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Migrant Found Hanging from Tree in Texas 80 Miles from Border
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found the remains of a suspected migrant hanging from a tree on a Texas ranch in Brooks County. The case is being investigated as a potential homicide, Sheriff Benny Martinez tells Breitbart Texas.
Brooks County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received a call on Thursday from Falfurrias Station Border Patrol agents regarding the remains of a suspected migrant found hanging by the neck from a tree. Deputies and other law enforcement officials responded to the scene.
“We have never seen anything like this in our county,” Sheriff Martinez told Breitbart Texas on Friday. “We regularly find deceased migrants in this county, but never anything like this. This is what our deputies and the Border Patrol agents have to deal with here.”
Martinez said the circumstances surrounding the migrant’s death are confusing at this point.
“We aren’t sure if the migrant was hanged or if he did this to himself,” the sheriff explained. “We will have to wait on a full autopsy to figure out what really happened.”
The investigators reported both of the decedent’s feet were removed, most likely by animals. Deputies found one foot at the scene. A search will be carried out Friday to attempt to locate the other. Investigators also found two identification cards belonging to a Mexican male.
After documenting the scene, deputies moved the remains to the county morgue where they will attempt to obtain fingerprints from the severely decomposed body.
A full autopsy will be conducted by the Webb County Medical Examiner’s Office in Laredo, Texas.
Martinez said his deputies have processed the death scenes of nearly 100 migrants in Brooks County in 2021. In addition to the 98 found dead on ranches, the deputies also processed a fatal crash where 10 migrants died and 20 more were injured.
The 118 migrant deaths recorded this year compares to 34 found dead for the entire year in 2020, Martinez said. This represents a nearly 250 percent increase.
“I just returned from three days in our nation’s capital,” Martinez said. “We try to factually tell people how bad it is this year. Some seem to understand, but many claim we are making this up. This death, while an extreme situation, is yet another example of the tragic deaths occurring here.”
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Brooks County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received a call on Thursday from Falfurrias Station Border Patrol agents regarding the remains of a suspected migrant found hanging by the neck from a tree. Deputies and other law enforcement officials responded to the scene.
“We have never seen anything like this in our county,” Sheriff Martinez told Breitbart Texas on Friday. “We regularly find deceased migrants in this county, but never anything like this. This is what our deputies and the Border Patrol agents have to deal with here.”
Martinez said the circumstances surrounding the migrant’s death are confusing at this point.
“We aren’t sure if the migrant was hanged or if he did this to himself,” the sheriff explained. “We will have to wait on a full autopsy to figure out what really happened.”
The investigators reported both of the decedent’s feet were removed, most likely by animals. Deputies found one foot at the scene. A search will be carried out Friday to attempt to locate the other. Investigators also found two identification cards belonging to a Mexican male.
After documenting the scene, deputies moved the remains to the county morgue where they will attempt to obtain fingerprints from the severely decomposed body.
A full autopsy will be conducted by the Webb County Medical Examiner’s Office in Laredo, Texas.
Martinez said his deputies have processed the death scenes of nearly 100 migrants in Brooks County in 2021. In addition to the 98 found dead on ranches, the deputies also processed a fatal crash where 10 migrants died and 20 more were injured.
The 118 migrant deaths recorded this year compares to 34 found dead for the entire year in 2020, Martinez said. This represents a nearly 250 percent increase.
“I just returned from three days in our nation’s capital,” Martinez said. “We try to factually tell people how bad it is this year. Some seem to understand, but many claim we are making this up. This death, while an extreme situation, is yet another example of the tragic deaths occurring here.”
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Breaking Covid News
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BREAKING NEWS
Most of the recently dead were in the South and unvaccinated, and there were more younger victims than any other point in the pandemic.
Friday, October 1, 2021 6:39 PM EST
An overwhelming majority of Americans who have died in recent months were unvaccinated. The United States has had one of the highest recent death rates of any country with an ample supply of vaccines.
The coronavirus pandemic has become the deadliest in American history, overtaking the toll from the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919, which killed about 675,000 people.
BREAKING NEWS
Most of the recently dead were in the South and unvaccinated, and there were more younger victims than any other point in the pandemic.
Friday, October 1, 2021 6:39 PM EST
An overwhelming majority of Americans who have died in recent months were unvaccinated. The United States has had one of the highest recent death rates of any country with an ample supply of vaccines.
The coronavirus pandemic has become the deadliest in American history, overtaking the toll from the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919, which killed about 675,000 people.
What was described by some of the Trump cult as a "nothingburger" just became Russian filet mignon
The background is that John Durham, a special counsel APPOINTED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION to investigate Trump's ties to Russia gave a 75 page indictment for one charge of lying to the FBI.
He explained that the lie, was that the individual said he was not working on behalf of anyone in reporting the linkage between a Russian linked bank and Trump's server. And he went on to say, that the 4 cyber scientists who did the research didn't actually believe there was conspiracy and that the Bank server was used for advertising.
Well, it turns out, that the bank server in question was NOT used for advrtising and the communications was not only consistent with a back-channel communication method, but is the most likely function. The person who was recently indicted, claims that he was not serving as an agent of anyone and instead was acting on good faith because of the findings of the 4 cyber research experts.
Indeed, this may actually result in more charges against Trump.
Rear it all for yourself from The New York Times. That's right, from some fly-by-night tiny political propaganda site, but the single most highly reputable site in investigative reporting;.
Today from The New York Times;
(Continued in my next comment below)
He explained that the lie, was that the individual said he was not working on behalf of anyone in reporting the linkage between a Russian linked bank and Trump's server. And he went on to say, that the 4 cyber scientists who did the research didn't actually believe there was conspiracy and that the Bank server was used for advertising.
Well, it turns out, that the bank server in question was NOT used for advrtising and the communications was not only consistent with a back-channel communication method, but is the most likely function. The person who was recently indicted, claims that he was not serving as an agent of anyone and instead was acting on good faith because of the findings of the 4 cyber research experts.
Indeed, this may actually result in more charges against Trump.
Rear it all for yourself from The New York Times. That's right, from some fly-by-night tiny political propaganda site, but the single most highly reputable site in investigative reporting;.
Today from The New York Times;
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Trump Server Mystery Produces Fresh Conflict
Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman
Thu, September 30, 2021, 2:22 PM
WASHINGTON — The charge was narrow: John Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to scour the Russia investigation, indicted a cybersecurity lawyer this month on a single count of lying to the FBI.
But Durham used a 27-page indictment to lay out a far more expansive tale, one in which four computer scientists who were not charged in the case “exploited” their access to internet data to develop an explosive theory about cyberconnections in 2016 between Donald Trump’s company and a Kremlin-linked bank — a theory, he insinuated, they did not really believe.
Durham’s version of events set off reverberations beyond the courtroom. Trump supporters seized on the indictment, saying it shows that suspicions about possible covert communications between Russia’s Alfa Bank and Trump’s company were a deliberate hoax by supporters of Hillary Clinton and portraying it as evidence that the entire Russia investigation was unwarranted.
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Emails obtained by The New York Times and interviews with people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss issues being investigated by federal authorities, provide a fuller and more complex account of how a group of cyberexperts discovered the odd internet data and developed their hypothesis about what could explain it.
At the same time, defense lawyers for the scientists say it is Durham’s indictment that is misleading. Their clients, they say, believed their hypothesis was a plausible explanation for the odd data they had uncovered — and still do.
The Alfa Bank results “have been validated and are reproducible. The findings of the researchers were true then and remain true today; reports that these findings were innocuous or a hoax are simply wrong,” said Jody Westby and Mark Rasch, lawyers for David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology data scientist
Trump Server Mystery Produces Fresh Conflict
Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman
Thu, September 30, 2021, 2:22 PM
WASHINGTON — The charge was narrow: John Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to scour the Russia investigation, indicted a cybersecurity lawyer this month on a single count of lying to the FBI.
But Durham used a 27-page indictment to lay out a far more expansive tale, one in which four computer scientists who were not charged in the case “exploited” their access to internet data to develop an explosive theory about cyberconnections in 2016 between Donald Trump’s company and a Kremlin-linked bank — a theory, he insinuated, they did not really believe.
Durham’s version of events set off reverberations beyond the courtroom. Trump supporters seized on the indictment, saying it shows that suspicions about possible covert communications between Russia’s Alfa Bank and Trump’s company were a deliberate hoax by supporters of Hillary Clinton and portraying it as evidence that the entire Russia investigation was unwarranted.
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Emails obtained by The New York Times and interviews with people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss issues being investigated by federal authorities, provide a fuller and more complex account of how a group of cyberexperts discovered the odd internet data and developed their hypothesis about what could explain it.
At the same time, defense lawyers for the scientists say it is Durham’s indictment that is misleading. Their clients, they say, believed their hypothesis was a plausible explanation for the odd data they had uncovered — and still do.
The Alfa Bank results “have been validated and are reproducible. The findings of the researchers were true then and remain true today; reports that these findings were innocuous or a hoax are simply wrong,” said Jody Westby and Mark Rasch, lawyers for David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology data scientist
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Perhaps this qualifies as a boar...ing story
I just got done cleaning out the gutters below the roof of my house and I come inside and I see a story about the entertainer & Grammy award singer, Shakira. She claims to have been walking in a park in Barcelona with her son and they were attacked by a pack of wild boar. They stole her purse including her cell phone. Supposedly, the pigs took off for the woods and she confronted them and they dropped the purse and ran into the woods.
I suppose it could happen. I don't know if the purse is silk or not, but I have heard that you can't turn a pig into a silk purse.
Today from The Daily Beast;
Given Shakira's looks, I doubt it was the first time she's been approached , nor the last time she'll be approached , by some pigs.
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Shakira;
Hey, at least I tried to..... Shakira it up.
I suppose it could happen. I don't know if the purse is silk or not, but I have heard that you can't turn a pig into a silk purse.
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Shakira Says Her Handbag Was Stolen by ‘Gang’ of Wild Boars in Barcelona
Jamie Ross
Thu, September 30, 2021, 6:35 AM
Shakira has accused a “gang” of wild boars of stealing her handbag and her phone while she was casually strolling through a Barcelona park.
The pop star shared the extraordinary anecdote on her Instagram stories on Wednesday, explaining that she was walking with her son, Milan, when the pack of angry hogs confronted them and snatched her bag away. The 44-year-old held aloft the destroyed handbag after proudly explaining to her fans how she managed to wrestle it back from the pigs.
“Look at how two wild boars which attacked me in the park have left my bag,” the singer said, displaying the muddy bag. “They were taking my bag to the woods with my phone inside. They’ve destroyed everything.”
Shakira left out key details of incident—she didn’t say where the alleged attack took place, or when she was confronted by the hogs. However, she did tell her fans that she managed to retrieve her ruined bag after standing up to the pair of porcine thieves. “In the end they left the bag because I confronted them,” Shakira said, with a certain amount of pride.
Turing to her 8-year-old son, Milan, a key witness to the incident, Shakira ordered: “Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar.”
Residents in Barcelona—where Shakira lives with her soccer star partner Gerard Piqué—have been complaining about badly behaved boars for years. According to one shocking report from The Guardian, police logged 1,187 phone calls about boar trouble in 2016 alone, with complaints ranging from boars eating trash to pushing around panicked tourists.
Neither Shakira nor Milan appear to have been injured in the incident. There is no update on the condition of the pigs.
Shakira Says Her Handbag Was Stolen by ‘Gang’ of Wild Boars in Barcelona
Jamie Ross
Thu, September 30, 2021, 6:35 AM
Shakira has accused a “gang” of wild boars of stealing her handbag and her phone while she was casually strolling through a Barcelona park.
The pop star shared the extraordinary anecdote on her Instagram stories on Wednesday, explaining that she was walking with her son, Milan, when the pack of angry hogs confronted them and snatched her bag away. The 44-year-old held aloft the destroyed handbag after proudly explaining to her fans how she managed to wrestle it back from the pigs.
“Look at how two wild boars which attacked me in the park have left my bag,” the singer said, displaying the muddy bag. “They were taking my bag to the woods with my phone inside. They’ve destroyed everything.”
Shakira left out key details of incident—she didn’t say where the alleged attack took place, or when she was confronted by the hogs. However, she did tell her fans that she managed to retrieve her ruined bag after standing up to the pair of porcine thieves. “In the end they left the bag because I confronted them,” Shakira said, with a certain amount of pride.
Turing to her 8-year-old son, Milan, a key witness to the incident, Shakira ordered: “Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar.”
Residents in Barcelona—where Shakira lives with her soccer star partner Gerard Piqué—have been complaining about badly behaved boars for years. According to one shocking report from The Guardian, police logged 1,187 phone calls about boar trouble in 2016 alone, with complaints ranging from boars eating trash to pushing around panicked tourists.
Neither Shakira nor Milan appear to have been injured in the incident. There is no update on the condition of the pigs.
Given Shakira's looks, I doubt it was the first time she's been approached , nor the last time she'll be approached , by some pigs.
:Shakira;
Hey, at least I tried to..... Shakira it up.
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Something big in the air is coming...
getting the whiff of it these past weeks...
and now that its almost here, what else to say but stock up on the old oil lamps and don't forget the hot water bottles either, because once there gone... there GONE
and now that its almost here, what else to say but stock up on the old oil lamps and don't forget the hot water bottles either, because once there gone... there GONE
Forming a Parallel Society
They say that Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
Well, it's been a long time coming. The Left, following the Antonio Gramsci plan of a Long March Through the Institutions ~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CLong%20March%20through%20the%20Institutions%E2%80%9D%20is%20a,and%20political%20parties%E2%80%94dedicated%20leftists%20could%20effect%20revolutionary%20change.
have, bit by bit, taken over the News Media, Arts and Entertainment, Academia, vast swathes of the Internet, Government, Big Pharma and Big Business.
As they have done so, they've treated Normal Americans with utter contempt, fostering Population Replacement* policies both in the USA, Australia, and Europe, and doing everything they can to stamp out anything good or decent about Middle Class values and patriotism.
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With the onset of Biden's unconstitutional Jab Mandate, Push is getting very close to Shove. Short of the Cold Civil War breaking out into a Hot one, a Parallel Society, with a Parallel educational, entertainment and internet systems, as well as a Parallel economy is being created.
Home schooling is vastly increasing, and after being silenced by the likes of FACEBOOK and TWITTER, Normal Americans are migrating over to internet services like GAB.
Brian Torba, Founder of GAB, has this to say:
What does a parallel society look like?
It looks like homeschooling your kids, turning off the television, deleting your Facebook account, reading your Bible, spending more time with your kids, moving to a better area near people who share your values, getting involved in local instead of national politics, finding a church that isn’t woke, supporting businesses who support your values, consuming content from people who share your values, and radically removing each and every last corrosive system of control and fear of the globohomo society from your life.
It won’t be easy, nothing worthwhile is, but it can and is being done by so many people in your exact position.
Let me ask you something: what is your freedom worth to you?
To me it is worth everything.
The freedom to worship in my church without permission from the State. The freedom to work without being forced to inject myself with a substance that I do not want in my body. The freedom to have a political opinion on the internet without being banned from banks and social networks. The freedom for my children to learn without having a disgusting and unhealthy dirty mask over their faces for eight hours a day and being told they are evil for their skin color.
Are these freedoms worth making an effort to preserve and protect? Absolutely. If they are to you, you better start acting like it because no one is coming to save you. Not politicians. Not Presidents. Only Jesus Christ saves and God helps those who help themselves.
Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
-- Proverbs 12:24
We are faced with a choice as we undergo one of the most radical power plays in human history by the global elite. We can shut up, put on the mask, take the 4+ (and counting) vaccines, and be treated like cattle, or we can peacefully take action by exiting their entire system and forging our own path forward in a parallel economy, a parallel internet, and a parallel society.
Well, it's been a long time coming. The Left, following the Antonio Gramsci plan of a Long March Through the Institutions ~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CLong%20March%20through%20the%20Institutions%E2%80%9D%20is%20a,and%20political%20parties%E2%80%94dedicated%20leftists%20could%20effect%20revolutionary%20change.
have, bit by bit, taken over the News Media, Arts and Entertainment, Academia, vast swathes of the Internet, Government, Big Pharma and Big Business.
As they have done so, they've treated Normal Americans with utter contempt, fostering Population Replacement* policies both in the USA, Australia, and Europe, and doing everything they can to stamp out anything good or decent about Middle Class values and patriotism.
*
With the onset of Biden's unconstitutional Jab Mandate, Push is getting very close to Shove. Short of the Cold Civil War breaking out into a Hot one, a Parallel Society, with a Parallel educational, entertainment and internet systems, as well as a Parallel economy is being created.
Home schooling is vastly increasing, and after being silenced by the likes of FACEBOOK and TWITTER, Normal Americans are migrating over to internet services like GAB.
Brian Torba, Founder of GAB, has this to say:
What does a parallel society look like?
It looks like homeschooling your kids, turning off the television, deleting your Facebook account, reading your Bible, spending more time with your kids, moving to a better area near people who share your values, getting involved in local instead of national politics, finding a church that isn’t woke, supporting businesses who support your values, consuming content from people who share your values, and radically removing each and every last corrosive system of control and fear of the globohomo society from your life.
It won’t be easy, nothing worthwhile is, but it can and is being done by so many people in your exact position.
Let me ask you something: what is your freedom worth to you?
To me it is worth everything.
The freedom to worship in my church without permission from the State. The freedom to work without being forced to inject myself with a substance that I do not want in my body. The freedom to have a political opinion on the internet without being banned from banks and social networks. The freedom for my children to learn without having a disgusting and unhealthy dirty mask over their faces for eight hours a day and being told they are evil for their skin color.
Are these freedoms worth making an effort to preserve and protect? Absolutely. If they are to you, you better start acting like it because no one is coming to save you. Not politicians. Not Presidents. Only Jesus Christ saves and God helps those who help themselves.
Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
-- Proverbs 12:24
We are faced with a choice as we undergo one of the most radical power plays in human history by the global elite. We can shut up, put on the mask, take the 4+ (and counting) vaccines, and be treated like cattle, or we can peacefully take action by exiting their entire system and forging our own path forward in a parallel economy, a parallel internet, and a parallel society.
Marine officer who blasted leaders over Afghanistan withdrawal now in the brig
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the Marine officer whose meteoric rise to internet fandom began with a video criticizing military leadership over Afghanistan, is currently in the brig, his father told Task & Purpose.
“All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud,” said Stu Scheller Sr. “He was asking for accountability. In fact, I think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn’t do that, which is mind-blowing.”
He said that his son is expected to appear before a military hearing on Thursday.
“They had a gag order on him and asked him not to speak,” the senior Scheller said. “He did, and they incarcerated him. They don’t know what to do with him.”
After this story was first published, the Marine Corps issued a statement confirming that Scheller has been sent to the brig.
“Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is currently in pre-trial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary hearing,” said Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for Training and Education Command. “The time, date, and location of the proceedings have not been determined. Lt. Col. Scheller will be afforded all due process.”
Scheller first gained notoriety on Aug. 26, when he posted a video on Facebook and Linkedin criticizing the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the video, Scheller accused senior military leaders of shirking their responsibilities, and questioned some of the command decisions that were made leading up to, and during, the final moments of America’s longest war.
“People are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, ‘We messed this up,’” Scheller said in the video.
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“All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud,” said Stu Scheller Sr. “He was asking for accountability. In fact, I think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn’t do that, which is mind-blowing.”
He said that his son is expected to appear before a military hearing on Thursday.
“They had a gag order on him and asked him not to speak,” the senior Scheller said. “He did, and they incarcerated him. They don’t know what to do with him.”
After this story was first published, the Marine Corps issued a statement confirming that Scheller has been sent to the brig.
“Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is currently in pre-trial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary hearing,” said Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for Training and Education Command. “The time, date, and location of the proceedings have not been determined. Lt. Col. Scheller will be afforded all due process.”
Scheller first gained notoriety on Aug. 26, when he posted a video on Facebook and Linkedin criticizing the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the video, Scheller accused senior military leaders of shirking their responsibilities, and questioned some of the command decisions that were made leading up to, and during, the final moments of America’s longest war.
“People are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, ‘We messed this up,’” Scheller said in the video.
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The Horrendous Trump "so-called" presidency still in the news and not for good things
3 hours ago from Business Insider;
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Donald Trump could be charged with multiple crimes over his attempts to overturn his loss in the state of Georgia, report says
Alia Shoaib and John L. Dorman
Donald Trump could be charged with crimes over Georgia election interference, a new report says.
The report says Trump and his allies pressured Georgia officials to overturn his loss in the state.
Trump is facing several probes in relation to his postelection conduct in Georgia.
Former President Donald Trump could be charged with multiple crimes over election interference in Georgia, a new analysis says.
The report by the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank in Washington, DC, analyzed publicly available evidence which showed that Trump and his allies attempted to pressure Georgia officials to "change the lawful outcome of the election."
A key piece of evidence is the now-infamous call made by Trump to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 3, where the former president told him to "find 11,780 votes" to overturn now-President Joe Biden's victory in the state.
"There's no way I lost Georgia," Trump repeatedly said throughout the call. "There's no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes."
Those assertions were false, as Biden won the state by nearly 12,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry the longtime Republican stronghold since 1992.
The report added that Trump publicly pressured and personally contacted several other Republican officials in Georgia to ask for their help in overturning his electoral loss in the state, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr. Trump reportedly placed direct calls to the officials in December to urge them to go along with "his increasingly desperate plans to decertify his loss."
"We conclude that Trump's postelection conduct in Georgia leaves him at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes," the report said. "These charges potentially include criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; intentional interference with performance of election duties; conspiracy to commit election fraud; criminal solicitation; and state RICO violations."
The report also added that criminal liability could extend to some Trump allies, including his former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani appeared before committees in the Georgia Capitol with the intent of convincing state lawmakers to "take extraordinary action to reverse Biden's win," the report notes.
In February, Raffensperger's office opened a probe into Trump's efforts to overturn his loss in the state.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also launched a criminal investigation into Trump's conduct related to the election.
The Brookings Institution report analyzed these probes and suggests the crimes that Trump could be charged with, along with his legal defenses.
The report suggests that Trump would likely claim immunity, arguing that he cannot be prosecuted for actions taken while he was in office.
Former presidents enjoy a measure of immunity for actions taken that "fall within the scope of their lawful duties as a federal official," according to the report.
However, in this case, Trump's actions were "well outside the scope of his official duties," the report noted.
For months, Trump has continued to promote debunked claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent, speaking of ballots coming from ceilings and pushing for forensic vote audits in closely-contested states like Arizona and Wisconsin.
The former president is currently facing several criminal probes over his conduct while in office, as well as his personal finances.
Donald Trump could be charged with multiple crimes over his attempts to overturn his loss in the state of Georgia, report says
Alia Shoaib and John L. Dorman
Donald Trump could be charged with crimes over Georgia election interference, a new report says.
The report says Trump and his allies pressured Georgia officials to overturn his loss in the state.
Trump is facing several probes in relation to his postelection conduct in Georgia.
Former President Donald Trump could be charged with multiple crimes over election interference in Georgia, a new analysis says.
The report by the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank in Washington, DC, analyzed publicly available evidence which showed that Trump and his allies attempted to pressure Georgia officials to "change the lawful outcome of the election."
A key piece of evidence is the now-infamous call made by Trump to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 3, where the former president told him to "find 11,780 votes" to overturn now-President Joe Biden's victory in the state.
"There's no way I lost Georgia," Trump repeatedly said throughout the call. "There's no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes."
Those assertions were false, as Biden won the state by nearly 12,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry the longtime Republican stronghold since 1992.
The report added that Trump publicly pressured and personally contacted several other Republican officials in Georgia to ask for their help in overturning his electoral loss in the state, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr. Trump reportedly placed direct calls to the officials in December to urge them to go along with "his increasingly desperate plans to decertify his loss."
"We conclude that Trump's postelection conduct in Georgia leaves him at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes," the report said. "These charges potentially include criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; intentional interference with performance of election duties; conspiracy to commit election fraud; criminal solicitation; and state RICO violations."
The report also added that criminal liability could extend to some Trump allies, including his former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani appeared before committees in the Georgia Capitol with the intent of convincing state lawmakers to "take extraordinary action to reverse Biden's win," the report notes.
In February, Raffensperger's office opened a probe into Trump's efforts to overturn his loss in the state.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also launched a criminal investigation into Trump's conduct related to the election.
The Brookings Institution report analyzed these probes and suggests the crimes that Trump could be charged with, along with his legal defenses.
The report suggests that Trump would likely claim immunity, arguing that he cannot be prosecuted for actions taken while he was in office.
Former presidents enjoy a measure of immunity for actions taken that "fall within the scope of their lawful duties as a federal official," according to the report.
However, in this case, Trump's actions were "well outside the scope of his official duties," the report noted.
For months, Trump has continued to promote debunked claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent, speaking of ballots coming from ceilings and pushing for forensic vote audits in closely-contested states like Arizona and Wisconsin.
The former president is currently facing several criminal probes over his conduct while in office, as well as his personal finances.
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Project Veritas: how fake news prize went to the group beloved and financed by Trump
In response to: James O’Keefe’s organisation specialising in media stings received donations from Trump’s foundation but was caught red-handed peddling a false story
In response to: At the unusually late hour of 9.04am on Monday morning, Donald Trump marked his return to Washington after Thanksgiving by announcing a big new idea. There should be a contest, he tweeted, to determine which media outlet should be awarded the “fake news trophy” for being “most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage”.
Protesters And Trump Supporters Gather In D.C. For Donald Trump Inauguration<br>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Police and demonstrators clash in downtown Washington after a limo was set on fire following the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Washington and the entire world have watched the transfer of the United States presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, the 45th president. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
US government uses Project Veritas video in trial of anti-Trump protesters
Just hours later, the first winner of the president’s new medal emerged, though the trophy holder was not quite as he had expected. Instead of CNN or one of the TV networks that Trump frequently assails, the award for scurrilous and deceitful practice went to someone much closer to home.
On Monday afternoon, Project Veritas, the discredited rightwing attack organization run by James O’Keefe that specializes in sting operations against liberal groups and the established media, was itself thoroughly exposed. The Washington Post turned the spotlight that O’Keefe had tried to put on the newspaper back on him by disclosing a plot to dupe its reporters into publishing an entirely false story.
The fake account was peddled by a woman named Jaime Phillips who claimed to have had an abortion when she was 15 after s*xual encounters with the Republican senatorial candidate in Alabama, Roy Moore. Post reporters did their due diligence, grew suspicious of her narrative, and later watched her walking into the Project Veritas offices in New York.
They also discovered a GoFundMe page under the name of Jaime Phillips in which she said she had accepted a job in New York “to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM”. When these matters were put to O’Keefe in a filmed encounter, he refused to answer questions about the apparent attempt to plant a fake story on the Post presumably intended to undermine the paper’s earlier exposé of Moore’s alleged molestation of underage girls as young as 14.
On 13 May 2015, a month before Trump launched his presidential campaign, his charitable foundation donated $10,000 to Project Veritas. This week ThinkProgress spotted that the foundation’s tax disclosure form for 2015 records a second payment of the same amount to the conservative group.
By then O’Keefe had already acquired a criminal record – he was convicted in 2010 of entering federal property under false pretences. He had been attempting to sting the then Democratic senator from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, but for his pains was rewarded with three years’ probation and a $1,500 fine.
The underhand tactics that Project Veritas adopted in its notorious takedown of the progressive network Acorn and that it later applied to media organisations has attracted growing condemnation from unexpected quarters. In 2011 Blaze, the rightwing outlet founded by Glenn Beck, investigated O’Keefe’s treatment of National Public Radio and concluded that the editing of a secretly filmed video seemed “designed to intentionally lie or mislead about the material being presented”.
Protesters And Trump Supporters Gather In D.C. For Donald Trump Inauguration<br>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Police and demonstrators clash in downtown Washington after a limo was set on fire following the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Washington and the entire world have watched the transfer of the United States presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, the 45th president. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
US government uses Project Veritas video in trial of anti-Trump protesters
Just hours later, the first winner of the president’s new medal emerged, though the trophy holder was not quite as he had expected. Instead of CNN or one of the TV networks that Trump frequently assails, the award for scurrilous and deceitful practice went to someone much closer to home.
On Monday afternoon, Project Veritas, the discredited rightwing attack organization run by James O’Keefe that specializes in sting operations against liberal groups and the established media, was itself thoroughly exposed. The Washington Post turned the spotlight that O’Keefe had tried to put on the newspaper back on him by disclosing a plot to dupe its reporters into publishing an entirely false story.
The fake account was peddled by a woman named Jaime Phillips who claimed to have had an abortion when she was 15 after s*xual encounters with the Republican senatorial candidate in Alabama, Roy Moore. Post reporters did their due diligence, grew suspicious of her narrative, and later watched her walking into the Project Veritas offices in New York.
They also discovered a GoFundMe page under the name of Jaime Phillips in which she said she had accepted a job in New York “to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM”. When these matters were put to O’Keefe in a filmed encounter, he refused to answer questions about the apparent attempt to plant a fake story on the Post presumably intended to undermine the paper’s earlier exposé of Moore’s alleged molestation of underage girls as young as 14.
On 13 May 2015, a month before Trump launched his presidential campaign, his charitable foundation donated $10,000 to Project Veritas. This week ThinkProgress spotted that the foundation’s tax disclosure form for 2015 records a second payment of the same amount to the conservative group.
By then O’Keefe had already acquired a criminal record – he was convicted in 2010 of entering federal property under false pretences. He had been attempting to sting the then Democratic senator from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, but for his pains was rewarded with three years’ probation and a $1,500 fine.
The underhand tactics that Project Veritas adopted in its notorious takedown of the progressive network Acorn and that it later applied to media organisations has attracted growing condemnation from unexpected quarters. In 2011 Blaze, the rightwing outlet founded by Glenn Beck, investigated O’Keefe’s treatment of National Public Radio and concluded that the editing of a secretly filmed video seemed “designed to intentionally lie or mislead about the material being presented”.
Why would anyone believe any story from this repulsive and contemptible site? Unless paid to do so of course
Breaking News regarding Arizona votes ! (not)
Tonight from the New York Times;
I hope this will help the clueless to FINALLY realize they were continually duped by the orange scammer.
Wake up to reality !
In response to:
BREAKING NEWS
Donald Trump was not cheated of victory in Arizona’s largest county in 2020, a draft of a Republican-ordered review of the election showed.
Friday, September 24, 2021 12:13 AM EST
The draft report from the company Cyber Ninjas found 99 additional votes for President Biden and 261 fewer votes for Mr. Trump in Maricopa County, the fast-growing region that includes Phoenix. The full review is set to be released on Friday.
BREAKING NEWS
Donald Trump was not cheated of victory in Arizona’s largest county in 2020, a draft of a Republican-ordered review of the election showed.
Friday, September 24, 2021 12:13 AM EST
The draft report from the company Cyber Ninjas found 99 additional votes for President Biden and 261 fewer votes for Mr. Trump in Maricopa County, the fast-growing region that includes Phoenix. The full review is set to be released on Friday.
I hope this will help the clueless to FINALLY realize they were continually duped by the orange scammer.
Wake up to reality !
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