Trump's part in the conspiracy.

'"We Have a Conspiracy": Ex-Federal Prosecutor Connects the Dots After New Trump DOJ Revelations'

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner walked through the latest revelations and their ramifications on former President Donald Trump.

Over the weekend it was reported that Trump’s former Justice Department officials testified to the Senate behind closed doors, revealing the specifics around Trump’s alleged demands to nullify the 2020 election.

“Glenn, I’d like to believe that poisoning the minds of the electorate is criminal, but maybe it’s not,” said MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle. “What kind of consequences could he face?”

Kirschner explained that this is the first time that witnesses revealed Trump was linked to a conspiracy to commit a crime.

“I’m going to enlist you in a hypothetical crime. I’ve done this to you before on-air,” he began. “So what we have here is the president asking his DOJ officials to lie. ‘Say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me.’ We now know that Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official, took him up on that. And what he did was he authored a letter to Georgia state officials and the state officials of five other states, trying to implement Donald Trump’s lie and undermine the election results.”

He explained that’s the point at which there’s is a coordinated conspiracy.

“I thought now we have not only a conspiracy, an agreement between two people to commit a crime, defraud the United States, undermine the election results,” Kirschner continued. “We have the second element of conspiracy which is an overt act. So, if you and I agree to rob a bank and I went out and got the gun, you went out and rented the car because we were going to use a rental car in the bank robbery and then the next day we abandon our plans. We thought we’re not going to do it. Guess what? Even though we didn’t rob the bank, we didn’t actually move on to the object of the conspiracy, you and I, hypothetically, committed the crime of conspiracy to rob a bank. That is what these facts support and demand an investigation of a conspiracy that was involved President Trump and involved Jeff Clark and perhaps others.”

[JimC]

Lock them up!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/ ... /100372536

A US federal judge has cleared the way for a defamation case to proceed against allies of former president Donald Trump who had falsely accused a vote-counting machine company of rigging the 2020 presidential election.

Dominion Voting Systems can now pursue Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell after US District Judge Carl Nichols ruled there was no blanket protection on political speech and denied an argument from two of the defendants that the federal court in Washington was not the proper venue for the case.

Dominion has sought $US1.3 billion ($1.76 billion) in damages from the trio.

"As an initial matter, there is no blanket immunity for statements that are 'political' in nature," the judge wrote in his 44-page ruling.

While courts have recognised there are some hyperbolic statements in political discourse, "it is simply not the law that provably false statements cannot be actionable if made in the context of an election", the ruling said.

[Tero]

It's tomorrow!

[JimC]

No it's not, it's today!

[L'Emmerdeur]

They all laughed at Nostradamus.

'On eve of "Trump reinstatement" Mike Lindell says he knows he's going to win because of God'

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell closed his symposium Thursday saying that he knows he's going to "win," though it wasn't clear what it was he would win.

Speaking to his friends at The Victory Channel, Lindell claimed that God gave him his platform, and that's how he knows he'll win. Lindell has promised that tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will resign and, somehow, former President Donald Trump will be reinstated.

"The morning of August 13 it'll be the talk of the world, going, 'Hurry up! Let's get this election pulled down, let's right the right, let's get these communists out, you know, that have taken over,'" Lindell told Brannon Howse in early July.

[Seabass]