45th President of the United States, Donald Trump (Vol. 12)
Discussion
In the past month alone, the rate of vaccinations has ramped up about 40%, to an average of 2.3 million shots a day as of Friday, Biden wanted to vaccinate everyone in 100 days, at the moment he's on target for 60.
The real issue is the number of those people who support him and won't get the vaccination because they believe the rubbish he spewed, despite trump quietly getting vaccinated himself.
There's a huge difference between trump and Biden as we've seen above. On the day trump sent that out, Biden gave an address in the Rose Garden: "I promised the American people, and I guess it's becoming an overused phrase, that help was on the way. But today, with the American Rescue Plan now signed into law, we've delivered on that promise. And I don't mean I've delivered, we've delivered."
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The real issue is the number of those people who support him and won't get the vaccination because they believe the rubbish he spewed, despite trump quietly getting vaccinated himself.
There's a huge difference between trump and Biden as we've seen above. On the day trump sent that out, Biden gave an address in the Rose Garden: "I promised the American people, and I guess it's becoming an overused phrase, that help was on the way. But today, with the American Rescue Plan now signed into law, we've delivered on that promise. And I don't mean I've delivered, we've delivered."
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Edited by Byker28i on Saturday 13th March 07:10
trumps pardon for Flynn isn't going to help much and despite trumps attempts to get investigations dropped
The Defense Department’s internal watchdog has concluded a long-delayed investigation into Michael Flynn, defense officials said Friday, sending its findings to the Army in a case that could bring tens of thousands of dollars in financial penalties for President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser.
The investigation focuses on Flynn’s acceptance of money from Russian and Turkish interests before joining the Trump administration, a potential violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause. With few exceptions, U.S. officials, including retired service members like Flynn, are prohibited from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments. Flynn retired from the Army as a three-star general in 2014.
The inspector general’s investigation, opened in April 2017, was put on hold for more than three years amid a broader scandal that included a criminal investigation of Flynn by the Justice Department — part of what would become the investigation of Trump’s first presidential campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election led by former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III.
After Trump’s pardon, the Justice Department gave approval for the Defense Department inspector general’s office to resume its investigation, said Dwrena K. Allen, a spokeswoman for acting inspector general Sean O’Donnell. The watchdog’s office closed its investigation one week after the Biden administration took office and forwarded its findings to the Army.
“On January 27, 2021, we closed our investigation against LTG Flynn and forwarded several administrative matters to the Acting Secretary of the Army for review and appropriate action,” Allen’s statement said. LTG stands for lieutenant general, Flynn’s rank at retirement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/m...
He's screwed. He's got Sydney Powell representing him don't forget...
The Defense Department’s internal watchdog has concluded a long-delayed investigation into Michael Flynn, defense officials said Friday, sending its findings to the Army in a case that could bring tens of thousands of dollars in financial penalties for President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser.
The investigation focuses on Flynn’s acceptance of money from Russian and Turkish interests before joining the Trump administration, a potential violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause. With few exceptions, U.S. officials, including retired service members like Flynn, are prohibited from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments. Flynn retired from the Army as a three-star general in 2014.
The inspector general’s investigation, opened in April 2017, was put on hold for more than three years amid a broader scandal that included a criminal investigation of Flynn by the Justice Department — part of what would become the investigation of Trump’s first presidential campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election led by former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III.
After Trump’s pardon, the Justice Department gave approval for the Defense Department inspector general’s office to resume its investigation, said Dwrena K. Allen, a spokeswoman for acting inspector general Sean O’Donnell. The watchdog’s office closed its investigation one week after the Biden administration took office and forwarded its findings to the Army.
“On January 27, 2021, we closed our investigation against LTG Flynn and forwarded several administrative matters to the Acting Secretary of the Army for review and appropriate action,” Allen’s statement said. LTG stands for lieutenant general, Flynn’s rank at retirement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/m...
He's screwed. He's got Sydney Powell representing him don't forget...
Remember trump was in frequent contact with Roger Stone
An alleged Oath Keeper charged in the Capitol riot was a driver for Roger Stone as part of his security detail at an event one day before the attack, an FBI agent testified Thursday.
The FBI agent said at a federal court hearing that he reviewed video of Joshua James and other members of the right-wing extremist group providing security to Stone, a close ally of former President Donald Trump. James' ties to Stone were previously known, but the details came up at a hearing on Thursday.
Judge Gray Borden of the Northern District of Alabama ruled that James should stay in jail before his trial in Washington, DC. The judge also ordered James to be transferred to Washington. James was arrested earlier this week and charged with entering a restricted building and obstructing congressional proceedings. He is one of approximately a dozen Oath Keepers charged in the Capitol insurrection, including some that are accused of planning the attack before traveling to Washington.
His wife,Audrey James said she was sent "around $1,500 total" directly from the Oath Keepers over a mobile app. She stated the funds were paid out over a couple of months to assist her and her children during Joshua James' absence to Texas and Washington, DC, while he was providing security. She said she didn't know where the money originated from.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/11/politics/roger-...
An alleged Oath Keeper charged in the Capitol riot was a driver for Roger Stone as part of his security detail at an event one day before the attack, an FBI agent testified Thursday.
The FBI agent said at a federal court hearing that he reviewed video of Joshua James and other members of the right-wing extremist group providing security to Stone, a close ally of former President Donald Trump. James' ties to Stone were previously known, but the details came up at a hearing on Thursday.
Judge Gray Borden of the Northern District of Alabama ruled that James should stay in jail before his trial in Washington, DC. The judge also ordered James to be transferred to Washington. James was arrested earlier this week and charged with entering a restricted building and obstructing congressional proceedings. He is one of approximately a dozen Oath Keepers charged in the Capitol insurrection, including some that are accused of planning the attack before traveling to Washington.
His wife,Audrey James said she was sent "around $1,500 total" directly from the Oath Keepers over a mobile app. She stated the funds were paid out over a couple of months to assist her and her children during Joshua James' absence to Texas and Washington, DC, while he was providing security. She said she didn't know where the money originated from.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/11/politics/roger-...
On the Capitol Riots, there's so much still going on.
320 charged. 900 search warrants. 15,000 hours of surveillance tape. And they're not done.
The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday for more time to investigate the Capitol riot before having to proceed to trial in several cases, including the prosecution of nine people accused of being followers or members of the Oath Keepers and joining in the attack.
"The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol attack will likely be one of the largest in American history," a court filing said, both in terms of the number of defendants and the sheer volume of evidence. The failure to get more time to prepare the case "would be likely to make a continuation of this proceeding impossible, or result in a miscarriage of justice."
A Justice Department official said 320 people have been charged so far, and the Friday court filing said prosecutors expect that charges will be filed against at least 100 more.
The court document also disclosed new details about the sprawling nature of the riot investigation.
More than 900 search warrants have been executed in nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C. And investigators have received a huge volume of material, including more than 15,000 hours of surveillance and police body camera video, 1,600 electronic devices, more than 80,000 reports of interviews with witnesses and suspects, and more than 210,000 tips from members of the public.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/massive-...
320 charged. 900 search warrants. 15,000 hours of surveillance tape. And they're not done.
The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday for more time to investigate the Capitol riot before having to proceed to trial in several cases, including the prosecution of nine people accused of being followers or members of the Oath Keepers and joining in the attack.
"The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol attack will likely be one of the largest in American history," a court filing said, both in terms of the number of defendants and the sheer volume of evidence. The failure to get more time to prepare the case "would be likely to make a continuation of this proceeding impossible, or result in a miscarriage of justice."
A Justice Department official said 320 people have been charged so far, and the Friday court filing said prosecutors expect that charges will be filed against at least 100 more.
The court document also disclosed new details about the sprawling nature of the riot investigation.
More than 900 search warrants have been executed in nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C. And investigators have received a huge volume of material, including more than 15,000 hours of surveillance and police body camera video, 1,600 electronic devices, more than 80,000 reports of interviews with witnesses and suspects, and more than 210,000 tips from members of the public.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/massive-...
Michael Cohen has been asked back for an eighth interview with the Manhattan DA's office as part of their criminal probe into Trump.
Senior officials in the Manhattan district attorney’s office this week asked ex-President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to return for what would be his eighth interview with the office, which is conducting a wide-ranging criminal probe related to the Trump Organization.
A person familiar with the case said that Cohen, while being questioned for the seventh time by officials via a video conference earlier this week, was asked to make himself available soon for an in-person interview in DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office.
The interest in speaking repeatedly with Cohen comes as Vance has beefed up his investigative team, recently won access to Trump’s financial records, and reportedly expanded the scope of his probe to look at Trump’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, and Weisselberg’s sons.
One of those sons works for the Trump Organization, running the company’s Central Park ice skating rinks. The other works for Ladder Capital Finance, which has lent Trump’s company nearly $300 million in connection with four buildings in Manhattan. Vance is known to be eyeing how the Trump Organization valued its buildings.
Those developments, as well as Vance’s long-expected announcement Friday that he will not seek reelection this fall, have increased speculation that the district attorney will seek to indict Trump or officials at his company in coming months.
Vance’s probe originally was focused on how the Trump Organization accounted for hush-money payments that Cohen either made or facilitated to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, before the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen, when he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other crimes in 2018, told a federal judge that he arranged those payments at the direction of Trump to keep the women quiet about their allegations of having sex with Trump. The former president denies the women’s claims.
Cohen later testified to Congress that the Trump Organization would inflate and deflate the value of real estate assets in order to either win favorable loan and insurance terms or to reduce the amount of taxes owed on them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/12/former-trump-lawye...
Quite a detailed report in the New Yorker
Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office. “It’s like night and day,” says one. According to another, “They mean business.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/can-...
Senior officials in the Manhattan district attorney’s office this week asked ex-President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to return for what would be his eighth interview with the office, which is conducting a wide-ranging criminal probe related to the Trump Organization.
A person familiar with the case said that Cohen, while being questioned for the seventh time by officials via a video conference earlier this week, was asked to make himself available soon for an in-person interview in DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office.
The interest in speaking repeatedly with Cohen comes as Vance has beefed up his investigative team, recently won access to Trump’s financial records, and reportedly expanded the scope of his probe to look at Trump’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, and Weisselberg’s sons.
One of those sons works for the Trump Organization, running the company’s Central Park ice skating rinks. The other works for Ladder Capital Finance, which has lent Trump’s company nearly $300 million in connection with four buildings in Manhattan. Vance is known to be eyeing how the Trump Organization valued its buildings.
Those developments, as well as Vance’s long-expected announcement Friday that he will not seek reelection this fall, have increased speculation that the district attorney will seek to indict Trump or officials at his company in coming months.
Vance’s probe originally was focused on how the Trump Organization accounted for hush-money payments that Cohen either made or facilitated to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, before the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen, when he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other crimes in 2018, told a federal judge that he arranged those payments at the direction of Trump to keep the women quiet about their allegations of having sex with Trump. The former president denies the women’s claims.
Cohen later testified to Congress that the Trump Organization would inflate and deflate the value of real estate assets in order to either win favorable loan and insurance terms or to reduce the amount of taxes owed on them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/12/former-trump-lawye...
Quite a detailed report in the New Yorker
Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office. “It’s like night and day,” says one. According to another, “They mean business.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/can-...
Edited by Byker28i on Saturday 13th March 16:45
trump thought he could run the cases out of time, or block the investigations using lackeys he put in place, but being Potus could work against him.
Prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office have discussed using a section of New York criminal procedure law that they successfully applied in their sexual assault case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to charge him with earlier conduct, people familiar with the matter said.
The section allows for the extension of the statute of limitations when a defendant has been out of state "continuously."
Since Trump was sworn into office in January 2017, he has spent few days in New York, which means prosecutors could effectively add that time to the clock and investigate earlier conduct.
While that would likely apply only to the former President, legal experts tell CNN that prosecutors also benefit from an executive order that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued last March that paused the clock on the statute of limitations to address the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the New York court system.
The executive order could give prosecutors another several months' worth of conduct by the Trump Organization and its employees to investigate.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/12/politics/trump-...
Prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office have discussed using a section of New York criminal procedure law that they successfully applied in their sexual assault case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to charge him with earlier conduct, people familiar with the matter said.
The section allows for the extension of the statute of limitations when a defendant has been out of state "continuously."
Since Trump was sworn into office in January 2017, he has spent few days in New York, which means prosecutors could effectively add that time to the clock and investigate earlier conduct.
While that would likely apply only to the former President, legal experts tell CNN that prosecutors also benefit from an executive order that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued last March that paused the clock on the statute of limitations to address the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the New York court system.
The executive order could give prosecutors another several months' worth of conduct by the Trump Organization and its employees to investigate.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/12/politics/trump-...
tangerine_sedge said:
Byker28i said:
320 charged. 900 search warrants. 15,000 hours of surveillance tape. And they're not done.
Some 'pitch invasion'...A U.S. Army reservist who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was widely known as a white supremacist and regularly discussed his hatred of Jews while working at a New Jersey-based naval facility, according to new evidence revealed by federal prosecutors late Friday.
The reservist, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who worked as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle and held a secret-level security clearance, was arrested and charged Jan. 15 for allegedly breaching the Capitol. At the time, prosecutors described him as an “avowed white supremacist” and Nazi sympathizer, a determination based in part on evidence provided by a confidential source to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and a YouTube channel in which Hale-Cusanelli expressed those views.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/13/capitol-r...
Questions have to be asked about the US security vetting, how do these people get and then keep their clearance?
Jonny Wishbone said:
Short Grain said:
WilliamWoollard said:
Yep, true. Unbelievable, yet totally believable in equal measure. Much like like most things that spew from the obese orangutan's pie hole.
That's fat shaming isn't it? I've checked, you can't s
t shameGot to keep the grift going...
A dog rescue charity with links to Lara Trump has spent as much as $1.9 million at former President Donald Trump’s properties over the last seven years and will drop an additional quarter-million at his Mar-a-Lago country club this weekend.
According to a permit filed with the town of Palm Beach, Florida, Big Dog Ranch Rescue estimates it will spend $225,000 at the club where Donald Trump has taken up full-time residence since leaving the White House. All the profit from that spending winds up in his pocket.
Internal Revenue Service filings show that the group has spent as much as $1,883,160 on fundraising costs at Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s golf course 18 miles north in Jupiter starting in 2014. Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, started being listed as a chairwoman for charity events in 2018, and the group’s president, Lauren Simmons, visited the White House in 2019 for the signing of a bill addressing animal cruelty.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lara-trump-...
A dog rescue charity with links to Lara Trump has spent as much as $1.9 million at former President Donald Trump’s properties over the last seven years and will drop an additional quarter-million at his Mar-a-Lago country club this weekend.
According to a permit filed with the town of Palm Beach, Florida, Big Dog Ranch Rescue estimates it will spend $225,000 at the club where Donald Trump has taken up full-time residence since leaving the White House. All the profit from that spending winds up in his pocket.
Internal Revenue Service filings show that the group has spent as much as $1,883,160 on fundraising costs at Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s golf course 18 miles north in Jupiter starting in 2014. Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, started being listed as a chairwoman for charity events in 2018, and the group’s president, Lauren Simmons, visited the White House in 2019 for the signing of a bill addressing animal cruelty.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lara-trump-...
A Capitol rioter told associates he had set up a security company as a front in order to obtain police-grade weapons he could use to “take back our country,” prosecutors said in a filing tonight.
A Texas man who joined a mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6 told two rioters he had set up a security company as a front to access law enforcement-grade weaponry that could be used to "take back our country," according to private, encrypted messages revealed Saturday by prosecutors.
Guy Reffitt, who drove from Texas to Washington, D.C., also said in recorded conversations that he and others were carrying firearms during the siege of the Capitol. He also encouraged his two associates to join the "Texas Three Percenters" militia, according to the messages posted to Telegram.
"I have a new security business to circumvent the 2nd Amendment issue," Reffitt told the pair. "Website is under construction but business is licensed with Secretary of State, Texas DPS, and Texas Board of Private Security. We can get ammo and weapons available to law enforcement. We have an interior certified training officer. Join us and lets take back our country. The fight has only just begun."
Prosecutors described the arrangement in an effort to persuade a judge that Reffitt is too dangerous to be released before his trial on charges related to the Capitol assault. Reffitt is a self-described Three Percenter, which prosecutors describe as an ideology rooted in the notion that the current government is the equivalent of British oppressors and can be overthrown by armed militias.
They noted that Reffitt misled the FBI about his company — TTP Security, LLC — telling them it had no connection to the Texas Three Percenters. Rather, he said, it stood for "Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures."
"However, the defendant’s January 9, 2021 Telegram message to his fellow rioters (and prospective TTP militia members) reveals this to be false," prosecutors said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/13/capitol-r...
A Texas man who joined a mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6 told two rioters he had set up a security company as a front to access law enforcement-grade weaponry that could be used to "take back our country," according to private, encrypted messages revealed Saturday by prosecutors.
Guy Reffitt, who drove from Texas to Washington, D.C., also said in recorded conversations that he and others were carrying firearms during the siege of the Capitol. He also encouraged his two associates to join the "Texas Three Percenters" militia, according to the messages posted to Telegram.
"I have a new security business to circumvent the 2nd Amendment issue," Reffitt told the pair. "Website is under construction but business is licensed with Secretary of State, Texas DPS, and Texas Board of Private Security. We can get ammo and weapons available to law enforcement. We have an interior certified training officer. Join us and lets take back our country. The fight has only just begun."
Prosecutors described the arrangement in an effort to persuade a judge that Reffitt is too dangerous to be released before his trial on charges related to the Capitol assault. Reffitt is a self-described Three Percenter, which prosecutors describe as an ideology rooted in the notion that the current government is the equivalent of British oppressors and can be overthrown by armed militias.
They noted that Reffitt misled the FBI about his company — TTP Security, LLC — telling them it had no connection to the Texas Three Percenters. Rather, he said, it stood for "Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures."
"However, the defendant’s January 9, 2021 Telegram message to his fellow rioters (and prospective TTP militia members) reveals this to be false," prosecutors said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/13/capitol-r...
Byker28i said:
Guy Reffitt, who drove from Texas...
The copy of your novel was received with thanks but unfortunately we are not willing to go forward with publication. The involved characters are too heavily stereotyped and the plot unbelievable.In no real world situation would...
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k.Dr. Fauci on NBC calls for Trump to urge his followers to get COVID vaccines:
"How such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated merely because of political consideration. It makes absolutely no sense."
remember despite being a denier, despoite getting it himself, trump was quietly vaccinated in Mar-a-Lago
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he hopes former President Donald Trump will push his supporters to get the COVID-19 vaccine and emphasized that pandemic-related restrictions should not be lifted prematurely.
In a PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll released last week, about half of U.S. men who identified themselves as Republicans said they had no plans to get the vaccine.
Asked whether Trump should speak to his supporters directly, given those poll numbers, Fauci said on the “Fox News Sunday” program: “I think it would make all the difference in the world.” Trump, Fauci said, “is a such a strongly popular person ... it would be very helpful for the effort for that to happen.”
Trump told attendees at a conservative conference last month to get vaccinated - saying, “everybody, go get your shot” - the first time he had encouraged people to do so.
Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program: “How such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated merely because of political considerations ... it makes absolutely no sense,” Fauci said.
The other living former U.S. presidents - Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter - are set to appear in two public service announcements for the coronavirus vaccine alongside their wives, without Trump.
President Joe Biden and other political leaders received their shots publicly to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. Trump was vaccinated privately in the White House in January, the New York Times has reported.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavi...
"How such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated merely because of political consideration. It makes absolutely no sense."
remember despite being a denier, despoite getting it himself, trump was quietly vaccinated in Mar-a-Lago
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he hopes former President Donald Trump will push his supporters to get the COVID-19 vaccine and emphasized that pandemic-related restrictions should not be lifted prematurely.
In a PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll released last week, about half of U.S. men who identified themselves as Republicans said they had no plans to get the vaccine.
Asked whether Trump should speak to his supporters directly, given those poll numbers, Fauci said on the “Fox News Sunday” program: “I think it would make all the difference in the world.” Trump, Fauci said, “is a such a strongly popular person ... it would be very helpful for the effort for that to happen.”
Trump told attendees at a conservative conference last month to get vaccinated - saying, “everybody, go get your shot” - the first time he had encouraged people to do so.
Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program: “How such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated merely because of political considerations ... it makes absolutely no sense,” Fauci said.
The other living former U.S. presidents - Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter - are set to appear in two public service announcements for the coronavirus vaccine alongside their wives, without Trump.
President Joe Biden and other political leaders received their shots publicly to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. Trump was vaccinated privately in the White House in January, the New York Times has reported.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavi...
Tartan Pixie said:
Byker28i said:
Guy Reffitt, who drove from Texas...
The copy of your novel was received with thanks but unfortunately we are not willing to go forward with publication. The involved characters are too heavily stereotyped and the plot unbelievable.In no real world situation would...
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In no real world situation would this happen.
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k.FBI said they got no corroborated warning of a threat to Congress on January 6. But a family member of Guy Reffitt, a 3%er, warned them in December.
In a motion laying out why accused insurrectionist Guy Reffitt is so dangerous he must be detained pre-trial, the government revealed that, in December, one of his family members (likely his son) contacted the FBI and warned them about Reffitt’s dangerous plans for legislators.
At around the same time, Reffitt was bragging on a Telegram chat with fellow militia members that he was going to go to DC in “full battle rattle.”
After FBI had received that warning, Reffitt put his AR-15 and a pistol into his car, and drove to DC from Texas promising to “drag[] those people out of the Capitol by their ankles” and install a new government. He sent messages on Telegram about coming to the riot armed and arranged for a “rendezvous point.” He donned body armor and a helmet and brought zip ties. According to comments he made to his kid, he brought the pistol to the Capitol. According to his own description of events, he resisted two officers trying to keep him from climbing the stairs they were trying to protect. He claimed he “started the fire” that allowed others to breach the Capitol. And, in days after the attack, Reffitt promised his kid that he was not done, that the attack on the Capitol was just the beginning. He attempted to recruit two other rioters to join the Three Percenter militia. He threatened both his children that he would kill them if they reported him to the FBI. His adult son has since moved out of his house.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/03/14/i-started-th...
Tommy Vietor
@TVietor08
So it turns out that not being a massive asshole to your allies during sensitive negotiations gets you a better deal.
South Korea will pay the U.S. more than $7 billion over six years under a new agreement on how to share the cost of American troops on the Korean Peninsula, a State Department official said.
The agreement, which will cover the period from 2020 through 2025, will remove what the State Department official described as an unnecessary irritant in U.S.-South Korea relations. It follows a parallel accord the U.S. worked out last month on cost-sharing with Japan.
Completion of the two accords will set the stage for a visit next week to both countries by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
President Donald Trump had demanded $5 billion for a one-year agreement, which led to a prolonged deadlock in the talks. During this period, Trump administration officials reviewed options to reduce the U.S. military presence on the peninsula, which totals 28,500 troops.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-to-pay-u-...
@TVietor08
So it turns out that not being a massive asshole to your allies during sensitive negotiations gets you a better deal.
South Korea will pay the U.S. more than $7 billion over six years under a new agreement on how to share the cost of American troops on the Korean Peninsula, a State Department official said.
The agreement, which will cover the period from 2020 through 2025, will remove what the State Department official described as an unnecessary irritant in U.S.-South Korea relations. It follows a parallel accord the U.S. worked out last month on cost-sharing with Japan.
Completion of the two accords will set the stage for a visit next week to both countries by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
President Donald Trump had demanded $5 billion for a one-year agreement, which led to a prolonged deadlock in the talks. During this period, Trump administration officials reviewed options to reduce the U.S. military presence on the peninsula, which totals 28,500 troops.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-to-pay-u-...
They said there was more to come
A federal grand jury indicted Brent Bozell IV (aka #HersheyChristianAcademy, aka Zeeker Bozell) on seven counts on Friday.
Indictment includes allegation he damaged property (the window).
Identified through photographs by people on the internet
Brent Bozell IV — son of conservative activist Brent Bozell, grandson of Joseph McCarthy’s speechwriter/Barry Goldwater’s ghostwriter — stormed the U.S. Capitol and invaded the Senate chamber.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brent-bozel...
A federal grand jury indicted Brent Bozell IV (aka #HersheyChristianAcademy, aka Zeeker Bozell) on seven counts on Friday.
Indictment includes allegation he damaged property (the window).
Identified through photographs by people on the internet
Brent Bozell IV — son of conservative activist Brent Bozell, grandson of Joseph McCarthy’s speechwriter/Barry Goldwater’s ghostwriter — stormed the U.S. Capitol and invaded the Senate chamber.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brent-bozel...
WilliamWoollard said:
I just remembered - exactly a year after he said: “I don’t take responsibility at all,”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trum...
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