Donald Trump

ikiT

He still out there hypnotizin' the idiots, yo.  This is a long look, but it was a week ago and nobody seems to give a shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSPoayZ1eSc

Go Beavers

ikiT said:

He still out there hypnotizin' the idiots, yo.  This is a long look, but it was a week ago and nobody seems to give a shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSPoayZ1eSc

He's still in a bigly influential role of who's running. The upcoming bootlicking will be entertaining. Here's Nikki Haley recently:

'Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Tuesday the GOP

needs former President Donald Trump and that she would consult him before launching a 2024 presidential run.

The former governor of South Carolina will appear at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and called the 45th president a friend who serves an invaluable role in the GOP.

"He has a strong legacy from his administration," Haley said. "He has the ability to get strong people elected, and he has the ability to move the ball — and I hope that he continues to do that. We need him in the Republican Party. I don't want us to go back to the days before Trump.

Haley, 49, said in April that she would not run for president in 2024 if Trump did so.

However, that sentiment seemed "slightly less absolute" on Tuesday.

"In the beginning of 2023, should I decide that there's a place for me, should I decide that there's a reason to move, I would pick up the phone and meet with the president," she said, according to the Wall Street Journal. "I would talk to him and see what his plans are. I would tell him about my plans. We would work on it together."'

mickeyrat

  https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-election-2020-judiciary-presidential-elections-elections-2fec942d0c09bc31858190afbb5d8e42

 

Donald Trump Elections Capitol siege Election 2020 Judiciary Trending News Media Suicides Michael Pence

Report details Trump's all-out bid to undo election results

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG

Yesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos, and prompted top officials there and at the White House to threaten to resign, a Senate Judiciary Committee report found.

The report released Thursday by the Democratic-run committee offers new insight into how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the department, asking leaders to declare the election “corrupt" and disparaging its top official for not doing anything to overturn the results. Trump's actions led to a near-revolt at department headquarters that receded only after senior officials warned of a mass resignation, with one White House lawyer describing efforts to undo the election as a “murder-suicide pact.”

“In attempting to enlist DOJ for personal, political purposes in an effort to maintain his hold on the White House, Trump grossly abused the power of the presidency” and arguably violated a federal law that prevents anyone from commanding federal employees to engage in political activity, the report says.

While the broad outlines of what took place after the Nov. 3 election have long been known, the Senate investigation based on a review of documents and interviews with former officials lays bare the extent of Trump's all-out campaign to remain in the White House. It shows how Trump benefited from the support of a little-known Justice Department lawyer who championed the then-president's efforts to challenge the vote but how, in the end, other senior officials stood together to face down Trump. The outcome suggests how reliant the fragile U.S. election system is on the integrity of government officials.

Trump's effort, now the subject of a Justice Department inspector general investigation, did not succeed and Biden took office on Jan. 20. Even so, the false claims over the election have fractured the nation, with millions of Americans wrongly believing the contest was stolen.

Rage about the election compelled a mass of Trump supporters to violently storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an effort to disrupt the congressional certification of Biden’s victory. The rioters beat and bloodied an overwhelmed police force, sent lawmakers running for their lives and caused $1 million in damage. More than 630 people have been charged criminally in the riot, the largest prosecution in Justice Department history.

Republicans, who have mostly stayed loyal to Trump since the insurrection, issued their own report that downplays the concerns raised by Democrats and paints Trump as a hero who ignored the suggestions from the lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, and who refused to fire top Justice Department officials.

Their rebuttal makes the astonishing claim that Trump was concerned about the election system writ large and not about himself, even though he was publicly fighting to stay in office and pressured Vice President Mike Pence to help him.

The Democrats' report chronicles Trump's relentless prodding of the Justice Department during a turbulent stretch in December and early January to investigate suspected voter fraud and to support his efforts to undo the results. Trump had laid the groundwork for that effort even before the election when he attacked the vote-by-mail process.

But he escalated it significantly after Election Day and particularly after the December resignation of Attorney General William Barr, who weeks before he left the Justice Department told The Associated Press that the department had not found fraud that could affect the outcome of the election.

In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

In one White House meeting recounted for Senate investigators, Jeffrey Rosen, who served as Barr's deputy and briefly led the department after Barr left, described how Trump, in an effort to initiate a department inquiry, showed videos of “somebody delivering a suitcase of ballots."

Rosen said he recalled saying to Trump, “I really want to suggest to you, sir, respectfully, that it would be a better thing for everyone to use this last month to focus on some of the things that had been accomplished in the last four years, a — tax reform and the vaccine, Operation Warp Speed, and not go into this ‘the election was corrupt.’”

The pressure campaign by Trump and his allies included a draft brief the White House wanted the Justice Department to file with the Supreme Court to overturn the election results. The department refused to file the document, which the Senate report describes as raising a “litany of false and debunked claims.”

The conflict culminated in a contentious, hourslong meeting at the White House on Jan. 3 in which Trump openly considered replacing Rosen as acting attorney general with Clark, an assistant attorney general. The Democrats' report says Trump told Rosen: "One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.”

Clark had positioned himself as more sympathetic to pursuing Trump’s fraud claims even though the results were certified by states and Republican election officials. Courts rejected dozens of legal challenges to the election and Barr, Trump's own attorney general, had said Biden won fairly.

Clark declined to be interviewed voluntarily by the committee. His lawyer declined to comment Thursday. The committee said it was submitting a complaint to the District of Columbia Bar to assess whether discipline is warranted.

Several officials in the Jan. 3 meeting told Trump they would resign if he put Clark in charge at the Justice Department. According to witnesses interviewed by the Senate committee's majority staff, White House counsel Pat Cipollone referred to a draft letter from Clark pushing Georgia officials to convene a special legislative session on the election results as a “murder-suicide pact.” Cipollone threatened to quit.

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brianlux

It freaks me out that the orange haired man is still a thing.  What country is this?  Where am I?  What is this place?

mrussel1

brianlux said:

It freaks me out that the orange haired man is still a thing.  What country is this?  Where am I?  What is this place?

And you may ask yourself... why such a large suit...

mickeyrat

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

It freaks me out that the orange haired man is still a thing.  What country is this?  Where am I?  What is this place?

And you may ask yourself... why such a large suit...

and you may ask yourself....

why such a long tie?

Poncier

These are not my tiny hands, this is not my big White House

mrussel1

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

It freaks me out that the orange haired man is still a thing.  What country is this?  Where am I?  What is this place?

And you may ask yourself... why such a large suit...

and you may ask yourself....

why such a long tie?

And you may tell yourself... can this suit be taken in a bit?

mickeyrat

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

It freaks me out that the orange haired man is still a thing.  What country is this?  Where am I?  What is this place?

And you may ask yourself... why such a large suit...

and you may ask yourself....

why such a long tie?

And you may tell yourself... can this suit be taken in a bit?

and you may find yourself in jacket thats too long....

Gern Blansten

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

mrussel1

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

It freaks me out that the orange haired man is still a thing.  What country is this?  Where am I?  What is this place?

And you may ask yourself... why such a large suit...

and you may ask yourself....

why such a long tie?

And you may tell yourself... can this suit be taken in a bit?

and you may find yourself in jacket thats too long....

Haha... nice. 

Merkin Baller

Gern Blansten said:

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

100%

I'm floored at how lightly people are taking this. 

HughFreakingDillon

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

100%

I'm floored at how lightly people are taking this. 

because we've seen nearly zero consequences levied against anyone of significance. we're tired of hearing "the end is near" for the past 5 years. I don't personally expect anything significant to happen from this. 

Gern Blansten

HughFreakingDillon said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

100%

I'm floored at how lightly people are taking this. 

because we've seen nearly zero consequences levied against anyone of significance. we're tired of hearing "the end is near" for the past 5 years. I don't personally expect anything significant to happen from this. 

the tRumpsters don't care and the rest of us are so numb from the last four years of bullshit we will probably let it happen again

James Carville was saying yesterday that tRump is in deep legal trouble and to give it some time.  We'll see.

static111

HughFreakingDillon said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

100%

I'm floored at how lightly people are taking this. 

because we've seen nearly zero consequences levied against anyone of significance. we're tired of hearing "the end is near" for the past 5 years. I don't personally expect anything significant to happen from this. 

Samesies....I expect absolutely nothing to come of this other than some left wing hand wringing.  Surely if there was anything that was going to sink their party it would have happened by now.

The Juggler

All they need to do is grow a set of balls and have the DOJ enforce the subpoenas or send these traitors to jail. That's the difference between now and the previous four years of Trump's DOJ...

Gern Blansten

The level at which the GOP is still covering for him is frightening.  Haley and Graham especially.  They make statements that make you think they came around and then totally kiss tRump's ass the next day.

HughFreakingDillon

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

100%

I'm floored at how lightly people are taking this. 

because we've seen nearly zero consequences levied against anyone of significance. we're tired of hearing "the end is near" for the past 5 years. I don't personally expect anything significant to happen from this. 

the tRumpsters don't care and the rest of us are so numb from the last four years of bullshit we will probably let it happen again

James Carville was saying yesterday that tRump is in deep legal trouble and to give it some time.  We'll see.

yeah, he's been in deep legal trouble since he got elected. he lost the election a year ago. literally zero has happened. remember all those "mueller time" videos people wet their shorts over like 3 years ago? zilch. 

democrats keep saying "all in due course". he'll be in the white house, immune from prosecution before anything happens. or they'll fail to prosecute out of abundance of caution of violence in the country. and that's IF democrats or even bi-partisan authorities have the cojones to fucking do something about any of these assholes. they don't. they're soft. they've shown it time and again. everyone keeps mocking susan collins for her "he's learned his lesson" and "I'm concerned". every democrat in congress is susan collins. they just don't say it out loud. 

Gern Blansten

HughFreakingDillon said:

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I hope they haul Steve Bannon in...and anyone else refusing to testify to the Jan 6 committee.  

This is serious shit.

100%

I'm floored at how lightly people are taking this. 

because we've seen nearly zero consequences levied against anyone of significance. we're tired of hearing "the end is near" for the past 5 years. I don't personally expect anything significant to happen from this. 

the tRumpsters don't care and the rest of us are so numb from the last four years of bullshit we will probably let it happen again

James Carville was saying yesterday that tRump is in deep legal trouble and to give it some time.  We'll see.

yeah, he's been in deep legal trouble since he got elected. he lost the election a year ago. literally zero has happened. remember all those "mueller time" videos people wet their shorts over like 3 years ago? zilch. 

democrats keep saying "all in due course". he'll be in the white house, immune from prosecution before anything happens. or they'll fail to prosecute out of abundance of caution of violence in the country. and that's IF democrats or even bi-partisan authorities have the cojones to fucking do something about any of these assholes. they don't. they're soft. they've shown it time and again. everyone keeps mocking susan collins for her "he's learned his lesson" and "I'm concerned". every democrat in congress is susan collins. they just don't say it out loud. 

Yeah one thing the GOP is good at is creating massive amounts of outrage with fewer voices.  The Dems have many voices and can't do shit for some reason.  The loud blue collar crowd that used to be dems are now GOP

static111

How much of the inaction has to do with the other side getting worried that they might have someone going through their closets with a fine tooth comb when the scales of power tip the other way again?