From WaPo. Gee, think they have phone records of who POOTWH might have been communicating with during this time period? Do you think POOTWH has transferred or added Melania to all of his properties and "wealth?"
A separate, partially redacted document that was also unsealed Friday describes prosecutors’ rationale for withholding significant parts of the affidavit. That memo says redactions to the affidavit were necessary to “protect the safety and privacy of a significant number of civilian witnesses, in addition to law enforcement personnel, as well as to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation and to avoid disclosure of grand jury material” – a telling revelation that a large number of individuals have provided information to the FBI about the classified documents that were kept at Mar-a-Lago.
Montco man who beat an officer with a Trump flag during the Jan. 6 riot sentenced to nearly four years
Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, pleaded for mercy Friday from a federal judge in Washington. "I'm a good citizen," he said.
Howard Richardson at the Jan. 6, 2021 riot in Washington, D.C.Department of Justice / MCT
by Jeremy RoebuckUpdated 21 minutes ago
A Montgomery County man who beat a Washington D.C. police officer with a Trump flag during the Capitol riot was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison Friday — one of the harshest punishments imposed so far in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.
Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, apologized to the court during a sentencing hearing in Washington saying “there’s no excuse” for his behavior that day. Still, he stressed that the officer involved hadn’t been seriously hurt and pleaded with the court for mercy.
“I’m a good citizen,” he told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly during a hearing in Washington. “I’ve been a good neighbor. … I went down [to Washington] as a patriotic citizen to celebrate. I allowed myself to be dragged into this mob mentality.”
Richardson noted he is a Vietnam veteran and that his son has been a police officer for nearly two decades. But Kollar-Kotelly said that, if anything, Richardson’s military service and his family ties to police should have made him even more keenly aware that his actions that day were indefensible.
“Violence is an unacceptable way of resolving political differences,” she said. “Your presence and actions in joining other insurrectionists was an inexcusable attack on our democracy. … You should appreciate what an extraordinary country you live in.”
In this still image taken from body-camera footage from a Washington D.C. police officer, Howard Richardson is shown wielding a Trump flag as a weapon during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.Department of Justice / MCT
The 46-month prison term Kollar-Kotelly imposed Friday is the longest yet for any of the 21 Pennsylvania defendants who have been sentenced so far for playing a role in the Capitol riot, which caused millions of dollars in damage, injured scores of officers, and threatened the peaceful transition of power.
More than 70 people from the state have been charged to date, most with misdemeanors for illegally entering the Capitol building. Trials for those facing more serious charges — like assaulting police officers or planning the attack that day — remain pending.
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Unlike many of those charged, Richardson never entered the building. But prosecutors said Friday his attack on a Washington D.C. police officer outside set his case apart and made him deserving of a lengthy prison term.
Body camera footage from several officers showed Richardson — sporting a “Brigantine Beach” windbreaker and a red baseball cap — at the front of a mob confronting police barricades on the Capitol’s west plaza.
He approached a police officer in riot gear, yelled “Here it comes!” and bludgeoned him three times with the metal flagpole. He only stopped swinging after the pole broke in two.
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Investigators later found a day planner in Richardson’s home with detailed handwritten notes of his activities during the insurrection.
“Gates were breached,” he wrote in an entry marked 1 p.m. And between 1:30 and 1:45 — when his assault on the officer took place — he noted he was “moving up to steps.”
He reported being pepper-sprayed in a 2 p.m. entry — and noted “no trash cans” and “no Port-A-Potties.”
Though Richardson pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting an officer earlier this year, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily W. Allen said he has continued to lie about his conduct and to minimize his actions.
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He first told FBI agents in October that he’d acted in self-defense after the officer struck him with a baton. He later said he lost his temper after the officers mistakenly accused him of being part of a group that used a metal billboard to break through police lines.
And he insisted that he hadn’t bludgeoned the officer with a Trump flag but rather one bearing the pro-police slogan “Back the Blue.”
All of those stories, Allen noted, were later proven false by the video evidence.
“Mr. Richardson was front and center,” she said. “There is no way looking at that video to see it as him protecting himself.”
What’s more, she added, while Richardson had no prior criminal record, his behavior on Jan. 6, 2021 was part of a disturbing escalation of violence in his behavior in recent years.
In 2018, Philadelphia police were called to an incident in which Richardson was accused of pulling a gun on two people at a gas station while he confronted them about the way they’d parked their car near the pumps. He wasn’t arrested at the time, but his license to carry was revoked.
Two years later, officers still found him carrying a gun during a traffic stop in Montgomery County. He was out on bail for that crime when he participated in the Jan. 6 attack.
Even after Richardson was charged with beating an officer during the riot, he was arrested again in Upper Merion. This time, police say, he “tackled” a passing motorcyclist off his bike during a dispute over the noise it was making outside of Richardson’s house.
Richardson’s attorney, Thomas C. Egan III, who also represents him in those cases, maintained that the attack on the motorcyclist was not what prosecutors had made it out to be and that in that situation, too, his client was acting in self-defense.
He painted Richardson as a valued member of his community who frequently volunteers as a poll watcher and judge of elections and who had built a successful pest-control business in Montgomery County.
“He didn’t go there with the intention of hurting anybody,” Egan said. “He was an elderly man who went there as a President Trump supporter who believed right or wrong that the election had been taken from him.”
Kollar-Kotelly wasn’t buying it. She again said Richardson’s previous work in elections should have given him a better understanding than most people of how democracy works.
“He went from helping his fellow citizens exercise one of the fundamental rights of democracy to attacking the ideals of democracy by his criminal actions on Jan. 6,” she said.
In addition to his prison term, Richardson was ordered to serve three years under court supervision after his release and to pay $2,000 in restitution.
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FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.
No space at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material, according to the court papers, which laid out the FBI's rationale for searching the property this month, including “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.”
The 32-page affidavit — heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses and law enforcement officials and “the integrity of the ongoing investigation” — offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Mar-a-Lago long after Trump left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.
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I’ll admit, I laughed when I saw that but yea, it’s not looking good for POOTWH. I really want to see his scribbles in the margins. Maybe I’ll visit the POOTWH Library someday just for that?
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And oh yea, that fruit from the poisonous tree, the FISA warrant, was such an egregious action, right? Hey, when are Hillary and Obama going to prison for that misdeed?
POOTWH was compromised from Day One. Fucking Day One. Anyone get Minority Ass Kisser McCarthy’s comments on recent developments?
The last few paragraphs of last night’s letter to an American are something else.
“Trump is in serious trouble…and so are the rest of us. This stolen and mishandled classified intelligence compromises our security. The best-case scenario is that it was never seen by anyone who knew what they were looking at. Even that would mean that our allies have every reason to be leery about sharing information with us again.
But that’s the best-case scenario. We have to wonder, who else now knows the secrets designed to keep Americans safe? Multiple news stories during Trump’s presidency noted that even then, Mar-a-Lago was notoriously insecure. And, unthinkable though it should be but sadly is not, what if secret documents have already been given or sold into the hands of foreign actors whose interests conflict with ours?
I have been writing today about Trump’s first impeachment and the hearings where Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman, immigrants all, who served our nation faithfully and fully, risked—and ultimately lost—their jobs to warn us that Trump was willing to compromise our national security for his own interests.
“He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again,” House impeachment manager Adam Schiff warned the Senate. “You can’t trust [Trump] to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change and you know it.” Schiff begged them to say “enough.”
But they would not, and they did not, and here we are.”
Would anyone like to discuss the crisis on the border?
What crisis? There’s nothing going on.
that's his point. queue up fox news in 5, 4, 3 , 2...aaaannnd Tuck!
I mean, really though? Is there no crisis? I could of swore I saw my mayor on TV asking for help from the federal government for all the migrants that Texas is sending our way. It’s just as ridiculous to act like nothing is happening as it is to exaggerate it.
Would anyone like to discuss the crisis on the border?
What crisis? There’s nothing going on.
that's his point. queue up fox news in 5, 4, 3 , 2...aaaannnd Tuck!
I mean, really though? Is there no crisis? I could of swore I saw my mayor on TV asking for help from the federal government for all the migrants that Texas is sending our way. It’s just as ridiculous to act like nothing is happening as it is to exaggerate it.
Would you like to have a discussion about the crisis at the border? I’m all ears.
Would anyone like to discuss the crisis on the border?
What crisis? There’s nothing going on.
that's his point. queue up fox news in 5, 4, 3 , 2...aaaannnd Tuck!
I mean, really though? Is there no crisis? I could of swore I saw my mayor on TV asking for help from the federal government for all the migrants that Texas is sending our way. It’s just as ridiculous to act like nothing is happening as it is to exaggerate it.
Would you like to have a discussion about the crisis at the border? I’m all ears.
No. I’m good. Thankfully I have way better things to do than discuss politics with someone like you. Have you moved yet?
Would anyone like to discuss the crisis on the border?
What crisis? There’s nothing going on.
that's his point. queue up fox news in 5, 4, 3 , 2...aaaannnd Tuck!
I mean, really though? Is there no crisis? I could of swore I saw my mayor on TV asking for help from the federal government for all the migrants that Texas is sending our way. It’s just as ridiculous to act like nothing is happening as it is to exaggerate it.
Would you like to have a discussion about the crisis at the border? I’m all ears.
No. I’m good. Thankfully I have way better things to do than discuss politics with someone like you. Have you moved yet?
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A separate, partially redacted document that was also unsealed Friday describes prosecutors’ rationale for withholding significant parts of the affidavit. That memo says redactions to the affidavit were necessary to “protect the safety and privacy of a significant number of civilian witnesses, in addition to law enforcement personnel, as well as to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation and to avoid disclosure of grand jury material” – a telling revelation that a large number of individuals have provided information to the FBI about the classified documents that were kept at Mar-a-Lago.
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https://www.inquirer.com/news/howard-richardson-capitol-riot-sentence-jan-6-king-of-prussia-20220826.html
Montco man who beat an officer with a Trump flag during the Jan. 6 riot sentenced to nearly four years
Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, pleaded for mercy Friday from a federal judge in Washington. "I'm a good citizen," he said.
by Jeremy RoebuckUpdated 21 minutes ago
A Montgomery County man who beat a Washington D.C. police officer with a Trump flag during the Capitol riot was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison Friday — one of the harshest punishments imposed so far in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.
Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, apologized to the court during a sentencing hearing in Washington saying “there’s no excuse” for his behavior that day. Still, he stressed that the officer involved hadn’t been seriously hurt and pleaded with the court for mercy.
“I’m a good citizen,” he told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly during a hearing in Washington. “I’ve been a good neighbor. … I went down [to Washington] as a patriotic citizen to celebrate. I allowed myself to be dragged into this mob mentality.”
» READ MORE: A QAnon follower who drove to Philly’s 2020 vote count in a Hummer filled with guns is now facing Capitol riot charges
Richardson noted he is a Vietnam veteran and that his son has been a police officer for nearly two decades. But Kollar-Kotelly said that, if anything, Richardson’s military service and his family ties to police should have made him even more keenly aware that his actions that day were indefensible.
“Violence is an unacceptable way of resolving political differences,” she said. “Your presence and actions in joining other insurrectionists was an inexcusable attack on our democracy. … You should appreciate what an extraordinary country you live in.”
The 46-month prison term Kollar-Kotelly imposed Friday is the longest yet for any of the 21 Pennsylvania defendants who have been sentenced so far for playing a role in the Capitol riot, which caused millions of dollars in damage, injured scores of officers, and threatened the peaceful transition of power.
More than 70 people from the state have been charged to date, most with misdemeanors for illegally entering the Capitol building. Trials for those facing more serious charges — like assaulting police officers or planning the attack that day — remain pending.
Unlike many of those charged, Richardson never entered the building. But prosecutors said Friday his attack on a Washington D.C. police officer outside set his case apart and made him deserving of a lengthy prison term.
Body camera footage from several officers showed Richardson — sporting a “Brigantine Beach” windbreaker and a red baseball cap — at the front of a mob confronting police barricades on the Capitol’s west plaza.
He approached a police officer in riot gear, yelled “Here it comes!” and bludgeoned him three times with the metal flagpole. He only stopped swinging after the pole broke in two.
Investigators later found a day planner in Richardson’s home with detailed handwritten notes of his activities during the insurrection.
“Gates were breached,” he wrote in an entry marked 1 p.m. And between 1:30 and 1:45 — when his assault on the officer took place — he noted he was “moving up to steps.”
He reported being pepper-sprayed in a 2 p.m. entry — and noted “no trash cans” and “no Port-A-Potties.”
Though Richardson pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting an officer earlier this year, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily W. Allen said he has continued to lie about his conduct and to minimize his actions.
He first told FBI agents in October that he’d acted in self-defense after the officer struck him with a baton. He later said he lost his temper after the officers mistakenly accused him of being part of a group that used a metal billboard to break through police lines.
And he insisted that he hadn’t bludgeoned the officer with a Trump flag but rather one bearing the pro-police slogan “Back the Blue.”
All of those stories, Allen noted, were later proven false by the video evidence.
“Mr. Richardson was front and center,” she said. “There is no way looking at that video to see it as him protecting himself.”
» READ MORE: The owner of a Montco martial arts gym has been charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
What’s more, she added, while Richardson had no prior criminal record, his behavior on Jan. 6, 2021 was part of a disturbing escalation of violence in his behavior in recent years.
In 2018, Philadelphia police were called to an incident in which Richardson was accused of pulling a gun on two people at a gas station while he confronted them about the way they’d parked their car near the pumps. He wasn’t arrested at the time, but his license to carry was revoked.
Two years later, officers still found him carrying a gun during a traffic stop in Montgomery County. He was out on bail for that crime when he participated in the Jan. 6 attack.
Even after Richardson was charged with beating an officer during the riot, he was arrested again in Upper Merion. This time, police say, he “tackled” a passing motorcyclist off his bike during a dispute over the noise it was making outside of Richardson’s house.
Richardson’s attorney, Thomas C. Egan III, who also represents him in those cases, maintained that the attack on the motorcyclist was not what prosecutors had made it out to be and that in that situation, too, his client was acting in self-defense.
He painted Richardson as a valued member of his community who frequently volunteers as a poll watcher and judge of elections and who had built a successful pest-control business in Montgomery County.
“He didn’t go there with the intention of hurting anybody,” Egan said. “He was an elderly man who went there as a President Trump supporter who believed right or wrong that the election had been taken from him.”
Kollar-Kotelly wasn’t buying it. She again said Richardson’s previous work in elections should have given him a better understanding than most people of how democracy works.
“He went from helping his fellow citizens exercise one of the fundamental rights of democracy to attacking the ideals of democracy by his criminal actions on Jan. 6,” she said.
In addition to his prison term, Richardson was ordered to serve three years under court supervision after his release and to pay $2,000 in restitution.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.
No space at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material, according to the court papers, which laid out the FBI's rationale for searching the property this month, including “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.”
The 32-page affidavit — heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses and law enforcement officials and “the integrity of the ongoing investigation” — offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Mar-a-Lago long after Trump left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.
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CIA admits to losing dozens of informants around the world: NYT | The Hill
Unexplained at the time, but now appears we may have the (t)reason.
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that sob is potentially getting our own people killed. arrest him today for fucks sakes.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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POOTWH was compromised from Day One. Fucking Day One. Anyone get Minority Ass Kisser McCarthy’s comments on recent developments?
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“Trump is in serious trouble…and so are the rest of us. This stolen and mishandled classified intelligence compromises our security. The best-case scenario is that it was never seen by anyone who knew what they were looking at. Even that would mean that our allies have every reason to be leery about sharing information with us again.
But that’s the best-case scenario. We have to wonder, who else now knows the secrets designed to keep Americans safe? Multiple news stories during Trump’s presidency noted that even then, Mar-a-Lago was notoriously insecure. And, unthinkable though it should be but sadly is not, what if secret documents have already been given or sold into the hands of foreign actors whose interests conflict with ours?
I have been writing today about Trump’s first impeachment and the hearings where Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman, immigrants all, who served our nation faithfully and fully, risked—and ultimately lost—their jobs to warn us that Trump was willing to compromise our national security for his own interests.
“He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again,” House impeachment manager Adam Schiff warned the Senate. “You can’t trust [Trump] to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change and you know it.” Schiff begged them to say “enough.”
But they would not, and they did not, and here we are.”
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