45th President of the United States, Donald Trump (Vol. 12)

[Byker28i]

Another Capitol arrest after him mum posted photos of him on social media. Amazing how many took to boasting about the insurrection attempt
https://www.insider.com/capitol-rioter-arrested-af...

[Byker28i]

CNN have published acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue notes when trump told Rosen to declare the election corrupt and to leave the rest to him and the GOP congressmen. I missed this earlier.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/30/politics/read-d...

Donoghue was again involved when trumps acting head of the Justice Department's civil division, Jeffrey Clark called for overturning the election results in Georgia and declare trump the winner.

Clark and Donoghue must be in line for subpoenas for the trump insurrection investigation

Edit: Remember the background and story to Clarks attempts
https://www.alternet.org/2021/08/doj-officials-sho...

Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 5th August 08:13

[Byker28i]

Two lawyers who filed one of trump frivilous Big Lie court cases have been sanctioned. The lawyers behind the case, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, were reprimanded in a court hearing with the judge asking if it ever occured to them they were just repeating the stuff trump was lying about.


This was a lawsuit filed in Colorado claiming $160m in damages and filed against lDominion Voting Systems, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan and elected officials in four states lawsuit repeating trumps Big Lie of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election

The pro-Trump lawyers will need to pay all the legal fees the defendants incurred defending themselves against this frivolous lawsuit.




Washington Post reporting here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanctions-...

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lawyers-sanctione...

The filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscour...

[Eric Mc]

Byker28i said:

Amazing how many took to boasting about the insurrection attempt
https://www.insider.com/capitol-rioter-arrested-af...

Not really.

a) they thought they would succeed - so would be immune from prosecution

b) they are stupid

[Tom Logan]

Byker28i said:

As Giuliani moans again about trump not paying his legal fees, I seem to remember at the first impeachment that Giuliani said that he had insurance,


Remember trump never paid him the $20k a day rate he wanted for promoting trumps Big Lie in court cases, in which he lost them all...

Cohens told him trump will ditch him rapidly. Time for that insurance Rudy...

It's difficult to believe that this is the same man who was held in such high esteem when, as mayor of New York, he cleaned up the city's corruption and much of the endemic criminality.

A salutory lesson indeed to those who took the Trump 'dirty dollar' and are now reaping the inevitable karma.

[captain_cynic]

Byker28i said:

Wisconsin elections officials have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls.
174,307 voter registrations were deactivated simply because the voters hadn't cast a ballot in four years and didn't respond to a mailing.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsi...

Admittedly this seems fair. They're removing people who haven't voted for at least 1 federal election. Likely many of whom have left the state. The law in WI says they're supposed to do this every two years according to the article.

I have to wonder a put the other 30,700 though?

[Blackpuddin]

captain_cynic said:

Byker28i said:

Wisconsin elections officials have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls.
174,307 voter registrations were deactivated simply because the voters hadn't cast a ballot in four years and didn't respond to a mailing.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsi...

Admittedly this seems fair. They're removing people who haven't voted for at least 1 federal election. Likely many of whom have left the state. The law in WI says they're supposed to do this every two years according to the article.

Surely this will impact more on the GOP vote than the Dem one? Or is it a false assumption that Dem voters are likely to be more active and more interested in the idea of using their vote?

[Byker28i]

Blackpuddin said:

captain_cynic said:

Byker28i said:

Wisconsin elections officials have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls.
174,307 voter registrations were deactivated simply because the voters hadn't cast a ballot in four years and didn't respond to a mailing.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsi...

Admittedly this seems fair. They're removing people who haven't voted for at least 1 federal election. Likely many of whom have left the state. The law in WI says they're supposed to do this every two years according to the article.

Surely this will impact more on the GOP vote than the Dem one? Or is it a false assumption that Dem voters are likely to be more active and more interested in the idea of using their vote?

The problem is that this has been used in the past, especially in Georgi to remove likely Dem voters. 2016 many went to the polls to find they weren't registered, hence Stacey Abrams efforts to get everyone reregistered. I'd expect to see similar efforts needed to be undertaken in Winsconsin.

Add this into the new Winsconsin voting laws to restrict mail in voting that was used extensively by dem voters
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wisconsin-...

Limiting drop boxes etc
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-...

All designed to disenchant/limit dem voters. Remember trump lost by 20K votes here and was another state he tried to overturn the results
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-campaign-tries-...

One wonders if this was another State where officials were subjected to his phone calls...

Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 5th August 10:05

[Prolex-UK]

Byker28i said:

Wisconsin elections officials have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls.
174,307 voter registrations were deactivated simply because the voters hadn't cast a ballot in four years and didn't respond to a mailing.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsi...

Not sure thats such a bad thing myself.

If they had voted but not responded then thats fair

No votes or response indicates may have moved or died to me

[Byker28i]

The number of votes cast in Wisconsin was 3,278,963. The voting-age population in Wisconsin was 4,536,293 (as of 2019, according to the elections commission), so you get a turnout rate of 72.3%.


205,000 from the roll when 1.3m didn't vote... be interesting to see the selection criterea and it's only because of Georgias antics in the past...


Stats from here:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/...

[Al Gorithum]

Playing the Trump card.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-...

Oh dear. "Those who try to vote for their favourite design are redirected to a fundraising page hinting that this could just be Trump’s latest grift."

[Blackpuddin]

Al Gorithum said:

Playing the Trump card.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-...

Oh dear. "Those who try to vote for their favourite design are redirected to a fundraising page hinting that this could just be Trump’s latest grift."

Doubles up as a handy opener for inconveniently locked doors on your next insurrection outing.

[fatbutt]

It'd be funny if all the Trump cards had GPS tracking chips in them...

[Byker28i]

Blackpuddin said:

Al Gorithum said:

Playing the Trump card.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-...

Oh dear. "Those who try to vote for their favourite design are redirected to a fundraising page hinting that this could just be Trump’s latest grift."

Doubles up as a handy opener for inconveniently locked doors on your next insurrection outing.

Look carefully, they can't spell official...

[Byker28i]

There's a renewed call for Scotland to investigate his Scottish golf courses under the unexplained wealth law as trump org is investigated and charged...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/...

[Byker28i]

Remember when 21 Republicans voted to refuse to reward Officers that defended the capitol on 6 Jan against trumps insurrection
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/congre...

Remember when Georgia's Republican Andrew Clyde refused to shake hands with Office Fanone
https://www.axios.com/capitol-riot-police-officer-...


Biden has got the job done.
President Biden has signed into law legislation that awards congressional gold medals to the Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/joe-bi...

[Byker28i]

House investigators have interviewed Patrick Hovakimian, chief of staff to then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen for over 3 hours. He drafted a resignation letter on 3 Jan over what he said were trumps direct instructions to use the DOJ to support his Big Lie, his false election fraud claims.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/04/politics/justic...


Remember trump telling the DOJ to just declare it fraudulent and leave the rest to him and GOP congressmen...

Remember

[Byker28i]

Nice to see the former guy and current GOP Cult leader issue a statement attacking the US Olympic team

[Byker28i]

Chris Hayes on MSNBC last night pointing out to viewers that trump had an actual, cognizable plan to overturn the election, an actual strategy to get trump declared the winner ignoring the results.

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-breaks-do...

[Byker28i]

Just Security with a huge article on how involved Mark Meadows was at the heart of pushing trumps Big Lie. They have a timeline of his actions known so far

https://www.justsecurity.org/77681/mark-meadows-ti...


Remember how Barr resigned on 15th December - he knew exactly what was happening and wanted to distance himself. Remember how he said he hadn't heard of any pressure on the DOJ from trump...yet we know thats exactly what was happening.

Remember how new Jeffrey Clark drafted letters containing false election information, which he wanted to send to the six states that Trump pretended he won, in return trump was going to make him acting Attorney General. Remember how he tried to pressurise the DOJ
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-officials-rejected-c...

Edited by Byker28i on Friday 6th August 08:00