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.
Yesterday in The Bangor Daily News;
In response to:
Trump has completely mishandled the coronavirus response and should resign
By Robert Weissman
In a time when protecting the nation’s public health demands clear, truthful and compassionate leadership, President Donald Trump has offered exactly the opposite. He is a clear and present danger to the nation’s public health, and he should resign immediately.
Trump has dissembled about the seriousness of the coronavirus epidemic, either because he refuses to accept the truth or fears the effect on his political fortunes, or both. Months too late, he has finally started to acknowledge that the crisis is real, serious and likely to persist. Even so, as late as March 15, he untruthfully claimed that the U.S. government has the virus under “tremendous control.”
Trump repeatedly has refused to make science-based recommendations (e.g., older people should avoid cruise ships and plane travel) or to declare a public health emergency, reportedly out of fear about the effect on the stock market. It turns out that denying the truth visible to all doesn’t fool the market; and, in fact, when Trump did finally declare a public health emergency, markets reacted positively.
Trump has presided over an administration that inexplicably has failed to deliver vitally needed coronavirus tests to health care providers around the country and then repeatedly lied to or misled the American public about remedying the problem. Instead of taking responsibility for the problem and fixing it, Trump has bizarrely blamed it on his predecessor, Barack Obama. “No, I don’t take responsibility at all,” says Trump.
This testing failure may be the single most consequential human factor responsible for the spread of the disease. It has been impossible for public health authorities to calibrate appropriate responses without a clear understanding of COVID-19 incidence in the United States. Even now, public health experts are merely guessing about the actual extent of disease spread in the United States. Nearly two months into the start of the disease in the United States, South Korea is testing 161 times more people per capita than the United States.
Beyond the testing debacle, there has been a shocking lack of leadership from the federal government under Trump. Governors and local authorities have stepped into the gap, but they are all clear that they are desperate for federal leadership. It has not been forthcoming. With states seeking federal assistance in providing the equipment needed to treat COVID-19 patients, Trump replied, “Try getting it yourselves.”
Even for Trump, this Marie Antoinette response was shocking.
Crisis moments typically give rise to inspirational words from our leaders. Whether naturally gifted orators or not, they typically rise to the moment. They understand the need to share the truth with their compatriots. They understand the need both to calm and galvanize the nation in the face of fear and great challenges. And they understand the need to bring people together for shared national purpose, to spark kindness and solidarity.
Leaders do these things because they care about their people and their country — and because they understand that honesty, calm, shared purpose and solidarity are necessary to meet fearsome national challenges.
That Trump is doing the opposite of all this is not just a shortcoming or just another example of his boundless self-absorption.
Trump’s failings have nothing to do with political ideology or legitimate areas of policy disagreement. They are intolerable failures of leadership in a time of national crisis that have endangered the lives of all Americans. Trump should step down immediately.
Weissman is a wise man.
The warrants were approved by Trump's own Department of Justice, not Mueller.
However, if NY finds anything relevant to Muller's case against Trump, it will be turned over and used by Mueller as evidence.
Near the end of that NY Times article about Cohen, Trump's attorney;
A Long Island native, Mr. Cohen began his career as a personal injury lawyer and taxi fleet manager. He joined the Trump Organization in 2006. He attracted attention in the Russia investigation after emails showed that a business associate of Mr. Trump, Felix Sater, pitched Mr. Cohen on a lucrative real estate deal in Russia.
The deal was supposed to be a Trump Tower in Moscow, and Mr. Sater boasted to Mr. Cohen that the tower would get Mr. Trump elected president. “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote. “I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” Earlier in the article;
The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller. Mr. Mueller, meanwhile, wants to interview Mr. Trump about possible obstruction of justice. All in all, just some other bricks in the wall.....Trump's impending prison wall.
Here's the link to the NY Times article;
Two girls are in mall they go to every shop and try jeans , scarfs , tops ,
perfumes , lipsticks , eyeliner , sandels and etc.
in every shop of clothes and sandels.
at 11:00 pm ..all shops are closed but they were woundering.
the guard of the mall came to them and ask.
Mam its too late and we wan't to go home.
you please take these keys and lock the gates when you wan't
to go.
and its 00:00 o'clock girls are still in mall.
do you know why ? ? ?
Answer it .
It is a Challenge For you all.
BREAKING LIVE: KAVANAUGH ACCUSER SET TO CANCEL SENATE TESTIMONY AFTER SHOCKING HS YEARBOOKS REVEAL DRUNKEN SEX PARTIES, EXTREME RACISM, ADULT MALE DANCERS – AND MORE!Watch as Alex Jones covers Christine Blasey Ford’s apparent high school yearbook photos, filled with references to drunken promiscuous parties where the attendees were not able to remember what happened, which someone was trying to scrub from the Internet.
A whopping five high school yearbooks show that not only did Ford attend wild parties that make Animal House look tame, but she was a prominent participant and even a leader.
These shocking developments, including a celebration of drinking to amnesia, completely impeach her already baseless claims against Brett Kavanaugh.
online today!
This is the latest article:
A fascinating investigative deep-dive on a man named Ray Epps (and others), a leading figure among those who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6. What's most fascinating of all is that Epps does not seem to have been arrested or charged, indeed his photos were mysteriously disappeared from the "wanted" section of the FBI website seeking those involved in the events, right after another Revolver News investigative piece came out earlier this year. Like Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes, Epps has apparently evaded prosecution, despite playing a leading role in events. This fact has led to suspicion that Rhodes, Epps, and other major players like John Sullivan (who was arrested but quickly released) may indeed have been working for the FBI, provoking and encouraging and facilitating the events of that day.
And if that indeed was the case, then it could be a direct follow-on from the 'Michigan Kidnapping Plot' which came to the fore of the news shortly before the election last year. Subsequently we found out via court filings that over HALF of the individuals involved in this plot were working for the FBI, which begs the question were they informing or were they FORMING the plot, for political purposes and to garner headlines/influence public opinion ahead of an election. This is what Buzzfeed News had to say about that case:
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An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them."
Also of much interest is that the head of the FBI Michigan field office who was in charge of investigating that 'plot' was shortly thereafter promoted to lead the Washington D.C. field office ahead of January 6. Coincidence? Or conspiracy?
In response to:
Julie Swetnick Accuses Brett Kavanaugh Of s*xual Misconduct, Alleges He Was Present During 'Gang Rape'
HuffPost Nick Visser,HuffPost 2 hours 5 minutes ago
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(Joshua Roberts / Reuters)
Michael Avenatti said Wednesday that Julie Swetnick is his client accusing Brett Kavanaugh of s*xual misconduct, marking the third woman to come forward with claims against the Supreme Court nominee in just over a week.
In a sworn declaration, Swetnick — a Washington, D.C., resident — said she was a “victim of one of these ‘gang’ or ‘train’ rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present” at a party in D.C. in approximately 1982.
“During the incident, I was incapacitated without my consent and unable to fight off the boys raping me,” she wrote, noting that she shared what happened with “at least two other people” shortly after the incident. “I believe I was drugged using Quaaludes or something similar placed in what I was drinking.”
Swetnick said she first met Kavanaugh and Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s who came to the nominee’s defense, around 1980 or 1981. She described the two as “extremely close friends” who were “joined at the hip.”
She said she attended “well over ten house parties” from 1981 to 1983. Between 1981 and 1982, she said at these parties she began to notice Judge, Kavanaugh and others would attempt to “‘spike’ the ‘punch’ at house parties I attended with drugs and/or grain alcohol so as to cause girls to lose their inhibitions and their ability to say ‘No.’”
Kavanaugh and Judge, she said, would “‘target’ particular girls … it was usually a girl that was especially vulnerable because she was alone at the party or shy.” She said she has a “firm recollection” of seeing boys ? including Judge and Kavanaugh ? “lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.”
I think a thorough investigation is warranted. What do you think ?
Iran seized a ship and held its crew hostage. No response from President Trump.
Iran blew up a ship. No response from President Trump.
Iran blew up an American drone in international airspace. No response from President Trump.
Iran blew up oil fields in Saudi Arabia. No response from President Trump.
President Trump has shown TREMENDOUS restraint.
But ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
President Trump laid down a REAL red line (unlike the feckless fake cowardly red line Obama promised but never kept). President Trump’s red line was that if Iran kills any Americans they will regret it. They killed an American. And now they regret it. Isn't that just too damn bad for Iran.
I don’t give a fvck if they are angry or not. Who cares. You think they're angry? You should see America... I'll show you angry!
If it wasn’t for the fact that they know they will be sent to Allah in a blazing fireball if they try it, they would already have killed us all. The ONLY reason they haven’t is because they know they can’t and they will be committing suicide if they attempt it. SO WHO CARES IF THEY ARE ANGRY? These are people who chant death to America on a daily basis. We should care if they are angry? Like they’re not already? Islamic terrorists have been attacking, terrorizing and murdering innocent Americans since George Washington was president. We have to worry about making them angry now? GIVE ME A BREAK.
In the 80s, on the very day that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president, the Iranians released the 52 American diplomats and citizens they were holding hostage for 444 days. Later, they made the mistake of blowing up an American frigate. How did President Reagan respond? He blew up half their Navy. Did it escalate? No it did not. They were shaking in their turbans.
AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO THESE BARBARIANS NOW. IT’S THE ONLY THING THEY UNDERSTAND.